25 MAY 1901, Page 25

The Revolt and The Escape. Translated from the French of

Villiers de L'Isle Adam by Theresa Barclay. (Duckworth and Co. 3s. net)—Dramas are not commonly good to read, but these two are an exception. The Revolt is, indeed, scarcely a drama, for it is without action and no particular catastrophe. The Escape, on the other hand, is a powerful tragedy on a small scale, and ought to succeed on the stage. (It was performed in 1887, but we are not told the result.) Neither has anything in it to which objection may be reasonably made. So much we may say, though we do not pretend to the emancipation of spirit with which Mrs.—or is it Miss ?—Theresa Barclay regards Madame Bovary and the poems of Baudelaire.