SECOND PLAYS

by A.A. MILNE

New York
ALFRED A. KNOPF
Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh.
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SO LITTLE IN RETURN FOR SO MUCH

INTRODUCTION

Encouraged by the reviewer who announced that the Introduction to my previous collection of plays was the best part of the book, I venture to introduce this collection in a similar manner. But I shall be careful not to overdo it this time, in the hope that I may win from my critic some such tribute as, "Mr. Milne has certainly improved as a dramatist, in that his plays are now slightly better than his Introduction."