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35t) MODERN DRAMA February validity of the verse playas a literary rather than a truly dramatic experience. This genre is at best a half-way house which the best of dramatists have avoided entirely; but it is there that Trevelyan took up his abode, with Browning, Hardy, and his mentor in craftsmanship Robert Bridges-and if his plays are to be appreciated at all, their reader must be willing to accept a certain quaintness, the old-world hospitality of vintage Greek wine senred in chastened goblets before an open fire, in an ancient house where the invitation to reverie is constant. J. A. CoLLINS NOTE The subject of the 1970 Dramatic Literature Section of The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Meeting will be: Dramatic Literature of the 1960·s. The meeting is to be held at Sun Valley, Idaho, on October 9th and lOth. Papers should be submitted by March 5, 1970, to the Chairman, Professor Charles Lyons, Department of Dramatic Art, University of California, Berkeley, 94720. ...