Excerpt from The Exhibition Drama: Comprising Drama, Comedy, and Farce, Together With Dramatic and Musical Entertainments, for Private Theatricals, Home Representations, Holiday and School Exhibitions

In the preparation of "The Exhibition Drama, " the author has endeavored to present as great a variety as in the previous volumes of this series, and to comply, as far as possible, with the requests of numerous correspondents. Thus "Enlisted for the War" was written in response to a demand for something, based on the late civil war, which should meet the requirements of various Posts of the G. A. R. The musical allegories, "The Visions of Freedom, " and "The Tournament of Idylcourt, " were prepared for the graduating-class in a Boston grammar-school, and are of the same general character as those previously issued. The Christmas entertainment, and the dramatization of Dickens's "Christmas Carol, " have both been successfully performed at sabbath-school entertainments. These, as well as the allegories, are plentifully supplied with tableaux, easily represented, and are adapted to the wants of many occasional exhibitions.

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