It is from the covers of "the book of the words" of the 'Miller and His Men' that this enticing proclamation is taken--the 'Miller and His Men,' "adapted only for Pollock's characters and scenes," and accompanied by "7 Plates characters, 11 Scenes, 3 Wings, Total 21 Plates." The persons of the drama and the scenes wherein that drama is played out to its fiery end, are all in the bolder manner of the Old Masters, who sought the broadest effects, and who willingly neglected petty details. How bold and how broad the manner and the effects can best be judged by an honest transcription from the final page of the book of words, wherein the terse and tense dialog, single speech clashing with single speech, is accompanied by stage directions for the instruction of the Young Masters who are about to produce the sublime spectacle: _Enter Grindorf left hand, plate 4._ _Enter Karl and Friberg, swords drawn, plate 4, followed by the Troops, right hand, plate 7._ _Grindorf_: Ha! ha! I have escaped you, have I? _Karl_: But you are caught in your own trap. _Grindorf_: Spiller!--Golotz! Golotz! I say! _Count_: Villain! you cannot escape us now! Surrender, or instantly meet thy fate! _Grindorf_: Surrender! I have sworn never to descend from this place alive! _Enter Lothair, as Spiller, 3rd dress, left hand, plate 7._ _Grindorf_: Spiller, let my bride appear. _Exit Lothair._ _Enter Kehnar, right hand, plate 1._ _Enter Ravina with torch, plate 7._ _Ravina_: Before it is too late, restore Claudine to her father's arms! _Grindorf_: Never! _Ravina_: Then I know my course! _Enter Lothair with Claudine, left hand, plate 6._ _Kehnar_: My child! Ah, Grindorf, spare her! _Grindorf_: Hear me, Count Friberg; if you do not withdraw your followers, by my hand she dies! _Count_: Never, till thou art yielded to justice! _Grindorf_: No more--this to her heart! _Lothair_: And this to thine! _Exit Lothair and Claudine, and Grindorf._ _Re-enter Grindorf and Lothair fighting, plate 6, fight and exit._ _Grindorf to be put on wounded, plate 7._ _Re-enter Lothair with Claudine, plate 6._ _Lothair_: Ravina, fire the train! _Scene changes to explosion, Scene 11, No. 9._