Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 11, 1877, Page 12

[ * was ot fit to be on it, she is indebted to her ju- 12 : . - THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES. AMUSEMENTS. Miss Effie Ellsler’s Acting at. -@& Haverly’s Theatre. Miles’ Company Compared with Mr.McVicker’s. The Players in ¢ School” and the Hospital Benefit. ¢ Yes Danicheff” and * F].fth Avenue ” in New York. The Musical-Oollege Congert the Only Event of the Week. Mr. Wilkie's Farewell--The Apollo Club and the Beethover Society. Signor Farini at Springfield-=-Local Miscellany~--Operatic Notes. THE DRAMA. CHICAGO. THE NEW ACTRESS AT HAVERLY'S. ~. s Ellsler made a successtul debut at Hav- s Theatre Monday night as Jiosalind, and Milwwards deepened the impression upon the road 3 mind by her personation of Hester Graiss- the Rip iThe Unequal Mawch.” Her Juliet was gt ol ictaciory. She wanted force for the mm“zwncs. There was no real fecling in “n the banished scene anu e drinking The Yotion she scemed to be conscious of her and Benerower, and attempted to supply the ofticers g by a. deliberate aud dlstinct utter- gent, JShe consequence was that all the eficsts -Frank hored. ~Miss Ellsler does not. yet under- 1Sccpd how to deal with deep feeling. Her lies'in 3 eweet” and cxpressive counte- jance, winning manners, an exuberant gaiety, +‘and cultivated methods. The hizhest gift she /s s good taste. In saying-this there is no fn- ‘tention to depreciate Ler merits; good taste is stfficient, capital to set up in trade a better tress than Miss Ellsler. The quality of her ._ actress. ‘art”in ghis respect was proved in the potion scene; imperfect as her rendering of it was, it was :4ll correct—frigidly correct. She showed mome of the fire and enmergy of Mary Anderson in the same passage; nor, on the other hand, did she ehock the sensi- bilities of any person in the audience by the ryouzhness of her tones, or the unecvenness of ber motions. Miss Ellsler owes more to circum- stances than to nature. She bas had rare oppor- tunities for acquiring familiarity with the stage. Twenty years ago, or more, her father and mother were playing in Chicago with Mr. Felix A Vincent as tuelr principal support. Their daughter made her first ap uce at the sge of1lin Cleveland, undertaking an important Kart in ¢ Under the Gaslizht,” and making the it of the picce. She has since played irequent- 1y, and learned to read the stage as an open _1ook. She has not, of course, been acting con- < tinuously since ber first appearance. For the Xindness of being kept off the stage when she dicious parcnts. They knew that precocity in thelong run was small capital for an artist. Miss. Edlsler was_ consequently put to school, whereshercceived a thorough education inmany ‘branches. Her music and French, so far as they may be judzed from the specimens shiown here, are” under better: control than is usually the case even with ludiés who are con- sidered proficient in these studies. Shehas also Jearned—or pehaps it wouid be better to say she instinctively knows—how to bebave in the maunerof 2 lady. There is & refinement in cversthing she docs which coutributes in no small degree to the agreeable mapression which Jier personations leave. It must be evident, drom what has been said, that Miss Ellsler is N iarly. qualified for comedy-acting. Her emall digure and light voice would ‘be obstaclus to any. great success in edy, even if she manifested capacity for work of this description; and she doss not.” She will makea mark in comedy; and, although she may never be cstablished as a star, she will be 4 perma- zicnt favorite wherever she may go. Her career will pronably dircet ber to au important posi- tion in a Neiv York theatre, in wlich she may ucquire as great rcputation and a more com- fortable position in the profession than by traveling through the country. Meanwhilc, st will bes pleasure to hermany admirers in Cultago to watch her steads progress in her pro- {ession, and to weicome her back most cordiully ‘whenever she may choose to come. THE CINCINNATI COMPANT. Local priae, or some other praiscworthy fecl- inz, has induced a number of attacks upon the Cincinnati company, and there hes been an implied assertion of superiority on* the part of Chicago in things theat- rical. Toe TriuNeE does not hesitate 10 say that Ciocinnati is quite as well off as Chicago in this respect. We are accustomed to gec 35 bad sctinz at McVicker's Theatre 25 therc has been at Haverly’s durings the past week. Only a fortnizht ago, “ As You Likc I¢” was worse doae at McVicker's than it was Mon- day at Haverly’s. The two companies can be compared man for man, and especially woman for woman, without reficcting signal adrantage on- either. There s, of course, nobody in . the Cinciunati compauy, who can be meationed in the same Dbreath with Mr. Thorne; Mrs. Stoneall bas not Dier equal in Cincinnatl; and Mr. Ezinford, for his ecrviceable qualities, is better thun his op- posite_in the other company. On the other hand, Mr. Edwin Price is a beiter juvenile man, by long odds, than Mr. Lee, and Mr. Walter Lcunor, the comedian, s simply an artist, whicls Jr. Hotto iwnot. The Zouckilonc of oue was a fine picce of work, while that of the other was wooden and uninteresting. The Jacgues at Haverly’s was not zood, but bester than Kowe's at McVicker's, and the Mercutio, while far in- ferior to Thorne's, Was far superior to Lee's. The Nurse was beiter than Mrs. Stopeall’s. The Lomso—alas the day!—was the worst ever scen Jiere. Mr. Roche deserves some fuint.credit for surpassing in baducss £0 many able competi- tors. It was thought that a worse Jiomeo thon Mr. Nortou, of -St. Louis, could ‘ot be until Mr. Thorne eaelty vanquished -him on his awn grounc; and now botst are driven drom thic fild by 2ir. Rocbe. His rant was amade picturesque by a supernatural grunt, the caltivatioy of which, we should say, was a labor of vears, uad the product of assiduous study. The women of ‘tlic Cincinnati company are not great, but they will_compare well with McVick- er's stock. Gussie DeForest is not as comel; in appearance »5 Mrs. Murdoch, but she is a beuter actress. Little Mrs. Price as 3 _sou- brette has no rival at’McVicker's. Mrs. Baker has in the Cincinnati company 2 number of competitors about as zood as herself, 2nd the ballets tie. Toe one advantage that McVicker possesses over Haverly, in a companson of this nature, is in the mattér of stage-setting and a thurough _ disciptine, always rigidly .main- tained. It is easy to believe that there §5 . mo Mr. . Sharpe either at Cudunati or St. Louis. The vomparisons which Tiave been instituted may secm uncalled for and uzkind, but they really constitute the most im- portant. as well as the most interesting. theatri- «al news of the week. It hias often been said by the defenders of McVicker’s organization that {twas superior to any company in the West. We have already found ‘one that vies with it in ooduess, or -badness, as the case may . There may be more: Besides, it is only just to ibe Cincinnati actors that they £liould be accorded the eredit of being as bada compauy as Chieago is - accustomed to, and no worse. " Because they are strargers and e lave taken thewm in, wedo not intend to impose upou them hie fiction that we are used to dain- tier things. When we sit down to pork and. Leans, Jet us” not inform the cowmpany thst we zenerally ldok for pate de fois grax, The .truth js, we have rk " and beans all the vear round, except In the summer; when kind fricuds from New York vome to visit us, and bring their supplies with them. - . THE HOSPITAL BENEFIT. The amateur performances of * School” at the New Chiczgo Theatre to-morrow and Tues- dsy nights promise to be- cren more agroeable than the representations of “Clouds.” There - should” be no faflure to ‘rémember that the -procepds. are to - be “given “to the Hospital - for Women . and Children, Yone of tne worthicst Institutions in the cify, and one which ahways wantsdy much moncy as it can ‘get. . The sale of seats has been large, und ' the sudicuce will probably be full and of the most fashionable description; but there are still good scats to_be lhad, -particularly for the. first pight. Tickets may be abtained at Cobb's Li- brary -and-Jansen, McClurg & Co.’s. Some stitadl chunzes have been made in the cast, which 18 now arranged as follows: Mre. Clurke . Miss Walker Alss Swayzey Miss Hlilton Mies Cox whoever they may be—are to presentat Me- Vicker’s Theatre next week their mew play called *“The Crabbed Age.” The Adelohi will be devoted this week to fe- male minstrels, variety acts, romantic specta- cles, grand transformation scencs, ete. What would the old Puritan Professor who once said that colleize societies were hot-beds of rum, lust, and tobaceo, think of the Adelphi on a beer-night¢ Durmg the past week Mr. -Den Thompson has been giving his play of *Josh ‘Whitcomb,” and although much of the coarst- ness had been rémoved from it, there were still expressions fa it not fit to be heard in a respect- able establishment. Mme. Janauschek, who necds no introduc- tion to the public of Chicago, will-fill an en- wement at Haverly’s Theatfe this week. Fhe pieces will be “Miry Stuart,” * Deborab, apd “Chesney Wold,” 'in the arliior )l‘.l}ncu. The company enzagred to support her is from the 0151‘::’ (i ‘neatre of St. Louis. Mme. Janauschek’s English is said to be much better than jt was; there has ncver been any scrious nestion as to her power ss a tragedienne. The ‘leu-s Comic Opera Company will occupy this theatre next week. Mr. Bliss Whittaker, the very useful and obliging Treasurer of Ilaverly’s” Theatre, is to Xlfl\‘e:l%)cllfiflt on the atternoon of Feb. 22, Washington's birthday. Many persons have volunteered, and an attractive programme is promised. The treasurer of a theatre is one of the few persons who has a just claim to a bene- {it, since e comes into close relations with the public, and offers mavy courtesies for which he is not paid. Some recognition of Mr. Wintta- Ter's peculior claims upon public gratitude would now be timely and appropriate. Maggic Mitchell repezted her impersonation of Mignon in Mr. Runnion’s play at McVic Theatre last weeli. Though the house was not at_any time full, the attendance was probably better than it would have been had any other of ber playe been proseated. This weck *Jane Eyre™ will be pla‘gn’(:'l, with Miss Mitchellin the titular part, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights. Fridey nizht and Saturday afternoon the new play by C. W. Tavleure, enti- tled Becky Mix,” will ¢ miven. Miss Mitehell does not plar Saturday night, owing to the long Jjump she is required to make from here to Bos- tou. * Married in Haste® will consequently re- ceive one representation, with the stock com- oy in the cast. -Mr. Harris, who supports Tiss Mitchell, higs already gonc to Boston to at- tend to rehicarsals of * Mignon,” which is to be the tirst piece of the engagement there. THE OUTER WORLD. “LES pANICHEPE.” The new Russo-Freach play with the above title, said to be the joint production of Dumas and Pjerre Newski, was produced at_the Union Square Theatre Monday night. The scencry described as superb. The Zimes says: “Its performance, which occupied three hours and a half, was lstened to attentively, but theimpres- sion was not favorable. It deals with scenes in which none but a traveled spectator, or a play- goer desirous of sccuring instriction as well as enjoyment, can feel the slizhtest interest; it in- troduces but one persopage for whom an atom of sympathy can be entertained, and the little action it embodies is clogzed by a mass of ver- bisge which only a Parisian_audience, used ‘to sucl experience by Parisian actors, will tolerate.” The - Irilue, ns usual, - takes cxactly the oppositc _ view, pronouncing the play “strong in its simplicity, beautiful in its feling, and picturesquein its surroundings.’” The Herad says: * It is, perhavs, necessary tor the greater part of - tke dudience to make an ef- fort to place_themselves en rapport with thes state of civilization_represented, but, thi cle once overcome it is difficult to_refrain from cutering heartily into svinpathy with the strue- gles, plottings, sacri . the cheracters of the “ Danichiefls” are in- sc Katharine Rogers, aud ar. Thornc. and the pre- sentation of an_excellcntly-construcied _play, {full of pure and elevated sentiments, coutributed 10 a suceess that was indisputable.” Theacting of Mr. O’Ncil as the lorl‘ihl{ lover is not, it is a° ity to sey, much admired. Mr. Thorne as the ecrt is yery highly spoken of. Miss Jewett is overweightedas Anza. The iinor parts are all weil filled. The story has been several times told in Taz TRICUXE. Itis thatof the Jove of a Russian nobleman for a serf-zirl. His mother interfercs to prevent the marriage, and, in his _ absence, marries the girl 1o 2 serf who loves ber. The love of the ignoble-nobleman ‘is, however, superior to his pagsion, and ke renounees his brice in order to mauke ber happy in the arms of another, himself retiring to a monastery. ‘The play will proba- Diy be seen here next summer with the original cast. : “PIFTH AVENTE." George Faweett Rowe's new play at Booth’s Theatre scems to be purely sensational in its origin and development. It is called *Fifth Avenue,” but, for all it has to do with fas] able society, might as well be called the Atlan- tic Ocean. . The privcipal points in it are thecol- lision of two steamships and the sinking of one of them; a murder-scene, supposed to be copied after the Nathan forror, and a display ot soldiery picturing the return of the gallant Seventh Regiment and their conflict with the 1863. The Jierald says: *The situ: detached, and the scenie effcets fake from the story sumething of continmty and cohes t was evidently written to display the resources of the theanrcand to bewhatit is—a local drama of h variety aud force. Mr. Rowe’s Jiterary ai however, are to fine Loo permit him 1o do careless work.” The Pribune says: ¢ Fifth Avcuue is 4 five-act melodrama, kindred in geoeral character with “The Streets of New York,” but muck better than that picce.” Tne Zimes ealls it ** A panoramic story rather than a_study of men and manners.”” The activg o 1tignold m the principal part—that ot an Amcricac—gets uo praise. Warde as au En- ghshman is said to be better. Parsloe and Jéhnoy Wild in_low-comedy parts arc_well liked. ” Maud Granger and Kate Girard are said to be acceptable. S NEW TORK NOTES. 5 The TWorld and the Herald have been waging war on the managers to obtain a reduction of prices of admission. s Daly’s company at the Grand Opera-House playea * Fernande ™ last week. * Lemons was continued at the Fifth Avenue Theatre. The suit of Edwin Booth against Jarrett & Palmer to restrain the latter from using the name * Booth’s Tueatre * has been discontinued. The success of “Our Boarding House ”? at thc Park Theatre is beyond doubt. Nearly every night it has been found necessary to remove the members of the orchestra to make room for the overflowing audience. Mr. Meath, the manager of the Bowery Theatre, offered Lo play Edwin Booth an_enzazement of two months there, giving him the cntire receipts of the house darin thut time. The object was 10 establish the Bowery as a firsyclass *star % Louse, but, Mr. Booth declined the proposition. ““All for Her™ came to an mntimely end ag Wallack’s. Theatre last week, * A - Mornins Call* and “Marricd Life™ being substitutai. ‘The faflure must have been a severe disappoint- ment to Mr. Wallack, who had_staked hiz repu- tation on tlic statement thet the play was the best of the century. The New York Dramatic News mentions a lady well kuown to Chicago theatre-goers in the foi- lowing complimentary terms:. “Miss Elsie oore, vlayiugin ‘Divorce? with Daly’s compauy at the Olympic Theatre, on Broadvwa, is one of the Landsomest women on tie Amicrican stage, and is rupidly becoming a good actress.” Judgze Donohue’s decision as to the riziit to play “The Danichefls” in this country takes a step forward in the vexed question of an ag- thor's right to Als own literary property, The plea of the defendant scems -to have been sut- stantially tkal the publicatiou of the play a compléte surrender. but the decision azainst him bolds that when he sets up no other claim™ thau that of abandonment by the autior, he must be able 2iso to make good his own title to the use of the author’s work.” He could show no suck aathority, and tlerefore is debarred the use of the play. ¢ The Dramatic News has the following items: “ Willie Winter, of the Tritune, now writes the musical 2s well as the dramaticcriticisms of that obsta- | paper. A. C. Wheelcr has disappeared from the Journalistic firmament. He is gaid to be writing Nym Crinkles for. one of- the, sporting ‘papers. H.J. Montague begins. his starring tour in Providence this week, with *Falsc Shame.’ His tour . will Jast till the end: of May. - Thus he does -mot retarn 1o Wallack’s this season, and it is stated on good :vmmru{ will never return there. - It is probable Mr. Montagae’s trip with hisown com- pany will extend as far us'San Francisco. *Elsic Moore, who plays in_the ‘¢ Big Bonanza® -at- the Qlympie, is one of the prettiest women on thfi stage, and she's fast becoming a grood actress. GENERAL AMERICAN WOTES. . Cella Logan says that the chief trouble of the two inmates-of the Forrest Home is to kill . P. Banks and Dr. E. H. Chapin were each stage-spruck in youtl; and had their fiingsof a week or less. I’ A correspondent of the Dramatic News, fresh 1o San Francisco, writes disparagitgly of John McCullough's compauy, of which he had formed freat espectations that were slanoily disup- pointed. ¢ Georgiana Lanaley, the wife of Mr. Charles E. Furbish, who bas for_several years traveled with her husband’s *Fifth Avcnue Combina- tion," Iias secured a divoree, and is understood to bt engaged to Don Thompson, s wealthy widower of New Haven, Conn. . Sothern's enzagement at the_ Calffornia The- atre closed Feb. 10. Last Monday night a testi- ‘monfal - benefit. given to. Edwin -Adams, every actor in the city volunteering. The cur- rent attraction at’ the Grand Opera-House is “Around the World in Eighty Days.” All of Maguire’s theatres remain losed. “The Bergzer family and Sol Smith Russell were at Cincinnati last “week; Kate Claxton was at 8t. Louis; E.L. Davenport, in ** Dan'l Druce,” & at Pittsburg; Lawrence Barrett at Builalo; the Florences in Oliio cities; J. T. Raymond at Bal- timore; Boucicault at Washington; Edwin Booth_at Brooklyn; Mary Auderson at Nash- ville; Ben De Bar at Detroit; John McCullough aud Jolm E. Owens at Boston; Sothern at San Trancdsco. Miss Eytinge’s danghter, who is soon to ap- pear on the staze, is Rose_Barnes, her only child Ly ber first marriege. Miss Baroes is but 16 years of ase, quit: petite, and has the dark eves, and hair, and rich bruuctte complexion of hermother. This young lady was educated in the Convent of the Sacred Licart at Manbattan- ville. ' Of late she has been residing with her godmother, Mrs. Samuel G. Courtney, the daughter of the late Daniel 8. Dickinson. When Rachel was in this country, M. Beauyal- Jet, one of her troupe, wrote”an American tragedy, the heroine of which was Washington’s daugiter! When told that Washinzton bad no duuiziter, be coolly said: _“ Eh bien! it's a liberty onc can take.” “ But suppose,” re- joiued s American friend, “you should write a trazedy for the Theatre Franeais, with Na- polcon’s daughter as the heroine?” *Oh!™ exclaimed M. Beauvallet with a shudder, * that's a very different thing; that would never do!" - The following from the Philadelphia Press is encouragement for the coming management of Chicago: * The extraordinary suceess of the new Chicstnut Street ‘Theatre in Philadelphia, under the management of Megsrs, Gemmill, Stott & Mackey, I3 attributable to the steady fidelity with which they bave adhered to their programme, which wius the - representation of good plays by a good stock company. -Their plan was for 4 long time an experinient, and un- tii the Exhibition gave tiiem useries of cosmo- politan audiences, this plan lovked lkea fail- urc;"buz we tiink it is now au established suc- cess. The event of greatest interest to play-goers in Philadelphia lzst week was the return of Neilson, who appeared at_the Walnut Street Theatre Monday night as Julia, in the * Hunch- back.” Tuesday and during the rest of the weel she cnacted Viola, in “Twellth Night,” which shz_had never bLefore played in " Philacelphia. To-morrow night * Cynibe- line ” will be produced. The Arch Street'Thea- tre mave a week of the sensational, with Byron in Across the Continent,” assisted -by M. W. Leflingwell and W. J. Gilbert. *Our Boarding- House™ held the Loards at -the Chestnun Street Theatre. Carncross and Dixey plaved not only.**Our Boardin-House,” but the *¢Sir Dan O'Pallas™ ballet’ troupe. Mr. Charles Sutton, the well-known comedian, made hisc first aypearance there Monday nigbt. The Arch Street retained the “ Braised Heart” and *tOur Boarding-House " on the bills. FOREIGN NOTES. Leona Dare, the female gymnast, has been making a sensation in Paris. “Our Boys ™ has passed its second anniver- sary at the London Vaudeville,—an unprece- dented thing. Ada Cavendish, a popular London actress, et fire to the wig of a gentleman-actor on the stage tbe other mieht, and, in her efforts to extivguish the flames, touched off her own hair with the torch thai she carried. She was extin- gruished by the stage-manager, to the gratifica- tion of all concerned. - Of the new play, “The Queen of Con- nzught,” at the Loadon Olymipic, the Zimes of that city szys: “The whole play is, 4s.it seems to us, but a'compound of pretty nearly every Irish piece that has been on the beards within this generation, with a spice of Maxwell's “Irish Rebellion” for flavor.” At {le Park “Gymnase,” the other night, Count de Noce was chatting behind tie scene with: an actrees, but in sued @ position that. the audieuce could sce bis back. He was at once saluted with the cry: “ Feceau parterre, Thomsiae ay maaleaw gris! ~ (Face the parterre, the man with the gray cloak!) The Count turned, ad- vanced to’ the middle of the stoge, and said: *Gestlemen, I beg to announce that to-morrow night I shall give “The Insolence of the Public Corrected,’ a biece 1n 35 many acts as vou please.” Tle bowed and retired, but did nof go out next day, aud the affair blew over. Te. MNYSIC. AT HO) : TIIE MUSICAL COLLEGE CONCERT. The oniy musical events of the week were the annual concert of the Cliicago Musical College, given at McCormick’s Hall on Thursday even- ing, and the testimonial concert to Mr. Alfred Wilkie, the tenor, who leaves this week for Bogton, given al Standard Hall on Friday even- fug. The Musical College concert was attended by an immeuse audience which filled every seat in the greatr nall, thus showing at the: outset that there is very decided and widespread pop- ular intercst in this institution. The pro- gramme was made. out with good taste. Although the performers were few and and their numbers long, they were test pleces of the pupils’ proficicncy. The justrumental numbers were the Reineke *Concertstueck,’ op. 53 (Miss Emily Haskell); the Hiller con- certo, op. 60 (Miss Mary Wishard); and the Moscheles concerto, op. 55 (Miss Clara Waters). Wedonot indude tie Mendelssohn concerto for violin, performed by Mr. Buisseret, as we bie- lieve heisateacherinthie college. The voeal num- hers were an aria from'Meyerbeer’s Crusaders in Egypt" (aliss Lizzie Foresman), an aria from Wallace’s. “Lurline” (Miss Alice Lans- den), and s ara’ from “Alda® (Miss Emma Rocmheld). Before ailuding in detail to the performances of the evening, it should be observed ‘that the periormers labored under numerous obstacles, which may be’ classified somewlat as follows: 1. The inevitable nerv- ousness of amateurs singing or playing before a larze 2nd not over-quiet audience; 2. The ac- companiments of an orchestra which was about s bad as bad can be; 3. A bard, metallic plano which could not be expected 'to yield much music, even under Essipofl ’s finee Making these allowances, .the comcert was cer- tainly a very creditable affair, and is a maiter fof consratulation amouz the -Iricnds of the young ladies who took part in it and the mauagers of the institution where they are studying. 1t would bea most ungracious task 1o take these periormiers, who are still-in their studics, and are in no sense professional sip":crs or players, and pick ‘them to pleces. It will be more'pleasant to applaud their merits and charge thieir deficlencics, in the had work of tne orehestra: The first vocal numbef on the progrumme was a long 2nd somewhat trying scena apd aria’ from Meverbeer's forgotten opera of Tie Crusaders in Ezypt,” sune by Miss Lizzie Foresman, the alto of tee Plymouth Church choir. Her per-. formance showed very eareful and patient study of the number, 2nd the aria was sung with ex. cellent taste. “Her voice is a low contraito of very rich and pleasing quality. but not of sufil- deit strensth in its middle register to cope with such a blatant and noisy accoinpaniment ns thitt which was furnished her. Her best effect was in her'encore number, which was sung to the piano accompaniment of her teacher, Siznor art at least, to De Campi, and sung delightfully. The vocal success of the evemng was 3 Lansden’s . ming of the Lurline music, including the koown song, *Sweet Spint, Hear My Prayer.”” The young lady possesses a atrong, {ull mezzo-50prano voice, iresh and beautifal in 15 quality, which has been cxcellently trained. In addition to these natural advantages, che has very marked dramatic ability, musical intel- l!Fcncc, correct ideas of cxpression, and admira- bly clear cnunciation. We look upon ber, in fact, as onc of the maost promising, if not the most, promising, of the young singers of this city, " and .as - possessing all the - requi- sites to take. a leading ° position, ir she shonld: adopt wusi¢ us 2. pro- fession. If Signor D¢ Campi is Iier teacher, he has every reason to be proud of his pupil. Miss Emma Toembeld, the remaining singer of the eveninz, has a very strong volce which needs to_ ‘be under better control, especially in the un- pleasant - habit of forcing and then suddenly dropping it 50 8s to be inaudible. Shebas many good tones, but her explosive style of singingis | .not caleulated to display hér voice to zood eflect. “Miss Emily Haskell in ‘the Reinecke “ Concert- stucck,” and Miss .Clara Waters in the trying Moscheles Concerto ucyuitted themselves very creditably for younz-. players, although the: ‘lntter young' lady-had to contend. with the rudeness of large numbers of the audienee who left their scats while she was playing, aud com- merced rusking for the stairs, thus keeping the hall in an uproar .and. confusion. The instru- mental success of the concert was: Miss Wish- ard’s performance of the Hiller Concerto. The -young lady hus ' very -musical touch, a good techuique, correct time, und clear ideas of ex- pression. - It is all ‘the more. to her credit thap she ~ succeeded so well sguinst the slov- enly orchestral accompaniment, which would have -confused a less scif-reliant _player. She gives rich promise for the future. For the oreliestra’s part in the programme: there is no excuse to:be made.. The Egmont overture, familinr as it 15, was shockingly played, and the accompaniments were -cquaully bad. Incorrect- ness or jgnorance of the ‘scores might be ac- counted for by an insufficiency of rchearsal, but tiere is no excuse to be offercd for players who cannot.even get their instrumeats in tune. Asa, whole, the concert was a pleasaut success,—the suceess being limited to the pupils, as we' have stated,—and it showsthat the Musical College is doing a good work for music in the city. " .TOB WILKIE PAREWELL CONCERT. A concert ‘in the nature of a testimonal and a farewell to Mr. Alfred Wilkie, the tenor, who leaves Chicago for Boston this week to tuke a choir- position in the First Unitarian Church of that city, took place on Friday evening at Standard Hall, and was well attended. The general order of the first programme was some- what interfered with by the absence of Messrs. Holmes and Barnes, of the Quuker City Quar- tette, snd by the indisposition of Mrs. Watrous, the contralto, but after some delay the concert was set a-going, and the first part went through. smoothly. Mr. Wilkie, the bene- ticlary, sang Hatton’s % Good-By, Swectheart,” very ‘Creditably, and foran encore Molloy’s ineilably stupid “Clochette.” There were ulso two or three numbers by the male quartette; a Terehak Caprice for flute, played very nicely by Mr. Wiltgenstein a_Chopin Etude and Mosz- kowskl’s ** Momens Musicale,” admirably given by Mr. Licbling; and an ariafrom *Traviata,” sung by Miss Cora R. Miler, a young lady from Graud Rapids, Mich., who made her debut here on this occasion. Tiie secorid part of .the pro- gramme_was devoted to selections from “Sopnaribula,” sung by Miss Miller, Mr. Willdie, and Mr. Kuorr, in costume, with Jano accompaniment by’ Mr. Carozzi. Miss Miller has a high soprauo voice, and when we have said this we have said about all we can con- scientiously. She issimply a natural sinzer with some vocal advantages and considerabie flex bility, but without much idea or knowledge as | to their uges. The limited scenic resources o the Standaerd Hall stage, the bad and inaccurate costumes, the crude action and bad singing of those concerned -in the performance, chnnficd grand opera into opera bouife, which, to say ¢ lcast, afforded the audience 2 fine ficld for humorous enjoyment. We could liave wished thatour last recollections of Mr. Wilkie might have been associated with something a little more dignitied than tnis som- nambulistic extravazanza. . Notwithstanding this, Lowever, Mr. Wilkie will carry away with him the benedictions and good wishes of a host nf l{fl)«zxds’ that he mav succced in his new ficld o T TINE APOLLO CLGB CONCERTS. The sccond concert - of the scason of the Apolio Club will’ oveur on Tuesday and Thurs- day evenings next, in which the Club will be as- sisted by Miss Julia Rive, the eminent pianist. and Miss W. E. Benziger, the favorite vocalist, who, it will be remembered, made her debut in this city last winter with tae Apollo Club, and made many. friends_ by ler excellent singing. In order thata feeling of security way prevail in the audicuce, the management bave obtained the services of eflicient essistance, and tl:ie strict- cet vigilance will be maintained throughout the evening in and about the building. The concerts of the Club commence at 8 o’clock precisely, at which time the entrance ‘to the hall will be closed during the pérformance of the first num- ber of the programme, which will beas fol- lows: TARTI 1..“I Wrestle and Proy " (motet)..........Bach {a *‘Farewcll to the Foreat.. | 292 !} dlie Nightingale™ ..Mendelssohn ¢ § a Mignon Song. **Tluntinz Son 3. 15 Song....... . varde e 4 §@*“The Lord “*Sweet and Low™ ... Barnby 5. mvitation to the Danc Tausig—Weber Miss Julia Ilive. 6. ‘‘By Babylon's Wave " (Psalm 137) ..Gonnod PART 1. * Hark How the Birds™ (Madngal **Rtitorna Vincitor™ (**Aida’") Mizs W. E. Bea. 103y Love's Like a 10, “*Venczin e Xapoll 11. “*Judge Me, O God™... ‘We are requested to announce that there will be a full reicarsal at McCurmick’s Hall to-mor- row afterncon (Monday) at 5 o'clock.. The chorus must be in full aitendance. THE DYETHOVEN SOCIETY. The sccond Becthoven Soclety concert, which .was to have takeniplace on the 22d inst., bas becen postponed to the latter part ot March, in order to sccure further rehearsals for The Mauzoni Requiers,” which is next in order on the -Society’s programme. The Society has already had seven rehearsals of the waorlk, and it is Mr. Wollsobw’s intention to have fen more, in order that the per- formance of’ this grreat work of Verdi’s may be as iplete as possible. _On account of this delay in the concert, Mr. Wolsolmw’s serics of Pimm recitals will not commence until after the Requiem hasbeen given. They will take place at the Hershey Musle-Hall. The next reunion of the Socicty” will be given on the 224 inst., at which* Raff's Sccond Trio in G major and Becthoven’s A major Sonata for piano and *cello will be played. 10CAL MISCELLANY. Miss Benziger, during her stayin this city, will be the guest of R.S. Clark, Esg., No. 791 Wa- bash avenue. 3 o Mr. and Mrs. Louis Falk, of this city, will assist at a coneert to be miven by Ole Bull in Madison, Wis., on the 16th inst. Mrs. Clara D. Stucey, the favoritc soprano, who has been in New York studying and sing- ing for a year past, nas returned to Chicago, aud will be Deartily welcomed by a farge cirele of fricnas. It will be welcome news to the musical public that Miss Julla Rivé, the well-known pianiste, has definitely “decided to make Chicago ber home. Owing to her numerous concert engage- ments in the West and California, she will' not probably remove kere, however, befere June. A letter from Erie, Pa:, dated the Oth, says: “The Musical Association now in seesfon in this city numbers over SC0. Mr. H. R. Palmer. the able conductor, has the voices under complets control. 'The session clozes to-night with'a con- cert at the Opera-House. A fine programme has been prepared.” . ¥ Miss H. H. Gleon, our Chicago contralto, now studying abroad, has recently been preeented with a valuable watch by the congremation of the>American Chapel, Paris. Miss Glenn bas _often obliged the peopie of that soziety by sing- ing for them, and they took this very graceful way of naking their acknowledgments. _ A letter received in this city from Annie iI.o\u::l_ctmiy eutcst§hntl she will “leave Russia immediately upon the close of her engagemen reaching Faris about Feb. 24, and “:\ggwi'artl:’ about March 15. Her benefit- at Moscow was a ETeat ovation and- suceess, loading her down with costly presents and flowers, and—a sprained ankle. 5 r The programme for the Turner-Hall concert . this afternodn will fuclude the following pum- bers: “Emperor William March,” by Oscar Schmoll; “Overtare’ Comigue,” by Kéla Bela; *Lezends of the Rhine Waitz,” by E. Bach} potpourri on themes from Meyerheer's *LAfri. caine,”” by Conradi; * Polka Mazurka. and Galop,” by Edward and Johznn' Strauss; solo . for two cornets, by Schneider, performed by Messrs. John and_Helms; * Promethens Ballet Overture,” by Beethoven;: grand . potponrri, “Bm;aurfit of Melodies,” 'hy Conradi; an *Quadrille Milfiaire, by the elder Strauss. A pleasant feature of the aanual concert “of the Chicago Musical College, given at + McCor- mick Hall Thursday night, was sthe- brillians pland performance of Miss Emily Haskell. - En- dowed with wonderiul natural musical talen Miss Haskell, by fatimuing study an close npnllml.(on, Tisen..to the . highest . best. . rank among amateur . performers. Her touch and her expressions are perfect. At the concert, among other well-applauded efforts, wasa piano accompaniment to the orchestra, onc ol the most trying endeavors in the musical range. Repeated rounds of applause testified to the cx- cellence of her execution, which reflected eredit wpon herself and the colleze which bas bad charge of her musical education. We have received from the Mesers. Root & Sons the following .new music: “The New Voice in the Heavenly Choir ' (to the memory of P. P. Pliss), by Georze F. Root; * The Snow- Storm,” for piano, by Herry D. Jones; “‘La Belle Quadrille” and_ Happy Through Life “Galop.” by Jobn 'A. Hand: “Offering” and “Rosalic Waltz,” by H. L. Grebe; “Wild Phlox,” “Lady’s Slipper,” * Ancmone.” and *The Fortune in” the Dalsy,” by Mzs. Clara H. ‘Scott; “ Waltz .- Song,? or - cabinet-or- n, Uy « W. H. Fairbanks; “Library atop, b Arthur L. Wood: “The Lovorsr Gulop,” by R. Goerdeler; ** Autumn Blos- soms,” by Gustay Lange; © Park :Waltz," by iith; * Schuctzen March,” by Georme By the Firelight Waltz,’ by ¢ Sounds from Music Land . D. Smil SchHeffurth Kittic Folbre: ;\’nltz ball; * Trial by Jury Galop,” arrang: . R. Kimball; “ Trial by Jury. £ r- “ed from Sullivan; ¢ Short and Sharp Polka,” :by C. G. 8t. Clair; * The Letter, I Read it by theSea, Love,” by R. R. Trench; ¢ Welcome Footsteps,” George _W. | Persler; ¢ Echoes R. _Challoner; “ A Spirit - Haunts ~ the .Year’s' Last Hours.” % They Who Would Marry,” ¢ 0 Love ALy Willie,” and * Mary of Castlé Cary,” by M. Jolic; “ Twilight Whispers,” & duo for soprano, by W. H. Doane; “ That Little German Home Across the Sea,” by Wurzel; “ Gems of_the Beautiful,” by. Clara A. Swartz; and “0 Why -Arc Yon Angry with Me, Love!* by Thomas P. Westendorf. SIGNOR FARINL - Springfield, TiL, is to- have opera! The State ‘Register- says: ““From the following corre- spondence it will be scen that onr citizens are to be treated to a night of Italian opera by 2 com- pany composed of artists of distinguished abili- ty. ~Signor Farini, it will be remembered by many, was a member of the Nilsson troupe. The ladies and gentlemen with whom he is associated have appeared in varivus metropolitan cities throughout the country with marked success.” Af‘er this happy outburst follows a'card to Signor Farini, signed by the Governor and other members of the State Government, to which Signor Farini replies in his happiest vein, as follows: Senixarrenn, Feb, 5.—70 his Ercellency Gov. Shelby T.. Cullom. Lleut.-Gov. Andrew Shuman, . Judge T. Lyle Dickey, and otliers—GENTLENEN Appreciating the- high' compliment contalned in your 'nntc ofthis date, I take great pleasure in complying with the request therein made. There- fore, on Tuesday cvenine, 13th inst.,at the Opera- 1louse, I will give for your and the public's enter- tainment theTirst and last acts of the opera **I1 Trovatore," in full costume, with the following excellent cast: Miie. Branelli Mrs. Purinton «+...Miss E. P. Harris Alr. E. Schultze Signor Garcia ignor A. Farini Signor Dorina ‘Conductor of the apera, I Deseler. In addition 1o theee acts. Tehall challenze public applange by presentation of muny gems from opera and ballad music, by the reveral members of the troupe, including Mr. Frank Bowen. —all of whom, 1 do them but justice in saying, -&tand among the first rank of their profession. ~ “1 have a'very pleasant recollection of the refined nnsical taste of the people of Springficld, obtained from a former visit to the city, and shall use every effort to meet expectation and win the public ap- plause. - Belicve me, with much respect, truly your obedient servant, A. Farnit. Such a lovely little mutual admiration society was never organized before. i ABROAD. WHEREABOUTS. ‘Tom Karl and Gustave Saiter were in Rich- miond, Va., last week. Mrs. Oates will be in St. Louis this week. Caroline Richings is workinez lier way East, where her. tronpe will disband. Adelaide Phillipps has a complimentary concert in Doston March 23. Miss Drasdil and Julia Rive will be the soloists of the fourth orchestra concert, which will be given in_Cincinoati April nest. The Smith Whitney Company sre in Maine. Keliogg has closed her New York sea- son with goreat success. Soldeme Is in Memphis. Aimee is still in New - York. Theodore Thomas’ Orchestra plars to-morrow night in Hartford, Conmn., and on the 20th and 2lst In Boston. Emma Abbott made her debut in New York on the 7th. sings in Boltimore, and on the 16th and 17th in Philadetphia.. Essipoff played in Toledo on the 6Gth, Cleveland on the Stn, Buffalo on the 10th. She will play in New York this week. She opens the programme of the first concert with Beetl:oven's Sonata op. 110. . NUSICAL NOTES. y Albani recelves $600 a night from Escudier, the manager of the Italian Opera, Paris. Joachim and Mme. Schumann will honor the London popular concerts with their services this month. “Robert e Diable” drew a $4,000 house at the Grand Opdta, Paris, during the first week in Junuary. The Globe Theatre at Boston is to_bé reopen- ed, Ma 2, by the Clara Louise Kellozz opera compaay. . Voo Bulow is greatly improved in health and expects soon to be ablé to resume his profession- ul engagements. M. Capoul has been engaged by Mr. Gye, and will appear at Covent Garden, Loudon, toward the end of Aprii. Miss Minnie Tauck. the American singer, who Ias been uelighting the Berlinese, is likely to be heard in London this year. Signor Verdi as contributed $100 towards the fund now belng raiscd in Vienna for the erection of 2 monument to Becthoven. * Mr. Longfeliow and his_publishers have ac- corded to Mrs. Corinue Young the right to use the story znd title of * Evangeline” for that lady’s uew opera. 3 Rubinstein, the great planist, is expested fn Paris in March to arrange with ' Girard, the pub- Tisher, for the production of his opera, Nero,” at Covent Garden. “ Rienzi* has been given with ereat sucess in Madrig, with Tamberlik as the last of the Tribunes. “Thus ‘Wagner is marching on, con- queriog all lands. . No less than six American girls _are ready in London for the uperatic stage, all, of codrse, ‘waiting tomakea debnt in “Somunambula,” and all eozaged by Mr. Gye. Steer & Turner, the well-known organ-build- ers of Westlield, Mass.; have closed thelr fac- ‘tory, und have called a mecting of their credit- ors for Feb. 6, whén they . will make a settle- ment of their affuirs. P The latest intelligence from Paris has it that Offenbach’s last opera bouffe, ““Le¢ Docteur 0s.” founded on Jules Verne's story, is the weakest of all the composer’s works, and would bave been » failure but for Mlle. Judic. Adirondack Murray’s Boston choir cousists of half & dozen “star” singers and a chorus supposed to number 300. - Mr. Osgood, the leader, and Mrs. Smith, réceive a salaty of S$1,500" each. Mr. Thayer, the organist, has $1,200, as also does Mr. Fessenden. - Mrs. Por- ter gets $1,000, and Mr. Whitney $1,600. The committee for’ the Musical Departmens of the Paris Exhibition of 1578 has been definitely constituted. It cousists of the following mem- bers; MM. Ambroise “Thomas (President), Gal- lafl' and Aug Wolff (Vice-Presidents), Gustave Chouquet (Secretary), Armingaud, Blanchet, (C‘“?]mc('}cultl' ('ialom mrfi)flu}ulgterdc Fredilly, sand, Gautrot aine, Henr Lecomte Sehacer, and Thibodviile-Lamy.. o Some further particulars are given in the last number of the Musikalisches Wochenblatt !n to the late Hermann Goctz’s unfinished opera, < Francesca da Rimini.” It appears -that the first two acts are entirely scored, and the third is fully sketehed. - Stortly before his death the composer intrusted the complotion of the work to his triend Capellmeister E. Frank, of Mann- befm, with the rt«Lm:sL that the work should be submitted to Johanues Brahms for final revis- fon: . Both these musicians have expressed their willinguess to comply ‘with the deccased composer’s wishes, and it is expected that at no very distant date the work will be produced on the -stage .at Mannhelin, where also the first performance of * Der - Widerspanstigen Zah- mung " was given. _Miss Emma Abboit has made her debut in New York, bt not with that success which was expectea. Tae Now York Evening Post sags of cr: Miss "Abbott- possesses a voice of considerable ‘compass, 1n which her nizhest notes are much the They are both strons and brilliant. The middle and low notes of ke register are nelther stronzror of noticeable good gnality. By her study ip Europe Miss -Abboit. haa improved much; her phrosing is excelient, and the man- agement of her voice s fine. . She . showed lazt evening very fair dramatic ability; but of course the little scope afforded at a concert gives an inadequate . opportanity “to gauge. with entire certainty her ability in- this direction. She has a. natnral and winoing manner, and possesses to an anuainl dezree. those qualities which go to make a yepalar concert sinzar; and, in a word, this 18 what we believe Miss Abuott to be destined’ to becomo. Bnh;l;e has nellh‘er the akeggih, nor the presence, Do tne power of voice to become an opera gingel of the first sank, - ‘ #U p‘un‘,r_ Conpt Di Luna. Ruiz, To-morrow nicht she " by Carl Faust ; * Firelizht Waltz," by | BOSTON Tennyson and Longfellow---Two or Three Lies Exploded. Gossip About a Book, and Its Characters Said to Be Portraits. The Editor of the ¢ Literary ~World” Insane. Moody and Sankey Indignantly Questioned. - Special Correspondence of The Tridune. BostoN, Feb. 7.—Charles Lamb, when he walked throuzh a grave-yard once aud noted all the flattering records, asked,with sly quaintness, “IWhere be all the bad people buried?” = - ‘When oue is confronted with the facts which every now and. then utterly demolish some fine sensational story that has had the runof the country, onc is inclined to paraphrase quaint Charles Lamb and inquire, * Where be 21l the story-tellers punished? - And one might also ask, “Where doall the stories @me from¥’— stories I mean that haven’t a shadow of foundation, a foot: to stand on. And all this apropos of the fine story about Tennyson and Longfellow,—thestory that Tennyson refused to allow Mr. Longfellow to use any of his pvems in the volumes of English collections,—the- Poems of Places,—and that Mr. Longlellow, coolly-ignoring this refusal, helped himself to the Laareate’s rhythmic treasures. When this story was at its height of—well, I think 1 may say of its popularity -with the dear greedy public, I met the Cambridge poet’s brother, Mr. Sumuel Longfellow, andasked him if it was truc. He had not then had an opportunity to askhis brother, he replied, but. he would do so when next he saw him, though all the while he felt surc that there could be no truthinit. In the meantime the little tale sped briskly on, de- fying the contradictions that now and then met it, until prescntly it disappeared from the newspaper. columns and died out of conversa- tion, simply because it was worn rusty and threadbare. A few days ago, in a friend’s par- lor, I came across Mr. Samuel Longfellow again, and the Tennyson matter, whicn had slipped my mind, is recalled by Mr. Longlel-. low’s referring to the subject. . He had *‘inter- viewed” His brother to the following effect: There wasn’t the smallest ray of a reason, the least thread of a foundation, for \ . THE WHOLE TENNYSON STORY. On the contrary, when Mr. Longfellow writes to the Laurcate, it is not exactly as a suppliant, because it isn’t necessary to ask per- mission to use what has - already been ‘made public, but simply a matter of courtesy. then, Mr. Longfellow writes to his brother poet and informs him what he proposes to do. - And the Laureate returns the most cordial and friend- 1y of replies, and therc is a general mutuality of good fecling, and hearty hand-shaking through the medium of pen, ok, and paper. And another little on-dit which XMr. Longlellow ex- plodes is the precious tale of Mr. Charles Long- Tellow’s share in the May-Bennett affair. - Mr. Charles Longfellow is ason of the poct Henry; and the rumor'that he was one of the dueling party, and still o 3 ANOTIER RUMOR THAT MR. BENSETT WAS WITH ‘MR, LONGFELLOW IN CAMBEIDGE during that mysterious interval after the ducl, equally belong to the Munchamsen kind of fabrications. And with such exploding of the gossip bubbles, still the wonder grows where the gossip comes from, orat least who tells the first lie, or gives the suggestion of the lie. But speaking of Longfellow and his “Poems of Places ” sugzgests a literary eriticism uoon the last issuc just oumt,—the volumes of “ France,”—and this, that in all the collections none show a more careful research, or are 8o valuable to the English reading public, as these unon France. The gist of the criticism lies in the fact that there are many out-of-the-way poems, translations, ete., which the English reading public would nobbe likely to uncagth foritself. Beranger’s are, of course, almost every reader’s property, from'. their fre- quency of quotation; but there arc others, nota- bly the old *‘Mariboro’ has Gone toBattle,” and sbme of the ballads of Drittany, and Louisa Costello’s translations. They are to be found, it istruc, in other books, but not casily. No collection was ever yet made, however, that did not leave some gaps, and suzwest to one and another reader Why some favorite verse was omitted. EMERSON AND WHITTIER - disarm crisical question of this_ kind, by declar- ingat the outseb that they do not assume to make a complete collection of the treasures of verse, but modestly sugeest that they may have Teft ous much that they would gladly have put in had it been their zood fortune to have been acquainted with it. Bat in the “Poems of Places™ there is a different plan—that of fur- nishiug an exhaustive collection of poems illus- trative, descriptive of, or connceted with the various locale of Fraoce. This plan bas nothing to do with personal predilections, pure and sim- ple, as has Emerson’s and Whittier’s books, and therefore the moreopen to critical question. Thus it scems to me that any reader of Euglish verse must miss* THAT MOST REMARKABLE TPOEM ON ‘‘FON- TENOY.” 5 I looked for it in both France and Ircland, and vainly. And there is not in all literature o finer thing. There is not a line of it but has the real spirjt of flery. patriotism from the begi ning to that fire-spced and fury of the ending— On Fontenoy, on Fontenoy, Like eagles in the sun, With bloody plawmes the Irish stand, The fleld 1s fought and won. There are otlier omissions that one cannot ac- count for, except on the ground of non-acquaint- ance, such a3 Whitticr and Emerson acknowl. edged as a possibility. But, in spitc of omis- sions, the little volimes are srowing to bea yery neeessary part of onc's library, and valua- ble as reference-books. The book of Ireland is simply, however, a specimen, as onc might say, of & mine: and that mine which I most an- thusiastically recommend to my readers is o collection called * Hayes’ Ballads of Irelsnd.” It is the richest collection I have ever seen of auy national verse, and contains poerns that are not to be found elsewiere. I was amused the other day to hear of the violent streteh of imagination in regard to an- otlier Boston publication, the third in the ** No Name" series,—*“Is That All?” The book, brict as it i3, seems to bavemade such a decided impression upen = -certaln literary set fo the city that nothing must do but to pronounce every character a portrait. The funniest of these gucsses fixes tne characters of Mr. and AMs. Pryor upon 2 very dignified Boston editor aud his wife. And neither in any particular, ex- cept, perhaps, the latter’s calm serenity of de- meanor, has the least resemblance. Col. Pryor is cleverly drawn enough to be a portrait, but the faineant Colonel who makes cyes at all the oretty girls of his acquaintance, and is good-humorcdly assisted therein by : I3 MAGNIFICENT WIFE, beeause to makc eyes at human . objects of. beauty contributes.to my Lord's amusement, and my Lord’s amusement is of paramount jtn- portance to my lnd[y,—the faineant Colonel is. about as much like the scholarly, reserved, not to say shy, editor, as o dandy little gray- houund is like a sedate shepherd dog. Another of these gucsses not go- wide of the mark, and yet very -far from the dife in one or two articulars. is that of Mrs. Caroline all, the well-known woman'srights cham- plon, and author of “the most eloquent book on the woman question that was ever writ- ten. Mrs. Laura Wyllys is supposed to be the counterfeit presentaient of this admirable lady. Mrs. Wyllys Is herself admirable in her way, but she'is not Mrs. Dale. ~And, mdeed, not to 20 on with these absurd appropriations, I may state from beginniog to end they are a- pack of the airicst delusions that cver mh\rflgg‘éd a brain. And Miss Presto®, the author of the clever little book that has raised this whirlwind of guesses, is of course not a Jittle annoved at having the caps of her fancy clapped, without Der consent, upon -her - fricnds and sequain- tances in this autocratic manuer. Yet, after all, Do ereater compliment could have been paid her skill in chatacterization. So real, so warm and throbbing with life, are these children of her brain, that it sceimns next to impossible to the reader that : s THEY ARE XOT PORTRAITS, live by line, taken from real living and breath- ing humaa creatures. The skill of this book is far beyond the other two stories of the serics, its only fault being its brevity. r In connection with the second volume of the #NoXNameSerics,” *“Deirdre,” by Dr. Joyee, ple here have more or less associated the editor of Literary World, 8. R, Crocker, because Out of courtesy, from the very first his heraldigg, ; : quently his prafse of it, wn:‘:al exn-::d b enthusiastic. When 2 month ago was suddenly stricken down with has left him, {t is'said, hoj elessly who had puzzled over his eXtraordinary guage of praise in connection with “Deirdre . Tanguago which seemed out of place fn reperg to any new production—could not, help que Ing whetlicr cven then the excitable b 3, ot stirred from its old heaithy balance, i TOE MOODY AND SANKEY ‘MEETINGS are going on quietly, as yet creating no great enthusiasin; and, ‘as I prophesied o oy pre vlous lotter, stirrilz oniy the class that way” denominated the- lukewarm Christians, —y sons who have never thought for themselves ol; auy vital questions,but who b, temperamentang mentality have nceepted tacis ly the old dogmas, or at least have never denied them, Thesg sy the emotional people who are brought into the fold of an emotional religion, and no doubs fing help and satisfaction there. The help that shees men seem Lo extend 10 a good many whose g petite for strotiz drink has hitherto becn nncon. trollable, is. suflicicnt excase for their work ¢ one were needed. And in alert ;community of investimting minds, whery a larze. and growing “elass do | the o thinking, tl:‘im JSEes 9 be a neal of excuse when Mr. Moody talks duwm:gemem. of 7 A ! ' MERELY MORAL MEN AND WOMNES." Already these thinkers have gprangto the front, and in the city papers have faced the “ Eyee. gelist” with his own words and asked him some close questions. A * Churchman™ oflers the following sharp propositions and criticism : ““Mr. Moody says hewould like to sca the word duty abolished from the Enalish lansmage, aad that, service rendered to God from a senss ot duty is not acceptable to HIm. Let us sce the | practical working of this vicious theory. A mac would like to remain at home on & rainy Sun day, but §oeu to_church because he thinks he ought todo so0. This, says Mr. Moods s 18 Dotan acceptable service because prompted ¥ 4 sense - of duty. Or a man refrains from some baq act, and gives to a charitable society. Or two ene- mies, each believing the other has wronged ‘him, agrec to be reconciled, from 2 sense. of duty hiese things, says Mr. Moody, are not aceepta. ble to God.” Now I submit that sach teaching .tends to sap the very foundations of morality,’ So the revivalist's doctrines are faced sad criticised by the thinking Christians, or the * merely moral men and wemen.” How they will be met and answered is still an open ques- tion. N R ——— HUMOR. | . The young man’s first razor: His fathers boot. A Mt Crochel Adiscase that * Eternal spring can be fonnd only in factory. P i3 bles A masked ball—Putting up codfish tocs a8 & fish-cakes,” B P 0y 5 iz Patron saint’ of the New York e Saiut sce soal here.—Boston Bulstin. T 3rs. Partington savs that Tke has bought s horse 'so spirituous that he always Foer api s decanter. B ’ 1.A good ;nm is ?‘nsf. ,u.ls apt ?l{l:gmnwnun slippery place, and erawl arouns mumble h]rgscl hasa bad man.—Hauwkeye. o A party whobought a picture of a dead duck at a recent sale, is now anxious to have the seller take his canvass back.—Boston Bulletin. A Detroit restaurant-keeper hangs out s sizn of ““free chops,” and when the old loafers coms around he shows them an axe and a woodpile. . An exchange speaks of the “minority sick- mess.”” References is made probably to the catarrh, as it is & disease of - the noes.—Norsich Bulletin, The new Senator from Kansas is named Plumb. He onght to undertake curcalion tasks of statesmanship when he goes to Washington. —Haukeye. - The times are so hard that some of our best citizens have sadly relinquished their plaos for enjoving bilious ‘attacks this comingspring— Rome Sentinel. 5 Josh Billings wants to know who ever hearda rich man sing. \\'ll:{ should a rich man wantto - sing. when he can hire some one to do it forbim so much better? J B 4 Nothing is more to be dreaded than hydropho- bia. Remember, then, that it can always be revented by rapidly climbing a tree when s mad og is going by. . ‘This blue-giass business is nothing new after all. \We suppose the glase-blowers blew gliss long before Gen. Pleasonton was born.—Bur tington Haukeye. White Loon, the I!&difln centenarian, died re- cently. Mrs. Swisshelm claims that Chemi was a sister of his, and is trying to get his property. —New York Graphic, h A negro was put on the stand as a witness and the Judze inquired if he understood the o+ ture of an vath. = “* For certain, Boss," said ths sitizen, "ie I gwear 1o a o T must stickto m Ejaculations overheard in 2 railway-carriszs in answer to the greeting of .* m:g New Year”: *Noo yedr, yal! Wish I'd died lst year; -I'd a been o much richer man."—Loados. World. e, A Parjsian lady entercd a shop at Leipsic, and asked, on being addressed in German, if thes did not speak French. - ** We can, madame,” was the reply, “but we do not—from patriotic motives.” An Augusta man fell down recently ad bruised himself. His answer to inquirics now is: “Well, I've ot o plaster where I lost my balance, aud I'm fecling tolerable.”—duuds Constitution. ’ Gavroche L—¢ How found of orangesyouseem to be—always_eating them.” Gavruche Il - he skins are good to make people falldow with."—Paris pagér. Last week a nian out in Sioux City died and left §346,000 to his only son. The san Is trying to buy the Trustces off for balf, but they are men who know their business, and are resolute- Iy holding on for a rise.—Burlington Hawkeje. The ideas are not necessarily related, but when you qverbear a servaut girl singing “Sil- ver Threads Amonz the Gold while she is .and mamma and Aunt favorably affects your appetite for the cakes.— Brooklyn Argus. A country-cditor ont West became martidl and was made Captain. On parade, instesd of “Two paces in front—advance,” he uncop- scious'y exclalmed, “Cash—$2 3 year in ad: vance.” He was courtmartialed and sentenced” to read bis own papers. A zeatleman in a stage-coachasked the driver - Fhat buildiny that was. The driver n‘plle:lg “Ttis the Unitarian Church.” & Unltar,inn‘zl said the gentlen:an: “ and what is that?” * don’t know,” eaid Jehu; * but I believeitlsin * the opposition line.” s “Triplets,” said the doctor sententiouslt The lt;‘us‘tlmldhot 4 year rrsh‘i:d t;ul on m; ' reh, thought upon his slender income, Bbon ihe shawoiad yard, and exclaimed with 3 wild, mocking laugh, *Son-struck in Jaguary.” - —St. Louls fepublican. The Havana (N. X.) Journal says thata was lnk!ngnim(n\:a hawlk that was perched on, tree near his_chicken-coop, when his little daughter cxclaimed, “Don’t take aim, pa; let it 20 off by accident.” * wnz 50" nted b, father. “7Cause every zun that goes off bysc-. cident always hits somebody.” ; Boston Transeript: * You sce,” observed caller this morning, “if those young med i not been out driving on Sundar, no "‘”i::‘- would have ;happened.’” “Tmei," repli another, who Was patiently walting nis turs {0 “intimidate® the editor, “but if the unfor- tunate victim hadn’t been oo his way to chureh the riding wouldn't huve done any harm.” ““YWhat i3 going on in the next room, walter!” asked a staid” committec-man at a leading b the other night. *They’re havin’ a littie game there, sir,’” responded the attendant, and just then ‘somebody fn the aparcment referred t0 bawled, - ““Pass the buck,” at_which the good ‘maw’s face cleared, and he sald, Oh, I see;'s venison supper,” and the committee business went on.—JLoaton Bulletin. A tramp called at the house of a notoriously stingy tamily yesterday for something to et The Womaa gave him & pone. He looked st it as he passed. out of the yard, and returned to the house. When the.woman cameto the door. 1z handed her the bone, and gaid: I won's be able to make any useof that; [ left my teie- scope in my other coat.” And, heaving a sighy he departed.—Uanbury News. Therc is very fine whistling in “the Temple Church on Sunday, says the London World: A lezal geatleman, known for his tunefal pipe all over Eneland, “obliges regularly, by way of accompaniment to the choir. ~The effext is to be very sweet and pleasing. 1t wonid bed good thitig to give some formal sanction to this - gm-uw in the next revision of the Prayer- - ook Then shall be said, or sung, or Wl tled,” ete. It was a genuine 5-year-old young pollflwfi. rebuking hus sister of 3; * Can’t you pray bef terthan that, Kittie! 1t's meanof you just:td Emr for your relations and nobody else. Now.: ' old up and let me sbow you: ¢ God bless papd nny and me, too; ond the Whisky Ring and Sammy Tilden, and give the whole of 'em new _hearis, so tmflcv:"id‘ g thing’ll go straight and nobody get m: not‘fi;:gwmu gw picces. For dJesns' 23K Amen.'” i ¥ 2 Y insane, thoss - Jf - il (csmic of 7)—Not that I careso much for them, | but t| mixing the buckwheat batter, it somehow un- 3 o,