With the exception of one or two articles, the contents of the March Monthly make interesting reading. The prominence and persistency of essays on French and French plays and French lectures somewhat palls on one, and might be decidedly tiresome, were not at least one of these articles of exceptional merit. This one is "The Plays of M. Maurice Maeterlinck," by H. S. Pollard--an essay written in such a lucid style and marked by such a clear and sympathetic understanding of the subject as to be equally pleasant and valuable. "The Misdirected Vengeance of Bucknell," by S. A. Welldon, is a strong story, well worth reading; "Greer's Dam," by L. M. Crosbie, is stronger in plot than in treatment.
The poetry of the number is not note-worthy, with the one distinct exception of "Tristan in Brittany," by Lauriston Ward, which has the beauty of word and phrase, of music and of imagery, that marks true poetry.
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