Mr. Percy Mackaye has been most active in the movement for a community theatre in the United States and for the revival of pageantry. He contends rightly that this development might be one of the strongest possible influences for true Americanism, and his dramatic work has all been directed toward such a theatre. Most notable are his pageants and masques, particularly _Caliban by the Yellow Sands_, for the Shakespeare Tercentenary; his play _The Scarecrow_, a lively dramatization of Hawthorne's _Feathertop_; his opera _Rip van Winkle_, for which Reginald De Koven composed music; and _The Canterbury Pilgrims_, in which the Wife of Bath is the heroine of further robustious adventures. Mr. Mackaye is also translator, with Professor Tablock, of the _Modern Reader's Chaucer_. The little sketch presented here is taken from a volume of _Yankee Fantasies_, in which various observations of past and present New England life are recorded. Stephen Crane's _The Red Badge of Courage_, a powerful story of the Civil War, is a most excellent help to realizing what the boy Lige really endured in those days of battle. Mr. Mackaye has adopted here a regularly rhythmic verse without the conventional capital letters at the beginnings of lines --perhaps to typify the simple homeliness of the talk. _Harold Brighouse_: LONESOME-LIKE Mr. Brighouse has been best represented in this country by an excellent comedy, _Hobson's Choice_, which was widely played and was printed in the Drama League series of plays (1906). His other best-known work here is the present play, and _The Price of Coal_ (1909), a picturing of the hard life of miners' wives and their Spartan firmness in expectation of fatal accidents. He has produced and published a number of other plays, among them those listed in the bibliography. Mr. Brighouse represents in this volume the work of the English Repertory theatres, which parallel the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, the Glasgow Repertory Theatre, and various European stage-societies. That at Manchester, with which he has been associated, is directed by Miss Isabel Horniman, has seen beautiful stage-settings designed by Mr. Robert Burne-Jones, and counts among its dramatists such well-known men as Messrs. Allan Monkhouse, author of _Mary Broome_, a sombre and powerful tragedy; Stanley Houghton, and Gilbert Cannan. The Liverpool Theatre has become even more famous through the dramatic work of Mr. John Drinkwater. The Little Theatre movement in this country, our Drama League, and the various dramatic societies in our colleges and cities are our nearest parallel to these repertory theatres. _Lonesome-Like_, Mr. Brighouse's most effective short play, is written in a modified Lancashire dialect, the speech of the village weavers and spinners. Many of the words are English of Elizabethan days and earlier, derived mostly from Anglo-Saxon.