Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 6, 1877, Page 9

LIUSEMENTS, Production of “Fazio” at McVicker’s Theatre, Cof It. Aimee Coming to Haverly’s— New Plays at Mec- Vicker’s. ? Gossip of the Green-Rooms at Home and Abroad. . . The Apollo Club Festival---¢ St. Paul” and “Israel in Egypt.” sol The Hershey Musical Evenings---Stra- _kosch’s Operatic Venture—~- Musical Notes, . THE DRAMA. MIS8 ANDERSON AS “BIANCA." ‘Miss Anderson acted Biunca in Dean Milman's eragedy of **Fazio™ Friday night, to the delight of a good sudience. The impersonation is one of 1he finest 1o her repertory, and wortby to rank with her Eradne, Parthenia, and Pauline. The play has been cut with a view to preventing an anti-climax, 2nd the improvement is considersble. Miss Anderson kept this object in view. She re- ‘trained herself until the fourth act, but none the Jess earned the applanse of the spectators by her intense manner, her intelligent methods, and her sympatbeticart. In the scenc following the de- purture of Fasio for the palace of Aldabella, e guned s recall for her vivid por- traitare of heart-bresking grief. forth wildly, aud, following with strained cyes the retreating form of her husband, stretched forth \herarmsssif 10 bring him back; then, sobbing Zeaily, she stopped, and, drawing up to her full aeight, remained one instant morionless, and fell swooning to theground. There was no word ut- tered, but the pantomime was most affecting. In “the court-sceme Miss Anderson was again ad- mirable. Her change from the mood of denuncia- tion to that of pity, forgiveness, and concern was aptly managed. © Her cntreaty to Aldabella Jeft ‘nothing to be desired, and her graphic drawing of tne scene at the close was impressive. At the words— To-morrow at his waking, for thy face g ., lovingly down droopiug o e the towered sbove the prostrate Aldglella like the incsrnation of Fate and Retribution. The mad sccne in the last act was, as it should bave been, the ‘moet effective of all, and revealed a depth of power onthe part of the actresa which nobudy has here- tofore credited her with. It was one of the finest ieces of acting—if not the finest—seen here this season, 2nd In itself entitles her to hold the place which she fas claimed, and which her admirers Daveclaimed for ber, in the first rank of the dra- matic profeseion. The death was zrand and realis- g, showing resources of the highest order, anda Ioowledge of the lower art of the stage worthy of 2z older and more expericnced actress. In view of theunquestioned success of the performance last night. 1t i6 deeply 1o be regretted ibat Miss Ander- smdid not open her prescut engagement with Bugnea instead of with Juliet, and that she did not deferber first appearance in Lady Mecbe!h until the end of the sccond week, instead of essaying it inthefirst. There 18 a chasm between Shakspeare adtaebest of the inferior tragic writers which cmnot be taken at 3 bound; and, while we com- nend most heartily Mliss Anderson’s general acting fl’;‘kfld:;;’;d “llngoma!." n;ld & ‘f‘:!xlo. ‘;t:ve are 5t pre; o praise only certain portions of e Laty Sacbeth aud Jutict, ~ ¥ The support siven by the company in this play, st inmost others durinz Miss Anderaon's engage- ment, was shamefully deficient. The voice of the wowpter was louc in the house. Mr. Thorne gig- Jled in the first act, and spoiled an entire scene, sngpesting that his vocation shonld have been gen- el comeuy. Mr. Mark Sinith broke down ab=olute- Ir in one place. Mr. Lavell was boisterously pomoted through an entire ecene, epoiling what night bave been un effective point for 3liss Ander- wn. Miss Don was Indicronsly iadequate for the part of Aldabetla. Mr. McVicker shonld have been it home to enjoy this performance. AlISS ANDERSON’S SUCCESS. The present engagement of Mss Anderson has been unfortunate in the financial sense, but it has contirmed the favorable impression of her abilities alresdy recorded in Taz TRizTNE, and bas gained bermacy new friends among the best people of Chicago,—the nan-thestre-going class. This is 1:id with no intention to disparage the character of the audiences that assemble at McVicker's The- tre on ordinary occamons, but 2s gimple acknowl- edgment of the fact that not enough come 'togeth- exatone time to 11 the theatre. . The experience of all stars in Chicago this season has been the #me, From whatever reaeon, it basbecome fash- {onsble in Chicaro not to attend the theatre unless fome extraordinary attraction is presented. John Yevollough, who was greeted with crowded Dowes wherever else he went, had hardly tybody Lere to eee him. Mr. Boncicauit was obliged to shorteri the run of **The thaughraun, ** which he was prepared to give three ¥eeks, but took -away at the expiration of two, There has not been a fali house in the theatre for ¢ drumatic performance since the scason began, ex- ceptiwoor three times during the Exvoeition, ¥hen John T. Raymond was the *‘star.''h Miss Anderson has not, therefore, had a singular ex- perience. She has done all that conld have been ; has made friends, and will return here afterher 'Eastern successes, which we regard ag forcoranined, with a prestige that will force every- ly tosce_her or leave unseen that which no ion of affairs can afford to be ignorant of. Her oins is to.dsy more nenenl},y acknowledged than eves before by all critical and thoughtful people, -mfl. 23 she hus shown capacity for provement instead of Ky tendency ; W deteriorate, ber eventual establishment in the gwd graces of the American public is a mere ques- ion of time, She cannot represent Shakspearcan s matlsfactarilv as yet, butehe cau deal with em in an intelligent manner and with a hizh de- Freeof power. She nceds only cultare and ex- kerience, which arethe slow resultsof time, to l’:rfdl her methode. Her natural gifts cannot run waste if she keeps a tithe of the industry and m&fllf which she has thus far uniformly ex- ? 2 . MACBETH'S CHARACTER. 'znA communicstion from an esteemed contributor ¢ inregard to the eriticismof ** Macbeth, * published ¢ I8 Taz Tntsir of last Sunday, bardly does justice +~lothesubject. The writer did say. it is true, that ;!:cum was remarkalle for **s rugged purpose,” talso took pains 10 explain that his purpose did :::l become “‘ruzged™ until afler the murder been commilted. The language in th Topcection was: i Macheth vaciliated be-. S act, but his will. was by ben the consequences of it were to be con- . enl iy regg ibe other criticism of the corrcépond- atanregand 1o ** the weird element ™ is |fla|nly . Pasforwand a5 a convenient hook npon which o i the spiritualistic theory of the character of nfid. (h, and ss euch is allowed to go unchallenged. iaheg puunleation referred to, clsewhere pub- s exceedingly- interesting ‘and full of in- 708 speculation; it will repay a carcfal pe- ; genlg Tusal, e THE VARIETY SHOWS. 5 'ybody at all curions as to_the wheresbonts of = ;clld Patrons of amusements in Chicago last l';: ¢honld have attended the variety Louses. -.-:::’ these, of the most respectable character, alghy Operation, and each one of them is crowded Y. Standing.room was in ‘demand through- Japieweek at the Adelphi Theatre, where Texas aud Morlacchi gamboled Jthrotgh an - ex wen o called by courtesy a play. Many ladi day pign VeRdance upon this performance Thars- Bt The vrices are very low, and the play s ooone. At the Museum Mr. Ben Cotton has of Jpspiacese with Den Thompeon in his character acting i@ Whitcomb, the cccentric Yankee. The il Gl o e obe, and the Academy have Albeen favored with large patronage. = ToTES. ".’:hf: the Museum Mr. Den Thompson will play ua WRitcomb another weck, and there will be Seval varicty performance. . The Adelphi this week will present an anusual ‘2uber of variety actorsand & sensational Pplay, i tobe from the French entitled **Vendetia.” £cVicker's Theatre this week two of W. 5. % lha?%:wa—“’l‘omcobh " and ‘‘Sweet- W Sl S o presented. They are sald to be inay dramatic composition, most re- 1one. and delicate in conception. The fall Weerga of the company will be in the cast. Next Rase Extinge, the celebrated emotional 2etrees, will begin an enzagement. Almee, the bost representative of French opera- ot H“lo'{ on the stage, will begin an engagement Sty .fil’- n’e;nt:emlmmnmanighL She hes ; excel] mpany. The programme 0 1he vt week: will be as- foliowa: !&‘enfi:’. *‘La Tuesday, ' *La Jolie Parfumense "3 s L2 Fille de Modame Angot™; *La Bello Poule™ "(Ponlet and Poa- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MAY 6, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES. lette); Friday ‘‘La Vie Parisienne; Satnrday afternoon, **La’ Jolle Parfamense: Saturd: Blght. for the the frat time here, “uLa Peute riec, ™ - JOHN BROUGHAN'S *SLANDER.” " The plot of Jobn Brougham's *:Slauder,” pro- duced in Philadelphia last Monday night; is thus summed up by the Zelegraph: enmity of Oscar 0fr, the Bephew of fitrasen sud his prospeclve e pcan otr: c orde m: 4 Tom taking plsce, lect into the get-upof his names—to slander the clinste Viscount ; Miramon the nmderm“nlnn‘cflz Jloreno, and she departs from his i iife of Srreichodness and deapatr, wodl The Lime comes when she conclados that" it s not. WOFCh while to. 11V any longer, and consequently sceks to suflocate herselt with the fumes of charcual. Fortunately snc fx res- cued before she has succeeded In_slaying herself: the truth abous the vile plot Is discovercd, and the curtain falls on & scene of perfect bliss for everybody except the villains who have made the mischief which has made the play which has entertained the audience. The plece is pronounced a success, but the qual- ity of it was well described by the author wheu he said: “‘I think the sesthetic portion of the public will, perhaps, not like gome of its features, But it must be remembered that it is_necessary for nu- thors 0 get in the pervading current. and that cur- rent now seems to be flowing pretty close Lo the muddy side of the stream." The Telegraph as- signs the play a place in the Angustin Daly cate- gory. The acting, of course, was excellent, ¥ZW YORK NOTES. - Miss Eatharine Rogers will replace Miss Ada saset Wallack’s next season. On the oceasion of John McCullough's beneft ro- cently he was presented With a laurel wreath in silver by the employes of Booth's Theatre. The Broadway Theatre, New York, has been leased to JamesC. Duff, and it will by him be managed mext season—opening in Angust—os a first-class etar theatre. Mr. Duff bas long been the manager of Daly's traveling company. Mr. Stephen Fiske, of the Fifth Avenue Thea- tre, hus again come forward with a certificate of good character on behalf of the late John Oxen- ford. 1s there anybody zood enough, or bad enouch, as the case may be. to furnish Mr. Stephen Fiske with a certificate of good character? The Dramatic News alleges that. he ran away from London to avoid the payment ~ of his debts, and reprints bis testimony during the progress’ of the latetrial in proof of the assertion. The truth is, Ir. Stephen Fiske i8 too much fu the busincss of giving other people churacters. 1t is harely honest of him to bestow so freely that which le dows not pocsess too mach of himsclf. The run of ‘‘Les Danicheffs' at the Union Square Theatre, New York, closcd lust night. To- morrow **Smike™ will bé produced, with Bijon She rashed | Lieron as Suike, Le Moyne as Squcers, Stoddart us Mrs. Wilkins, ANewman Noggs, and Stevenson, in the Miss Itoberta Norwood, —and others cast. John Raymond's farewell ecnanse- meut a8 Col. Sellers is mow in successful progress at the Park. The last mghts of **3iy Awfol Dad " are announced at Wallack's. **Prin- Cess Roval™ gives way at Daly's to-morrow to Adelaide Neilson and Lben Plympton in ** Tweifth Night." 'The disiribution of roles s as follows: Tiola, Miss Neilson; Clivia, Miss Rigl; Maria, Mies Cowell; Duke, Mr. Stanlex; Sebastian, Mr. Eben Plympton; Yalrolio, Mr. Fisher; Sir Toby, Mr. Davidge; Sir Andrew, Mr. Drew; Clown, Mr. Hardenbers. GENERAL NOTES. **Daniclieffs” is to be acted in Boston, May 21, by the full Union Square Company. Arlington and Emerson are in San Francisco, the former giving *‘serio-comic” lectures, and the latter managing & minstrel troupe. Bret Harte’s and Mark Twain's new play. **Ah Sin,” will be produced at the National Theatre, Washington, to-morrow night. Mr. Charles Pare- g:i"elwm sustain the principal character, that of A% Mrs, Barry, of the Boston Theatre, is to have her annusl bénefit next Wednesday. John McCul- Jough has defefred kis departure for California in order to assist on the occavion, when he will per- sonute /ngomar. Miss Loiee Pomeroy returns to Philadelphia for 1 necond engagement this season. opening May 21 in *-Cymbeline,” at the Walnut Street Theatre, alo appearing, during the week, in ** As You Like 1t* and ** Macheth, " supported by McKee Runkin. William J. Roife has added another to his serics of Shaksprare's plays edited for use in schools. The tragedy of Macbeth iz the one se- Jected for the sixth in the series. The scholarship and zood judgment displayed by Mr. Rolfe in these editions have long becn recognized. Lattle Mabel Leonard, who played successfully in *+The Scarlet Letter™ at Boston and in **Miss Multon ™ at New York, is now the subject of ncon- troversy in the conrts, having Leen placed in the Sheltering Arms by a Police Justice, and being now claimed by her mother, who is said to be not a it person to have tne custody of so promising z child. Edwin Adame, moch fmproved in health, has one to be wooed by the balmy breezes of San tafael. Young married men who have been wont to come ambling home 3t 7in the morning, ex- pluining that they bad_spent the night like Zood Samaritans at his bedside, will pleasc take notice. Forty-seven of these scif-appointed narses have slready been discovered not far from the Palace 2nd Grand Hotels.—San Francisco Chronicle. The success of Jobn Brougham's new play, *“Slander, ” at the Chestnut Street Theatre, Phila- delphia, has been alreaay noticed. Another new comedy by Miss Gilder, entitled ** Quits,” s an- nounced for esrly production. - Lotta is now filling 80 cngagement at the Walnut, sy 14, Mr. E, L. Tiavenport will begin an_engagemeat. Soldene was at Mrs. Drew's Theaire last week. To-mor- row Misa Eic Elleler makes Ler frst appearance there. Edwin Booth was last weck, playing **Richar **Merchaht of Venlce,” -*Much Ado About Noth- ‘Fechter appearcd in * The Hamlet, " und the ** Lady of at the Doston Theatre. Mrs. Bowers 's Mask,® ¢¢ Leal,™ *‘Love’s Saczi- d **The Hunchback,” ‘at the Muscum. TThis weck Booth will remain’ at the Globe. Clara MMorris will open as Camille at the Loston Theatre, and ** Our Boarding-House, ” with Crane and Rob- son in the principal parts, will bo prodnced at the Muoseom. Byron's nmew play, **Tke Crushed Tragedian,™ written for Mr. Sothern, was produced, for the first time in this country, ot the Arch Street “Theatre, Philadelthia, on Friday night Jest, upon the occadion of Mr. Sothern's benefit.* The play is the simple love story of u provincial actress and 1he son of an aristocratic banker, and the Crusked Tragedian 18 8 minor character only, 3 fault much 10 be regretted, as it isa deliclous iece of bur- Jesque and is 2 partnew to the stage. Mr. Sothern. in his make-up, resembles the Count Joannes, and was o golemnly comlcal in bis leavy-trigedy specches that the new play made a. great hit.— New York Herald. Sothern has been playing with a company of his own in cities on the Iine of the New York Central Tailroad. John Owens hos been seseral days at Albany. Robert McWade bas been at Buffalo. ¥Kate Claxton played ** The Tio Orphans * at Mil- waukee yesterday and the day before. The Evan- geline Company and Rose Eytinge have been mak- fng a tonr of tie New Engisnd provincial towns. Fannle Marsh has been_doing **London Assur- nnce ™ at her theatre in Portland. Mand larnson, Roberta Norwood, Harry Little, and other New York actors, have been representing ** Our Boarding- Honse ™ with success in Cincinnati, _ Soldene s coming West again. She opens ut Pittsburg to- morrow night. ~ Almee was at St. Lonis Jast week. FOREIGN NOTES. The laying of te foundation of the SHakspeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford took place Monday week with grand Masonic ceremonies. Mr. Joseph Jefferson will perform at the Hay- market Theatre, London, in June, under the mun- acement of John Sleeper Clarke. Ile will abandon «'Rip Van Winkle" for the time being, and will 30 o number of legitimate comedy roles. Mr. Charies Wyndham began on -April 24, at the London Crystal Palace, the production of a series ©of the plays of Mr. Coucicanlt. “Those announced are **The Colleen Bawn,” **The Corsican Uroth- ers,” **Arrh-Na-Pogue,” ¢ *‘lunted Down,” and **Fanst and Marcuerite.” The Theatre Francais has zeproduced *‘L'Am- phitryon,” of Moliere, which has not been plaged since the 15th of Jauuary, 1871. On that occasion, writes M. Jules Prevel,” instead of the thunder rolling in honor of Olympiun Jove, shells burst over the city, and the actor was obliged to wait for some time efore he could recover nis memory and bis voice. s Tom Taylor has commenced the publication of nis acting piays in the shape of a volume of histor- 1 dramas. Of the seven plavs thus for the first time collected it appears that there are only_two, namely, **The Fool's Revenze " “and **'Twixt ‘Ax and Crown, " which are indebted in any degree to foreign originals. Lucy Hooper writes from Paris: **Croizettehas returned to the Francais, after an abeence of several monthy, in her old EBH.. that of the heroine m ‘Le Demi-Monde.' She was as nervous as a debutante, tremoled at the wings, and when all Was over and the plaudits were ringing in her cars rushed awny to her room to give way to & passion of hysterical weeping. Leouide Lebiancis to fol- low her to the same honse, greatly to the disgust of many’ members of the company, who, having strained at a gnat in Croizette, in the old days,now. find themselves obliged to ewallow u very camel 1aden with half the ecandals of the Capital. ¢“MACBETH.” THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS IN TOE PLAY— SHAKSPEARE A PEONOUNCED SPIRITUALIST. v the Editor of The Tribune. - Cmicaco, May 6.—1read with interest the criti- ciem on Miss Anderson's Lady Macbeth m last Sunday's TRIDUNE. But with two of its salient jdens I differ. The writer says that ** Macoeth and ‘his wife are distinguishea for metaphysical refine- ment, rugged parpose, strong will, and tender consclence.” Now, is not Macbetk infirm of. pur- pose until that period fn the action of the play when he exclaims— . Iam in blood d Stept 1n so far that should I wade no more, Returning were as tedfous as go o'er ? - Previously o this he exhibited an irresolation the Boston Globe Theatre d IT.," **Othello, " and antipathy to acticn almost as marked as ZZam- le's. -When, however, the **weird efsters, " alded by the inspiration of his ambitions and wholly un- scrupulons wife, tempted him to commit his firstand greatest crime, he gives himself nnreservedly into their hands, Henceforth be certainly does exhibit a rupgedness of purpose that even the foretaste of death docsnot shake. At the end he savs: % Yet I will try the last: Before body T b Thy SReiIke shield: 187 on, Adbduf And damn'd be him that first cries, Hold! enough. Lady Macbetn, on the other hand, possesscs a materinlistic, though highly emotional, nature. In the esrlicr period of the play she eshibits all that encrgy of will which is peculiar to such char- acters, and to the female sex generally. Whether -in things good or bad, they cive themselves up with the whole heart and soul to the object of their desire. To Lady Macbeth there simply was & decd to be done which would sccure to her the **round and top of sovereignty.” This was all ehe saw and felt. To her, **the assassination could trammel up the consequence, and cafch with his surcease success.” Sheso **poured her apirits in his car, and chastised with the valor of her tongue, all that impeded him from the gulden round which fate and metaphysical ald did seem to Lave him crowned,” as to transfuse into the circu- lation of AMacbeth's moral conetitution that fell purpose of the will to wnich her more femi- nine matare was capable of giving birth, but not prolonged sustentation. Her delicate frame is Silled with on emotional enerzy too hizh-strung for its fine flbre. In the service of evil she has all the intensity of an ascetic. She yielas tono weak pal- tering with conscience, as does her lord, Yet her woman's and her constitutional weakness will not allow her to stab Duncan. She is sppalied by the gouts of blood that flowed from the old man. _She swoons and s borne away insensible when JMac-* Yeth announces his butchery of Duncan's grooms. Aslong nsitis supported by her physical frame she has strength of will enongh to serve for two ‘murderers, —her busband and herself. So long a3 she can support herself upon the external facts and surroundings, her more powerful wilkis capable of preserving ‘hie equipoise of life, which Vacbelh finds it so diflicult to sustain. In a word, Lady lachelh_had toe desire and the will to_conceive the murder, but lacked the moral courage and the physical endurance which were sc necessary to carry It and its consequences to their bitter end- ing. This view of the natures and capaciticsof the two central figures in the tragedy necessarily concedes that Jacbeth, at the outset, was not altozether de- ficient in conacience, at the same time that 1t finds no place in the constitution of his wife's morl nature for that human attribute, Though Macbeth, at the outset. possessed no real fidelity to things that are true, honest, pure, lovely, he is not yet in alliance with the powers of evil. His couscience was toward the firat ina careless attitude of sus- pense or indifference, wavering, as it were, be- tween virtue and vice. Unlike his wife, whois al- most altogether mates he is highly and excita- bly imaginative. 1le resolves, but fulters in view of action. e 8 restrained by one considerition or another. —now by his fears and then by lingering and Jmperfect volitivns towards lj!]yl)ly 10 Liis sovereign Ing to an honorable life. facbeth has in him, mentally and morally, the materials for a great wan. Like all great men, too, he hss amazing aptitndes for gooancss and appalling capacitics for crime. 1t 1s through this indifference, as between virine and vice, through the weakness of his con- science, that he falls and is lost. 1t be remembered that conscience is the fac- ulty, power,or principle which decides on the law- fulntess or unlawfulness of our actions and sffec- tiony, and approves or condemns them. It is conse- quently sn attribute of the mtellect or reuson, rather than of the emotions or pussions and atfec- tions, —a faculty of the male rather than of the fe- male’ mental and moral constitution. Shakepeare is rigidly true to correct psychological princinles when he thus rcprosents Macbelr falling, mainly through the perversion of the conscience, and his wife altogethier through the perversion of the emo- tional nature. In o truc woman, the emotions, whether gzood or evil, almost invariably overbear the intellectual faculties” She docs not resson upon the right or wrong of an act With her to perceive is forthwith to decide; to decide is toact. She instinctively acts, whetber from the promptings of her higher or lower nature,—from 1he insplration of the sweet airs of Heaven or the foul plasts of Hell; or, as Shakspeare evidently in- tends to teach, from the first to the last of this piay, from the direct inspiration of good or evil 8] Note that terrible invocation of the evil spirits of the nether world in which Lady Jacheth cries, as from the very depths of her vaultingly ambizious soul, **Come, come you spirits that tend onmortal thoughts, unsex me here.™ The entire invocation is that cruelty may be sub- stituted for mercy in her heart. ‘Thusthat her affections may be metamorphosed into direst pas- sions through the direct inspiration of cvil spirits. 1t will be observed that the word remorse, not con- science, is used. llere again Shakspeare s true to the psycholozical fact that woman i ruled ton greater degree throngh the emotional, and man through the intcliectual, faculties; for remorse is allied rather to the emotlons and paseions than to the reason and intellect. Itisthusof the heart rather than of the head. Thus, too, because Jfac- betli fell through the perversion of his intellectual pature, through disregard of the rules of right and wrong, and his wife through the perversion of her emotionul npature, her falt was lower than his. Macbetl's soul never quite disappeared in the biackness of darkness. His wife's sank so low that the evil spirits ruled her in her involuntary—her sleepinz—existence. We find her their subject slave in the hours of repose, during which she re- enacts the dreadful cene of the mar- der, and vainly endeavors . 1o wash from those little "bot wicked hands the witness of her zuilt. But even In this last sad and involuntary scene of the dramasbe is true to the in- stinct of her will, which {s that the assassination can trammel up the consequence. Almost her lost words in the #leep-walking scene are those with which she answered the waverings of Machelh's rup- idly weakeninzconscience ere yet the murder wasin accomphished fact— **What nced we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to accountf'’ At length she dies throngh the exhaustion of nature, the fell purpose of Ler will still casting its departing shadow.behind this fend-like person- 2g¢ who, assome thought, *‘by violent hands took of her life.” Mecoeth's tragically pathetic, painful, and expressive eulogy of her blasted and lost existence Is her most mournful but fitting requiem—*‘she should have dicd hercafter.” The best he can say or do for her is to hope, for her sake, that life's ‘‘bnt a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, slgnifying nothing. The second idea in which the writer and I differ is that respecting the natarc of the weird element of the tragedy. Hc says: ‘*The witches im- ressed in Shakspeare’s any because there wasa ingering superstition in the populur mind which responded to the fantastic imagination of the oet.”” Leaving the fact out of the account that, n Shokepeare's day and for some time after, not only the great mass of the British prople, out some of ihe ablest judees and lawyers the world has- evt frop con jn ] E;‘ymdu:ed. Dbelieved in witcheralt, it is evident ‘the text of the play that the poct was firmly nced of its existence. Indeed, he surpassed he belief that good 2nd evil spirits have o di- rect infinence upon the intellectnal and emotional, and, 1 may add, the involuntary sentiments and feelings of mankind onr modern Spiritualists, or even the_receivers of the revelations of the great Swedish Seer. ‘The play of ** Macbeth” iy really founded upon the idea, tnat the spiritaal, from irst to last, acts upon and controls the material universe,—is, as it were, the motive power behind It. Coleridge says that the true reason for the first ap- pearance of the **weird sisters in a desert place is to strike the keynote of the character of the whole drama.” It is in the wild end blasted place where cevil has obtained the mastery of things that Mac- deth’s eyes are iirst opened to them. —Mr. Edward Dowden, Professor of English Literature in the Tniversity of Dublin, in his profound and beauti- ful work, **Shakspenre: His Mind and Art, ™ say 4417 we must regard the entirc universc as a man festation of an unknown somewhat which lies be- hind it, we are compelled to admit_that there is an apocalypse of power auxiliary to vice, as really ae there i a manifestation of virtaous energy." . . **There is in the atmosphere a zymotic poison of sin: and the_constitution which is morally en- fecbled supplies appropriate nutriment for the germs of divease, while the hardy moral nature repels the same germs. Macbel/e i8 infected. Banguo passes free.” Still even the latter atan early period in the play feared to sleep. 1l says, just previous to the murder of Duncan, to which De had also evidently been tempted: Mercifal powers . Restrain In me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in reposc, Herc is the belief thst evil spirits have even power over the involuntary facultics of man. Awake, Banquo felt that he could ward off the fiende. Asleep, he feared they might pervert Dis better mature. 'T8 it because of ench lingering rays of on old belie in these materiulistic days, s:licn some of the most noted ministers of Christ are mere sclentific ambidexters, that the jnnocent child is made at eventide to pray to Jesus that the good angels may be his guardians of the nightr My friend Col. Ingersoll remurked Lo me a few days since that Shakspeare was n mere pagan. T think this an error. It is true, however, that Shakspeare §s more materialistic' in_his methods than the older Greck dramatists. These almost invariably prepare us for the coming tragedy by some direct personal inspiration of impending calamity. Shakspeare, on the other hand, as if in concord with the material age of which he'was the intellectual precursor—in fact the crentive and for- mative mmd—seldom or never inspires his charac- ters with a consciousness of the impending event. Harmlet, and onc or two other personages, it is true, have at times a faint sense of this intuition of coming exil which the 0ld Greeks were} so fond of throwing into the foreground of their tragedles. Shakspeure, nevertheless, constantly makes na- ture the vehicle throngh which ** coming events cast their ehadows before.” Thus the philosophy of his dramas, like that of Bacon’s scientific works, treate man and nature objectively, while that of the Greck poets trents both sabjectively. Te is the poet of the analytic, they of the synthetic, method. So in JMacbelh, he makes the last words of the **weird sisters ™" the first which the Thane himself utters: Welrd Sisters~Far is foul and foul s falr Hover through the fog znd lthy air. Sfacbeth—So foul and fair a day | have not seen. Shakspeare intimates by this apparent play upon words that, aithongh facbeth haa not yet set eyes upon these hags, the connection is already estab- lished between his sonland them. But when the spells of the' apirits of evil have already. if not fully, wrought upon Jacbeth's blood; when they bave given him the threc hailg reprcsenting his past, present, and foture life, he starts, **It is the full revelation of his criminal aptitades,” as Alr. Tludeon has well,said, **that 6o startles and surprites him into a rapture of meditation.* It is thus Shakepeare recozuizes and acknowledges the commanion of spirite, in common with the old Greek poets, at the same time that he uses a gre: er amount of machinery—the storm, the fonl fog, the blasted heath—in’ order to muke the connec- tion between _the wisible and invisible worlde. Tne difference between the meth- ods of the more and less ancent poets 13, that the nze of Shakspeare Was more materia - jstic, and :ouiex?uemly ita fnith in the unseep more_in need of sensuous aids to supersensnons knowledge. . By this necessity for the adventitions aid of material things, Shakspeare also intimates that in sowe mygterious wav things natural ‘serve as_the media Ubtween man and those l\])irhunl Delngs of the nether world who could not, in thefr attempts at face to face communication with ha- manity, dispense with o certain foul, loathsome, and ugly ritualism of evil, as hell-broth brewed in caves and such-like sorcerics of devils and devil- worship, no0_more than cau the table-tippers and rapping spirits of the presont day dispense with their mechanical jugelers. Note, also, the upecch of Lenoz on the morning after Duncan’s murder. In it he portrays the **lamentings heard I’ the air; strange screams of death; and prophesying, with accents terrible, of dire combustion, and confused events, new hatched to the woeful time, " that presaged the King's taking off. These urc #0 many natural or material fore- bodings of coming evil. They nre the material objective effects of spiritualistic causes and emo- tions. But It Shakspearcis less profoundly re- 1izious as well as less lyrornundlyimazinuth'e than the old Greek dramatists, he is more thoroughly spiritualistic than the Protestant priestly orders in general of the present day. ‘Phe witches, 8o call- ed, in **Macbeth ™ are not the vulgar creatures of the fifteenth and sixtecnth centuries, to whom the expiring practical rellgious beliefs of that period were chietly relegated; as also was the case in the time of Christ, when a few poor, ignorant fisher- men and women of obscure and even disrepntable lives were the only persons to greet His advent. In fact, Shakspeare’s \weird slsters are not witches in any sense, as sccepted ut that day. ‘Uhey are be- inas of the nether world. In the parts of the play not rejected by the Cambridge cditors, Shakspeare never uses the word oraliudes to witches in any way. He calls them ‘cweird = sisters." They take their place beside the terrible old womenof Michael Angelo, who spin the destinics of men. Nor are tney, as Gervinus claim: Simply the em- bodiment of inward temptation.” They are more than this. _They arc those spiritunl personages that thepoet believed doever* ‘tend onnortal thonghts, ™ And, like the great artist he is, Shakipeare {a'not araid t0 exhibic them. terrible and sublime, brewing in thelr wicked culdron infernal charms ont of foul things. **Thick and slab the gruel® must be made. To show that they are not mortal, he says of them: *‘They look mot like the in- habitants o' th' carth, ana yet are on 't; they can look into the secds of time and say whica ain will grow;" they **scem corporal, but melt uto the air like: bubdles of the carth;" they are the **weyward sisters,” who *‘ make themselves air,” and have ** more than mortal knowledge.” In another place he calls them spirita; ** the spir- its that kpow all mortal consequents pronounced me thus, " says Jacbeth. And again: **1 begin to doubt the cquivocation of the fiend'that lies like truth.” And yetagain: “*And be these juggin: Hlends no more believed.” Says Macdugi --De- spair thy charms and Jet the angel whom thou still hast served, ” etc. Nothing ore strongly marks the unbelicf and materialism of the age than this persistent ignore- ‘ment of the spiritualistic side of Shakspeare, and his works. \When he puts such speech as this into the month of Hamlet: ‘There ure more things In_heaven and earth, Horatlo, Than are dreamnt of 1o your philosophy. Ttis received merely as the happily-expressed sentiment of a mind not very strongly fixed in the belief of such things 88 *presentiments, dreams, omens, ghosi-lore, and such like. Yet if we study Shakspeare's - greater plays thoroughly we find that in their movement spiritualistic mfiu- ences arc the pivotal causes and masterialistic ex- hibitions and events the effects upon which their action hinges. J. K, C F. MUSIC. AT TOME. With the exception of those pleasant Hershey Iall entertainments, such as the **Musical Even- ing” and the recitals of Mr. Eddy and Mr. Woif- sohn, the past week was barren in musical results. Ostensibly we had o scason of opera by the Rich- ings-Bernard troupe;; in reality we had nonme. It wasstale, flat, and unprofitable, and should be passed over in silence with sympathy for Mrs. Bernard struggling 6o resolutely with adversity. The mnusical season is nearly at a close, and there 1a little to look forward to now except the APOLLO CLUB FESTIVAL, which will be given at the Tabernacle Jure 5, 6, 7. The arrangements already completed warrant us in saying that it will be oneof the most imposing musical events ever known in Chicago. Of the soloists (Mrs. H. M. Smith, Miss Annie Louise Cary, Mr. W. J. Winch, and Mr. M. D. Whitney) and of the orchestra (Theodore Thomas®) it is un- necessary Lo speak. - Better quartette or better ac- companiment the Clob could mot have sccured. It meeds no prophet to predict that so far success is already sccured. The chorus may eafely be trusted to Mr. Tomlins. He has now over 400 voices under training, - and they will Dbe subjected to such a siege of section-drilling and discipline as no chorus ever had before in this city. From this time onward, it isto be work day and night, with ample opportuaities for. the lagzards to drop ont, With a margin of numbers suficient to allow of it. It witl not injure the effect a particle if the total gets sifted down to 300 voices. The programmes are mow arranged with sufficient com- pleteness to give the public a general view of the work to be done. On the 5th, the Club will sing Mendelssohn's oratorio of **St. Paul,™ with solo- ists and orchestrn; Rubinstein’s -‘Calm Sea Mucfarren’s **You Spotted Snakes'; and Bene- dict’s **Hunting Song.” Ass Cary 'will sing an aria from the second act of Handel’s **Semele.” The orchestra will play the overture to Gluck's ‘*Iphigenia-in Aulis™; Brahms' variations ou the theme by Haydn (the **St. Antolnc Chorale™) op. 5A; and the stirring **Rite der Walkueren ™ of ' Wagner. On the 6th, the Club will sing _Gounod's cantaia. ** By Babylon’s Wave"; Sullivan’s cantata, *‘On Shore and Sea ™'; and gome minor selections. The vocal eolos for this concert have not yet been in- dicated. The orchestra will play the fourth **Fi- delio™ overture of Beethoven; selections from Herlioz's dramatic symphony of *‘Romeo and Juliet”; the Handel ** Largo ¥'; and the ** Lohen- grin™ third-act music. The last concert, on the th, will close the scries with a superb programme, including Handel's grand oratorio of ** larael 1n Egypt"; a scene from the second act of Gluck’s +“Orpheus, ™ for Misa Cary, chorus, and orchestra: and Beethoven's second symphony. In addition to these three concerts there will be & matinee, which 700 school children and the Thomas orchestra will have to themselves, and which promises to be one of the most pleasing features of the Festival. - It only needs to be added that excursion rates will be offered on the rallroads so that people in the coun- try can attend. THOE HERSHEY MUSICAL EVENING. Tt is a little remarkable that the Hershey Hall *“Musical Evenings" are not better attended. The admissions are merely nominal and the programmics are among the best ever offered to our concert- goers. On Friday evening last, for instance, the programme 1ncluded Onslow's Sonata in E minor, op. 7, and Rhefnberger's Tarantelle, op. 13, each for four hands (Miss Carrie T. Kingman and Mr. ~Eddy); Silas' Gavotte in E minor, Scarlaiti's Sonata in G minor, Schubert's Menuette in B flat, Chopin's Third Ballade in A flat, Liszt's ‘‘An Bord d’ Une Source,” Rubinstein's 3Melody in F, and Valse Cuprice, for piano (Mr. Licbling): Merkel's Concert Adagio in E, and Chopin's Etude in C sharp minor, for orzan (Mr. Eddy); and Spon- holtz’s song, *“The Kusset Leaves,” and the aria foom *‘Oberon,” *‘Ohl 'tis a Glorious Sight" (3Ir. Knorr). There is not an unintercsting num- ber on the whole programme, and as a whole the programme was given in &u excellent and eujoya- ble munner, the only dmwback being the limited number in attendance. Those who . were there, howevErawere happy in what they found; those Wwho were not there, we presume, can be happy be- cauee they kuow not what they lost. g LOCAL MISCELLANY. " At the last concert of the Boston Apollo Club there were five numbers on the programme which had previously been sung by our own Apollo Club, and which were new in Boston! A benefit ‘concert will be tendered to Signor Farni by his pupits at Standard Hall on Tuesday evening, the 8th inst., in which Misses Le Bran, Zurburg, Bentelle, and Schroeder, Mrs. Purinton, and Messra. Hueesen, Dodridze, and Farini will take part in a very pleasing programme. A vocal and instrumental concert, with readings, will be given at St. Paul's Upiversalist Church on ‘Wednesday evening, May 9. The ladies of the Church, under whose auspices the entertainment will be given, feeicontident that their assurance of a very choice programme, consisting of selec- tions by the choir, and Mies Grace Hiltz, and read- ings by Mrs. Dainty, will be fully realized. Schirmer, the well-known New York publisher, has just issed anew solo and quartet with organ accompaniment (** Guide Me. O Thou Great Jeho- vah™), by Mr. C. A. Havens, of this city, - which is verv highly xpoken of. F. W, Heimich, Cincin- mnati, hus gent us a new song by Charles Baker, en- titled ** Will His Letter Bring Me Sadnes: £ the letter 1 likethe music, we shonld say it would. Mr. W. S. B. 3Mathews lectured on ‘‘Beetho- ven* ot Hershey Hall last Wednesday. The illus- trations were as follows: **Scherzo and Adagio,” from sonata in C minor, for piano and violin, 2fessrs. Eddy and Lewis; *‘In Quests Tomba.™ Miss Eila White: **Wake thy Lute, " Mr. Wheeler; **Andante and Variations,™ from sonaia op. 20, Mr. Eddy: °‘Adelaide,” Mr. Charles. Knorr; sonata in D minor, op. 31, Mr. Licbling. A church guild concertwill be given atthe Church of our Savior, at the corner of Lincoln avenue and Orchard street, next Tocsday evening, the Sth, under the direcllon of Jr. A. B, Tobef, assisted by the following local talent: Miss H. McCar- tey. Miss Grace A. Hiltz, Miss Mary P. Hendrick, Mlss M. Schweisthal, Mme. Christine Nielson, Master Leon Vel Mott; Mr. Coflin, organist; Mr. Slicker, accompanist;and a select chorus. At a business meeting of the Appollo Clab, held at its rooms on Thursday evening last, the report of the management concerning their plans and engagements for the forthcoming festival concerts was recelved by the Club with great enthusiasm, 2nd by motion of Mr. Chamberlin, the management were requested to pursue their efforts in all direc- tions that will tend to enhance the success of the festival, Afterall matters of business had been settled. it was the pleasure of the mugemznt 1o present to one of the members, W. - S." Elllott, | Jr., a beautiful picture of the Club, as n fi:t; compliment for his untiring zeal ic the lnknruts“':fi the Society. The picture is an elezunt one, and mounted in a cent frame, and was a beanti- {gl {;flbnm to this gentleman's usefulness in the ub. The well-known and favorite Hyer troupo of colored vocalists will give their musical 'Out of londage™at McCormick Hall, on the 10th, 11th, and 12th inst., anda_matincdon the 12th. The drams is o representation of slave life ' und character, the opening being devoted to plantation life, and the close tothe results of emanci;sition upon the neero, the work abound- ing In'nogro songs and music of & general-char- er. A complimentary concert will be tendered to Miss Emma Larson on Saturday evening, the 12th inst., at the North Side Turner Hall, by the Freja and Swedish Singing Societies. A very fine pro- mme has been prepared, and, In addition to the ocieties we have mentioned, Messrs. Lagergren, D'Allly, and Olson and a full band will take part. liss Larsen on this occasion will sing Roesini's **Une voco poco fa,” and ** The Buried Heart," asong by her teacher, Sig Carozzi. The last soiree of the Chicago Musical College for the rre!enl season will be given at the First Mecthodlst Church May 17. The soirce is in the nature of a piano recital by Mr. Liebling, assisted by Mr. Falk and Enplls of the College. Mr. Lieb- ling will play Schumann's Sonata in G minor, op. 22; the Stlas Gavotte; Sceling's Kallak’s *‘Lutzow’s Wild Jugd"; a Schucert **Menuetto™; Liszt's **Elegy"; and ** By the Drookside"; Schumann's **Novelette,” op. 99: the Larghetto from Chopin's E minor conterio; and Rllbh\s_lehe'l ** Valse Caprice.” Mr. Falk will glxv LiszU's fantasie and fuge **On the Name of ach,™ for organ. - The ladies who will take part Inthevoeal yelections are Mrs. Leonard Ames, o AN e Misses Ada S o) s 20d Alice Lansden. jomers, Carrie Lawson, The concert of the Sixth Presbyterian Chi Associntion, which was given on Thgrsdlyneseglt:gl' at the church, was a fine success. The choir con- sisted of fifty persons, under the direction of Jo- seph Silvers. ‘I'he choruses were all well rendered, and embraced: **Mighty Jchovah," by Donizetti}; **Fairy Whispers,” by Hatton; **O Lord, how manifold,” by Darnby: ‘‘Oh, spare my tender flowers,” by Mori; ‘‘Prayer™ from ‘‘Moses in Egypt, b{}hsslnl; *Farewell o the forest,™ by Mendelssohn; and *‘Gloria,” by Mozart. The Philadelphia Quartette, consisting of Mr_and Mrs. C. A, Kuorr and Mr. and 3rs. G. T. R. Knorr, gave ‘*Of a’ the airts the wind can blaws” by Hat- ton. The following solos were warmly received: *¢Hearest thon" (Mies May W. Lester), **Didst thou but know!" (C. A. Knorr), **Come, denrcst heart™ (Miss Martha C. rardoe), *‘Maiden and the Sanbeam” (Mrs. C. A. Knorr), *‘Brightest eyes" (G, T. R. Knorr). The instramental solo was the *‘Rhapsodie Hongroise” No. 2, by Liszt (Miss Mary Wishard). Mr. Alexander Grant acted as accompanist. STRAEO3CH’S NEW OPERATIC VENTURE. The New York Dramatic News states that the negotiations which have been in progress during the past few weeks between the Strakosch |brothers snd Adelina Patty, lookingto au appearance of that celebrated prima donns here next scason, have come to an end. Patti will not come here until the #eason of 1878- She has already sacrificed $30, - 000 in forfeits for faflure to keep the contract the Strakosches have with her. In placeof this, how- ever, Mr. Max Strakosch has made engagements which will prove fully as good. Principal and foremost among these i3 the engagement of Clara Louise Kellogz. who signed on Monday for Italian opera. This lady has ceased her connec- tion with Mr. C.D. Hess and his English Opera Company. and will again devote herself to the Italian repertolre, singing but twoor three works in Englieh, and being exclusively under the management of Mr. Max Strakosch. She recelves 330,000 for the season. Nextin importance among these engagements s that. of Miss Annie Louise Cary, the well-known contralto, who has been so rominent in St. Petersburg the lust two years. ‘he lady will form part of the_seme organization, but will only sing in Italizn. Mr. Conly, the busso of the Kellogez Company, is also cngaged. Heisu singer of splendid capabilities, eupecln"{ for the works in which he I8 tosing. both English and Italian. Mr. Tom Carl will be the tenor of the English performances, and probably Herr Graff, of Vienna, the eminent tenor, for the Italian repertoirc. Nerotiations are mnow omg on for ‘nie engagement. Signor Tag- infilc!m will be the baritone of _the Italian repertoire, and Signor.Verdi, now in Lon- barg, Prussia, of the Engli: ‘The repertoire is to conslst of **Lohengrin,” ** Alda,” **Le Proph- ete," and the new work, ‘* Paul and Virginie,” which is now In its hondredth night in Paris. *+Alda™ will probably be done in Enslish, and *+Lohengrin" surcly.” For these two works Mr. Strak osch has scenery and costumes such as has mever been equaled here, and he will mount the others in the same style of splendor. The season will begin in September in San Francisco, both Kel- lozg and Cary going there for the first time. The company will then proceed South, mot reaching New York until December, or January, 1873. The great advantage of this combination is that it will cnable the manager to give opera every night in the week. Mr. S. Behrens will be the Musical Di- rector. ‘WHEREABOUTS. The Fryer tronpe give a Wagner-Becthoven fes- tival in New York this week, bringing out Lohen- grin and Fidelio. Essipoff wasin New York last week, and this week will e in Boston. The Han- del and Kiaydn festival commences May 16.. Ole Bail is still giving **positively farwell™ concerts in Beston. Soldene is in Philadelphin and Oates in St. Paul. ,Emma Abbott made her debut in Boston last Thursday evening. Jerome Hopking brought ont his new sacred opera Samuel last Thursday evening in New York. The Berger Fam- ily are in Boston. Theodore Thomas’ orchestra pflyed in Indianapolis Agrfl 30 and May 1, and in Cincinnati the 2d and 3d. Hess’ Engiish Opera Company opened In San Francizco last Wednesday cvening with ‘*Lucia.” Miss Maric Stone takes Miss Kellogg's place. FORBIGN NOTES. Liszt will not accompany Wagner to London. Alhant is studying the role of Senta in **The. Flying Dutchman. ™ 1t is asserted that Herr Wagner intends to bring out his Intest opera, **Percival,” at Monaco next year, Thelosses sustained during the recent unsuc- cessful season of Italian opera at the New York Academy of Mausic reached, we learn, $11,000. Mr., William Carleton, the eminent baritone of tne Kellogg Opera Company, has sccepted an en- gement of nine months for Englund with Carl Fosa, beginning in September. A monument in memory of the late Carl An- schuetz, for many years the musical conductor of the Liederkranz, hus been erected in Greenwood Cemetery. The exocnse was borne by New York mueicians. ; Raff has perpetrated another symphony, his eightl, It is called **Fruchlings Kiaenge"— spring sounds—and was performedrecently from manuscript at a concert given by the Court orches- tra of Wiesbaden. 3 Sacred concerts are fo be henceforth dispensed with in the English Catholic Church. Cardinal Manming has issued a pastoral, directing that no music taken or adspted from the theatre, the opera, or concerts, or which hias become familiar by secalar usage, shall be sungat mass or bene- diction. or nscd us voluntaries and interlndes. At benedictions, all solos are to cease, and the music 18 to be as congregational as possible. | Madame MacMahon gent her own carriage to o Albani to.a ball ut the Elysce, ~ Albani was dressed in talle over white faille, looped up \vith roscs, and with diamonds in her hair. Round her neck she wore the circletof diamonds presented to her at dher benefit. She sang **Ah, Non Glunge, from **La Sonnambula.” and two airs from +*Linda.” The Comtesse de Paris and other Iadies of the highest rank pressed forward to be introduced to her. Next day she reccived two chraming groups in Sevres biscuit porcelain from the Elyase: with s large basket of roses and s check for 2,000 francs. 5 . The German papers, in speaking of the Bavarian King's admiration for Wagner, state that it is his intention to have reproduced the firat act of the “.\¥alkure " on the banks of the Schwanensee, near his chateau of Hohenschwanzan, o the Ba- varian Alps. An esact reproduction of Hunding's. cottage has been erccted near by, and the orches- tra will be hidden in the pine woods which cover the hizh mountains about the chafean. The opera will be sung on starry nights-in the presence of the King's gucts. While the singer Vogl and Ris wife will £l the parts of Siegmund and Sieg- Tinde on the banks of the river, the King, dressed in the garb of a warrior of primitive Germang will vail on the lake in a bark in the shape of a*khell, drawn by swans. r e New York Herald’s Paris dispatch of April e . Masseuet's new opera, *Le Rol de Tahore;” was produced ot the Grand Opern last night before & brilliant audience, among whom Were Prosident MacMahon and Madame Ia Presi- Jente, the Emperor and_Empress of Brazil, the Prince of Orange, and o host of Ainisters, Sena- tors. nnd Deputice, including Leon Gambetts, and, indeed, everybody who is anybody in fashionable Parisian society. - No worl has ever been proiuced ywith so much taste and splendor. ‘There are six scenes of wondrous beauty, and 1,200 Oriental cos~ tames blazing with gold and jewelry. The opera is on immense success as o spectacle. Critically speaking, the music is too symphonic for sencral popularity, and is very much in_the style of Gou- fod. The instramentation fs magnificent. The music of the ballet is original and charming, an: the ballet itself delicious combination of pictnr- esque effects. The work unquestionably placcs Aassenct at the head of, the young French com- posers.” § TIME. As fleeting years remorseless flow, Bearing tseypmmlle of hopes we EOW, ‘They bud—to bloom no more. Time, which leaves £0 5ad a trace, 1n siivered bair and farrowed face, ‘Canst thou not passme by? _ . LY A ‘Nor, with thy frosty finger-tips, Nher the bloom from ¢heek and lips as poor as I? of e flAmn' L. NewnALL SPALDING. Kosaxoxoxe STATIoN, Rock County, Wis. ‘bachelor, seeing the words ** Families sappied - over the door o a shop, stepped I aad @ ho would take a wife and two children. THE WORLD. What the Local Social Ciréles Ac- complished During the Week. A Chicago Artist Honored with a Grand Reception in Paris, Proposed Resuscitation of the Styles of Our Grandmothers. CHICAGO. COMPANY C’'S RECEPTION. The Armory of the First Regiment, on Lake street, was brilliantly lighted and gayly decorated and fairly flled with guests Thursday evening. The occasion was the closing reception of Com- paoy C, whose members are among the most pop- ular soclety gentlemen, and whose gntertainments have been models of success. Flags and bunting loaned a martial nspect to the bare walls, and the sombre gun-racks, with their clistening contents, combined with the uniforms of the corpsto make the scene suggestive of the pomp and circum- stance of glorious war. Among those preseat were: Capt. and Mrs, F. B. Davis, Lient.and Mra, S. A. Rotherwel, Sergt. and Mrs. F. S. Wheaton, Corporal and Mrs.J. B. Tristram, Mr. and Mrs.J. E. Taylor, Mr. and .Mrs. Edw. Startevant, Mr. aod Mrs. E. P. Hall, Dr. and Mrs. Speary, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Perkins, Mr. and Mrs. James Plam- sted, Mr. and Mrs, A, W. Johnuston, Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. G. Treem, Mr. and Mrs. P.S. Miller, Mr. and- Mrs. E. C. Leech, Dr.and Mrs. Silva, Mrs. George, Mrs. Sey- mour, Ars. Rothgerber, Miss May St. John, Misy Lutie Nellis, Miss Addie Daniels, Miss Mamie Whiting, Miss Jennie Lehman, Misa Gertie Dun- 1ap, Miss Pheeve Schaffner, the Misses Mamie and Lu Wheeler, Miss Nora Rothgerber, the Misses Graham, Miss Mamie Doty, Miss Jennie Leech,, Miss Shoemaxer, Miss Jennie Peckham, Miss Kit- tle Graham, Miss Libby, Miss Annie Slocom, Miss Belle Cowdrey, Miss Matle Coan, Miss Goodman, Misa Carter, Miss Martin, Miss Carrie Moodey, Misa Nellie Barstow, Mixs Nellie St. John, Miss Grace Ottawsy, Miss Emma Galon, Miss Upham, Miss Benedict, Miss Gracie Ketchem. Miss Jennie Ogk- ley, Miss Jennie Hollister, Miss Lou Hopkins, Miss Brown, Miss Kittie Rounds, Aliss Kittie Taylor, Misa Helen Kellogz, Miss Annie -Cory, Miss Ida Washburn of St. Louls, Miss Anna M. Youdale, the Misses Lillic and Clara Germain, Miss H.S. Moody, Miss She rord, Miss Minnie Cheney, Misa Emma_Wright, Miss'Sadie Little, Miss Abbie Morton, Misu Carrie White, Miss Mamie Leonard, Miss May Plumsted, Mies Shipman, Misg Louisa McKirdy, Miss Ward, 3liss Page, Miss Grace Walls, Mies Cora Drake, Miss Mamie Merriman, Miss Ado Bovee, Miss Mamie Andrews, Miss Allic Date, Miss Magzie Ward, Miss Leva Richardsor Mrs.” Ollic Haflett, Miss Belle Thompson, Ela Judd, Miss Mamie Dodd, Miss Pleda Dickin- son, Miss Belle Laman of Towands, N. Y., Miss Bate, Misa Tait, Miss Nellie Hammond, Miss Effie Wybrandt of Dubuque, Miss May Twittle, Miss Andrews, Miss Trueman, the Misses Hamilton, Misa Josie Kern, Miss Lena Richardsqn, Misu Slocam, s Ryder, Miss_Cummings, the Misses Nemivan, Miss Ida Noyes, Mrs. Murray; members of the company, Lieat. K. D. Cutler, Sergt. F. Y. Oliver, Corperals G. H. Quinm, A D. T H. F. Miles, A. C. Smith, R. S. Buchanan, E. W. Jamor; urivates C. E. Bail W. E. Carroll, G. C.' Char corge Costary E._ A ‘Dickerman, . A. 2 . Ford,, G. W. Ford, F. C. Hamil P, liall, W. S. Holmes, A, W. Johnston; C. Ketchum, J. L Lynch, A. J. bods, J. Perkins, G. H. P eroy, inp, C. Sampson, G. J. Toblas, H. R. Van Broort, nmsnlz, W. T. Wood; mem- bers of .the Farragut Boat Club: Capt.’ A. O. Downa. Charles S, powns, F. H, Willame, H. Hulburt, W. R. Wiley, H.' P, Smith, Ed Mofit, F. T. Haskell, F._Booth, F. Carter, W. A. Shaw, H. S. Penfield, Mesars. C. W. Parker. Davies, Carroll, Grifith, Lieut. Wheeler, T. S. A., Mills, Young, Muchmore, Doty, Leckle, Jepsen, Sturgis, Whedon, Gibbs, Graham, Bogue, Capt. Boulder, .S. A, Cox, Davies, Hough, 'Servey, F. Bar- stow, Morrill, Bolte, Vanzwoll, Booth, Suell, Upham, Elliot, Bourgeois, Shepherd, Goff, Cram, Cregier, Lindsay, Sallitt, Fleming, Clark, Mc- uiston, Wood, Buchanan, Little, Horton, Barrett, owland, Freeman, and many others. s CHRIST CHURCH RECEPTION. The congregation of Christ (R. E.) Churchas- sembled Thursday night to_bid good-by to Bishop Cheney, Who leaves t0-1norruw to attend the Gen- cral Conference~ Recitations, music, and supper constituted the exercises. Among hose present were: Bishop and Mrs. Cheney, “the Hon. and Mrs. Willism Aldricn, Mr.- and Mrs, William M. Allster, Mr. and Mrs. John Benham, Mr. and Mrs. ¥rauk Cliffon, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fargo, Mr, and Mrs. Frith, Mr. and Mrs. 3. T. Green. Mr. and Mrs. E. F, Hurlbnt, Dr. and Mrs. H. Harlbat, Mr. and Mrs, James Irvine, Dr. J. N2 Hyde, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Laj Sirs. Edwin Leés, Mr. snd Mrs. I G. Lewie, Mr. 'and Mrs. C. H. Lyon, Mr. and irs. Godfrey Macdonald, Mr. and Mrs, L. C. Merrick, Alr. and Mre. B. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Moor- house, Mr. and Mrs. D. P, Morehonse, M Alrs. James Owen, Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Remick, Rew, Mr. and Mra. M. Byron Ri John Rumsey, Mr. andMrs. J. Stiles, Mr. and Ars. W. H. Stoddard, Mr. and Mrs. D, O. Strong, Mr. and rs. E. P. Tobey, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Tar- ner, Mr. and Mrs. P. Van Schaack, Mr. and Mra, William E. Whecler, Mrs. F. Anderson, Mrs. C. H. Arnold, Mrs. Billings, Mrs. W. H. 'Boomer, Mrs. E. W._Booth, Mrs. C. Foilansbee, Mry, George A. Faller, 'Mrs. D._ A. Hewes, Alrs. Silos Huntley, Mrs. E. G. Keith, Mra. 'D. W. Keith, Alrs. Il M. Lincoln, Mrs.' C. Xilburn, Jr., Mrs. H. S, Monroe, Mrs, Brian Philpot, Mra. D.'K. Tenny, Mre. Terry, Miss Anderson, Miss Arnold, Miss Georgia Ficld, Miss Lizzie Follans- Dee, Mfxs Jennie Lincoln, Miss Mary McLain, Miss Mollfe Mitchell, the Misses Osborne, Miss Mary Owen, Miss Emma Philpot, Miss Ferry, Miss Gil- Tett, of Detroit, Miss Irene Fargo, Miss Rose Mor- nis, Miss Pardridge, Miss Billings. Migs Kellogg, Miss Carter, Miss Booth. Mies Huribnt, dessrs. D. F. Chapman, Dr. A. Gibbs, J. C. Long, J. C. Mitchell, Alfred S, Porter, William R. Valientine, John G. Willden, Thomas B. Fargo, C. S. Hutch- ins (Dusseldorf), C. L. Barton. Churles B. McDon- ald, W. C. Buell, leaton, Messenger, Henry Mes- senger, William H. Richardson. THE **NONDESCRIPTS.” The **Nondescript” Socicty held their final meeting at the residence of John Creswell, No. 7 Langley Terrace, Fridayevening. A large number were present and, an _eiijoyable programme was given, consisting of o humorous lecture by. M. R. Walls, Esq. ; mock trial of T. E. Kimball, with Mr. Joseph Creswell as Judge, Mr. John L.’ Ben- nett as-Prosccuting-Attorney, and George Wood- land as defendant’s attorney:' **St. Patrick's Dav Parade," a song and march in costume by five members of the Clubs *‘The Troubles of Mr. and Mrs. Fussy, a character song by Mr. ‘Georze Woodlsnd and Miss Josie Turkington, - all inter- spersed with twelve select numbera {n dancing: Among those present were Mr. and Ars. Georec Woodland, Mr. and Mra. 3 Spinney, Mr. and Mra. Snow, Mr. and Mrs. Jo- seph Creswell, Mr. and Mrs. 'Bogington,” Mr. and Mrs. Sprague Dostwick, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Kim- Dall, Sfe nd Mra. L. M. Bushuell, r. and ra. . G. Clark, Mrs. Willism Turkington, Mrs. Agnes Rea, the Misses Annie Adams, Carrie Hodson, Davis, Joste Turkineton, Gracs Hudson, Hattie Gillett, Hodson, Lillie West, Alice Boyington from Highland Park, Belle Hall, Stanley, F. Dinsmore, Bennett, Jennie Creswell, Ella Creswell, an Lizzie Creswell; the Messrs, John L. Denuett. Will Davis, M. R. Walls, Oliver, C. E. Gosa, Mc- Gee, Bullock, Charles Woodland, J. J. Shibley, Coe, and others. MOULTON—LOVE. Mr. E. C. Moolion and Miss Irene Love were married by the Rev, Dr. Clinton Locke, at Grace Eyplscopal Church, Thureday evening. 'The cere- mony was witnessed by a few immediato friends, who' nfterwards were Tecelved by the bride and groom at the residence of Mrs. Rodefer, the bride's Bunt, N Michigan avenne. Among those resent were Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Roche, Mr. and Mrs. Willam Lincoln, Mr. and 3irs. Charles Colby, Mr. and Mrs, H. B. Brooks, Mr. and Mra. Mallory, Mra. J. E. Mouiton, of Rochelle, Ill., mother of the groom, Mrs. and Miss Sparling, and Mesars, J. F. Edmonds, Charles Rodefer, Adams, Will- iams, and Moster Frank Sparling. 3 RECEPTION. On Thursday evening Miss Elia Twitty entertain- ed at the residence of hier parents, 652 West Adams street, a number of her friends in_honor of Miss Effie Wybrant, of Dubuque. Ia., who has been in The city for a fow weeks past, visiting ber numer- ons friends. Dancing and music were, of course, the order of the evening. At1l o'clock the com* pany were ushered into the dining-room, wherea sumptuous repast was in waiting, after which dancing was resumed till a late hour. . There were resent Mr. and Mrs. E. Twlitty, Mr. and Mrs. Valter Twitty, Mr. and Mrs. William Twitty, Mr. and Mra, Edwin Wynn, Mr. and Mrs. Harrie Lyon. Mr. and Mrs. Heary Ring: Miss Efe. Wbrant, of Dubuque, In., Mids Saddie Prescott, Miss May Prescott, Miss Ella Cutler, Miss Mends Vogal, Miss Jults Richardson, Miss Eilla Twtty, iss Magzie Howard, Miss Mattie Thompson, Miss Ella ‘Thompson; Messra. Charles Lasher, Drayton Sal- tonstal, George Stone, John Brine, Harrie Twitty, Georze Barnes, George Blossom, Ed Hinchman, Paul Clark, and G. M. Vanzwoil. COMPANY 4’8 RECEPTION. The first complimentary reception of Company A First Regiment 1. S. G. will "occar to-morrow evening at the Armory. Tc hall has been elegasit- 1y decorated, nnder the direction of Lieat. Ba- chanan. ‘The programme will be varied. Part L is to be musical In character. The Chicago Quartette will prodace some choice selections. Miss Bertha Barge in & plano solo; Miss L. C. PHilips, soprano golo; Mr. A. L. Goldsmith, bass sol ’rof. Heims, cornet 6olo, etc. Company evolutions af- terwards. Pound's full orchestra will officiate for 2 dance programme of several numbers. The con- cert will commence promptiy at 8:15. . PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Several notable weddings will occar the latter part of May and June. The engagement of Miss Carrie Greenebaum to Mr. Joseph Berolzheim is announced. The Iadles of the FirstM. E. Church of Hyde Park, will give a sociable at the resldence of Mr.T. x 4 C. Williams, corner of Jeflerson avenue and Fifty-~ fourth street; Lo-night. * + Miss Vinnie White, of Milwaukee, has beenths guest of Miss Maggie Cosaitt, of Lagrange, forthe past week. : £ Miss Gertie Gardner, who has been visiting friends in the central part of this State, has rc- turned Bome. | . Miss Rose Moor, who has bcen absent some months in the South, will return home within the next two weeks. _Judge and Nrs. Caton will iint mnrflon Thursday ev: No. 4 Calumet avenue. ‘There have been fewer grand receptions and weddings in this city during the past season than for several years. Hard times! Miss 3. E. Burt, who spent the winter at River Falls, Minn., has retarned to the city, and resides, 23 of old, at 883 Prairie avenne. The engagement of Miss Emma Einstein, a léad- ing belle In Jewish social circles, to Mr. S. Blers, of Rochester, N. Y., is annonnced. Tuesday crening, May 15, at 8 o'clock, at Sne- ard Hall, the marriage. of 3Miss Gracluhcalc ‘with Mr. Joseoh Harris will be celebrated. The Nonpareil Club gave a May- Frid: evening at Lincoln Hall swhich was! sell attended by their friends, over 100 couple being present. Mias Clara M. Squires, No.1613 Wabagh avenus late i::ls!'yeei; Lo lpgld everal days with her iss Jenni t < Farm,” Elkhart, ]nfi. o .wonh, R The martiage of Mr. Xavier L. Otis with Miss Adcle Cooper will be celcbrated May 16 at the bome of the bride. ats v be a brilliant. weued:fg.’“o“‘ ¥emun, Oy wil The ** Programme Enterta " e RfmenErnen e fea Archibald, Tu been postponed until n“:y'lys."mhg' 3ag: 5 Bay Miss Nellle Porter, daugh iy for Dabaqas, Ta:. 1o viaht frmpaerceh 161t to- *% SUBURBAN. OAELAND. Aliterary and musical entertainment was given on Thursday evening by the Young People's Asso- ciation of the Oakland Congregational Church, at the Church. A Iarge number of persons were pres- ent, who enjoyed the delightfal programm n1gpwbon. . ‘The Literary Club bas adjoarned until next win- ter, and the Good Templars will hold a meeting to talk over doing the same thing. Buogs oud family are at the ve a Jarge and brill- at theirresidence, “*Water Messrs. Ernst, Frazier, Robinson, and Prall are greatly improving their grounds. E. Ashley Mears i3 moving into the spacious resi- denceon the Wesf Ridge. » GOLDEN WEDDING. Mr. and3Mrs. R. Buck celebrated thelr golden wedding Wednesday last at their residence at Nun- do, NI This venerable and highly-res) conple were married in Europe in 1827, and emi- grated to this conntry in 1836. They settled in Ohio, where they remained until 1815, since which time they have been residents of Nunda, McHenry County. Early Wednesday the guests began to arrive from Chicago and elsewhere, and at2 o'clock they partook of a bounteous repast. The host and hostess did all in their poiw- er 1o make the cvent as emoyable- as possible, and to those present the time passed only oo rapidly. The presents to the aged bride and bridegroom were both nnmerons and_ costly. Among those present were Mr.'and Mrs. R. ‘Buck, Mr. M. H. Buck, Nunda; Mr. and Mrs. George P. Bay, Mr. aud Mrs. H. K..Bay, Chicago; Mr. and S. B. Leisner, LaSalle: Mr. and Mrs. P. k, Mr. and Mrs. A. Edwards, Crystal Lake; Mr. and Mrs. A. Buck, Mr. C, Buck, ‘and others. Congratulatory letters were received from friends in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and California. PARIS. TRANSITORY GAYETIES. - Spectal Correspondence of The Tribune. Parts, April 2L.—Paris {3 In a transition state, but very gay mevertheless. From the month or March to the end of the month of May this metrop- olis displays its most varied resources, which en- title this period rather than the winter to be styled the true Parisian season. Although the mili- tary bands have commenced playing in the pablic gardens under - the rays of a eun 2lready warm, and spring-time fragrance fills the gir, lights still gleam in festive halls, and brilliant rennions continze. The dance 2nd the promenade are alike inviting, . whilst the Grand Prix, concerts, theatres, the opening of the *‘salon de peinture,” and wonderful art ex- positions, are attracting many visitors, among whom a number of Chicagoans are registered. At a recent soirce given in honor of the celebrated Chicago painter, Mr. Healy, by 3 leading member of the American colony, a young lady from your city was remarked a9 being very lovely amidst the American and Russian beanties who surrounded her. Her toilette of rose-tinted crepe was orna- mented with a Grecian bordér formed of satin pipings and balf-blown roses nestling in. torsades of blonae. The former edged the skirt, cos ', and aleeves, and the foamy blonde with its wealth of flowers was fancifully; festooned **en tablier, and hongin wavy masses over a square eatin train, SEVERAL MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENTS have recently been given In the American colony, which prove that exquisite appreciation of true art here exists 1n all its purity. ~These sociables have ‘been varied the gur_wimex by dramaticrecitations, readings from the fables of La Fontaine, etc., & scene from Moliere or other comic writers, and have proved so agreeable that they promise & con- tinuance until ail the American drawing-rooms are closed for the summer. Fasbion bhas presented few novelties the past week, and seems more cnzaged in devising some- thing startling for scaside resorta next summer than in attempta to vary the present monotony. Goetfie has written, **All grea: ideas have already been exhansted; there is nothing todo but to think them ovel in,” and If this sentiment of the poet- hilosopher may be applicd to the resources of thiun, we will be obliged to remodel retrospective styles, or accept the original designs. Itis even ‘whispered that the sleeves ‘¢a gizots™ and ‘‘cna- peanx caleches” will be scen ere long without any modification of the hideous affairs worn by our randmothers; but as they are posjtively nnbecom- g t0 every one, their exlstence will beephemeral, even if they dare appear stall. Itis mafntained that the high coiffares will necessitate the revival of the caleche for sea-side promenades, but doub! less the coiffures will be lowered rather than ac- cept such an alternative. Among the ¥ MOST CHARMING HATS EXHIBITED at the recent opening of Mme. Leopold, those with wide ribbon ties to be arranged in bows under the chin were promipent. One of rice straw in cot- tage form was trimmed with ciel gauze ribbon and the same hued ostrich tips, with & face trimming of quilted malk the ribbon was brocaded with sprays of lilies of the valley and tied under the chin 28 above described. This 1s a favorite style with Porisians, and as it is particularly becoming and distingue, it Las been a marvel why these ties are almost invariably discarded by foreigners, and seldom rll:ed on hata that are exported s models of Parisiun style. The Normandy, the cottage, the capote, and many other present styles, absolutely require these ties to perfect them. 4 ¢ principal theatrical attraction this weel 18 ) M. Massenet's ** Le Roi de Lahore, " at the Grand ggem, bat the glare and glitter with which M. lanzier attempts to cover the defects of inferior artists is unfavorable to the.composer, and the crowded houses are only.due to spectacular effects of marvelous grandeur. **L’Ami Fritz" - still draws well at the Theatre Francals, and will con- tinne to there alternate with **Ampbitryon,” of Moliere, until the representationof ‘‘Jean a'- Acier.” the period when the geniusof Mollere ‘beamed with all its eclat was wuoted for neologisms the most bizarre, and that author littlg thought of the amusing antithesis when in the prolozue “of Amphitryon_Mercury thus addresses the Goddeas of Night: **Bonjour la nuit!" or **Good morning, Night!” Bat when M. Got, as Mercury, thus ealutes Mlle. Samary, the Goddess, in his dress ass. givinity among the clouds, the occasion is-especial- Jy amusing. This mythological plot was founded on circumstances which franspired during the reign of Louis XIV., when that King exiled the Marguis de Montespan in order to see his wife, the Marquise, with more liberty, and Lounis XIV., 2s Jupiter, thus consoles the poor Amgltryon: “Un partage avec Jupiter n'arien du hout qui ‘The re- deshonore;" the voice of Sosia Seigneur Jupiter sait dorer 1z plinle.” flection now arises: What a figure Lonis XIV. would make at present before the hilarity of his Court! MaTHILDE. — . SONG. (7o Bette.] ‘Where art thou. where art thon, Tope of my heart? Come to me, come to me— Joy thoa'lt impart; Come as the morning comes, s Stars gem the vault above, The blae, mystic dome, . * - ‘While my lone rpirit - ‘Plaintively, **Com¢ . ‘Where'er thon roamest, 3 O'er land or o'er sea, . By the vows once breathed fondv™ ‘0 come back to me! The waves in low whispers Break soft at my feet, . The light winds replying < In accents as sweet; But all the night lling With grier's monotone: 1 pine for hy dear volce-. miss thee, my own! The troplcal wine Of the sanset flows free, ‘T1ll its hues are reflected ¥rom lakelet and sea: R t hol y t yo MMy life s 1llomed I £ By ita beanty and truth. 19. Magore A. Coryx. An Irish coachman, driving by some fields, and” addressing a& smart girl engaged in shearing, ex- claimed: ** Arrah, my darhmg. I wish I was i jall for stealing ye."”