FRENCH OFFICER.—"'Tis true; but you'll have to settle that with BOUCICAULT. I'm sure I don't want you to fly, especially with no property but a low-necked dress and short sleeves; but BOUCICAULT has arranged it to suit himself."

CHEERFUL HEROINE—"In that case I will fly." [Enter the DOCTOR and a band of patriots.]

DOCTOR.—"O'MALLEY is a prisoner in the fort. We are going to have him out, dead or alive."

FRENCH OFFICER.—"These are the counsels of madness. Why don't you get an injunction, or something of that kind, and so get him out peaceably."

DOCTOR.—"It's too late. Besides, Mr. BOUCICAULT wants to end the play with a fight."

CHEERFUL HEROINE.—"I will manage it all. I will let down a rope from the fort. You shall all be drawn up and rescue O'MALLEY. Nothing could be more simple. Come and be drawn up." [They come.]

SCENE. II.—Interior of the O'Malley's cell. Enter Tragic Heroine

TRAGIC HEROINE.—"'Tis he!' tis he! Though how he managed to change his clothes and put on such a nice coat, I can't imagine. Dearest, awake!"

O'MALLEY.—"Who calls? Is it the boy with the beer? Ha! my own darling. Come to this embroidered waistcoat."

TRAGIC HEROINE.—"I have agreed to marry ULICK on condition he permits you to escape."

O'MALLEY.—"Ha! base girl. Would ye onconvenience yourself to save me? Never! I will not consent to your marrying ULICK. Try some other little game, darlint"

TRAGIC HEROINE.—"I will." [Exit.]

SCENE III.—The castle moat. O'Malley in the ditch standing in a picturesque attitude

The Dutch General stands on the summit of a wall three feet high, and leaning over

the battlements—which tower to the height of three inches—hands

O'Malley a pardon. Enter Tragic Heroine and everybody else

TRAGIC HEROINE.—"O'MALLEY. I have saved you. Now save me. I have just married ULICK. Kill him for me."

ULICK and O'MALLEY accordingly slash each other across the legs with their rapiers. O'MALLEY kills ULICK and embraces the TRAGIC HEROINE. Everybody shouts "Hurroo!" and the curtain falls.

MATADOR.

EFFECT OF THE PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION UPON CERTAIN PARTIES INTERESTED.

SARSFIELD YOUNG'S PANORAMA

PART II

THE ALPS

These mountains, which are permanently located in Switzerland, and favorably mentioned in all the geographies, are justly admired by tourists for their grandeur, natural beauty, and good hotel accommodations.

This is a view at sunrise, by one of the early painters. Everything is up, but Mont Blanc is up more than his neighbors. The whole landscape is bathed in the golden glories of the orb of day. A bath in the morning is invigorating indeed.

These Peaks are clustered around in silent majesty. It looks as though the entire PEAK family had come here and settled. These snow-capped summits, wild ravines, mountain torrents, and the series of crags which WILLIAM TELL was in the habit of addressing, are truly soul-inspiring.

Here is a guide with his party. These guides are well-trained men, who never bolt, but always go with their party—the ultramontane. They are of high birth, and descended from the best Alpen Stock.

No one should pass the season in Switzerland without seeing these mountains. They will repay a perusal.

While the prices may not be extravagant enough for Americans, still, those who have scaled these noble elevations may well account the prospect as one of the most striking features of a foreign climb.

A SCENE IN THE TROPICS

This gorgeous painting brings before you all the luxuriance of tropical vegetation. Magnolias and palm trees wave their heads proudly, while bananas, oranges, and bread fruit abound in rank profusion. Here the cane brake stretches away as far as the eye can reach (and to those who are not near-sighted still farther), recalling those beautiful lines of the poet:—"Break, break, break!"

The broad river in the foreground, mountains melting away on the horizon (that's because they're volcanic), and the sun broiling and sizzling high up in the heavens, are deliciously blended together. Our artist, full of perspiration (he can blend better than any man we ever ployed), has seized upon a moment when all Nature seems to say: ("Steady there, what makes that canvas wriggle so?")

Notice the warmth of coloring; and see to what a high degree of art the general effect is carried-about 90° Fahrenheit in the shade. This picturesque object is an alligator basking in the sun. Our advice to inexperienced travellers is: "Let him bask!"

These cotton fields, rice plantations, and the colored member of Congress addressing his constituents on the right, all stamp this scene as unmistakably Southern.

We will cancel the stamp and move on.

In our next we shall find that our artist has given himself more latitude, say about eighty degrees North.

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ACT III

SCENE I.—A quiet place in midst of the turnpike. Enter Cheerful Heroine and French Officer