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 JOHN MASEFIELD'S NEW PLAY

The Tragedy of Pompey the Great

Cloth, Frontispiece, 12tno, $1.25 net; postpaid, $1.37

John Masefield is not unknown as a dramatist. Though his greatest popularity has, perhaps, come through his narrative verse, such as The Everlasting Mercy and The Daffodil Fields, the impression which he has made as a writer of plays, while not as far reaching, has been quite as profound upon serious students of the drama. The Tragedy of Pompey is one of his most important works in this field. In it Mr. Masefield with remarkable facility translates the speech of the Roman into the twentieth century just as Shakespeare translated it into English diction. Vigorous, vivid, modern, this is one of the most convincing, one of the most live, Roman plays since the day of the bard of Avon himself. Not only is Mr. Masefield's style as forceful as ever, but his pronouncements on democracy, imperialism, and the like are singularly striking and interesting.

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