Designed in general for young people near enough to the college age to feel an interest in the personal and human aspects of literature, but the last two could easily be handled by younger actors. They can successfully be given by groups or societies of young people without the aid of a professional coach.
LITTLE PLAYS FROM AMERICAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG FOLKS
Hiding the Regicides, a number of brief and stirring episodes, concerning the pursuit of Colonels Whalley and Goff by the officers of Charles II at New Haven in old colony days.
Mrs. Murray's Dinner Party, in three acts, is a lively comedy about a Patriot hostess and British Officers in Revolutionary Days.
Scenes from Lincoln's Time; the martyred President does not himself appear. They cover Lincoln's helping a little girl with her trunk, women preparing lint for the wounded, a visit to the White House of an important delegation from New York, and of the mother of a soldier boy sentenced to death--and the coming of the army of liberation to the darkies.
Tho big events are touched upon, the mounting of all these little plays is simplicity itself, and they have stood the test of frequent school performance.
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY Publishers New York
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