THE SILVER FLEECE
ROBERT OOLLIB

"A book in a thousand. A triumph of personality."—
Sunday Times.

"This autobiography at a young Irinh doctor not yet
thirty-seven is a book of rare and delicate quality. He
describes quite simply his boyhood, his passage through
Rugby and Cambridge with a year at Yale, his hospital
training, research work in London and Baltimore, and his
final appointment to a children's hospital in Dublin. By
the way he sees the Eastex rebellion of 191C, falls into and
out of Buchmanism, nearly dies of pleurisy, plays Eugby
football for Cambridge and Ireland, survives an Atlantic gale
in a small tramp steamer, marries, and has children. . . .

" No better description than his has ever been written of
an international football match, and he makes us feel all
the terrors and exaltations of his storm at sea. His
analysis of Buchmanism is balanced and interesting. In
another vein his descriptions of a conversation between a
girl dying in hospital and her parents, and of another
death-bed scene in an Irish slum, are not far short of
masterpieces of their kind—spare, tragic, significant. But
what really matters is that through his book we become aware
of a man sensitive, affectionate, humorous, vulnerable to
beauty and pity, adventurous yet urihardened, altogether
Ukeabk and young. This and his own total unawareness of
the fact that he is cutting a good figure are the things which
mike this such an endearing book."—A review by E. A.
Montague in the Manchester Guardian. With chapter-
headings by T. G. Wilson, Third Impression. ' 15s. net.

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