Michael and His Lost Angel: A Play in Five Acts

MICHAEL AND HIS LOST ANGEL
MICHAEL AND HIS LOST ANGEL
A PLAY IN FIVE ACTS BY
HENRY ARTHUR JONES AUTHOR OF “THE TEMPTER,” “THE CRUSADERS,” “THE CASE OF REBELLIOUS SUSAN,” “THE MIDDLEMAN,” “THE DANCING GIRL,” “JUDAH,” “THE MASQUERADERS,” “THE TRIUMPH OF THE PHILISTINES,” ETC.
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1920 All rights reserved
COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY MACMILLAN AND CO.
Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1896. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

MICHAEL, though styled by Milton “of celestial armies prince,” has found his sword unequal to the task of combating the well-ordered hosts of darkness,
By thousands and by millions ranged for fight.
The author of “Michael and his Lost Angel” seeks accordingly in print consolation for the rebuffs he has experienced upon the stage. Some comfort in the midst of defeat may be found in the fact that the gods themselves fight vainly against prejudice and stupidity. I am not in the least seeking to set aside the verdict pronounced by the majority of “experts” upon Mr. Jones’s latest play and subsequently accepted if not ratified by the general public which would not be induced to see it. All I seek to do is to deal so far as I am able with the adverse influences to which it succumbed, and to explain why I think it a fine work and in many respects a triumph.