Chatto and Windus, London.
+Colin Clements and John M. Saunders, translators+
LOVE IN A FRENCH KITCHEN: A comical medieaval French farce.
Jacquinot endures a miserable compound tyranny of petticoats
until matters are brought to a head by cumulative injustice and
the intervention of accident.
In _Poet Lore_ (1917), 28:722.
+Padraic Colum+
MOGU THE WANDERER: Pageantesque and dramatic story of the rise of
a beggar to be the king's vizier, and of as sudden and entire
reversal of fortunes.
Little, Brown.
THOMAS MUSKERRY: The tragic story of a poorhouse-keeper who
repeats Lear's error of letting go his cherished power, and who
suffers as keenly a more humble tragedy.
Maunsell, Dublin.
+Rachel Crothers+
HE AND SHE: A woman's designs win over those of her husband, who
has the greater reputation, a large competitive award for a piece
of sculpture; but she declines the commission in face of nearer
and higher responsibilities.
In Quinn's _Representative American Plays_, Century.
+Windsor P. Daggett and Winifred Smith+
LELIO AND ISABELLA: A COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE: The story of Romeo and
Juliet, as the foremost players of the Italian Comedy of Masks
may have given it in seventeenth-century Paris--with an ending of
their choice. An interesting study in the type.
In manuscript: N.L. Swartout, Summit, N.J.
+H.H. Davies+
THE MOLLUSC: Clever study of a woman who is a mollusc--not merely
lazy, since she is capable of huge exertions to avoid being
disturbed; she finds plenty of opposition to show forth her
powers upon.
Baker.
+Thomas H. Dickinson+
IN HOSPITAL: A poignant small dialogue of a husband and wife who
meet courageously the threatened shipwreck of their happiness.
In _Wisconsin Plays, First Series_, B.W. Huebsch.
+Beulah M. Dix+
ALLISON'S LAD: A Cavalier lad, about to be shot as a spy, is
seized by terror, but dies bravely, "as if strong arms were
around him."
In _Allison's Lad and Other Martial Interludes_, Holt.
THE DARK OF THE DAWN: Colonel Basil Tollocho spares a boy he has
sworn to destroy in revenge of a great wrong, and is made glad of
his clemency.
_Ibid._
THE HUNDREDTH TRICK: Con of the Hundred Tricks takes fearfully
stern measures against possible betrayal of his cause.
_Ibid._
+Beulah Marie Dix and Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland+
ROSE O'PLYMOUTH TOWN: A pleasant play of Puritans and their
neighbors.
Dramatic Publishing Company.
+Oliphant Down+
THE MAKER OF DREAMS: Poetical small play in which love appears
with a new make-up but in the old role.
Gowans and Gray.
+Ernest Dowson+
THE PIERROT OF THE MINUTE: A quite charming tale of Pierrot and
the Moon-Maiden.
In his _Collected Poems_, Lane.
+John Drinkwater+
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A dramatic presentation of episodes in Lincoln's
life, from his nomination to the presidency to his death.
Sidgwick and Jackson; Houghton Mifflin.
COPHETUA: In which King Cophetua justifies to his court and
councillors his marriage to the beggar maid.
Sidgwick and Jackson; Houghton Mifflin.
THE STORM: An intense but quiet tragedy of a woman who waits
while men search for her husband, lost in a great storm in the
hills.
In _Four Poetic Plays_, Houghtou Mifflin; _Pawns_, Sidgwick and
Jackson.
THE GOD or QUIETNESS: The zest of war draws away all the notable
worshipers of the god of quietness, and an angry war-lord slays
the god himself.
_Ibid._
X-O: A NIGHT OF THE TROJAN WAR: Trojans and Greeks, lovers of
poetry, fellowship, and justice, carry on ruthless slaughter, and
by irreparable losses strike a balance of exact advantage to
either side.
_Ibid._
+Lord Dunsany+
THE GODS OF THE MOUNTAIN: Of seven beggars who wear pieces of
green silk beneath their rags, and by brilliant devices of Agmar,
their leader, contrive to be taken for the gods of the mountain
disguised as beggars--until the real gods leave their thrones at
Manna.
In _Five Plays_, Richards, London; Little, Brown.
KING ARGFMENES AND THE UNKNOWN WABBIOR: A slave, born a king,
finds an old bronze sword buried in the ground he is tilling, and
henceforward has less interest in the bones of the king's dog,
who is dying.
_Ibid._
THE GOLDEN DOOM: A child's scrawl on the palace pavements
furnishes the text for the soothsayers' prophecy of disaster.
_Ibid._
THE LOST SILK HAT: Of the embarrassment of a rejected suitor who,
in his agitation, has left his hat in the lady's drawing-room and
dislikes the idea of returning for it.
_Ibid._
THE QUEEN'S ENEMIES: They are invited to a feast of
reconciliation in the great banquet room below the level of the
river.
In _Plays of Gods and Men._ Unwin, London; J.W. Luce, Boston.
A NIGHT AT AN INN: A commonplace ancient plot is filled anew with
dramatic terror and a sense of mystery.
_Ibid._
+Edith M.O. Ellis (Mrs. Havelock Ellis)+
THE SUBJECTION OF KEZIA: Joe Pengilly, a Cornish villager, is
finally convinced that strong measures toward her subjection are
alone capable of keeping his wife's love, and buys a stout cane.
We learn how he fared in carrying these measures out.
In _Love in Danger_, Houghton Mifflin.
+St. John Ervine+