Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-08

giving a clear. orderly, compact grasp.
! For example, the whole body of Shakes
pearean literature here separates into it's
dramatic and non-dramatic parts, with
light but adequate touch upon the latter.
Again, the plays stand in a time Sc
quence, a frequently convenient order.
Yet again. and more Importantly, they
group into periods-the first, that OF imi-
tation and experiment: the second COW
erng comedy and history: the third. tras-
edy; the fourth. romance Each play is
given short. descriptive analysis. The
English Drama Before Shakespeare
forecasts the great poet. "Elizabethan
! London and "The lizabethan Theater
give him the reality of a local habita-
ton. The study closes with the curious
delusions about Shakespeare that have
risen at various times. The shakespeare
| Apocrypha,' spurious dramas assigned &c
him. many forgeries imposed upon the
public as newly discovered manuscripts.
and, late in the last century, the familiar
Bacon controversy. This Is an interest
ing book, combining scholarship with the
teaching art. and letting human warmth
and literary grace into the region or COM
mon textbook aridity.
THE NIGER: An American Play I'm
Three Acts. BY Edward Sheldon.
New York: The Macmillan Company.
Washington: Brentano's.
II is Fascinating SUBJECT, anu otlc
quite within the pale of credibility.
For, three generations ago in the south,
beautiful quadroon might have left
little child with her adored young
master. his child. And this quixotic
man might have reared it as his legiti
mate son. while the forgotten mother
drifted away into remote slavery. And
this boy might have fathered white
son, such as the hero of this play And
so, the play may properly concern itself
with the growth Of the quadroon's
grandson into a beautiful young man
hood. with social rights and public
favors at his hand. Then, too. at some
in or out of political stress this muck
raked to the surface with a denoue-
ment similar to that of the play. With
out exact information as to the ups
and down of its progress, it is pretty
has a hard road to travel, despite the
impulse of good players and generous
accessories under it and the attraction
of a brand-new theater OF the lnnoyat-
mans and Shaws-toward whom the pres
ent playwright reaches-with fidelity to
life for their aim and realism IN art as
vehicle, get but scant hearing. NOBODY
wants the naked truth. 1t is too shock
ing. The world, at the end of it's work
ing day seeks only nightcap. This
is good drama. substantial in theme.
above the average in structure. The
world, however, on either side OF the
Mason and Dixon line, is not yet ready
TO let a man outweigh his pedigree. In
a thousand years, or two, Or three
maybe.
A BLUESTOCkING IN INDIA: Her
Medical Wards and Messages Home.
BY Winifred Heston. NJ. d. New
York: Fleming II. ReveI Company.
The author calls herself bluestocking
and then gives the world book and
photograph to. contradict the assertion.
According to the dictionary. which knows
no mantle of charity, the unhappy being
in its BIS is 'pedantic-unfashiona
and uncouth." And Miss Heston is none
Of these dreadful things. She is young.
She is addicted to flirting. And she loves
pretty dresses and good times. Combined