M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-12-29


GEORGE G. EVANS BOOK LIST.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
BOOK OF PLAYS,
HoNN AMUSEMENT
Private Theatrical Entertainments.
BEING
COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL AND Sc
LECTED
TRAsKDIEs, ooNRDIEs, PLAYS, DRAMAS, TAAoBs,
HTERLuDRs, MUSICAL BuRLRTTAs, PRovKRns,
ACTING oHARADEs, REcIrATIoSs, PARLoA
PANToMIhEs AND TABLRAUx, IANKEA
MICRO, IRISH AND COMIC LKo-
TuREs AND STORIES,
ETC, Ero., ETo.
With full Descriptions Of Costumes, s0snsrS,
Properties, ETC., and every direction relative nr
private or public performance. The whole
carefully arranged and adapted BY
SILAS 8. STEELE, Dramatist.
Handsomely bound in One Volume, l9 me,
Cloth Price Sl.G0.
And upon receipt of 9l cents additional fCl
Postage, a copy Ofthe Book, together with q
handsome present, worth from so cents 70 tlW,
will be sent to any address in the United stAtsI.
From tho AutbOr' Prgae'.
"The wide and still spreading popularity OF
."HoMR THEATRIoALs,n or Private HittriVf1tSS,
amongst the most refined circles, together with
the repeated calls for q form Of Dramas, or PlAyA
differing in their structure and effects from thoAp
of other works in circulation, have induced the
Publisher to present this work, in which Will bS
found, along with some original piects, large
number fthe plays, comedies, and faroes, of the
most popular Dramatsts, from the days OF shAk-
speare to those of tie present period; all or most
of which are compressed into one act, and into
pdrl0r scenes, or such Rs can easily be arranged
by the ordinary household resources.
| II has been the particular study and aim OF the
compiler and publisher, to G7dt all sentences,
words, or allusons such as could be in the remOt-
est way Objectionable to the most fastidious, and
to retain the plot the passion, and the mNraI OF
each play, in such condensed form As would
render them an available, diverting, and elovAt-
ing vehicle of amusement, for the PAnLoE, tie
School ROOM, or the LYCEUN."
From The .SuGday Atld'
| Book or PLAYs, for Household Amusement, -
! By Silas s. Steele, Dramatist.
These popular parlor nmusements hnve beea
the means Of introducing some very pretty little
uIhnlAS 10 tnOse VINO, from IclglOus nOuoD, oe-
chew a theatre, and Legitimate dramatic repre-
seEtations.
There are few writers In our county better
Calculated to write, compile, and adapt plays for
Parlor Amusements, than Silas S. Steele. Au-
thor himself, Of over eighty plays, every one Of
which bears the impress Of master hand; and
containing moral, which few authors deem re-
quiste for drama.
Perhaps more perfect work Of the kind Is not
to be found at the present tims in the world, Ond
| 1t certainly reflects the highest credit on the au-
thor and publisher in the production Of the one
in question. The insipid trash, and nonsenSicsl
charadcs, and drawing room dramas, which We
have seen and heard, must now yield to some
thing more elegant, .efn ed, interesting and anu
sing. Silas s. Steel's Book Of Plays for Home
Amusement" will form new era in this des-
cripton Of do11eSic dramatic literature, and ere.
ate taste to witness those productions from
which he has cullCd out only scene VI two.
Address all orders to
l GEORGE q. EVANS, Publisher,
No, 47e Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
| Decor Der 20, l856.-l9lw.