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 I THE POETIC y DRAMATIC WORKS of STEPHEN PHILLIPS HEROD: A Tragedy in Three Acts. Twenty-first Thou- sand. Green Cloth. i2mo. Price ;^i.50. The opinion of The London Times: " Here, then, is a noble work of dramatic imagination, dealing greatly with great passion ; multi-coloured and exquisitely musical. Though it is ' literature ' throughout, it is never the literature of the closet, but always the literature of the theatre, with the rapid action, the marked con- trasts, the fierce beating passion, the broad effects proper to the theatre. In other words, Mr. Stephen Phillips is not only a poet, and a rare poet, but that still rarer thing, a dramatic poet." The Daily News: "The drama possesses the sovereign quality of movement, and it is even prodigal in the matter of dramatic situations. To this we have to add that its dialogue speaks the language of passion, and is rarely encumbered by mere descriptive or reflective passages." PAOLO AND FRANCESCA: A Tragedy in Four Acts. Twentieth Thousand. Green Cloth. i2mo. Price ;^i.25. The opinion of The New York Times : " 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 von Artevelde.' " Mr. William Archer in The Daily Chronicle: "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 skilfully, Tennyson could not have clothed the passion in words of purer loveliness. " POEMS. Containing "Christ in Hades," "Marpessa," etc. Twelfth Thousand. Green Cloth. i2mo. Price $.^o. The opinion of The London Times : " Mr. Phillips is a poet, one of the half-dozen men of the younger generation whose writings contain the indefinable quality which makes for permanence." Mr. William Archer in The Outlook : " He sees clearly, feels intensely, and writes beautifully; in a word he is a true poet." MARPESSA. With Seven Illustrations by Philip Connard. Tenth Thousand. Square i6mo. Green Cloth, 50c. net; Green Leather, 75c. net. The opinion of Mr. William Watson : "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."