The Cloven Foot, an Adaptation of the English Novel, the Mystery of Edwin Drood, (Z11 - By Charles Dickens to American Scenes, and Customs and Nomenclature #247946

It is because his Adaptation of 7715 Mystery of Edwin Brood serves, in unavoidable proportion to its fidelity, to make prominent the artistic infelicities of the latter, that the adapter has ventured such a preface as the foregoing to his apology for turning the serious work of an illustrious foreign writer to ludicrous native use.