"In his latest effort Mr. Henry Arthur Jones may not have written a play that will appeal to the taste of the average playgoer, but he has unquestionably produced a noble, and we may also add, a great work. It is serious in tone throughout, there is a rigid adherence to its single theme, and he has made no. attempt to lighten the subject by side issues, or lower it by the introduction of any motive or thought below the high level of achievement which, it is self-evident, he marked out for himself. We are no upholders of the morbid drama, of that dragging on to the stage social horrors merely for stage effect, but if we are to have a serious drama then let it be of the quality of 'Michael and his Lost Angel' produced last night at the Lyceum with but equivocal success. Mr. Jones has given us a play of heart-searching truth, a play based on the aspirations and failings of two souls, of love in conflict with religion. He has brought to bear on it a depth of study and insight into the workings of the human heart most profoundly true, and he has clothed the skeleton of his drama with language so noble and expressive that a single hearing enables one to do it only faint justice. A powerful command of the English tongue has long been acknowledged to be among Mr. Jones's especial gifts, and never before has he, from the purely literary point of view, accomplished anything so refined and poetical in expression, so instinct with the true language of the heart. Whatever may be the success of the new play from the box-office point of view, there is no doubt that it will rank in the minds of thoughtful men as his finest work." --_Morning Advertiser._ "Mr. Henry Arthur Jones has written his masterpiece--of this there can be no doubt. But whether 'Michael and his Lost Angel' will achieve a popular success depends entirely upon how far popular judgment is able to appreciate this work--deeply sombre, terribly real, and heartrending from first to last--and whether following with awe its judiciously-set lesson on the frailty of woman and man, the mind will not be too much taxed by serious thoughts to consider 'Michael and his Lost Angel' in the light of an evening's amusement. . . . The fact remains that Mr. Jones has, with the power of a master, constructed a play of engrossing interest, knit together with a strength and breadth of grasp which leaves a feeling of astonishment at the close of the play, astonishment, because the picturesqueness, and the sorrowful reality of the play are borne down upon you with a force and intenseness that leave no escape for the mind to speculate or to anticipate. The fascination of the picture is absorbing and complete, and one bounds back to stalls and human faces at the close of each act with a thud in the brain." --_Court Journal._ OTHER WORKS BY HENRY ARTHUR JONES. SAINTS AND SINNERS. A New and Original Drama of Middle-Class Life, in Five Acts. 16mo. Cloth. 75 cents.