The chief person of the earlier Play was very dominating, and I have grown to look upon this as a fault, though it increases the dramatic effect in a superficial way. We cannot sympathise with the man who sets his anger at once lightly and confidently to overthrow the order of the world, for such a man will seem to us alike insane and arrogant. But our hearts can go with him, as I think, if he speak with some humility, so far as his daily self carry him, out of a cloudy light of vision; for whether he understand or not, it may be that voices of angels and archangels have spoken in the cloud, and whatever wildness come upon his life, feet of theirs may well have trod the clusters. But a man so plunged in trance is of necessity somewhat still and silent, though it be perhaps the silence and the stillness of a lamp; and the movement of the Play as a whole, if we are to have time to hear him, must be without hurry or violence. NOTES I cannot give the full cast of "Cathleen ni Houlihan," which was first played at St. Teresa's Hall, Dublin, on April 3, 1902, for I have been searching the cupboard of the Abbey Theatre, where we keep old Play-bills, and can find no record of it, nor did the newspapers of the time mention more than the principals. Mr. W. G. Fay played the old countryman, and Miss Quinn his wife, while Miss Maude Gonne was Cathleen ni Houlihan, and very magnificently she played. The Play has been constantly revived, and has, I imagine, been played more often than any other, except perhaps Lady Gregory's "Spreading the News," at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. The "Hour-Glass" was first played at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, on March 14, 1903, with the following cast:-- The Wise Man J. W. Digges Bridget, his wife Maire T. Quinn Her children Eithne and Padragan ni Shiubhlaigh { P. I. Kelly Her pupils { Seumas O'Sullivan { P. Colum { P. MacShiubhlaigh The Angel Maire ni Shiubhlaigh The Fool F. J. Fay The Play has been revived many times since then as a part of the repertoire at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. "The Unicorn from the Stars" was first played at the Abbey Theatre on November 23, 1907, with the following cast:-- Father John Ernest Vaughan Thomas Hearne Arthur Sinclair Andrew Hearne J. A. O'Rourke Martin Hearne F. J. Fay Johnny Bacach W. G. Fay Paudeen J. M. Kerrigan Biddy Lally Maire O'Neill Nanny Bridget O'Dempsey CONTENTS PAGE