When he speaks of Britons and British he always means the Celtic peoples of the island.

During this delay some of the Celtic force deserted from their side to Brutus, and Amyntas, the general of Deiotarus, and Rhascuporis deserted to them.

how Celtic those dark curls, that restless gray eye, with its "swinden blicken," like Von Troneg Hagen's in the Niebelungen Lied!' He turned: Honoria was devouring his words.

And England held its breath; and even Scotland paused, expectant; and Ireland stirred in its Celtic dream.

The editor, who disclaims qualification as a philologist, regards these Lives as very valuable historical material, publication of which may serve to light up some dark corners of our Celtic ecclesiastical past.

Then as now the supernatural and marvellous had a wondrous fascination for the Celtic mind.

The "Lives" of the Irish Saints contain an immense quantity of material of first rate importance for the historian of the Celtic church.

Even where the narrative is otherwise plainly myth or fiction it sheds many a useful sidelight on ancient manners, customs and laws as well as on the curious and often intricate operations of the Celtic mind.

To the credit side too must go the fact that references to Celtic geography and to local history are all as a rule accurate.

Moreover it sheds some new light on that chronic puzzle organisation of the Celtic Church of Ireland.

Celtic music was playing.

These heaps of stones, in various places might be mistaken for Celtic cairns.

The editor, who disclaims qualification as a philologist, regards these Lives as very valuable historical material, publication of which may serve to light up some dark corners of our Celtic ecclesiastical past.

Then as now the supernatural and marvellous had a wondrous fascination for the Celtic mind.

The "Lives" of the Irish Saints contain an immense quantity of material of first rate importance for the historian of the Celtic church.

Even where the narrative is otherwise plainly myth or fiction it sheds many a useful sidelight on ancient manners, customs and laws as well as on the curious and often intricate operations of the Celtic mind.

To the credit side too must go the fact that references to Celtic geography and to local history are all as a rule accurate.

A few yards to north of the Round Tower stands "The Cathedral" illustrating almost every phase of ecclesiastical architecture which flourished in Ireland from St. Patrick to the ReformationCyclopean, Celtic-Romanesque, Transitional and Pointed.

An extraordinary feature of the church is the wonderful series of Celtic arcades and panels filled with archaic sculptures in relief which occupy the whole external face of the west gable.

Moreover it sheds some new light on that chronic puzzleorganisation of the Celtic Church of Ireland.

It is true that the name of this town in all old charts is spelt Gordon; but, inasmuch as it is a compound of two Celtic words meaning raven's rock, it might as feasibly have been handed down by the Gaelic Scotch as by the Cadurcians.

Apart from the gravely delicate and scholarly work of Mr. Bridges, and the poetry of some others who work separately away from their fellows, English romantic poetry has concentrated itself into one chief schoolthe school of the "Celtic Revival" of which the leader is Mr. W.B. Yeats.

One of them, Mr. W.B. Yeats, by his birth and his reading in Irish legend and folklore, became possessed of a subject-matter denied to his fellows, and it is from the combination of the mood of the decadents with the dreaminess and mystery of Celtic tradition and romancea combination which came to pass in his poetrythat the Celtic school has sprung.

One of them, Mr. W.B. Yeats, by his birth and his reading in Irish legend and folklore, became possessed of a subject-matter denied to his fellows, and it is from the combination of the mood of the decadents with the dreaminess and mystery of Celtic tradition and romancea combination which came to pass in his poetrythat the Celtic school has sprung.

Only nothing could be further from the objectivity of these men, than the way in which the Celtic school approaches its material.