passed
through pulleys, and attended to in the ante-rooms. The curtain or
scenery should be drawn up on the back side, and let down in its place
as soon as the platform has passed through. A small rope, painted
blue, must be attached to the platform, and pass through a block
fastened to the wall of the stage; this can be tended by a person
under the stage, who will allow the platform to move with exactness to
its stopping place. If the light from the colored fire is not
brilliant enough, a few of the lights at the same side from whence the
fire is produced can be lighted. Music soft and plaintive at first,
and increasing in power at the finale.

THE STATUE VASE.

She spoke to vanish, but the single ray
Shot from the unseen moon, still palely breaketh
The awe that rests with midnight on the way;
Faithful as Hope when Wisdom's self forsaketh--
The buoyant beam the lonely man pursued--
And, feeling God, he felt not Solitude.

And now, he enters, with that lurid tide,
Where time-long corals shape a mighty hall;
Three curtain'd arches on the dexter side,
And on the floors a ruby pedestal,
On which with marble lips, that life-like smiled,
Stood the fair Statue of a crowned Child.

BULWER'S KING ARTHUR.

One Female Figure.

This design is a beautiful female, supporting a horn of plenty, from
which rises a basket of intermingling vines and flowers. The lady is
standing on a pedestal, which is described in the tableau of the
Italian Flower Vase, as is also the basket which the lady supports.
This basket or bowl of the vase can be suspended from the centre of
the ceiling by the means of wire hooks. The pedestal must be placed
directly under it. The space between the top of the pedestal and the
bottom of the basket should be just the height of the lady who takes
the part of the statue in the piece; so that when she is in position
on the pedestal, the bottom of the basket will touch the top of her
head. The horn of plenty can be made of cloth; it should be five
inches in diameter at the top, three foot long, and end in a point at
the bottom; it can be stuffed with wool, covered with green cambric,
and decorated with artificial flowers. It is to be attached to the
bottom of the basket, pass down over the lady's shoulder, and held in
its position by the left arm and hand. The lady who takes this part
should be of large and good figure, regul