IT'S THE POOR THAT 'ELPS THE POOR: Of the simple kindliness of London costermongers and their neighborly help and sympathy. French. MUDDLE ANNIE: Of course, it is "Muddle Annie" who helps their friend the policeman save the more suave and self-satisfied members of her family from a precious rogue. Gowans and Gray. THE THRESHOLD: Tells of a Welsh girl about to elope with a specious rascal, and of the intervention of her old father, who is killed in a mine accident. Gowans and Gray; forthcoming, French. COMEDIES. Chatto and Windus, London. +Colin Clements and John M. Saunders, translators+ LOVE IN A FRENCH KITCHEN: A comical medieaval French farce. Jacquinot endures a miserable compound tyranny of petticoats until matters are brought to a head by cumulative injustice and the intervention of accident. In _Poet Lore_ (1917), 28:722. +Padraic Colum+ MOGU THE WANDERER: Pageantesque and dramatic story of the rise of a beggar to be the king's vizier, and of as sudden and entire reversal of fortunes. Little, Brown. THOMAS MUSKERRY: The tragic story of a poorhouse-keeper who repeats Lear's error of letting go his cherished power, and who suffers as keenly a more humble tragedy. Maunsell, Dublin. +Rachel Crothers+ HE AND SHE: A woman's designs win over those of her husband, who has the greater reputation, a large competitive award for a piece of sculpture; but she declines the commission in face of nearer and higher responsibilities. In Quinn's _Representative American Plays_, Century. +Windsor P. Daggett and Winifred Smith+ LELIO AND ISABELLA: A COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE: The story of Romeo and Juliet, as the foremost players of the Italian Comedy of Masks may have given it in seventeenth-century Paris--with an ending of their choice. An interesting study in the type. In manuscript: N.L. Swartout, Summit, N.J. +H.H. Davies+ THE MOLLUSC: Clever study of a woman who is a mollusc--not merely lazy, since she is capable of huge exertions to avoid being disturbed; she finds plenty of opposition to show forth her powers upon. Baker. +Thomas H. Dickinson+ IN HOSPITAL: A poignant small dialogue of a husband and wife who meet courageously the threatened shipwreck of their happiness. In _Wisconsin Plays, First Series_, B.W. Huebsch. +Beulah M. Dix+ ALLISON'S LAD: A Cavalier lad, about to be shot as a spy, is seized by terror, but dies bravely, "as if strong arms were around him." In _Allison's Lad and Other Martial Interludes_, Holt. THE DARK OF THE DAWN: Colonel Basil Tollocho spares a boy he has sworn to destroy in revenge of a great wrong, and is made glad of his clemency. _Ibid._ THE HUNDREDTH TRICK: Con of the Hundred Tricks takes fearfully stern measures against possible betrayal of his cause. _Ibid._ +Beulah Marie Dix and Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland+ ROSE O'PLYMOUTH TOWN: A pleasant play of Puritans and their neighbors. Dramatic Publishing Company. +Oliphant Down+