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International Duty and Hyphenated Americans, by Theodore Roosevelt. The Metropolitan, October.

In Memory of Lieutenant Rupert Brooke, by Joyce Kilmer. The Bookman, September.

Llewellyn Jones on New Tendencies in the Arts, in any issue of The Chicago Evening Post Friday Review.

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THE DRAMA

for August Contained This Interesting Material

A LETTER CONCERNING AUGIER, by Eugene Brieux353
THE MARRIAGE OF OLYMPE, by Emile Augier358
EMILE AUGIER, by Barrett Clark440
PARSEE DRAMA, by George Cecil459
THE EVOLUTION OF THE ACTOR, by Arthur Pollock468
FRANK WEDEKIND, by Frances Fay479
DEPERSONALIZING THE INSTRUMENTS OF THE DRAMA, by Huntley Carter495
JAMES SHIRLEY, DRAMATIST, a review by Charlton Andrews506
PLAYING HAMLET AS SHAKESPEARE STAGED IT IN 1601, by Charlotte Porter511
CHIEF CONTEMPORARY DRAMATISTS, a review by Alfred K. Eddy527
THE SHAKESPEARE TERCENTENARY, Percival Chubb531
RECENT MAGAZINE ARTICLES ON THE DRAMA537
A SELECTIVE LIST OF ESSAYS AND BOOKS ABOUT THE THEATRE AND OF PLAYS published during the second quarter of 1915, compiled by Frank Chouteau Brown538

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Transcriber’s Notes

Advertisements were collected at the end of the text.

The table of contents on the title page was adjusted in order to reflect correctly the headings in this issue of The Little Review.

The original spelling was mostly preserved. A few obvious typographical errors were silently corrected. All other changes are shown here (before/after):