"The best guide to the aquarium."--_The Independent._ HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK THE THEORY OF THE THEATRE And Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism By CLAYTON HAMILTON. Author of "Materials and Methods of Fiction." $1.50 net; by mail, $1.60. CONTENTS: THE THEORY OF THE THEATRE.--What is a Play?--The Psychology of Theatre Audiences.--The Actor and the Dramatist.--Stage Conventions in Modern Times.--Economy of Attention in Theatrical Performances.--Emphasis in the Drama.--The Four Leading Types of Drama: Tragedy and Melodrama; Comedy and Farce.--The Modern Social Drama. OTHER PRINCIPLES OF DRAMATIC CRITICISM.--The Public and the Dramatist.--Dramatic Art and the Theatre Business.--The Happy Endings in the Theatre.--The Boundaries of Approbation.--Imitation and Suggestion in the Drama.--Holding the Mirror up to Nature.--Blank Verse on the Contemporary Stage.--Dramatic Literature and Theatric Journalism.--The Intention of Performance.--The Quality of New Endeavor.--The Effect of Plays upon the Public.--Pleasant and Unpleasant Plays.--Themes in the Theatre.--The Function of Imagination. DRAMATISTS OF TO-DAY ROSTAND, HAUPTMANN, SUDERMANN, PINERO, SHAW, PHILLIPS, MAETERLINCK By PROF. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, JR., of Union College. With gilt top, $1.50 net. (By mail, $1.60.) An informal discussion of their principal plays and of the performances of some of them. The volume opens with a paper "On Standards of Criticism," and concludes with "Our Idea of Tragedy," and an appendix of all the plays of each author, with dates of their first performance or publication. _New York Evening Post:_ "It is not often nowadays that a theatrical book can be met with so free from gush and mere eulogy, or so weighted by common sense ... an excellent chronological appendix and full index ... uncommonly useful for reference." _Dial:_ "Noteworthy example of literary criticism in one of the most interesting of literary fields.... Well worth reading a second time." THE GERMAN DRAMA OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY By GEORG WITKOWSKI. Translated by PROF. L. E. HORNING. 12mo. $1.00. Kleist, Grillparzer, Hebbel, Ludwig, Wildenbruch, Sudermann, Hauptmann, and minor dramatists receive attention. _New York Times Review:_ "The translation of this brief, clear, and logical account was an extremely happy idea. Nothing at the same time so comprehensive and terse has appeared on the subject, and it is a subject of increasing interest to the English-speaking public." HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: Bold text is denoted by =equal signs=. The caret ^ indicates that the following character or [ {expression} is superscripted. Mid-sentence capital letters are used by the Author to indicate the beginning of a quote or question, which terminates at the end of the sentence. Typographical errors corrected: