Cornish, New Hampshire,
September, 1917.

CONTENTS

PAGE
INTRODUCTORY
Dedication [ix]
Preface [xi]
List of Illustrations [xiv]
Persons and Groups [xv]
Choruses and Carols [xvi]
The Community Chorus [xvii]
Time and Place [xvii]
Quotation from St. Matthew [xviii]
TEXT OF THE MASQUE IN TWELVE ACTIONS
I. “Who Keepeth Watch?” [1]
II. The Lantern in the Desert [9]
III. “Somebody is Coming!” [11]
IV. The Light-Child [14]
V. “Sword of the World” [21]
VI. The Befriending [28]
VII. The Three Wise Men [31]
VIII. “Which, O Lord, is Wisest?” [34]
IX. Outcasts [44]
X. The Wounded Pedlar [48]
XI. The Persecuting Host [53]
XII. The Morning Stars [54]
COMMENTARIES
Community Prelude [69]
Community Epilude [72]
Three Monographs:
I. Dramatizing Community Song, by Percy MacKaye [73]
II. Community Music and the Composer, by Arthur Farwell [77]
III. Designs for “The Evergreen Tree,” by Robert Edmond Jones [78]
Action of “The Evergreen Tree” [80]
Announcements Concerning Music and Production [81]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

I. SCENES
Dance-Carol of The Evergreen[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
The Light-Child[16]
Sword of the World[24]
The Three Wise Men[32]
Outcasts[44]
The Pedlar-King[62]
The Morning Stars[66]
II. GROUND-PLAN
[69]
III. COSTUMES
Gnome, Tree, Elf[78]
Bear, Wolf, Lion[78]
Joseph, Mary, Shepherds[78]
Host, Herod, Captain[78]
Belshasar, Caspar, Melchior[78]
Followers of Belshasar, Caspar, Melchior[78]
Sorrow, Song, Death, Poverty[78]
Ruth, Claus, Children, Chorus B[78]

PERSONS AND GROUPS
In the Order of their Appearance

PERSONS