French.

MUDDLE ANNIE:  Of course, it is “Muddle Annie” who helps their friend the policeman save the more suave and self-satisfied members of her family from a precious rogue.

Gowans and Gray.

THE THRESHOLD:  Tells of a Welsh girl about to elope with a specious rascal, and of the intervention of her old father, who is killed in a mine accident.

Gowans and Gray; forthcoming, French.

COMEDIES.

Chatto and Windus, London.

+Colin Clements and John M. Saunders, translators+

LOVE IN A FRENCH KITCHEN:  A comical medieaval French farce.  Jacquinot endures a miserable compound tyranny of petticoats until matters are brought to a head by cumulative injustice and the intervention of accident.

In Poet Lore (1917), 28:722.

+Padraic Colum+

MOGU THE WANDERER:  Pageantesque and dramatic story of the rise of a beggar to be the king’s vizier, and of as sudden and entire reversal of fortunes.

Little, Brown.

THOMAS MUSKERRY:  The tragic story of a poorhouse-keeper who repeats Lear’s error of letting go his cherished power, and who suffers as keenly a more humble tragedy.

Maunsell, Dublin.

+Rachel Crothers+

HE AND SHE:  A woman’s designs win over those of her husband, who has the greater reputation, a large competitive award for a piece of sculpture; but she declines the commission in face of nearer and higher responsibilities.

In Quinn’s Representative American Plays, Century.

+Windsor P. Daggett and Winifred Smith+

LELIO AND ISABELLA:  A COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE:  The story of Romeo and Juliet, as the foremost players of the Italian Comedy of Masks may have given it in seventeenth-century Paris—­with an ending of their choice.  An interesting study in the type.

In manuscript:  N.L.  Swartout, Summit, N.J.

+H.H.  Davies+

THE MOLLUSC:  Clever study of a woman who is a mollusc—­not merely lazy, since she is capable of huge exertions to avoid being disturbed; she finds plenty of opposition to show forth her powers upon.

Baker.

+Thomas H. Dickinson+

IN HOSPITAL:  A poignant small dialogue of a husband and wife who meet courageously the threatened shipwreck of their happiness.

In Wisconsin Plays, First Series, B.W.  Huebsch.

+Beulah M. Dix+

ALLISON’S LAD:  A Cavalier lad, about to be shot as a spy, is seized by terror, but dies bravely, “as if strong arms were around him.”

In Allison’s Lad and Other Martial Interludes, Holt.

THE DARK OF THE DAWN:  Colonel Basil Tollocho spares a boy he has sworn to destroy in revenge of a great wrong, and is made glad of his clemency.

Ibid.

THE HUNDREDTH TRICK:  Con of the Hundred Tricks takes fearfully stern measures against possible betrayal of his cause.