The Little Review, July 1914 (Vol. 1, No. 5)Various
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The Little Review, July 1914 (Vol. 1, No. 5)
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_The Sister of the Wind_, and _Other Poems_, by Grace Fallow Norton.
[Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.] Some of this will disappoint lovers
of _Little Gray Songs From St. Joseph's_--in fact, none of the poems
here has such extraordinary poignancy. But there are many that are worth
knowing.
_The Continental Drama of Today_, by Barrett H. Clark. [Henry Holt and
Company, New York.] Invaluable to the student of continental drama. A
half dozen pages of critical analysis devoted to each of thirty modern
playwrights.
_Stories and Poems and Other Uncollected Writing_, by Bret Harte,
compiled by Charles Meeker Kozlay, with an introductory account of
Harte's early contributions to the California press. [Houghton Mifflin
Company, Boston.] A very beautiful Riverside Press volume with
photogravures.
_I Should Say So_, by James Montgomery Flagg. [George H. Doran Company,
New York.] Yes, he is silly; but Mr. Flagg is so nicely naughty and so
naughtily human that you simply must laugh.
_Broken Music_, by Phyllis Bottome. [Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.]
Charming and well done. The story of a young French boy's struggle to
create music, and his success after the tradition of a "broken heart"
had been fulfilled.
_The Old Game_, by Samuel G. Blythe. [George H. Doran Company, New
York.] A temperance tract by a man who knows; minus sanctimoniousness
and plus a punch.
_Dramatic Portaits_, by P. P. Howe. [Mitchell Kennerley, New York.] One
man's opinion of the modern dramatists. A "shelf book" for occasional
reference.
_Billy and Hans_, by W. J. Stillman. [Thomas B. Mosher, Portland,
Maine.] A charming story of the most temperamental of pets, the
squirrel. A Mosher book bound in a cover dark enough to stand wear. A
distinct relief from the Alice blue and pale old rose of Mr. Mosher's
more delicate periods.
_Billy_, by Maud Thornhill Porter. [Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Maine.]
The true story of a canary bird. One of those little documents written
for the enjoyment of a family circle and read on winter evenings.
Bright, human, and personal.
_The Social Significance of the Modern Drama_, by Emma Goldman. [Richard
G. Badger, Boston.] Miss Goldman discusses Ibsen, Strindberg, Sudermann,
Hauptmann, Wedekind, Maeterlinck, Rostand, Brieux, Shaw, Galsworthy,
Stanley Houghton, Githa Sowerby, Yeats, Lenox Robinson, T. G. Murray,
Tolstoy, Tchekhof, Gorki, and Andreyev, outlining the plays of each and
emphasizing their relation to the problem of modern society. She is the
interpreter here rather than the propagandist, and her interpretations
are not academic discourses. They give you the plays partly by
quotation, partly in crisp narrative, and they are not the kind of
interpretations that make the authors wish they had never written plays.
Whether you like Emma Goldman or not, you will get a more compact and
comprehensive working-knowledge of the modern drama from her book than
from any other recent compilation we know of.
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