The last act, finally, begins with the arrival of the letters which tell the ending of those events in the three homes.

Such experiments are very suggestive but they are not any longer pure dramatic art.

It is always possible to mix arts.

An Italian painter produces very striking effects by putting pieces of glass and stone and rope into his paintings, but they are no longer pure paintings.

The drama in which the later event comes before the earlier is an esthetic barbarism which is entertaining as a clever trick in a graceful superficial play, but intolerable in ambitious dramatic art.