Tricks of the Time or "Bill Stealers Beware"
A Comedy (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Tricks of the Time or "Bill Stealers Beware": A Comedy<br><br>My dear Wallack,<br><br>I have ventured to dedicate these plays to you, not from any idea that they would prove at all worthy of the honour of having your name associated with them, but from the selfish wish that they should not be ushered into the hard world of criticism without the countenance of a tried friend.<br><br>The grateful recollection of many happy hours passed in your society, the valued counsel and assistance which you have often given me in my literary labours, but, above all, the kind encouragement with which you have resuscitated the despairing energies of an unsuccessful author, have "screwed my "courage to the sticking place," and emboldened me to take this liberty with our friendship and your name!<br><br>You may naturally ask why none of these plays have been acted Alas! thereby hangs a tale! In your mind, I know that the test of merit is not "failure and success!" but with the generality of mankind it is. All these plays have been rejected - I confess it - at the risk of losing many a reader. The Comedy was rejected as too wild, - the Drama as too tame, - the plot of one play was too intricate; in another, the dialogue was too simple. One manager declared the piece good, but not adapted to "his" theatre.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.