Excerpt from The Acting National Drama, Vol. 5: Comprising Every Popular New Play, Farce, Melo-Drama, Opera, Burletta, Etc.; Contents: Married Life, White Horse of the Peppers, Gemini, the Artist's Wife, a Lesson for Ladies, the Devil's Opera, Tom Noddy's Secret, Forty and Fifty, Sons and Systems Life, The Dream at Sea, Wm My, 17, Mary; or, Raiding the ti, -the May Queen, in whichthe late mnmathews was sofamous as Peter P5935 P'u Evidence, The Wreck Ashore, immortalized by the Magog of poor John Reeve, The Ice Witch, theirish Lion, Open House; or The Twin Sisters, Popping the Question, A Dead Shot, John Street, Adelphi, Curiosity Cured, Widow Wiggins, The Bear Hun &c., with the once popular Adelphi burlesques of The Lions of Mysore, Billy Taylor, Crimson Crimes, &c. &c., and numerous stage arrangements from popular novels amongst which may be mentioned Ellen Wareham, The Last Days of Pompeii, Rienzi, The Bravo, See. His adaptations and alterations comprise Victor-ins, Henriette, The King of the Alps, The Pet ofthepetticoats, - The Happiest Daym Life, Our Mary Anne, Shocking Even John Jones, The Chfistening, Mischief Making, The Duchess de la Vau ballere, Nicolas Flam, The Scholar, &c and of those that he obtained detached scenes, or the idea only, from foreign sources, may be instanced, Rural Felicity, suggested by La Petite Ville, of Picard; also Uncle John, The Rake and his Pupil, Abelard and Heloise, Peter Bell, and many others, amounting altogether to nearly one hundred. 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.