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+
FOUR IRISH PLAYS:
MIXED MARRIAGE: A tragedy of the violent hatreds of Ulster.
Maunsell.
THE ORANGEMAN: A comic study of the petty madness of the same
hatreds.
Maunsell.
THE CRITICS: Dramatic critics furiously condemn a play at the
Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Gradually we discover the idea of the
play through their abuse, and at last we recognize it.
Maunsell.
JANE CLEGG: A strong and clear-sighted, honest woman has to deal
with a feeble and braggart husband whose foolish crime threatens
to wreck her own and her children's lives.
Sidgwick and Jackson.
+Rachel Lyman Field+
THREE PILLS IN A BOTTLE: Fantastic play of a little sick boy who
gives the medicine that was to have made him strong to feeding
the starved and abused souls of various passers-by.
In _Plays of the 47 Workshop_, First Series, Brentano's.
+Anatole France+
THE MAN WHO MARRIED A DUMB WIFE: A mad and comic farce, in the
tradition of _Pierre Patelin_ and _The Physician in Spite of
Himself_. Judge Botal calls in a learned physician and his aides
to make his dumb wife speak. The result is so astoundingly
successful that he pleads for relief. Finally a desperate remedy
is found.
Translated by Curtis Hidden Page, Lane, 1915.
+J.O. Francis+
CHANGE: The tragic conflict of ideals of two generations which
have grown irreparably apart in social and economic views.
Educational Publishing Company, Cardiff; Doubleday, New York.
+Zona Gale+
THE NEIGHBORS: Kindliness called forth among village people to
aid a poor seamstress who is to undertake the care of her orphan
nephew.
In _Wisconsin Plays, First Series_, B.W. Huebsch.
MISS LULU BETT: A starved life blossoms suddenly and
unexpectedly. This play, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 1920,
is stronger and finer work than the author has done heretofore.
Appleton (in novel form).
+John Galsworthy+
THE ELDEST SON: Sir William Cheshire comes to quite different
solutions of similar problems when different individual and class
factors enter into them.
Scribner's.
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