Octavo. 34pp. An early entry in the Cuala catalogue, a few years after the Yeats sisters separated from Evelyn Gleeson and the Dun Emer Industries and imprint, here honoring the late J. M. Synge. Synge's address of rural Irish life, particularly in the Aran Islands, was a socially diverse reply to the highbrow habits of 19th-century Revivalists, and was instrumental in conveying something of the "Irish spirit" which would motivate the uprisings against the English in 1916 and later. Bound in quarter buckram, somewhat soiled, with gray paper over boards showing glancing bumps to corners. Very good. This copy with a binder's tag at the front pastedown, attributing the work to Galwey & Co. in Dublin - intriguing evidence of the Yeats sisters' very occasional willingness to outsource work on their books. (Miller 22)