If only every Celt will refuse to fight for anything but the freedom of his own country, the English will soon destroy themselves altogether, and we shall inherit their language, the only worthy thing they have, and which their newspapers have not yet succeeded in debauching and degrading beyond repair. There are still universities in England. However, they have made it a crime in England to write good English—for style itself is a form of truth, being beauty; and truth and beauty are as welcome in England as detectives in a thieves’ kitchen.—Aleister Crowley in _The International_. THE DRAMA for May Contained This Interesting Material THE CLASSICAL STAGE OF JAPAN Ernest Fenollosa’s Work on the Japanese “Noh.” Edited by Ezra Pound. “Noh” Dramas (from the Fenollosa Manuscript). Sotoba Komachi. Kayoi Komachi. Suma Genji. Kumasaka. Shojo. Tamura. Tsunemasa. Kunasaka. THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE CENSORSHIP, by _Thomas H. Dickinson_ MAURICE MAETERLINCK by _Remy de Gourmont_ Authorized translation by Richard Aldington. THE “BOOK OF THE PAGEANT,” AND ITS DEVELOPMENT by _Frank Chouteau Brown_ ON THE READING OF PLAYS by _Elizabeth R. Hunt_ A PYRAMUS-AND-THISBE PLAY OF SHAKESPEARE’S TIME, with notes by _Eleanor Prescott Hammond_ THE PUBLISHED PLAY by _Archibald Henderson_ THE THEATRE TODAY—AND TOMORROW, a review, by _Alice Corbin Henderson_ THE GERMAN STAGE AND ITS ORGANIZATION—Part III, Private Theatres by _Frank E. Washburn Freund_ ASPECTS OF MODERN DRAMA, a review, by _Lander MacClintock_ THE JAPANESE PLAY OF THE CENTURIES by _Gertrude Emerson_ A SELECTIVE LIST OF ESSAYS AND BOOKS ABOUT THE THEATRE AND OF PLAYS, published during the first quarter of 1915 compiled by _Frank Chouteau Brown_ THE DRAMA for August will contain Augier’s _Mariage d’Olympe_, with a foreword by Eugene Brieux; an amusing account of his experiences with Parsee drama, by George Cecil; a paper on the _Evolution of the Actor_, by Arthur Pollock; a discussion of Frank Wedekind, by Frances Fay; a review of the work of the recent Drama League Convention; a plan for an autumn community festival; an outline of the nation-wide celebration of the Shakespeare tercentenary, and an article entitled _Depersonalizing the Instruments of the Drama_, by Huntly Carter. _The Drama, a Quarterly_ _$3.00 per year_ _736 Marquette Building_ _Chicago_