13 FEBRUARY 1915, Page 26

Contemporary drama is hardly conceivable in England as the subject

of a course of University lectures. The papers collected in Aspects of Modern Drama, by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (Macmillan and Co., 8s. 6d. net), were, however, originally delivered as lectures at Columbia and Cincinnati Universities. The author displays a very wide acquaintance with the European theatre ; and his exhaustive bibliography, covering over fifty pages, is a most valuable addition to the book. We notice that one or two well-known writers have escaped Mr. Chandler's comprehensive grasp; there seems to be no mention, for instance, of Knud Hamaun, the Norwegian, or of Leonid Andreyeff, the Russian, both of whom have wide reputations outside their native countries.