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f two civilizations contending for the children of the Indian woman, Glory of the Morning; they must go with their father to France or stay with their mother. Dr. Leonard has newly completed another powerful tragedy, _Red Bird_, as yet unpublished. In _Wisconsin Plays, First Series_, 1914, B.W. Huebsch. +Justin McCarthy+ IF I WERE KING: A romantic play, in the vein of De Banville's _Gringoire_, in which Villon becomes Marshal of France, for a brief time and with a fearful condition stipulated by the spider-king, Louis XI. Heinemann. +Edward Knoblauch and Arnold Bennett+ MILESTONES: Three different generations, with their different ideas and ideals, confront similar problems with different views, and arrive at various conclusions. Doran. +Percy Mackaye+ THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS: Mr. Mackaye, translator with Professor Tatlock of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, has written here a clever play of the travelers' adventures. The Wife of Bath is of course the ringleader in mischief. Macmillan. CALIBAN BY THE YELLOW SANDS: A masque for the Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration, New York City. Doubleday. JEANNE D'ARC: A tragedy made up of incidents in the life of the Maid. Macmillan. SAM AVERAGE: A Silhouette. A soldier of 1812 is kept true to the cause by a vision of Sam Average, the spirit of his nation. In Yankee Fantasies, Duffield. THE SCARECROW: A lively dramatization of Hawthorne's Feathertop, from Mosses from an Old Manse. Macmillan. +Mary MacMillan+ THE SHADOWED STAR: Portraying the cruel suffering of two Irish peasant women who wait in a city tenement for Christmas as they remember it. In Short Plays, Stewart and Kidd. +Maurice Maeterlinck+ ARDIANE AND BLUEBEARD: A resolute wife finally defies Bluebeard and rescues his wives; but they refuse to forsake their unfortunate and beloved husband. Dodd, Mead. A MIRACLE OF SAINT ANTHONY THE INTRUDER; THE DEATH OF TINTAGILES; INTERIOR (OR HOME): Poignant and mystical tragedies expressing the unseen and inescapable forces surrounding and closing in upon men's lives. Boni and Liveright; Dodd, Mead. THE BLUE BIRD: Two peasant children, accompanied by their friends Dog, Cat, Bread, Sugar, and others, search everywhere for the blue bird of happiness. They visit among other places the realms of the dead, where their grandparents are, and of the unborn. Finally they look in the last and likeliest place. D
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