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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JUNE 19, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGLES. 11 I‘z'edna ,lola .I:{ .hc'i!“l':.lg r:t:bl that a Klfil to | hoven, wjo nu;u-t;n:lnrned from her studlca om he about to marry another, | in Europe, As much as we had been led to ex- he abandons his theories and takes bis bride to church. Tho London eritica think the play n | Pect after reading the glowing account of her trifle dull. The principai chasscters were taken | debut in Trieste, her performance more than hn!!fl tm ;uuxc of lhvr:rla‘ubh)rt ':nn::ge avycck and will be suppiementet o o "0 st py Batror in which Mr. Joho Blatadel] will assume tha principal male part. LOCAL NOTES. AMUSEMENTS. Plans of the Theatrical Man= Caponl_or*Maurel, Ha s more cxacting, with Tess right to be, than was the Marquis de Caux, It wonld appear that Nicolini has & keen genss of the oppurtunities ot tenors on the stage. Madame Patt's two rivals, Madame Albanl books. e nonrishes himsclf with philosaphies, Tle hroods gpon_ ahatract moral and_political Jdeas nd acts, 7They are 1o him the only trne realltics of }ife; for from his high 1neal standpaint the Tives of men and women are sccidents, Ideas are tho ends and fimlities of existence, Iie thus shuta han; Jook. Te thinks too much. Euch men are dancerous." e epcaka of higown physical infirmitics an if they were those of a body separalé 3. and apsrt from that which his epirit merely conde- 37 AP b AT tcends to tabernacle in. Thua hio rava Lo Anfony: * atre will remata closed for the present. © Leonard Graver is working up lfs *Liepet," firat produced at the Adelpht here, for & New York theatre. It Is o Lieavy melodrama, s un- i Uur Boarding-Jiouse™ as snything that can be Imagioed. Mr. aud Mrs. John Dillon will play under the managunent of Mesara. Stodilart and Frohman next season, and will pmblh!‘[ open at McVick- er's Theatre in August. Thia indicates the breaking of the Wallack Combination fraud MR INYVING AND “ THE COURIEK OF LYONS." The New York Tribune eays: “Mr, Henry Irving has fust made a brilllant succces In Clarles Reada's adaptation of *The Courier of Lyons.' fle plays two parts, the hicro -of the plece belng the *double’ of ita villain, Not only {a volce, but fn expression, in bearlng, and in gesture, Dubore and Laurques sre two people,—the *latter courtcous, suave, and gentle In manner, tenderly alfectionate to his daughter, and pleasantly ot ease with hia fricnds: the former a swaggering ruffian, elum- syand abmptin uctlon, husky and conrse in valce, The most remarkable featuro fu the as- sumption la the final scene on the first foor of & cabaret overlooking the place of execution, Du- bosc is Inflamed by drink, excitement, znd tho prospect of the sight be s to sce, into a state ot absolute madness; his attak on HFowinard Is simply an outbreak of the savagery of n wild back upan it and record a succeas. The varlous | Moy eafcly Lo sald, that ahe is naturally en- dowed with a marvelously fine volee, ex- performances of the threa days were so fally Y Totlezd at tho 1hme that but lttle. remains for | Sncnal, *igolcd, and bt she posecstcs ustosay, The festival was chiefly Interesting | a rare .mnm[v. Bhe has Improved remnarkably 1n proving tho success of an experiment, and {n | In volce, meikod, and style duripe the short the {ndfcations that wo bave at home ample | time that she has been away. Iler volce has choral material for the performanco of great f;,‘,‘{',‘}l,",“,,”:'“8,‘,‘;;,52‘,’%?,,,‘;,",“ ."",':fi'.‘:,;n:‘:,":z works, and that that material has only been | each tone lur)y developed, rich, clear, pene- waiting for the leader to organize and perfect lullve.] very symputhctic, and of a beautiful it. That leader has been found in Mr. Tamlins, | musical quality. Iler delivery is broad, digni- and he 15 0 bo credited with having drilicd and | fieds and very dramatie, while her clear mn:c‘; tion of the requirements of the musle 4 placed upon the stage a chorus that will com- | porceptible f,,"",_:' Chrase, Her ,':,',Z'“,‘,; Siihe pare -favorably with any In the country, | *Tuchele vanita™ from Verdi’s *Don Care although the whole work has been accomplished | los ' and the ** Ballata™ from Gomes' * Gua- in & remarkably brief spaco of time. Al this has fi'“’ln was In erery respect highly artlstic and an influence of more than current importance. nfahed, Bl rendered them withia rare degree of dramatle skill and fire, while the sclections Its principal outcome will bo found In the fu- | {humaelves were adinirably sulted to display her ture, The financial success has been quite ns | voval powers Lo the Dest advantage. ‘Mrs. remarkablons the musleal, It was a bold un- | Scliconhiuven has eversthing in hicr favor for the dertaking of the managers of the Club to haz. | Making of 8 great nrmlI aud las shiown by her | -rapld progress that she haa tho indomitably wiil ard this festival wlit‘hmn s subscription or » T mfl’;‘f,’;w fscntodifyont geinitle gt guaranty fund, but *“the end crowns the work,™ | staclea that may llo in ber path. There Is every and results In the material healthiness of the | rcason to believe that, with the proper contini- Club's exchequer. Thelr falth fn the public waa | ance of her studies and cxpcriuncn‘] sho will be- Dot unfounicd, and tho pubile will harily degy | T0in0 20 Brtst of the Srat rank, whoso carcer i that it recelved o lavish guid pro quo for s paeatiliof ;::::l:!:' :: ‘z:;xlll:.nl Ly money, The Club will now rest for the scason. Tho Aprapan of e rocent porfargianco of, sl In Egypt” by the Apollo Club, the followingex- rololsts will shurtly be off for summer vacatlons. ¥ This sweek the orehestra will play as follows: Leact from the French of Louts Viardot, relative The Adelobt agais ofers an attractive varicty | 3, M- Febero, s original Arits ;3. Liverty aud | fully confirmed all previous reports of het | oyl il Cirinting. Niisnon, re both sing- | Simeelf ap from ik {mpression of faca 1n 8 miety | gne: T emhicred EHE do Lot AL ol ke what 3 bl for this week. e Lodys et merits as an artist. It Ia certainly impossibic, | ng fn Landan, the former at Covent Garden, | vell of fofty but impracticahle ideafitm. 116 (8 | Ehiakspaace’s puepare i in making him e legend= & agers for.the Sume after u single bearing 1n a smafl bl where sho | the Iatter at the new operaiouss on the old it | 81f0 0 very atndions of sclf-perfcction: 10 very | ary and mythleaithat the Feal man Carar dlsap= 2: Tony Pastor Is to play an engsgement at Mc- MUBIC. was suffcring from several disadvantages, to | in the Haymarket: Jeslons o fila own characier o nnwiiing eveh | pears wioort. completely. 10 Bumacly ander the Ly~ mer: Visktru Tuestronext necks TUBAPOLLO CLOR PRNTIAL state Sustiwhat 3re. Eelioonhoven to capable of | 43 arrangements for the Siath Trienntal | tontact wits impare. of g festrea stole (rom | Erestacayof the Ctar mumen, or i 0 that o f‘a . Wood's Museum and the New Chicago Thea- | Is & thing of the paet, and it Is pleasant to look | doing and what she can not doj but t fs-much | 308 Fentival ot the Crystal Butsce, Loopdons | (ANt soria of Bla. Rctions, Baving ThelF SHOMES T | eccotonen ey actaally (s, and knows only i the vast legendary power nameil Casar. A Tiat 1t [s cicar (o me, And the (ext will bear me ¢ out in the ides, that Shakepears mesnt that (..., throushan the piky Catary shonldbe » epiritasl and yet enbetantial, but not material, presence; and that thinpresence ahould pat itaclf en rapport mora Intimately with thoto personages over whom tho perchnlogical Iwe of dhe scen and nnacen nniversce gare him tho grestet deareo of pomer. -\ But.7 tle. ** Arutus was the man apparenily 490 thin trait, border upon the grotesque. Thus, at tho Jast scenie of all, ke is willing that Strato abonld hold the aword while he falls upon ft. Thou srt s fellow of & good reape: et by e hath isd oma maten of Lonof fn Iy gdthen myveord, n'Gne, 18 Hritur, mork? idean and princlples are more than concrete realitl They are the ende of hinlife. Ty them he deaizen not only to govern his own conduct but the conduet of ths f!ell Commonwealth wbich he a0 passionately oves, I¢ in strango with what pupreme tendernoms hakepesre loves such charactera as Hrufus, Hame fet, and Dthetlo, 81, in the composition of all bis dramas he trests them with & aternness that ta &l but oitilesr, While heaeems to embrace such characters with all the pamslonato ardor of a mother for & favorite, petied, and spoiled child. ho remoracleasly consigns ‘them 1o ignomin- fous failarcs or untimely and cruel “deatbe. Yet, {hough ther do fal, “we " fee) that he _loves them, wo do our. selver, Rhakspearc’s fove for the character of Ifamie!, one of his finest crestions, 14 shown fn the fact that, in writing his will, he mispolls the name of his fricad Sadler, and calls him llamiet, inatesd of Hamnet, so entircly bad the dramatic superseded to hls Own ear and memory the other and propet one, notmitlistaniing, (oo, that bis own son bore the name nf Hamnet. The only compen- #ation the puet yonchieafen us for the failura in the cate of the fife of Hrulus, iy \ o really a good, though scemingly an untoward, 1ife, snd In rpite of it disastrons fortn: Wery it Shak- nea of the world, this month, are complcte. The eololats sara Mme. Adelinn Patti, Mile. Albani, Miss Edith Wynne, Mme. Lemmens-Shertington, Mme. Patey, Mr. Vernon Rigby, Mr. W. Il Cum- miogs, Mr. W. H. Lloyd, 8lgnor Foll, Herr Henschol, snil Mz, Btanley. Mr, W, T. Bost and Mr. Wiiling will be’organists, and Sir Michael Costa will conduct. Great preparations are making in Lostssile for the coming mualcal festival “of the North Amcrican Sangerbund, which 18 to open July § and continue for one week, There will be & chiorus of 1,200 voices, assisted by an orchestra of 100 pleces, snd (he soloists will be Mme. Pappenhetm, Mirs Relnman, Miss Loulse Roll- waien, and Mr. Frank Remmertz. The Choral Unlon of Cincinnati and other singing societies from there, Chicago, St, Louls, Indianspolis, Cleveland, BulTalo, New York, and other prom- fnient points participate in the concerts, Tha Mendelssolin Quintetie Club may be con- gratulated on sccuring a3 one of ILs new mem. bera Mr, Gustay Dannreuther, 8 young violinfst of rémarkable akill, fresh from successes as solofst and quartette plager in London and on thie Continent. ~Mr. Dannreutlicr conics from a notable musical family, Ilis brother Edward, at prescnt the great leader and partisan Wagner, In London, must be remembered as the ‘modest but sterling planist who formed l):u-t of the concert trottpe brought to this coun- ry by Mr. Bateman, viz, Parepa, Carl Ross, and Edward Dannrent] Two Royal personages have fallen oiit with The Future Prospects of Crane, Robson, and Rankin, [} # Qur Boarding-1louse ” and ¢ Joshun Whitcomb” Continued, ¢s, 12 tho ordinary mind, the most uniikely. Buat the genlus of Shakepeare ia such that, in thls, a1 in other of bis plays, there is a deamatic incon- alstency in his characters nnd their ncts which is in Peality the moat artistic conslatency, and an ovi- dence of higher than ordinary art upon his part, Dut jn the cases of Cosar and Arutus, "IE{I’!!"] i ‘weré, in thele ideals of life, In their estimation of | men and things, and in the very hearta sud gonls of their lives and natures, tsmiliaes. Thol Cesar criud e tu Zirufe whon the Jatter stabbed him, and at once gave up the ghost. Thus Cuasaius says of Brutus' love for Giesars . Btrike a1 thou didst at Cegar; for, [ Know, e son ahi 173 worsts thou jov'dst him bete ter ‘Than ever thou lov'dst Crarius. “ Even after his dosth Jrutns calls him the **grest Jultie, “Sthe foremost man of all the world. i 1l saya before he slew him And, toapeak troth of Orear, 1 have not knows when hie Aeciions vway'd ore than his reason. it ot the strengestiestimons totho irength of the ‘bond that uni the aplritaal natures of ‘erarand Erutuain &0 unlon Which even desth conld not dissolve comes from Mark Antony. In his Apeech i 10'the linman people, aver Cirdar's hody, he says: | Notes of the Green-Room in Ohica~ go and the East, Tho Apollo Club Festival---A Tes- timonial Concort to Miss . Cary. Tho Thomas Orchestra Summer=- Night Concerts«~<Entere tainmonts at Her« shey Hall, apeare’s mode, like ftIa the lie would refer ua to 8 future cxistence for Ite res word, 1ot he dock not do thin. To tha idealist, who ‘was predestined to fallure in the positiva worhl. he, however, plvesa goud and teue wife, to Haudel’s aratorlas, wiil be of (nterest: each other, the Queen of England and the king | Fortia; friends, no msn of whom was untrue to | For Bruius 24 T KROwW A Drarsanailt oy 3 beast, and after the brutal fury cones deepair- | The 11th, nt St. Louis; 12th, Quincy; 13th, d of planiste, 1L must be adinitted that the king | hims and scryants, wno were ready to dio v o A T Lerror to fint himaci bracfed, and fariots ' idah, Quiney; 18t | o orstorlosof Handelnnitealikindn of singine, | fa il Letsor of 1t Herr Nublusiein was ine | £0r him: - And alihough as bror. Dowdenrare, | For'wiic (o6 hauta frens saw bion Musical News at Home and Abroad-- Whereabouts of the Bingors. Galeshurg; 14th, Davenport; 15th, Bterling; | from the nola to the final chorus. To the nubloan: and 18th at Chicago, for grand atyle of the rellgivs cliant, they Join all the el it power sud xprossin of o dfamatic ciant. _If B CARY TEATINONIA tiey wera not written for, tho churen, they might at the Exposition Bullding, the salo of scats for | be given to tho theatre, They are still as liviog as which will commence on Wednesday, Of the | 98 the day of tiair creatlon. “Masses of exccutanty detalls of this concert we shall speak hercafter. :.':Hl “5’&’{.’.‘“35“ ;’v" ergfgf. “’é‘;n'..'.','.’,'}‘“i,".‘,:.’f Ou the fotlowin Monday, the Thomasurchiestra | Uea of every kind, 1n *‘larsol In Efim‘-" will commence & aix weeks' season at the Expo- | e most astonishing perbaps of * ol sition Bullding ot recount the weven successive plagues, with sn plotrap R Lo e b aing sk, Smde 1 mecesdary Far the purposcs of these coucerts the bufld- Wiain neven MR In BUCCoLtion & PrORTCANCA ing has been divided into o concert-halk witha | of lurt‘!u.l a na'tumllah.o\!c |n; l“llnt -n& pnm&-‘. to scating capacity of about 5,000, at the south | frount alwaya from antifo) to.the wnhilme, end; a garden promenade near the centre, i’n‘:.'f TL.‘: 'é’,?,":'fi:f;'":’.f al‘?lgng":: '.“mc?fifl‘ with fountaln, trees, and retreshment-tables; a :hfl: mr:mle m'l‘ de;m]lr‘i an Dfilln ."’fi An'd gonlch cougervatary, unde glass, with beautitul shrut- | 1€ 88 celestial connalations, ho © Moestah ' g pastoral, which endain a thu; bery and plants; and an outdoor park, {or pleass | Ger-butsts the MIERLY +* HAlIGIAAD, & which hsano ant nights, of nearly two acres, In addition to :7;}‘;’( 11 wnsmlu. flvfimll.blx ‘v‘v;f::‘ :’}l':;lgxw: '; these arrangements, tho gallers will be fur- | §f Hichael Angolo. ngland, where of vecn fervently preserved, hi nished with private boxes overlooking the whola Lr:'t'g:lnwr: WAng every year in ol Thelr eltten, scena. The gencral arraugemont is similar to ’{hb ullflflvllllflxlflunly;fran; o:e‘ nnn.unl. ;e:(gvmm h nothier, In that couniry of canies, in that arlsto. that In New York at tho Thomas Garden. | gratic cauntry, all Tanlkt, people, eniry, 80d mo- The prices have been tixed ot popular rates,— | bility, enroll themselves with emulation fn the 25 cents to tho promonade, 50 cents to tho :""'é‘g‘"'{'ilbsl Jingarm. Germany 8 mi'”r:;'cmm& ul o old Saxon than Englan 0 BN congcrvatory and park, and 81 for private bozes, | fiaty'alone poreiat In forgotiing, or, what 18 worko, sccommodating from four to elx persons. The | in not knowing him, programmes will ba nade up of popular muste, and concerts will be given overy night in the week. As Chleago has taken Theodore Thomas away from New York for the summer, it now LOCAL MISCELLANY, We are requested to state thot there will bea remalng for Chicago to support him, and at these prices wo hiava no doubt it will be donc, mecting of the members of the Apollo Club to-morrow evening at the club-rooms. Miss Mattio C. Brewster, a well-known vocal- 1lis Immenso rnrurtolra, accumulated durlng the past two or three years, will enable hiin to q}w programmes tull of novelties,while, besfdes v o e &Caumn S trarot: v e, MiGre RbFung LI “ e amstiian i eh hurat hle mignty heart. era the poet makes /trutue Ceesar's avgol: that te, they were kindred apiritn living, and the one dy - inz would become the anuhr apirit, or angel, of the other. Tala naychological law of spiritual ex- Istence Shakspeare never Joses night of in his dramas. S0 ho makes Jlanquo. who wss the fricnd of Yacteth llving, “bie fomiltar spirll for goodor evil when dead,” Warberh alone sees him at the hlnrlnnl. Noha maken the ghost of Jiamle's father the famillar apirit of Jiamlet, It ia seen only by Hamletand hla immediste personal and bosom friends. Ilia tnother aces it not, though it appears to lamlet 1o her Immediate prosence. Says Hrutus to Volumnius when he fel$ hid eud approaching: - The ghott of Ovear hath appeared (o me. Two sevecal times by aight; at8ardia unce: nd his last night, hera i Puilipal Gelus. koouw my hour is come! Tt will be remembercd Plotarch says that 1t was the cvil genlus bf Hrulus which nvg::md to bim at Ehilippl, not the ghost of Giedar.” Dnt Shakapeare, for the first time {n the conrse of the play, departs {rom the bistory as given by Platarch, which ho bad theretofare almost_literally fullowed, In order to more perfectly carry out hls conception of the drama, and thus vindicate those peychological Isws of the universe to which be so rigidiy sdheres u his great tragedies, Subseqoently to the ghost sceno, upon sezlng the dead body of Cassius, Brufus pro- nounces the words which v the keynote ta the light in which Shakspeare eridently designed tha world should view the character and action of Ju« {tus Casar, e depicted in this play, and woven throughout its entlre texture: rage azainat his betrayers, Passion convitses his Hinha and distor-s ils features ; yet scarcely more than ten seconds after Jubose hus rushed bo- lind the opening door Lesurques gnters, calin and collected, and uuerlly free trom any trace of excitenient. Of course it will be understood that the Dubose whow the soldiers drag from belind the door fs & *double’ dreased to re- semble the actor who has tl[snpvéu:s\, and the word marvelous Is certainty not tou strung Lo cribe the command of feature and demeanor which enaoles him thus to change hls ldem.l'.y‘ to say nothlugo? dress, In such space of time.” The London correspoudent of tha New York Times tells of & curlous scenc In the theatro at the conclusion of one of the performances: Many of the people In tha boxes and stalls foft the theatre, butthe pitites and gods ramained to 4 man. *'lel ne have Irving,™ aald the leadin voice fn the front row in the gallery. **lIrving. Jeving!" eried pit and gl.lllery, hammering and clapping their hands, Thoy wers thercupon {olued by the few who remalned In the stalls and nr[mr boxcs. Prescntly, Irving, partly in his own aitire and partly In the drean of Dubosc, prenented himaalf, ** A spcech!" aald the leador of the pit- fex, *'Ladies and gentlemen,* sald Irving, os 80071 a tho fricndly applaune ot lils anpearanco had subslded, **Ism not going to play snother char- aclet here to-night, though I am partly dreased,as W “Locrariue and Mark Anfony remsined victors. ot | Ingeat Phllippl, the parcst wreath of victory rosts on tho forehead of the defeated conepirator, Castius, the Inteliectual representative of the drama. and brother-in.law to Jirutua, 1, tnlike the Inftor, & man of worldly wisiom, of grést taet, and of uncomrmon Intellectaal talents, 1f Arutua wana politleal Girondin, Caustna wiea pollical dacobin, 8 demasopus, amanaf afalfe, an epl- carcan. Tl ls frankly envious, Ile hates Cirsar, 1o Ja by no meana_studlons of moral perfection, nor does he look for It in mankind In gencrai. Mark hix manner of appraching dntony. Ilow much Jower, yet fac more practicat, It la than that of Brutus,' 1t reminds ua strongly of one of Jonn Wentworth's poiltical efAlquts, 80 Drief yoi efect Ive an Appeal 18 it to Antony's Interesta: Four volce shiall be as strong a1 soy man's o tho dlenostng of new GuEtice. Stlll Caseius Is by no meana [gaoble, e s not ethlcal and theoretlcal, like Arutus, but practical and comatructive. Iie 1a *'a great observer, and looks qaite through the deeds of men.” His knowledge of buman natare Ia exceedingly great. Tie lives In the concrete, in the fact, of which ha HA% 8 swift snd cleas perception, ' Had Druts been gulded by Casrtus, the outcome of the con- #piracy would have been entisely diforent, In ecry instance In which the (deal firutus overruled the ractical Catelve,—and they ate fmportant and frequent 1n the play.—rernlts shoswed the Inca- paclty of the former, and justificd tho reasoning and experience of the 1atter, The noble side of Caedus' character lo shown in . tha fact "that Mrutus loves him. The love of DBrutus s o _patent which establishes 8 mon's nobllity, *'1 know no part of Shakspeare,” Coleridge Wrote, *that more Impreases on me, the bellef of hls genlus being ‘superhuman than this "scens beiween Jirufus and Cassiue.” */1n this, the tent scene, shakspeare, " eaya Prof, Dowden, *!in his {nfinite pity far human erzor and feallty, makes us love Urutus and Cassius tho botter thfough the Jittio wrongs which bring the great wealth of thelr Jove vited to play atl Windror recently, amd, after performing vory briillantly, he was 'huspitably asked Lo Tefresh himsel! with some sherry and colid chicken In the housckecper's room, whera o functionary Iurther offered him 10 guincas— the sovercigns and the shlilings neatly put up tomether, as for a physiclan’s tce, He dectined both the refection and the cash, and has sinca #aid & number of unpleasant things In London about the whole affair. ‘The Londan correspondence of the New York Tribune says of the 1ast Wagzner concert: *The concluslon'of the last concert was solemnized t[!y the crowning of Wagner with a wreath by fan Materna. Ierr Whheling then kissed him. Then o baton was presented to Herr Richter, aml he was kissed by Wagner. Thea it_was Willicling's turn, and he and Wagner fell into cach other's arms and around each other's necks, and embraced. An English au- dlence may perhaps ba pardoned 1# ft falled to understand enthusinsin of thissort, or thisman- ner of expressing it Butthe Germans prescnt, who were many, saw nothing they were not used to seo on the banks of the Ruloe.” JULIUS CZESAR. The Bpiritnalism of Bhakepeare—gecond Paper by J. K. C. F. T the Editor of The Tribune. Crizcano, JJane 0,—A friend, who commented, with somo degree of commendation, Tpon my paper on **Macbeth,” f Tug Tnunz of May 0, csils my_attentlon to ita closlng words, which **Yot, If we study Bhakspearc's greater play {horoughly we find tuat in their mosement Spirit- uslistic influences are the pivotal causes, and ma- TIIE. DRAMA. SUMMER SCHEMES, The plans of theatrieal manungers for mext season are maturing rapidly, and if anybody de- *sires to give advice where it fa not wanted now {s the nccepted time. Persons who know bow theatres ought tojbe run, but who are delelent either in capltal or disposition, should consult with Mr. McVicker ood Mr, Hooley at once. The managers, it Is assumed, need to be told certaln plain truths, AMr, McVicker will be tho better for hearlng—his sclf-appolinted guardlans think—that the peoplo of Chicago are yearning 1o patronize hls theatre, and are looking lor- ward with eagerncss tothe opening of the new season; that they expect him to cngagn are- spectable company, snd to arrango for tho early " production of forelgn plays fn this city; that they, hope, morcover, to gee prices reduced and atlendance sonscquently increased, Thers fs sound scnso m views of this nature, oxcepting that which concerns prices,—s matter -within the provinco of the manage: oxclusively. But Mr, MeVicker doesn’t need advice. Iio has been managing a theatro In this ity for twonty years; he knows how affalrs of this kind should bo srranged; and hio will do whatever sccms to bim best for lis purse and Lis reputation. Tho brilliant sue- you sce, for ather scenca, [Loud laughter. ] Ttln, youknduw, not an ety ting to atep oul of such (um a8 Rieard II1. lnto the flne { have played . lo-might. osr, hear,] 1 am the ' more geatifed at the pgoncrous manner ‘In which yon have receivod this play; but you arc always uniformly kind In your ~recognition of the efforts of the managoment of this theatre. 1 have to thank you foryour kindness and conaldorn- tlon to-night. ® [Lond applausc.] Mr. Irvingwas then about to Jeave the stage. Mr, Irving, alr,* wald the lei actor used. ‘' We don't *‘That's so, ” sald the gallory. *'Any suggestion . Julius cesar, thou art mighty sett fh apiril waily abroad, aad turas our swords n our awn proper eatralis} This ¥ not the bodiless spleit of Dr. Lindner or Prof. Dowden, without paria or pamfonn, but that tantive splsit which tho poat always rep- J_of human facultles in tho which, 88 well a1 its follows Walt 0 momeant, ading [»Iuw. The like tho farce,' {st In this clty, has accepted o position s so- prano in the chofr of the First Presbylerian Church {1 8t. Louls. She entersat ouce upon gh of the u, egree, d true fraternity (o lght." Catalus, lika Zrutwt, per and nether worlds, doth ** tend on o musical attractions, the arrangements for . terfaliic exhibitions and events tho efects, upon | 3 8. uch o5 Ttinlus, who will di mortal thonghte,” coss achileved by him during the past two fg,"’:}",‘g',‘.":’_"“}‘ifi,‘;::"in"n‘,:};m:'fl‘m"z;n',f,‘,"“'.‘;:a' personal comfort, convenicnee, and_ pleasuro m;":‘:‘:’:‘::l::: ::::::Zuy S sopee | eren action bingos," Ho conuiders thia | Bt 8182 frionds, Sachae bRl who wil S ava | Finaily, in the anpreme moment, when Brutus is 7 L 1L 8, 3 ) scasons may b considored a result of his con- servative and judiclous management In the era of prosperity. He never overshot the mark in s best days, and he has not been overshooting 1t in his presont clrcumstances. The uniwis- dom of offcring a really flue company to the peoplo of Chleago must ba too apparcut for sc- rloua constderation. This would be glving the dellcacies of the scason to n community that has heretofors been cducated to belleve that, on Wil Jeave nothing to bo desired. As the music wlill be perfectly audible from all parts of this vaat guditoriuim, indoors and onutdoors, the Pntmnn Wil have smple room for cholco of locality. 7 “ A NOTR TO 3138 CARY. The followinz communleation cxplaips ftaclf: v ihe Kdilor of Ths Triduns, ' Cricaon, June 0.—A grand teatimos aneertion too sweeping, and asks me how it can vonsibly apply to his great Listorleal plays, Greek, TRoman, sod English. Permit me, in nnswerlogmy friend, the privilege of proving that my assertion 1a as true of sume of thie best of the poet's historical plays as it In of the groatest of those tragedics which may bo styled Wiis original creations. Taxe the play of **Jullus Coeear,” Thisdrama fsenrichea and vitallzed by fdeas, thonghts, and practical man of factsthrough his connection with the 1deal sud impractical man of moral forces and exalted sentiments, Dy thls he teaches us that it se onty by and through the (deal thattha intellectual faculties of man can be exalted, ditat- ed, refined, and purified. Flnnll‘y, we have In Mark Anfony the material- Istic anil scnsuous representative of the drama. lo Is u man of gealus withoat morsl fibre. A man posscseed of a rich, sensltive, pleasure-1oving us- tare. Ielnthe nru¥ by turna of good impulscs and bad, To him life {s & game, In which, indecd, **Will yon tmprovo the farce?" asked the menin Ana pit, standing on the seat and claiming the per- sonal attention of the actor by his oxtended arm and forefinger. ** Hear, hear)” cried tio audionce, Amid ronnds of applaaso. **Ican duly fepent,”, feplled e actor, +that there la_evory desita on thin side of tho honae to satiafy your roquiroments, and I ehsll have groat pleasura in repeating to the managanient what 1 have heard you say.” Pit and allory ll’]l’l ndod this judicious snawer, and r. rving relired Amid tho good humor of ihe aceno, and tho theatre amptied jtsolf Into the strcet, al Lo run anon his sword, he scknowlodges the Rrest aplritus] presence which puraned hid'to tha end. 1ie evenspeaks with it face to face: Cuesar, tow ba atilly 1kitled not thea witki hiatf # xood & wil. Why Anfony, who was also Cxsar's friend, was not #o intimately and ideally en rapport with the apirit of Ciesar (s very plain to me. Anfony was the friend of Uevsar in s subordinate degrea as comparca with Hrufus, + Ta their ideals, 19 the In- most textare of their lives, Coaar and Hrulus wera mors nearly relsted than Cajor and Aniony, the H{ouston County Mualcal Convention at Hokah, Mion,, during the weck commoncing June 18. Ills seventcenth summer sesslon ot the Olito Normal Music School at Xenfa will commence July 5, During the scssfon, *‘Eli- b ¥ will be produced. Mr. Jerome Hopkins, the "New York “mu- stcal fanatic,”” as he has been styled, whoee ¢ Or- icon Free Bchools’ have for sixteen years congert 18 to be givon 1o Miss Cary on Saturday ovening, June 16, 1877, \VHI(‘nu allow us, throuch your T T A gl 00d . : er, 10 suggest to Mlss Cary a moans wheteh old thelr own, contemplates giving somo | setions, which, for steensth and mossiveness, con | Lo has 8 high part to plav, and to play wiiha mag. | Cesarhadio let himself down to dntonya level Gl tho"whole thero s o Tood morowboletomp [\ L NEWIOKCNOTAL | | S SR M S22 i SCEh | concortain Chicago e ong 31 10D oo | nos b cscelieds whiehdia fhe magimtin, and | BSCERLprcsetcasad i el pric an skl | of sameeamence d sl or loagire, TR u :in ::c n ts forms, “flfi“”" end dis- e ‘1" .Iflulye P! Pt :lnl:.r::h;‘n:m :"“2;?.‘3., f’»‘é?.'&.‘.‘:‘#&"!&‘ifl'.’n °lr.yn ,:o :)u;unhg?fil:z:q, :r a‘:gzg! yb ;".'.':'fi:f lld‘l‘nnl cause it to spring upward fnto the very sublimity | Iis saying of Lepidus that he §s 8 * t, une | cause he hmi:' more veraatilo mind and natare, “l .;}} ¥ 11 ttio captions ani prosscnlag crlte should | ' ocier Wallack puth Ha profits for tho past AE%he Thomas conceris, &t tho Tapernacie. wa | = A" Ty , of anybody else, | of moral an! lntollectunl conceptlon; snd which | meritable man, ect o be bent on errands, nnd | and mora of practical and w o5 ihaatis | il presume to M{, anything to Mr Iooloy it would be probably that ha needs to be caréful about the tonc of his management. The repu- tatlon of [looley's Theatre is not what it wus o car ago, Hut of course Mr. Hooley ves not need Informntion on tbia sub- ject, Ina long carcer 8s manager he has niever been accuscd of a want of regard for the sentiments of decency nnd hotior, and hie fanot the mwan to gather an audience at his theatre withe out being able ta glvo tho assurance that no Yulgarity or obscenity will be thrust upon In- nucent persons, It would not be agrecable for lim to aco women riso from thelr seats and Jeave his theatro In tho midat of a perforinsnca With the feeling that they bad been decelved and fusulted Ly the management. Hooley's plans are goud as faras they o, He and’ Crane are the managers, in fact, cach having a third Intereet, while Mr. Quinlan isthe The puplls of Mr, Carl Wolfsoln will give a soirco musicale next Saturday afternoon at livrabey ffall. Those who will take part In the rogramme oro Miss Eva Manterre, Miss Alcl juggenbeim, Mr. O, 11, Stampoflskl, and Miss Fanny Blumenfeld, Tllezlwul havo fho nssiste ance of Miss Ella A, W la)flu Cora Clary, Mr. James Gill, and Mr, C. E. Martin, Mr, McVicker has recelved from Mr, Maplc. son, the London Impressario, o brosdside of Ercu opinions of the new London voealist, Mife. Smilia Chioml, and also several interrogatorics concerning; the theatre, which would scem to indicate that n now slaris to appear in our firmament next scason. We belicve that the debutontels an Engllsh Jady and a pupll ot Mme. Lagrange. Miass Julla Rive, who Is now fulfilling an en- ent ot Glimore's Garden, i New York, rordly i Toman Stalc, e was beter capable of compre- hiending and adapting himecif ta (he practical side of life' than Hrulus. And so the epirit of Caogr did let ltscll down to *‘tend on mortal § thoughts,” o¥en in the case of Anfony, 1t spoke throagh him In a manner somewhat stmi- lar {o the Inspiration thstseized upon the fgnarsat, and, |n many casom cruel and beaotted pophets of the Old Testament. The spirit of Sark Anfony oa & ‘who hurls_the most awfal predictions malodictions, not only siminst the conapiratars, but against the entire ko man world. Thus,over Citsar's body, heexclalms Domestic fury and fierce cirll strifo 0 Cirdarssnir = AT Rieng his il come ot from ell. bl In thee ¢! Cry **Hinvon, ™ and | That this foul deed sl With carriun men, Kt Finally, in furilier proof of the sabtfe peycho- ak- of whom he talks, not an & perron, Lut e & prop- erty, applies to himeelf, ‘with this diffcrence: Anfony has such & bughly esthetic, though highly Eennuous, mataro, it mant be Can exalted perronage ke Cesar, of s volupe 1uotsly fascinating woman 1ike Cleopatra, to whom he will subordinate himself, Toward such characters and natnres he Is cathaslsstic, while he hias 8 contempt for the commonplace, the [nef- clent, and the inapt, e hus alws an artist's eye for lheimlelquc and comical sides of humanity. He can be [nterested 1n tne langhter a8 well ns the tears of the actors In life's drama, Whi ¢ dle- likes the Jacobinlca) and demagogical Caselus, hw admires, after his sensuons farblon, the to bim more remate qualitics of Zrulue, To dnfony, whose csibelic taste appreciates thosa unities of Ducpose and actiun whieh are cescntlal to 8 perfect ramatic whole, there is o feeling that the piay ‘would be poorer by the I f s0 Tioble a figure ag that of irutus. Thus, Anfony s tho imasinative. and mate hoard her. She sang a selectlon from one of the **masters,” She recelved a grand ovation of nap- ‘plause, ana, sliter a muiqla on the part of the au- dionce, lhe{ succeeded in recalling her, and aho agaln eang for the encoro an [tallan arla. Every ono suppocly or at feast hobed, sho would slni somo §ittle ballad In the American languate (thio land of her homo). A shade of real disabpolat- moent was plalnly visible throughout tho sadlonco, excopt upon the faces of thal scicct fow that are knotwn to the musical world as **real appreciators of maale," And such comments aa theso were made as we camo out, **Oh, I wish Miss Cary had sung a ballad "' ‘many American songs woro nomed {hat shie might have sang; **Bho could well nflord todo B0 B8 811 ENCOT uat as though It were a great struggle or dlatastelul duty for iols swoot aingorto #ing 10 a purely Amerlcan sudlence s few verscs of “Anicrican mu: dnceday evening, bu Hassan, " ‘beautiful plece of muaic, and tho 11 the heart with a passlonate tenderness for tome of the leading characters, whose actions are the mainsprings of 1ta various and diveree movements. ‘Nevertbeless, thisgreat play has been a very puz- zle to the hundreds of commentators and erltica of the author's works, 111, 10 noarly all of them, a Sphinx and an enlgm: s Colerldge, epeaking of the character of Hrufus; *'1do not at prescat sec Into Shakepeare's mative, his rationale, or (n what polat of view he meant [rufus’ character to aype: £ays Dr. J. O. Ualliwell, member of the Councll of the Bhakspeare Soclety: **Not Cas ut Brufus, is the bero of the dmma.” .. +"Waare disappolnted that Casar dlsappears s0s0on, and would willingly that tho play bad commenced with an earller period of his life, and that he remalned tho hero to it conclu- efon.” In excuso for this apparent snom: scason at $125,000. . “Evangolloe,” the Boston burlcsque, was prosented at Daly’s Theatre Monday night with Ellza Weatheraby, Lizzio Harrold, N. 0. Good- win, George Knight, and Harry Hunter in tho principal parts, Minnfe Cammings wrote a lotter tathe New York newapapers, claiming that hor Jullel was the Lest of the six seenat Rignold's bemellt, ani, a3 o proof of it, stating thatahe was tho only one crowned with a wreath, This ellcited a reply from the ladles who gave the wreath, who sald that it was Intended for Mr, Rigoold, not for Misa Cummings. \ Xr, Max Strakosch efferted n re-ongopement for next season with Miss Neilson, beforo sho ar deet - | plctorlal, des ye loft for Europe on Wednesday. Tho terna aro : aly In_tio drams, saye Gervinus: **The th n ahl the mur logiesl treatment of thls piay, nule how Bhak. 8 3 : taysof ** Macbeth " and ** Hau. businces-n fthoestabll ¥ el the same as J}.,.. of the past season, \When wu 0 every ano pleasuro, nning gotden opinious for herself, The * he (ntended to make the sttempt of tho 100, in strict epeare, as Iy tie pl o a oot Mhlitetlol | gafa’fu qur lat (sao that Nellson lad recelved | called with tho most mazaifcent ‘o Jlerald of that city says of her: * Ambitious i | Fieotibiicane i main themer cotid ROt have vene E‘..:: 'of thinge that thin -+ amesome " fellow who | 195y makes the apiritual to ack upon the materinl n [laure wa have evor heard Riven to any artist. At e saine timo you could sce In tho face of all hope u?luln that It said, **Coming Throngh tho tye,” ** llumo, Bweut Home, ‘elock In the Morning, ™ and many others we could numo, Dut the dear lady scemed to think that ali we de- scrved wss o repetltion of the ssine sonp, d & more disappo.nted audlenca wo have novar seen, AH ox¢e|vl thut wolect fuw set, went home withjust s little bit of feclluy azainst Miss Cary that she hnd not quite treated her own conntry people rightly; and ould unly say, alas for tho upjority whu cannot appreciate imusic, What was it that mado al) the world love Parepa? Shiunly that shio had"tho liupiy facuity of natlan, %!Illlm ler singing, Who will ever ‘furzet her? 850,000 for her eight montha® work, we should Dave said this was from Strakosch slone, He. sidvs, she recelved 817,500 for the Ban Francisco engugetnent, not comprised in the contract with Nim, making licr total receipts vory nearly 870, 00.~Lramatic News. Booth's Theatre was closed lost week. Tho scason at the Unlon Bquarchas ended, and with it the run of “Hmike,” Wallack's closed Wednesday night. Tho summer scuson beglus to-morrow night, when J. 3, Atwaterand Lettie Allen, vt Chicago, enter upon an cn‘{nzumnm tur four wetke, Mr, Atwater has hired the have it repaired ond cleaned In every part diring tue two weeks following. Tho Unlon Bquars Company whit thew open with “Les DanlehielTe,” The intentlon 1s to present the full strength of the company, the contract stiptloting that every member of “the original cast shall appear here. At tbe close of thuir engagemont the theatry will be oecupied by traveliog companies anid couibinativns, as during the scason just passed, This arrangement scems to make no large mvlllun for Mr, Crane. 1l will' not ho regu- 1y present ot the theatre, or ju Chileago, ox- et wliea lis may Lo plasiig at the theatre. 1ls sticeess us an actor requires that he shonld exccutlon, with a moderate breadth bl sentls ment and conception, a tore than usual fnsight into the meaniug of tho works which elic ls called upon to futerpret, o flne intelligence, combined with tenderness of touch and pas- slonate expression,—thieso ars ths elements ‘which, with youth, gonlus, and comncliness, are caleulated to make this youug Amerfcan girl auccessful ju her venture boforo tho American publie. Ske was warmly applauded aud re- culled, her prineipal theme beng spinulug aong from the * Flying Dutchman, ‘Tho Thomas Orchestra plays at Sterling, 1L, ‘warld, and tha lafter ta tespoud ta the lmpressions and Active forces of tbe formes, as the budy {heough ite evecy fbre rotpanls 1o the pusaluus and emotlons of the soul. Thu prelude tu the tragedy coacted fn the Capltal ta a violeut awrw ke, doring the progress of which, , 84 0t the cru: craw! alo tured to create too great ‘an interest In Jullue Graary 1t wae neceasary to keep bim In the back- ground, and to prescnt thut view of him which gare & reason for (he conapiracy, According even to Dlutarch, Cizsar's charucter altered mach for the ‘worse sbortly bofore hia death, and Shakspearo has represented him according to this euggestion.” Gervinun' fhokeposre Commentst 5 3 £."p, 50,1 Sayw Mr. Hudéon, in a some: what slmifar strain: **f “huve wsometinics thooght that the polley of the ram have been to_ropresent Ciesar, 1ot A8 he was deed. but nshe must have appeared to the cons spirators; to make us acc him as they eaw bim, In onder that they, too, might have fuir aud cqusl faces nuknd"n the Luypercalian sporta shuuldat lnst fall a prey to that *‘serpent of old Nile," that Lilith who ensnared Adam beforo tae making of Eve, Neverthelese, thia man Iv at once the Cassan. draand the diviner of the play,—the evll to the cunspirators, and the N (ireat Spirit, ~the material, bt not th i and substantive, portion of whoin they sl Ttie olvo in mccordance with Shakepeare's eathetic poutna that thls sensltive and pleasure-loving man of impulvc and passion should \-rnnounm the eloge over the budy of Jrutus at Fllipp! commencing, *+Thls was tlig poblest Koman of them all." Even Antony recozmizes that ¥ the vory weaknesses of Brutua come from the nobility of his nature: fizlon of our o streeta or Lya and 1 the pos f temples In abject terror; ghosts gitter and jlba In th fotun; the Epleurcans—Cassius, Cosed, wnd Cinng— sre awed Luto & beltal Lo fhe preseuce and pavencs of thoss spititual manifoatations and effcces which pressge tha awful _crent of fhe d and ol belfef in wlich they hud that osed they ad din- q C: ) company, | - on the 13th lust. How guod the Bterling peoplo | judement atoite hands, For Casar was literally | ho cannot credit or concelve the base facts of life; luaaly supp 2 pursuahis protessiun, aritatly. Next acason B oate. Mol Thoruaa | e, one \tho, erec”eard tneir ows language put | foul may bo fmaztued (ron tie Tollowing ane | $ao oreat Lo'be secn By thees, sate 88 Chiidren ofics | hue B hae i TeLrumens by which 10 gaoge the | Chpacd: | Oue ) of the most aflctive dramatic e will act with Stuart 1tobson at the principal | Whiften, Cyril Scarle, and Mincs, Ponfsi, A, I, n! r&'w‘ ‘:' ou':g:nr, rllflr‘;” FAFREER nouncement in their programme: * Tho Ster- | seo bughbears by maonlight, Jittiencas of little svul; theatres of this country, — Abandoning * Our Boanling House™ they w1l turn thalr attontlon Brst to - Bouclcanlt’s’ * Forbidden. Fruit," in wlich Crano will personate Sergent Ziyster, and Tubsun Cate Dove, These parts were *taken -at Walluck's Theatro fn New York by MHarry Veckett und Mr, Moutagua respectively, and robably the ncting In ucither fnstance was tter than the new representatives are capahle of, “Fhie play s amusing, as everybody knows, aud slfords” opportunitics for good”~ comedy- actlug, The maln atiraction of the lobson and rane season, Nowever, will not “Forbden Frulty” but a mow Boi ceaultlan drana, as yet unnamed, which is to be produced In New York carly in tha fall ¥ith Crane and Hobson in the principal parts, e work has been outiined by Mr, Bouceault and the fnfshed product Is promised for ar early day, Onu week In munth lias been set aslde for rohicarsils with theauthor, If this Plece succeeds It will be played in Ban Francsco aad Chiieago as loug as the public tkes, and will theruafteor e takien throuxh the country, from Mudno to Now Orlcans., 1t witl bo seen that Mr, Crany's timo will be fully occupled elsewhere, except when he I8 vlaying at Huoley's Theas Thoe wisdom of Nla_course s hardly pen to coutroversy. For hls frlenda ¥ould be unwilling o have him shandon his ‘Professtau aud ussuing the part of gentlomanly &gent (n front of the theatro whils hia fund uf humor and vivacity is still so far from boing exhausted, It {a's question alsa whether ho ould play good cneagenients the theatro It bo were sven too often, M. McVicker's expe- ¢n thelr inexperi- enced eycs are mocked with air'' Mr, Huds helleves that he can ** dotect s fefine trony diffusing itself through the te: playithat Zrutus, s shallow idealet, shiuo tho greatest practical genius Ibe world ever saw can hevo no other than au fronlcal slg- nificance, " Uno_ ca Baker, Blancho Galtdn, Marion Clifton, Little Allio borrlnmnn. und others. GENERAL AMERICAN NOTHS. Dillon mado a hit fn ¥Lemous" st 8t, Poul ana Minneapolls, Maud Oranger, supported by Atkins Law- rence, played at the Walnut Btrect Yheatre in Thitadelphia last woek, Mrs, Drew's engagemont’ at 8an Fronclsco was suceessful financlally, aud {ncreased her Teputation with the pushte, Almice and Alico Oates played in oi» ltfon to cacli other at Boston Jast weck, Miss Mattlo Vickers and Mr, Charlea Rogers appeared in $The Octoroan™ at the Athenoum, The actors of tho Boston Muscum company treated the ‘)Iny of * Qur Boarding-Houso ' as {0 they considered it beuvath thiem, and the con- sequence was that they mangled ft. They ahould either have refused to actin ity or have done thelr best. P Bolleno opened 1u 8an Franclsco last Manday night, Harry Allen aud Mlss Montague Lavy been added " to the company. ‘The grotesquo and indocent daneer was not “announced at last aceoants, 1€ 1s sthl aguestion whether the Baldene scason at the Unfou Bquare Theatro in New York will be played, ‘The managers fear that the reputation of the theatre might bo damaged by the appearance of Soldeno Init. YOREIGON NOTES. 1ling Leetura Assoclation, after three scasons of unparalicied success in securing the finest, most brilliant, and expensive talent that this country and Europe can produce, indulge in a feeling of boneat aud sincerc pride in befng enabied to an- nounce as the crowning glory and houor of all, the engagement, for ouc night only, of tho en- tiro Theodore Thomus Orchiestra and Concert Company of sixty artists, comprising thy flnest that jeraces any stage tn the ciyllized world, It 1s a mammoth organization, whose naine sends athrill of prids and pleasure through thehearts of the people lu ail landa,” TUN 1ESS TROUFN 1N CALIFORNIA, ‘The scason of Evglish opers tn San Franclse o has not been very successful, according to the papers of that clty, and Mr. Hcss, the mane ager, In consequenco, has been very severe upon Miss Kollogg, who, it will be rumermbered, has quit tho troupo, Tho Chronlde of that city takes him totask for itin the following manne; No doubt to a certaln extent he ls Justly aggrieve od, but as thero ara two_ sldes to overy question, and ouly one hae ox yetbeen formally and suthor- ftatively 1 and as _opera singurs ara proverlial wo may take bis publlo | rain of allowance, But hie sttack, or defen o cliogren 10 o0 term i, has several manifest points of weakoess 1o nut only #sys that b has ado no noney with a prima donna whom ho hias allowed to glvo - lier pame to o troupa that e nee ma for four ycars, but ho ubllcly proclaims thal lsoterrated ae aslnger, wo herein got agtimpso 1nto Mr. Iless® skeloton closet?, Is ba glving 8 revelstion of some of the Mepliistophelian patriclon Casca, “who calls the people the **tag-ras,* |u the urchard of Mrutue, points his w sward to the Caplial as the yuar- ter whera the **gray lines of morning begin doubt- fully to fret the clouds.” To the cmllmmlaqu Ie A review of the abuve anal, of characters but sdds to the dificuity of {nicrpreting the play by the regular and ordinary methods, ‘Ihien, tuo, we bave but & weak and shadowy onlline of Ciesar. As & personality 1t Ie (00 unreal, even while It slays. Diut were it lutended that ita bodlly pres- ence should constitute 1t the protagouistof the deamn, that preacnce Is really wanting {n Jte most effective and Important Yt there ie ire pla; ainger o Farepa, and wo would sny to her, Don't let us slways think of you os singlag_music which only & aqlect fow can appreciate. Dear lady, be natural, national, and let usalwnys think of you as aur own American vinger, Aunic Loulse Cary, A Frw Wio Anz Surrosed NOT T0 ArPUECIATE Mustc, TR UENSHRY HALL CONCEUTS. ‘The scventh puplls’ matlnco of the Ilershey Bchool took place at the hall last Thursduy af- teruoan, The programme wus an admirabla one, and was given by the Misscs Mary Wilson, Mary P. Iendrick, Marguerite M. Walker, Anna Farwell, Graco A, Jitz, Carrlo T. Kingwan, Mrs. Helen Bunker, and Mr. Harry Whitnoy, The feature of tho programmo was Miss Kiug- man's playing of tho Merkel Sonata In G minor, No. 2, for orggan, Any ong sequalnted with the dimeutties of this really great composition and the thme and hurd study required to master it will approclate the success of this lady, not only 1 playing the four movements thraugh without a break, but.aleo {n a thoroughly muslcal man- ney ‘Thio organ rycital at tho hall yesteray noon, by Mr, Ealdy, Included the followlug numbers for organ: - Mendclssohu's Bonata in D, No. 5, or,llb' Lug’s ¢ Morceau do Cancert,” op, 833 Merkel's. Fantaslo and Fomo {n A minor, op. 1013 Uach’s Sonata’ {n D minar, No, 83 a Pro- lude and l-‘muw1 :’)‘y . B \Vhlmu{(; and Hessu's variatlons on * God Bave the King," op, 7. t theso criticlsms upon the irama of ar.” Viewed from no very lofty esthetlc standpolnt; without souie satisfac- Lary explanation of i1 depariiire from the ordinary aud standard rules of dramatic composition, the construction of the play fe not only faulty, but serlously dulective. “1t"ls, unexplained In some mauner occult to the geaeral reader, like the pla: of ¢+ [lamlet™ with the part of Hamie! omitte Jultus Casar sppears in only three of ita scenea, dently intends to anticipate to our spiritnal sight” the utter Inaptitude and finul ruin of the conaplracy, The fusn who polnts the award sclected Uy the poct because e 1a & purposcl and almless cadet of some aristocralic fami who engaved fo the conepiracy s hie would bt gome. of tennis, in order 1o halp dissipste ‘cunul of au existenca of wuich be vu..l' wiua 1 e GOD IS EVERYWHERE. @od'e Spirit ille the Iandscape, 11s words are in the lowers, - Aud the eclio Is repeated 1n the aparkling, crystal showers; For the wurks of tho Cresior Aru the lnks that 1e has niven To lead I1is carthiy children . To ruise thelr shoughte to Heaven, And His Bpirit flls the ocesn; Wo fcel tha le §s nigh g ‘When the 8torm- Klug rucks tho billaws, Ani the wayes ars moustatus blgh, T sailor 18 6o cowsrd, Yet bo teembles lika a child, For the volca of Uod ls speaking 1u the tempest loud and wild, A thronghont the en voue subtie and lusivo agency myateriously worklng to defeat the efforte . by far, 1ts_(wo ablest And preatest pemonngen 0 towanlis the accomplishment of the nlprpmn to which they hod set their fortunce and their Nves, Why is it that firutus, who v not ambitions of honor, of statlun, or of wealth. sxcept in the®l; terest of some fi"“ and vrershadowing caure, aists I roling the fortunes of the olher conspi turs 10 their destruction? Tlow is it that Le, " the man of vicas aud impersonalitics, witl not, at the proper and decisive moment, yield the relns of di- rection to Carslus, the man of sction and of affairs?y And how s [t that botb Jrutwaand Casslus, thie Lonest perverscncya of the former's disposition and modes of action, are brought 1o wiier confue sion and defeat by thly man _uf moral vacillations, this man slmost totally Indifferent to idcas and principtes, and wha Lad oll hix life previously held cumpll:fl:‘fl' ’-nbord»rm: positiona—tbls **gawe- Antony 1n the firat scene of the third act hedies. Not only $0, but where oes appear the' poet scems anxlona to {uslet upon his weakness, mihior than bis strength. lleswoons when Anfony offers bim the crown, Upon his recovery be enncis a plece of rolsm, He is aMicted with epilentic Tirutis calls then »d-uhr{,nlnhm 7 in England and Ircland, *the falling " “1le {s deaf. 11a body lost Itsearly g s mode of epcech 1s pompous and arrve nt. llesecks faticry, Nay, he sccepts it as i et Tl vacilisice with o very cxccns of weakuess, Al the sametinie, he pompously bozets of hix unalteruble and unchangesbly coustancy. In great part, be has Jost bis gift of percciving aud actlug upon , and of eficlently dealing with men and ¢ *Way fo s, aaka Prof, Dowden 1+and why 16 she piay, notwibatanding, *Jullus Casarf' \hy did shukepeare decido Lo tepreacnt. Iy such 8 Iiglit tho chtef man of the Roman wurld? Passsges in other plays prove that Shakapearo had not reaily wisconceivod *the mightl ides, comes tho t (o olving those Hadice I8 Dr. Albert Lind- ner (Jahrbock dve Doatachen Bhakspears-(iencli schaft, Vol. I1.. pp, 00=5), Dr. Lindnce's [dea, wWhich s accepied und elaborated by Trof. Rdward Dowden, Js that Jullus Crsur 18, indeed. the pro- l-fionhlallh-mmd:. Bug it fe not the Casar whose bodlly prescnce | , whore mind la de- clintng Ia strencth and surc-fovted eneray, the Cisar who etanas oxposed to alt the accidents of What sweot thoogh silent muste Jultua,* * broad« Mr, Joseph Jefterson has closed his *Rip | Mrs. Btacy was tho vocallst, and san of opers managementt Hero 14 @ 1 nasar,’ . 3 but s 1n a the starry aX; - - b ! y £ | obliged to la In cot and 8 8 L1 be : 1l , batitute, 1t » vOicviess me) ter,—he [4 seldom scea ou_tha staga at his own | Monday in the charucters of Goliyhtly and Zugh | VWarren. ‘The principal numbers for the next Sros Amer rima_donna, unexcelled Y ,,‘&:,'.IL'.q..:‘.yuo',;.,mf:dfi,':,: :‘:,,:,".'5;: shese | fasass mway by Oclarius Mo e dok u theatre, and when seen obtalus but scanty pat- | do Lrass. ven by he spitit of Cirsar which s the doininant power of recital will bo Mendelasohn's sonata In 5 flat, song ae Lucca, Niloson, snd i eide ¥ ) Are not the plscets saying: Tha Lora of L et 4% B s heccusary 10 By parpoa, 1ok Mo give such ‘mist the (rgedy. 11 was agsinet ihis eplet Brutwe tunage. Actora—snd especially virtuous actors | M, Toote b incial tour, com- | No.4; Guilmant's *Marcho Funebro®; Be Latel. whom he liss & thousand tlmcs nformned the | brlef sketchos of the characters of 'three of ‘tbe [ fought. Uut MHrufus, who forever esrs In Hath given ue s wmisslon like Mr. o y -4 r. Tools has gona on & provin s WAl " fr ol ~ | snusfcal eritice of the newspapcrs was onu of the t prominent persanases in the drama—rulus, ical politics, succeeded ouly in striking down ‘f'o make the Heavens brighi? ,%'b,){f,z‘?.‘;;fin:fl;‘]E?,"‘wbfi.mfi:[,'(:",’:,‘f,. menciog st Manchester, where e s playing fu | o ATegro Marziale " op. B, No. 31 Wach's wou ) Grcadongatresses of tho world. Have thers rotte | Cassite, ana 3 , rsar's fody e wi X ata in D ininor, No, 4; and Beethoven's * Hal- lelujah Chiorus," from **The Mount of Otives," arranged by Beat. The gixth * musical cvening’ will take place st thhall on Friday, June 15, on which ocea- slun tho followlng proigramme wil bo glven: 1, Grand Trlo in B, op. 83.,,. o Messrs. Eddy, Lowls, ond 2. Spanidchies Licderapiol, op. T4, [A cyclo of Spanisls sonzs, co " nminbers, solos, duc d qu a Tl who bad been weak now rlece o pura splelt, strong and teriible, and avengcs himiaelt upon the coneplrators. Prof, dwells upon the weakness of Casar's bodily woco in ‘the Aret baif of the play. Indec might of his spiritua) presunce, he admi Uhe Latter balf emphasized, and perhaps ove cd, by Shaks copt (he conclustons of these able and leara- ed gentivmen 50 (ar 8s they {a‘ and my lowoeman, Prof, Dowden, goce [ariher 1han tie Gorwan crtlc: Catsiu, ang MarE Antong. Subatltnting (deas for [adividuals, thess threa pumnllrorel?eclllely the ideal, theintelleciual, and waterlalistic living representatives and moving springs of lne playof **Juliuy Cesar.” But the great wdeal, tho protaguniat of the drsma, Is the Subatantive and porvading spirit of Julius Casar Ulmaelf, with hiy varthly facaltics exslted to great and powerful spiritus) ideas and priociples, by Which and through which be moves the other chare scters in this extraordinary drama (rom its begin- niug o its ending! brder bo that ascribed by the poet to vico, Thelr is from embraccs to pity, and finally endurance. Mr. Cranc wlil'be all the more welcomu whicn ha is seen, {f not scen tou ofteu, 4d in his abscuce the dutfes of business tuan- fi“l‘l‘“x‘m most satisfactorily discharged by . Hooley, Mr, Raniin Las plans, too, as well as his tes. [lontends next scason to ‘gtar, Prducing tho play of *The Bulls,” nover hei Lfora duno {n this country, in whlch the em! “Of the Lipe," “The Spellivg-Bee! and #The Spitalficlds Weaver." Miss Jennic Leo (s Ehymg in Jo? at the Princs of Wales' Thea- e, Liverpool. Mr. Charlcs Wyndham s to give & second serles of Bouclcault’s dramas at the Loundun Crystal Palace. The plays will be *The Bliauj hraug, “The Long Btrike,"" “The Fiy- Ing Beud," ¥The Willow Copse,” “The Oc- toroou,!" '%mh na Pogue,"” and *The Btrevts eratcd tales, Mr, Uess, been morcly professioual white les, or have they been genuline opinions enter~ tained until your Lnsincss path and that of Mise g diverged? Is your criticiem of the cars tales to tho God's Spirit fiila the mother Who works fur dally bread, With unwlllfl!l ug pall That bier chi may be fed; g For iho Augols sweetly whispert 'The thuras 1bal now yoa bear Will form & crown of glory Vbat you at last may weas, A‘i?h“" Ehplm fll!‘l the bl.o:tlrll ere hope sud {oy sboun: iy sul Zonco MUSICAL NoTRS. Levy, the cornct player, bas proved an une But nelther of thum yoes far enough, nl pran, slio. tasor, cap show that, like the instancesof the ghost of Stacy, o nor, anij bass,) Misa WAlte, Messrs, Knorr and Uil Tu firutus, tho ldeal man, we ate presented with hikrg BATEIOD: tituble star in Australla, & most beaign snd beautiful character. Hu fs tho | bis fatber i ** 1 and the weird slsters In v Bent Euglish actor, Mr. 1rviug, obtaincd his | Of London, Nk stacy, L+ 10} chara iha | oo, ol Ve welrd satent With plety, ste fooud; {auscuies: 8. Raikin Wi 4o producs | | Misa Eve oucleaull, the eldest duughtor of 8. Grapd o fn sty ‘op 07,0 L Beetboves | Mendelssobu's greud plano was advertised | {370t of (RSROE A ME DS AL WAL b | deiaaniraio. by vhb most mpreraive aud sdeciive Forihn fake andbaph u‘k‘fifl‘- gu now n):‘y written for him by Mr. Joaquin | thu actor and Ellywrlghl.h golug to” warry i EMONTAL CONGART: for sale by auction in London, a fortnight | Vlutarch. It is ut jeslons; wbitlon, enwity, | mode of teaching and demonstrating that splritual ':"Lnll eutitled “A Romanco of thoe | Joln Clayton, t s sloce. o gentleman who played Osip n the London representations of “"Thie Danl- chefle, and who made a success as tho hiero in # Al for Her,” the play which did uut becomna wuln In Nw York. _1iis Zvroorwas & vei N)?fi' do communical Tbe type of Augel-faces tivus fu (is o In tho Paradise with men under cortain tal atate, 4o kuow thelr sbare, en rapport with theie own, and thus to & greater or lesser dcfilu and extent, affect the destinivs of men, of Tl A grand memorlal concert, under tho ausploce of the puplls and fricnds of tho late Prof. Geary, wlil be gtven at 8t. Paul’s K. E. Church, cornor bF Fevengo Al luspirya Wi, Usalloyed patriotiss 1s 8le0 pos. @ sole wotor of nis conduct, cun S TIN WEUK, Our Boarding-House * did remarkably well Zthepast week notwithstanding the strong Camlile Balut-Baens has s new symphonic poen called *La Jeuncsse D'Hercalo,” fa press. d with (he 0imost sweelnesa and gentlene uldhfulllom 11a symputhizes with all that su lo is unwilllugto infict pan, except for The architect, mechant; Obey thels Master's wi thoss large, atupendous bulldings, t Ann aud Washington streets, on Thursday reasons of thu strongest moral oz palitical neces cliglons, and of Ststes, 1f Martin Lutber did not "The tok, irakill tiful and pathetlc ereation. Miss Boud: | ! . G even toneRmgl e e alay whis 12kl e tokond of thelrakill; “poutlon o the Apollo Club concerts. 0B 10 | caglt and brj 18d; evening, Juoe 14, on which occasion the public | Joschim Ra® has recelved and accepted acall | sitv. Ho iswout fechngiy, andcien touchlotly | wagy personal wdifors With 8 bOng 3 Aud the Works of louser grandens’ €Teulng were tho Fecelpts ware than $200 lcts ultls s pretty and bright young lady, S opportunity of ,‘mmn“‘x;u t0 tho Directorsblp of the now Conservatory (n |8ud beaotifully, patuted iu (he relations of & hue: | was 8 peruonifcation of the Kyl Ui, be was elih " Bignor Eduard Mujeronl, the Jtalian actor, who supported Ristord in her last tour in Americs, baving mastered the Evglish lan- flu;zc. bus been playlog with great success in clhourne, Bydney, aud Adelalde, and s now In New Zealand. He made s debut fo the play of 4The Old Corporal.”” He is conlng to Amcrica next senson under the mansgemens of Mr. De Vivo,and will commence tu Californis next Novcmber at McCutlough’s Theatre, A now French ahy haa just been produced in London. at tho l!l:t{ Thestre baving the rarc mesit of avsolute purfty. It isvaled “L'Aini ¥ritz,” and {a written by the famous novelists, Meeate. Erckmann-Chatrian, Tho moral, of “L'Am{ Frits¥ ia the gloritication of warriage over bachelorhood. A bachelor derides wedded Lappiness aud reslsts even the powerof love uu? he may pursue kis sclish courses, bus on baud, & fricod, aud 8 master, l s represented 9 moet loviug 8nd trusting 1o hir wife Lortla, sa ‘moatdavoled to his friead Caselur, aud most tea- decly thoughtfal, zentle, snd considerate to Lis e, Luclus 1o he tenl scene, Lucius rops away Into the lereslatibls sleep of boyhoou. Zrutus, who, st the call of duty and Bouor, could ‘bl dagger loto Cxaar, canuol wa ug boy. Ne gently dl from tho hand of Lucus, yrhers be loft 1L o o Blavt previous. rol Dowden well asys: **There ls nothing more ten- Qe ta the pleys ot Bhakspeare (han (hle scene. The tendernces of & man who 14 atern i (he ouly tenderuess which s wholly delicato and refned. " Toe [dealism of Brufus (s carried to sn extrema helght by Shakapeare. Ia fact, It (s with seewing distcalty chat be keepa 1t from shooting upwaid, su fsano wan or a knave. Dul I do'not bel was elther, There are chiracters in Shakeopearc's " piays, such Caiiban, that are atill iovolved u the profoundast mystery to such entics as Jobz- w00, Colerid, 1 Uocthe, unless we accept them 2 the embodiments and represcitatives of epiris- ual belous beretolore incunceivabla 10 mcn of even ‘more_ (han ordinary mentsl scope And rango and powers of dilation, 1t il be noted that iu the frst part of the play the bodily prescnce O Casar Is rendered Ao myth- Ical as 1318 pousible for the greal artist 1o succead In dulag. In’fact, his edorte in thls direction are matchless specitens of dramatic power, Lo wakes Casor to sppear 10 hlmeel! ‘88 & Humen,— & ‘mere*power or suthority. e speaks of himsslf 'la the third persos. He will only take the royal road to koowled, latuition. Thas be disisscs (b0 soothuayor: 10 & dreamer; leb us Jeave biloijpass. " Ue canread characters snd sven toughts of mun, fu thelr faces. Thus: ‘Yol Castlus b a ' nv A% on tho correspondiug night {n the proced- g weck, Tho play will be continued through the prosent week, and It has every promise of & e patronage. ‘There fs mothing new to be mln the way of criticism of the play or the % There bas beeu, howevor, sbundant fg:flmxuun of the opinion that the ladies of topompany, with two exceptions, sre not cqual M“flrpu and among the less fmportant B“ tre 18 room fur improvement. Ab wrel's | Thestre — durlog the weck tepigan® ’l‘nofluan presented his charae- o tion of Joshua IWAitcomnd, which fs uob l"'vld of merit, but has 100 cOarsy a texture wiipoe Placa It bas cbuslned. The play of Tuchitls » componeut part is cxeecdingly the and gearcely deserves ta be diguified wit! Rawe of comedy, faxce, or drama. It will Fraokfort, ‘Twenty-three songe with plano accompanl. ment, by Branmins, arcsoon to be published in five |ustallncuts, Op, 60 to 72, Robert Franz, the celebrated song-composer, a4 boen obiiged o soaian bis pest 4 Profesior of Binging at the Academy at Halle, In consce queuce of bis baviog becomo entirely dcaf. Miss Emma Thursby has recelved an offer to sing et the Haudel festival at the Crystal Palace, Londou, st the end of tbis month, but ber engsgewents hero compelled her to do- cline. A Frepch paper says that Pattl was to have suug in *La Traviaia™ with Capoul, bat that Biguor Nicolinl bas forbiddsa 11, and will not pesis dMadawe Paitl t0 sppear eltber with Lena lastrelter-Schoonhoven, who has just ro- turned from Italy. 8ho will bo assistod by the Blaney, Chicago, and Oriental Quartettes, Thowm- 88 Goodwlllle, Ed Schultze, and the choir. Prof. Gesry was In chiarce b the {ime of Lis death, N. Ledochowskl wili preside st the plano. From the arrsy of musical talent, and the popu- larity in which tho late Professor wus held amougst lis numcrous fricnds and puplls, we predict a largo attendance. THE BXETHOVEN REUNION. Notwithstaoding the extreme heat of fast Baturday evenlng, Hershey Hall was crowded on the occaston of the last of this scasou’ unlous by the Becthoven Boclety. No doubt the size of the sudience was caused by the Brst sppesrance of Mre. Lena Hastrvller-Bchoon~ ‘The sky. the eatth, Lire accan, 44} 'l'lul’u»d is u:x:':\vhm. X [ e = THE HEAVENLY HOME, 0 d1d] kuow that robes of white Would wals me wheu ['d wan the fght 11 1 byt koew the Glorloua Wace Would shids ou me a lioly Grace Aud make me blessed within: The robe and crown I'd pray to wear - Wen should citmb the golden staly To cel m{ God snd Kinz; Wiih tuacful barp, s0 clear sad awect, J'd throw mysell sl Jesus' fect, Aud ewestest musle slug. & “x . Caama k. Bustmeams cabls, He G & swic Hs Ures amoas

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