Chapter I: Front Matter

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PUNCHINELLO

SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1870.

PUBLISHED BY THE

PUNCHINELLO PUBLISHING COMPANY,

83 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK.

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THE MYSTERY OF MR. E. DROOD,

By ORPHEUS C. KERR,

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THE MYSTERY OF MR. E. DROOD.

AN ADAPTATION.

BY ORPHEUS C. KERR.

[The American Press's Young Gentlemen, when taking their shady literary walks among the Columns of Interesting Matter, have been known to remark--with a glibness and grace, by Jove, greatly in excess of their salaries--that the reason why we don't produce great works of imagination in this country, as they do in other countries, is because we haven't the genius, you know. They think--do they?--that the bran-new localities, post-office addresses, and official titles, characteristic of the United States of America, are rife with all the grand old traditional suggestions so useful in helping along the romantic interest of fiction. They think--do they?--that if an American writer could write a Novel in the exact style of COLLINS, or TROLLOPE, or DICKENS: only laying its scenes and having its characters in this country; the work would be as romantically effective as one by COLLINS, or TROLLOPE, or DICKENS; and that the possibly necessary incidental mention of such native places as Schermerhorn Street, Dobb's Ferry, or Chicago, _wouldn't_ disturb the nicest dramatic illusion of the imaginative tale. Very well, then! All right! Just look here!--O A.P's Young Gentlemen, just look here--]