At Columbia University, New Yorlc, as in some few other universities, emphasis is laid on straight theory rather than on theory-cum practice. The proximity of Columbia to the Metropolitan theatrical centre is deemed an im portant argument against this particular univer sity tnaintaining a theatre of its own. However, the department of public speaking does, in part, supply the lacic of a students' theatre. The dramatic publications of this university are of special interest to students of the theatre, and Prof. Brander Matthews' theatrical museum is one of the sights of New York. (Con sult Townsend, George, (Classic Plays in Holi day Season,' 1910). As the amateur stage in creases in strength and in credit, this work promises to become a still more iniportant fea ture of university life and work (consult Mack aye, Percy, (Civic Theatre,) and a plea for the propagandist play in (Amateur Acting at Ox ford and Elsewhere) by the Hon. and Rev. James Adderley in the Oxford and Cambridge Review, 1908. The University Theatre Associa tion Plan, by Mr. Charles D. Coburn, is a plea from the professional standpoint). We may venture to speculate that it is only a question of a few years for the modern university to make the arts of the theatre and other fine arts as much a part of the curriculum as, say, medical or agricultural science.
College Plays: The Drama League of America publishes a very useful descriptive list of plays (American, American Indian, Oriental, Classical, English, French and German) for college and high school production, prepared by the League's committee on plays for secondary schools and colleges, and the committee on plays for schools and colleges of the National Council of the Teachers of Eng lish. There is also a °Secondary Schools and Collegiate Department.) The Drama Quarterly, the organ'of the League, incorporates many com plete plays,— generally by foreign dramatists. Consult also Poet Lore and other periodicals. The list of plays under AMATEUR THEATRICALS will prove useful. Drummond, A. H., 'Fifty one-act plays for School or College Dramatic Work with Notes on each Play' (in Quarterly Journal of Public Speaking, Chicago 1915) ; Dithridge, Rachel L., 'High School Plays> (Quarterly Journal of Public Speaking, Chicago 1915) ; Morris, E. B., 'College (Philadelphia 1911) ; McFadden, Elizabeth A., (winner of prize play at Harvard) and Davis, Lillian, E.
Literature: Adderley, Hon. and Rev. J.,
Fight for the Drama at Oxford' (Ox ford) ; Boas, F. S.,
1910) i Coburn, C. D.,
Periodical Literature: (Bryn Mawr May Day Revels' (in the Outlook, 21 May 1910);
Greek Theatre at the Universit of Cali
(in the Outlook, 1 Aug. 1910 ; (Greek Tragedies in the Stadium of theCollege of the City of New York' (in Theatre, Vol. IOU, 1915) ; (Hist. Pageant of Illinois as given at the Northwestern University' (in the Outlook, 22 Jan. 1910) ; (Men who took Female Parts in Oxford University Plays' (in The Strand, December 1909) ;
National Drama and the University Towns' (in New York Nation, De cember 1905) ; Adderley, Hon. and Rev. J.,
Acting at Oxford and Elsewhere' (in Oxford and Cambridge Review, No. 3, 1908) ; Bergengren, R.,