BASIL DE SELINCOURT

WALTER PATER

A CRITICAL STUDY

BY

EDWARD THOMAS

_UNIFORM WITH "PEOPLE AND QUESTIONS"_

DRAMATIC PORTRAITS

By P.P. HOWE

Throughout this book a particular point of view has been adhered to, from which the drama is looked upon as a separate art from literature, and from which especial attention is paid to the manner of its practice. Thus nearly all the plays of the dramatists pa.s.sed under review are to be studied in book form, but they are spoken of here, as far as possible, in terms of their actual presentation in the theatre.

The dramatists include Pinero, Henry Arthur Jones, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, Barrie, Hubert Henry Davies, Granville Barker, Hankin, Galsworthy and Masefield. It is a book for all playgoers who have done their playgoing in the English theatre of the last twenty-five years.

The portraits which ill.u.s.trate it are from camera studies by Mr. E.O.

Hopp, reproduced by a new process which does full justice to his original prints.

NEW FICTION

SINISTER STREET By COMPTON MACKENZIE Author of "Carnival."

THE STORY OF LOUIE By OLIVER ONIONS Author of "The Debit Account."

HANDS UP!

By FREDERICK NIVEN Author of "The Porcelain Lady."

TELLING THE TRUTH By WILLIAM HEWLETT Author of "Uncle's Advice."

UNDERGROWTH By F. and E. BRETT YOUNG A First Novel.

THE BANKRUPT By HORACE HORSNELL A First Novel.

THE FOOL'S TRAGEDY By A. SCOTT CRAVEN A First Novel.