"The Magistrate: We will now adjourn for lunch." (Act II.) In _Plays, First Series_, Scribner's, 1916. STRIFE: In the strike the leaders of the men and of the employers are stanch against compromise, but "the strong men with strong convictions are broken. The second-rate run the world through half-measures and concessions." (Lewisohn.) _Ibid._ +Louise Ayers Garnett+ MASTER WILL OF STRATFORD: A pleasant drama of Will Shakespeare's boyhood. Compare Landor's "Citation and Examination of Will Shakespeare for Deer-Stealing." Macmillan. +Alice Gerstenberg+ OVERTONES: While two women are conversing politely, they are attended by their real, unconventional selves, who interrupt to say what the women actually think and mean. Compare Ninah Wilcox Putnam's _Orthodoxy_ (_Forum_, June, 1914, 51:801), in which everyone in church says what he is thinking instead of what is proper and expected. In _Washington Square Plays_, Doubleday. +Giuseppa Giacosa+ THE RIGHTS OF THE SOUL: Anna is sternly loyal to her husband Paolo, but refuses to submit to his incessant prying into her individuality and questioning of her thoughts and her feelings. Frank Shay. THE WAGER: "Sentimental comedy, poetic and graceful, by one of the greatest contemporary Italian dramatists." Barrett H. Clark, translator. French. +W.S. Gilbert+ ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN: A most absurd parody on Hamlet, wherein a lamentable tragedy written and repented by his uncle the king is unearthed and turned to the sad prince's undoing. In _Original Plays_, Scribner's. ENGAGED PRINCESS IDA +William Gillette+ SECRET SERVICE: A most intense situation in Richmond during the Civil War, ably handled by a quiet and brilliant Northern secret-service man; weakened by a manufactured happy ending. French. +Susan Glaspell+ TRIFLES: Two women, by noting the significant trifles which the sheriff and the attorney overlook, discover the story of suffering which led to a crime. Speaking of their neglect of neighborly kindness, one says, "That's a crime too, and who's going to punish that?" In _Washington Square Plays_. +Lady Gregory+ IRISH FOLK-HISTORY PLAYS: I. THE TRAGEDIES: Stories of the beautiful and potent queens who brought suffering upon themselves and upon others; compare Synge's and Yeats's stories of Deirdre. Putnam. II. THE TRAGI-COMEDIES: THE WHITE COCKADE: In which James II defeats the gains of his loyal subjects by his abject and ridiculous cowardice. Putnam. CANAVANS: A covetous miller, his clever wandering brother, and some pleasant absurdity about the popular worship of Queen Elizabeth by her loyal subjects in Ireland. Putnam. THE DELIVERER: Apparently an Irish peasant's idea of the story of Moses. Putnam. WORKHOUSE WARD; HYACINTH HALVEY; THE JACKDAW: Comedies full of Irish wit, conscious and unconscious comedy, and endless complication of events and hearsay in Cloon. All in _Seven Short Plays_, Putnam. THE BOGIE MAN; THE FULL MOON; COATS: