Best plays of the early American theatre : from the beginning to 1916 / edited, with introductions, by John Gassner and Mollie Gassner.

Title on cover : The contrast / Royall Tyler--Superstition / James N. Baker--Fashion / Anna Cora Mowatt--The octoroon / Dion Boucicault--Secret service / William Gillette--The great divide / William Vaughn Moody--Charles the second / John Howard Payne & Washington Irving--The New York idea / Langdon Mitchell--The truth / Clyde Fitch--The witching hour / Augustus Thomas--The scarecrow / Percy MacKaye--The mouse-trap / William Dean Howells--Uncle Tom's cabin / George L. Aiken--The easiest way / Eugene Walter--The count of Monte Cristo / by Charles Fechter--Salvation nell / Edward Sheldon.