| + | Dial. 41: 460. D: 16, ’06. 220w. |
“The selections he makes are brief and numerous rather than few and choice.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 31. Ja. 19, ’07. 280w. |
Howard, Newman. Christian trilogy. 3v. ea. *$1.25. Dutton.
“Religions may come and go; the forms of morality may change, and what is right in one age and clime be wrong in another; but the essential virtue remains the same—nothing else than faithfulness to what a man holds to be right. That is the idea running through the three plays which Mr. Newman Howard calls his ‘Christian trilogy.’... Kiartan was, externally, true to his false friend; Savonarola to his false city; Minervina and Crispus, Constantine’s discarded wife and son, to their false husband, wife, and emperor. In each case there lies behind the occasion, the sense of honor, the conviction of the necessity for truth to an ideal of right.”—Lond. Times.
“Mr. Newman Howard’s ‘Christian trilogy’ is real poetry and it is real drama. Mr. Howard’s work is so fine that it seems captious to point out what we feel to be a defect in it. Though in each of his dramas, tragedy is implied in the character of the chief personage, too much of the action is controlled by the persistent malignity of another individual. Free from most of the tricks of the playwright, Mr. Howard still relies too much on his villain.”
| + + − | Acad. 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 1560w. (Review of v. 1–3.) |
“Starting with the essential idea, he develops it broadly, simply, even severely, preserving always the distinction between what is theatrical and what is dramatic.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 345. O. 12, ’06. 1580w. (Review of v. 1–3.) |