way third mask and after that such without end the music suddenly ceases and a dock astonished what is it first mask wants a quarter sir of twelve second mask then we have time third mask aye time enough for mask and not till midnight comes the shot to pay shuddering what want ye s miscellaneous writings t k mi hand hey to dance a step with thee hand off � fire first mask a spark or so of second mask art dreaming brother third mask music there tht h ns again in ihe distance first mask ng the is biting him second mask hark at the gallows what jovial footing of it third mask thither must i exit first mask below too down in hear ye second mask a stirring there t is time then your servant first mask to till midnight his ha what me here stepping forward down with your violent knocking what horrid uproar next is madness coming on me � voice en open in the king s name ceases es hack i have a heavy dream � sure here is the murderer open open then ma brow has me � scene eighth where is he where � from these merely the jovial stranger easily but now comes the long for d with scene twelfth the she is the withdraw warm no longer strive proud beauty ha wild my bosom � the time is not yet come � � and so forth through four pages of and ice till at last off with the mask then hey the marriage hour off with the mask s one kiss take it tht mask and head dress from her and she at urn a death s head loud thunder and the music ends as shriek in back o horror � the couch is ready there come bridegroom to thy fire she sinks a crashing into the ground out of which all this is bad enough but mere child s play to the scene the last of this strange history with some parts of which we propose to send our readers weeping to their beds scene stranger face is pale hack to the by ha let me fly � come come � with thundering tone t is over now that horrid i � in a tremor on the stranger s breast thou art my friend protect me stranger laughing ha ha ha o save me stranger him force him rounds that t face ia towards he spectators his own is turned away and thus lie looks at him and with thundering voice t is i � a clap of of deepest horror rushes to the ground uttering an inarticulate cry the other a pause continues with cutting coolness is that t ie mighty hell that threatened me � ha me contempt worm of the dust i had reserved thy torment for � myself � descend to other hands be sport for slaves � thou art too small for me rises erect and seems to recover his strength am i not stranger thou no i rising in his whole vehemence accursed ha i am i am down at my feet � i am thy master stranger no more i wildly more ha my bargain stranger is concluded t e mortal sins � stranger the fourth too is committed my wife my and my old father s blood � i l f writings t an er to and here thy own � that ib my thia � was thy most sin ro fig ha spirit of lies d c c stranger in fury down thou accursed he him ly the hair the at this moment amid violent thunder and the scene changes into a horrid in tlie background of which a yawning chasm into this the on au sides rains down so that the whole interior of the seems burning a black over so soon as is got under in ha down thunder and fire both sink the curtain on considering all which supernatural transactions the bewildered reader has no theory for it except that must in dr s phrase have labored under in the region all this of the devil and and so much murder and have been nothing but a waking dream or other and regrets that the poor had not rather applied to some on the subject or even by one sufficient dose of salt on his own have put an end to the whole matter and restored himself to the bosom of his afflicted family such then for dr s part is his method of to which method it may perhaps be objected that there is a want of originality in it for do german not out own british follow precisely the same plan we might answer that if not his plan at least his infinitely superior execution of it must distinguish we rather think his claim to originality rests on a different ground on the ground namely of his entire contentment with himself and with this his and the cool heroism with which on all occasions he that contentment here is no poor begging the public for god s sake not to give him the which he deserves but a bold perpendicular himself as such nay mounted on the top of his and a sharp critical over the drama generally we understand has lately executed a theatrical tour as don did various and thrown stones into most german and at various german play writers of which we have seen only his assault on a feat perhaps ta that � never adventure of the fortune it is said the brave and the prayer of s is not always unheard of heaven in conclusion we congratulate dr on his manager dignity in the theatre a post he seems made for almost as was for the but now like his own doctor must go on � on � on for another and greater doctor has been kept too long waiting 