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.

JUSTICE:  Mr. Ludwig Lewisohn writes:  “The economic structure of society on any basis requires the keeping of certain compacts.  It cannot endure such a breaking of these compacts as Falder is guilty of when he changes the figures on the cheque.  Yet by the simple march of events it is overwhelmingly proven that society here stamps out a human life not without its fair possibilities—­ for eighty-one pounds.”