In the prefaces to my five previous volumes I have sufficiently explained my reason for play publication—not as a substitute for production but as an alternative sometimes compelled by the exigencies of a highly commercialized theater. Further, I have stated in other places why I have so frequently turned to the one-act form.
The present volume is dedicated to no thesis, though perhaps the title may offer some hint of the underlying motive which has prompted this series.
G. M.
December 23, 1919.