text:  The _dramatis personae_ are gipsies; and it is difficult to select what is most admirable in this exquisite little work--the completeness and distinctness of the descriptions of external nature--the artful introduction of various allusions (particularly in one most charming passage indicating Ovid's exile in the beautiful country which is the scene of the drama ) or the intense interest which the poet has known how to infuse into what would appear at first sight a subject simple even to meagreness