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Mrs. O'BRIAN' Irish Favourites'
ONE of tho things that must have been noticed in this series is that the kind of dishes made in each country is dictated by the food grown in the country. This is particularly true of Ireland and Irish national dishes. Pig-in the shape of pork or bacon-is the staple meat in Ireland, and for reasons of economy it is usually ; cooked with the cabbage or other vegetable that is to accompany it. Mrs. O'Brian will describe three pork dishes, including the famous Stuffed Pork Steak, the dish that any Irishman will demand if you ask him what he wants for dinner; also two starch dishes, soda bread and potato cakes. But
'the most typically Irish dish that Mrs.
O'Brian describes is a cream made with milk flavouring and ' carigeen moss.' a kind of seaweed which is very healthy and full of iodine. It used to bo possible to get carigeen moss only in seaside villages in Ireland; but now, with the movement to develop Irish industries, it is possible to purchase it at almost any good stores.

The Hon. HAROLD NICOLSON , C.M.G., :
' Revelation versus Experience '
IN investigating the actual nature of the now spirit in literature, Mr. Nicolson considers this evening one of the main characteristics of the modem age : tho insistence on ' experience ' as opposed to ' revelation.' The literature of the nineteenth century was based on revelation, as opposed to personal experience. The War, however, with its cataclysmal effect on individuals, led to a questioning and re-examining of all existing theories about human psychology. The growth of the scientific outlook —psycho-analysis and relativity—showed that nothing is what it seems : there are no fixed rules of human behaviour. Thus authors began to fall back on their own personal experiences as the only thing of which they could be certain. This period of doubting is, however, drawing to an end, and next week Mr. Nicolson will describe the lines upon which younger writers are seeking a positive formula.

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