O'FLAHERTY, V.C.: On a recruiting mission in his own country, O'Flaherty must account to his mother for his hitherto concealed crime of fighting not against, but for England. In _Heartbreak House_, Constable. AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT: A high-born muddler in Britain's conduct of the war. _Ibid._ +Arthur Shirley+ GRINGOIRE THE BALLAD-MAKER: A translation and adaptation of de Banville's comedy about another poet than Villon in the hands of Louis XI. Dramatic Publishing Company. +Thomas Wood Stevens+ THE NURSERY MAID OF HEAVEN: "Vernon Lee's" eighteenth-century legend of Sister Benvenuta and the Christ-Child, in a simple and effectively dramatic form. In _Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays_, Stewart and Kidd. +Alfred Sutro+ THE MAN ON THE KERB: A workman who has failed in every attempt to get work or help faces starvation with his wife and baby in a London tenement basement. No solution of the problem is offered. In _Five Little Plays_, Duckworth, London. A MARRIAGE HAS BEEN ARRANGED: Comedy of a rejected proposal for a society "marriage of convenience," followed by an adjustment of understanding upon another basis. _Ibid._ +John Millington Synge+ DEIRDRE OF THE SORROWS: A beautiful and poetic dramatization of the tragic Celtic legend of Deirdre and the Sons of Usna. This may well be compared with Yeats's dramatization of the same story. Luce. THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD: Rather fearful comedy of the popular idolatry offered by Irish peasants to a man who boasts he has killed his father. Luce. IN THE SHADOW OF THE GLEN: An awesome husband makes a test of his wife's love. Luce. THE TINKER'S WEDDING: Rather boisterous comedy of a tinker-woman who upsets ancient custom by insisting on a church wedding. Luce. THE WELL OF THE SAINTS: A gruesome tragedy of a blind beggar and his wife. All these dramas are as strangely filled with beauty and poetry of expression as is the Riders to the Sea. Luce. +Rabindranath Tagore+ THE POST OFFICE: "A poetic and symbolic play." Macmillan. +Anton Tchekhov+ THE BOOR; THE MARRIAGE PROPOSAL; THE WEDDING FEAST; THE TRAGEDIAN IN SPITE OF HIMSELF: Comical farces of extravagant conversation and action, and apparently real studies of Russian character. In _Plays, Second Series_ Scribner's. +William Makepiece Thackeray+ THE ROSE AND THE RING: One of the most delightful of puppet-plays is based on the favorite story. Smith, Elder and Company, London; Macmillan, New York. +Augustus Thomas+ OLIVER GOLDSMITH: A very engaging play, introducing Burke, Goldsmith, Garrick in several amusing roles, Dr. Johnson, and others in his circle, and presenting (in Act II) a dress rehearsal of _She Stoops to Conquer_. French. +Frank G. Tompkins+ SHAM: A SOCIAL SATIRE: Of a most superior burglar, who takes only genuine objects of art, disdains the imitation stuff that litters Charles and Clara's home, and reads them a severe lecture on reality and sham in this and other departments of life.