s a skilled and sympathetic workman."--_New
York Press._

Second Edition now ready.

THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD.

A Comedy in Three Acts. By J.M. SYNGE. Cr. 8vo. Cloth, with preface and
portrait of the Author, 2s. net.

A few Copies of the hand-made paper edition still remain. The Price has
been raised to 7s. 6d. net.

"The play, as I read it, is profoundly tragic.... It is a
tragedy that does not depress--it arouses and dilates. There
is cynicism on the surface, but a depth of ardent sympathy and
imaginative feeling below, and vistas of thought are opened up
that lead from the West of Ireland shebeen to the stars.... I
said to myself when I had read two pages, 'This is
literature,' and when I laid down the book at the last
line,'This is life.'"--T.W. Rolleston (_Independent_).

"This intensely national Irish Play ... A comedy of amazing
fidelity to the Irish peasant's gift and passion for a special
quality of headlong, highly figured speech, that rushes on,
gathering pace from one stroke of vividness to another still
wider and better...."--_Manchester Guardian_.

"Mr. Synge ... certainly does possess a very keen sense of
fact, as well as dramatic power and great charm of style ...
one of the finest comedies of the dramatic renaissance ...
sustained dramatic power.... These peasants are poets, as
certainly they are humorists, without knowing it. Certain
passages of 'The Playboy' read like parts of the English
Bible. There is the same direct and spontaneous beauty of
image.... Mr. Synge has achieved a masterpiece by simply
collaborating with nature. He and the Irish are to be
congratulated."--Holbrook Jackson (_The New Age_).

"'The Playboy of the Western World' ... is a remarkable play
... its imagery is touched with a wild, unruly, sensational
beauty, and the 'popular imagination that is fiery and
magnificent and tender' is reflected in it with a glow....
There is a great deal of poetry and fire, beside the humour
and satire so obviously intended, in this drama."--Francis
Hackett in _Chicago Evening Post_.

THE WELL OF THE SAINTS.

A Play in Three Acts. By J.M. SYNGE. Uniform with "The Playboy." Cr.
8vo. 2s. net.

THE TINKER'S WEDDING.

A Play in Two Scenes. By J.M. SYNGE. Uniform with "The Playboy." Cr.
8vo. 2s. net.

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