_The Play of Modern Manners._ _Has the Drama of Contemporary Life a Root of its Own?_ _Why the Blind Man in Ancient Times was made a Poet._ These five chapters appeared, under the general title _My Thoughts and my Second Thoughts_, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, October, 1906. _Concerning Saints and Artists._ _The Subject Matter of Drama._ _The Two Kinds of Asceticism._ _In the Serpent’s Mouth._ _The Black and the White Arrows._ _His Mistress’s Eyebrows._ _The Tresses of the Hair._ These seven chapters appeared, under the general title _My Thoughts and my Second Thoughts_, in _The Gentleman’s Magazine,_ November, 1906. _A Tower on the Apennine._ _The Thinking of the Body._ _Religious Belief necessary to symbolic Art._ _The Holy Places._ These four chapters appeared, under the general title _Discoveries_, in The _Shanachie_, Autumn, 1907. Edition limited to 200 copies. 1908. The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats. Imprinted at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-on-Avon, MCMVIII. Eight volumes. Demy 8vo. Quarter vellum back with grey linen sides. With portraits by John S. Sargent, R.A., Signor Mancini, Charles Shannon and J. B. Yeats. VOLUME I. CONTENTS. _The Wind Among the Reeds._ _The Old Age of Queen Maeve._ _Baile and Aillinn._ _In the Seven Woods._ _Ballads and Lyrics._ _The Rose._ _The Wanderings of Oisin._ _Notes._ A few poems have been moved from _The Wind Among the Reeds_ to _Ballads and Lyrics_ and _The Rose_. Two poems are added to _In the Seven Woods_. These are:— _The Hollow Wood._ Originally appeared in _The Twisting of the Rope_ in _Stories of Red Hanrahan_, 1904. _O do not love too long._ Originally appeared in _The Acorn_, October, 1905. VOLUME II. _The King’s Threshold._ _On Baile’s Strand._ _Deirdre._ _The Shadowy Waters._ _Appendix I: Acting Version of ‘The Shadowy Waters.’_ _Appendix II: A different version of Deirdre’s entrance._ _Appendix III: The Legendary and Mythological Foundation of the Plays._ _Appendix IV_: The Dates and Places of Performance of Plays. VOLUME III. _The Countess Cathleen._ _The Land of Heart’s Desire._ _The Unicorn from the Stars._ By Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats. _Appendix: The Countess Cathleen._ _Notes._ _Music_ by Florence Farr and others. VOLUME IV. _The Hour-Glass._ _Cathleen ni Houlihan._ _The Golden Helmet._ _The Irish Dramatic Movement._ Under this title are printed the greater part of Mr. Yeats’s contributions to _Samhain_, 1901-1906, and to _The Arrow_, 1906-1907, and two essays, _An Irish National Theatre_ and _The Theatre, the Pulpit, and the Newspapers_, which originally appeared in _The United Irishman_, October 10 and 17, 1903.