the great ideas that have come to her have been
nourished and trained till they have grown to be of great
stature."--_Chicago Tribune._

G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK LONDON

Irish Folk-History Plays
By
LADY GREGORY

_First Series. The Tragedies_
GRANIA
KINCORA
DERVORGILLA

_Second Series. The Tragic Comedies_
THE CANAVANS
THE WHITE COCKADE
THE DELIVERER

_2 vols. Each, $1.50 net. By mail, $1.65_

Lady Gregory has preferred going for her material to the traditional
folk-history rather than to the authorized printed versions, and she has
been able, in so doing, to make her plays more living. One of these,
=Kincora=, telling of Brian Boru, who reigned in the year 1000, evoked
such keen local interest that an old farmer travelled from the
neighborhood of Kincora to see it acted in Dublin.

The story of =Grania=, on which Lady Gregory has founded one of these
plays, was taken entirely from tradition. Grania was a beautiful young
woman and was to have been married to Finn, the great leader of the
Fenians; but before the marriage, she went away from the bridegroom with
his handsome young kinsman, Diarmuid. After many years, when Diarmuid
had died (and Finn had a hand in his death), she went back to Finn and
became his queen.

Another of Lady Gregory's plays, =The Canavans= dealt with the stormy
times of Queen Elizabeth, whose memory is a horror in Ireland second
only to that of Cromwell.

=The White Cockade= is founded on a tradition of King James having escaped
from Ireland after the battle of the Boyne in a wine barrel.

The choice of folk history rather than written history gives a freshness
of treatment and elasticity of material which made the late J.M. Synge
say that "Lady Gregory's method had brought back the possibility of
writing historic plays."

All these plays, except =Grania=, which has not yet been staged, have been
very successfully performed in Ireland. They are written in the dialect
of Kiltartan, which had already become familiar to leaders of Lady
Gregory's books.

G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK LONDON

_Dramas of Importance_

Plays
The Silver Box--Joy--Strife
By John Galsworthy
Author of "The Country House," etc.
Crown 8vo. $1.35 net

"By common consent, London has witnessed this week a play of serious
importance, not approached by any other book or drama of the season,
John Galsworthy's 'The Strife.' It is regarded not merely as a
remarkable social document