Excerpt from The Social Plays of Arthur Wing Pinero, Vol. 1: The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, And, the Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith In the United States of America, these plays have been issued, in the past, only in paper-covered volumes designed to satisfy the immediate and temporary needs of amateur actors. Prompt-copies of no less than thirty of the plays of Sir Arthur Pinero have been published, in paper covers, at the small price of fifty cents per volume, by Walter H. Baker Co. Of Boston, Samuel French of New York, and The Dramatic Publishing Company of Chicago. The pres ent library edition is issued With a hope that it may stimulate, in the United States, a more extensive and in tensive study Of the hitherto available editions of the plays Of the greatest living dramaturgic craftsman in the English speaking theatre. 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.