THE GREEN-ROOM (Continued from page v1) ferrets out its own facts-read:-"If it means anything to you, I'm twenty-six years old, awkward, and skinny." The letter came from a smoky town in Pennsylvania. Too many secrets are known to the Green-Room about the author of "Little Yellow Dog" to admit of any being told here. F. STRINGFELLOW BARR has been a Rhodes Scholar, a sojourner in various parts of Europe, and a professor of history. Also he has written for a rather wide variety of publications and is managing editor of the VIRGINIA QUARTERLY. Perhaps the pertinent thing about him in view of the little fable is that he has auburn hair. "Night on La Verna" is "true in every detail”—we have the word of honor of its author who says "If it reads as fiction, I am undone!" Certainly there are touches that hint at symbolism but that may be explained by the author's adding that he has tried "to include only those details which have some significance." WILLIAM FORCE STEAD is an American who lives in England where recently he has received an appointment at Worcester College, Oxford. His several volumes have all been published in England. His recent book of verse, "Festival in Tuscany" (London: Cobden-Sanderson) follows a prose book "The Shadow of Mount Carmel." The review of Percy MacKaye's life of his father, Steele MacKaye, is by THOMAS H. DICKINSON, of Connecticut. He is the author of many books on the drama including "Playwrights of the New American Theatre." ARTHUR H. QUINN of the University of Pennsylvania has long been recognized as an authority on the history of the American stage. His "The History of the American Drama," recently completed, is the standard work in its field. The review of "Messages" by Ramon Fernandez should be read in connection with JOHN HYDE PRESTON'S study, in the Jan B By EUGENE O'NEILL EFORE its production, Mr. George Jean Nathan wrote: "Eugene O'Neill has written the finest, the profoundest drama of his entire career, not surpassed by any Europe has given us in recent years and certainly by none in America." Then the play was produced, to score the greatest triumph in the present memory of the theater. The N. Y. World wrote: "He has not only written a great American play but the great American novel as well." The Evening Post: “A great play. Not just the best play of the year, or a perfect piece of theater, but simply a great play. After covering itself with such glory the American Theater can say 'Stop, look and listen' to the whole wide world." So great was the advance interest, that the limited edition was oversubscribed long before publication. The regular edition went into the largest printing of a play in American publishing history. IN THE LIFE OF LORD CURZON By THE RT. HON. THE EARL OF RONALDSHAY $2.50 N collaboration with Ernest Benn of London, with whom we published that other important biography, THE LETTERS OF GERTRUDE BELL, we are publishing the authorized life of Lord Curzon. Lord Curzon was one of the most important and picturesque figures of the last fifty years. His early stormy but highly successful political career; his picturesque Viceroyship of India; his latter years in which he was noted for his scientific and artistic interests as well as for the closing episodes of a great life in politics, form three stages in a life that belongs securely to history. It is fortunate that the Earl of Ronaldshay has prepared the biography. He has played a large and intimate part in the events described and he ranks high among contemporary English writers. 3 vols. Profusely illustrated. $15.00 for the set. Subscriptions taken and delivery made as follows: Vol. two-June, Vol. three-September. LET FREEDOM RING MR By Arthur Garfield Hays. R. HAYS has been active in N Vol. one-March, Rose Macaulay returns to the mood of Told by an Idiot and Dangerous Ages, her masterpieces. It is the story of two sisters, daughters of the same father but of different mothers, one lower in the social scale, and how that fact affects their lives in class-conscious England. $2.50 BONI & LIVERIGHT Please send me your complete Good Books catalog for Spring 1928. Name.. Address. VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW You can order your books through the Virginia Quarterly Book Service. THE GREEN-ROOM (Continued from page vIII) uary issue, of Carl Spitteler and Paul Valéry. GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE of Queen's University, Canada, is himself a poet and the editor of "Selected Poems of Shelley." ARTHUR THEODORE FINCH of Essex, England, is editor of "The Pottery and Glass Record." JAMES C. 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COUNTER "If we offend, it is with our good will"-Peter Quince O MANY people have been telling me what they think of Ludwig's "Bismarck" (Little Brown. $3.75) that I have not had much time left to read-especially in fiction. I have been lucky in what I have read. No realistic novel of recent years has given me the gloomy pleasure that Julien Green's "Avarice House" (Harper. $2.50) did. Through the murky obscurities of a poor knowledge of French, I had glimpsed some of its power before I read it in the English translation. With careful stroke upon stroke, like the brush-work of a master-painter, Green secures his effects with insistent patience. Sordid and pitiful as the human elements are from which the story is made, the exquisite finish of the work produced upon me the lift of the heart which only beauty can do. Something is to be said for the catholicity of taste which welcomes in one season "Avarice House" and Thornton Wilder's superb "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" (A. & C. 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