Discussions of the life and works of R. B. Cunninghame Graham have typically given less attention to the works than to the life. George Bernard Shaw, for example, while acknowledging his debt to Graham's Mogreb-el-Acksa (1898) in his notes to Captain Brassbound's Conversion (in Three Plays for Puritans, 1906), discusses Graham's book briefly at the beginning of the notes and then devotes far more space to a sketch of Graham the man: "He is, I understand, a Spanish hidalgo.... He is, I know, a Scotch laird. How he contrives to be authentically the two things at the same time is no more intelligible to me than the fact that everything that has ever happened to him seems to have happened in Paraguay or Texas instead of in Spain or Scotland. He is, I regret to add, an impenitent and unashamed dandy: such boots, such a hat, would have dazzled D'Orsay...