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Euripides' Alkestis. Arranged for Performance in Girls' Schools by Elsie

Fogerty. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)— Miss Fogerty has used, by permission, Mr. A. S. Way's translation of the play. She could not have done better. She proceeds to give her readers an instructive account of the drama, both generally as a part of a great literature, and particularly in relation to the story and the poet's treatment of it. Then we have copious stage directions, and properties, hints for costumes, &c., illustrated by costume plates by Miss Isabel Bonns. Alto- gether this is a most useful volume. A careful attention to it, with an average material to work with, ought to secure a success.