Lord Dunsany (Edward Moreton Max Plunkett), the eighteenth baron of his name, is the author of a number of stories and plays unique in their type of clever imaginativeness. Besides the inimitable Five Plays and other dramas listed in the bibliography, his best writings are to be found in _Fifty-One Tales_, which includes "The Hen," "Death and Odysseus," "The True Story of the Hare and the Tortoise," and other highly entertaining matters. _Fame and the Poet_, originally published in the _Atlantic_, has been recently produced with good effect by the Harvard Dramatic Club. Fame's startling revelation to her faithful worshiper of her real nature and attributes is naturally most distressing--even more so, perhaps, than the rendezvous which this same goddess appointed another poet, in the _Fifty-One Tales_: "In the cemetery back of the workhouse, after a hundred years." Lord Dunsany was a captain in the First Royal Iniskilling Fusileers--a regiment mentioned in Sheridan's _Saint Patrick's Day_--and saw service in Syria and the Near East as well as on the western front. He was wounded on April 25, 1916, in Flanders. Since the war he has visited the United States and seen a performance of his _Tents of the Arabs_ at the Neighborhood Playhouse, New York City. _Beulah Marie Dix_: THE CAPTAIN OF THE GATE Miss Dix is author of several plays--in addition to those from _Allison's Lad_ included in the play-list, of _Across the Border_, and, with the late Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland, of the frequently acted _Rose of Plymouth Town_. She has also written several favorite historical stories, including _Merrylips. The Captain of the Gate_ is a tragedy of Cromwell's ruthless devastation of Ireland. The determined and heroic captain surrenders, to face an ignominious death, to keep his word and ensure delaying the advance of the enemy upon an unprepared countryside, and his courage inspires exhausted and failing men to like heroism. This is an effective piece of dramatic presentation. _Percy Mackaye_: GETTYSBURG