A TRAGEDY IN FOUR ACTS By STEPHEN PHILLIPS With Frontispiece after the Painting by G. F. Watts, R. A. Twenty-eighth Thousand 12mo PRICE, $1.25 net 66 'Nothing finer has come to us from an English pen in the way of a poetic and literary play than this since the appearance of Taylor's Philip Van Artevelde.""-New York Times. "A beautiful piece of literature, disclosing the finest imagination, the most delicate instinct, and the most sincere art. It is too early to say that it is great, but it is not too soon to affirm that nothing so promising has come from the hand of an English or American poet of late years."—Outlook. "The play is a powerful one, and Mr. Phillips maintains in it his wonderful pitch of style, which was so striking in his earlier poems."-Independent. "It is not too much to say that 'Paolo and Francesca' is the most important example of English dramatic poetry that has appeared since Browning died. . . In Stephen Phillips we have a man who will prove that the finest achievements of English poetry are a continuing possession, and not solely a noble inheritance."-Brooklyn Daily Eagle. "Paolo and Francesca' has beauty, passion, and power. The poem deserves a wide reading on account of its intrinsic merit and interest."-Philadelphia Press. "The reader may turn to 'Paolo and Francesca' with the assurance of passing an hour of the highest possible pleasure. One of the most exalted histories of human passion and human frailty has received a fitting frame of verse. It is certain that his first act only would suffice in his facility of language, vigor of thought, intensity of emotion, conception of dramatic possibilities, and all that goes to make the drama great, to give the author a settled place among the best of the younger men."-Chicago Evening Post. Simple, direct, concerned with the elemental human pas、 sions, and presenting its story in the persons of three stronglydefined characters of the first rank, it should appeal to the dramatic sense as well as to the sense of poetic beauty. A very beautiful and original rendering of one of the most touching stories in the world."-Times. "A thing of exquisite poetic form, yet tingling from first to last with intense dramatic life. Mr. Phillips has achieved the impossible. Sardou could not have ordered the action more skillfully, Tennyson could not have clothed the passion in words of purer loveliness." Mr. WILLIAM ARCHER in Daily Chronicle. "We possess in Mr. Stephen Phillips one who redeems our age from its comparative barrenness in the higher realms of poetry."-Mr. W. L. COURTNEY, in Daily Telegraph. "This play is a remarkable achievement, both as a whole and in its parts. It abounds in beautiful passages and beautiful phrases. A man who can write like this is clearly a force to be reckoned with."-The Westminster Gazette. “A drama which is full of golden lines. A powerful but chastened imagination; a striking command of the resources of the language, and an admirable lucidity alike of thought and expression are combined to produce a play which will give pleasure of a lofty kind to multitudes of readers."-Standard. The high note of chivalry and sentiment, the simple dignity and genuine pathos which distinguish this meritorious performance."-Daily News. "Poetry like this has not been written in England for many a long day, and it is Mr. Phillips' double success that it is essentially and through and through dramatic poetry; for, while 'Paolo and Francesca' is a noble poem, it is so, largely, for the reason that it is noble drama as well. It would be impossible to exaggerate one's gratitude to Mr. Phillips for this priceless gift of new beauty." Mr. RICHARD LE GALLIENNE in The Star. "Mr. Phillips has written a great dramatic poem which happens also to be a great poetic drama. We are justified in speaking of Mr. Phillips' achievement as something without parallel in our age.”—Mr. Owen Seaman in Morning Post. "That Mr. Phillips will go on to give us plays that are both plays and poems, and so to enrich what is, after all, the most glorious dramatic literature in the world-wider and deeper than that of the Greeks, and nobler than that of Francewe do not doubt. His play shows that he has in him the capacity which was once 'so ancient and so eminent' among us."-The Spectator. "All that Mr. Phillips has written possesses a wonderful tenderness, a grace, a limpidity that is most rare: sometimes he finds poignant epithets and images that stab the memory with inarticulate regrets."-The Speaker. "He has attempted the bravest and most difficult vehicle in literary art, the supreme accomplishment for poets at any time, and he has succeeded."-The Outlook. "It fulfils, as no great poem of our day has yet fulfilled, the primary demands of a stage play. I know no work of modern times, no actors' drama of any age, that better combines the passion and glamor of romance with the restraint of classic traditions."-Punch. "Much might confidently have been expected from the author of 'The Wife,' and of 'Marpessa,' but I must frankly own that, magnificent as was the promise of these poems, I was not prepared for such an achievement as the present work. . . . It unquestionably places Mr. Phillips in the first rank of modern dramatists and of modern poetry. It does more, it claims his kinship with the aristocrats of his art: with Sophocles and with Dante." Mr. CHURTON COLLINS in The Saturday Review. POEMS BY STEPHEN PHILLIPS Thirteenth Edition, Uniform with "Herod" and "Paolo and Francesca." Fifteenth Thousand. 12mo. Price, $1.25 net To Mr. STEPHEN PHILLIPS was awarded, by SOME PRESS NOTICES "In 'Marpessa' he has demonstrated what I should hardly have thought demonstrable—that another poem can be finer than 'Christ in Hades.' I had long believed, and my belief was shared by not a few, that the poetic possibilities of classic myth were exhausted, yet the youngest of our poets takes this ancient story and makes it newly beautiful, kindles it into tremulous life, clothes it with the mystery of interwoven delight and pain, and in the best sense keeps it classic all the while."-WILLIAM WATSON in the Fortnightly. 66 The accent here is unmistakable, it is the accent of a new and true poet. Nature and passion pretend to be speaking, and nature and passion really speak. A poet of whom this may be said with truth has passed the line which divides talent from genius, the true singer from the accomplished artist or imitator. He has taken his place among authentic poets. 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