International Copyrighted (in Englana, her Colonies, and the nited States) Edition of the Works of the Best Authors. No. 75. THE FOOTBALL GAME <^ a Comctip in i<x>4^iJ^.^J*»5WN^x>«^>x^^^>J\^^J\^yJ^^;>3*^J^^>^^^^^i^^^ Copyright, 1904, uy Samuel French All Rights Reserved. CAUTION :— Professionals .'iiid Amateurs are hereby notified that this play is fully copyrighted under the existing laws of the United States Government, and nobody is allowed to do this play without first having obtained permission of Samuel French, 24 West aad Street, New York City, U.S.A. # PRICE, 25 CENTS. London SAMUEL FRENCH, Ltd 26 Southampton Street, STRAND, LONDON New York SAMUEL FRENCH PUBLISHER 26 W. 22D Street ^H^^^»^^^^^^^»^^^§>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^»^^ I ^ FRENCH'S STANDARD DRAMA. Price 15 Cents each.— Bound Volumes $1.25. VOUL 1 loa i The Lady •( Lyons 4 Richelieu t Th« Wife 6 Th« Hoiievmoon t Th» School for Scandal • Money VOL. II. i The Stranger 11 Gtaiidlather WhlUhead U Richard III U Lore't Sacrifict IS Tht Gamester U A Cure for the Heartach U The Hunchback le Don Cieiar d« Batan VOL. III. 17 The Poor Gentleman 18 Hanilet It Charles II 90 Venice Preserved II Pizarro ii The Lore Chasa U Othello 14 Lend me Fire Shillings VOL. IV. tS Vlrglniuj U King of the Coinmone J7 London Asfurance 88 The RentDav J9 Two Gentleman ofVerona JO The Jealous Wife SI The Rirali U Perfection VOL. V. [Debts S8 A New W»v to Pay Old U Look Before You Leap S6 KiHK John S6 NerTOUi Man n Damon and Pythias S8 Clandestine Marriage ii William Tell 40 Day after the Wedding VOL. VL 41 Speed the Plough ii Romeo and Juliet 43 Feudal Times 44 Charles the Twelfth 46 The Bride 46 The Follies of a Night 47 Iron Chest [Fair Lady , , 48 Faint Heart x-^ever Wf"', * ''* yOL. XVIl. VOL. XL 81 Julius Caesar 82 Vicar of Wakefield 83 Leap Year 84 The Catspaw. 85 The Passing Cloud 84 Drunkard 87 Rob Roy 88 George Barnwell VOL. XIL 89 Ingomar 90 Sketches In India 91 Two Friends 9 V Jane Shore 93 Corsican Brothers 94 Mind your own BusIdms 95 Writing on the Wall 9t Heir at Law VOL. XIIL 97 Soldier's Daughter 9"* Douglas 99 Marco Spada 100 Nature's Nobleman 101 Sardanapalus 102 Civilization 103 The Robbers 104 Katharine and Petruchio VOL. XIV. 105 Game of Love 106 Midsummer Night's 107 Ernestine [Dream 108 Rag Picker of Paris 109 Flying Dutchman 110 Hypocrite lllTherese 112 La Tour d« Neslt VOL. XV. 113 Ireland As It Is 114 Sea of Ice 115 Seven Clerks 116 Game of Life 117 Forty Thieves 118 Brvan Boroihme 119 Romance and Reality 120 Ugolino VOL. XVI. 181 The Tempest l«a The Pilot 123 Carpenter of Rouen 1V4 King's Rival 125 Little Treasure 126 Dombey and Son 127 Parents' and Guardians VOL. VII 49 Road to Ruin »0 Macbeth tl Temper SI ETadne •S Bertram 54 The Duenna 15 Mach Ado Aboat Nothing SB The Crltie VOL. VIII. »7 The Apostate »« Twelfth Night S9 Brutus •« Simpson & Co •1 Merchant of Venice ei Old Heads* Young Hearts •3 Menntalneers [riage 44 Three Weeks after Mar- VOL. IX. SSLoTC 16 As You Like It 47 The Elder Brother 55 Werner 49 Oisippus to Town and CountrJ" tl King Lear TS Blue Devils VOL. X- tS Henry VIII t4 Married and Single t» Henrv IV t« Paul ^ry %1 Ouy Mannerlng tS Sweethearts and Wires t» Serious Family M Sua Stoops to Conquer 129 Camille 130 Married Life 131 Wenlock of Wenlock 132 Rose of Etlrickvale 133 David Copperfield 134 Aline, or the Rose of 35 Pauline [Klllarney 136 Jane Eyre VOL. xvni. 137 Night and Morning 138 .Ethiop 139 Three Guardsmen 140 Tom Cringle 141 Henriette, the Forsaken 42 Eustache Baudin 143 Ernest Maltravers 144 Bold Dragoons VOL. XIX. 145 Dred, or the Dismal [Swamp 146 Last Days of Pompeii 147 Esmeralda 148 Peter Wilklns 149 Ben the Boatswain 160 Jonathan Bradford 151 Retribution 162 Minerall VOL. XX. 1 53 French S 155 Evil Genius 154 Wei ich hpv .t of W Ish-ton Wish 156 Ben Bolt 167 Sailor of Franct 158 Red Mask 159 Life of an Actress 160 W'edding Day VOL. XXI. 161 All's Fair in Lovs 168 Hofer 163 Self 164 Cinderella 165 Phantom 66 Franklin [Moscow 167 The Gunmaker of 168 The Love of a Princs VOL. XXIL 169 Son of the Night 170 Rory O'lMore 171 Golden Eagle 172 Rienzi 173 Broken Sword 174 Rip Van Winkle 175 Isabelle 176 Heart of Mid Lothian VOL. XXIII. 177 Actress of Padua 178 Floating Beacon 179 Bride of Lammermoor 180 Cataract of the Ganges 181 Robber of the Rhine 182 School of Reform 183 Wandering Boys 184 Mazeppa VOL. XXIV. 185 Young New York 186 The Victims 187 Romance after Marriage 188 Brigand 189 Poor of New York 190 Ambrose Gwii>«tt 191 Raymond and Agnes 192 Gambler's Fat? VOL. XXV. 193 Father and Son 194M:issanlello 195 Sixteen String Jack 196 Youthful Queen 197 Skeleton Witness 198 Innkeeper of Abbeville 199 Miller and hit Men 200 Aladdin VOL. XXVL 201 Adrienne the Actress 202 Undine 303 Jesse Brown 204 Asmodeus 205 MDrmons 206 Blanche of Brandywine 207 Viola 208 Deseret Deserted VOL. XXVII. 209 Americans iu Paris 210 Victorine 211 Wizard of the Wave 212 Castle Spectre 213 Horse-shoe Robinson 214 Armand, Mrs. ISlowatt 21 T Fashion, Mrs. Mowatt 216 Glance at New York VOL. XXVIIl. 217 Inconstant 218 Uncle Tom's Cabin 219 Guide to the Stage 220 Ve« Charles. Good for you. Eve. {exeunt Harr\ Sher- wood and Charles Easton. ) , . , x Eveline. First move? Stop the clock, {does so,) {Enter Michael.) Michael. Major Sherwood's coming, Miss. ^ Eveline. O me ! I must smoothe my hair ! 1 Ins is Ciiarlie's room, {exit into room l. Enter Major Sher- ^mjOR Sherwood. They don't seem to be here, Mike. That foot-ball is a most inhuman, barbarous performance. No sense in it. Those boysjustsmasheachother for tun be- fore a crowd of debased fools. If it were war, now, or anv necessitv.-but this wanton slaughter-no. my so" sj^aU never d6 it ! I'll not allow it. I'll just go on to that held with the police. He'll find out whether he can defy his father's wishes. We'll see— we'll see. Michael. Must have just stepped out for a minute. Mi . Easton's sister is here, sir. Miss Eveline. She's 3ust stepped into her brother's room when you came m. Shall 1 call ^^Major Sherwood. No. {looks about the room and per- ceives things in the scuttle and lifts them) Those are pretty good guns, Mike. I don't know where the boy got 'em. They look new. Michael. Oh, I can tell ye, sir. Major Sherwood. Nothing Hal doesn t want me to know, sir. I do not spy on my son. , , , , . ^ , Michael. O no, sir ! Bless your soul, he'd just as leave. You'd like to hear, sir, Master Harry's that smart. You know as how he painted a lot of picters last summer, sir . Well sir, he took 'em to a friend of mine as is an auc- tioneer, and he says, "If ye'll name 'em they 11 sel — being as they was powerful bad, sir. So we named 'em Mastli Harry and I. He made the names, and I signed Jem, he said^as me signing was as bad as a real genius s And he made all sorts o' fancy titles. There was "Until 8 THE FOOT-BALL GAME. He Comes." That was Susan, sir, sitting on the pier. He called it by Dii Roule, pupil of Braine. Then there was Valversy and Jansen and Dervventand lots of other artists, but the best of all was Ernest Danvers, deceased. Sure, the paintin' was that bad, sir, I asked 'ini should we burn it, but Master Harry said no, and he took black and smutched it, sir, and splashed it wild like, and then lie put varnish on, sir, and rubbed it on the carpet, if ye plaise, sir, and got it all hair}^ ; and that was old, sir, '* A Noct- urne," by Ernest Danvers, deceased. An' we went to the auction, sir, and I was to start 'em at a fiver, an' they all went, — all but Ernest Danvers, deceased, an' I thought sure we was stuck, when up jumps Master Harry, and says he, " Is that a real Danvers ? " " Yes," sajs the auctioneer, '' gentlemen, a real Danvers, a-goin for a five ;" and Master Harry he bids right fierce, but the people they would have it. and we got the most of all for Ernest Danvers, deceased. Major Sherwood. That boy takes after me in his brains. My mother used to say if I was cornered I could creep through a knot-hole. {Enter Eveline.) Eveline. Major Sherwood ? {exit Michael) Major Sherwood. Yes. I suppose you were the de- signer of all these pretty cushions and things. Eveline. O dear, no ! Other fellows' sisters, sir. Charles doesn't care for my work. Major Sherwood. I suppose you work for the other fellows. Eveline. Perhaps. I can make the most comfortable cushions you ever saw. {Enter Michael, icho motions.) Excuse me a minute, {she steps aside with Michael) i\IiCHAEL. Game's begun. Lyle got the kick off and advanced their half back through the center, gaining ten yards. I'm afraid for Barton, ma'am, and tiieir only hope's in Master Sherwood. Eveline. Well, what happened next ? Michael. Came to tell you then. Eveli^je. Oh, go back again, quick, and sta\' all the time. No, come straight here and tell me. {returns to Major Sherwood) Michael. If that isn't a lady's order I never hear one. (exit) Major Sherwood. You and Michael seem to be great friends. Eveline. O yes. he's so quaint. He never says things THE FOOT-BALL GAME. 9 quite like other people. I was asking him if the very un- popular student next door had gone, and he said, " ' E 'as, Miss, and many a dry eye followed 'im." Major Sherwood. Well, Miss Eveline, I wish I could stay here and talk to you. Eveline. O do, Major Sherw^ood. After seeing nothing but professors for so long (I'm a college girl, you know) a Loyal Legioneer is .so delightful ! Major Sherwood. Miss Eveline ! It is about impos- sible to resist after such a compliment, and from such lips, but I really must go. Eveline. Oh ! (aside) I must not be too eager. (aloud) I'm sorry, (holds out lie?' hands) Oh. but wait a minute and let me mend that shocking hole in your glove. I'm like Mrs. Robinson Crusoe — I always carry a little needle case in my pocket. Major Sherwood. Fine idea. Thank you. (gives her the glove) Eveline, (seiving) I'd rather do any sort of plainsew- ing than fancy work — I just despise that. (Enter Michael.) (Aside) I must know ! (aloud) Michael, listen ! Are many flowers being taken to the lady who has the ball to-night ? Michael, (grinning) Yes'm, and as I came round by O'Grady's a man put on the bar tons of coal. Eveline. Oh. how perfectly lovely ! Major Sherwood, (to Michael) What for? (to Eveline) Why so lovely ? (Michael and Eveline together) Because Eveline. Ah ! Go on, Michael Major Sherwood. No. hold on ! You tell me why a man's paying for drink with coal was lovel}-. Eveline. Oh — ah — why — because the drink would make him colder. Major Sherwood. You needn't speak, Michael. If your reason is as bad as that I won't hear it. (receives his glove) Thank you very much. Is that clock right ? Eveline, (aside) I will not lie. (aloud) Michael ! (aside) The Irish lie so cheerfully it seems like a sort of a joke, (aloud) Is that clock right ? Michael. Just at this minute it bates old Father Time himself for consistent regularity, (exit) Major Sherwood, (sitting doum) I've got a clock with a moon in it. I inherited it from my grandfather. That is, it came from just his part of the country, and it's the kind 1 knew the old gentleman would have liked, so I 10 THE FOOT-BALL GAME. bought it, and presented it to his gl^ost. Of course he didn't need it now, so I naturally inherited it. Well, I set my moon by the " Tribune," good republican time, but a mugwump professor staying with me turned cuckoo and began mussing with it. He said 'twould be a day short in two days. So that morning I rose earl}^ and went down to make sure it wasn't, and I was just poking it along, to keep up republican reputation, when I heard a shout, and there was the professor down for a like purpose. I thought the joke was on me, but I saw he'd forgotten his cravat in his haste, so I said, " You'd better stay upstairs till you're dressed, Professor," and he was so crestfallen he w^ent meekly off. And, speaking of ties — my own awry — I'll straighten it. (goes into room L. Eveline shoves the clock on 15 minutes) (Enter Michael.) Michael. First half over — furious close. Lyle's fast runner, Loomis, nearh^ did for Barton. Once he went for the right end and then turned and gained seven yards. They passed the ball to James, and he fumbled it, and Lyle's kicker tried his best, and their punt sailed along the wind right near our goal. But Master Harry caught it, and he raced down like a cyclone, and he struck into Lyle's men like a caterpillar — puH, I mean — and he won back a lot o' ground, I tell ye. How them tally-hos did roar! Time was called. Neither scored. Eveline. Oh, go back, go back ! And bring me word quickly ! (exit Michael) Eveline, Lyle beat us last year, and oh, how they have crowed like turkey-cocks — no, that isn't what I mean — like cockerels. Well, I knew it was cocky somehow. (Enter Michael.) Michael, (exhausted) Second half begun. Lyle tried a wedge. I thought I'd a right to come back, as you'd be waitin', I just heard that awful crunch as I left. Eveline, Oh ! Oh ! You must go back and come again before the Major returns. Michael. Och ! Mem ! The breath o' me 's nigh flown to heaven ! Eveline. Oh, but do ! do ! Say you will— there's a dear ! Michael. Sure, an' it 'ud be a liotter place I'd not go to afther that! (exit running) Eveline (looking at door c) Dare I lock him in? (crosses) Dare I? I dare— (scarfs to turn key.) No ! When he got out he wouldn't like me, and he might pre- THE FOOT-BALL GAME. H vent Harry from— persuade Harry that— No, he couldn't do that ; but, anyway I shouldn't have a nice— father-in- law. {Enter Michael, breathless.) Michael. Gained almost nothing by wedge ! Ugh — ah — Barton's kicker ki — kicked — k — kicked — 1 — ow p — punt— (Re-enter Major Sherwood.) Major Sherwood. I was interested in my son's books. Strangest discordance between covers and interiors. Solemn old Integral Calculus— opened it— thought I'd seen crooked — looked on cover again — by Jove ! had *' Three men in a Boat " inside. What's the matter with Michael ? He seems astonished. Michael. It's Miss Eveline just took the breath out o' me body telling me you was a teetotaller, sir, and thinks I, looking at that fricassee tliere (jjoints to cork frieze) how differences do run in families ! Major Sherwood. That was a mistake, Miss Eveline, that was a mistake, {exit Michael) Do you know, I don't trust that clock? Where is my watch? Well, I must have left it at home. Pshaw ! I think I'll examine that clock's internal economy, {advances) Eveline, {aside) I must stop him ! {aloud) Oh ! Should women vote? Major Sherwood, {stopping) Certainly not ! Women are illogical ! They are so easily deceived by what appears right without investigating it further. Their attention is so quickly diverted from the subject on which they are engaged. They allow themselves to be influenced by any man who is bright and attractive and good-looking. They're too unsuspicious ; they would neA'er suspect that a pleasant-spoken fellow might be pleasant-spoken just to gain some end of his own. Tliey'd be sure to think it was because they were so interesting. Then they're always illogical — always reason from a special case which proves nothing. Why, I knew one woman {Enter Michael ivith a glass of lager.) Eveline, {aside) I won't tell him one woman 's a spe- cial case. Major Sherwood. Thank j^ou, Michael, you're a man of discernment. As ovir old corporal used to say, " I wish my neck was as long as the Androscoggin river, and twice as crooked." {drinks very slowly) Eveline, {aside to Michael) Well ? L.ofC. 12 THE FOOT-BALL GAME. Michael. Master Harry's made a wonderful run, Miss, but he's fell and been trampled on. and he's hurt. Eveline. Oh. 1 must go to him ! Michael. The boss would go too. Miss. Eveline. O yes ! Is he much hurt ? Michael. I don't know, Miss. Eveline. Oii ! 1 won't go ! He may go on. We must win ! Michael. I was just a-sayin' to Miss Eveline I had a right to bring her somethin' nice too. But I couldn't make her feel as happy as you, sir, without I brought her wan o' thim beautiful new opery cloaks, I see the leddies have, all loined with vermin. Eveline. Michael ! Ermine. Michael. Och, ermine, is it? Wal, I thought 'twas a horrid name, but I thought as how it come from thim little black things a-spoilin' the nice white av it. Sure ye never can tell what a leddy '11 take a notion to. (Major laughs) Eveline, {a side) Oii ! Harry, Harry ! Go quick and see ! {exit Michael) Major Sherwood. Are you strong-minded, Miss Eve- line ? Eveline. Oh, very ! Major Sherwood. You don't look it ! Ah,— that's a compliment. Eveline. Indeed! Major Sherwood. I suppose you're modern, though. Analyzing my mind ? These analysts ! T\\ey think they know how to deceive a man — a kitten could deceive them. Why, I was coming out from New York with two of your modern young women, antl a man in front of us put his hand up to liis face and kept it there. They began a subtle analysis of the reason. One talked in Meredithram- bics. She said : " He does that, because, bewildered by physical nearness of many Imman beings, the touch of his own flesh to Ids own flesli gives him vital self-cognizance, and removes all other mortals to star distances." Her friend was a Tiieosophist (should be called I-osophist). She said : '* Possibly he holds his hand before his eyes to shut out an overwhelming rush of knowledge of identical surround- ings in a former state." I happened to sit where I could see the poor man. He was scratching his nose ! And I suppose the strong-minded lady would never marry ? No matter how many gentlemen's hearts were wrecked ? Eveline. On one condition. Major Sherwood. Condition ! What have we come to ? Women used to be glad enough when a good fellow was able to take care of them. What is your condition ? THE FOOT-BALL GAME. 13 That he knows Greek enough and English enough to use double negatives onl}^ in the right tongue ? Eveline. No. Major Sherwood. What is it ? Eveline. That I love him. Major Sherwood. Good, good ! Mending my other glove, eh ? Forgive me, my dear, but I wish my son had seen you before — some one else. Eveline. What ! Is your son engaged ? Major Sherwood. So I've been told— not by him, though. Rascal ! Eveline. Indeed ! Major Sherwood. Yes, he doesn't take after me in good taste. He picked out a spectacled college girl — I suppose she's spectacled, anyway. I know she'& a carroty- headed skinny goractus. Eveline. Who told you that? {enter Michael) O Major, do think up an army story for me — I love them so ! Michael, come here a minute. Michael. Oh, he's gone on play in', Miss, and I wish you could liear the cheerin' ! And on the next down Lyle made a bad fumble, and Master Harry he had l\is eyes wide open and he snatched tlie ball and ran nearly forty yards like tlie winds of the autumn, and was at last thrown out o' bounds. This brought the ball down close to their goal, and we tried our captain, but the men was too thick there ; and then they called Master Harry, and he went through at left tackle for a touch down after fifteen minutes of play. His goal kick was a good un, and Barton lias s(;ored. {exit) Major Sherwood. Well, it was when we were down at Morris Island. I had a command in Fort Wagner, and the Johnnies were over across the marsh. There were some chaps down there from the Christian Commission ; some of 'em were very good men, but one '' coon " that came round us, — well if you had bouglit him for what lie was worth, and sold him for what he thought he was worth, you'd have made a fortune on the transfer. He'd been very shy of us since the shells began to drop, but the Rebels hadn't been firing for some time, so I suppose he thought it was safe and as I looked across the interior of the fort there I saw the Pious One. Ho was standing l)y my friend Cuscaddin (Cus. for short, and a mighty fitting name) who was sitting on an empty shell box with a big sandwich in one hand and a tract in the other. He had taken one big bite out of the sandwich. Just then I heard boom from the Rebel batterv, I knew it was their ten-inc;h gun and I stopped stock-still, and waited. In a second came the shell, swish-swish over my head, struck in the sand of the 14 THE FOOT-BALL GAME. fort about as far from me as that oliair, ploughed a big trench, " ricasshed " over tlie parapet and down onto the beach below, where it exploded. Of course it drove up a great cloud of dust and eartli and I couldn't see mj- friend at all. When the dust rolled away there he laj- on his back with the tract and the bitten sandwich, one in each hand. No sign of tlie Pious One ; he had got into the bomb proof quicker 'n scat. First I thought Cus was dead, but when I got nearer I saw and heard he wasn't. He had liis mouth chuck-full of sand and was spitting and swearing about as liard as he could. As I came up he raised the tract and looked around for tiie vanished Pious. " Spt, spt," says old Cus, '• I want spt — cuss this blankety sand {here he read the title of the tract) — '' I want to go to a better world " — spt. By Jove, that fellow didn't seem in a hurry to get there ; was the first darned galloute to ' cover ' from tiie shell." {Enter Michael.) Michael, {aside to Eveline) Lyle's got a touch-down and kicked a goal, and as I left their men were flj'ingdown the field, and they were cheering like mad, and I'm afraid we're beaten again. Must go back, (exit) Eveline, {aside) Oh, we can't — we mustn't be beaten again, {distant sounds of cheering) {aloud). Hark! Is that the Barton yell? Oh, it was, it was! {gives the yell) 'Rah ! rah-rah — Rah ! rah-rah — Barton bar-Barton — Rah ! rah-rah ! Major Sherwood. What do you mean ? Eveline. No matter. They're over — won ! Listen ! Listen ! {they hear the yell of " Lyle ! Lyle .'") Major Sherwood. I believe they're playing ball. I be- lieve — Hal is playing ball ! I believe — you know Hal is playing ball ! ! {seizes his hat.) Eveline. They are not through — you cannot go. Major Sherwood. Pardon me ! Eveline. Oh! {she faints) Major Sherwood. IMichael ! Michael ! Oh, the very devil ! He's gone to that cursed game ! I can't leave her this way, alone, {he applies ivater to her head) Poor girl ! Pretty little lady ! Ah ! This is too long — I be- lieve she's shamming. {Enter Michael.) - Michael. O wurra, wurra ! Miss Eveline, Barton's lost ! The men were .so rattled they've fumbled every- thing ! Eveline, Oh 1 No ! {leaps up) THE FOOT-BALL GAME. 15 Major Sherwood. Goodbye. Eveline, (ivildly) Stop him ! Michael. I durna. (exit Sherwood) Eveline. Oh. we're lost ! Everything's gone now. He'll ruin our only chance ! (weeps) He'll stop Hal from playing. My fault ! (cheering HjUliout) Those odious Lyles, how they crow ! How rude of them ! Hark ! I do believe it's our own dear boys rejoicing. O, shout louder ! Oh, it is — it is ! (croicd icitliout : ''Barton! Barton! What's the matter ivith Sherwood? He's all right. Who's all right 9 Sherwood ! ! ") (Enter Major Sherwood, talking excitedly with Charles Easton. ) Major Sherwood. Yes, sir, yes. I got there just in time to see that run. By Jove ! That boy's got the old fighting spirit— got it from his old dad ! Charles. He just won that game ! Major Sherwood. He did — he did ! (Enter Harry, supported by Michael.) Ah, Miss Eveline, you ought to be proud of your brother's room-mate. Eveline. Hal ! My Hal ! Are you hurt? Major Sherwood. Well, I'll be— Have I any head or not? I do believe Harry, (embracing her) Not one bit, little girl. Major Sherwood. Hal, my boy ! You're a trump, sir, you're a trump. We think alike, sir. This is the very girl I would have chosen for you. She'll rule you, sir, I do be- lieve it. She knows how to get 'round your old father already. Harry. O sir ! (takes his father's hand, and puts his other arm around Eveline, who puts her head on his shoulder. Croicd, ivithout : " Whafs the matter with Sherwood ? He's all right " !) CURTAIN. ^T'SEND FOR A NEW DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. (Frenches Standard Drama Continued from 3d page of Cover.) VOL. XLI. Tha Pirate's Legacy The Charcoal Burner Adelgitba Senor Valienta Forest Rose Duke's Daughter Camilla's Husband Pure Gold VOL. XLIL Ticket of Leave Man Fool's Rerenge O'Neil the Great Handy Andy Pirate of th« IsIm Fanchon Little Barefoot Wild Irish Girl VOL. XLIII. Pearl of Savoy Dead Heart Ten Nights in a Bar-room Dumb Boy of Manchester Belphegor the Mounteb'k Cricket on the Hearth Printer's Devil Meg'» Diversion VOL. XLIV. 345 Drunkard's Doom 346 Jhimuey Corner 347 Fifteen Yearsof a Drunk 348 No Thoroughfare fard's 349 Peep O' Day LLife 350 Everybody's Friend 351 Gen. Grant 352 Katlileen iNIavourneen. VOL. XLV. 353 Nick Whiffles 354 Fruits of the Wine Cup 355 Drunkard's Warning 866 Temperance DoctOt 367 Aunt Dinah 358 Widow Freeheart 359 Frou Frou 360 Lone Strike VOL. XLVI. 361 Lancers 362 Lucille 363 Randall's Thumb 364 Wicked World 365 Two Orphans 366 Coll-en Bawn 367 'Twixt Axe and Crown 363 Lady Clancarthy VOL. XLVir, 369 Saratoga 370 Never Too Late to Mend 371 Lily of Franc* 372 Led Astray 373 Henry V 374 Unequal Match 375 May or Dolly'* Delusion 376 Allatoona VOL. XLVin. 377 Enoch Arden i8 Under the Gas Light 379 Daaiel RoclMrt Caste 381 School 882 Home 383 David Garrlok 384 Ours VOL. XLIX. 385 Social Glass 386 Daniel Druce Two Roses 388 Adrienna The Bells 390 Uncle 391 Courtship 392 Not Such a Fool VOL. L. 393 Fine Feathers 394 Prompter's Box 395 Iron Master 396 Engaged 397 Pygmalion & Galatea 398 Leah 399 Scrap of Paper 100 Lost in London VOL. LI. 401 Octoroon 402 Confederate Spy 403 Mariner's Return 404 Ruined by Drink 405 Dreams 406 M. P. 407 War 408 Birth VOL. Lir. 409 Nightingale 410 Progress 411 Play 412 Midnight Charge 413 Confidential Clerk 414 Snowball 415 Our Regiment 416 Married for Money Hamlet in Three Acts Guttle & Gulpit FRENCH'S INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHTED EDITION OF THE WORKS OF THE BEST AUTHORS. The following very successful plays have just been issued at 25 cents per copy. A PAIR OF SPECTACLES. Comedy In 3 Acts by Sydney Grundy, author of " Sowing the Wind," &c. 8 male, 3 female characters. A FOOL'S PARADISE. An original play in 3 Acts by Sydnuy Grundy, author of " Sowing the Wind," r3 120 I'ersonaliou VOL. XVI. 121 Children in the Wood 122 Winning a Hujband 123 Day After the Fair 124 Make Your AVills 125 Rendezvous 126 My Wife's Hushand 27 Monsieur Tonson 28 Illustrious Stranger VOL. XVII. 129 Mischief-Making [Mints 130 A Live Woman in the 131 The Corsair 132 Shylock 133 .Spoiled Child 134 Evil Eye 135 Nothing to Nurse 136 Wanted a Widow VOL. XVIH. 137 Lottery Ticket 138 Fortune's Frolic 139 Is he Jealous! 140 Married Bachelor 141 Husband at .Sight 142 Irishman in London 14.3 Animal Magnetism 144 Highways and By-Wavs V<1L. XtX. 145 Columbus 146 Harlequin Bluebeard 147 Ladies at Home 149 Phenomenon in a Smock Frock 49 Com«dy and Tragedy 150 Opposite Neighbors 151 Dutchman's Ghost 152 Persecuted Dutchman VOL. XX. 153Mu8ard Ball 154 Great Tragk- Revival 155 High Low Ja.k & Game 156 A Gentleman frovn Ire- 167 Tom and Jerry [land 158 Village Lawyer 159 Captain's not A-miss 160 Amateurs and Actors UBRARV OF VOL. XXL 161 Promotion 162 A Fasciuaf: 163 Mrs. Caudle 164 Shakespeare' 185 N»ptune'i D 166 Lady of Cede 167 Take Care .- 168 Irish Widow [Charley VOL. XXIL 169 Yankee Peddler 170 Hiram Hireout 171 Double-Bedded Room 172 The Drama Defended 173 Vermont Wool Dealer 174 Ebenezer Venture [ter 175 Principles from Charac-;255 The Shaker Lovers 176 LadT of the Lake (Trav) 256 Ticklish Tim*. VOL. XXIU. 177 Mad Dogs 178 Barney th» Baron 179 Swiss Swains 180 Bachelor's Bedroom 181 A Roland for an Oliver 182 More Blunders than One 18.1 Dumb Beho ls4 Limt-rick Bor VOL. XXlV. 1S5 Mature and Pbiloaophy 186 TedQ\-' the Tiler 684 ^ 018 360 _^^,.^„ ^1 Maid with the Milking 248 P»rple.Tiiig Predicament VOL. XXXII. 249 Dr. Dil worth 250 Out to .Nurse 251 A Lucky Hit 252 The Dowager 253 Metauiora (Burlesque) ^54 Dreams of Delusion 187 Spectre Bridegroom 188 Matteo Falcone 189 Jenny Lind 190 Two Buzzards 191 Happy Man 192 Betsy Baker VOL. XXV. 193 No. 1 Round the Comer 194 Teddy Roe 195 Object of Interest 196 My Fellow Clerk 197 Bengal Tiger 198 Laughing Hyena 199 The Victor Vanquished 200 Our \Aife VOL. XXVL 201 My Husband's Mirror 202 Yankee Land 2f»3 Norah Creina 204 Good for Nothing 205 The First Night 206 The Eton Boy 207 Wandering Minstrel 208 Wante.l, 1000 Milliners VOL. XXVIL 209 Poor Pilcoddy 210 The Mummy [Glasses 211 Don't Forget your Opera 212 Love in Livery 213 Anthony and Cleopatra 214 Trving It On 215 Stage Stru.k Yankee 216 Young Wife & Old Um- brelli VOL. XXVIU. 217 Crinoline 218 A Family Failing 219 Adopted Child 220 Turned Heads 221 A Match in the Dark 222 Advice to Husbands 223 Siamese Twin? 224 Sent to the Tower VOL, XXIX. 225 Somebody Else 2:i6 Laiiies' B'attle 227 Art of Acting 228 The Lady of the Lions 229 The Rights of Man 2.30 My Husband's Ghost 231 Two Can Play at that Game 232 Fighting by Proxy 2.33 Unprotected Female 234 Pet of the Petticoats 235 Forty and Fifty [book 236 Who Stole the Pocket- •.(37 My Son Diana [sion 238 Unwarrantable Tntrn- 239 Mr. and Mrs. White 240 A Quiet F.nmily (French's Minor Drama Continue J on jd pai^e of Cover.) VOL. XXXIIL V57 20 Minutes with a Tiger 258 Miralda; or, the Justice of Tacon 259 k Soldier's Courtship 260 Servants by Legacy 261 Dying for Love 262 Alarming Sacrifica 263 Valet de Shi.m 264Nlchola» Mekleby VOL. XXXlV. 265 The Last of the Pigtails 266 King Rene's Danghter 267 The Grotto Nvmph 268 A Devilish Good Jokt 269 A Twice Told Tale 270 Pas de Fascination v71 Revolutionary Soldier 272 A Man Without a Head VOL. XXXV. 273 The Olio, Parti 274 The Olio, I'art 2 275 The Olio, Part 3 [ter 276 The Trumpeter's Daugh- 277 Seeing Warren 278 Green Mountain Boy 279 That Nose 280 Tom Noddv'.s Secret VOL. XXXVL 281 Shocking Events 282 A Regular Fix •583 Dick Turpin 2s4 Young Sc.imp 285 Young Actress 286 Call at No. 1—7 1287 One Touch of Nature 288 Two B'hoys VOL. xxxvn. 2>'9 All the World's a Stage •j90 Quash, or Nigger Prac- 291 Turn Him Out [tice 292 Pretty Girls of Stillberg 293 Angel of the Attic 294 CircumstanoesalterCases 295 Katty O'Sheal 296 A Supper in Dixie VOL. XXXVIIL 297 Ici oil Parle Francnls 298 Who Killed Cock Robin 299 Declaration of Independ- 300 Heads or Tails fence 301 Obstinate Family 302 My Aimt 303 Tliat Rascal Pat .304 Don Paddy de Baz.an VOL. XXXIX, [ture .305 Too Much for Good Na- 306 Cure for the Fidgets 307 Jack's the Lad 308 Much Ado AboutNothlng 309 Artful Dodger 310 Winnihg Hazard 311 Day's Fishing f&c. 312 Did you ever send your, VOL, XL. 313 An Iri.'^hinan's Maneuver 314 Cousin Fannie 315 'Tis the Darkest Hourbe- 316 Masqueriide [fore Dawn 317 Crowding the Season 318 Good Night's Rest 319 Man with theCarpetBag 320 Terrible Tinker SAMUEL FRENCH. 26 West 22d Street, New York City. New and Explicit Descriptive Catalogue Wailed Free on Requef<