"The Measure" is an amusing comedy of contemporary life, in a prologue and two acts, dealing with the adventures of two bachelors who become entangled in a family containing three daughters.
"Down Stream" is a one-act play whose action takes place in a supposititious country in South-Eastern Europe, where the King traps one of his Ministers neatly, and then deals with him in an unexpected fashion.
Of Mr. Rawson's previous volume ("The Stroke of Marbot," Fisher Unwin, 1917) the Times said: "They are effective plays which should act well, and the stage directions are so given as to make them quite good reading for the study."
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The Spoiled Buddha. An Eastern Play in two Acts. By HELEN WADDELL. Paper Covers.
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The play is about the Buddha, in the days before he became a god; and about Binzuru, who was his favourite disciple, and who might have become even as the Buddha, only that he saw a woman passing by, and desired her beauty and so fell from grace.
Songs of the Island Queen. By PEADAR MacTOMAIS. Paper Covers.
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"Those are songs of a dreamer of Eire,