Excerpt from Columbus, Westward Ho My dear Mrs. Horne: - Your play, Columbus, Westward ho! I have read w four times, and with increasing interest, and if you leave the typewritten copy with me a little longer, shall read it again before I return it to you. Many plays are written that excite but little interest in the reading but depend upon the excellence of the players to carry them through, while others yield much more in the deliberate reading than can be brought out in the rapidly moving dialogue matter how well spoken. This play does t fail in the first particular, r does the interest flag in any of the varied scenes, but rather moves forward gathering force steadily as it approaches the poetically conceived climax in the final scene. As to its fitness for the living stage, its psychology is so simple that our younger people whom you have mainly had in mind in writing the play, might perform it most successfully if endowed with a little imagination and histrionic ability. The subject is so alluring that it can t fail to arouse enthusiasm. It abounds in opportunities for spectacular and affecting scenes, elements so essential to the success of a play. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy 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.