* LTHOUGH he is probably best known as the author of ' The Crock of Gold,' many of the admirers of Mr. James Stephens would be prepared to maintain that ' The Demi-Gods,' from which he will read to-night, is an even better book. A fantasy full of poetry and humour, it tells the adventures of three angels who came down to earth (in Ireland, of course) and walked the roads with a tinker and his daughter, gaining much wisdom on their way. until two of them resumed their shining raiment and their great plumed wings and flew back whence they came. Nothing could be more appropriate to the day than this typically Irish work of a writer who, whilst essentially modern, moves most easily in the atmosphere of the old Irish legend and myth.