Produced by Stan Goodman, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Some one will naturally ask: "Why did not the editor select Galdós' best play, _El abuelo_, for publication?" I should like to reply to this question in advance. _El abuelo_, with all its beauties, has certain features which make it slightly undesirable for use by classes of American students in High Schools and the elementary years of College. First, one of its beauties is itself a drawback for this particular purpose; namely, the rather vague and abstract moral it conveys. Then, the main-spring of the plot, like that of _Electra_, lies in a dubious obscurity to which it is not necess…
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