Shaw, George Bernard,43,47,143,147,222,223,224;Candida,224,225;Man and Superman,47,74;Mrs. Warren's Profession,224,225;Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant,222;The Philanderer,224;The Quintessence of Ibsenism,143;Widower's Houses,224.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe,19,144;The Cenci,144.
Shenandoah,101,108,157.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,9,64,82,123,160;The Rivals,132,160;The School for Scandal,40,55,64,86,101,105,123,132.
Sherlock Holmes,22,121,157.
She Stoops to Conquer,38.
Shore Acres,87,193.
Sidney, Sir Philip,73.
Sistine Madonna,30.
Skinner, Otis,91.
Socrates,201.
Song of Myself,182.
Song of the Open Road,217.
Sonnenthal, Adolf von,106.
Sophocles,32,60,131,135;Oedipus King,25,38,60,100,144,181,219.
Sorcière, La,65,66.
Sothern, Edward H.,106,107.
Southey, Robert,19,228;After Blenheim,228.
Spanish Tragedy, The,76.
Spencer, Herbert,95;Philosophy of Style,95.
Stevenson, Robert Louis,31,128,170,214,221;A Gossip on Romance,128;Treasure Island,33.
Story of Waterloo, The,157.
Strongheart,41.
Sunken Bell, The,194.
Sweet Kitty Bellairs,86.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles,19;Atalanta in Calydon,20.
Talma,64,71.
Tamburlaine the Great,73,136.
Tartufe, Le,100,116,230,231.
Tears, Idle Tears,195.
Tempest, The,48,215.
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord,19,31,72,193,195,196;Becket,19,72;Idylls of the King,195;Tears, Idle Tears,195.
Terence,26,35,50.
Thackeray, William Makepeace,35.
They,52.
Thomas, Augustus,16,45,46,63,203,230;Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots,16;The Witching Hour,16,45,46,63,203,230.
Tosca, La,40,65,105.
Treasure Island,33.
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm,119,121.
Trelawny of the Wells,87.
Troupe de Monsieur,62.
Tully, Richard Walton,155;The Rose of the Rancho,42,155.
Twelfth Night,36,62,78,92,109,110,197,198.
Two Gentlemen of Verona,61.
Two Orphans, The,6,31,32,37,175.
Venice Preserved,70.
Venus of Melos,30.
Vestris, Madame,82.
Via Wireless,230.
Virginius,79.
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de,14;Zaïre,14.
Wagner, Richard,117.
Warfield, David,154,155.
Webb, Captain,128.
Webster, John,130;The Duchess of Malfi,130.
Whitewashing Julia,123.
Whitman, Walt,180,182,213,217;Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,182;Song of Myself,182;Song of the Open Road,217.
Widower's Houses,224.
Wiehe, Charlotte,10.
Wife Without a Smile, The,213.
Wild Duck, The,147.
Wilde, Oscar,9;Lady Windermere's Fan,89.
Willard, Edward S.,157.
Wills, William Gorman,72.
Winter, William,8.
Witching Hour, The,16,45,46,63,203,230.
Woman Killed with Kindness, A,38.
Woman's Last Word, A,32.
Woman's Way, A,74.
Wordsworth, William,19.
Wyndham, Sir Charles,62,69.
Yiddish drama,11.
Young, Mrs. Rida Johnson,155;Brown of Harvard,155.
Zaïre,14.
Zangwill, Israel,41.
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Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the Lyric Drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time.
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