SOURCE: “The Plays of Augustus Thomas,” in The Wallet of Time, Moffat, Yard and Company, 1913, pp. 529-57.

In the following excerpt, Winter praises some of Thomas's major hits.

It is the province of criticism to examine, analyze, classify, and expound, with praise for merit and censure for defect, the productions of artists, to maintain and apply the highest standard of taste, beauty, and morality, to advocate that which is right and to denounce that which is wrong. In the pursuit of that difficult and generally thankless vocation the great privilege sometimes comes to the critic of recognizing, honoring, and perhaps contributing to the advancement of genius. That privilege is afforded to the critic who is so fortunate as to examine the best plays of Augustus Thomas. The genius that is manifest in those plays is that which intuitively comprehends human nature, its strength and its weakness, its temptations...