Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 12, 1875, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS. Wby Good Society Does Not Attend tke Theaires How “The New MMagdalen” Was " Beceived-—Objections to the Play. - dliss Howard's Style of Acting..-fic~ Manus® Benefit—** Ferreol.” Mausical Events of the Week---Dr. Eddy’s Concert, Why Mdlle. Titiens Had to Give Tp Her Western Trips. Domestic and Foreing Notes. THE DRAMA. {N CHICAGO. EOCIETT AT THE PLAT. Society does not go tothe play. If it didit would lose its character as a solemn and digoi- fied abstraction. It has to be content withs ‘meagre representation of itself in every place of public resort. Contact with the valgar wouald soil Society ; 80 Bociety courta retirement, and, 1ke the Roman lawgiver, holds eweet and profit- able convereation with the Supernstural in sacred groves. The Supernatural aod the groves vanish when they are approsched too closely. We are only convinced of their exist- enoe by & train of subtle reasoning, which may be summed up tuns: If Sociery has no esoteric philosophy, Society does not deserve to be wor- shiped as it is. Society is the natural ob- ject of adoratio therefors, Nociety must bave some principles of philosophy which are hidden from common observation. The profes- sors of logic may admit the argament or not, a8 they please. ‘Whichever way they may seaitle it, the question with which we are concerned at preseut will bo undisturbed. Who are the rep- rosentatives of Society at the rlay? It would be profitable to regard them from the position of advantage occapied by the ector. Among them would be found much stupidity, self-conceit, and disdain, sud on _extra occsstons & fair nter- mixture of modest iutelligence. Bociety is not infrequently represenied by a yOUng men in fsuitiess dress and & YOoung womau with a bump at her He has graduated st a business college; she has + finished " her education without ever having ‘bogun it. - They are petty sutocrats in their way —vicegeronts to the royhl * They Say.” The maotives which bave attracted them to the thea- trovary with tho occasion. Curiosity is gen- erslly the predominant one. ldienesa ofien brings them. Love of dieplay invites them at other times. Now, the character of the sudi- encu is & serions matier to tho manager, and the question, ** What pieces witl strie the average Jevel 2 requires the most auxious cousideration. The audiences of the present day are not hard to plesse. Thoy do not hoot bvlays off the stage, or eompel offendmng actors to beg pardon on their knees, a8 used to be the common practice. The great art of the m: mger now lies in gettng people to sttend his theatre ; be is generally satisted of his ability to pleass thew, afcer he has their dollars safely io his cash-box. 1tis not difficult to see why theatro-goers of the present day, especialiy it the United States. are much -less intelligent and giscriminating thas those of pust generations. The modern Lias less advantages than his an- tostors. 1lis time is more cogrcssed. His famil- ianity with the detaus of the stage is more sbridzed. Tie theatre has becn separated trom the people, in a certein sense, and made au insutution by itself. America bae no native drama. and the people know litile abont the plas which are presented to them. Sherwan, Colley Cibber, Sardon, Ozxenford, Baiwer, Ben Jonson, Dr. Johnsoo, Robertson, are but a cunfused jumble of names in msny minds. The plutocracy which the late War has estaolished more iirmly than ever in America is vulgar ana ignorant; snd this cless emoraces the moet liberal patrons of the thaairs at the preseut Liwe. Ignorant people of fortuue bavoe time and money t rpere, evea in seasons of buness depression. The managers appeal %0 them with contidence. Experienceliss shown that tbe so-calied ecciec: v afford them the most graifcativn. Tuus it haypens that we have the amusing spectecle of o sueipty created for itself, and which fiuda its chief pl i looking st what it wonceives to La iia own imags. which was piayed at McVicker's Theatrs last week, and is to be representid agmn the latter part of this, gave the rapiesentatives ot sociely somethiyg to thivk about. lwsgine the jury of two which bas been sketched avove finding & verd:ict on the play. The first question which would bs apt to puzzls them wowa be the exaci dogree of the New 3lizdalen’s guils. The youog woman would scarcely dare to aak *“Do you thini she was guilsy?” Sucha question would too likely provoks the memorable retort: + Guilty of what?” But by inoncodo on the part of the young man 2nd_insinusticn o tho part of the young woman they might arrive at some agreoment cn the subject. Thoy might explin the surprisivg ivcongruity i the play, winch metes msforiune the cause of the New ‘fagdalen’s ruin, yet places conspicuous empba- 5i8 on her repeutance a8 & 1caxon why she should be restored t0 5ood society. ‘They might acquit the suthior of intentionally drawing virtue in s dieagreeable hght, while Le gives vice the ,aspect of an angel. fhey might aleo agreo that it is tho duty of Society 1o search ont and embrace the New Magdalens. e cannot accept these conclusions. **The New Magdalen ™ 15 essentially a morbid copcep- tion. It does not hold an even_baiance belween virtue and vice ; 1t inclines decidediy to the lat- ter ; whereas the duty of true art is to promote virtue and discourage vice. Let the poiot bedis- dincils seen : *The New Magdalen” is chiefly objectionsble becauss 1t decries virtue. It makes the virtuons woman a mesn, sordid soul, who has nothing buc her virtue to cover her nakedness with. By way of contrast, the fallen womsnp is endowed with all the graces that can Ye imagined. Nobody can calmly contempiate the picture thus presented wuhout feeling that it “teaches ~ 8 lesson. It telis every woman in the house that repeotance- ought, if it does not, to cover every sin; and Bome weak-minded women may discover too late that immaculate Society has fized a wide gulf between its duty and its practice. The play is fuil of interest, apart frum its moral bgaringe. The acting 18 geuerally good. Miss Howard, wno appears as Mercy Merick, has a fine figure, a beautiful face, and & mustcal voice. She snows famillarity with the stage and a just idea of dra- inatic proportions. Her acting is sometimes marred by a slight affectation in epeech, which will at once be detected by an ordinary listener, though 1t cannot easily be described. It has been acquired perhaps by aasociation with En- glsh actors ; and it congists partly of s drawling mauner and partly of a slight gasp in paseages requinog the exhibition of deep emotion. Miss Howard seems 1o be a womun of discernment and retined feeling. She will ise a decided addi- tion to any company she may join, and a credit 0 ber profession wherever she goea. . BOLID SILVEE, ‘which held the boards at McVicker’s Theatre the 1ast three nights of the week, was a more inter- esting play than ** The New Magdalen,” though the people did fot seem to think eo. It was especially noticeable for the careful manner in which it had been prepared. Mr. McVicker and his stage-manager, Mlr. Sharp, deserve credit for ‘baving gone to some expense and s great deal of pawe 1 order to put on the stage a play which they designed to run only three nights. The clever acting in **Solid Silver” did not fall 2o the shate of Miss Howard, who had a part of o great dimensiona. The chief interast of the play centered on the three character parts as- sumed by Messrs. Rainford, Beymour, and Joha- son. These gentiomen did good work. There 18 al80.a young actor 1 Mr. McVicker's compa- o7 {:;Btdng; Young, who showed some ides of Eag‘ dgu in **Bolid Silver. He appeared as the SIAR LECTURE COURSE. The' Bon. William Parsons, the eloguent bio- graphical lecturer, will speak at Plvmonth Church 10-morrow uight i the Star Lecture Course. Mr, Parsons' lecture on Michaal Angelo ™ in the Siar Course last year was ene of the most | scholarly and brillisnt of the season. Thp fol- Jowing 18 the programme for to-moriow night : 1. Vorspiel—* Tristan and Isoide”. . Wagmer 2. Lustaplel overture. b Kela Bala . ‘Adarted oy I. V. Flagler, 3, Lecture—* Life of Gecrge Stephenson om the Tri- umyhs of Perseverauce.” The Hon. Hilliam Larsons, NOTES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. « Running 8 Corner,” by a Chicago gentle- man, will be produced in Philadelphis next month, with local adap tations to suit. 3lr. Gar- diner has arranged to bring out the piay at the Arch-Street Theatre. The Keily & Leon Minstrels romain at the ‘New Chicago Theatre. Cool Burgess will give bis excellent exhibitions of Minstrelsy, ** Gala- tes ™ will hold the boards, and the finale to the first part will be from ** Madame Aogot.” AMiés Howsrd will appear at McVicker's Theatre this week &s Mary Leigh in Boucicault’s + Hunted Down.” MMiss Carrol, Mrs. Murdoch, Mrs. Stoneali, Miss Moore, Mesars. Gosein and Waldron, are in the cast. Thuredav, Fridsy, and B:m:rdtg nights ** The New Magdalen™ will be repeated. “The Gepial Dramatic-Club™ is sctively st work prepariog new plays. 1t has engaged the Atpenzum Hall, and proposes to begin sactive Tehearsals there, besides giviog minor dramas. Next month it will produce * The Wife.” at the Academy of Music. Some time in February it Will appear two nights at McVicker's Theatre, and one or more plays will be brought out at the XNew Chicago Theatre. The California Mipstrels will coutinue at Hooley's in their excellent performances, Rickey and Barney. who are famous as Irish charac- ter actors, will malze their appearauce to-morrow pight, and will doubtless bo grestsd by a full bonse. The Reynolds Brothers and tbe other woll-known memisers_of the company will re- ain. The organ ization is the strongest of its kind that ever appreared in Chicago. A dis) from Mr. McKes Rankin received in this city yestexrday by Mr. Nicholson., agent of the Raulin Co nbination, denies the report of the failure of tihe company in Memphis. Mr. Rackin's dispatch reads asfollows: * The re- port of my failure is & weak inyention of the onewny [Messrs. {3hook & Palmer], strongly rep- resented at the opposition theatre. We play at Little Rock Mondsy; Milwaukee to follow.” Mr. C. A. McManus, an actor to whom the Chicago public owes something, will take a bene- fit at Col. Wood’s Museum to-morrow mght. We hope the attendance will b large and the sccount ag the box-oftice satisfactory. The bill is attractive. It opens with ‘‘Camilla’s Hus- band,” whick will be given in fall, Alr. Wil Broderick wi!l sing a song. Mr. ers and Miss Thorapson wiil offer Some specimens of mock-scting. Harold Forsberg will recite * The Seven Ages of Man,” and Eelly and Leon, who have genurously volunteered, Will appear in thoir listle: mausical comedy, ‘' His Grace The Duke.” The Museam bill for the remainder of the woek 18 as follows : Tuesday aod Wednesda) © Camiliz’s Husband " and “Btage Struck Monday and Tuesdsy wmatines, ** Csmille Thursdsv afternoon and evening, ** Led Astray Friday at'ternoon and evening, *‘Mary Warner Saturday afternoon and eveniug, * Uncle Tom's Cabin."” il THE OUTER WORLD. ** FERREOL."” A correspondent of tho New York Nation, who was present at the first representation of Sar- don's new play, “ Ferreal” at the Gymnase in Paris, sends sn_exceedingly interosting account of the performance. He writes in substance as follows : ‘The play seems to have the cementa of n resl drams. 1t depicts the struggle of coutending emotions. The truth could be made known at any moment if one man spoke ; but ho could not speak withous destroying the Teputation of a woman. The question thus preseated i3: % Which ought you to prefer, the honor of s wom- an you love, or the life of a friend ?" If you speak, thewoman ¥, lost: if yon do not speak, the man. nict pas- There is dhotber col or dnmel ’of dons in the bwart of s Judge. Ho must choose between the homor of his own wife and the accomplishment of bisduty. He does pot hetitate, and the tosnes in which the stern magistrate hasto overcome the feelings of the fond husband arethe mast im:prossive of all. “ Ferreol” met with un eathusiastic Teception. The enthusiasm of the nudience was divided betwesn Sardou and a young actor named Worms, who has just arrived from $t. Petersburg, where he has been living soveral years. T recoguized at once in him 8 tragedian, a man who is not born to remmn in_the vulgar world of the comedie ‘ouraevise; bo is calm and d:gnifed : he ought to up- ras a young Roman or w Achilles, His place is marked at the Theatro Francais nextto that young tragedienne called Sarah Bernbard:, who haa inher- ited some of tho magnificent q ualities of Rachel,—an innate nobility in every motiom, 3 voice which has something_superhuman in ils barmony and ita au- thority. It i8 certaiply a remwriabla fact that tho Jowish race should Liave such wxtraordinary aptitido Tor the stage. Sarsh Bornhardt jza Jewess, as her asme well shows ; this futare tisgedian, \Worms, has an uamistokable Jewish name. DEEUT OF AN AMERICAN GIRL IN LOXDOY. Augusts Shink, a girlof %8, who abandoned school-teachiog in San Fraucisco to study for the stage, made her debut in London as Juliet Nov.18. A correspondent of the Philadeljhia Press sass her success was marvelous. * The oldest critics can recall no parallel to it. From :he instant her eyes were 8ot on Komeo tili the awsul awakenng in the vault scene, Juliet was pefore the audieuce, and & call at the end of ev- ery act. two calls at the fourth. and three at the fifth act. fairly shook the house with the furoro of the enth:sizstic English artists and critics, who could not restrain their feelings of surpriss and admiation. The stage-namo of this fortu- nate woman is Beatrice Strafford. Sho had no previous experieuce.” A moro unbissed avd trustworthy account of tho dabut appears in tbo Academy, which curtly says : * Anothor debu- taote made her appearance on Wedoesday at a Gadety Jiatioce, in the character of Juliel, now ordinarily seloctzd for such experiments. 3liss Beatrice Slraford kas the advantages of youth and good looks, with mors confidence than is usnaliy possessed by novices. Lo artistic re- gpects ber performsnce was uninteresting.” NOTES. Little Bijou Heron is playing with a Boston company. F.E. Aiken's combination is to open in tho “Two Orphans” at Alivaukee to-morrow night. A day and pight performance in Philadelphia recently gave Edwin Booth 22,300 as his share of the receipts. Kate Field seys the story that she has been acting in England under an assumed name 13 utterly untrus. Joseph Wheelock played the part of Jacques Frochard inthe *Two Orphans” atita recent Tevival in Brookiyn. Jo Jefferson is having a great succoss in Lon- don ; all the other theatres are playing to com- paratively light business. J.J. Suilivan played Alfred Adriance in “Di- wvorce” to the Fanny Ten Eyckof Miss Fanny Davenport, at Buffalo recently. Oakev_ Hall, in view of his pew vocation, has sacrificed his beard. Time mayshow that he has sacrificed other thinza mors important. Mr. Fochter's porzonation of Rewhcnback in * L'Abime," the French version of ** No Thor- oughlfare,” is highly praised by the newspapers. ‘W. H. Crane is much praised by tbs San Fan- cisco papers for hiz playing of Prince Huck-a back in the burlesque of *'The Fair Une with the Blonde Wig," at Maguire's Theatre. “Coste™ has been succesded by * Bosom Friends " at Wallack's Theatre, New York. Ed- ward Aroott, J. H. Mootague. John Gilbert, Harry Beckett, and Miss Ads Dyas, supported the principal characters, Miss Susan Denin was buried at Iadisnapolis Dec. 7. Among the mourners was Miss Deoin's daughter by her third husband, Miss Flora Woodward, who bas beeo attending school at Princston, Il She is 13 years of age. Charles Vandenhoff left the McKee Rankin company Nov. 27, and Sam W. Piercy doubled the part of Pierre that of. the Chevalier. A correspondent says his Pierre was much mors acceptables than that of Mr. Vahdenhoff. Lawrence Barrett and Mrs. Bowers were at St. Louis last week; Edwin Booth at Philadelphia ; ““Hepry V." and Riguold at Boston; Maggte Mutchell at Buffalo: John McCullough at Wash- ington; Barry Sullivan st New Orleans; Jobn T. Raymond at Baltimore. During the season of 1874-'5 319 dramatic novelties were produced at the various Madrid theatrea. Of these 257 were realiy or advertised as originals and 63 were adaptations. Of the Iatter one was from the Enghsh and ohe.ftom the Italian, Frauce claiming the balance. Poor Lemaitre i aaid 1o feel deeply the jm- mensa success of Rossi in Kean, which waa once his greateat part. ‘‘I could plav it as well if I only had the stre h. "' he eaid to a vimitor the 3&&: day. looking pitifully as he spoke at the asted outlines of his once stalwart form. A deputation from the Royal Theatrical Fund called on the new Lord Mayor of Loodon, Mr. Al- dar:lj.p Olumn. M. P.’:glué. 29,to congratulate him on his_elevation to the Chief.-Magistracy. The Lord Mayor is a trustee of f.hil,%’mallem.y stitn- tion. A short address was ‘resd” by Mr. Henry THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES. Irving. The Mayor responded in fitting terms, saying that be knew no more honorable oftice or more honorable parc in life than thstof the actor. Among others of the deputation whbo Bpoke wore Jr. Benjamin_Webster. Mr. Toole, young Charles Dickens, and Mr. Bwioburne. An sctor of a traveling theatrical troupe which played at Keokuk the other night tried to bribe the local editor of the Gfale City to omit o harsh criticiem of ghe play which had been writ- ten, by the offer of*§25. “Buu tho honest local wouldn't compromise the good uams of & good Ppaper. Cbarles Wyndham gained bis three diplomas in Epgland. and_one in Germauy, sod doring the great Civil War in the United States served with distinction 28 medicnl officer, receiving at the termination of the War a handsome testi- monial from tbe soldiers who were under his charge. Mrs. Emma Waller made her reappearance on the New York stage, after an wbscuce of Six vears, at Booth's Theatrs last Mondsy night. The play was ** Guy Manneriog.” 'The Tribune says that Mra. Waller_acted Meg Merrilies with romarkable power. Hor engagement in New York 15 meroly preliminary to her departure for San Francisco. Mrs. Maeder, now a member of the excellent company at the Globe ‘Theatro, Boston, was the Marchioness in _* Caste,” whep played in that city last weok. The Gazelte speaks very bighly of ber performance, while criticising the rest of tho cast, giving Mr. Honey as Old Eccles some hard knocks for overdoing tbe part, Chicago would like to compare him with Belvil Ryan. A New York correspondent writes: *'‘Rose Michol® 188 success, but somewhat dependent upon tho acting of Rose Estinge. Without her it would fall. It is a powerful melodrama, but not the pieco for the Union Square, nor for their wonderfully good company. How Thorne and Robson could have beeo induced to play such parts a8 they have in this play is a wonder to the dramatic world.” The cast of Mr. Daly’s new American drama. “Pique,” to be produced Tuesday evening, will include Miss Fanny Daveoport, Misses Jeffrevs- Lewis, Emily Rigl, Sydney Cowell, Mrs. G. H. Gilbert, Mesars. Charles Fisher, James Lewis, Jobn Drew, Davidge, Harkins, Hardenberg, Barrymore, and Johu Brougham. The drama i8 now in active rehearsal. Itisnot yet known whom Mr. Daly has plundered for the materials of his play. It is said that Mr, Stuart, the manager of the Park Theatro in New York, bas been very for- tunato, having reached 100 performances in « Camille," ** Ticket-of-Leave Map,” ** Hamlet,” + Richelieu,” ** Colonel Sellers,” and * mighty Dollar.” If tiye truth were told, perbaps it would be fonnd that his good fortune bas a large ele- ment of dogged obstinacy in it. ** The Mighty Dollar,” we nave been informed, has been draw- ing small audiences for some wWeeks past. Mr. Sotheru is now in London. He bas had his valet arrested for stealing letters from him, and he declares the servant is only the tool of a gang of conspirators who are plotting to ruin him., How they are going to rain him, or what undertaking of vast importance he is carrying on that can be made to ruin bim, is, likethe reet, mysterious. The only tangible thing abont the story, as the English papers print the Court re- port, is that the other witness besides Mr. Sothern agaiust the mana is Miss Linda Dietz, formerly an actress of New York, who seems to bave been in position to detect the valet equally with his master. The engagement of Fox, the pantomimist, was brought to a melancholy close at Booth’s. Every one aboat the theatre was obliged to exercise a watchful surveillance over the movements of the crazy clown. Io the first act, Saturday week, be threw a loaf of bread into the private box of the tooatre. This was thrown out, upon which his madness broke oat and he commenced {uriously throwing plates, ‘caus, knives, and forke at the aundience. Ho was dragged from the stage as quickly as possible, and in this grotesque man- ner Fox made his probably final exit from the stage. He was taken from the city, enticed away under a pretenso of an eogagement ia Boe- ton, and is now an inmate of an insane asylum in thac city. In a circular announcing the last series of Crystal Palace plays in 1875 under the direction of Mr. Cnarles Wyndham, the following passace occars: “Tho revival of standard Eoglish comedies aud the prescotation of the most ac- cepted works of modern dramatic authors witl be continued; and fresh ground will be broken by the introduction of & new feature, namely. ciagsic drama, arrangements having been made for the production of the English vorsion of Sophocles’ *Antigone,’ eariched by the wholo of the music specially written by Mondelsanhn at the request of the late King of Prussia.” Among the piays produced will be * The Tempest,” &The Comedy of Errors,” ** The Rivals,” “The Man O’ Airlie,” and **Love's Sacrifice.” The list of sctors engaged is imposiog, including the names of Fermana Vezin, Lyiton Sothern, Airs, Sitirliog, aud Miss Gensvieve Wood. e — MUSIC. AT HOME. THE PRINCIPAL FEA{ULES OF THE WEEK which has just closed were tho Barpabes con- corts on the South and West Sides, which drew overflowing bouses, showing that the people are willing in these dull times to pay for anything thatcan provoke a langb, and that they had faith that Barnabee could accomplish that some- what diflicalt teat, as things are now goiog ; and thre first season concert of the Becthoven Society on Thureday evening, at McCormick’s Hall, which gave us a lisi of Mendelssohn's music that has not been heard here sincs the days of the old Mendelssohn Society—the Ninty-fifth Psalm, the Hymn for alto and chorus, and the Loreley fragment. Would they had only been done as well a8 in the old times! We bave alrsady noticed the concort very fully in detail and pointed out the particular defects, 8o that we need mot ropeat them mnow. As they wore apparent to the public, and fo the Society iteelf, they must have been spparent to Mr. Wolfsohn, who will un- doubtedly et himeelf seriously at work to reme- dy them. This is very necessary in view of the nmbitious work the Socioty atill has before it ; for, if the Society makes siips in the calm sea of Mendelssohn’s music, what will they not do in tho distractions of ** Lohengrin” and Beetlio- ven's Prisoners’ Chorns—that rock in * Fi- delto " upon which 8o mauy choruses have split and gooe to piecos ? With the exception of the basses, not one of the other parts at the late concert had leading voices, although the sopranos and altos were very self-reliant. r. Wolfsohn, however, cannot be expected to accomplish much without ' lieutenants in each pbrt, and & good mauy among the temors, wWho = are now s somewhat feoble band of brothren. It would bo better ‘to hire three or four steady, retisble voices thanto hobble along on three legs. By all of which we do pot mean to eay that the Sociaty cannot sing. Not by any means, Somse of its work, especially in the Loreley music, was very fine. But it is old _and exporienced onough now to do thorougbly effective work, and to come before the pablic without baving to be publicly corrected by the conductor. ore rigid dizcipline in the ranks will do your singers good, Mr. Wolfsohn. COLLEGE OF MUSIC SOIREE. A musical soiree will be given at the College of Music, 493 Wabash avenus, on Wednesday evening of this week, with the followiog pro- mme : L. Pictares of the West ™.... ... Wollenhaupt Misses Neliie Dow and Jose Barker. 2. *“Il Sospiro™....... .. Donizettl “biss Fanny Giiea. 3. Sonate—Piano and violin. Muea Ida Rosino and Ar. 4. “ X would that my love "—Duet. Misa Kate Luse and Marie 5, Valse 6. " Zulelka"........ . . Miss Fanny Giles. a4 My Joya," & o 3 dea%" wwiah » } Pian0 and violin. Chopin rel. 7. lisn Kate Burrowstind Mr. A. Buisser 8. Nobil Donna—~f{rom ** The Huguenots ”. Meyerbeer Miss Kate Luse. ). Polonaise.... 10. Sonate—Piano and violin, . Mizs Bertha Greencbaum a: THE EDDY GONCERT. Mr. Eddy, the organist, will close his series of very rcmarkable organ tecitals with a grand concert at the First Congregational Church on Thuraday evening next, upon which oceasion he will have the assistance of Mrs. Regina Watson, Mr. William Lewis, Mrs. Clara D. Stacy, Miss Ella A. White, Mr. Edward Schultze, and Mr, Carl Bergatein. The programme wiil be as fol- lows : . PART L 1. * Morceau de Concert.” op. 24... H. Clarence Pddy 2, Song.. Cas 3. Bobata in Eminor, op. 0.............. Besthoven, Hrs. 'Regina Watson. 4. {() 0n 1 Thou ATt Like a Flower".... R (CN:T irs. Clara D. Slacy. 5, 4Bt Anve” Fagus.... i &, Clarencs ri Berastetn, "ed it, but Mr. George Gr 6. Bong: *Schoene Wiego” (nuuuyuCrgulg) s “Miss Elin A, W chumann. . Merkel, .« .. Wagner. (2) * Romance,” op. 40.. .Becthoven. 3. {3+ Nie &:nfi".‘, s ! Schumann, Fitiiam Lewts. iy 4. Concerto in B fiat, No, 2. H. Clarener Ed 5. Quartette: “ Ecco quel fiero 1 Mra. 'tacy, Misa Winte, Jestra. Schuitce 6. Themeand Variations in 4 l4t.... H. Clarenze Lddy. * LOCAL MISCELLANY. G. Napoleona Carozzi, the music teacher, bus opened study-rooms in Hale's Block, on Btate street. ¥ The Froja BSosndinavian Singiog Society, conductod by Mr. Joba L. Swenson, will give a grand Ctristmas concert in the North Side 'urner Hall Saturday, Deo. 25. Another new musical journal bas made its ap- earance, the Music Trade Review, published at Broadway, New York. Itis o bright, fear- less. and outspoken paver, brimming over With neyws, and bold and trenchant in cnticism. Itis almost too good to last. . The New York Tribunesays: ‘“‘A German paper of Chicago, in the courss of an abusive article on Von Bulow, iunocently calls Wagner the great pianist’s ¢ brother-in-law '—which s a ;xaw vame for it.” Our Staats-Zeitung did thav eat. The principal foaturos of the Turner Hall concert this afternoon will bo Von Webor's ** In- vitation to the Dance,” the overture to Beotho- ven's Prométhous, the Adagio from Besthoven’s violin sonata, and the finale from the second act of ** Fidelio.” Tho Liederkranz gives its third recutar con- cert this evening at the North Sias Turner Hall with an admirable programme, in the perform- ance of which the Society will be assiated by Messrs. A. Leivermann. E. Schultze, C. Wirts- chorok, Dony. ‘We have received from the publishors, Schaofer & Koradi, Philadelphija, the second book of the second volume of their series of songs for male chorus, including some very choice numbers by Hatton, Rbejnthaler, Storch, Mendelssohn, Beschnitt, Macfarren, Marechner, Moehring, and Flemming. Mr. Anton Walff, 205 to 209 Stato stroet, bas just issued the _fourth number of his Album of Scandinavian Songs, including **I'he Wermor- land Song,” from the Swedish of Ring; the * Sonner af Norge,” a Norso National Song, ar- ranged by Sand ; aud * Moder's Navn (‘* The Mother Tongue™), from the Danish of Rung. Mrs. E. O. Seymour, the soprano of Plymouth Chaurch, Mr. Charles E. Smith, the tenor of the samo church, and Mr. Broaerick, bass, gave a concert ot Aurora, Wednesdsy night, assisted by some home-talent of that place, with great success. ifrs. Seymour made such a decided hit that she bas already received invitations for mors concerts in that vicioity this winter. As will be seen bv an advertisement elsewhere which furnishes the details of the proposed scheme, Mme. Hershey has orpanized a music- sthool undor the title of ** The ‘Hershey School of Music,” for which she has alroady secured the excellent services of Mr. V. S. B. Matthews, Mr. H. C. Eddy, and Mr. and Alrs. Von Klonzi. We shall refer to the plans of the new masical scheme more in detail hereafter. e ~» ABROAD. TITIEYS' ENGAGEMENTS. The New York Graphic gives the foilowing outline of Titiens' futore intentions, which account in part for her failure to come West : ‘When Mile, Titicns began to realize the immense distances she would have to travel, if no lengthened stay could be made in New York, ahe, taking into ac- count the fact that her health had already suffered from the climate and fatigue of travel, made some Iavorable propositions to Mr. Strakosch which, it is hoped, will result in a season of opera. .Signor Campanini was_engged to Mr. Maploson for his pro- vincial tour in Grest Britain this winter, The tenor, howercr, mado €0 great 3 success during the first few nights of his engagoment at Bologna that he wrote to Mr, Mapleson saving that if that gentleman could do without him ke shouid be glud to be releasod from his contract. Mr. Mapleson woa nothing loath, When Br. Strakcsch beard of this some three weeks sgo he wrote to Campanini offering him 11,000 franca a month for a four months’ season here. This amount i8 very much less than Signor Campanini de- manded last year, vhen his figurea were stated to bo 40,000 francs; bot s his Bologna engagement was not along one, and z8 b3 is said to huve nane tosucces.l it, it is not improbable that ho will accept Ar. Stra- kosch's offer, _With Mllo. Titions and Signor Campa- i to sustain the srincipal parts, the public can af- ford to accept a cottralto, baritone, and bass of loes celebrity. Stgnor Fod,who, it will bo remembered, sang Rere, and then spelt his name Foley, is anxious to re- turn for a brief time, and has agreod to accept much Jess thon his ususi terms, but the figures which e names are higherthan Mr. Strakoach fesls justi- fied in giving. Probably Siguor Csstlemari, of Mr. Mapleson's compsny, will be the baritone. Mlle. Bauermelster, wio has béen for some years » member of the same company, was telegraphed for last wesk, 20d will sing with }lie. Titlens in concert, should the arrangements for opers not be consummated. Sho Las o light soprans_voice of pleasing quality and ex- teustvo compass. She is a thoroughly reliabio singer, and, baving been sccustomed to sing duets with Mile, Titiens, that artife will be ousbied: to give us pleces which she might mit care to risk with n stranger. Should opera be given, i will be with at least = satisfactory ensemble. Mile. itiens will under no other circum- stances consent to appear, and her contract gives har the right of accepfing or rejecting the artists who are to form the compay. MUSIOAL NOTES, Jeuny Lind issaid to be in failing health. The Oates conic opera troupe is in Cleveland. Miss Rive plyed last week in Indianapolis with great succas. The Kellogg troupe gave opera in Cincinnati last week. On ChristmasDay Mllo. Titiens will sing in oratorio in Bostan. 4 Capoul deniee the rumor that be is married to Miss Sopbie Halbron. Mlle. Albani tas sung Lucia snd Donna Anna with extraordiniry success 1n Liverpaol. Jonoy Lind-Coldschmidt has presented o bond- some Munich wndaw to the Church of the Holy Trinity. Wimbedgn, nesr Loodun, Eng., in memory of the selebrated Dr. Wilberforce. At tho Gurznich copcert&&t Cologne, under the direction of Herr Ferdinand Hiller, Herr Rheinthaler's jew cantata, ** The Israelites in- t::o Desert,” ricently made & favorable impres- sfon. Mr. E. B. Wolf, of Boston, author of the #Mighty Doil,” bas written a two-act comic opera, music and words, called ** A Cure for Love." It wil be produced in Bosion by tho Barnabee Opemn Troupe. TUllman has created somewhat of a sensation by refusing tolet Nilsson siog at Bordeaux, be- cause the civic and military authorities insist that they shallbe permitted tc exercise the priv- ilege of occupsing boxes without paying for them. NMonday pight last Paris was honored with & groat event at the Opera-House in the represen- tation of *‘Don Juan,” when thero appeared Carvalho, Kranss, Gueymard, and Faure. For this occasion ths cost of scenery and ballot was $60,000. Everytbings was perfect, and much ex- citement was manifested. Madame Laccs having resolved to confine her- self for the future to mezzo-soprabo parts, great exertions are beiog made by the mauager of the Roys! Italian Opera, Covent Garden, to brivg ber snd Adelina Patti out together on cer- tain evenings. The ststement that Mme, Miolan-Carvalho is going to leave the stage and to found a school for singing; and that Faure, in the spring of 1876, wil g1ve hislast performance in Paris, to enter on & long traveling tour through Europe, which will begin.with his London season, are untrue The constant clamor for English opers has grown with Carl Rosa's success, and the papers begin to tell Mr. Mapleson that if he reaily ‘means to deserve the title of manager and pro- prietor of the Grand: English National Opera- Houss, he must iry and give English national mausic. . Nine weeks ago, Mr. Nittebohm annonnced in the Leipsic Musikalisches Wochenblatt that sixty pages of full scora of & hitherto unhoard pianc- forte concerto of Beethoven had been discov- ered. Those who hoard the pews hardly credit- ,bat | of London, has msdeinquiries, and has every hope of cojlecting the ecattered sheels and of arranging them in “such a form that the fragmeot may be performed at tha Crystal Palace coacerts, at auy rate, next year. A vriter says: It is, perhaps, not well known that Pins IX. is & vecy fioe musician. As a young man he cultivated bis taste for music very assidaously, aud his vorce was magmificent. Even pow it is very sweet and powerfal, and whea His Holiness singsat High Mass all who hear him are struck by the superb maoner in which he axecutes the diflicult Gregorian chant. He disapproves of tho use of profane masio in churches, but, at the same time, recently ex- preased an opinion that, 48 a rule, what is nsually e':.Uad lldhl'.:d music was dn:;l and dreary. He thougnt t| sacred music should be dramatic, but nottheatrical .. . s . Beregly, and Mrs. St. Clair aod Mrs, _presented, and citizens who are THE FINE ARTS. Two Recent Artistic Novels, Roderick Hudson " and *‘ Mies Angel.” Sculptors and Painters ?imu'inz as Heroes and Heroines. The “ Art Journal » for December---New York Art Notes---Artists at Home. TWO ART NOVELS. CRITICISM DY HATDRIET W. PRESTON. The following letter—umpublished elsewhere— possesses the groator value from being by.a hand not unpracticed in literary work similar to that subjected to review. Although the writer's highest claims in the literary wo:ld are founded on her admirable translations, in verse and prose, of ** Mireto,” *! Madame Valmore,” etc., from French and Provencal, it 18 probably through the little sketch of ‘* Love in the Nine- teenth Century " that she is known to the great- est number of general readers. Her words re- specting Miss Thackers; might be applied to herself, that, ** without assuming the office of art-critic or dreaming of hereelf insucha ca- pacity,” she possesses in an eminent degree the combination of hiterary and artistic taste neces- sary to write, or review, artistic novela. In Hamerton's ** Thoughts About Art " there is an article upon a similar subject called *ARTISTS IN FICTION,” in which the author discourses very ploasantly and sensibly abont the artista who figure as characters in English aod Freuch novels. We have Thackeray's Clive Newcome ; gentle J. J. Ridley ; Gandish, the martyr to *“Igh Art"”; Smee, the portrait-painter; but we miss that excellent art-critic, Mr. Frederick Bayham. Sir Walter Scott introduces an artist,—Tyrrell, in ** St. Ronan’s Well,”—and Dickens in **Little Dorrit ” gives us Henry Gowan ; and there are other characters from the artistic prafessions scattored through varions English novels. The plave and romances of French writers, such aa Baizac ana About, furnish similar examples, and all theso characters are employed by Mr. Ham- erton to point out the unjust social under-esti- mate of the profession of artists in England and France. irom this shallow social prejudice wo are fortunately free in this country, and artists, like [awyers, storekecpers, engineers, editors, and other persons who earn an honest living, are more generally estimated by their personal quality, and not the character of their profession. Especially is.this true of all classes 1 the West, and in Chicago, the exponent of the West. Evidonce of this may be found by a comparison of the tone of the following review and that of Mr. Hsmerton and of the works mentioned by him and those reviewed by the present writer. A single seotence of Hamer- ton sums up the whole matter: * Buz this rale ig infallible,—that whoever comprehends art re- spects all true artists, and whoever. despises a true artist is sure to be ignorant of art.” “*RODERICK HUDSON " AND ‘‘MISS ANGRL.” Coxcosp, Dec, 1.—Two of the most distinguished Dovels of thie past year, being stories of artists,—thoir work and fate,—séem 'to fall within your province. Neither *,Miss Angel ” nor ** Roderick Hudson™ is an art-novel in that strict sense of the term in which “ Cons:zelo "and the rhapaodies of Miss Sherpard and many othershave beenso, Artia but a feature of these two charming, though strongiy-contrasted, books,—not their inspiration and occasion. In the true story of Angelics Eauffmann's picturesque and pathetic lifeo, Miss Tnackeray fonnd a theme porfectly congenial o her refined and sympg hetlo genius. How cduld that story be mare delightfully told than ahe hastoid it ? Atiss Thaokeray has the gift—suficiently uncommon—of knowing accurately the range of her own powers, and she always keepe gracefully within it. Henco the reposs and symmetry of all her work; its thoroughly artistic quailty. Her simple skeiches are = foultlews in their way; her gentle mannerisms so unobtrusive that they only render her the more engsging. And et no one be deceived by her low tones 4nd_ber scrupulous modesty of manner as to her real ability, She has eomething vory distinet bo say in heg softly-modalated tones,—oand thie range which the so carofully observes i8 no meun one, N author bas less the air than sho of studying human naturs snd history ecientifically, and of prying—so to speak—into the inmost secreta of character, But the men and women of & hundred years g0 are alive in her pages; they love and suffer, they utter theirown thoughts, and have tho mysteri- ous look which is identity ; and the gay acceasories of high life in the eightcenth century return with them a5 1f spontaneouly, Aguin, Mies Thackeray Relther assuraes nor disclaims the office of srt-critie. Sheevi- dently does mot dream of herself in such a capacity, Yot site leaves us with how distinct an impression of the whole peeudo-classic school of painting—its pretti- ness and shallowness, its trivial gzaces and extraor- dinary. follies, and what Athanase Coquerel called in s delightful English, ita * great deal of allegorical males ”! Low clearly, 100, sue defnes Ler beroine's erior plzce even 1n this inferior school; yet inci- denrally, as one who has never questioned that the woman 13 far moro than the artist, By comparison with this quiet and dainty perform- ance of Aiss Thackeray's, the * Roderick Hudson ” of Henry James, Jr., seoms ambitious, i not audacious, brillntly inteilectual, and intensely masculine. _The cleverncss of the book is indeed amazing. It is, to usa a favorite expression of the author, consummately ~“knowing.” The wit of it is both unforced and un- failing ; the stylo vivacious, et urbano ; the converaa- ticns—{hat sura test of an author’s savoir faire, al- ways sdmirable, Where Miss Thackeray is sympa- thetic, Mr, James is analytic, = Where she showsa tender reflection of her subject, he per- forms what they call an ‘‘eleant dissec. tion” of His work ia preciscly of his. the sort which we long to thrust upon the attention of our puffy and sleepy critics scross tne water, asying, * \ake up, =nd attend ! Our young civilization (us you call it) has produced a young msn who could do this, and do it easily. Now what avails the sceptred race?” If Mr. James’ personages are not all quite as clear to us s we -could wish, or 38 Miss Thickeray's more simple creatures are, we must romember that ho hiad no historic framework whatever, that they are en- tirely his awn crestion, And some ' of them are per- fectly distinet. His hero, the ill-ssarred Roderick, is 80. We becoms entirely and forever familiar with the tones of the young sculptor’s voice, with the unusual style of his personal beauty, snd his wayward and de- fective nature. We should even recoguize, if we saw them, his principal works,—the charming’ * Dipas " and the masterly “ Adsm.” That the ideal crea- tions of this purely ideal bs so very real seems to me a striking proof of tho suthor's power. Some of the subordinate characters are also beautifully defined, a8 Yirs, Hudson and the humble, faithful little paiuter Sam Sinaieton, Rowland, on the contrary, is rather hazy, but by keeping ever in mind that morally and meutally he was a_perfect contrast to Roderick, we do very well with him. Both Jfary Gariand and Chirusting Light, we would decidedly like to know bot- tor, but then the former was exceptionally reserved, und the Iatter infinitely capricious. 80 it s perhaps a partaf the authors artto lveus ‘unpsatistied about em, And yet, *Let no man be called happy il his death.” Let no book be called excellent Uil its close. Tn every seuso of the word “ Roderick Hudson ” enda badly. ~We knew, of courae, from the beginning that Roderick himself 'would come to immeasurable grief. We were, perhaps, even too fully warned of that.~ But that every one of the personages in whom We bad come 1o feel an interest should be left in the depths of inex- tricable oo is too much. It is unnatural, sud therefore inartistic. 1f our feelings are to be thus herribly hurt, we demand some compensation. When Aristotle: (o somebody) said that the end of tragedy was tho puri- 1ying of our hearts through the intluence of pity agd ferzor, be told & very simple truth. If tragedy is to be unredeemed, s in broad spaces of life it never is, —if the end of s tale is to be altogether pitiable and terrifsing,—then let it teach us something, orits effect will bo the reverse of salutary. What then does the story of Roderick Hudson teach? Apparently, two things: firat, (hat genius is morally irresponsible ; and, second, that it is a crime against Nature, for which no punisbment can be too severe, for one man 1o in- tarfere with another’s fate in ghe hope of making him bappier or doing hif good=” Are these “purifying truths "2 ‘Hanprer W, PRESTON, personage _should triking 0ODDS AND ENDS. CHICAGO. Walter Blackmanp, of this city, in now in Flor- ence, havizg spent four yearain Paris. Two small pictures by George Inness have been received at O'Brien's gallery this week. Modeling-classes for ladies and gentlemen aro the next move in the right direction in Chicago. Mrs. E. M. Scott hsa now young-lady pupils enough almost to make a school by themselves. Four pictures by Mme. Teresa Hegg, of Vevay, —one of the best water-color painters of flowers ip the world,—are on their way to Mrs. Sebtt. H. F. Spread bas in his studio s considerable number of pictures finished and uofinished, some of which, landscapes, will be offered in the artiets' sale week after next. An excellent por- trait of a Iady (frs. Stebbins)is especially note- worthy, and it is hoped will be placed on exhibi- tign. The Chicago artists are many of them prepar- ing for a sale to be held at tue gallery of the Academy of Design Christmas week. The in- tention is to give & Teception Mondsy evening, Dagc. 20, and hold sales upon the two succeediog evenings. An Executive Committes, of which Mr. H. F. Spread is Chairman, haa the matter in charge, and the Hangiog Committes consists of Messrs. Hall, Bigelow, Spread, Root, and 8loan. It is e: that about 120 pictures wilt b inclined to patronize home art (which is worth fostering) snd wish to Christmas-prosenta of pic- tozes will have a good opportnuity o purchase. NEV YORK NOTES. Jr. Walter Satterlos has juat finished an alle- jorical picture of scme Bize, which he calls ** Came, yo Disconsolate.” Tho fizure of Chriat is thg central objoct, the concoption nos differinc materiaily from the couventional type founded on Leonardo’s picture. Edwin White, who haa been living in Flor- ence; Italy, during the last five years, has re- turned home and taken a studio in tho Associa- tion Stadio Bmlding in New York. He makesa fine dsplay of work in_the way of fiushed pie- tures, most of which illustrate the graniold modisval interiors of Italy. A. F. Bollows has again taken up his resi- dence in New York, after an extended sojourn in Boston. Heis just starting a_largo water- color picture representing a New Evgiand street scene. Sundiy mora.ng is the Lima chosaa, and the ancient -and modern vehicles of the farm érs of the vicinity are scsn as tue; leave for the village church aud wiud sedately along the street, J. D. Smillie is at work oa a large composition in water-color. The siretcher 18 over 4 feet loog. The subject ts ** A Western Scrub Race.” The spintod horses are ridden by balf-breed Indians, pegroes, Mexicans, and herders of the Western wilds, in their rongh, evervday, pici- uresque dressos. A smaller scene, painted in oll, is among the pictures oo which Mr. Smillia is now at work. It is a view of oue of the grand mountains of the Yossrmito rogion, and inctudes the famous Brzdal Veil Fall. Mr. Wordsworth Thomnson is back in bis studio working up some of the material gathered in his laet summer's sojoura in Corsica. The worknow on his easel représents a Corsican landscape with a rugged mountain peak on the left, its summit los: 1n the clouds. Among his studies Ar. Thompson has brought a sumber of epecimens of Corsican architaciare and a large collection of studies of character and costumes. Coming nearer home, he has under way s view of East Hampton, L. L, George H. Story has sbeut half completed & picture with two lifo-size figures in it, repressnt- ibg & young mother and her babe. The exores- sion of the faces as they look into each other’s eyes is really exquisite. Directly opposed to this poetical subject is the interior of a New En- gland school-house. The first scholar is obliged to make the fire in winter, and the artist has chesen a bright-lookiog young girl for this occa- mon. A yonog girl arranging her hair before a glaas, and the portrait of a splendid-looking woman with anopera hood thrown over her bead, are among tho artist’s latest works. APPLETONS' *' AT JOURNAL ” FOR DECEMBER. The last number of Appletons’ Art Journal for 1875 apnears with & handsome title-page for the new volume, and indexes for the year. Anoth- er index might well be added, designatiog every place in which an srtist or his works have been alluded to, such as Hamerton and Jarves have found it uzeful to append to their later works,— invaluable for rapid reference: In the present number the first wood-cus, after Laudaeer, of #A Dead 1l0e,” is especially sharp, clear, and oxcollent, as are_also the other c:its in the same article. James H. Beard occupies the place for ** American Painters,” and bis animal pictares, tho cats and the house-dogs, are very natural. But they saffer sadly by comparison with Land- seer's animals—if the comparison is not unjust —the more 80, becanse the titla of one of taese pictures ““The Mourners,” (which refie- ganta thres or four Italian greyhounds and Kiny Charles epaniels looking at & portrait of their young master, recalls one of Landseer’s most famous Eiclnrel, *¢‘The Chief Mourner,” whera a groat sbephord-dog_rests bis head upon the coftin of the oid dead shepherd, and the senti- ment is immeasurably beyond that of this pic- ture. But it is ungracious to blame a picture for not beiog what 1 was never intended to ba. “The Stately Homes of Eogland” are con- cluded and **The Homes of America” begun. The cuts illustrating **Rockwood, the residence of the late William H. Aspinwall,™ , indeed, ali the wood-cuts of the number,—are examplea of the exceeding cleverness of management, not to use a bester expression, to_which the art of modern wood-cutting has attained. A fall-page engraving of * Meditacion,” after a painting by A. Vely, a French artist, i3 a picture evidently painted for the sake of the youug lady's clothes, which are so abundant and of such excellent quality that it is s wonder she can meditate in them st all. Nevertheless, the face is simpie and pleasing. The prosoectus for 1876 announces s series of articles and illusirations upon The Women of America, The Far West, American A-tists, Household Art, Freuch and British Artists, etc., etc. The publishers now claim a circulation of 30,000 for the Art Journal. AMBCRLLANEOTS. The Exhibition of the Brooklyn Art Associa- tion now open includes many pictures exhibited in our Exposition last fall. Mr. Miliais is reported to be painting a large landscape depictinz a scene a little north of Birnam Woud, celebrated in the tragedy of ** Macbeth.” The % Navy Group *! for the Linculu MMonu- ment st Springfield, Iil., has been caatin the bronze depariment of the Ames Works, in Mas- sachasetts, snd will be sent to Springtield dur- ing the present month. Ous of the * art frand " cases, between P. F. Connelly, an American scalptor, and Mr. Healy, who mado the original charges of fraud, sndis sued for libel by Mr. Connelly (and who is to be carefully distinguished from G. P. A. Healy, the portrait-painter now in this city), was decided Nov. 15, at Florence, adversely to Ar. Healy, but will be carrigd to & higher conrt. “An important technical work,” says the Academy, ~ entitled * Einfache Mobel im Cha- rakter der Renaissance ' (‘Simple Farniture in the Style of the Renaissance.)’ is being brought ont in parts in Germany under the superin- tendence of the Austrian Mivister of Trade. It has been prepared by Prof. Joseph Storck. The first number is devoted to the furniturs of the diniog-room, with its dining-table, seats, and buffets. The examvles given ars not merely of articles only suited for palaces, as is 8o often the case in works of this sort, but are generally simple pieces of furniture, suitable for moderate~ sized houses, that might essily be obtaived by auy person dasirous of furnishing bis house ac- cording $o the prinoiples of Renaissance art.” ONE-HALF WAS BLACK. There was a wag named Philo Freer, A vagabond acute and queer, Who did as little 88 ho could’ To earn o scanty livelihood ; A lazy. luckless, laughing lout, ¥ho hunted, fished, nnd loafod sbout, Or ran on erranas for his brosd, et never seemed to get He was a being of that kind That auy traveler will fnd In coming to » country town, Before the tavern, sitting down. ‘There was a showman called Job Haines, Who had more enterpriso than brains, An easy-going sort of man, Who drove from * Beersheba o Daz,” Exhibiting, whereerho went, Beneath o dusky canvas-tent, . A two-legged horse, s three-iegged hen, . A woman with a wondrous wen, A snake and educated pig, ‘And other things as rare and strange, .+ By which he gained a little change. Great things from little nothings grow, Like “ Job Haines’ Mammoth Moral Show.” Freer, meating Haines ons sultry day, Said to him, in & solemn wsy, *Say, Haines, I saw, awhile 320, Aturious creature for your show, A man whose face was one-half biack You don’t belleve me 7 T'll go back.” *4Tis wondrous strange,” the showman cried. “VWell, follow me,” the wag replied. « By roads and by-ways, steep and mean, Through lanes both narrow and unclea, Freer Jed the way till Haines began To wonder whare be'd seen the man. At last Freer paused, snd, with a leer, He enid to Haines, **Behold him here ™ The showman gazed from where hs stood, And saw s NEGRo sawing wood, “ Yon sse,” said Freer, with séfemn mien, “ Both haives are biack, and you are green !” Oax Pazs, Ll EvcExk J. HaLL. e Crueity to Berzh. Spirit of the limes, The other day Mr. Bergh took his seat in a etreet-car, and, recognizing a well-known turf- man on the other mde of the car, he promptly changed over, -and, entering’ into conversa- tion with the gentleman, remsrked: * You are acqusinted with some of those geo- tlemsp who boy fast horses, aren't you?” oM ly,” replied the turfman; “I en- joy: Bthe * acquaintance of s npumber of that" class of gentlemen.” ** Well,” con- tinued Mr. Bergh, ‘1 have a friend has a very fast trotter, aod would be- obliged to you if you wonld find & purchaser for him. 88 he "de- sell him.” * Indeed!" says the surf- n: **how fast can your friend's horse trot?” an ; **aod I can find you s purchaser BARBARA FRiTCHIE, A Visit to Her Burial-Place, ang Con versation with Her Nephew, Prof, Weston, of Lake Forest, th e ent Owner of the Cane wmlh Which She Punched the ¢ Jolinnies,” To the Editer of The Chicgro Iribunas lL\x‘z,’lfimxuf. Dec. 11.—Poor Amng at rest theso dozen years in the qui ofold Frederickown, and yet m?::::;:zm by th: crogs-fice. kapt up by friends ‘ndu;:g over i i i e er identity, or tho truth of ber poetiy his. In April, 1869, the writer spent a among the natural wondera and histo, of Harpoer's Ferry, and instead of p ward by an eacly Moaday teaiv, a8 ha a3 tonded, he was seized with & strong desipy 1y visit tho hanging-placeof John Brown, and : burial-placs of Barbara Fritchie. i Omitting detaila of an iateresti: i Charlestown, and the spot whe::::::l w:‘ Brown's sout went marching on,” [ nmu i way, and songht in a visit to Frederick City :.’ Sabbay TS sconey ushiog wegs, foundations of that otber histor great civl atrife, and made Tmmp o touch of Whiitier's geniug. 7 I waa goon put upon a suitable line of by the information that Aayor Ebbitt way A NEPOEW OF DAME FAITCRIR and would give me the deaited ioformatiy Calling at once at his Honor's offico T found hiny very courteons and ready to answer my. i0quires, Indoed, he seemed quite prond of the i and fame of his patriotic auat, although ‘himsaly in sympathy with tke **lost canse.” All doubly of her genuine existence wers soon Sbe had indeed Lived aud died in Froderick, goj was buried in the familv inclosure, the las of her name, having sarvived her husband abogs twenty years and leaving no children, The Mayor politely accompanied me to the cemet where I discovered upon the modest hudn:qx' as upon that of her husband, the nams of **Fritchie,” the e of the poem not being found inthe genuine name. Let the suthor decidy whether the spelling of the poem or the fanily form shall be retained in the futute prnting, r. Ebbitt then took me to aes the lady e bad lived with Madame Fritchie during the last thirty years of her life, as friend aad sttandung, This lady, whose nams is goas with my nots- ‘book of that day, wasinterested in giving maths TARTICULARS OF HER HISTORY in connection with the visits of the srmiss, Union and Southara, which 3 different times passed throngh the city. Tasse stytements were corroborated by the Iady with whom she was then living, a swell as by Msyor Ebbut himself. N tur! atonce.” “Iwilbe greatly obliged to you. sir, if you will do 80,” said Mr. Bergh. * But ‘who is the parchaser?” ‘¢Commodore Vander- bilt will buy your borse,” replied the turfmaz. “ He buys just such horses every dsy for his Fourth Avenne Bailroad.” From these statements it aopeared that Bar. bars Fritchie did have a small Union flag, waich in spite of jeors and threats she kept aut at her window, and defended by her venarable pres ence and patriotic words. But 1t was notanai ticwindow. My informant remarked thaj shu was quite too infirm to climb the stairs, and vy Dot probably in the chambers at any time 1 thy season. The flag, however, was nsither * rent " with “geam” nor ‘‘gash.” It was brooghi tome carefally folded in a amall box, aod mess ured sbout 12 inches by 24 & ven table ¢ mlken scarf,” and not & mers coiten print. Ay proposal to purchase it as A PRESENT TO MR. WAITTIER wan declined with spirit, the Iady being svidently quite astonished that I shonld presume upon her parting with so sacred arelic at any price. Throagh the aid of the Mayor, howevar, Isucceedsd m ob- tainiog Aunt Barbara's cane, which she bad besa accastomed to nse in_her daily visita to s frieod » few doors away, and with wl she had bean knovwn to push off the gray costs who sat along the curb stone, with a vigor of lsogoage carre- sponding to her estimate of their characters. 1 bave preserved the cane, and am happytoar- hibit it to inquisitive friends as a memarisiof her patriotism. I procared also faithfal phe- tograph of the venerabls dame, aod anothar of THE COTTAGE 1N WHICH SHE RESIDED. This cottage, however, had bosa recantly takes down by suthority of the city, not, aa foolishly asserted by some nawspaper, becauss the lu owner had becoma obnoxious to the Bosthen sentunent, but because a destructive flood bad undermined i;a foundations, ‘tm!h made it ime wrtant to wider the passage 0l 8 siream on x"‘l‘iic:h 1t 8tood, and to unelggthm its banks, Tin effecta of this flood, originating in & waterspout, were évident for miles along the strsam at the time of my visit. ¢ But did any conversation such ss the poemds scnbes actually take place batween Frietchie and the Rebel commander ? NOTHING OF THE X1spl The Southern troops did not pass by that streek “ Stonewall Jackson riding ahead.” Thers w1 1o order to *Halt 1" or ** Fire!” and no countes- manding of it under the impulse of a gensrcus shame. Thers is bardly s possibilidy that the parties ever saw each other. On oaocoasion the Union troops, in E:Anum, observed the Sta and Stripes, aod the eral commanding order ed a halt snd three cheers for the patriotic woman who stood by the old flag in that rebell- ‘They wero given ¥ilh ious day snd generation. clasm to break in pieces this e il never lose their hold on the American best. Whittier's ears, Mr. Ebbitt replied thats Depbav & will. I em an almost uspardonable icooy t ™Ry se ypardonab ojiens, Baut the fine sentiment and epirit of the To the inquiry how the story on ‘which the poem is based got into ciroulation, sod 0 to Mr. of hM, a grand-nephew of Amat Barbars.'mé ll;en a clerk 1n Washington, and told some 817 o THE VENEBABLE LADYS PATRIOTIEX wittiin the hearing of Mrs. E. D. N. Southworih, and that Mra. S. probably communicated it Whittier. 'Ihat somewhere between the arm- tora such “enlargementa and additions™ wers made tukthewurg:mfl facts as fiction and gm are 50 likely ok Shortly after this visit, I ventured tocom municate the result of my inquiries to - MR WHITTIER, and received from him the following note & firming the Mayor's statemest in regad @ Mre. 8. 4 Dear Sma: I thank thes fnr{g(yldfit and these o Tosbara Fuieioni was from Mrs, Southwort, s8d the poem in 8 pretty close transeriof of i Vet thy friend, Joux G, WA I bave italicised the closing words n!h!:‘: Whittier's letter, to show that he did not self induige in the large poetical son times accredited to him in this matter. And we can all afford 10 sing, in MeDATY! our heroine : . Over Barbara Frietchie's grave. n wave: of Round th; bol of light and law; sndl;vu{ha.’aln above look down n thy ow— not in Fredn:l?:rl:tuwn alone, bat in sll Ahcnl:: aod breadth of our land, nd looger drene with tbe blood of brotherg. E. P. WestoX. SYMPTONMS OF CATARRK. Dull, heavy headache, obstraction of the fll‘ passages, discharges falling from the besd .:: the throat, sometimes profuse, watery, and. at others, thick, tenacious. muzous, puralesh ‘bloody. and putrid ; the eyes are weak, i and inflamed ; thers is ringing in the ears, ness, hacking, or coughing to clear thé throsh expectoration of offensive matter, together scabs from ulcers ; the voice is changed lfld: » nasal twang, the breath is offensive, smfll s taste are impzired ; there is & sensation of dizs Dneps, mental depression, hacking goneral debility. Only a few of the . named symptoms are, bowever, hkely. to be F*. ent inany one case. Thereis no daulsfl‘l:‘;i common than Catarrh, and done less n.m?m by physicizos. DB. BAGR'S CATARRH BENEDY A is, beyond all comparison, the best proparsticd for Catarth ever discovered. Under tho u\fl“.' ence of its mild, soothing, and hesliog wflP“; ties, the disease soon_yields. The Golden l(m jcal Discovery should be taken tneon‘fi“ blood, which is alwsys at fanls, aod t0° specifically upon the diseased glands apd lini26 membrane of the nose. The Catarth gt abould be spplied warm with Dr. Pierces Nt Douche—tbe only instrument by which faids :‘v be petfectly injected to all tbe passaget ehambars of the noss from which discharges 1 “;undfinnmnmww