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Copyright, 1913, by Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.

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The Little Stone House is founded on a story by the same author, published anonymously some years ago in Temple Bar.

The agents for amateur rights in this play are Messrs. Samuel French, 28 West 38th Street, New York, and Joseph Williams, Ltd., 32 Great Portland Street, London, from whom a license to play it in public must be obtained.

It was first performed for the Stage Society at the Aldwych Theatre, London, January 29, 1911, with the following cast:

Praskóvya, a lodging-house keeper	Mrs. Saba Raleigh
Varvára, her servant	Miss Eily Malyon
Astéryi, a lodger	Mr. Franklin Dyall
Fomá, a lodger	Mr. Stephen T. Ewart
Spiridón, a stonemason	Mr. Leon M. Lion
A Stranger	Mr. O. P. Heggie
A Corporal	Mr. E. Cresfan

Scene: Small provincial town in Russia.

Reprinted by permission of, and special arrangement with, Messrs. Sidgwick and

Jackson, Ltd., publishers of the English edition.