Excerpt from New Dialogues and Plays: For Young People, Ages Fifteen to Twenty-Five; Adapted From the Popular Works of Well-Known Authors A collection of Dialogues and Plays suited to the higher grades of school work should not only embody suggestions and directions for the external features of the play, but there should be shown throughout the book a' high regard for literary and dramatic merit. This collection has been planned so that the student may, by reading the introduction and the play, enter into its full spirit. When this is done the enthusiasm of the student and participant in the presentation supplements the work of the manager and a spirited and real rendering of the play is effected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.