This volume contains W.B. Yeats' various stories relating to Red Hanrahan, which were rewritten in the beautiful country speech of Kiltartan, and nearer to the tradition of the people among whom he, or some likeness of him, drifted and is remembered; Yeats' stories of The Secret Rose, which were written with the subject relating to the war of spiritual with natural order; and Rosa Alchemica, a little work on alchemists.