are also problems which any American can readilyunderstand,
not local Spanish anachronisms. I chose Mariucha believingit to
be the best fitted for general class use among all the dramas
ofGaldós; and I hope that Spanish teachers may not find me
wrong.
The Introduction is confined to a discussion of Galdós as a
dramaticauthor, since a study of his entire work or of his
influence on hisgeneration would be quite out of place.
To my friend and colleague Professor Erasmo Buceta I am
deeply gratefulfor generous and suggestive help; and I am
indebted to Doña MaríaPérez-Galdós de Verde for information
which gives the Bibliography anaccuracy it could not otherwise
have had.
