Israel Zangwill has turned, like Barrie, Galsworthy and Bennett, from fiction to the play, and _The Children of the Ghetto_, _Merely Mary Ann_, _The Melting Pot_, _The War God_ and _The Next Religion_ show progressively a firmer technic and the use of larger themes. Other playwrights like Alfred Sutro, Sidney Grundy, W. S. Maugham, Hubert Davies, and Captain Marshall have a skillful hand, and in the cases of Maugham and Davies, especially the latter, clever social satire has come from their pens. Louis R. Parker has shown his range and skill in successful dramas so widely divergent as _Rosemary_, _Pomander Walk_ and _Disraeli_. It may be seen from this category, suggestive rather than complete, that there is in England ample evidence for the statement that drama is now being vigorously produced and must be reckoned with as an appreciable and welcome part of contemporary letters. In the United States, so far, the showing is slighter and less impressive. Yet it is within the facts to say that the native play-making has waxed more serious-minded and skillful (this especially in the last few years) and so has become a definite adjunct to the general movement toward the reinvestiture of drama. In the prose drama which attempts honestly to reproduce American social conditions, elder men like Howard and Herne, and later ones like Thomas, Gillette and Clyde Fitch, have done worthy pioneer work. Among many younger playwrights who are fast pressing to the front, Eugene Walter, who in _The Easiest Way_ wrote one of the best realistic plays of the day, Edward Sheldon, with a dozen interesting dramas to his credit, notably _The Nigger_ and _Romance_; and William Vaughan Moody, whose material in both _The Great Divide_ and _The Faith Healer_ is healthfully American and truthful, although the handling is romantic and that of the poet, deserve first mention. Women are increasingly prominent in this recent activity and in such hands as those of Rachel Crothers, Ann Flexner, Marguerite Merrington, Margaret Mayo and Eleanor Gates our social life is likely to be exploited in a way to hint at its problems, and truthfully and amusingly set forth its types.