Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 4, 1877, Page 13

success of Maggie Mitchell’s Mignon at McVicker's. The Women and Children’s Hospital to Have a Benefit. Debut of Effie Ellsler in As You Like It.” ; green-Room Notes from Americe and Europe. fhe Musical World in London-— The Carl Rosa Opera-Troupe. trent CGarden Comeerts—Arditi as a Leader—{horns-Singing in England. puliness of the Season in Chica~ go---The Musical College Concert. What the Apollo Club Is Doing---Gossip gt Home and Abrozd. THE DRAMA. CHICAGO. MAGGIE MITCHELL'S ““MIGNON.” Mr. Runnion’s play is founded upon Goethe's govelof *Wilhelm Meister.” The suthor has sever daimed for it that it was a dramatization o thst work. He has merely acknowledged in 1 menuer his indebtedness to the novel for the main idea of his play, and for some inci- jents and characters. His treatment of the gubject hss been misunderstood by many. Tur Temest has contended and maintains that his genenplan s good, and that criticism of the play nst be directed towards details. Nothing can ‘e clearer than that the Wionor of Goethe can- ot be shown on the staZe, cither in opera or drams. The character 2s originally conceived wasmost intcresting as a psychological study. Goethe's Mignon wasnot & creature of action, bat cf thonght, silent suffering, and poctic fan- ces. Her lougings for the lave of Wilkelm Yeiter found no constant expression, and the tim of them represented an unknown and vuishle quantity. Feeling on the stare mut be - expressed in action. Parely Jhllosophieal speculation and direct anatysis of charaster, except through outward manifestation ofis, are from the purposeof playing. It was im- ‘possible, therefore, for the author of the pres- ent version of “ Migmon,” as it was impossible for the writer of the opera-libretto, to repro- duce the thought of Goethe on the stage. Was it, then, wrong for them to touch the subject? Webetieve not. If mo scenery should be put on the stage except that which might be called s colorable equivalent of nature, the ma- terial svaflable for modern uses would be wofolly seanty. In the same manner, if no rumantic character could be touched, unless it were snonnded with commentaries and texts, the abridement of stage ideals would be sill more considerable. There would be hardly anything left for the dramatist to work upon, exeept the modern society types, which, from their inanity and want of individuality, can be reproduced with the Jeast exertion. The demands of the popular taste have not been taken into the account, by those who mourn or Goethe's Mignon. If it were possible to gresent that melancholy damsel on the stage, 4 he would mot be appreciated. The ribald public, we fear, would sce more in the situation of 2 gvpsy gir) pursuing with tokens of Jove her wealthy master, than in the 7 of 8 psychologist engazed to ex- N psin the Tedings of Afignon,—which iight, indeed, enliven the cntertainment, - but would not lend dignity to it. Imugine the dense amazement of comntry members of the sudlence on being told by 2~ lecturer stationcd = abthewiogs that one phase of the drama ex- Libits the subjective character of Mignon, and q the power of her ego over her mm-qqa/‘l If then be shonld reveal the full length aud breadth of bher extended sensorfum, and discourse upon ker fintuitive perceptions of right md wrong, there would probably be s demapd for a return . of ' money attne box-office. The fact should be recognized that psychology cannot be tautht on the stage by any “dramatist less thana Snakspcare. Qur audiences, moreover, do not _crave_amusement [ of this description. ' Mr. Rickard Grant White, one.ef the ablest eritics living, recently remark- ed with trath and foree upon the deterioration oftheatre audiences in the last 100 years. To Doother cause ean be attributed ! e popular taste for trashy plays, and the current disfavor Tor serions work. ‘The truth is, the theatre is Dolonger go important a medium of thoaght 21t once was. It hus ceased in 3 degree to pes- form one of the functions of a church,—thatis, tbaslost its old social dnfluence. People do Dot ow 20 to the play, as they ouce did, to sce eversbody else; and, purcdoxical 53 the state- Dent may seem, the quulity of the audiences both fn respect of education and good-breeding deteriorsted in conscquonce. When 4 uthor vields to the popufar taste only as Ar. m‘:%ruu !im l}uz chows considcanblc ro- no inability to perceive and appre- clste poetic ideas at timeir highest wortl. : Another limitation was placed on the gutlior of tbe present version ot ¢ Miguon by the ne- essltics of the case, He was writinga playznot somuch for himself as for Maggic Mitchell. The aflair between ber aad the pablic was one which he had only o contingent Iuterest. Mfignon had to be made not anly a that wonld please the public, but one gl,l‘wgnld lease when_interpreted through i Mcn-tnl' Miss Mitchell. What this art is must be by this time well enough knowp. Inolden times Miss Mitchell plessed by her Kittenish ‘lés 2nd her arch maner. But she is no Jonger 8 Xtten, and her urchness isno_longer sym- . etrical, fn jts proportions. The _injury gflmnmemble representations of Fanchon e done her can. scarcely be estimated. The d";_'afl total of it would be considerable, no bt, if it could be put downin black and fvb_l Some of Ler tones sud gestures in h&'m irteelstibly recall her *Ob. Landry!? ¢ older play: and we cannot express pleas- yre 8t being reminded of this consummate {;’EE Tustic booby, and Fanchow’s history s him. By the way, what .do the critics e object to the degradation of fignon {the present play say fo the tranposition of eu:ei};:!gzge *from George Sand to tkc of ic Mitchell? oes it strike them that there 12 anything peculiarly satrile- Blous in the latter aet ? They surcly cannot claim xmtz Sweet simplicity, the heroie self-abne- 3 g ‘an, the deep feeling, of the principal charac- 9f the novel havc been preserved in the rep- Btative part of the drama. Yiew nceess of “ Mignon™ from one polnt of don s fncontestable.~ It has pleased the ou- ; tromres. | The attendance improved steadily 4 thoathe besinning of the week till the end, and " Inanctal results were so aratifying that the m"fels 1o be kept on the stage daring the pres- ¥eek. ToE Trinuse bas already alluded the 11008 defects in the play, and espedally to s 3tss of incidents with which it is ‘onedened; but this' ungracious task, having been performed, need ngt certainly be re- It is more pleasant 14 notice how Jarge mbcen the public sympathy with' the anthor, wmé’,"" abandant lias been the applause with The o24h representition has been mreeted. ‘becy adting and the mounting of the play have doauet A nsture 1o call for prafee. Mrs. Mur- it nfi‘?flfs is the moge!rgfiaful ‘u:ggx: sl‘l_= this eeason. © Mr." Thorne's Sperati, iz i, e, O, L ¢ agrecable, the defects in eadd ng 550 vital 45 to call for any serioue objections. t Scenieartist has been unmsually beral in fhadug 1he play on the staze, the sct for the o L in particular being beaatifal and elab- Orete, 05 already noticed, The play will be re- every evenine during the current week. running commenta- ik SOL SMITII RUSSELL. The cotncideace of opinfon in the Chicago » B with regand to the merits of Mr. Sol fth Russell’s - character-sketehes should be e0ted by him as a compliment of the very ‘poest’ description. There really scems to - 8% been o room fora difference of opinion case. Doubly gratifying is it to hear Wat the orgen of “soclety . oplnfon— THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. EEBRUARY: 4. 1877—SIXTEEN PAGEHS which circulates exerusively, as it Were, amor the gitded youtldeclares that Mr. Raseely - 2 Zentleman off the staze. We hopehewill send mar'ked copies of the paper to his pl:lcnds; they may not be aware of the interesting fact therein communieated He certainly is an artist on the f‘inzc. Mimiery and caricatire ¢o not. exhoust x‘s resources, He has creative power of 8 higk order. MHis sketches gro noticeable "~ for refinement and delica of feeling, The same things attempted by common actor ‘would be {nexpressibly coars E ut, if he_ oace overstepped -the fimits of good aste during the past week, it must have been Wwhen hie was not observed by any member of the bewsmper guild. The pure humor of his sketelirswag drresistibly infectious. His shabby- . Iy }zfi:wal man_ s a- national type. Dorcas Penugroyal s a_ Aclightful ideal, most ul,isfluill painted and fll‘;lsll.tnltcd in speeds. Mr. Russell will find a larger meas- ure of pablic appreciation, it is lioped, when he returns. \ The Berger family of musiciaus aided him with ¢ great varicty of musfe on string and brass instruments. The entertainment, as o whole was unexceptionable in deserving of Patronage. “THE PLAYERS." Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 12and 13, the well-known amateur organizution calied * The Tlayers ™ will undertake the representation at t!n% New Chicago Theatre of Robertson's play of “8chool.” Mrs. Robert Clark, whose perform- 1‘“&('“"‘ Clouds ” was so Justly admired, will n this case persovate Naom! Tighe, and the mainder of the cast wil be as foflows: toue, and well The most fmportant fact c chronicled at Erescnt is that the performance will be for the cnefit of the Hospital for Women and- Chil- dren,—one of the most aescrving charitable in- stitutions fuChicago. Itistobe hoped that many who may not be able to attend the por- formiance will purchase tickets. Allwho do go may have the consciousness of doing good und ¢njoying themselves accordingly, to say nothing of tlie pleasure to bederived trom witnessing the play, which, we do not doubt, will be given in asatisfactory manner. Tickets may be ob- 'fl‘\l}md at Jansen, McClurg & Co.’s, or ot Cobb’s rary. MISS EFFIE ELLSLER. % This young lady, who comes from an old theatrical family, is to make her debut before o Chicago audience at Haverly’s Theatre to-mor- row night. She will be supported by Miles' company from Cincinnatl, said to be an admira- ble orgenization. The pluy will be “As You Like It,” Miss Ellsler, of course, assuming the part of Xosalind. A Cleveland correspondent writes, in this connection: *Miss Ellsler isa great favorite in this city. Her popularity s doubtless partially due to local pride, the young lady having here mainly acquired her dramatic and musieal experience and accomplishments, but is certalnly not wholly undeserved. She is possessed ‘of striking” dramatic_ability, and beanty. . She has appearcd in ‘The Bo- hemian Girl® with great success, and also as Juliet, Rosalind, and many other characters adapted to testing a youngartist’s power. Law- rence Barrett pronounces her Juliet the finest he cver saw, and Lawrence has seen several Juliets, and undoubtedly knows a good one when he finds it, even if the New York papers do sa; Lo can’t play Hamlel, - Whatever may b6 Onl. camo’s judgment upon Miss Ellsler, -she will continue to rémain a prime favorite in the city which produced a Clara Morris.” ' Notes. At the Adelphi this week, Mr. Den Thompson will appear as Joskua 1Whifcomb, and Rollin Howard will offer his burlesque of * Lurline.” Cazeneuve, the magician, will remain at the New Chicago Theatre anotherweck. His sleight- of-hand tricks and cabinet wonders have aroused much interest, and the attendance has been comfortable in point of numbers. This will positively be his last week. THE OUTER WORLD. “'OUR BOARDING-HOUSE™ IN NEW YORK. Mr. Leonard Grover’s new play, Our Board- ing-House,” encountered a favorable reception at .the Park Theatre in -New York, the house beiag densely crowded. The eritics sneak kind- ly of it, awarding it no particular distinction as acomedy, but conceding tbat it Is an interest- ing:and bustling farce in four acts. The Trid- une says: *‘It is indubitably a lauch, and this public craves laughter.” The Zimes says: It is o remarkably amusing work.” The Kvening Lost_gays: *“Mr. Grover has produced a play which is likely to become very popular, althoush it cannot be accepted as_a work of high literary or Gramatic merit.? The Sun says: & ¢ Qur Boarding House' is en immense hit.” The Heraid says: .** The performance was attended with hearty laughter, and whutever may be the differences of opinion in respect to its value as a permanent work of art, there can be no ques- tion as to its popular success.” The cast of the ‘play as produced in New York is subjoined: Prof. Giltypod.... -)Mr. Stuart Robeon ot L T Elevator o Mr, W, 11 Crane . . W Sheridan 3. . E. Morris Mr. Harry Little 3tr. A H. Stuart Alr. 3. W. Carroll r. W. J. Cogswell texinn Fleher Baker Walter Dalrym, Matthew Eligible. g[nck Hardy.. Florence Manheim Mrs. Walter Dalrymple Mrs. Violet Eligible. 3iss Annie Colville. so. fiss Minnie Doyle isy Meta Bartlett .3liss Ella Williams \ies Roberta Norwood NEW YORE XOTES. Mr, Edwin Booth will remain at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, this weck. A dsughter of Rose Eytinge will soon make ‘Ter first appearance on the New York stage. How truly Groverian it looks to see in the New York advertisements of * Our Boarding- inz-House ” the statement that it will be pre- sented with a Ssmsonian cast ”'! Jobn McCullough will not begin a star en- gagement at Booth's ou Easter Monday, as re- ported. It is the preseot inteation to rum “Fifth Avenue to the close of the season. Augustin Daly has enjoined the Frenches, dramatic publishers, from using o colorable imitation of his translation of * Lemons.” He 2sstrts that the original German play has not been printed. A benefit-performance. in_the interest of the mother of the late Lucille Western was given at. Niblo's Thursday afternoon by meinbers of Wallack's, Booth’s, the Lyceum, and Niblo's Theatre, of New York, and Park Theatre of Brooklyn. “Fifth Avenue,” George Fawcett Rowe's new local comedy, which is now in rehearsal at Booth's Theatre, will be presented for the first time on Monday evening next. Rignold has ar- rived to play the principal male part, and Maeud Granger'is cast for the Icading lady's part. Daly’s plays are being donc by members of his hfge Pkt 5 Fifth-Asenao Thoatre, the Grand Opera-douse and the Olymple. The company lately in_Chicazo is now at the last- named theatre. Prices are_reduced to 75 cents at the Opera-House and to S1_at_the Olfi:m ic. The snceess of **Around the World” at Niblo’s is fully maintained. “ All for Her ™ is given at Wallatk’s, “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin 'yt the New Broadway, and “The Two Orpbsns™ at the Bowery. « % Miss Anns E. Dickinson will appear in New York City on the 2d of April. She is said to be esceedingly well satisfied with her success thus far. Oueof the most amusing recollections of er stage experience is of o Lercy whose nustacbe left 3 black smirch upon her hand whenever he kissed it. The plays in which .\‘I‘iss Dickinson willappear in New York York are “ A Crown of Thorns ™ and a new one also written by her, the seene of which is laid partly in Col- orado and partly in New York. Some old Quaker friends iwho saw lLier inarehearsal of this Jast sald amazedly, * Why, Anna, thee doesn’t play at all; thee acts asif thee was at S roduced ot {h «Les Danicheff® will be produced at the TUnion Square Theatre to-morrow. The man- agers intend to reproduce this powerful drama 25 nearly like the original as the difference be- tween the two languages will permit. It will De cast with the members of the regular company, including Miss Katherine Rogers, Miss Sara Jewett, Miss Fanny Morant, Jrs. Marie “Wilkins, 3irs. Farren, Mrs. Seymour, Miss Lil- Jian Cleves, Mr.Charles R. Thorae, Jr., Mr. “James O'Neill, Mr. John Parselle, Mr. Stoddart, Mr. Montgemery, Sam Pierey, Ar. Giddings, and Mr. Lysauder Thompson. At the conclusion of Miss Clara Morris’ engagement she will prob- ably visit California for her bealth. : GENERAL NOTES. The first sfle of the Cleveland Opera-House as fallen throug, and it is to be offered again at auction next Wednesday. v Farjeon, the novelist, who s said e 8 ' Hebrew, 1s ahnounced 35 the future husband of Miss Jeffersop, daughter of the celebrated actor. i Adclaide Nellson turned the headsof the thmljiil.eztmmby o visit to the State- & House. One member in the midst of o speech Tost himself and was only brought to his scnses by nroar of lsughter. Miss Nellson is to personate Jmogen for the first time at the Walnut Street Theatre, Phila- delpbia,ta-inorrow night. Lest weel: Janauschek was playing at that” house, “Our Boarding- House " was miven at the Chestaut, * Sardanapa- lus ™ at the Academy of Music d Mrs. Bowers at the Arch Strect Theatre. Madame Janauschel: Wednesday night, at the Walnut Street ‘Theatre, Philadélphia, piayed “‘Phedra? in an adaptation of Racine's tragedy El;’flmrcd for her_by Miss Jeannette Tuckey, of udon. ~According to the. play-bills, this was the first representation in English on 2ny stage of this trazedy, and,so far as we have any infor~ mation, the play-bills make a correct statement. Kate Claxton will be at St. Louis this week; the Berger- Family and Sol Smith Russell at Cincinmati; E. L. Davenport in * Dan’l Druce at Pittsbure; Mrs, Chanfrau at Memphis; John McCullough "and John E. Owens at_Boston; Boucicault in **The Shaughraun* at Washing® ton; the Florences, supported bLy Ellsler's Clevcland ‘company, fn Columbus and other Ohio cities. Thie Boston Saturday Gazette says of Heory J. Byron’s new play, “OId Sailors,” lately pre- sented at the Museum in that city: “It is about as stupid o play, making any pretense to the name of cowedy, as it has been our lot to wil ness for some time. ~ Of plot it i almost as bar- Ten as a billiard ball is of hair. In poiut of in- terest, the multiplication table is_thrilling avd Dblood-curdling compared with it. Its sentiment is absurd, and the trite moral it attempts to teach fs painfully {nane in its puerility.” Mr. 1L J. Montague will appear at the Boston Muse- um on Feb. 19, May Howard was at St. Louls last week; An- na Dickiuson at Buffalo; Frank Mayo at Indfan- agolis and other Indiana towns; Mary Anderson at Augustaand Atlanta; Lawrence ~Barrett in Ohio citfes: Mrs. Lander, in “ The Secarlet Let- ter,” at Albany; Charlotte Thompson, in o plagiarized version of ¢ Miss Multon,” at Roch- ester; Rose Eytinze, in another version of ihe same play, at Providence, R. L: Edwin Booth at Brooklyn; E. L. Davenpdrt as “Dan’l Druce " in cities on the line of the New York Central Railroad; John T. Raymond at New Orleans; Sothern at San Fraueisco; Joseph Murphy and the “Evangeliné » combibation at- Boston; the * Forbidden Fruit” company at Waslington. - FOREIGN NOTES. ‘The King of Holland vresented Sarah Bern- hardt with the Graud Medal of Artin token of his admiration for her acting in ** L'Etrangere,” ‘Toole, the Irish comedian, is acting in a bur- 1esque in London, and, as one of the great Ken- tucky rifle team, it is highly amusing to hear him undertaking to ** do his level best ” to hit a fly on the far mountain slope, and then mag- nanimously decline the feat in the wards, * N sir; T see that 1ly’s back is turned, and I wi never take advantage even of a fly.” A new comedy called * Herocs,” evidently written years nzo on the Robertsonian lnes for the Prince of Wales' Company, was produced for the first time in London three 270 at the Aquariam Theatre. Mr. and Mrs. Bllling- ton and Miss Me; k had been pl 2 it ona country tour, und it _was well received in Lon- don, the author, a Mr. Conway Edwards, being calied at the close to submit to the nolsy ap- plause of a democratic audience. The following is taken from a dispateh printed in the Merald last Sunday: “’The great dramatic suceess of the week lus been M. Victorien Sardou’s pluy entitled ‘ Dora.’ The plot exhibits the futrigues of fushionable fomale spies in the pay of foreign statesmen, interwoven with z ery pretty love story and helped out by beau- tiful “stage nccessories, pretty actresses, de- licious acting, and bewildcring millinery, People accuse Sardou of plagiarizieg fromn Duwas’ * L'Etrangere.’ Au English version of * Les Danicheff »* has latel; been presented at the St. James Theatre, London. The play was done in the nictrapotis lust summer by the compuui of the Odeon Theatre, Paris, but hos never before been miven in English. Some slight change has been made in the texs, in order to aveid sceming incon- sistencics, but the original has, on the whole, been pretty closely followed. The Athensum savs: “ What was felt to be the cruclal dif- sealty of ‘Les Danichefl’ is removed. The heroitie, and the ‘freedman she has been com- pelled to marry, no longer dwell in the same but in a closeness of intimacy. that renders all but incredible the sclf-denial the husband is supposed to cxercise. As soon as the marriage blessing is._spoken, Osip departs for St. Petersburg to'seck from tue Czar & re- Ieasc from his vows, and leaves Anna a resident in the house of the Danischeffs. By this con- trivance the kind of moral shock produced by the original is avoided.” Henry Irving's performance of ¢ Richard TIL" Was adwired in the first three acts, where he discarded Colley Cibber and thio old ' traditions, but was a signal failure towards the close. A correspondent says there was more of comedy or melodrama in" it than trazedy. fn this con neetion an anecdote now fluating around the provincial_newspapers of England is worth re- peating. It is said that Mr, Irving had lately arrived in o provineful town at the same time with_Jlyers’ Circus. An old-school trage- dian happened to be, * starring » there at the time, and onc day was met on the strect by an ald friend, who asked him how be was doing. *Bad, bad as bad can be,"” croaked the old tra- gedion,—“not quarter honses!”” The sympa- thizing friend condoled with him and finally wound up by saying, “But then you must ro. member Mr. Irving is a vers popular actor.” “ Mr. Irving?” exclaimed theé tragic one. ** Hang Mr. Irving! Tli stor agaiust Mr. Irving any- where; but Td like to know who is to star against twelve performing elephantsi” o iR il HMUSIC. LONDOXN. - EVERYBODY OUT OF TOWX. Speciat_ Correspondence of The Tribune. Loxpox, Eng., Jan. 10.—The winter season is not that of opera in London. The operatic warblers take flight in September, and return_ with the May swallows. This ycar one might except the English opera troupe of Carl Rosa, which remained until December, and had very full honses to the last,—notwithstanding that itwasit a time when *everybody (to speak aristocratically) is out of town.” But “No- body,” especially fa o metropolis, has 3 very large family; and, to judge from the white cloaks, ostrich plumes, Iaces, lavender kids, and swallow-tails which fluttered about the stalls and boxes of the Lyceum Theatre, he Is cven a tolerably ornamental member of society. THE CARL ROSA TROUPE. The reliance of the troupe in leading parts may be said to heve beet Mlle. Torriaui, who is, 1 think, somewhat Lknown to Americans; Miss Julia Gaylord; Mr: Nordblom, a tenor, who, it 1 am not mistaken, sang for some time in Chi- cago'at the beginning of his career, a few vears 5g0; .and Mr. Santley, the wellknown English bass. The latter had 2 pronounced suceess in Cnerubini’s * Water-Carrier,” an opera which he may besaid to have taken almost entirely upon_his own shoulders, in a tigurative as well as literal sense. Santley is frequently eriticised by musicians; e does not utter bis notes prop- erly, it Is said, and_there arc further criticisms of hismethod of phrasine. But he is certainly avery agreeable singer; his voice, while it has considerable depth and calibrz a8 a pass, has a smoothuess and a sort of symvathetic vibration which suggest a swect buritone: and one might elmost, ut times, be deluded iuto saying that it has cven certain fenor qualitics. He has also a kind of bonkomie of manner which makes bim popular with his audience. The troupe bad a great success with W *Flying Dutchman,” and with * Fidelio.”” They produced the mdard Germau and Italiasn operas, Anglicised, and _revived some 1ot so well knowg, as “*'The Lily of Killarney,* Bulfe's * Satanella,” Bellini's “Porter of Hayre,” and others. The decided success of this company at “what is usually regardéd an unfavorable time of the year gove rise to many such editorials and arguments in musical journals, and in the daily press, as were evoked, I observe, by the suceess of Miss Relloge it a sinilar undertaking on the other side of the water. PROMENADE CONCERTS. Another musical solace of the autumn was the Covent Garden Promenade Concerts. These were decidedly “ populur? affairs, but not with- out occasional pretensions to higher aspiratious. The great stage of Covert Garden was opened for promenaders. The orchestra occupied an clevated tribunc ju the centre of the entire space thus created; the seats cenerally known as *stalls” were removed, and ornamental fountains and greeneries were distributed abont “ promiscuous.” Seats could be reserved as usual in the boxes. dress circle, and upper gal- leries, but by far the larger part of the audience were the promenaders, who, for the entrance fec of a shilling, strolled hither and thither upon the fioor of the house in one eat moying paunorama. I call it a panorama, ecause, to & stranger in Euglaud, this great restless throng was no small part of the even~ ing's entertajiument. I have come to the con- ciusion that Taine did not exhaust the subject -of “ English Notes,” and some peculiarities noted by the present correspondent might in- terest even those familiar with the traveled Frenchman’s witty observations. Not to dwell further upon them here, ou could not help being struck with the greatbeauty of certain pirls of what might almd be termed the peasant class, evidently o late {mportation from the rural districts, § compared with _the extreme homeliness of e tenants of the guinea seats and boxes. Ia well aware that every allowance should be ndefor the fact that but few pcaifle of high ranlwere supposed to be at that time in London-still, I have since seen some confirmation of t3 contrast in places where there could beno dcbt of the presence of genuine aristocracy. T beauty remarked upon above seems to meof a marked and strictly English type, and famore characteristic of the pation, iu the sensethat it is found no- where else, than the statuesuc handsomeness—ii I may be allowed the only urd which seoms to express it—ot the higher asses. ‘These rustic beauties, who strolied aboy with country-fuced boys or young clerks fom the city, or sometimes,” two” by two, aul in hand, had round or oval fuces, with omplexions which T can compare only to dcp-hearted summer roses, poppies, tulips, oleaile:s, and other tri- umps of Nature’s skill. ‘hebeauty lay fn the fact that the white of thesfoces was as perfect 85 the colors,—white as thnllk of Devonshire, or the inside of a cocoanutard gl the graga- tions were fincly made,—a:ttey will not be five years hence; for I need ng siy that this is not beauty which looks bes when full-blown. ‘Then, the eyes were darkaxd soft as those of Itatians,—rarely bluc, akly fringed, giving the effect of black. f;ou add to this, white tecth, wellfored, and not tou large; abundant hair of ,rch black or brown, and an ex&amslou of greal kxyou!ness, sceming to proceed from a superatirdance ot health and vigor—you make what sens to mea very at- tractive ensemble; snd I well upon it here) be- cause in all large assowlies of the petter class, 6o far, iny eyes tle for the sight of o beautiful girlish face,—stl flowers as you may see blooming all over a{American lecture or concert-room. But this i 2 lonz way from the Covent Garden Promenau¢ Concerts. If Isay that the conductor was fignor Arditi, who {3 there in Chicago who has ,dnunctlwfnst many a midnizht to the tum-tuedf 11 Baceio,” who will not feel that hie is acqeinted with him? . < ARDIF - Arditi is a dapper little :llow, slightly bald, plump as to ouzline, and bvial ‘in_expressi He s said to know all tistandard operns by heart, aud to be able to coduct them without notes. His school in musils evidently of the old, pleasant, jingling sorfthetumty-tum-tum- ty of Bellini and Donizetti Bat inroads of the “music of the futui® upon public favor have competled him to.ma¢ some concessions to the new taste; hencelis Introduction ot Covent Garden of ** Wagir Nights,” in which the first half o the evenin'was given up to the works of that exacting mu To these even- ings came the Germars, t¢ . enthusiastic young distples who carry in thel cont-pockets = six: penny bust of their idol, od all thegreat throng who ~paraphrase the ol¢ French proverb on beauty into:. One must uffer in order to be fashionable. For I kng no composer who uppears to such disadvanize 0s Wagner repre. sented by detached fragmnts to a miscellone- ous audience by a fair, Lt not superior, orches- tra. And what musical vdor, however great, can support the overturep * Tannhauser * with two selections from theime opera, two from the “Meistersinger,” & scencs from “ Die Walkure,” oue from * Lhengrin,” the funeral march of * Siegfricd,” ad the march of * Hul- dirung,'—performed in uceession, without an interval, and without sceic nccessories? I have hiad my nights of rapturever * Lohengrin " and # Der Ring des Nibetunén,” and am generally classed amony the moi fanatlc of Wagner ites, but I confess 1t when the ~last great crash of the brasses in ¢ Huldl gunz's March” died twey, I could think of nothing so approprie as: *Silence like a oultice comes, to healthe blows of sound.” Periiaps nothing was qui so amusing as Ardit himscif during Part L. o the prozrumme, which was that devoted to Waner. ‘The smooth fore- head was knitted andprinkled with the io- tensity of his effort; hidips were set like those ©f oué whoprepares fon 0o struin; he rose on tip-toe and shook i baton furiously at the violins; he made 2 spamodic dash towards the Dbig drums; le gestialated fiercely at the brasses; great drops o perspiration stood on his brow, and the orehetn wore the look which is described in New Engand as * severely tried.” When Part I was jver he flung himself into o chair and moped his face assidu- ously, relaxing curve of deep relief and satisfaction stole all ger his portly little fig- ure. With what joyas alucrity ht sprang 1o his desk in Part IT, al_began-the *grand se- lection from ‘Ernani!?’ Quite independent of the notes before him ke beauied serenely on his orchestra, gently swging to the right and left like a dreamy waltzernodding mild approval; meanwhile his bata like a musical .stick, ca~ recred vith gracefuprecision through familiar spaces. The March € Siegfried which has been flamingly advertised before cach delivery, is, in my opinion, thrillingind sublime {n many of its effe cts, if_heard inan immense hull of in the open uir; but for an ordinary au- dience-raom _ the ‘orchestration s entire- ly tco powerful; $t iz overwhelming, and produces upon sensifve organizations a positive fecling of discomfo in the retrion of the brain, —the effect perhapsof overstraining and con’ cussion. There1s it London n_socicty devoting itself in a special ¥ay to the production of Wuemner's musie, *here iz may be heard far otherwise than a5 Iave described it _above, o description of whoe performances might be in- teresting to some raders of Tug TRIBUNE. CLASICAL MUSIC. With the approab of the boliday season, be- gins that of the tw great socicties for tle pro- duction of classial music. These arc the Sacred Harmonic ¢ Excter Hall, and the Albert Hall Choral Societ in their new and beautiful bullding. ‘The firs is by far the clder, and re- rarded until Jatelyas facile princeps. 'The con- ductor is Sir Michael ~Costa, knighted for his musical ervices,—long _the instruct- or of the Royal faxily. Exeter Hall, which in Ameriean cars coneets itself with anti-slavery meetings and relzious conferences, is by no means “u_model audience-chamber. It is so broad in proportia to its leneth that, seated in the gallery, one fels almost as If he were fung upou the Itmens chorus and orchiestra. The ceiling, too, seem tome disproportionately low. But the greatest lefeet of Exeter Hall is its very inadequate arrwgements for egress. Coming {from the zulleryou are obliged to wind around asmall, narrow. crooked staircase; halt-way down the stroam of people_ descending slowly and with diffialty is met by a counter current from a low door on the left, whence ; part of tuc auditorium discharges itsclf 1n cace of a fire or panic it is almost inconceiuble that there should not bea struggling, frizkencd mass of people. tightl wedged liito thiinarrow space, and killiog each other by unavoiable pressurc. Since the Brook- Iyn disaster theattention of the Lord Chamber- Jain has been caled to this, and to the necessity of compelling the management of tlic Hall to construct o brod means of descent from the gallery; but whther anythingwill be doue until some grreat valinity enforces {ts lesson, is doubt- fulafter all. Abert Hall, on the other hand, is a laree, beautiflly-proportioned building, of a reduced Colicum shape; it stands op- posite Hydi Purk, facing the Al- Dert Memorlal.emple and statue. The interior isa perfect amhitheatre, and is terminated by an cncirding gallery opening by large archcs upon the audtorium. There are one or two of the gallers’s occupled by promcnadzrs, who move about irthe intervals of the performance, and perhaps visit the. refreshment-rooms i.icyong‘ Sets are agreeable and comfortable i any part of the halll though some graces of soloists migh be lost in the highest tiers. The chorus aud otbestra ‘appear a little larger than those of Excer Hall, where they are nearly 700 in numbe. The conduetor is Dr. Barnby, who, unlike ©sta, bas his laurels yet to win, and, in & cerain way, this infant societyis a rival and an nspirant to the fame of its grave clder, the Saced Harmonlc. HE ORATORIO SEASON. . The orators season begins here in late fall or carly winter I am iuclined to think that, of oratorio anc the severer kinds of classical music. Londn is the chosen scat; and that here if anywhere there is an audjence prepared for it by long an faithful attendance upon its mus- terpfeces, - Jor these Handel produced his ma- jestic strain; and I fmow of no other place, cithier in_histime or otrs, where a public could be found Tarm, apprecitive, and constant cuough to ceate the demand to which his long list ot elevaed 2nd laborious compositions were the reply. Here, too, Mendelssohn conducted in persop lis *‘Elijah,” und here I think be found his mst, inspiring audiences. THE ABERT HALL CIORAL SOCIETY. The Albet Hall Choral Society gave, as jts second perbrmance this season, Meudelssohn's “ Lobgesars™ and the “Stabat Mater » of Ros- sini, Wha seemed specially worthy of remark in the chonises was the fresliness of the voices, the abseno among tie sopranos of that peculiay shrillness b which all concerted voices of that type secm fable, and the unusual excelleuce of the bassei 1i onc imagines an instrument with the fxibility of the human voice, and the ~volume anl grandeur of the organ, Be can re- produce te effect of these 200 bass voices sing-~ ng as one The soloists were Madame Sinico, an agreeable and pobular Italian here: Nr. E. Lloyd, wiv sustained all thetenor parts but ove, fn “which the great English tenor, Sims Reeves, onde bis appearance; Sfemor Foli, and Madame Antoinctte Sterling. Madame Sinfco has a swet, cven, and fiexible voice, without any spechl “individuality. Almost the same “might besaid of Mr. E. Lloyd, who coples Sims Reeves, ad now that the old favorite is failing, g +10 his pl; - seems tc aspire .10 place in public l.‘,s’llgld tion. Bins Reeves is quiten *character,’ l . Tows of seatsit the front, but the greater part: a privileged one in London. He is like an old beau, carefully padded, powdered, and got mj to conceal the ravages of time. Ife moves canx tlously, as if afraid of the cffect of any sudder or violent movement, and Le sings fn the same way: the pleasure vou expericuce from his full, even, well-modulited tones is Iessened by the anxi ezt the well husbanded voiee sbou!g fail at 2 entical moment. Yet on great, occasions lie comes out finely and shows an excellent method and something of what his voice hus been. Five times ont of ten occasions in ¥hich e is advertised to sing, he is annoanced as ** 1o- disposed,” and a_substitute is provided: hence, on his entrance he Is enthusiastically welcomed, —a tribute which he receiveslike some acknowl- edged beauty, conscious of charms. If an sudi- ence attempts to obtain an cucore he remains in his scat, frowning ominously; and if the ap- plauseis continued, he fings his score on the floor beside him, glaring fiercely at the applaud- ers, Mme. Antoinctte Sterling sane the *Fac ut portem™ with that _singularly sat isfying ~ tone and fine expression for which she is ‘rewarkable, There is an individuality about her which is to me cne of asinger's greatest attractions. Something of the same is true of Folj, swhom some Amerf- cans will recognize as Mr. Foley, of Hartford, Conn. 1is buss is by far the best I have heard in London—certainly the best in oratorio. Sceing i and Antoinette Sterling singing side by side, et me off upon some musings ns to what we tall race. There was Madame Sinico, placid and fudillerent, standing in s griacefully languid way; Llovd, planted squarc and solid on both feet, 1 pleiure of English self- satistaction; Reeves with the attitude of o _dis- dainful beauty; and then came Madame Ster- ling, o decp earncstness- diffused all over Dier serious face, Lalf rising, it scemed, from the floor -in the intepsity of her effort ond absorption; and Foli, leaning forward like afine racer, allhis body sceming elastic and sensitive to the musieal Vibrations. But *Good Lord!” as my Engilish neighbor exclaimed to 1iis companion, ** what fools people do make of themselves when _tiey geton the subject of natfonalities! ”” The finest et on this occa- sion was the singing of the *Inflammatus,” by Madame Sinico and the chorus. I heard nothi- ing so good till the performance of the “Mes- siah ™ ‘the week before Christmas, at Exeter Hall, with Madame Nouver and Miss Enriguez 23 soprano aud coutralto; and at Albert liall, with™ Tietjens and ~ Trebelli-Bettini in the same “roles. To tell the truth, I am not fond of orutorios. I have endured agonies untold during long and dreary renderiugs of the ‘Creation,” withi only alittle bit of pabulum here and there, as *With verdure clad,” to nibble upon. "And I have anathematized the traditional American gal- lantry when compelled to sit threc mortal hours oy thie side of somc young Bostonian with u Iéaning to azure hose dud spectacles, while the Hande] and Haydn mtoned the severe recitatives of “Elijah.” But these two performances of the ‘“Messiah ™ have gone fur to reconcile me with au oratorio as such. Mle. Tictjens has sung in Americn, und it fs unnccessary to say that she sang well; but something was Iocking fn ber “I kuow that my Re deemer liveth.” That “something® was fecling, religious fervor, magueric cn- thusiasm. — Nevertheless, the notes were beautitally given. But the singine of Mne. “Trebelli-Bettini was simply delicious; the word {s not inappropriate, since'the ear scemed to bor- row the functions of the-palate, and taste the perfection of her notes. “O Thou that tellest Zood tidings to Zion,” and “He shall feed His Hock Iike a shiepherd,” as sung by her, left noth- ing to be desired. It cume us near to the music ol the spliercs us one is likely to reach *here below.” Hearing the two Soddetics give the s2me oratorio on’ suctessive evenings nuturally led to those comparisons to which Mrs. Mala- gmp objected &0 strongly. The “Pastoral ympliony ™ produced a finer effcet at Albert Hall, th¢ great spaces lending it a sort of perspective, gradations of expression, which it mnissed ut Exeter. But tie - orches- tra s less perfect, ond the Drasses too prominent, so that they sometimes eclipse the soloist. So, while the choruses were ad- mirable in both Societies, those at Excter were a little luer. At Albert Hall Suns Reeves sung all the tenor solos except the first, und gofued fmmense applause by his bhizh A, on which he broke his heathen aud dashed them in pleces **like a potter’s vesset.” At Exeter Hall oue of the finest things was the air, “The Trumpet Shall Sound,” with trumpet solo by Mr. Harper. who has a great local fame. The bass, Mr. Georze Fox, who took the air, is a troe and faithful but not remarkable singer, but the instrumental solo contirmed me in tmy con- viction of the great effectiveness of the trumpet, which™ has been so much uellized " by Wagner. But I return ogain and n to the choruses, which were mognifi- cent. No description could do justice to the combined sweetness, melody, and grandeur of the rendering of “Untous a child is born,” “Lift up vour heads, O yeo gates,” and tic “llallelujah ™ chorus. . “RLnanL? The last performance at Exeter Hall was “Elijah.? Tne_leading singers were Mad- ame _Temmens-Sherrington, —soprano; Mad- wme Patey, contralto; Mr. Wilfrid Morgan, s very_ordiuary tenor; Mr. George Fox, ‘an excellent musician, but with s volee of too light a calibre to sustain the important bass of this oratorfo. Afndwmme Sherringzton isa very fiexible sopranc, and_ Mudame Patcy an cxcep- 8 tionally fine contralto, but lucking, I think,” in cxpression. DBoth are great fuvorites of the London public, and they sing with great acceptance at the Mounday and Saturday popular ballad_concerts. ‘The oratoro was tidely iven, but uid not, in my opinfon, approach the 'excellence of the “3lessiab.” There is, however, 2 areat deal of somcwhat - mouotonous recitative in *¢ Eiijah,” which is compeusated by the great sweetness of passazes like, “ If, with all your hearts,” *Lift thine eves,” and 0, rest in the Lord.” The latter was given by Mme. Patey with an abso- lute faultlessness in the mechunical or physical part, but [ missed the indescribable pathos and sweetness of Antoinette Sterling’s rendering, Also, “Llijah " demands a grand and powerful Dass, which here was Incking. PANTOMINES. Meanwhile, the holidays have come, and gone, evergwhere exceptat tne theatres, where the areat attractions of the holiday season—the Pantomimes—are in full blast, and wilt be so for weeks to come. But the peculuarities of English pantomime deserve more than to be dismissed with o sentence at the close of a letter. BOXING DAY. An amusing reminder of the holiday season, which strikes me s characteristically Ew: glish, lles on my table in the shape of two little printed petitions. The duy after Christmas is here known as * Boxing Day,” and is 2 bank holiday. No reference to gytanastic ances is intended by its title, wkich refers only to the custom Of giving gratuities, called * Christmas Boxes,” to scrvants and attendants of every kind. Then do postman, water- man, strect-sweeper, and a bost more, present their petition for 2 Jittle something exira to oil the wheels of the New Year aud sct them going. Herefsone: _“To the worthy mbabitants of St. James’ District. . Ladies and Gentlemen— We, the regular watermen of this parish, hum- bly make application to, you for a Christinas box. We bring n token; “which is one large pewter medal, representing on one side a bust of Lard Nelson cncircled by an inscription, ¢ Gallant Nelson, died Oct. 21, 1505, off Cape Trafalgal Blue ribbon attached. As there are persons who go about with intent to de- fraud us und impos¢ ou you, be so kind a3 not to give your bounty to any but those who can produce the aforesaid token. N.B.—No con- nection with the scavenzers.” 3 ‘The sccond is headed ** The Scavengers of Re- gent street, Coventry strect, and Piccadilly, Teg most respectfully o inform the inhabitauts as above that, having reasons to betleve that your kiud charity at Christmas-time hus been imposed upon by persons calling themsclves scavengers, who are not, we beg to say that no oune s authorized to solicft your kind charity ouly those who shall produce o small prioted card with names thereon corresponding with those in the bill delivered, with a star. Yours humbly, —.* Then follow the names and the star. \Where next will pretension find 2 niche for itself? Contemplate, if you can, the as- Summption of those peopls “calling themselves scavengers, who are not 1 ’ CranLes Laspor. AT HOME. WHAT 1§ TOE MATTER? The Essipoff concerts have come to 2 close, and the great artist Las taken her Eastern flight, ana by easy stages, giving concerts at To- Jedo, Cleveland, and other places on the route, il arrive at New York in about two weeks, and three weeks from to-morrow night will com- mence 2 season in Bostun. These concerts bring us to 2 comparative musical rest, and, pending that rest, one cannot help inquiring, What is the matter? Herelis agreat artist, not anar- tist seckinz to makea reputation, but with a reputation already made in fRuss Germany, Fraace, and England, recognized by the severest European critics as at the head of her profession, indorsed by Rubinstein himsel? as his peer. In her programmes she has played Becthoven, Handel, Bach, Scuiatti, Mendels- soln, Raff, Gluck, Wagner, Liszt, Schubert, Rubinstein, Von Bulow, Chopiu, Saint-3aens, and every one else worth playing, and all kinds of compositions, from alittle romance, e, 0r gavotte, up to the heaviest and most compli- cated concertos. - She has in fact run the whole gamut of piano musie, from a Bach fugue down to Leschetizsky's last caprice. Taking her play- mme- a3 a whole, notning could be more cnjoyable, and fet the people refase to lences have represented the exception of one watinee. Tell it mot in Milwaukee; whis- Now what Of “course we told immediately that same old story that has been told a thousand times: ‘The people do not like classical music. Butis this the real reason? Hereisalittle test: On Thursday cveulng last Mr. Louis Falk gave o concert, in which he pret- ty nearly exhausted the musical taleat of the ¢ bad for his sssistonce Mrs, Emma Tharston and Mrs. Louis Falk, sopranos; Mrs. and Miss R.C. Dexter, ing and pro; cojoy it. Herbest audl about $250, with per it not in St. Louis! 15 the matter? city. W. R. Watrons traltos; Messrs. Schultze, sad - Allen, tenor and Kimbark, baritoucs the head. What {s the matterf £ood coucert. It was not classical. Was on hand to make a snuccess escept the audience. It s cvidently a good season for the Tumbleronicons and tine-tooth comb play- ers. The next venture in the concert line will be the annusl concert of TRE CHICAGO MUSICAL COLLEG] assisted by a full orchestru, which wi at McCormick’s Hall, next Thursday evening. The programme will be as follows: PARL 1. 1. Overtare—** Egmont ™" chest Or¢ ra. 2. Concertstneck—Op. 33, with orches- Reinecke tral accompaniments liss Emi 3._Ah ch'iol'adoro ancora: Egit 3 4. Concerto—Op. 69, with orches ‘companiment, . chiestral accompaniment. Jr, 7, Scena e Melodia—** Afda "' Miss Emma Roes 8. Concerto—Qp 58, with orchestral accom- -Moscheles animent..... s i 1t s cheerful to note that the concert promises to be well attended. The tickets are going off quite lively, and reserved scats may be had belore the concert at the College, 493 Wabash avenue. COMPLIMENTARY CONCERT. Tn the present dearth of good tenors in the city, it is hard to lose any of them, and therc will be a very gencral feeling of regret that so =ood a singer as Mr. Alfred Wilkic is about to leave us, having accepted a choir position in Boston. His friends in this city, in view of his carly departure, have arranged a testimonial con- cert for him, which will be given at Standard Hall next Feiday evening, Those who will take {u\rn are Miss Cora Miller, soprano; Jrs. W. R, Watrous, contrslto; G. T. R. Knorr, baritone; Mr. Emf Liebling, and Mr. Higo Wittgensteln, flute_player, Iate with the Thomas orchestra. Jiiss Miller, and Mr. Knorr will sing scenes from ** Sonuambula ib costnme art of the programme. Sig. . N. Carozzl will be the musical director. Mr. Wilkie deserves a most substantial testimonial, Mr. Wilkie, for the second G. and we hope he will receive it. THE APOLLO CONCERTS. The Apollo Club has arranged a superb pro- gramme for its forthcoming concerts ou the 18th and 15th inst., when, in addition tothe Club and its ladies’ chorus, Miss Benziger, the ne- complished voealist, and Miss Julia Rive, the well-known planist, will appear. Among the gems of the programme are Schubert’s * Tiwenty- second Psalm,” for ladies’ voices; Bach’s chorus “T Wrestle and Pray”’; Gounod’s cantata © By Babylon’s Wave 5 Mendelssohn’s ““Judge Me, 0 God,” and three of Mendelssohn’s part to Miss Benziger's and There {s_some talk, Miss Rive a re- ception in the form of o piapo recital, which would be a gracefal thing to do considering that Miss Rive is coming here to reside. She has a host of friends and admirers here who would be greeting upon in addition Rive's numbers. understand, of giving glad to give her 2 most cordial such an oceasion. NEW MUSIC. ‘We have reccived from Messrs. Ditson & Co., Boston, through Lyon & Healy, of ths city, the {following pizno music, whick will commend it- sclf to players as having been performed by Mme. Essipoff during ler pending coucert tour: “ Gavotte," by Silas; ** Gavotte,” by Glnek, ar- ranged for plano by Brahms; ‘ Zur-Guitarre,” impromptu, by. Hiller; *Des Abends,” by Schumanu; * Intermezzo,” op. 2 Von_Bulow; “Souvenir d'Ischl No.2, and © L' Aven,” imgmrlsntiom op. 31, “ Maimestu,” 2 fantasic romance, by Dulcken, Mme. Essipofl’s In addition to these same firm sends us the following: 3y Heart Still Lingers Here,” by Bernard Mo 3 A Song to the “Feet of My Love,” “by Virginia Gabriel; “Clouds at Eventide,” “Joyous Songs,” *In Hearted,” o set of songs by Franz Lachner; ¢ Fairy Legend,” for piano and violin, and two sonzs, * A Swallow Sailing Ligbtly ” and * Hark How Sweet the Thrashes Sing,” by Julius Eichberg; “ er Hidalgo,” 2 Schumann song arranged for iano by Lange; ‘“Sum of My Soul,” by C. A. gl city): “The Angelus Bell,” by Keens, as sung Ly the Swedish Ladies’ Quar- 1, Ty Leschotizsky; an accompanist. ranged by Gustavus Geary: Antumn” and ¢ Light Deautiful avens (of ¢ tette; ““'Tis a Race with the Sea T. Brigham Bishop; * Whither, Little Maiden,’ by Mrs. C. H. Scott; nnd *Good Night, My Unly Child,” transcribed for pfano by A. Jungmann. Chicugo, have sued “Good Morning Waltz.” *“Little Wila- flower Rondo,” “Kittie’s Polka,” “Suowflake Waltz, * Little Boy’s March,” and_* Holiday Quickstep,” a sct of progressive pieces far be- ginners; - Meet Me by the Willow-Tree,” and Dolly McFes,” by C.G. “When the Stars Are On the Sea,” by Kinsley; aud “Darling Nora,” by John E. Bur- F. 8. Chaudler & Co., FSweet den. Root & Sons Mu: and * Venite i D, b Kellner, con- Coflin, Gill - Leffler, Ir. Liebling, plano; Alr. Lewis, violin’ - Mr. heim, ’cello; the whole Cloral Union of West Side, 100 volces; and himsclf for the organ. Healso had the assistance of two horn and two trombone players, and his prozramme was of a popular "description; and yet the beneflt was o about as much benefit as 4 cold in It was a really Everything the zLe given +ssevee. Beethoven Afiss Jary Wisherd. PART 1. 5. Where Art Thon—** Larline "..........Wallace AMiss Alice Lansden. 8. Concerto—~Op. 64, for violin, with or- -Mendelssohn .. Verdi N 3 No. 9, by ieces the ity, ar- Lay at ust fs- St.” Clair; J.F. i Company _announce “Beautiful Land on High,” * Sun of My Soul,” C. A. Havens,” of this the Academy of Music, and Aimee at the Eagle Theatre arc the features of interest this week fnNew York. The Fabbri troupe dia ‘¢ Der Freischutz” n San Francisco on the 23th ult. Tom Karl sang in a Richmond, V., concert Jnst” Friday evenlog. be MUSICAL NOTE3. Mr. Maurice Gran intends directing Mile. Almec’s footsteps toward South America next summer. Mume. Palmieri has been cngaged ds prima donnaat the Teatro Tacon, in Havana, and has already departed to fulfill her engagement. Jurrett (English Jarrett) is tryiog to effect o combination betweea Nilsson and Faure for Americs, the engagement to be carried out next year. s The Milan Perseveranza is authorized by the composer to state that Herr Wagner hes half fluished his mew opera * The Legend of Per- cival.? ” -_Miss Clementine Lasar, sopreno of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, was married to Mr. George Studwell, on Sunday Jast, at the residence of the Rey. Henry Ward Beecher. ““Robert le Diable s at this moment a great suceess at the Paris Opera. One night the re- celpts exceeded 20,000 francs, and many people were unable to obtain admission. AIr. W. H. Gladstone, M. P., is engaged ona translation of Thibaut’s work, “On Purity in Musical Art,” and has added ir of the writer. Mr.'Murray 1 the publisher. The German singine societies of Lonfsvil! ;‘ thel:logkmnz an “Euterpe,"‘ 2 prep::nl:.: or the Saengerfest, to be given in that city b, the North American Sncng‘::‘rbund in .?un:,"' ™ Wilhelmy, the celebrated violinist, who was the “‘first fiddle ” of the Bairemth tEm:hc:szm, and who next to Liszt was the greatest lion at the festival, has been engaged by Ullmann for Amcrica. He will most likely join Jael, the lanist, in bis tour. They are to teave for the ‘nited States in October next. A New York Herald Qispatch says: “Another American cantatrice, Miss Julia Gaylord. cele- brated for her beautiful voice and,small feet, will probably be awarded the rolc of Fwa in ‘Wagner’s. ¢ Meistersinger,” when proauced by Carl Rosa next scason, both her possessions eminently qualifyfng her for the part.” Mme. Nilsson appeared, on the 1ith ult.,at the Imperial Overa-House fnVienna, in the * Hamlet " of M. Ambroise Thomas, 2s Ophdia. The Swedish prima donna was to sing also in “Lohengrin ™ (Elsa), “ Faust " (ifcryuerite), und ¢ The Huguenots ™ (Valentine). Thic lady sings in French, and the other artists sing in German. .. Aletter from Miss Annie Loufse Cary says that she was stek and contined to her rovm for two weeks after her acefdent at Moscow.: She was, however, intending to n%pe‘.\r again the foltowing Monday morning. She will leave ft home from Englind on the' 7th of March, and has already been engazed to sing at the Com- mencewents of Bates and Bowdoin Colleges. The Turner Hall programme for this after- noon includes the following numbers: *Em. peror William March.” by Oscar Schmoll; over- ture to “Preciosa’™; Conradi's “Pell Mell - Potpourri’: tneme and variation for clarinet, by Vaas; Gunel's waltz, *The Masqueraders?; overture to “The Wanderer’s Destination,” by Suppe; Humm's potpourri, *Satan is Abroad ™3 and Amdt’s galop, * Berlint Fire Department.” “The San Franzisco Chronicle says: * We are informed that Madame Stranbilla (ma de Murska) (in private, simply, and not upon the rogrammes) has concluded not to retarn to urope via San Francsco, but by way of Indis and Suez, the dull States not offeriniz at pres- ent any field fn which she can reap a golden harvest. Therefore we shatl have no Di Vivo and no Italian opera until some umnesztioncd period in the far-off fature.” In the absence of professional performances of opers, the amateurs are having a lively time of it. A soclety fn Momphis is giving *Mar- tha” Another fn Cincinnati, under Signor Janotta’s direction, is performing * Fra Divo- lo,” with Miss Mattie Bell Clark, who has sung we | fn this cfty, as Zerling ; ana *Maritana,” with Miss Lulu Stevens in the title role. _Cleveland has “11 Trovatore,” with Miss K. Lormfer James as Jeonora, Miss Allardt, of Detroit, as Azucena, and Mr. John Spindler as Janrico. The St. Paul amatenrs are wrestling with & The Czar and Carpenter.” The New York Dramatic News savs of the Kellogz troupe’s business week before last: ¢ The reccipts of the week were close on 30,000 for four performances, and those of the current week have been thus far no less in proportion. The copartners, Who had been a number_ of weeks behind in_thelr salaries, suceceded in picking umo& only their week, but a couple of others in back pay.” As their route now lies fn such - places as Boston, Baltimore, and Wash- Ington, there is no reason to doubt that by the end of the season the vocal speculators will not alonc have made their salaries, but have a handsome profit besides." The New York Eeening Post says: It is pretty genemily understood that Mr. Tnomas® success has not been sufficient this winter to Lalance his losses of last summe; been hinted that he fs becoming disheartened. The people have certaily not supported him to any great extent lately. The rumor that be seriously coniemylates asbandoning his work here, and retarning for good to Germany, is, we sinceru. 1y hove, unfounded. A ‘‘Theodore Thomas Bene- fl{ Ball,” under ‘‘distingunished patronage,” has been wupzested. Of coure the people who acknowledge that they have been benefited by Mr. Thomas® etforts to_cultivite the popmiar musical tazte will suoport this movement, If thev are usked 10, 8s they would anpport any otherin Mr. Thomus® behalf; but it would be singular for a great orches- trul leader to receive that kind of a benefit. A ball wonld be about a3 appropriate an entertainment in by | sucha case asa circus. ' " ASHTABULA. Afew years earlicr, more orless—it matters not When flesh returns to dust, and souls to G A casual ehortening of the dubions road Whose jonrneyers belong to Death, in that wide oversizht . .Of Him Who dwelleth high in clondless light, 13 not calamity at all. 1lis careful love Holds open doors to His bricht houze above, Thut glow into the misty telds of Faie \\‘llhin itable light. Ilis Angels, all compassion- ate, Strpteh arme of welcome to the soals that come Ou} of the crashing wreck whose special gloom Seds sudden shudders ttrough our Universe of op. clty, and The Trevyllian Waltz,” by Antoalo dust. dc Angruern, also of Chicago. 8. Brainard’s_Sons, Cleveland, send us three of Henry Clay Work’s songs: *Tsed-Up Joc,” *Phantom Footsteps,” aud “Touch the Slecp- ing Strings.” F. W. Helmick, of Cincinnatl, has just pub- lished a Lullaby,” by C. Baker. LOCAL MISCELLANY. Mr. Gustavus Geary, who has been quite ill for several weeks, is up again and prepared to resumc his musical duties. The Vescelius Sisters,who were well-known in this city at one time, re now singing with great success at the Royal Aquariam in Londou. The Apollo Club rehearsals for the fall chorus of Indies and gentiemen will be held on Monday evening, the 5th, and Thursday cvenin Afternoon_ reliearsals for alone on Tuesday and Friday at 2:15 p. m. It will be remembered that on the occasion of one of the Hershey Hall {naugnration concerts, Miss Drasdil sang for an cucore a little Bohe- mian songz, Which has become a great favorite, and concerning which several queries have been made, A letter received from Miss Drasdil furnishes some information about it. It is one of the natlonal songs of Miss Drasdil’s native O oup, smd 1 prblishd in Pramee, Muj,” by F. Skroup, and it is pul n te. m}.‘md it, Miss Drasdil writes very feelingly, 2 follows: * About my little song—ihat shali T tell you about it? Itisoneof aur best Bohemian ry child_slngs, and I did the same, just like a child. When'T feel so try to smother down the 9th, at 7:45. land, Boheuis. national songs, which eve) sad and homesick ‘T ainfal, aull fecling by singing that little Bieioar fits. seotkneat 12 smbar to “Home, | & Sweet Home™), and you may lang Dehoald! thero is no vengeance in the eye of Death: ‘With his one blow he stops the strugzlinz breath, And opes the door that leadeth out of fear To wweet surprisals of frradisnt cheer, Where Angels minister and God s host. Still bless the High and Toly Great First Cause, Paie of Whase Providence are His material laws. OSoul that quakes: In thine Earth-bailt home, Within the shadow of a tomb, 4 See with wise eyes 2 Heaven and Hell In nataral laws that serve thee well ! The Powers that baild are calm and slow; Destruction's ministers like lightning go. We bless the Time-crowned genlus that liath bound Destruction's speed to Use, and fonud The careful art that yokes in steel, To ply the spring and move the wheel, Thes¢ ready pursuivants of doom. Lot _Fricnts beloved o oft have come, Torne through the checks of msht and day Ly these chalned throbs of furions Death, That we biave galned a certatn faith In fron grooves and lines of way, Asif these were themselves n part Of God's repeating Univerac, that never fails To bring the sunrise and the night, And all totations of delight. So, when arise thesc sndden wails, 1 daestion: with sad oy and strickon hearts, Whether there be a Mind of Love that cares In that strong Providence that Ijt the stars And filled the hollow world with life that loves. Still, while we grieve and question. Nature movea Unshocked, her daily sun across the world, And, in the quiet night, the calm stars, whirled ong thelr courses, weave the web of Time, That tenderly the last tear wipes away. And men, more loving and far whser grown, Clasp closer thelr spared loved ones, night and day, And stronger build in arts of ron and stone; Vidle, in the courts of Heaven, some Angel still Strikes the culm balance’twixt the good and ill1 h at my paltry imagination, but Tassure you I fecl much BLISS. lighter and happier after giving the music to the ple that fills my soul to its utmost el gl A AL L would lose its beaaty and no one would like it, it {3 50 simple. It must be more lated Jelt thau sung.” ABROAD. Lo WIEREABOUTS. - Mme. Essipoff is on her way East. She plays at Toledo on Tuesday of this week, and on Thursday at Cleveland. The 3Mozart Club had aconcert in New York last Wednesday, with Bischoff as vocalist: Thomas’ Orchestra and Messrs. Willlam Castle and M. W. Whitney Dase been engaged for the oratorio of “Elfjah, at New Haven, Conn., Feb. 18 The Boston Philharmonic Club, with Miss Dora Wiley, will give concerts this week at Weymouth and New London, Mass. The Barnabee Concert Company ‘will be at Haverbill, Portland, and Biddeford, Me., the coming week. Thomas gave his thixd spmphony concert In New York last Wednes- with Pappenheim as vocalist. Soldene is 8t. Louis has exccpt such 2s fs farnished ¢ North Carollna Minstrels. Kellogg at day sti{l,in New Orleans. at present, by R n0 music A word of him whose earnest sonl of song Bides with us still, althongh himeelf, trauslated, Like the old Tishbite, on that night i)-fated, Went in o chariot of fire to jolu the thron; Of Heaven's sweet artists with the mu-pnmf ‘tongue. Down hete, O Bila: y tunets) Gospel, anabatedy Rings through more oule than 1 thy doom i : The ripeness of gray years, and thon art ever ey ung! All Phenix-ike, his memory soared fu splendor Above those ghastly ashes the next Sabbath-day. A vision of seraphic mankood, strong, ana brave, and tender, B Wmsicuupmg the dear helpmate of his life and 2, Reproved d religions tears which worebipers would render: . “¢Nay, let ussing!™ these spirits seemed to say. Cuzcaco. Boren H. Caxrsrie. —— A well-known and aged Sacramentan, who re- moved from this city about two years azo, is back on u visit, but he don't scem to be s bright and hopeful as previously. The cause of his anxiety was given to a friend this morning, as follows: “I am falling fast,—1 know.that L am 7ot long for this world. 'You see, some years avo 1 could drink two or three huncred times in twenty-four Lours; but now, if I"take m; ve o 4 bundred drinks, it goes to w¥