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my hopes; for the future of Mr. Phillips is of real moment for poetic 

 drama, perhaps the highest form of literature. 



Since the above was written Mr. Phillips has published Pietro 

 of Siena, and my forebodings have been made much more keen and 

 definite. The new play seems to me to be so inferior to the greater 

 of his previous dramas that I do not think I should be justified in 

 asking the reader to follow me in a criticism thereof. But it does 

 not invalidate any of the conclusions I have drawn as to the merits 

 of its stronger predecessors. Let us hope he is only nodding, albeit 

 the nodding that is prolonged through a whole play is decidedly 

 alarming. 



