The stage-book is bound to be a dull book, however much it may seem to entertain Brutus and Henry, the Stranger and Bisarre, Hamlet and Joseph Surface, Imogen and Lydia Languish.

It is in truth, a book for all stage-readers.

Now it is a prayer-book--as in the case of Richard III.; and now, in "The Hunchback," it is "Ovid's Art of Love." According to the prompt-book of the play, Modus is to enter "with a neatly-bound book." HELEN.

What is the book?
MODUS.

Tis "Ovid's Art of Love." HELEN.