_Cloth, 12mo., $1.00_
The plays are "Mixed Marriage," "The Magnanimous Lover," "The Critics,"
and "The Orangeman," first produced in 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1914,
respectively, the first three at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, and "The
Orangeman" at the Palace Theatre, Maidstone.
"Establishes the author in the front rank of the realistic dramatists of
the Irish Theatre.... As a veracious study of life and character among
Irish working classes ... it is superior to anything written by Synge,
Yeats, or Shaw.... The piece, in its realism, earnest purpose, and
dramatic force, is worthy of John Galsworthy, and has the additional
merit of being almost entirely free from anything like special pleading.
Never prolix or oratorical, the compact and homely dialogue is full of
shrewd observation and sage comments, pertinent to the contributory
causes of a conel private and public tragedy.... The play is as able as
it is significant, one well worthy of the boards of a National
Theatre."--_The Nation_ (Commenting on "Mixed Marriage," the first of
these plays.)