THE MAGISTRATE THE PLAYS OF ARTHUR W. PINERO Paper cover, 1s 6d; cloth, 2s 6d each THE TIMES THE PROFLIGATE THE CABINET MINISTER THE HOBBY-HORSE LADY BOUNTIFUL THE MAGISTRATE DANDY DICK SWEET LAVENDER THE SCHOOLMISTRESS THE WEAKER SEX THE AMAZONS *THE SECOND MRS. TANQUERAY THE NOTORIOUS MRS. EBBSMITH THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT THE PRINCESS AND THE BUTTERFLY TRELAWNY OF THE "WELLS" +THE GAY LORD QUEX IRIS LETTY A WIFE WITHOUT A SMILE HIS HOUSE IN ORDER THE THUNDERBOLT MID-CHANNEL PRESERVING MR. PANMURE THE "MIND THE PAINT" GIRL * This Play can be had in library form, 4to, cloth, with a portrait, 5s. + A Limited Edition of this play on hand-made paper, with a new portrait, 10s net. THE PINERO BIRTHDAY BOOK SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY MYRA HAMILTON With a Portrait, cloth extra, price 2s 6d. _LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN_ THE MAGISTRATE A FARCE In Three Acts _BY ARTHUR W. PINERO_ LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN _First Impression_ 1892; _New Impressions_ 1894, 1895, 1897, 1899, 1901, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1911; 1914 Copyright All rights reserved Entered at Stationers' Hall Entered at the Library of Congress Washington, U.S.A. INTRODUCTORY NOTE. "THE MAGISTRATE" is, after "Sweet Lavender," perhaps the most popular of Mr. Pinero's plays, and it is particularly interesting as being the first of his works in which his own individuality found absolutely independent expression, and emphatically and triumphantly asserted itself. In fact, this farce marks an epoch in the dramatist's career, and shows him creating a really new and original order of English comic play, the further development of which may be traced in the successive plays which, together with "The Magistrate," formed the famous Court series of farces, namely, "The Schoolmistress," "Dandy Dick," and "The Cabinet Minister."