ABSTRACT
Now that I have your play in print I think even better of it than I did when you read it. I am much more satisfied with your verse and your theories of verse than I was. You certainly get vivid effects out of your modern words and I do not now fmd any of the verse too intricate in its thought, though I do sometimes regret an inverted phrase. The play should act admirably and one regrets, vivid as they are, the few little things that do not come within the limits of the stage. If they were not there you would have an admirable chance of being pirated in America at once. They have just pirated my Land of Heart's Desire and played it with great success, to judge by the press cuttings, through all the chief towns. They did it with In a Balcony by Browning and seem to have had very much more than a succes d'estime. Quite ordinary papers were enthusiastic and wrote under such headings as 'The Triumph of the Literary Drama.' In Chicago at any rate they played not only to a full house but to increased prices.
