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to be packed for a while in a solid mass before it could work its way out through the insufficient exits and so return again to our modern world. And then the Roman Theatre--with a fresh legend of beauty added to the roll of its centuries--was left desert beneath the bright silence of the eternal stars. SAINT-REMY-DE-PROVENCE, _December, 1894._ THE END FOOTNOTES [1] _Recipe for Poumpo_: Flour, 101/2 oz.; brown sugar, 31/2 oz.; virgin olive oil (probably butter would answer), 31/2 oz.; the white and the yolk of one egg. Knead with enough water to make a firm paste. Fold in three and set to rise for eight or ten hours. Shape for baking, gashing the top. Bake in a slow oven. [2] _Vin cue_, literally cooked wine, is made at the time of the vintage by the following recipe: Boil unfermented grape-juice in a well scoured cauldron [or porcelain-lined vessel] for a quarter of an hour, skimming thoroughly. Pour into earthen pans, and let it stand until the following day. Pour again into the cauldron, carefully, so as to leave the dregs, and boil until reduced to one-half--or less, or more, according to the sweetness desired. A good rule is to boil in the wine a quince stuck full of cloves--the thorough cooking of the quince shows that the wine is cooked too. Set to cool in earthen pans, and when cold bottle and cork and seal. The Provencal cooked-wine goes back to Roman times. Martial speaks of "Cocta fumis musta Massiliensis." [3] The admirable edition of Saboly's noels, text and music, published at Avignon in the year 1856 by Francois Seguin has been reissued by the same publisher in definitive form. It can be obtained through the Librarie Roumanille, Avignon. [4] As yet (1902) these high hopes have not been fully realized. In the past eight years dramatic performances repeatedly have been given in the Orange theatre, and always with a brilliant success; but their establishment as fixtures, to come off at regular intervals, still is to be accomplished. [5] The dimensions of the theatre are: width, 338 feet; depth, 254 feet; height of facade and of rear wall of stage, 120 feet; radius of auditorium, 182 feet. [6] The conventions of the Greek theatre--and, later, of the Roman theatre--prescribed that through the great central portal kings should enter; through the smaller side portal
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