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BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF MODERN WELSH AUTHORS No. 3. RICHARD (ARTHUR WARREN) HUGHES, 1900. Educated at Charterhouse and Oriel College, Oxford. The Sisters' Tragedy was written and produced in London while he was still an undergraduate. Bernard Shaw praised it. A Comedy of Good and Evil was produced at the Abbey Theatre and the Birmingham Repertory. He has lived in Dalmatia and spent some time in Virginia and Connecticut. A co-founder of the Portmadoc Players, he is said to be the first author in the world of wireless plays." Vice-Chairman of the Welsh National Theatre. His novel, A High Wind in Jamaica, was awarded the Femina-Vie Heureuse Prize. BIBLIOGRAPHY Short Stories and Novels. A Moment of Time, 1926; A High Wind in Jamaica, 1929 (Am. ed., The Innocent Voyage); The Spider's Palace and other stories, 1931. Poems. Gipsy-night and other poems, 1922; Confessio Juvenis, collected poems, 1926. Plays. The Sisters' Tragedy, 1922; The Sisters' Tragedy and three other plays, 1924 (Am. ed., A Rabbit and a Leg, collected plays). Miscellaneous. Richard Hughes, An Omnibus, 1931 (with an auto-biograph- ical introduction). STUDIES AND REVIEW Millett. Agate (1924). Dilly Tante. Books April 28, 1929, 3. March 13, 1932, 8. Nation and Ath., 45 ('29), 830. New Repub., 58 ('29), 312. New Statesman, 33 ('29), 780. N. Y. Times, Dec. 6, 1931, 11. Sat. Rev., 148 ('29), 355. Sat. Rev. of Lit., 8 ('32), 673. Bost. Trans., Dec. 12, 1931, 1. April 16, 1932, 1.