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New Comedies
By
LADY GREGORY

The Bogie Men--The Full Moon--Coats Damer's Gold--McDonough's Wife

_8^o. With Portrait in Photogravure. $1.50 net. By mail, $1.65_

The plays have been acted with great success by the Abbey Company, and
have been highly extolled by appreciative audiences and an enthusiastic
press. They are distinguished by a humor of unchallenged originality.

One of the plays in the collection, "Coats," depends for its plot upon
the rivalry of two editors, each of whom has written an obituary notice
of the other. The dialogue is full of crisp humor. "McDonough's Wife,"
another drama that appears in the volume, is based on a legend, and
explains how a whole town rendered honor against its will. "The Bogie
Men" has as its underlying situation an amusing misunderstanding of two
chimney-sweeps. The wit and absurdity of the dialogue are in Lady
Gregory's best vein. "Damer's Gold" contains the story of a miser beset
by his gold-hungry relations. Their hopes and plans are upset by one
they had believed to be of the simple of the world, but who confounds
the Wisdom of the Wise. "The Full Moon" presents a little comedy enacted
on an Irish railway station. It is characterized by humor of an original
and delightful character and repartee that is distinctly clever.

G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK LONDON

Irish Plays
By
LADY GREGORY

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