Frontispieces to Vols. I. III. and IV. of the _Works_. (One of
these is a drawing by Mr. James Paterson, the others are
photographs.)

Two small but characteristic amateur photographs reproduced in M.
Bourgeois's book.

Very few people can read a dead man's character from a portrait.
Life is our concern; it was very specially synge's concern.
Doubtless he would prefer us not to bother about how he looked,
but to think of him as one who

"Held Time's fickle glass his fickle hour"

and then was put back into the earth with the kings and tinkers
who made such a pageant in his brain. For the rest, he would say,
with Shakespeare,

"My spirit is thine, the better part of me."




A LIST OF HIS PLAYS, IN CHRONOLOGICAL
ORDER WITH THE DATES
OF THEIR FIRST PERFORMANCES


The Shadow of the Glen. Written 1902.3. Performed 8th. October
1903.