Lady Gregory's name has become a household word in America and her works should occupy an exclusive niche in every library. Mr. George Bernard Shaw, in a recently published interview, said Lady Gregory "is the greatest living Irishwoman.... Even in the plays of Lady Gregory, penetrated as they are by that intense love of Ireland which is unintelligible to the many drunken blackguards with Irish names who make their nationality an excuse for their vices and their worthlessness, there is no flattery of the Irish; she writes about the Irish as Moliere wrote about the French, having a talent curiously like Moliere." "The witchery of Yeats, the vivid imagination of Synge, the amusing literalism mixed with the pronounced romance of their imitators, have their place and have been given their praise without stint. But none of these can compete with Lady Gregory for the quality of universality. The best beauty in Lady Gregory's art is its spontaneity. It is never forced.... She has read and dreamed and studied, and slept and wakened and worked, and 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."