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“Each of the plays is written with the least possible waste of words or of motion. There is a bitter tang to them, except the last, with its note of whimsical tenderness. It is a book that Mr Middleton’s readers will be glad to have, for it carries on fitly the work he has been doing, that of writing the one-act play with a true sense of its form and value and as a medium for swift and keen interpretation of modern life.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
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“His art is akin to mathematics. Apart from the soundness of the fabric, his strength lies largely in the hardness, the firmness, the insistence of the individual stroke. Unfortunately for Mr Middleton, this hardness strikes inward, and the virtue of the technician becomes the limitation and incumbrance of the man.”
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“Perhaps the first is the most satisfactory. ‘Reason,’ a rather grim little study, is the other play in the book which has come off. The rest are a little nebulous, especially perhaps the playlet à la Sir James Barrie at the end.”
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“Whether Mr Middleton is saving his best for Broadway today, or whether the six one-act plays published in this volume are what is left over from the early literary days and published now in the hope of sharing the sun of success, it is certain that, as a group they are distinctly dull, undramatic and unconvincing. ‘Among the lions’ and ‘The reason’—both satirical comedies of the irregular relation—are better than the others.”
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