“Every line of The Canterbury Pilgrims seems to have been wrought with infinite pains. The play possesses splendid literary qualities—and it is actable.”—_Dramatic Mirror._ “For a twentieth century author to take the characters of Chaucer’s famous stories and give them parts in a new comedy in verse, is a bold, nay, a perilous undertaking. But Mr. Percy MacKaye has carried it through with a large measure of success. He has drunk deep of the great Father of English poetry’s well, so that the comedy’s delightfully quaint language has the real Chaucerian ring. With much skill he portrays the pilgrims, picturing their respective failings and virtues so deftly that they appeal as strongly to modern taste as they did to our ancestors, yet preserving generally the mediæval tone.... Specially amusing is Friar Hubert, a jovial, mischievous rogue, whose drollery is irresistible.”—_Oxford Chronicle._ “Throughout the play the characters of these two most innocent lovers [Chaucer and the prioress] are maintained with exquisite humor and feeling for life. Outside of the covers of Shakespeare it would be hard to find anything of the kind at once more original and more nearly on Shakespeare’s level.”—_New York Times._ Three Short Plays BY MARY S. WATTS _12ᵒ, $1.25_ The brilliant dialogue in the novels of Mary S. Watts has always evoked the heartiest of praise from the critics. In fact it is not infrequently maintained that of all American writers Mrs. Watts is the most adept in the handling of book conversations. Her appearance, therefore, as a dramatist, is not at all unexpected to those who have been following her literary career. Her book, _Three Short Plays_, justifies the expectations of those who have looked for worthwhile work from her in this field. Van Zorn: A Comedy in Three Acts BY EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON _$1.25_ Edwin Arlington Robinson is known as one of the most accomplished of the younger generation of American poets. In this delightful play Mr. Robinson tells with a biting humor the story of the salvation of a soul. “Attraction of the play is the manner in which from scene to scene the interest is piqued, until at last there is a denouement almost Shavian in its impudence, that is, the impudence of the main characters. “One imagines the play would be highly entertaining on the stage. Incidentally it affords good reading.”—_Kentucky Post._ The Porcupine: A Drama in Three Acts BY EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON _$1.25_