ABOUT THE PLAY.
The first requisite in a play is action, after that should be found as much novelty of incident and freshness of dialogue, combined with originality in character study, as the author can contrive to get together in these days when apparently nothing is wholly new. These plays are intended primarily for representation.
These explanations are made because the purpose of a previous volume of my plays, issued without preface, appeared to have been misunderstood in a few instances.
Public approval, whether it be an infallible guide or not, in matters pertaining to print, is at least encouraging, and this leads me to say that of my earlier plays there have been sold in paper covers three hundred and twenty thousand copies, besides an edition in cloth.
The Author.
Chicago, July 11, 1895.
TOPP’S TWINS