PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
To this edition four essays have been added. Two of these, "Thoughts for a Convention" and "The New Nation," made some little stir when they first appeared. Ireland since then has passed away from the mood which made it possible to consider the reconciliations suggested, and has set its heart on more fundamental changes, and these essays have only interest as marking a moment of transition in national life before it took a new road leading to another destiny.
CONTENTS
[ NATIONALITY OR COSMOPOLITANISM ]
[ THE DRAMATIC TREATMENT OF LEGEND ]
[ THE CHARACTER OF HEROIC LITERATURE ]
[ THE POETRY OF JAMES STEPHENS ]
[ A NOTE ON SEUMAS O'SULLIVAN ]
[ AN ARTIST OF GAELIC IRELAND ]
[ IDEALS OF THE NEW RURAL SOCIETY ]