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application to the publishers.)
"Highly dramatic episodes, treated with skill and art ... a high
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"Complete and intense tragedies well plotted and well sustained,
in dignified dialogue of persons of the drama distinctly
differentiated."--_Hartford Courant._
"It is a pleasure to say, without reservation, that the half
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of dramatic art.... Sure to find their way speedily to the stage,
justifying themselves there, even as they justify themselves at a
reading as pieces of literature."--_The Bellman._
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HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
BY BARRETT H. CLARK
THE CONTINENTAL DRAMA OF TO-DAY
_Outlines for Its Study_
Suggestions, questions, biographies, and bibliographies with outlines, of
half a dozen pages or less each, of the more important plays of twenty-four
Continental dramatists. While intended to be used in connection with a
reading of the plays themselves, the book has an independent interest,
_12mo. $1.50 net_.
_Prof. William Lyon Phelps, of Yale_: "... One of the most
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full of valuable hints and suggestions...."
BRITISH & AMERICAN DRAMA OF TO-DAY
_Outlines for Its Study_
Suggestions, biographies and bibliographies, together with historical
sketches, for use in connection with the important plays of Pinero, Jones,
Wilde, Shaw, Barker, Hankin, Chambers, Davies, Galsworthy, Masefield,
Houghton, Bennett, Phillips, Barrie, Yeats, Boyle, Baker, Sowerby, Francis,
Lady Gregory, Synge, Murray, Ervine, Howard, Herne, Thomas, Gillette,
Fitch, Moody, Mackaye, Sheldon, Kenyon, Walters, Cohan, etc. _12mo. $1.60
net_.
THREE MODERN PLAYS FROM THE FRENCH
Lemaitre's _The Pardon_ and Lavedan's _Prince D'Aurec_, translated by
Barrett H. Clark, with Donnay's _The Other Danger_, translated by Charlotte
Tenney David, with an Introduction to each author by Barrett H. Clark and a
Preface by Clayton Hamilton. One volume. _12mo. $1.50 net_.
_Springfield Republican_: "'The Prince d'Aurec' is one of his
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creation.... 'The Pardon' must draw admiration for its
remarkable technical efficiency.... 'The Other Danger' is a work
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