The Writings of "FIONA MACLEOD" _UNIFORM EDITION_ ARRANGED BY MRS. WILLIAM SHARP _I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high._ --F. M. [Illustration: Fiona Macleod] Pharais and The Mountain Lovers BY "FIONA MACLEOD" (WILLIAM SHARP) [Illustration] NEW YORK DUFFIELD & COMPANY 1910 COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY STONE & KIMBALL COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY JOHN LANE COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY DUFFIELD & COMPANY THE TROW PRESS, NEW YORK CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD vii By ELIZABETH A. SHARP PHARAIS 11 THE MOUNTAIN LOVERS 181 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 401 By MRS. WILLIAM SHARP "_It is Loveliness I seek, not lovely things._" FOREWORD Into this collected edition are gathered all the writings of William Sharp published under his pseudonym "Fiona Macleod," which he cared to have preserved; writings characterised by the distinctive idiom he recognised to be the expression of one side of his very dual nature--of the spiritual, intuitive, subjective self as distinct from the mental, reasoning, objective self. In the preparation of this edition I have carefully followed the author's written and spoken instructions as to selection, deletion, and arrangement. To the preliminary arrangement he gave much thought, especially to the revision of the text, and he made considerable changes in the later version of certain of the poems and tales. In one instance only have I acted on my own judgment, and have done so because I felt satisfied he would have offered no objection to my suggestion. In accordance with his decision the romance _Green Fire_ is not reissued in its entirety, because he considered the construction of it to be seriously defective. He rewrote the second half of the story--the only portion he cared to keep--renamed it "The Herdsman" and included it in _The Dominion of Dreams_. Scattered throughout _Green Fire_ there are a number of "Thoughts" which I and other readers are desirous of preserving; I have therefore gathered them together and have included them in the form of detached "Fragments." The _Laughter of Peterkin_ is also excluded, because it is a retelling of old familiar Celtic tales and not primarily an original work. Two of these retellings, however, _Deirdre and the Sons of Usna_, and _The Four White Swans_ have been published separately in America by Mr. Mosher (Portland, Maine).