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Rh --, As a Man Thinks by Duffield. The Witching Hour appeared in The Greatest Contemporary Dramatists, edited by T. H. Dickinson. Samuel French has published The Witching Hour, Oliver Goldsmith, In Mizzoura, Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots, The Other Girl, and The Earl of Pawtucket.

A brief autobiographical sketch appears in The Outlook, Vol. 94, pp. 213-14, January 22, 1910. For a thorough analysis of Mr. Thomas's plays, see William Winter, The Wallet of Time, Vol. 2, pp. 529-557. See also W. P. Eaton, The American Stage of Today (1908), pp. 27-44, which contains an analysis of The Witching Hour. A sketch of the plot is given in Current Literature, Vol. 46, pp. 544-551, May, 1909; and a criticism of the first performance in The Theatre, Vol. 8, p. 2, 1908.

The present text has been revised especially for this edition by Mr. Thomas, to whom the editor is indebted for permission to reprint it.