Note 49 — THE TWILIGHT SAINT[48] By STARK YOUNG

The text of The Twilight Saint has undergone revision by the author since its first appearance. It was acted in 1918 with Madretta, another of the author's plays, at the dramatic school of the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, under the direction of Thomas Wood Stevens. The author writes: "The only instruction I should like to propose is that the actor of St. Francis keep him very simple, not get him moralizing and long-faced. In Egan's book on St. Francis[49] there is a picture of the preaching to the birds in which Boutet de Monvel shows a Tuscan type that is my idea of the man simplified." The play itself suggests charming by-ways of literature that lead in one direction perhaps to Hewlett's Earthwork Out of Tuscany and Josephine Preston Peabody's The Wolf of Gubbio, and in another possibly to the Saint's own Little Flowers, and Canticle to the Sun.