1. _Soubrette._ 1. _Prologue._

2. _Lover._ 2. _Soubrette._

3. _Villain._ 3. _Lover._

4. _Lady-Love._ 4. _Witch._

5. _Clown._ 5. _Clown._

6. _Witch._ 6. _Villain._

7. _Sweetheart._

8. _Epilogue._

These little pieces are quite notable and extremely interesting
both in their original and revised versions. Although the
subjects they portray are the stiff-moving and grotesque figures
of Marionettes, their general effect is often intensely human.
The set as a whole may be viewed as a half serious, half
whimsical study of characters in human life, issued under the
disguise of jointed and painted dummies. Beneath the quaint,
stiff movement of the music there is just that touch of
seriousness, a sort of droll sadness, that makes of it something
more than a doll's play. The revised edition of _Marionettes_ is
the best and most characteristic, and in the United States is the
accepted one. In England, however, the original edition,
published at Breslau in 1888 by Julius Hainauer, is still being
sold.