the youth from Skoelen as their leader, makes them take oath of faith on
their standard.--Karin recognizes the Prince in the stranger, but he
firmly denies his identity, and with glowing words calls the people to
rise against their common foe.

The next scene begins with the act of coronation.--The crowned Queen
Maria is to announce her choice of a husband from the Mora-stone, when
her words are arrested by a look from Magnus, in whom she recognizes
the youth she loved.

But, though almost mad with longing and torment, Magnus, mindful of his
oath, still denies himself, and the Duke with his friend Sten, who both
believed themselves lost, impetuously demand the impostor's arrest.
But the Queen asserts her right to judge him herself.

In the fourth act Magnus is brought to his mother's sleeping room. The
charm of youthful remembrances surround him, and hearing an old ballad,
which Karin sings, he forgets himself and so {90} proves his identity
beyond any doubt to the hidden listeners. Maria rushes forward; he
folds her to his breast in a transport of love, and only when Karin
greets him as her King, he remembers that he has broken his oath, and
without more reflection precipitates himself from the balcony into the
sea. Maria sinks back in a swoon.

In the last act Sten Patrik comes, to remind Bengt of his promise to
give him Schoonen. The Duke refuses to pay him, now that Sweden is in
revolt and the Prince living. Sten threatens to reveal his treachery
against Magnus. Bengt is about to kill the only accomplice in his
deed, when Maria, who has heard all, arrests his arm, and accuses him
of murder. Then she rushes to the balcony to call her people to
vengeance. Bengt draws his sword to stab her, but the people throng
in, seize and throw him into the sea. Now Maria hears with rapture
that Magnus lives and has driven away the Danes. With him enter the
monks, whose Abbot releases the Prince from his oath. Maria lovingly
embracing him, places her crown on her bridegroom's head and all cry
hail! to their King Magnus Ericson.

FRA DIAVOLO.

Comic Opera in three acts by AUBER.

Text by SCRIBE.

This nice little opera, though not equal in beauty and perfection to
the "Muette de Portici" by the same author, is notwithstanding, a happy
{91} invention of Auber's, particularly because the local tints are so
well caught. The banditti are painted with bright and glowing colors,
and the part of the heroine,