The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-01-12
New Pu hlications.

Book OF PLAYs.-For home amusement and
private Theatrical Entertainments Being col
lection of Original and Selected Tragedies Come
dies, Plays. Dramas, Farces Interludes, Musical
Burlettas, Proverbs, Acting Charades, Recitatiens
Parlor Pantomimes, and Tableaux, Yankee Ne
gro, Irish and Comic Lectures and Stories &c
With full descriptions of Costumes, Scenery, Pro-
perties etc., and every direction relative for pri
vate or public performance. The whole carefully
arranged and adapted by SILAs S. STEELE Dram
atist. Handsomely bound in One Volume, ~ mo-
cloth. Price $1.00
And upon receipt of 81 cents additional for post.
age. cepy of the Book, together with handsome
present. worth from so cents TO sl0O will he sent to
any address in the United Stales
From the authors Preface.
The wide and still spreading popularity of
" Home Iheatrlcals," or private Histrionics
amongst the most fashionable and refined circles
together with the repeated calls for form of
Dramas or Plays differing in theirIstructure and
and effects from those of other works in circula-
ton, have induced the publisher to present this
work, in which will be found, along with some
original pieces, large number of the PLAYS. COM
edies, and farces of the most popular dramatists
from the days of Shakespeare to those of the pre-
sent period; all or most of which are compressed
into one act or into parLOr scenes or such as can
easily be arranged by the ordinary household re-
sources.
1t has been the particular study and aim of
Tic compiler anu puDnsner, to omit all sentences
words or illusions, such as could be in the reno
test way Objectionable to the most fastidious and
to retain the plot, the passion and the moral of
each play, in such condensed form as would
render them an available and eleyatino vehicle
of amusement for the Parlor, the School room or
the Lyceum."
From the Sunday atlas.
Book of Plays for Home Amusement. By 81.
las S. Steele, Dramatist
These popular parlor amusements have been
the means of introducing some very pretty little
dramas to those who, from a RELIGIOUS notion,
eschew theatre, and Legitimate dramatic repre-
sensations.
There are few writers in our country better
calculated to write, compile and adapt PLAYS
for Parlor ADJUSTMENTS, than Silas S. Steele
Author himself of over eighty plays, every one of
which bears the impress of master hand; and
containing moral, which few authors deem re-
quisite for drama
Perhaps more perfect work of the kind is not
to be found at the present time in the world and
it certainly reflects the highest credit on the au-
thor and publisher in the production of the one
in question. The insipid trash and nonsensic
charades and drawing room dramas. which we
have seen and heard, must now weld To some
thing more elegant, refined, interesting and anu
sing. Silas S. Steele's Book of nlavs for Home
will form new era in this descrin-
ion of domestic dramatic Literature and create a
aste to witness those productions from which he
las culled out only scene or two.
Address all orders to George G. Evans, pu
lsher' NO. 4so Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.