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Excerpt from The Drama
We shall probably never have a Maeterlinck in America or England though we may have an inter preter of what in our experience is most similar to that expressed by the great Belgian. The Romanic strain is not strong enough in us. Instead, in Eng land Barrie has put forth work of exquisite poetic thought and in our own country Stuart Walker is one of the men who have made similar achievement; they both, however, have a way of bringing us sud denly around a corner to a Punch and Judy show. There are few Peter Pans among Continental writers. The Pierrots of Latin literature are surcharged with tragedy. Maeterlinck goes to lovely faraway dream countries for many of his settings, but the beauty of them in so far as theme is concerned is usually the beauty of tragic longing, of sacrifice, and of death. The Latin kills the good, consoling him in his last minutes with the thought that it is a godly thing to die, while the anglo-saxon reverses the sit nation and well and permanently disposes of the bad man, however remorseful he may be, in order that the good may be happy.
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