Mirthful marionettes, a play for children in one act.

Authorized translation of Nos marionettes by E. B. Osborn.

The 'gentlefolk' in the book are the merest marionettes, but there are descriptive passages of first-rate vigour, and the voice of wisdom is heard from the lips of an early Greek choregus in the figure of an old parson called Mr. Wyvern.

Oh, ye marionettes, ye fantoccini!