insights into these nomadic people. Julian Moynahan said of Starkie in reviewing Scholars and Gypsies for The New York Times Book Review (24 November 1963): Starkie was the President of the Gypsy Lore Society from 1962 to 1973. In addition to publishing a 1964 translation of plays from the Spanish Golden Age in the Modern Library volume as Eight Spanish Plays of the Golden Age, he published an abridged translation of Don Quixote in hardcover for Macmillan Publishers in London in 1954. Illustrated with drawings done by Gustave Doré in 1863 for the French language edition, Starkie's biographical introduction of Cervantes was 116 pages long. In 1957 the abridged version of his translation was published for Mentor Books in the United States with the introduction shortened to seven pages. In 1964 Starkie published his complete and unabridged version of his translation for New American Library. Written in contemporary English, both unabridged and abridged versions have been in print since their publications, and are considered highly accurate, but Starkie does occasionally put Irish slang and phrase construction (e.g. the phrase "I'm thinking", instead of "I think", and the oath "Bad 'cess to you!") into the mouths of its peasant characters. This is a trait he repeats in his translation of The Mask, a brief one-acter by Lope de Rueda published in Eight Spanish Plays of the Golden Age. Works Jacinto Benavente (1924) Luigi Pirandello (1926) Raggle-Taggle: Adventures with a Fiddle in Hungary and Romania (1933) Spanish Raggle-Taggle: Adventures with a Fiddle in Northern Spain (1934) Don Gypsy: Adventures with a Fiddle in Barbary, Andulusia and La Mancha (1936) The Waveless Plain: An Italian Autobiography (1938) Grand Inquisitor (1940) Semblanza de Cervantes y Shakespeare (1946) In Sara's Tents (1953) Conferencia conmemorativa Eugene O'Neill (1954) The Road to Santiago: Pilgrims of St. James (1957) Spain: A Musician's Journey Through Time and Space (1958) Scholars and Gypsies: An Autobiography (1963) Homage to Yeats, 1865–1965: Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar (1965) Works translated Tiger Juan – Ramon Perez de Ayala (1933) The Spaniards in their History – Ramon Menendez Pidal (1950) Tower of Ivory – Rodolfo Fonseca (1953) This is Spain – Ignacio Olagüe (1954) Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes (1954 abridged, and 1964 unabridged) The Deceitful Marriage and other Exemplary Novels – Cervantes (1963) Eight Spanish Plays of the Golden Age (1964) Decorations Knight of the Order of Alfonso XII (1928)