(Aug.-Sept. 1924) ed., H. Stuart [Francis Stuart] & Cecil Salkeld, Vol. 1, No. 1 (August 1924). Contents: Lennox Robinson, The Madonna of Slieve Dun [1, 7, 8]; Liam OFlaherty, A Red Petticoat [1, 3, 4, 6]; W. B. Yeats, Leda and the Swan [2]; Charlotte Arthur, Two Poems. The Japanese Pine and Just Now [2]; H. Stuart, Be as a Trembling Petal (poem) [2]; F. R. Higgins, Intrusions (poem) [2]; Joseph Campbell, "As I was Among the Captives": I. Chesspieces; II. Ideal and Reality; III. The Cock (poems) [2]; Cecil Salkeld, The Principles of Painting [3]; H. Stuart & Cecil Salkeld, To All Artists and Writers(editorial) [4]; Sachka, Why We Live [4, 6]; H. Stuart, A Note on Jacob Boehme [5]; Maurice Gonne, The Kingdom Slow to Come [5]; O. F. Fleck, Sonnet (poem) [6]; L. K. Emery, A Primitive (review of Liam OFlaherty, The Black Soul) [7]; Margaret Barrington, Colour [8]; R. N. D. Wilson, Alba (poem) [8]. Also, untitled illustration of two lovers and a dog, signed [Cecil] Salkeld [3].
Yeats poem: To-morrow is chiefly noted as the venue of YeatssLeda and the Swan, and after that for Lennox Robinsons contributionThe Madonna of Slieve Dun in which a girl is raped by a tramp and comes to believe she is to give birth to the new Christ - a story which resulted in Robinsons his dismissal from the post of Librarian to the Plunkett Foundation libraries.
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