Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 12, 1874, Page 7

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, TJULY 12, 1ei4. ¢ at Trintty Church, Indians avenue, near gourth gtrect. “rhe Rer. 3. O- Peck, D. D, will preach morning 7 evening at the Centenars, Churel, Monroe etreet, o rgn. Evening subject: *XNight Life of g Dr. Bavmond, of Evanston, will preach Street Chuxc! Joazg 3t 10 A0 B will preach moratng and ‘Aichigen Avcnue Courch, A Yaukir Siuc]));'eac)l: morning and tern Avenue urch, braing st ey el preach in_the morning, 370 ev. 3. Youker fn the ovcning, at Graco s i LaSalle ans ite stroets, Bhurey oozzer of Lo o fev, Dr. Byder will presch in tho morning at e, 3 Pl 3CBUENy ek will preach morning and e Ber - S Onurch, Indisna ey eutng At u2 Aot trect, : wa‘%’:v"‘ e orrester, D. D, will proach at the —TheierJ dcamer, corner of Weshington and e 08 T Morning eubfect 3 Tl Joy of Ac:gld‘fifi ‘Life Evening subjest: *Individusl Iu- fence.” ErISCOPAL. . Warren will presch in the morning.and e B D v it g 6t SLMari's Clitieed, i Ter. DE. o aveaue. s Coege GTOEYTG tho will offictate morning and 2 Te e Church of the Lloly Comunton, Dear~ R th and Dlirtieth sevets. ncis Mansfield will oficiate morning —rnfl.‘"',mecnum of the Atoscment, curner e pron and Rotey streets, - o Wb Srocking will officlata morntng and e Gaurch of Lo Epiphzny, Theoop strest, Seeoea Mepz0e 22 Sk e it ; Zer, D=. B owers will officiate in the g ot 5t hurch, Ashknd ovénue, near Byt N0 € e ker. ey O, a sod exentsgat 415 §Fo 258 The ususl sereid ‘petween Twenty: Tery will officiste morning Liureh, corner of Carpenter ieices will be held at St. Pefer's m—l'rle; Yo, 46 Third aveouc. The Tev. Goorge O. el o ciste. bw"‘;!,‘?fi" - Falker will_oficlats morning sall —The Bek s Church, Werren avewue, betwoea st Garaarenae, e 40 . Custiman will offcinte morniog and eremeg ot & Siephen’s Churdly, Juhuson streat, neas U1 | 1be full eathedeal eervices, Bishop White- pom atng £t be chuizch copner of Washington “iress, morning and evening, sod Peard : BAPTIST. . F.7..Goodsrwad will preach mo: “cond Gaurel, comer of 3 : The scrmen in tho evening will vé to , Ciozey, D. Do will preach mworn e 3t the ih Chiurch, corner of §%.siogton and Panlina strecis. ; . Fross wiil prezch moraing and reity Ilce Church, Dougles . NcCarthy will proich in the 3 Church, Ada strect, » Curist the Wisdom presch 3t 10:30 8, m, AT Tmmszual Crurch, corner of Cear eand Dayion €ire.ts. . * e Bev. L T, ash will preach in the morning, ot e Bev. 1. P. All'son it the eveniug, ot the Twrez- {e£fi-Strcet Cazell, Tts Tev, W, W. Evcrte, Jr, will preach in the pningat the First Church, Wabasa svenue, mesr Fettard court. In ihe cvoning thero will be & Gos- precting, conducled by B. F. Jzcobs. < The Rev. John Gordon will preach at the Western Jrene Chnurch, worning und eveming; baptism after Relatier sarvice, " Tue Rew. N F. Pavlin will preach at Temple CGearch, carner of Harrieon cud Singamom siteuts. Eremizg gabjects * Church Quarreis: Their Cause, Erect, :nd Demedy.” “The Rev. 3. Maivern will preach at the Fres Com- mion Clureh, comtier of Loomis sud Juckeon streute, Yorcirg #ibject:s “ Chrint in the Cougregation.” Freaing supiect: ©The Disparity en God's T and 2 reris the Alle! {5-ird sireet, o = * ueRer. David J. Burreil w fogst Westmineter Citurciz, comier of Vest 4 Peoria sircete, Bubject: ¢The Siguiticant Xeme,” The quarterly miscionary meeting will Lo 3210 the evenlng, and the Rev, C. H. Cook, who bas ben a missiozury cmong the Iudians of New Mexico, il pako & shors address, —The Rev. J. B. AfcCiuve will preach at River Park ! smthe morming. " —There wili be no services at the Ninth Church to- (DA ZTpeRer. J. Monroe Gibson will preach in the moning at e S.cond Church, corner of Michigan Avenue tnd Trienticth stecet. The congregaiion will Tnite with e Férst Chur:h in the cvening. There will be the usual evening services at the Camybell Park Misston Chapel, Leavitt strot, near Harnson, —The Rev, Abbctt E. Kitéridge will presch in the Third Chureh, comer of Washington and Carpenter stres, Morning subject: ¢ Tho Sermon ou the Mount” Erepivg subject: What is Tour Life” —The Rev. Cbarles L Thomrson will preach morn- 15g 10d evening at the Fifth Church, Wavcsh avenue, mear Thiry-fint eirect, Aorning subject: * The Hezd of the Famly® —The Rev, W, lcHalg will preach morning and evaung at the Ninth Church, Ediis svenue, Dear Tairty-seventh street, —The Congregation of the Ashland Avenue Church ill worehip In the Swedenborgian Clapel, West Wasli- ixgton strect, in the morning, The Key. Dr, Swezcy, sch 'upon tho * Sulvation of the Virruous Jr. Wil preach gmorning snd . Aveaue Churefl, near Twea- —Tae Rev. James Maclaughlin will preschmorning 532 eveing t tlie First Bcoleh Chireh, corner of Beagamon tnd Adzms streets. —Tho Rev. J. H. Walker will preach at the Reanton Cuurch, Fourtoenih street, near Throop, morning kad eezing, —Pro, Blackburn will preach in the morning, t the Fourth Chureh. —The Ber. J. W, Bain will preach morning@nd eening st {he Tnited Churck, corner of Monrds and ouling strects. onmEIsTIAN. ThoRev, Tease Ewett wid preach at the Indinna Avenue a0l Twenty-fifth Street Christian Chureh to- @y, morning and evening. —Elder G, G, Mauilius will preach in the Gentral Ceristian Church, Jefferson Park, in the mornfug. MISCELLASEOTS. Corus 8. Lynn will speak ot Grow's Hall, No. 517 Vet Mcdison sircet, in the morning. Subj ®Thg Life of Thomas Paine.” In the eveniug Maxwell, while entranced, will answor questions by those In the audience. =, 1. P. Cicrls, a misslonary from Ransas, will freach i thi Groen Btreet Tabornacle morning and frezing, —The Rev. Edmund Belfour will preach morninz 52 evening ¢ the Engiish Lutheran Church, corner Daarbord nnd Erio strects. ~Cabucil No. 1 of Spiritusists will mest st No. 204 ¥an Buren streel, at half-past 3 in the afternoon, and liten to°s lecture by Mrs. B W. Beoth Briggs, on ‘The Bockal Problem.” Rev. E, . Bartlett will preach at No. 320 Ogdea avenme in the evening. o Aventists will miest in thetr bl at o, 213 et Madiacn sizcet morning snd evening, to hear ‘Elder L. C. Collins preach, u'u_nrahi‘m?,‘““’ Lyoeum mesis xt Ialtpust 32 emplec’s hall, cornor of Waed Hingion 42 Desplsinessireetn, L RS CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. July 13—Sixth Sunday after Trinity, BOMAX CATHOLIC. July 13—Serenth Eu;:.;izy after Pentocost; 8t. Jahn July IS—SEm i t. Anacletur, P, 3 July —5¢. Baaveatare, gf C.D, July 15-S¢. Henry, Emperor, C. Jult 16-B, V. M.'0f Mt. Carvel. July 175t, Alexius, 0. Julyii—S. Cumiliaof Lells, €. B Mgty THE COMET. Spectroscopic Conclusions Delufontuine. o the Etitor of The Chicago Lrivune : Sm: Tuz Tapoyg published, a fow days ago, sninterview I had with one of the members of our ataff, about the Coggia comet. At thet ;‘ma my obeervations wore very incomplete, and :hifid speak more from what others had seon Bis rom my own knowledge. As since then I - :h becn able to seo more nnd better of that v" Halked-of heavenly body, I have errived !u.m conclusions which may prove of some erestto your readers. Withous stopoing in er 10 discuss the question whether the comet ‘{‘"}"‘lm illusion like tho Pepper ghosts, an im- ‘:’n’m phoephorescence, or any other nonsense, iy mply stote in & faw words tho conclusions N 28 spectzoscope lead me to. ek ther the head nor. tail of the comet isa i or 2 liguid mass, The main bulk, especial- e 9 nuclens, is made of a glowing, self-lumin- m“""l Probably carbon-vapor, or some carbon- msmd frea of hydrogen. The fact that, in sy parts, » spectrum made of the several pri- s cnlnn}s vigiblo, soems to indicate the pres- ‘@ of 2olid particles floating in the gaseous o wod riflcting tho sun-ight. This, bov- ”'m o‘}n: Lelieve entirely; without denying ‘ the golar reflection, it secms to me 8 preater condensation or compression of mk::w.n 20d around the nucleus mnE just as e hocgint for the buightness of tho light. As Tial g the lx: N it 1t 18 made of the same mate- fi'nnnl;"; ix_t is g0 much sattenuared as to One o mgrly_ :mt spectrum, when any at all. I the ien acts which prevent my believing compt, hce of solid particles in Coggia's %, unless they be, exceedingly attenuated 18 the great transparency of that body, Bight, mtrnc which is such that, on Friday ould’sea thyro °:{zg. of Dartmoutl College, whilet s seronEh it @ soventh-magaitude star, Bl o ey iimuted tho brlliane of the comek Piinge Noio dol 2 star of the second mag- e weil wi u!: ly do the foregoing conclusions ticng, bt thes :l!{Y own epectrcscopic observa~ K i, pasC econut for the lighiuass of Mronnial foct thac 1 know of. 2Auxpo of the head, the numerous changes 8 wdargyey, tho extent and the direcuon oz the by Prof. u £ail, aro are 89 many puzzles that have hitherto bothered the astronomers ; but, Whon it 12 defi- pitely settled that comots aro gaseons masses under a certain dégres of teusion, variablo with the temperature and the solar distance, it will probably no: ke lung befora we find tho answer o Athem. : ’ A i low me, in closing this letter, to tender m: best thanks to Profs. Safiord and Colbert, and L{) Mr. Rauey, for the opportunity they havo given e to make a little study of one of tho most in- teresting questions about cometsy and for their kind assistance in the managoment of the great telescope. Iam, su'i)very Tespectfully, - 'ZOF. AL, DELAFONTAIN] Cricaco, July 11, 167 e —_—— REVIEW OF AMUSEMENTS. SUMMER THEATRES. The theatres, excepting the Academy of Mu- sic, being now all closed, it is agreeablo to look back & little and see how the march of time hag 2dded to the discomforts of dramatic audi- ences. With tho thormometer ranging chovo 100 deg., as it has occasionaliy done during the past three or fonr weoks, wa are driven to admit that a covered place of amusement, which admits air only by tha mouthful, is not the most desiratle form of summer-house. Managers have found this out in other cities. In Ghicngo they iusist apon holding out, no matter what the westher is. Next year taey will all closo carly. The policy of stowing men and women liko oysters in their own perspi- ration is frightfully expeusive to the managerial coolia. Asa general thing, people like to think of euch a process only as a remote possibility ; evon then the contomplation of such a condition barmonizes better with the Athanasian Creed, or a camp-meeting address, than with the pley- house. Lven the ghostly counsellor postpones that fate for playgoors till after they have loft their gross bodies bohind thom, eitber at the cremationer’s or the cemetery. With this indul- gence graated rora the pulpit, the rerson who voluntarily pays to bo stewed alive lacks common sense. Alanagers have found thet tlis class of person is rare in Chicago. Hencsforth, if Mr. McVicker or Mr. Hooley desires to give summer performancas, lie must have tha roof taken off his theatro, the auditorium lizhted by eleciricity, and the atmos- phere properly iced before being admitted. This will be” an evideuce of modern progress. As we now are, our tlieatres are rather bekind the age. 1IN THE GO0D OLD when the eariy lowens patronazed theatrieal entertainments, before they begun to destroy cities and drag conquered monzrchs in triumph tfhrough the streets,—in fact before they Dad enything in the form of streots,—their thes- tres were of the airy description we should like to have. Every schooltoy bas a picturs of the theatre in 1ta’crudest und most natural form in the familiar Latin grammar quotation : Tityre tu patuly recubans sub tesmihe fagl, l‘Ixi)tL‘ the orchestra neatly criticiszd in the next o Silvestrem tenui musa meditaris aveaa. e can easily picture » A BUCOLIC VARIETY PERFORMANCE, Corydon and Amaryliis leamug up agaiost the Teeeh tree, caolly smasiiung the sharp trizngalar ghells, and monching the kermels, taiking softly, with ome cya on the shoep and the other on Alopsus or Sileuus’ as those two stars weut through their vatiety performance, Corydon now and then slapping & wmosquito from his comypanion’s nose, but vtuer- wise heartily given over to the Quiok repose which the sizuation demanded. Imecgine tus, ye fnnwusly bored and melting thonsands who paid 10 ceuts for a palm-leaf fen, pid then discovered, what you ought to have koown long ago, that the mere motion of tie sir did not cool it, and the exercigo of fanning only made you hotrer. Burely tie primitive veriety theatre was tho more rational summer weathor. Miss Dyas and Lo were not there to then the audience but day would have been juet ac critical as you are, and would bave rusked into priut, as some of you do, to prove tnat Misa yDyes could not express chorm or amuse, of that ratios, and thet Jim Le was little betier than & buffoon. Thev were better pleased with the equeaking of their rced flutes than thoy would have been wiin that immense orchestra at tire Academy of Music, to support which, as the progiamme 8o carefully ennounces, r. Gardi- per pays 8159 a week moro than any other man- ager in the country. In powtor fact, these open- air bearty bucolic auditors would heve laughed at Mr. Gurdiner, aud told bim he was throwing awzy nearly every cent of that emount. Indesd, that appears to be the only peint on which wo of to-dzy would agree with them. And then, bow muc pleaszoter to seo Amuryllis and Chloe picking the soft meat out of the creamy beech nuts than to watch the la- borivg jaws of Delle aud Georgina struggle for liberty with a chocolate caramel! Indeed tie old style ins not been 1mproved upon in this reepect. ‘The swains would periaps rise to EICK A SHEEP OR TWO, oroven fill & Lorn with waier, but they never rushed en magse from the leafy aunditorium to tire gin-mill under the theatre, toreturn with reck- in fi'urenth and ruddy noses. The ladies,at any rate, will agree that civilization has bronght with it Eome nupleasant features in respect of theutri- esl performances. But then the ladies all wore about the same kind of garments—ono looge, long robe, and though human nature was tho same in thoee days, undoubtedly, as it is now, ihere was no opportunity for rivalryin attire. Comfort end cleanlivers were the two tbings peedful, and there could have been no_opportu- nity to indulge in that smeli-arm fire of sarcasm 2t Miss Smith's waot of taste in matching col- ors, or Ass Jones’ excorablo ideas of woat is fashiousble, Civilization Lias given them this privilege, of course, for the law of compensazion is eternal, Bat this was THE THEATBE IN ITS SIMPLEST FORM. The god Pan was the general manager ; ~pol- Jo was the critic. Unfortuaately, in those davs the critic was less azrceable than bo is now. If Lo thought a parformer cxcelled himself ho would straightway flay the ofender on she spot, instead of going to his_oflice and reserving the punishment until nest dey's issue. Nowadays, {he critic gives the wretched actor time to sleep over it, malic his peace, and get his things in order. As far a8 ciiticism is concerned, wo humbly venture to- sscrt a great improvement has been made. Critics now have £o personal interest at stake, aithough even Apollo could not convince an excoriated actor that it was all for hisown good and tho elevation of popular taste. Of courss sucha condition of affairs could have been improved a little. Andif Mr. alcVicker ghould come forward, and insist that the prodis of such s theatre as wo_have endeavored to do- gcribe would cartainly be insuflicient to keep Limis bread and cheese; or in case Mr. Gardi- nor should object chat the boot-blacks in tho upper branches of the theatre would as- sarediy eteal down to tue parquette and dress- circle, we will revert to . ANOTHER FOTM OF THEATRE, much in vogne among ** those poor old Pagans,” a3 the self-suflicient eant of our day aud genera- tion patronizingly terms the ¢ glorious Greoks of old,” who bmlt the Partbenon, and whoeo modets of besuty remarn to-day auveiled among our *more blessed people.” EVEBY GREEK TOWN had its thoatre, and even in the colonies dra- matic performances were given in first-class bouses of amuscment, built upon tho most ad- miraole plan, and lacking nothiulg of the sutnp- tuouspesa of our modern play-bouses but the meretricious gilding and sign-board fresco-work. The Athenian Calumet or Evanston would have supported a thestre, and been all the better for it. The Greek theatre was mot built exactly like ours, with tiers of galleries rising one over the other. 7 THEY WERE CONSTRUCTED with concentrio rows of seats rising in regalar succession, more like the seats at 8 circus, in gteps. These sceis were frequently cat in the solid rock, and a place where & natural curve and elopo of the ground rendered such excavation easy was generally chosen. The suditorium wag usually semi-circular, and the line of sight good for eovery seat. In the ceutre 2t the lowest point stood the orchestra, and the gtage, ~or more properly the pros— cenum, formed the chord of the semi-curcle, Bohind this was the scena, closing in thut side of tho theatro with n solid wall. 1t was gener- ally ornamented with cblumns_or other archi- tectural dovices. No mochanical effects were required to represent impossiblo-looklng ships, which moved only by jorks in the lesst pautical fashion imaginable.” There was no ‘scenic artist o come round on the firat night of a perform- ance and tell the critic how iong he was elabo- rating that marvel of pigment behind the plsy ers, zud facotiously termed by him *scenery.” ‘The Greeks had 5 AN OLD-FASHIONED IDEA, . that much might be left to the imagination in this respect, and we cannot but wish that, wita repard to zomo of these mmfil& their excellent example had been closely followed. In those dsys audiooces were tho eritics, and they, like their patr on saint, 8o to speak, Apollo, scldom reserved their criticisms for the following morn- ing. But we have not come to them yet ® aro speaking of the theatre, A 3 THE OBEAT BEAUTY OF CONSTRUCTION hers was tha absence of & rcof. In that soft, balmy climatoe where the cicads was perpotually making himself mo- sically sogreeable, and the bees were spenditg their whole timz gathoiing honey on Iymeitus Instead of going to Gleep with & thermomatar 20 deg. bolow zero, no roof wag needed. Footlights were dispensed with, end ali the performances wero given in the day- timo. Bo ihat, after a Jawyer bad got through hia case, or while his opponent was making one of those terriblo long orations, now, thank the Fatos, out of dato, he wonld stroll down to the theatre, pay his_little obolus, end freely criticiso tho performance. If the Bun w3 shining very brightly, his bare head would be protected by acurtain which shut off the solar rays, but et in tho air. - Thero, Mr. McVicker, whit do vou thiiik of tho poor old pagan ? He could not have endured it otherwise. No living Grecek could Liave sat through a performance of onoe of tho comedies of Aristophanes with o solid roof above lum, and & Bweliering atmosphere around him. A man would die if Lo tricd to Inugh in such an atmosphere 28 our thoatres in- close in summer, and the auditor who could it through tho performsuce without laughing ac the light,” racy ‘humor, and applauding the bitingsatite of some of tha luta. It was & groat improvement, this open-air per- formance under a movable roof. Then agsin ihere wos ANOTIHER ADVANTAGE those bard old heathen cujoyed. It was un- necessary to circulate programmes amoug them with tho imbecile announcement, * Children in arms not admitted,” while children who ought to have been in bed are allowed to pass demure- ly in and deafen the audience with yolping and crying fears. They would not admit women to tlicso places, except possibly to Lear trago- dies. The ladies were at homo, spinning and weaving and darning their husband’s clothes, or meking cloice dishes for the poor man to eat when he came home from the play. These wero fine old times, when every theatre allowed smoking and lager, like the Adelpbi, Of courso the audieace were too polite to indulgein such luxuries, but their abstinencs was probadly oxing to the kearcity of beer and tobacco in the city. ~ It would cever havo done to let tho rot- tenuess of Athenian society be exposed in the coarsa jesis of thatday. it is only when tho szme things are said in a clightly different way that wo taks our wives and daugblers to tha theatre. Thers was the sume human pature refloctad, cxcept im the gravd ofd tragedies whera the ideal or supernatuvel silenced or onrapturod the sudienco, and lifted thew above mere matters of costume and scene- ry. Bulitis doubtful whethor ladies wore al- lowed to hear the solemn izmbics rolied out upon the stage, full of deep philosophy, and laden - sith metaphysical speculation. In tho able days of heathen depravity, sedaction and sdultery were not_considered improving topics for the thought and contemplation of Lha future wives and mothers of the Republic. That highly ngenicus but shailow Freach proverb, ** moni soit qui mal y pepso,” had not Leen invented to excuss the dosiro for witnessing degrading ex- hibitions. Tho world wzs younger tuen, ead the poor Greeks wero hoathens, and their neglect of these aide to the prescrvation of sociely must be pardoned. Bat, after all, Mr. ITooley, and even 3Mr. Grover, would rebel against a revival of these Gieek customs, * I could not draw an audieucs of men WITAOUT A LEADING LADY, oven with the mos: racy of modern comedies,” says tho fi Tory good. indeed,” says ths second, *‘but a male baltet would not draw a litcla bit; 2od our ladies’ nights are more profit- ablethau tho stag performances.” So us wo musc not expect 2 revival of the old Greelk thea- tro m toto, let us inxist upon tihe restoration of ouo faaturs of it—coolness. did rot % the Crecks, whom these Joa. copied frem 1 almoct everythiug good. v even stole toe Greck pame for a theatre, and claimed it o8 original, just as they denied that the nama of their was Grees. Wien tuey found the sems ‘¢ ico small for thieir 1mported gindiatorial oxhibitiong, they doubled them. put anotner theatro 0a the other side, and calleditan amphi- theatre,—2 theatra on both sides. IHere men, and women, und cinldren weat indiscrimunatelr, and sat through the exhibitions. A3 Iomo grew older, theso poor old pagans grew more crucl, until as eversboly Lknows, tleir amphizheatrical exhibilions becama the m:ost atrociou: ngs that human iagenuity tu- sided could think about. Christians were tor- tared, not by bad orcliestizs, but by burcing ond wild bessts; murder: tho:t, English, but of Roman an fullowed. Crusty old bacl the ladica bad boen kept oub fheatres would have romcined ws thoso of Groce, but tis sketch is mesnt to be corejudiced. Of courde wo Go nmov exactly w the Romsn ibkeairo revived, Thers is tco much “murder in jest” on our slage already ; what wo do want is comfort. Perhiaps the old Ttomnns suttered as mach puin_from the lialian gun 28 we do from the gas and bal ventilation, Indeed, the Golosseum in its ruins does not siig- gest comfort 1 any way, and the provincl “simphitheatros were probably no betier o, The thentros proper, however, were probably better erranged. THE MOST UNCOMFORTABLE THEATRES everbuilt wera those of the twellth to the fil- toenth ceniury. They were copied from the Greek design, though indircctly throush the Ve- netians, But what was good iu Greece was not nocesgarily 80 1 LIngland. The. east winds, rain-storms, and ebilly airof the climato of Great Dritain affords no counterpart for the balmy airs of Gireeco; the zephyTs of anciont Athens did not in any way resemble the rew, blood-curdlng breezes from the German Ocean; aud a roofless theatre in London was as tryinz to the constitu- fion as a roofed play-house wotld Liave been in Thebes. Not long agoan Engiish magaziue gave 2 capital description of THE INTELIOR OF AY EXGLISH THEATRE in the fifteenth century, if we are not mis- taken. Tho pitwaa what its namo impliea, 3 pit, accousiblo from only one door. The other gud more aristocratic sests wore arranged 83 in tho clussic theatres, The pit was uncovered, and whou the rain descended, o8 it does some- times to-day, the occupants of the pit would sit patiently tntongh it; butchiers, with thewr glooves ‘all rolled up to the arm-pits; fat old merchants, steaming through izzle like tho not then iuvented locomotive ; ruifiaus and loaf- era (for these gentlemen aro not indigenous to our day) cursed and swore, and fought i pub- lic without an effort on the manager's part to provent it. Here and thero A BUTT OF FOANING ALZ s placed, and thege gentieran iu the pit drauk 111 the water doscendicg upon them was utierly disproportioned to tise liquid that tloy dran! No arrangements were made for their conven- jence in any way, aud the most abominablo sights were to be scen. In the upper tiers sat the men end women who cared to purchase shel- ter. They were covered, and could look down complacently upon the recking crowd below. They brought their Iunches with tlem, and enjoyed the performance with the double zeSt. of the theatre and the pic- pic—great rolls of bread, masses of meat, and lumps of cbeese that we would recoil from. The performers wero all men, but women went to seo them, which was not strauge. Ladies to- day often g to the theatro meroly to fenst their eyes on a favorite actor, which accounts for the Vamty of players as a cfass. . It must have been ismal fuo at the best, to sit throngh a rainy af- ternoon at tho play-house, but could 1t have Dboen worse than a Chicago theatre in July ? WIAT WE WANT. Now we really do not want to repeat the ex- poriences of our forefaihers a8 bere. related, Open-air theatres, except in summer, would Do intolerable. Roofed theatres in summer are intolerable. If we caunot have open- air for July as woll as proper warmth for Jan- wary, does it not scem & brilliant idea to close in July! or suilier, sny June, and kecp the houso closed till September? We ehould bear fewer complaints about Chicago people not supporting tiio drama; thero would be fewer disappointed stara. A long dearth of amusoments would Mmake them more accoptablo, and manager and public wonld be more really benetited. It ceems, too, like an eager grubbing for the last dollar in tho city to protract a scason into the dog-ders. The artists, poor people, nced some vacation, and the publio a little respite. Thers is & soason for all things, and & picniv in February would ot be less out of season tuan & dramafic per- formance in July. Perbaps theee remarks come too late—mauagersmay have learnad thoir lesson already. DButif we can impress it a little more Qecply by presenting aa argzument for closing, we shall hava garved the public, and saved ‘the managers worry-and losa. P A, SHORT STUDIES FROM THE DAILTY COMPANY. To the Editorof The Clacago Trbine & Smm: T. stock compaay, geserally spenking, gives us the drama under the best conditions, althongh it does not alwara sfford a true test for escertaining, or exhibiting the intrinsic merits of individusl members. The Daly Com- edy Company, which hag recently closed a fonr- weexs' season at Mr. Hooley’s, in this city, is s good illustration of thesa facts, The perform- ances were all charncterized by 8 high degres of gonersl excellence. Thinga ran regmlarly, smoothly, and quietly. 3any of the members are artists of a high grade. But, when we scp- arate these people from the glamour of their surroundings, and watch one of them duriog an entire evening, to the exclusion of all else on tho cast, we can better arrive at a truo estimato of their histronic value. We may not then be €6 much disposed to become dissatisfied with our own George Holland, or George Giddens, or Bishop, or 0'Neil. 2 This compeny appesred here IN A FICTITIOUS LIGH?. It must not be forgotten that Alr. Daly’s people have played together foryears, and had eppéared in somo of the plays produced here for hundreds of times in snccession in New York City, and under the most favorable circumstances. They have bad for a manager the most successful playwrignt that this country has produced. It has been their custom zlso to appear in his dramas; so thoy bad, in addition to their own information as actors, the entiro not resuli of tho author's searching thought. Tho Dalys havo beon playing here in their specialties. If Booth, or Barrets, or Adams, wers to come suddenly among them, giving & difforent and diflicult in- tellectual play each night for weeks at 3 tune, some of tkese pooplo would sink beyond recog- pition, and the company, &8 3 unit, would be found no bétter than many another hard-worked and star-battzred ssock in this or Eastern cities. “Throw Joseph Jefferson out of bhis epecialty, and where does he rank ? Thore was the overcstimated and explosive IR, HARK who played every part a8 though it was ungrate- o him, aud Who leg always the impression ful to tiat bo should heve been employed to do the i theatrical villains.” We have an expression which is sometimes applied to tenors on tho Iyric stage, which suits him: Ho is an zctor ro- busto. MR, PARKES was 2 good conventional acor of the old, smooth, oily, © Dy Jove” etyle; but he had nothing new orstarthing about him. FISHEN AXD DAVIDGE were charactor sciors of tuoniglcst grade. Ore could obgerve them withh pteasure und mstruc- tion the year round. 3Much coald be¢aid in their praise. m, LEWIS is a bundle of nervouy :diosyncrasies. Ha looks, s03a, and docs many things likeour Joha Dillon but between them slwaya there is s vital diffur- ence. Lewisis en arlist who draws from the live model, while Dillon_is scldem abla to get away from burlesque. Lewis keeps the marks 2nd lines of distinction which exist between dif- ferent characters forever intact. He comes on tie stage & now man every tima. Dillon is al- ways Dillon. 3m8. GILRERT ngour best ola ladies. Sia is pai- tu'one gozs far in this noicy BARA JEWETT AN VARIAY Lefully pretty girls who weur fine dress- . Thay ara well-bred, refined, and good se- troases, whoeo beauty and st HocietyAnanners will carry them ercditably evervwhere while youti azd beauty remain_to them. Lat they peed personality and positivenoes, and Lave no spceial eall r sccular or diviue, tu their preseat profession. 1SS DYAS grow upon her sudience strongly. If her prog- css was 810w, 1t was very sure, Sho is well- ed, refined, seusitive, intellectual, and womaaly, In common with Katherine Rogers, Miss Neilson, and Mrs. Scoit-Siddous, she bears the markings of the Euglizh school. Tley train peoplo over thero. NoLivg is loft to_ chunce or Inspiretion. Bhe feels at homo on the mtage, and 1 sell-possessed 2nd well-nformed rezard- ine her strong and wealk points. She knows be- forehiand just what ehe is able to perform. Bhs acied fuoly as Anne Nyleestre, much better as Jre. ¥an Brugh, sod almost grandly in Ray- Si0ade. but thicugh ail ber efforts czn be mno- ticed the absence of the one vitel element of grandeur and sablimity in the ‘histrionic art. Physicists tell us that, no matter how cold or warni the atmosplere w2y be, there is always somewhere o dogree of temperatura as which it Wil deposic dew. Now, Mss Dyas, in ail the gradations of Lier acting, has no dew-point. She Iacks mtensity. She lacks the power of tears. It is woman's weakuess which constitutes wom- an's sirength. It is evideut sha recoguizes this aviom. for, in sitnations of intense pathos, she hides the face. Clara Morris or Katherine Rogers would leeve it exposed. M Dyzs will be 2 cred:t to any cowmpany with which she mey be- come associnted. 5 . DII0U HERON is on the path to greatness. Bhe Laa the troe Enack of it. But wil they overvors aid * pusa ” the little girl in childhood’s elender and framle years? We could not Lelp thinkiag of ber wother, who stands ever in the vista benind thus Iitle girl with the Grecian facs, and midnight eyes, and velvety voico; the mother, of coi- mopiitan fame, vho arose in her beancy ead strength, 2ad plaved Camille for a thonsaud nights ; tho motler whose -light fell suddenly from a noonday sk ; the mother who wears tho haunted look of obeauty that has been unforiu- nate, and for whom the rising mists of Eternity aro already shutting oat the memories of tius world. To-day the child Bijou is ouly a recol- lection aud a hope. 31155 DAVENFORT is a firat-class mechanicel actress. She never feels anythine that she says or does, and never ‘misses an opportanity to look at the audience. She ia loud, tricky, and somatimes vulgar. * Ar- tifico ” is ber motto. The applause siie receives gonerally begins rmong the gods. Sho belongs 1o the comedy school of the last century, aud to guch plays as Sheridan, and Colman, and Hol- craft ;wrote. Still, with it ell we must accord Ler inteuse individualty, great mechanicel force, end » terzitic will-power. Her style isal- most nique in this country. Sho is hard to count on, diflicalt o forecast, and impossible to catch or corner. Sometimes sbe looked like champazne of the *Widow Chequot” brand; bu, a9 we raised the glzss to test its quality, tie gparkling bubbles winked at us sud venishe. Somotines. 2gain, sho appeared to be 8 magnil cont tom-cat stroiehed full length upon a rug; but, whet we reacked forth our hand to stroke the animal, instantly it was bristling and_spit- ting from tho fence-top. There was oftcn a rustle, and crackle, and eheen, about her gar- monts, that reminded us of an electrical bat- tory in full play; aod then, again, we could lilen her progress across the stage to notbing so much as the rush and fizz of & firoworks-sorpont through tho crowd on & Fourth-of-July night. She belongs tothe Bow- ory, not Fifth evenue, and is the favorite of the +boye.” But. as the public zoes, and the crowd thinks, Mies Davenport is_the most noticeablo and sttractive member of this company. One word regarding her dresses, for they were bonght at Lord & Taylor's. It is proper that an actor should have appropriate and costly drap- ings. Indeed, it is best 8o, for it helps along the gencral good wonderfully'; but, when a person ith Miss Devenport’s standing and pretentions descends to putting it into the public prinis that ghe is ** the most magnificont dresser on the Americen stage,” and when cn artist () stoops to fixing her clothes before the very footlights, then tbe American public should put the trae stamp upon Lier cfforts,—a stamp having this fa- milier legend of the shop cut upon it: Miss Faony Davenport, Artistic Millinor and Dress- maker, Joux MCLANDEURGH. g THE DRABA. Anything more dismal than the past week in amusements it would be diflicult to call to mind. The weather was iniolerably hot ; three theatres wore open'; business was ridiculously bad. In place of saving money by closing, mhnagers came to grief by remaining open. They deserved to sufler. _ M'VICECR'S YHEEATRE. The Lingards played during the week to des- perately small houses. Therewas nothing toen- courage them but a determination to sce things throngh. Mr. Lingard's benefit Friday night was a trifle botterattonded than the preceding nights, the weather having moderated a little. It 18 not probablethat the party ever played twosuchcon- secutively unremuuerative weeks. They will re- turn to the city next season, playing for one week at the Academy of Music, commencing Sept. 14. The theatre wiil now be closed, and the ariists have s chance o rocuperats after 2 long and tedious season. 'The newcompauy will open the house again at the end of August. THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. \fr. W. Hoskins engaged with thamanage- ment of the Academy of Musia to play for one week in a round of old comedies. He found a company prepared to support him. Such a com- biuation, we sincerely hope, for the credit of the Academny of Masic, will Dever agan bo seen ihere. Alr. Hosking came to us very strongly recommended, but gave us no opportunity of Judgiog bisymerits. When & man claims to bo able to play one part, it is asking too much of him to do 80 perfectly, and, at the samo time, play all the others in tha picce. Alr. Hosking was unprepared to play Prospectus, irs. Hawk, and the remainder of ths characters, and fail tomsake & hit for that reason. bo resalved to play no more, and nobody will blame him for the resolve, Thursday Mr. Gardner's ccmpany roturned with the Voki i Wednesasy night | splendars }1 ty, aud Georgo Davenport played in somo ish pieces to the end of the weck. This week the Vokes family will give s round of their specialties previous to their depariure for Californi, playing *Fun ina Fog,” * The Wrong Man,"” and “ Belles of the Eitchen,” with farces, and their full measure of nonsenso zad fun. Friday night bas beon set npart fors com- plimentscy bencilt tenderad Frod Vokes by the ending business men of tho city. The corre- spondence sets forth their bigh appreciation of logitimato burlesque, and their anxiety to give the legitimate burlesquer & substantial tokon of thair high regard. Mr. Vokes’ personal quali- ties a3 well as professional merits catitle him, 1f any artist of the present $eason, to & crowded Louse Pridey nignt. HOOLEY'S TIEATRE. Tony Pastor’s party has been doing a fair business at Hooloy's Theatro during the week. Ho will remain gext weok, whon sa_entirs change of bill will be made, with sgeveral novel- ties and improvements. THE HIPPODROME has been doing unusually well on the lake shore. The attendance hus been unitormly excellent and the exhibition of a character to give tho utmost satisfaction. The principle was novel, and therefore botter appreciated. At the end of the soason Mr. Buckley will return with a Lost of edditional novelties “which will be substituted for the weaker acts. 'DRAMATIO NOTES. Barry Sallivan will make a professional tour of the States next scason. . The new Globe Theatrs, Boston, i3 to be fin- ished in November aad openad at Christmas. - Mr. Duck is the appropriately-named manager of a Rath, England, toeatre, Ho is said to got along swimmingly. . Eitty Blanchard is keeping & boarding-houss in Boston. Soeis Mrs. MlcKeo Rauki: ich partialiy eccounts for it. Why doss not Birnum engage La Croizette for Ius luppodrome? Her poison 5cono is better suited to the ring than the stage. Misss Violotta Colville, daughter of “TU: Sam ™ Colville, as he is generally called, in New York last week. Wallscl's Theatre is to be remodernized. Its interior is to be renovated, and an ** English actress of distinction™ is to be the leading lady. If Kate Field fails to bo warmly rec: thio drawatic staze, she cannot lay it to ths lack of kindly advertising sho has had from the press. Lydia Thompson now threatens London with & 8ca3on at the Strand. s there no piace on earth whers her faded charms ave Dot ex- hibited » . Mertin Tupper wil! lectaro i s country next season, bemiug his proverbial piilosophy with bim. Bug for tais Mz, Tupper might be well re- ceived. The Graphic says: “Olive Logzn has been studying tae drama inthe Parising sili shups, sud will appear in 3 aow greou-wasered rols ten yards long.” That admirahle dramatic critic, the Duke of Edinburg, superintended an smatewr perform- ance of ** The Hunchback” for the beuett of the Ckicheater training-ship. Edwin Adams is to play at Eooth's Theatro next season. It is said that hie mill stur 10 the role of Sidrey Cartonin & dramatized versioa of *A Tale of Two Cities.” Two thoueand dollars’ worth of *Royal Mari- " paraphernatia were sold at auctiow fa Luveaster, Pa., a day or to ago, for 3101, to satisfy a botel-keeper’s demauds. The ** summer theatrical season i Las beco tho duliest every known. s and the Olympic, thongh they heye weathored many vrevious summers, have put up thewr £huters. Thera is some doubt expraseed as to whether 2iiss Ada Dras will be 2 member of Daly’s com- pauy nest full. There is, then, & glorious op- portuuity for one of three other managers in the countrr, Ar. Caarles Nerille, of Loadon, is a disgusted man, Mr. Heary Nevills, of the Oiympic Thea- tre, 13 always being confounded with bim, Ia therc:ore soberly announces that he will here- aftor recognize o hama but Svzden. +La Vampire do Hulloxe" is tho last adiltion to French drematic hierature. Having exi ed the criminal records for subjects, a brilli combination of canuibal and resurrectionist is hailed with delight by French managers. Tliere will be five varicty theatres 1n operaticn Vo in New York next winter: The Olymme, Coinigae, fetropotitan, Tony DPastor's, and tha Grand Orerz-louso. This doos not includo Baowh's, which will Lo in tue sawe busioess half ths ter, Huoler, & of the munajng buside goes tho roumds. When it cowss nzti Commercicd ths author The bemighted inbabitsuts of South Awerica Bizci Crook,” —noune of vour wealk imitations or base counter- faits, but the genzine article, Messrs. Bidwell and MeDonouga, to whose enterpriez the South Americans will be indebted for the * Black Crooks,” start with the company eatly in the fall. Manager BobMiles, of Cincinnati, will run tho new Grand Opera-House, formorly Mozart Hall, and Robinsou's Opera-ifouse also. Aiths new theatre he will play the following stars this season : rs. Lander, Joan McCallough, jausus- chek, Mrs. Bowers, 3lrs. Oates, Misa Neilson, Joc Jefferson, Ada Gray. Magsie Mitchell, T. C. King, Toole. Samuel Colvills's _combination, Sothern, aud the Vokes Family. The capacity of the bhousa will be 2,400, Mr. Miles will discover his mistake in tune. Theatra-goers in Paris ara enraged by a fraud which hLus been gmcl el on them &t the Gymnase in a new play éalied * Uns Femme qui Ment.” A husband discovers that his wife fs deceiving him; & _sbawl which sho told him sho got for $60 reaily cost £250; a flower-stand which she says she got for $10 cost $50, and so on. A woman who lies” in this way must Liave some bad motive, and the audicnco begins to suspect a lover and all sorts of clandestino wickedness, when their hopes are dashed to the grouud by the discovery that the wifois a good and virtuous woman, and that haviog come into o small forinne by the death cof a relativo she was only propariug & pleassat eurprise for her husband. The Garfenlaube publishes an amusing article on the theatrical clague in_Berliu, in which the following is related avout illle. Vestvali, tho fo- male Hamlel: * She wanted to have bouquets and wreaths thrown to her. I demanded 20 for it, which_she said was too much for one nizht. But Iexplained the whole thing to her. ¢3adam, I eaid, ‘the $20 are sufficicnt for two nights. To-day 1 and my men will tarow the bouquets to you from the ficst tier. Afier tha erformance is over I shail take the flowers ome in o basket, put them in water, and leave tuom thero all pigit and the foliowing day. To- morrow night no one in the audionce will find out that tio bouquets have been used before.' Thereupon she paid me the sum I had de- manded.” San Fraocisco has znother Chiness theatre, -and it bas just opened to the pubitc. At tho firsg performance 1.300 rersons were present, and manifested much interest in the play, whica Jasted from 7:50 Satarday morning until nearly 3 o'clock the next morning. A local paper says that the costumss of the actors wera mag- nidcent, and were all made for the opening nigit, ‘The performance passed off in the mosi conviviel muuner. Lach actor was greeted on Ius appearancs by many marks of approbation from his immediate cirole of friends. Tea- drinking was indulged in to & large extent, and cigars and cigarettes were emoked to the ex- lnflnrating strains of questionable harmony. The play in plot and sction was like all Chinese plays. There wore combats and intrigues, mur- dors and euicides, elopements and pursuits. Thers was a bucolic vein rippling tbrough the spirit of the drams, and the introduction of two Gows, reprosented by two Chinamen with beasts’ heads, was the occasion of no small amoust of enthusissm. The theatre ia largs, and is said to Dave cost $50,000. ——t MUSIC. “ Music, heavenly maid,” is off on vacation.” She may be listening to Apollo twangiug bhis golden lIyre, or she may be st the walerivg- places, or she may have gone on a trip to Bos- ton for a week orso. But wherever she may have gone, certainly she has departed, and all ber musical instraments are hushed excapt those under the control of Mr. Balstks, who is left alone in charge of the musical interests of this great city, with headquarters at Lincoln Park and Turner Hall . Sweet respite that wo now enjor- There are 1o more church concerts, when amateur tsleut aomands tho plaudits lavished on prima donnas, angd where husbands and fathers send in elabo- rate notices bristting with the srord “snpérbfl;_ For a week or two we shall not bo pestered any mention of clagsical ‘music, or the superan- nnated Beethoven, » man of £0me mota in his day, bnt who s mow obscared by the rising " Offenback _sad . Olivar “Dit~ son. Wae have bowed the neck to Baal foo loug: lot us, for a time at least, renounce these 0ld-World corposers, who wrote under tho debasing influence of regal or impenal savers, snd do homago to_the orighter lights of freo America—Foster, for instanco. During the present month, at all events, we shall not be called upon to yawu throagh tho Ninth Sym- phony,—thus called sincd ti:ere i8 dothing sym- Phonious injt. _Tho oaly music which i3 to be n vorme for & timo will be that performed upon the pisno by conntless young Iadies to countless young men, cod that ground out of the band- organ by veterans of the late War, of women with & half-dozen children. - Both classes of performances are of s highly moral character, and are not, like operas, conducive of drinking. Betwoen every act of thoso-catled music of Wag- ner,—not the late Coronerof Cook County, bus a much inferfor person who has not the remotest idea bow to draw up a verdictin a simple case of * Came to His death from causes nniinovm,"— the hearer is irresistably compelled to rush out, and try to drown his agony mn * oblivion's bowl,” & mixture commonly kuown as whisky and water. ‘Whoreas, the young man aftor listoning to the simple music of the girl, goes home vowing to bo good, and take a Sunday-school class. It is expected that the statistics of intoxication for Judy will show s gratifying decroase. THE_GILMOGE CONCERTS. The subscriptions thns far to the Gilmore Eromemdo concerts at the Exposition have not een g0 large a8 the ndvantages ofered led the management_to expect. 3Ir. Mumford kas now detenninced in the present depressed state of smuscment matlers to pat the question to a popular vote of the music-loving people of Chicago, whether the concerts shall or shall not Lo given, To-morrow morning will bo placed on gals at tho varionsticket-offices appended below pingle tickets for any one of tae six pro- posed concerts &t 75 ccats each; sad bundtes of ix and twelvs tickets at &3and 85 respectively. These will be on sate for four days, aud the resalt will dater- mine whether Gilmore's Band shall come Lera or not.” Ifnot, the tickets will bo redeemed at the i dopots whers purchased. 'The band is that of tie New York_Tiwenty-second Hlegiment, with Arbucklo and Lefebre as special attractions. As not one place of amutement will bo open 24 thix sime, the promenade concerts will be the sole sttraction in the city. There appears to bs a strong interest felt in the matter by the public at large, bus it bag not yet de- veloped 'into the purchase of ° tickets. l:e¥ mey be obtained at tha following places: W. B. Keon & Cooke, 115 and 117 Btate street; Lyon & liealy, coruerof State and Mouroe streels; Julias Bauer & Co., and _Cobb,s Library, under the Palmer Houso:; Root & Lewis, No. 136 State straat ; Bluine & McLane, under the Trewont House ; Erby & Baraes, No. 101 Medison stroct ; Parker & Tliton, No. 83 Clark stroat ; Charley Kern, 110 LeSalle streot, and_at the West BSido Library, No. 239 West ' Madison sirect. These are the polling places, s 1t were, and it depands upon the nuzm- ber of votes polled Twithin the noxt four days siliether we ere to have tho concerts or not. MUSICAL NOTES. The latest thing in musicis **Io Kissed Her and She Kussed Him.” Thweet. A chandelier in the new Opera-House, Paris, cost $15,000. X The saddest of music ia callad by Gottschalk bis ** Last Smile,” end by Wagner his * Loce Grin. St. Lonis masicel circlos era convulsed over the question, **Shoald or should not * Down. ina Coal dine’ be sung in a minor key #” As much 88 6 and 7 guiness were de- manded by the London ticket speculators for & plzce to hear * Ii Talismano " on the Aret pight. Wagner hes two mew operas fally skotched out—sne enzitled * Percival,” therefore another Grail subject, end * Tha Victory,” = Buddhistic theme. : Lecocy's “ Girofle-Girofla” bids fair to be as eat a success 1o London as is **La Fille de Nadame Angot.” Itis full of delicious gems of comic music. The latest furorin Pesth has been the pre- duction of tho Husgarien opers, “ Brankovicz Gyargy.” Judging from its nawme, it mustba remarkably melodious. Scribaer's for July eays that St. Louis is the only large ity in tiie country that cannot boast of & tirst-cluss theatre, aud which is compelled to have itg opora ecason ina second-rate variety hall. Ed A tronpe of eight ladies has appeared at St ames' Hall, Q Thoy are tormed the ndinavian Vocalists,” and diess uniformly in black velvet, with white and crimson adorn- me: Alle. Maresi has been re-engaged by Max sch for tho onsuing seasou of Italian Grera, wizh the especial view of her singing tho Tole f Mclhilde in tha revival of Hosami'a *Wiilism Tell.” Dr. Leopold Damrosch has accepted the con- orahip of the Brooklyn Ifaudel-and-Haydn Socicty, succocding tho baritone and maestro, 3Mr. Aibetto Laureuce, tormerly of the Parepe- Rosa Epglish Opers Compauy. Gounod complaias that “Taust,” which i often played, 1= not paid for; while Miraille, “Towmeo aud Julict,” aud other productions over which M. Gouuod has secured his rights, are not played at all. Church-choir salsries in Cincinnati ran from €300 to £500 per year for orzanists ; for soprano singers, from to £500; for tonors, from £250 10 $300; for contralto and bass singers, from §200 to $300. The acme has been ronched in the patbos of titles by & music pablisher, who_bas produced 2 touching pieco of mew-gick under the pathetic name of ** Mozher, Bring My Littla Kitten.” We propose getung oitt a3a companion piece, * Dad- dy Have you Drowned the Puppies #” Liszt will spend the summor in Rome at the Villa d'Este, which belongs to Cardinel Hohen- Johe. Itis ssid that he intehds composing an oratorio, on Polish subject, St. Stanislaus, and edicating it to the Duchess Wittgestein, s lady of Potish extraction. Alr. Jeromo Hopkins' *Sepoy Battle March,” for graud orchestra, has cieated a sensation ab the London Crystal Palace concer Itisa dramatic composition, descriptive of a digat, aod it was magnificently rendered by Heiwr Aug. JManns’ celebrated orchestra. Pacini’s opera of “Saffo,” popular in this country ten of twelvo years ayo with Gazzaniga in the principal part, bas besu rovived at Leg- Lorn, with Carolina Ferni as the prims douns. On the occasion of her benefit, Bignora Ferni, Deeides sinzing in the opers, appeared as a vio- Tinist, zod performed Haydn's * Souvenir™ with quartet accompamment. Sopbie Cruvelli, tho once celobrated opera singer, has received from'the Pope the Golden Rose of 1574, 'This rose isuaually given ouly to Princes3, but as Cravelli gave up ber lyrie ca- Toor to become s wife and mother, 2nd, later, a devoteo, only singing for charitabie purposes, Cardinal Antonelli proposed hor name for the Lugh honor which wwag ooce couferred upon that pure moralist, lsabells of Spain. Her Von Bulow, the celebrated German pian- ist, has rained himself in Italy. Ile has hither- to been quite 8 favorite with the Lalians, and at the time Verdi’s Mass was given in Milan in memory of Manzoni, V. Bulow was present in the citr. Some enthusizstic admirers of Verdi asked him his opinion of this new work of the Ttalian master. V. Bulow appeared to bo very indignant, 3nd answered they could not suppose e would listen to Verd’s bungling work. Hero is a hint for smatenrs on the flute. A beggar prescnted bimsolt regularly at & certain coffee-house with a clsrionet under his arm. #Yill you allow ine. gentlemen, to play a tane? I am only an amataur, and if you prefer giving me a faw coppers I will spare you the annoyance flistening.” Every one felf at once for s few stray coppers. At lest, one eveuing, ayoun, man who bud never failed :o coutnl\:lula aske him in a friendly manner to give hima tune, good or bad. “I sm alraid, sir,I shall disap- point you." ¢ XNever mind ; give us a tune.” *'I & vory poor player, and Lave a vory poor in; strament.” **No matter; I want to hear you.” Well, sir, since you insist,” said the poor map, I am'sorty tosiy that 1 don't play atall. I merely carry my ixxxu'umen.q..” ———— A Scene in the Swiss Assembly.. A erne correspondent of the Noucelliste writes 4o that paper: * With your permission I will finish shis letter with o slight sketch, which will contribute, in spite of occagional incidents, to prasorvo our repusation for pariismentary order, zand will illustrate in onr case that expreasion’ol Voitaire wherein he spedks of the sunplicity of Lacmdemon and the voliteness of Atheus. It is G o'cloc: in the cvening ; tho large Hll of tho Conseil National (remember it is Dot weather), .iry and_fresh, is & capital placo to work in. Sotae thirty Depatios are busy writing, acattered upaod down on the nght and left 5 “tho Bureaa is equally busy ; most of theso gentlemen are perfectly at tieir ! ¥ takon off theic coats sud aro smoking the tiadi- tional cigar, now znd _then chatting “familiarly. On ora of the MOTe CONSPicNOus seats odedt our ‘Dogritica haa divested bimaslf of both cost aad Waiatcoat, end b psir of briliiaot red braces stasd out in bold selief {rom the snow-white 4incn. Au English family enter tha gallery, stealing io‘ou tiptoo ; these touriats repard with tbe habifual respect that belongs to their country the auzus$ Assembly; patar-familias takes notes, and then all quit tha Salle. Probably, adds the imagins- tive correspondent, the following tecord will appear in his note-book : * Visited the sittiog of the Swiss National Assembly ; calm, perfect s great difference from Versailles; discussion :gu:ouzhly parliamentary ; President in national stuae.” ™ —_— | WCULD NOT BE A ROSE. T do not wish, a3 some have wishs, That I might be a roee, % To nestls roftly on your breast, O ia your halr repase; I.do not wish o be a glove, ‘Sad thus your hand i press ; Nor yet favorite shoo or boat, Your pretty foot to dress, T do not wish o be a gem, Though richest of the rare, To add = lustre to your charms, And mako you séem more fale 3 1 would not be nor this nor that, Taanimate zad dead s Yon capnot LOVE stch things as these, But fiks them all instesd. ? But I would be an honest man, With heart of genuine worth,— Wit knowledge, gained by honest toll, Of all tize things of earths My mind well stored with heavenly truths, 3y chief delight to give A helping hand o all mankind, And teach them how to live. ‘es6e ; that is o 8uv, thev have' Then, though T might not press your hanc oz i upon your breast, As do those dead and senaeleds things Tazt know not whera thcy rest, T wia sour deepest, purest Jove, © And, winning this, be bleat ; For he who wizs trie woman’s love ‘Wina with 1t all the rest, J. F., Cranx, LTERARY NOTES. PERIODICALS RECEIVED. American Bui'der for Juty (New York). Current numbers of Littell's Living Age (Litteld & Gay, Boston) ; Ecery Saturday (. O. Hough- ton & Co., Boston); and Appleions’ Journal (D. Appleton & Co., Ne'w York.) 5 MISCELLANEOUS TTEMS. It is stated thst Kabahi Pashs, tho Turkish Ambassador 2t Vionna, is writing a history of Rome in Turkish. —Gen. B. C. McCzllum, dnuring the War the Buperintendent of ihiary Raiiroads, has pri- vately printed a_volumo of verse, **The Water M.\u)n[ndJO;hLmi‘Poms." —r. J. umby has written s * History of the Creeds,” which1s a succinct account o(rrlhe ancient Christizn creeds, and the controversies respecting them. —The London Figaro, learning thet “Tap- per's Proverbial Philogophy ™ hes been dramaz- tized for the stage, suggests that * Johnson's Dmi:mmry" sbould nexv undergo similar treat- ment. —The literature of the Gypsies is receiving greatattestion of Izte, Three or four Eugiist and two German books upon the subject were published in 1873. —The Rev. Alfred Tarler has writlen a book giving some * Peeps at Qur Sunday-Scaools.” —Jules Verne's latest book has been sccured by William F. Gill & Co., Boston. 1t is iu iv: arts, comprising stories of adventures by ar, aud, and water, and is entitled * From the Clouds to the Muuntains.” —The indefatigabie Dr. Colenso has at last finished his battery against the Speaker'a Com- mentery by the iseuo of the Sixth Part of hia Critical Examination of that work, making & volumo a8 large in dimensions a3 those of she work it attacks. —Liszt is engaged on ‘A Theoratical and Practical School of Music” in thres volumes. —3Irs. Roes Church (Florenco Marryat), the novelist, is coming to this country to lecturs, and a writer quahities his statement that she1as very charming woman by adding, “ButI dou’s think she has lectured before.” ), —An Italian gondolier'is among the most noted of the later commentators on Dance. ~—r. Abbott’s * Concordauce to Pope,” now ready for the press, brings oat the curious fact thst he never used the words **alao” aud “to- ward.” His translations and imitations are nos included. —\r. Ruskim, being his own publisher, finds that bis books don't pay. Thercfote, with his nsual supigmo disregard of _political ' economy, he has dodbled the price. Of courso now thoy will be a total loss. Of his reissne of the oa; volume of * Modern Painters,” Scribner, Wel- ford & Armstrorg, New York, took more tham the whole London trade. Ecery Saturday has nremark to_make con- corning * uumerical literature.” Tt Suggests thar, as “ From Foar to Fourteen "hias just been jesued, and that,as thera is anovel entitled “From Fourteen to Fourscore,” aud that, ax Victor Hugo has written * Ninety-Three,” thert ;!l lyu: a gap of thirteen years for somebody te —Tne poct Tennyeon, who has been sufferiny from e suvers rheumstic atisck this summer, has just sent a choering letter to Walt Whitman, —tlio first letter written by him for severs. weeks, ms his right arm was affocted. Tha laureate mentions in it the case of a friend of his prostraied with cerebral aniemia, Whitman't malady, but who recoverod as last and is cow in sound health. _liss Augusta Larned _promises _some Talks with Girls " for th fall, through Nelsos & Phillips. —The poet Shelley's ** Refatation of Deism,* of which only two copics are known, i3 now exe citing comment 18 Engluod. Its doctrine is that the being of a God, ceing oaly probable from revelation, canot, fherefore, bo proved a all atheism being the trus alternative to Christian itg. —The Lady Dalling and Bulwer, widow of Sh Henry Bulwer, who was crested Lord Dalling shortly before his. deatl, has placed all his pri- vate documents and papers, left in Ler posses sion, in the hands of the members of his family, and doubiless they will soon appear in hig biography, which 1s preparing for the press. —Dr. James Russell Lowell's resigoation of his Professorship of Belles Letires at Harvard two yesrs 2go, bas never, we are glad to hear, been accepted by the authorities of the College. Dr. Lowell will therefore resume his old post ot the beginuing of the October term, though under somewhat altered conditions, which will relieve Lim from the strain of continuous class-tezching, and leave him free for higher work.—Academy. —Luvers of Enstern literaturo will e glad to learn that M. Altred vou Kremer, the author of ©Die Herrschenden ldeen des Islam,” will | shortly publirh » book on *The History of Cvilization During the Times of the Khalifs,™ in two volumes.' The first will contain s picture of the political and statistical condition of tue Khalifate during the Ommeyades and the firac ‘Abbassides, whilst tho second willl give us a skotch of tho social and domestic life of tho Arubs of that period. Herr von Kremer has Trved for a long time in Asia, where he collecicd most valuable manuscripts to serve his investi- gations. Hig work will probably be translated into English. —alr. George Henry Felt's work on “Th Kaballah of the Egyptian aud the Groek Cax of Proportion” is Low to be publisied by J. W. Douton, No. 706 Eroadway, in imperial quaric size, with 1,000 illustrations, 1n ten 3230 partd of sixty-four pages each. If Mr. Felt's claims be verifled—and they Lave alraady been strongly and widely indorsed—he will bave mado ti most important discovery in the hstory of modern art, one may almost say of archwology. —New York Mail. e —Whittier writes to the Albany Evening Jour« nal of the Jines in his Suzaner poem : No tzumpet sounded in his ear— He baw ot Sinai’s cloud aad flame: T am not unused to the mischievous tricks of the type-metal, which 8o strongely iliustrate the innate depravity of things. I wrote ‘not’in the verso referred to. I saw the blunder, but did pot deem it of sufficient,consequeuce for correc- tion. I think the Journal made out a vers fir case for the types in their new roading; but, on the whole, I prefer my own vorsion.” '~The first part of the caurions library” of the late M. Lucien de Rosny, fatber of the “emiusnt Japanese scholar, has been sold in Paris. 1 was Tich 1n fine, and, above ell,eccentrie bindings, such as in skins of cat, garuet-colored and bufl, croco- ailo, mole, soal, fur cf the Canadian black wolf, Toyul ties, otter, white bear, sole, and Tzttl suae. The legendary human gkin binding is ulove wauting in the list. We have nover heard of any Jiterary man who left his curicle for sdch sn object, though John Zizks, we believe, do- sired to 2ave hus skin usedas the head of a dram to boat against his enemies. . _—The Christian Regisler says: ** Truthmay nos be ‘stranzer than fiction,’ but it is sometlsaos jast about as strange. Last week, 1u our potico of Aldrich's * Prudence Palfrey,’ we s2id that ‘in thie whole ecclesisstical nistory of America thara has probably neverbeen an incident anproaching this of the Montana_desperado furued fiiniater of & highly-respectable and conservative Cougre- gatonal charch.’ - And this is what nausince ap- cred in the daily journals: ¢The Rev. Marion i"%ulns, who has been' Alling a Methodist“pulpit at Bridgelon, . hav been takan to Kentucky to ba triad for killiog and robbing a peddier. The reverend pentlemsu i3 spoken of asa ¢ wall- #* - \We ‘are uot £o much sur- risoll os we shoald bave been if a distinguished “wnier bad not assured ns that’ ths most ‘un- natrral and improbable incident” in one of noer stories waa the only one that was Literally trug I” ek