A STUDY OF THE DRAMA
By Brander Matthews
Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.50 net. Postage extra. [Also, School Edition, $1.25 net. Postpaid.]
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BRANDER MATTHEWS
This book does for the theatre what Bliss Perry's "Study of Prose Fiction" does for the novel. It is a clear and able study, not of the closet-drama, but of the actual stage play. It is not a history of the drama, though a great deal of sound dramatic history comes in incidentally. It is rather an exposition of the conditions which determine the method in which a play is constructed and which make for its significance and success. In its helpfulness for the intelligent play-goer who wants to understand what he sees and judge plays readily and soundly, it is unique. Prof. Matthews has been for many years professor of dramatic literature in Columbia University, and as a writer upon the drama he has won a position of undisputed authority. This book embodies the results of his life-long studies. It is illustrated with plans and views of famous theatres.
ENGLISH LITERATURE IN ACCOUNT
WITH RELIGION
By Edward M. Chapman
Author of "The Dynamic of Christianity." Large crown 8vo, $2.00 net. Postage extra.
This unusual book is a study of the debt of English literature, through the past century and a half, to the religious impulse. "The path of literature leads primarily to that of religion," says Mr. Chapman; "they are brethren of one blood, interdependent, and necessary to each other." In this relation, Mr. Chapman illustrates from the literature he studies, taking up in order practically all the important English writers from Cowper to the present day. He writes well and entertainingly, and never with a narrow theological preoccupation. No serious student of literature can read the book without drawing from it a flood of new light upon the ideals of the nineteenth century, while it has of course special interest for those vitally concerned with religious matters.
Biography and History
THE LIFE OF MARY LYON
By Beth Bradford Gilchrist