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Contents: The Contrast (1787) / Royall Tyler -- Superstition (1824) / James N. Barker -- Charles the Second (1824) / John Howard Payne and Washington Irving -- Fashion (1845) / Anna Cora Mowatt -- Uncle Tom's cabin (1852) / George L. Aiken -- The Octoroon (1859) / Dion Boucicault -- The Count of Monte Cristo (1883) / Charles Fechter -- The Mouse-trap (1889) / William Dean Howells -- Secret service (1896) / William Gillette -- The Great Divide (1906) / William Vaughn Moody -- The New York idea (1906) / Langdon Mitchell -- The Truth (1907) / Clyde Fitch -- The Witching hour (1907) / Augustus Thomas -- Salvation Nell (1908) / Edward Sheldon -- The Easiest way (1909) / Eugene Walter -- The Scarecrow (1911) / Percy MacKaye.