Boni and Liveright.

THE DOLL’S HOUSE:  Nora Hjalmar, who has always been petted and shielded, at last has to face and solve certain difficult problems for herself.  She thus discovers just how much her husband’s love and indulgence are worth.  Her solution of the difficulty is presented, not as necessarily the right thing to have done, but as what such a woman would do under the circumstances.

Boni and Liveright.

THE LADY FROM THE SEA:  Ellida Wrangel, wife of the village pastor, feels the call of the sea; she feels she must go with the rough sailor to whom she was once betrothed.  When Wrangel sincerely offers her liberty to choose, she “seeks the security of a familiar home, and the wild lure of the great sea spaces can trouble her no more.” (Lewisohn.)

Boni and Liveright.

+W.W.  Jacobs and Others+

ADMIRAL PETERS; THE GRAY PABKOT; THE CHANGELING; BOATSWAIN’S MATE:  Jolly farces of sailors and watchmen and their families, based on Jacobs’s stories in Captains All, Many Cargoes, and the rest.

French.

THE MONKEY’S PAW:  A most fearful and gruesome play, based on Jacobs’s story, in the vein of the Three Wishes, and the Foot of Pharaoh, by Gautier.

French.

+Jerome K. Jerome+

FANNY AND THE SERVANT PBOBLEM:  The new Lady Bantock is surprised to discover both her real rank and her strange relationship with her twenty-three servants.  An interesting character study.

French.

+William Ellery Leonard+

GLORY OF THE MORNING:  The pathos of 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 Leonard has newly completed another powerful tragedy, Red Bird, as yet unpublished.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.