Excerpt from Ballads in Black: A Series of Original Shadow Pantomimes, With Forty-Eight Full-Page Silhouette Illustrations and Full Directions for Producing Shadow Pictures With Novel Effects

The Author's design in offering this volume of Shadow Plays is threefold: first, to amuse such buyers as cannot read with the clever pictures supplied by the illustrator, second, to entertain such as can read but have no eye for Art with the appended produc tions of his own doggerel Muse, third, to provide lovers of the style of entertainment known as the Shadow Pantomime with a variety of pieces suitable for representation in that way, and to assist them, so far as lies in his power, in getting them up. The Author does not care for money and perhaps it is just as well that he don't.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.