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rtain type of stage effect, with emotionalism of the Dumas kind. MacKaye once wrote: The master playwright combines the constructive faculty of the mechanic and the analytical mind of the philosopher, with the aesthetic instinct of a poet, and the ethical ardour of an apostle. This is an all-inclusive definition, which MacKaye never encompassed in any of his plays, but which in himself was exemplified by the ardour of his temperament and the visionary character of his imagination. His son Percy might be said to have the same ideal, to which can be added a passion for civic art. He has tried to express this latter element in his pageants, but has never successfully done so. For Percy Mac-Kaye is one of the most aristocratic of writers—farthest removed from a thorough realization of the emotions of the crowd. His poetic drama is academic in its scholarly allusions. One only has to read Sappho and Phaon (21 October, 1907) to realize this. As striking examples of the excellence of h