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Books.

MICHAEL FIELD'S NEW PLAYS.* MICHAEL FIELD has certainly not achieved in this volume any- thing as good as his play of Fair Rosamund. The new plays have plenty of dispersed power......

Mr. Morshead's " Cedipus The King."* Ma. Morshead Has...

a rendering of CEdipus Res which is at once a faithful translation of the Greek and a genuine poem. This success is due to a number of causes, foremost among which we believe to......