leau represents two figures, a youth and a
maiden, supporting Cupid on their shoulders. The two persons who take
these parts should be of good figure and of equal height. The maiden's
costume consists of a white dress, cut low at the top, sleeves short;
a gauze scarf draped across the breast, tied at the side, and allowed
to trail on the floor; white shoes, hair hanging loosely over the
shoulders, the head encircled with a wreath of spar beads and white
flowers. The right hand grasps a garland of white flowers, while the
left helps to support the boy Cupid. The youth's costume consists of a
white coat, vest, breeches, hose, cravat, and shoes. Across the left
arm hangs a white mantle; the hand grasping a shepherd's crook, which
is four feet long, and painted white. The boy Cupid must be quite
small, and costumed in a short gauze dress, white hose, and shoes; a
white quiver, bow and arrows, must be suspended from the neck by a
satin ribbon, and small gauze wings fastened to the back of the
dress. The right hand grasps a torch, which is held above the head.
This can be made of card board, the flame imitated by gold paper. His
head is turned towards the maiden, into whose eyes he is looking,
countenance expressing mirth. The two figures stand on a pedestal two
feet high and four feet in diameter, covered with black marble paper,
and placed in the centre of the stage, the right arm of the gentleman
and the left arm of the maiden crossed so as to make a seat for the
boy; both assume attitudes of persons in the act of walking, and look
up with delight into the face of the boy. The front of the stage, if
covered with white gauze, will add to the beauty of the scene, which
is intended to represent statuary. Light should come from the side of
the stage, and of medium brilliancy. Music, soft and plaintive.

THE BANDITTI.

But wilder sounds were there; th' imploring cry
That woke the forest's echo in reply,
But not the heart's! Unmoved, the wizard train
Stood round their human victim, and in vain
His prayer for mercy rose; in vain his glance
Look'd up, appealing to the blue expanse,
Where, in their calm, immortal beauty, shone
Heaven's cloudless orbs. With faint and fainter moan,
Bound on the shrine of sacrifice he lay,
Till, drop by drop, life's current ebb'd away;
Till rock and turf grew deeply, darkly red,
And the pale moon gleam'd paler on the dead.

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