SNAP SHOTS

...He has never been noted for taste or discrimination...

...He has few sacred places and those which he hedges off always leave a peek-hole through which he wants us to deduce that the truth was probably worse than it really was...

...men will gather new reactions from the pending readjustments which are bound to come in the new era about to begin, I WANT once again to call attention to the very admirable series of plays published under the auspices of the Drama League...

...What is most encouraging is the promise, added to achievement, that we may expect splendid things in the future from a pen which has also written The Rainbow, as yet unpublished...

...It is a blending" of farce and comedy touched with biting humor that exposes without scaring our human frailties...

...His method leaves us a bit uncertain as to where truth leaves off and fiction begins...

...It would be obviously impossible to go into more detail as to these three volumes...

...How important it will be in time, time alone will tell...

...Some one has said that no one can write a dull autobiography, because the very dullness would be interesting...

...It is a late day to comment on Ech-agaray's great study in the evil of gossip, but it is cordially recommended to those who may never have visualized the evil effect of careless speaking...

...A masterpiece like El Grand Galeoto, also in this series, with an introduction by John Underwood, the greatest authority in this country on contemporary Spanish drama, is in itself an occasion...

...Much as it resembles Galsworthy's Strife, it is distinctly original in that it has a Welch setting that gives a splendid coloring to this staggering problem the world has been trying to solve...

...for Mr...

...To one who would like to follow Moore into theological speculation there is much in Salve which would appeal...

...The author, the letter said, would no doubt be glad to know everything that the newspapers said about him and his work...

...In this, Mr...

...Snap Shots Boohs, Art, Drama By George Middleton I HAVE been meaning for some time to write of George Moore's autobiography—Hail and Farewell (Appleton, New York) which has now been completed in three volumes...

...though subjectively it seems more labored...

...To this is always added rather a curious insistence on sex which is not always healthy because it is colored with a certain veneer of sentiment more or less cynical...

...But it is unique, brilliantly written and spiced with the Moore essence...

...Rather Moore has used certain experiences which clustered about his participation in the Irish movement and dramatized them, treating the various real people who came in contact with him as fictive characters...

...It is a splendid study of the labor question written with humor and force...

...Personally the first volume, Ave, interested me most, It has a freshness of observation, coupled with keen humor which is in his best strain...

...He reveals intimacies without a blush and with his tongue in his cheek...

...It is written with all the author's penetration and while it is not dramatic it has a slow persuasion which lifts it into the realm of splendid achievement...

...E." and those others who have torn a literature out of the folk lore of the Irish people...

...Of course, the student of the Irish Theater movement will find much to amuse or disgust him in Moore's comments on Lady Gregory, Yeats, Edwin Martyn, "A...

...In Vale is one of Moore's incomparable comments on modern painting which reveals him once more the real critic he is...

...As time goes on, his novel, Esther Waters becomes more and more a classic: in fact, I know of few greater studies of motherhood than this story of a poor serving maid who achieves a child without a husband...

...This volume is not so profound as Marriage, for example, but it is, on the whole, more logical and satisfactory...

...Perhaps it is not fair to call it an autobiography, since it is not handled in the usual method...

...This play has been accessible before but it is well that it is made more widely obtainable...

...HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY received last week a letter addressed to an author in their care, which was opened in the rush of business...

...The book mentioned was a gift edition of The Vicar of Wakefield...

...Those who will recall his early classic of youthful impressions, The Confessions of a Young Man and the less successful and somewhat blase Memoires of My Dead Self, with its inimitable episode of "The Lovers of Oreley," have learned that there are things one must not expect of this versatile Englishman, born Celt...

...But Moore can never be dismissed...

...These three plays, in fact, are hopeful signs of a growing dramatic literature which need not discourage us even in these times of stress when art seems silent before the law of brute force...

...Wells of all...

...The story is simplicity itself, though it contains, beneath a surface series of agitations in the hearts and lives of those concerned, a subtle study of jealousy which, in the author's eyes, is one of the great evils in the relations of men and women...

...It was from a clipping bureau, enclosing several printed notices...

...It is heartily recommended to those who would live for a while with a rather cynical blase man of the world who may have had fewer experiences with women than he would like us to believe...

...Incidentally, it is well to point out that it was written just before the war, so it may be safely said to mark the passing of one phase of the author's social attitude...

...But while it is a serious volume it is charged with comedy and offers various moods to the reader...

...He writes English as few who wield a pen...

...Indeed, the book in many ways is one of the most successful this versatile sociologist has turned out— for he is eminently sociological in his point of view...

...A NEW NOVEL by H. G. Wells is always a treat and The Wife of Sir Isaac Harmon (Mac-millan) will prove no disappointment...

...We have now several new ones which are of great interest...

...Wells has once again taken the modern woman and shown her in the progress of revolt, evolving towards social usefulness from parasitic slavery to a husband's conventions...

...Consequently Hail and Farewell will pay a reading...

...Change by F. 0. Francis, with an introduction by the well-known critic, Montrose J. Moses, has also appeared in this series...

...Thomas has the gift of incisive characterization which becomes vivid under his clever dialogue...

...Throughout the pages we find all sorts of comments upon love and literature of varying appeal according to the taste and inclinations of the reader...

...To many Evelyn Innes is his best work but a recent reading did not impress me...

...Given an interesting story and a rare skill in externalizing it this long story of George Moore's cannot fail to be of interest...

...It is needless to go into details as to the plot except for the general statement that it traces the growth of a woman...

...A. E. Thomas' Her Husband's Wife, with an intimate introduction by Walter P. Eaton, is one of the finest satirical comedies which any Ameri-can dramatist has yet produced...

...They are full of good things that should stimulate any one who has opinions of his own...

...wherefore the bureau offered, for so much per month or year, to keep him posted as to how he was going, both with regard to the recently issued book and others that he would assuredly write...

...his humor tickles us even though we often hate him for the subjects he lets it play upon...

...and, of course, he is a master of fiction...

...And no one will forget some pages in Mike Fletcher, now out of print, and A Mummer's Wife, the most tragic picture of English stage life which we have...

...One always gets a glimpse of a social background against which human people are struggling...