Record-Herald_: "Maintains a clinging grip upon the mind and
senses, compelling one to acknowledge the author's genius."

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HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

Publishers New York

HALE'S DRAMATISTS OF TO-DAY

Rostand, Hauptmann, Sudermann,
Pinero, Shaw, Phillips, Maeterlinck

By Prof. EDWARD EVERETT HALE. Jr. of Union College. With gilt top.
$1.50 net. (By mail, $1.60.)

An informal discussion of their principal plays and of the performances
of some of them. A few of those considered are _Man and Superman_,
_Candida_, _Cyrano de Bergerac_, _L'Aiglon_, _The Sunken Bell_,
_Magda_, _Ulysses_, _Letty_, _Iris_, and _Pelleas_ and _Melisande_. The
volume opens with a paper "On Standards of Criticism," and concludes
with "Our Idea of Tragedy," and an appendix of all the plays of each
author, with dates of their first performance or publication.

_Bookman_: "He writes in a pleasant, free-and-easy way.... He accepts
things chiefly at their face value, but he describes them so accurately
and agreeably that he recalls vividly to mind the plays we have seen
and the pleasure we have found in them."

_New York Evening Post_: "It is not often nowadays that a theatrical
book can be met with so free from gush and mere eulogy, or so weighted
by common sense ... an excellent chronological appendix and full index
... uncommonly useful for reference."

_Dial_: "Noteworthy example of literary criticism in one of the most
interesting of literary fields.... Provides a varied menu of the most
interesting character.... Prof. Hale establishes confidential relations
with the reader from the start.... Very definite opinions, clearly
reasoned and amply fortified by example.... Well worth reading a second
time."

_New York Tribune_: "Both instructive and entertaining."

_Brooklyn Eagle_: "A dramatic critic who is not just 'busting' himself
with Titanic intellectualities, but who is a readable dramatic
critic.... Mr. Hale is a modest and sensible, as well as an acute and
sound critic.... Most people will be surprised and delighted with Mr.
Hale's simplicity, perspicuity, and ingenuousness."

_New York Dramatic Mirror_: "Though one may not always agree with Mr.
Hale's opinions, yet one always finds that he has something interesting
to say, an