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The “fighting blade” is a quiet, boyish German soldier serving Cromwell, who, though a deadly duelist, is at bottom heroic and self-sacrificing. He loves a little tomboy Royalist heiress.

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NEW POPULAR EDITION, WITH APPENDIX

Containing tables, etc., of the Opera Season 1908-11.

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CHAPTERS OF OPERA

Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the Lyric Drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time.

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This is perhaps Mr. Krehbiel’s most important book. The first seven chapters deal with the earliest operatic performances in New York. Then follows a brilliant account of the first quarter-century of the Metropolitan, 1883-1908. He tells how Abbey’s first disastrous Italian season was followed by seven seasons of German Opera under Leopold Damrosch and Stanton, how this was temporarily eclipsed by French and Italian, and then returned to dwell with them in harmony, thanks to Walter Damrosch’s brilliant crusade,—also of the burning of the opera house, the vicissitudes of the American Opera Company, the coming and passing of Grau and Conried, and finally the opening of Oscar Hammerstein’s Manhattan Opera House and the first two seasons therein, 1906-08.

“Presented not only in a readable manner but without bias ... extremely interesting and valuable.”—Nation.

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THE CHILD

ITS CARE, DIET AND COMMON ILLS

By E. MATHER SILL, M.D.

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With 34 illustrations. $1.00 net; by mail $1.08

CONTAINS just the information a young mother ought to have, about the feeding, clothing, airing, and exercise of infants and young children. It is written in very simple language. It teaches how to distinguish the different diseases of children. It gives a carefully prepared list of antidotes for poisons. It aims to give the kind of help a mother needs before a physician can arrive, with suggestions when a physician is needed. It is written on the assumption that the young mother of to-day is not satisfied with the knowledge handed down to her from mother and grandmother, but wishes a more thorough up-to-date acquaintance with the modern methods of child care.

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THE CHILD; Its Care, Diet, and Common Ills. By Dr. E. Mather Sill

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HEREDITY in RELATION to EUGENICS. By C. B. Davenport

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THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE

American and English (1580-1912)

Compiled by Burton E. Stevenson. Collects the best short poetry of the English language—not only the poetry everybody says is good, but also the verses that everybody reads. (3742 pages; India paper, 1 vol., 8vo, complete author, title and first line indices, $7.50 net; carriage 40 cents extra.)

The most comprehensive and representative collection of American and English poetry ever published, including 3,120 unabridged poems from some 1,100 authors.

It brings together in one volume the best short poetry of the English language from the time of Spencer, with especial attention to American verse.

The copyright deadline has been passed, and some three hundred recent authors are included, very few of whom appear in any other general anthology, such as Lionel Johnson, Noyes, Housman, Mrs. Meynell, Yeats, Dobson, Lang, Watson, Wilde, Francis Thompson, Gilder, Le Gallienne, Van Dyke, Woodberry, Riley, etc., etc.

The poems as arranged by subject, and the classification is unusually close and searching. Some of the most comprehensive sections are: Children’s rhymes (300 pages); love poems (800 pages); nature poetry (400 pages); humorous verse (500 pages); patriotic and historical poems (600 pages); reflective and descriptive poetry (400 pages). No other collection contains so many popular favorites and fugitive verses.

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THE GARLAND OF CHILDHOOD

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THE VISTA OF ENGLISH VERSE

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LETTERS THAT LIVE

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THE THEORY OF THE THEATRE

And Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism

By Clayton Hamilton. Author of “Materials and Methods of Fiction.” $1.50 net; by mail, $1.60.

CONTENTS:

The Theory of the Theatre.—What is a Play?—The Psychology of Theatre Audiences.—The Actor and the Dramatist.—Stage Conventions in Modern Times.—Economy of Attention in Theatrical Performances.—Emphasis in the Drama.—The Four Leading Types of Drama: Tragedy and Melodrama; Comedy and Farce.—The Modern Social Drama.

Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism.—The Public and the Dramatist.—Dramatic Art and the Theatre Business.—The Happy Endings in the Theatre.—The Boundaries of Approbation.—Imitation and Suggestion in the Drama.—Holding the Mirror up to Nature.—Blank Verse on the Contemporary Stage.—Dramatic Literature and Theatric Journalism.—The Intention of Performance.—The Quality of New Endeavor.—The Effect of Plays upon the Public.—Pleasant and Unpleasant Plays.—Themes in the Theatre.—The Function of Imagination.

DRAMATISTS OF TO-DAY

Rostand, Hauptmann, Sudermann,
Pinero, Shaw, Phillips, Maeterlinck

By Prof. Edward Everett Hale, Jr., of Union College. With gilt top, $1.50 net. (By mail, $1.60.)

An informal discussion of their principal plays and of the performances of some of them. The volume opens with a paper “On Standards of Criticism,” and concludes with “Our Idea of Tragedy,” and an appendix of all the plays of each author, with dates of their first performance or publication.

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THE GERMAN DRAMA OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

By Georg Witkowski. Translated by Prof. L. E. Horning. 12mo. $1.00.

Kleist, Grillparzer, Hebbel, Ludwig, Wildenbruch, Sudermann, Hauptmann, and minor dramatists receive attention.

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HENRI BERGSON’S CREATIVE EVOLUTION

Translated from the French by Arthur Mitchell of Harvard University. 370+37 pp. index, 8vo, $2.50 net.[C]

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J. NOVICOW’S WAR AND ITS ALLEGED BENEFITS

By the Vice-President of the International Institute of Sociology.

Translated by Thomas Seltzer. 130 pp. 16mo. $1.00 net.[C]

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Landmarks in French Literature By G. L. Strachey.
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Great American Writers By W. P. Trent & John Erskine.
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The Literature of Germany By J. G. Robertson.
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