text:  Discreet Reader! You have seen--and 'tis no longer ago than YESTERDAY!--you must well remember the picture--which showed you from the rough yet delicate--the humorous yet sympathetic and picturesque--the original yet insinuating pencil of a shrewd and hearty Lusatian mountaineer--the aerial brilliant sensitive subtle fascinating enigmatical outwardly--mirth-given inwardly--sorrow-touched congregated folk numberless--of the Fairies Proper!--showed them at the urgency of a rare and strange need--clung in DEPENDENCY to one fair kind good and happily-born Daughter of Man!--And what wonder?--The once glorious but now forlorn spirits leaning for one fate-burthened instant their trust upon the spirits ineffably favoured!--What wonder! that often as the revolution of ages brings on the appointed hour the rebellious and outcast children of heaven must sue--to their keen emergency--help--oh! speak up to the height of the want of the succour! and call it _a lent ray of grace_ from the rebellious and REDEEMED children of the earth!--And see where in the serene eyes of the soft Christian maiden the hallowing influence shines!--Auspiciously begun the awed though aspiring Rite the still the multitudinous the mystical prospers!--_Gratefully_ as for the boon inexpressibly worth--_easily_ as of their own transcending power--_promptly_ as though fearing that a benefit received could wax cold the joyful Elves crown upon the bright hair of their graciously natured but humanly and womanly weak benefactress--the wedded felicity of pure love! And the imaginary curtain has dropped! Lo where it rises again discovering to view our stage greatly changed and a little perhaps our actors!--Once more attaching to the HUMAN DRAMA slight as though it were structured of cloud of air the same light and radiant MACHINERY! Once more only that They whom you lately saw tranquil earnest even to pathos--"now are frolic"--enough and to spare!--Once more--THE FAIRIES