17 JANUARY 1920, Page 22

Captain Swing, by F. Brett Young and W. Edward Stirling

(Collins, 2s. net), is a tragedy of the agrarian troubles of 1830, and, though a good deal of the dialogue is a little conventional, the play would probably prove to be not without poignancy on the stage. The authors should, however, have believed that their readers would endure the tragic ending that the piece demands.