"Viewing Mr. Rice's plays as a whole, I should say that his prime virtue is fecundity or affluence, the power to conceive and combine events resourcefully, and an abundance of pointed phrases which recalls and half restores the great Elisabethans. His aptitude for structure is great."—The Nation (O. W. Firkins).
"Mr. Rice has fairly won his singing robes and has a right to be ranked with the first of living poets. One must read the volumes to get an idea of their cosmopolitan breadth and fresh abiding charm.... The dramas, taken as a whole, represent the most important work of the kind that has been done by any living writer.... This work belongs to that great world where the mightiest spiritual and intellectual forces are forever contending; to that deeper life which calls for the rarest gifts of poetic expression."—The Book News Monthly (Albert S. Henry).
12mo. 2 vols. Price $4.00
The following volumes are now included in the author's "Collected Plays and Poems," and are not obtainable elsewhere:
At the World's Heart
"This book justifies the more than transatlantic reputation of its author."—The Sheffield (England) Daily Telegraph.
Porzia: A Play
"It matters little that we hesitate between ranking Mr. Rice highest as dramatist or lyrist; what matters is that he has the faculty divine beyond any living poet of America; his inspiration is true, and his poetry is the real thing."—The London Bookman.
Far Quests
"It shows a wide range of thought and sympathy, and real skill in workmanship, while occasionally it rises to heights of simplicity and truth, that suggest such inspiration as should mean lasting fame."—The Daily Telegraph (London).