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The first five tales in this collection are tales from Ireland, checking out the dark history of the country and the dogged optimism of its people. The next four stories are of the uncanny - dazzling studies of witchcraft and dark-colored magic, evoking a odd haunting atmosphere illustrating the energy of evil and its own effect on the creativeness. 'Mrs. Oliver Cromwell' is a revealing glance of god, the father Protector through the eyes of his homely unassuming partner, miserable in the unaccustomed grandeur thrust after her by circumstances. The very last story 'Where beauty lays' can be an eighteenth hundred years frolic more than a nobleman's choice of bride-to-be. Margaret Irwin (1889-1969) was educated at Clifton SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in Bristol, and then at Oxford School. She began writing catalogs and short tales in the early 1920s. She committed childrens publisher and illustrator John Robert Monsell in 1929. Irwin was praised for her historical precision in her books, and she composed passionately about the English Civil Conflict. In The Proud Servant she triggered generations to fall in love with the ill-fated but charismatic Earl of Montrose.
