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PREFACE.

The play of Bianca Visconti was written for Miss Clifton, of the Park Theatre, New York, who produced it in all the principal cities of America, some two years since. Her personation of Bianca was, by the critics of every stage, pronounced a high triumph in her Art. The Author could not, with justice, publish it in England without recording the taste and talent with which she graced its first introduction to the public.