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INTRODUCTION
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To Parents and Guardians, Andy Blake, Jessie Brown, Grimaldi or the Life of an Actress, The Queen of Spades, The Phantom, The Poor of New York, The Pope of Rome, Pauvrette, The Octoroon, The Colleen Bawn, The O'Dowd, Led Astray, The Shaughraun.

Among the plays written in England, London Assurance (1841), Old Heads and Young Hearts (1844), Arrah na Pogue (1865), may be read as illustrating his earlier and later period.

For biography see The Career of Dion Boucicault by Townsend Walsh, Series 3, Vol. I, of the Dunlap Society Publications, New York, 1915, to which the present editor acknowledges his indebtedness. Interesting accounts of individual plays are to be found in Plays of the Present, by Clapp and Edgett, Series 2, Extra Vol. of the Dunlap Society Publications, New York, 1902. For the relation of The Quadroon with the play, see the novel itself. The Quadroon, or a Lover's Adventures in Louisiana, New York, 1856, and Mayne Reid, a Memoir of His Life, by Elizabeth Reid, London, 1887, pp. 215-217.

The present text is a reprint of the privately printed edition.

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