"LORD DUNSANY is that rare creature in literature, the fabulist. He aims at transporting us from reality. He is like the man who comes to the hunters' lodges and says, 'You wonder at the moon. I will tell you how the moon was made and why.' And having told them about the moon he goes on to tell them about marvellous cities that are beyond the forest and about the jewel that is in the unicorn's horn. Lord Dunsany would, I think, maintain that the one thing worth doing for mankind is to make their imaginations more and more exalted.

"One can hardly detect a social idea in his work. There is one there, however. It is one of unrelenting hostility to everything that impoverishes man's imagination—to mean cities, to commercial interests, to a culture that arises out of material organization. He dwells forever upon things that arouse the imagination—upon swords and cities, upon temples and palaces, upon slaves in their revolt and kings in their unhappiness. He has the mind of a myth-maker, and he can give ships and cities and whirlpools vast and proper shapes."

PADRIAC COLUM.