Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill His Philosophy Lord Dunsany's outlook on the art of the theater and that of the drama has by no means been confined by local restrictions. In 1913 there might have been seen in the pamphlet issued from Florence by Edward Gordon Craig an advertisement of Craig's school for the art of the theater. An international committee was appointed and the two members for Ireland were W. B. Yeats and Lord Dunsany. There is printed too in the same place a list of the donations and gifts toward this school, and here Dunsany's name "heads all the rest." This is doubtless because his was the only cash contribution; it was certainly a most generous one, consisting of one hundred pounds. What became of the venture, and how Lord Dunsany's hundred pounds were expended belongs to that part of history which is still immured in the archives of the unknown. At any rate it was a worthy cause, and one which, by reason of its very intangibility, was sure to appeal to both the members from Ireland. That which is far away always seems to appeal to Dunsany most, and the further away it is the stronger the appeal. When he speaks of "King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior" as being the first play about his own country he is very evidently not talking about Ireland, but of that mythical land of which he is the discoverer. There is a danger in all this, and it is no small danger. ( The realm of I pure abstraction invites to rest and contempla- ( tion, especially after one has been deluged with / the opposite phase of life to the point of nausea. But when one wanders so far from the things of every day that one's thoughts seem to have/ no application to the everyday man, it is high) time to pause and consider the possibility of' inter-terrestrial communication. There is a point where Dunsany in his effo... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.