what matters that? When she opens her mouth the very stones dance, as they did of old round the virtuous Amphion, who, by the bye, must have had an enormous organ of music.-No one enquires whether Nightingales are humpbacked-hey-and as my Edward has certainly no occasion to look for personal beanty.

Car.-But I am afraid-your son could never endure such skeleton.

Rück.—He is a fool. What is written in the Bible? All flesh is hav-Is it not?

. Car.-Yes-but it must however have been once grass.

Riick.-You would do me a great favor, if you could persuade him to marry.

Car.-I?

Rick.-Yes-you are his bosom friend.-What do you think? how would it be, if, in order to have more frequent opportunities of talking to him about marriage, you were both to sleep in the same room?

Car.—If it is your wish.

Ruck.-You must not take it ill.

Car. Not at all. Quite the contrary.

Riick.-Perhaps you are not accustomed to sleep in the same s room with another person?

Car. I have been obliged to accustom myself to it lately. Rück.-Delightful! Now I beg you'll represent marriage as a delicious thing to him.

Car.-I'll do my very best.

Riick.-How would it be if you were to give him a good example?

Car.-I?

Riick. Yes, yes, if you were to marry yourself?

Car-Why if a good match were to offer.

Riick. A good match! what do you mean by a good match, money?

Car.-Oh no-that I don't want-I am rich enough.

Rück.---Organs then?

Car.I require only true love and fidelity---On other points I am easily satisfied.

Rück.---Hark you, Mr. Von Hellstern, if you require nothing more, I can supply you with those.

Car.Ob if you would do that!

Riick.You please me so much, and you have such an ex

cellent skull, that it really would give me great joy to be very nearly connected with you.

Car.If you were but serious.

Riick.---I really am. When that anonymous rascal wrote me word that you were a woman and married to my son I actually did not know whether I should be angry or whether 1 should con gratulate myself.

Car.---Oh you inspire me with courage to confess.

Riick.---But 1 may still have the happiness of seeing my family increased by you? hey?

Car.You would really have no objection?

Ruck. Not the slightest. On the contrary 1 propose the match

to you myself,

Car.---And if it were already concluded?

Rück.---Impossible.

Car.---But if.

Rick.In this short time? You must be a conjuror then! you have only seen the girl at dinner.

Car.---(starts) The girl?

RückThe girl? Why yes, my daughter. 1 have only one girl in the house.

Car(recovers herself) Exactly so.

Rick.---And you have already concluded a match with her! Car-Why not quite concluded, but all preparations made by glances.

Riick.---Indeed! 1 remarked nothing at all. But certainly it is only maternal sentinels who observe such glances, and call out immediately---Who's there? Well so much the better---If the girl pleases you.

Car.---Oh she is the most charming

Ruck. She has a pretty face. A little pert, but in other respects a very good child. Nature has certainly not gifted her wtih well developed organs.

Car. As I said, I require but little.

Ruck. The love of offspring is there, for that I pledge myself and besides that a little of the organ of number. She will be able to manage the household accompts very well. She is not deficient in the organ of firmness either, nearly all women have that, namely obstinacy.

Car. It generally depends upon the husband however to dis pose that to good purposes.

Ruck.-Yes if the husband always had the organ of acuteness. Car.-Oh in this matter he only needs gentleness and love.

Ruck. The organ of love! ha! ba! ha! You are an arch rogue Mr. Van Hellstern. But you are right, We are agreed then upon the principal points. It is true I cannot give you a fortune with my daughter. But the property she'll inherit after my death. She may then vie with a princess were she even as rich as Mary of Burgundy. More than 1,000 skulls, and among then even the 20 Lacedaemonians who fought at Thermopylae I will also give you in my will permission to ent off my own head. It really is, without boasting, by no means a bad one.

Car.--You overwhelm me with kindness.

Ruck. Not at all, for when I am dead, I care no more about my skull. But should you die first, I stipulate that I may cat off your head.

Cart is at your service.

Rick.-Done. I'll call my daughter, we will strike the iron While it is hot.

SCENE 8TH.

CAROLINE ALONE.

Capital! I am the son's wife, and I am the son's wife, and I am to be the daughter's Busband! I think the girl will get me out of the dilemma herself. She is eighteen years old, pretty and consequently not without an ads mirer. If however she has none she must be tormented a little, for not to have turned some man's brains at eighteen is a crime against divine love.

SCENE 9TH.

MR. VON RICKENMARK, EMILY AND CAROLINE.

Riick. Come along, come! You shall know directly what is the matter. Do you see Mr. Von Hellstern there? How does he please you?

Em. I only know him as my brother's friend, and as such I esteem him highly.

Rick.--And he deserves it a hundred times more than your Mr. Von Bombeck. Why you can recognize his organ for music ten paces off.

Em. It will afford me pleasure if he will accompany me pow and then.

Riick.-Yes, yes, he will accompany you, that is to say, to the altar and from thence to the bride-chamber.

Em.---My dear Father

Riick.---And afterward you may sing together as much as you please.

Em.---I trust

Riick.---That I am only jesting-no, no,---it is my fixed purpose. Bow to your betrothed.

Car-The kind glances which you cast at me during dinner lead me to hope that my proposals are not altogether unwelcome to you, Em.-How Sir? I cast glances at you, and those kind glances? Rick.-Home, dont deny it. I know all-you need not be ashamed of them. You hear that I give my consent.

Em-My dear Father, I do not even know the gentleman yet, Rick.--Yon have only to feel his skull, and you will know him through and through. Now you may see what advantages mysystem confers. Whoever in future is deceived in his choice of a wife has nobody but himself to thank for it. I am only afraid that some scoundrels will soon bring wigs into fashion again to hide their bad organs.

Car. You know, my dear Father, that even if the gentleman were made up of organs of music from head to foot I can never be his.

Rick.---There you have it,---the obstinacy

Car.---That does not discourage me in the least. I'll bet that before evening the young lady sinks into my arms.

SCENE 10TH.

THE PRECEEDING AND EDWARD.

Ed.--There is a police officer standing without who desires to know whether it is true that you have accused of theft an innocent man who offered himself for your service?

Rück.---The fellow who was with me early this morning? Certainly. He is a thief. He steals like a raven. 1 advised him to have himself locked up or he would soon come to the gallows. Ed.---Did he steal anything from you?

Rick.--What? No.

Ed.---Have you any proof then?

Rick.--An organ of theft as large as a cabbage-stock; is not that proof enough?

Ed.---The police, it would seem, have not yet thoroughly com prehended the new system---The man has complained, and has proved that he has been an honest fellow all his life---All who know him witnessed in his behalf, and I'am afraid you will be obliged to pay a fiue of 50 dollars.

Ruck.-Not even a rope will I pay for to hang the rascal with. Where is the police-officer? If the man has only a reasonable skull, why he will clearly see (exit quickly.)

Ed.-I must follow him, for if the officer should unfortunately be broad or flat headed, my father is likely enough to insult him also (exit.)

SCENE 11TH.

CAROLINE AND EMILY.

Car. And so you won't marry me?

Em.-No.

Car. Very decided. But it is not possible that you can be

Car.-Very

serious.

Em.-You have a great deal of confidence in your worthy person.

Car. What have you to

am I stupid?

to in except

person? Am I ugly,

my person

Em.-If I must be sincere, I find you are intolerably vain.

Car.-Don't you know that now-a-days it is allowable for every one to be conscious of his accomplishments? And that modesty is only a miserable negative virtue?

Em.-Pardon me. I had an old Governess who anxiously clung to the notions current in the middle of the last century.

Car.-I'll soon cultivate your mind. You must know that I have just left the university, where I studied philosophy, of course. the newest, consequently 1 despise everything, particularly people who have had the misfortune to be born twenty years before my sun arose. I am a poet too, and my rhymes ring as loud as the bell of an Italian mule. In society I know everything best; at the Theatre I hiss; and am not fit for any employment. What more would you require!

Em.-I really do admire you!