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* (techpically catled nctors) to etir the gruel with, THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER lI, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES. AMUSEMENTS. What Is Comedy?---Attempt to Enlighten Dion Boucicault. }essrs. Hooley, McVicker, Haverly, and Campbell Interviewed. Their Ideas Certainly Very Practi- cal, but Not Entirely Satisfactory. ‘What the Managers Will Pre- sent This Week in Chicago. The =] King Testimonial Concert— Operatic Repertoire for the Veck, Opening of a New Organ at the Cathedrzl of the Holy Name. News of the Week at Home and Abroad. WIIAT IS COMEDY 2 EOME ANSWELS TO BOUCICAULT'S QUERY. Boucicaui’s conundrum. ¢ What is Comedy ? pas been travel nz ail over the country b ‘ora solutivn, but up to date no sl wyswer has been received. The Tima'd sent a Toporter to explose the interior of the brains of several emivent liter: men on tke subjeit. and they all pave it up in despair, Dion Lim. pur upon the stand, suve in one instance, by a Detroit man, and then be neatl evaded the question by be- mating that he was men on carth. Now, that wss a goud answer to his own qui ““The sorrows of Boucicault™ written by him- clf would make 4 comedy. Webave been making some inguiries into this ‘matter bere, not to be behind otber enterprising jonrnals. aud we fiud a wouderful variety of opinious. Richard Hooley eays hie could not remember the Greek definition of the word, but he could give an idea of what was meant by comedy in plain English. ©Whenaman puts his hand into his pocket aud finds a dollar bill there that be did not expect to find, that,”” said Mr. Hooley, “appears to me to be a comedy situa- tion in the best senseof theword. Again, when Fou go toastore wita that same bill and ais- cover that it is a counterfeit, I think it dips into melodrama. But yowd better go and see Quinlan, perbaps,” Jack Haverly s: * A comedy is that which pays expenses, because, you see, comedy must always juvolve a happy termination. When it ceases 1o pay expenses, it hecomes tragic right away. When it neither pavs nor loses,—that is, when it’s a kind of stand-off beuween a sucee: and a failure,—1 call it a farce. It'sncither fish, flesh, nor fowl. When it ruins the manager, it s—it is—" . « fiartley Campbell, what bave you to say on hiis question?” “What is Comedy?"” <aid Bartley. * Come up to wy room in the Tremont House and I'll show you.” He opened a large trunk and pro- ceeded to pull out manuscripts. “Here is Fate,! ‘Peril, ‘Risks,” *Hearts,” ¢ Women, Wies,'—here is the ¢ Virginians,” here is— “ Hold on, Bartley, thisis too much. What s Comedy? Come now, iu brief.” “You want a recipe, I imagine. Well, [ have one which I have found to work admirably. Of course 1 take it for aranted you have a scissors and paste-pot. Very well; take a dozen or more ‘Terole sentences, stew for three hours in 2 mild misture of masculine aud feminive drivel, sea- £on with one viliain of confederate tendencies, and one female who might be immoral but for lack of strength of purpose. Take several sticks then serve it served ses Mr. McVicker thought that **Pink Dominos” was the finest answer to the question he conld zommand. He had never known what real ca- joyment was till he wituessed that play. Hehad not missed a sivgle represcntation for twe weeks, and he was only sorry that, owing to the blindness of the public, who refused to sce the lofty moral inculcated by the picce, be could not keep it on all the season. . “As o comedy up at 31 per plate—0 cents for re- n " said Lie, *1 deflne it in this indy at 830 a weeks ore sou- ; a leading man at an uncertain salary; a prompter (uo. I can save that by tak- ing hold of the prompt-boouk myself): a'scenic artist,—Howard Rogers is the best in the coun- ry,—and a filling-up with four or five moderate- priced old men aud women. There you bave it ia a nutshel “Alr. Jake Murray, what is comedv?” “There is vo such thing 2sa comedy. 1 3 ,started out the other week with an educated goatand acomedv. In three days the latter hod turned inte an uupaid board bill. T have that board bill yet, a shows na svmptots of returning to its original shape, So 1 pre- sume the transformation is permanent. 1 weut out last year with acomedy. It turnedinto a Constable who attached bytrunks. When the Constable dics he may return into my comedy and come back.™” Over in the Dizzy Actors’ Retreat tso come- diaps fell into a dizputc on the question. Said one, ““1 can play Jiles fifty times as well as you ever did.” *‘You're a liar,” said the otber, **and I can prove it.”? A 7 The first spesker immediately lifted a pop- bottle and struck his brother comedisn over the ‘head with it. That was comedy. Avery amusing comedy was played behind the scenes by the Evangelme party the other day. Singleton tickied Eliza Weathersby some- where about the wings just as she was waiting for her cue. Eliza didn’t ecem to mind it, but Nat Goodwin went for Singleton and kicked iz all round the stage and down stairs. There Was some pure comedy in that. Neither was that abad illustration of what comedy is when Hess spat in_Daly’s face the other day. and Daly took out his handkerchief and meekly wiped it off. After all, however, the question is still open + to discussjon, like the question what fs noetry, or that ouc over which youthful debating clabs l‘;:\-& 'pom'hl'ug r{:{ centuries, whether the horse e cow is the most usctul animal. K Fisher thinks it is the horse. e LOCAL MISCELLANY. THE TUEATRES. _Bartley Campbell will be auother week at the New Chicago, where he will produce My Fool- ish Wife,”” “How Women Love,” and other plays of his own. At the Adelpbi, Sam Devere, the Ethiopian ind German humorist, will appear in a pew scogational and musical drama entitled % Jas- Per,” written for him by Frank Rogers, The pertormances at McVicker's . Theatre for the entire week will be for the benefit of the Policeman’s Benevolent Assovistion. On Mon. day, Tuesday, and Wednesday “The Serious Family ** will be given, followed Dy the musical raudeville, “Mr. and Mrs. Peter White.? For she balance of the week * All That G i Kot Gold,” and *‘Boots at !:e sw‘a’é%"’-srn’i intire company will be engaged in the perform. nce of these vieces. Miss Mathilda Cottrelly, the brilliant soubrette »f Mr. Wurster's companiy, who hias been plaving istar enmagementat the Olympic, St. Lo during the last two weeks, and achieved a trit amph there as bas no German actress before her, has returned to this city aud_reappearcd st Thursday night with Warster's company at the North Side Turner Hall, in the well-known singing farce, “Mein Leopold.” Although this play has been given here time . and azain, and the weather was as cxecrable as 1t posibly could be, yet 2 good audience was present to welcome Miss Cottrelly on her reap- pearance in this L'i?' and to show her that she i 1o less appreclate here than she is in other cities. **Mein Leopold * s one of the best dra- matic productions of the present time, and dif- fers from most plays of the kind inasmuch as it has s most excellent plot and its characters are copied from life. There is no other comedy or ree which affords so much scope for emotional ing than this play, unless it is Rir‘\’:m kle”” In fact, the character of 3fr. Weigelt some respects resembles that of old thouzh the story of the play is ‘entirely different. The play, I pre- sented only moderately- weil, cannot fail to please, but if it is performed with such excellence as it was last Thursday, the enthusi- asm which it ereated is not to be” wondered at. The principal part_ Wwas in the hands of Mr. Julius Koch, who justly counts this among his faverite roles. we kave admired him i this chiaracter before, but his voiceis so much im- roved this season that his verformance last hurscay was better than ever before. Miss Cottrelly as Emma was equally brilliaut, aud her playing and singing could hardly have been excelled. Praise for their good acting_also de- rve Messrs, Helmer, Krueger, and Tost, and A ames Claussen and Schaumberg. Mr. Waldorfl as eopold was only passable. it Cottreliy will have an op- portunity to appear in two of her best roics, that of " Vargarcthe Western in Carl Blum's csultate (Results of d as in L' Arronge’s brilliant ‘X)’np:x Dats erlaubt ) Papa bas on). 3 GENERAL LOCAL SOTES. John Dillon, when last, heard of, was playing “Pink Dominos" in Houston, Tex. Mr. Cheever Goodwin, onc of the authors of ““Evangeline,” hras been here on a visit. Ile is accompapied by Mr. George R. Porter, of Bos- ton. Col. Mickey should issue orders to every member of the police force to 1o be “on the beat” this week, aud scil all the tickets they can for the benefit of their Benevolent Pro- tective Society. George Miller, of Wood’s Theatre, Cincinnati, formerly of Ch is here on a business visit. He has been successful in Lis management of Wood’s, where he runs sensatious and combi- nations, and he reports business to be brisk. Mr. Cyril Searte. with - the Boucicault Cow- pany, appears in ) kee this week. Heis at the Palmer liouse, and leaves to-morrow morning. His Capt. Yolincuz, in *The Shaugh- raun,” has been spoken of bighly by Eastern critics. Mrs. Laura Dainty’s concert aud literary en- tertainment comes off on the 22d. The Oriental Quartette will be one of the features, and gmong other noveltics may Le meutioned Mr. Emory A. Storrs’ tatented Jitle 32 Gaugriit i Mrs. Dainty prom some new recitations, and these will of course n attraction. ‘The manv friends of Mr. R. L. Marsh, former- 1y of Wood's M il tiear that he b Rip, cowedy, © Eudueation one of the and under doubtediy become a favorite resort of the thea- tre-going public ot the Cream City. Mr. Charles Vivian, the well-known comedian, bumorist. and miniic, who has been for mauy vears connected with the principal theatres of the Pacific Slope, is in Chicago ou lus wav East. fle is about to produce some new comedics adapted to his peculiar vccentricities. Mr. Vivian is accomparied by his wife, a lady of fiue ac- complishments s a dramatic reader, and an actress of the emotional school. Their friends wish them ali success in their new venture. It was noticed that there were wmore ladies without cscorts at the Pink Domino matinee yesterday than have been seen in man; v performauce. The married, ladics down-town under preteuse of shouping, and weat in_to sce_how men behave away from bome. John Wentw a scat” amonz them. Some pre him against it,and so he went. Mr. Wentworth was of opinion that the minister swindled him, by rais- ing expectations which were not fulfilled. The ladv supervisors of the Woman's Hos- pital of the State of Tllinois have in preparation arich treat_for the public. The entertainment 18 appointed for the 5th and Gth of December next, at_ the New Chicago Theatre, which has been engaged for that purpose. The principal featurce of the programme will be Belshazzar’s Feast ju tableaux. The characters will be represented by some of the most prominent Chicago Jadizs'and gentlemen. The seenes will present an array ot elewant costumes and Oriental splendur. The object is a truly charitable one, and we trust will be larzely patronized. :Tickets will be $1 each, and will be for sale at- the prin- cipal bookstoresand by the ladies. They are reguested to meet for rebearsal at the resideuce of MMrs. Louis Wahl, No. 964 Prairie avenue, on Monday evening. The sccond lecture of Mre. Richardson’s course was gmiven on Friday cvening in the Jecture-room of Methodist Chureh Block. ‘The Rowauces_of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round-Table:was treated of. The lecturer gave a succinet history of the first introduction of the Arthurian romences into our literature, with an account of Mallory’s Morte D’ Arthur, and made some vomparisons with Tenuyson's treatment of the same subject. The lecture was embellished with sclections {rom the poetry relating to the theme, read with ~ the rare .elocutionary finish which Mrs. Richardson possesscs. She held the atten- tion of ber audicuce from first to lust. As she approaches more wodern subjects, the course grows_more interesting to_ the general public. Next Tuesday _evening, Cnaucer and his con- tewporaries will be thoroushly discussed, and choice selections from the Cauterbury Tales wiil beread. On Friday nest, Spenser, Sidney, and Raleigh will be spoken of, and eStracts from the Fairy Queen given. A more _enjoyable, as well as profitable, Gour's time could not well be spent than at thése lectures on English litera- ture. PINK DOMINOS—A POEM. Dean M. Eniton: Wil you pleose o1 And 10 a few lines of advice find plac : 1t's to warn mirried men with their wives not to 20 ¢ space, And gee the play at McVickers called **Plak Domino, " ) Now, wmatried men. if you were all wise, And did your futare lizppiness prize, You never would let yoar wife for to go, e play called - Pink Domino.” Your wife so innocent, you know, Could not belteve you would do 50— Deceive her thus and then off and go. ©On u high ald sprec with **Pink Domino, ™ But after this play she does once sce, You can no more 8 (ree man be: She'll keep you all the while at home, And with *Pink Domino ™" you cannot roam. When the telegraph-boy comes rushing fn with a note, Saring. *‘It’s Mr. So-and-so about his vote.™ *+Ohkno, Hubby dear. politics won't g We fear vou have a * Pink Dommo. " when with business you are p; 11} ot £ive You one minute’s rest. She wilt not think business rushes you so, But will mistrust some ** Pink Docuno. ™" Now, married men, you will take beed, These warning words are for you indeed: If innecent you'd have rour wifc e, Dou't let her **Pink Domino™ see. PEanL Ravson. IN GENERAL. TIESS PAYS HIS COMPLIMENTS TO DALY. The New York Dramatic News furnishes the particulars of alively persoual encounter be- tween C. D. Hess and Augustin Daly. It ap- pears that Hess sent arcquest to Daly for a couple of seats to Jeflerson, which requess was contemptuously refused. This aroused the ire of Hess, 50 he met the manager of Booth's Theatre near the box-office, where the scene oc- curred: Mr. Hess zaid: ‘Do you refdse me seats to see” Jeffersou?* Mr. Daly began explaining at some considerable fenzih that his arrangements were such that he was ot ac_liberty 1o give seats away. An incredufous smile overspread the face of Mr. and he eaid, interruptmg: *-Tratwill do.’ Now 1 know the contemptible mean whelp you are. This is not a question of two paltry tickets worth $1.50 each. ILis a ques- tion between man and man. When you were in San Fraucisco siarving, 1wo years 1¢o, 3, 000 miles from hiome, unable 1o pay your bills 10 get back. L put the woney 1 sour pocket which enabled you 1o bring roursen and your company home. ™ Mr. Daly jntmated” mildly that Mr. Hess was “Then Hese flew into a rage. . **Take that back, ™ he sait, **or I'll make yoa. Get down on vodr knces and apolomize, you et "Be seized_hold of Mr. D i 121 ¢ ecized hold of r. Daly's arm, and was about®o pat his threat in vFsctics, wien Daly, by o sironc eflor, pulled himseit attag md shied into the box-otfice, the door of whick was slammed in Mr. Hess' face. e About two hours after that, Daly creptout of the box with a stick in his band. Hies was down upon him in a flash, and aly rused the stick. Hess dared him to strike him,and Daly took a second thought and called ** Police.”? The policc marched Hess a little way and let, him . He went to the front of Booth's Thea- tre, and again waited for bis man, About half-past 4, Daly salhied forih. When he saw Hess he mace a backward mowment, oot Hess was & him in a0 instant. ., “Will you take that backs" he exclaimed. **Will yon do something worthy of 8 ment Mr. Duly said not a word, but elowly backed 1owards the box-oflice. g 0ward! anesk dog” shouted the exssperated ess. No response from Daly. Young Duff, his ‘brother-in-luw, passed at that moment. £*Go for a policemn, be whispered hoarsely. Yon will not be s man,” continued Hess, *“then take that, ™ 5 And he celiberately spat at Mr, Daly. Mr. Daly, lookinz unatterable paroxysms of gentle pity and goodness, took out o bandkerchiel and wiped it away. At that moment, & policeman came. accompanied by young Mr. Duff. ~ But the policeman refused to interfere further than o prevent a breach of the peace. lless walled out on the sidewalk. The policemsn stood Dbetween him and Mr. who walked away {leathly pale, in charge of his young brother-in- 2w, : In an interview with the News reporter, Mr. Hess repeated bis assertion about assisting Daly in California. He said: When threc years azo Lie was utterly broken and penniless iu San Francisco, he sent bis Treasurer Mornssey to mc, who asked me through** charity ™ 1o lend my artists for a bencfit to Daly. T felt for his position. 1lle haa o company on his hands, debts all around him, was playing to very bad busi- ness, aud 1 knew, unless somebody came o his aid, e was zone. 'Foolishly [ promised my best artists for a matinee beneft on Saturdny. From a busineas point of view it was a_foolish thing, as 1 had a matinee myself on that day rizht acréu the street. at, my word passed, 1 would not takeit back. I cven gave him my other artists for a further evening beuett or the same day. , Well, it came off. In hix advertisements he nnnotinced tho Ilcss opera company, never o0 inuch as saying by permission. and the impression was given that { would bave no performance on that dy. Still 1 let lim goabiead. My own house dropped off 1,000 from the previous Suturday, and Daly made $3,000, which enabled him 10 pay ail bis bills, and get him* self and company back to New York. From that day to thix, neither mysclf nor one of the artists (Maue, Curleton. . the Seuing, Canly, otc.) got 8 line of acknowledgment for the kervice done Daly, and this question of tickets was the first opportuni- 1y 10 test how he remembered what 1 had done for him. The biack ingratitude exasperated me, and still mor his statenct that 1 bad suid what was false, These statements_are corroborated by M: Carleton, Dan Hurkius, and James Morrissey. WHO WHOTE * HOME." Sothern sticks to it that he wrote the love scene in Robertson’s * Nome,” and he rebukes the son of the dramitist for his “offensive remarks,” recently published, in which Mr. Sothern’s claim to the authorship of that scene is flatiy denied. Mr. Sothern says: Mr. Robertson never wus eatisficd with his ver- sion of **Lome," and on several occasions np- Dealed to me to make & crations and improve- ments as might be suzvested. 1did o, and the love scene in the second act, with the exception of a few lmes, is the result. That it likewise proved a success is attested by the commendation which it has everywhere received when played. whicn Iact in ** Home ™ requires 1o - gaj would not admit of them. ~ Mence the refercuce to the term by Mr. ‘. W. 5. Ttobertson is_uncalled for und offensive. ° I'have 100 larze an admiration for the memory of the dead authior 1o say a word thut could be constracd as retlection on his mem- ory, but justice to myself requires that1 should tements and correct the The following _unsolicited Lester Wallack, will contradict the mi iznaraace of his eon. note from wy friend, Mr. doubtless st the matler at res WALLACE'S THEATEE, Oct. 877 Sothiern : " Permit me o bear LeatMONY 1o ihe truth of your stutement with regurd t u's play or ** Hol @ "love scene " {n tho sec. and wr(cten by you. This S Iivbertson told me htinself. ' And when You so kiodly e the printed Yook of the comedy your scene nserted In the MSS.. and @ capital seene 1t s, Always yours truly, LESTER WALLACK. 1 have only to add that Mr. Tom Robertson not unfrequently fell short of his own ideal In his work, iy play of **David Garrick." as can e proved by Mr. J. B. Buckstone, the manager or the Theatre Koyal, Hzymarket, London, was lit- erally unsuitaple for representauon until he ana I rewrote a considerable part of it, and even now Lam from time td time enzaged in making further improvement. The mannerof Mr. T. W.'S. Rob- ertson in addressing the public demands explana- tiou, and until it is made be cannot worthily wear the titic of a gentleman. JOUN BROUGHAM HOME AGAIN. The veteran actor John Brougham reached his bome in New Yorlk last Thursday evening after his unhappy trip to Cleveland. He was very feeble and spoke with difliculty to the friends who waited to receive him. Oune of his old friends hailed him with cheeriul areeting. “You sec a very dilapidated old man, my dear fellow,” said the veteran, holding out his swollen hands to be rubbed. ‘Al I've bad a terribic fes: he continued, “but if I ouly get over this I woun't be such a fool azain. It was the height of {foily my attempting to go on with this business altér my last attack of rheumatism,—the great- est follf ever committed by a respectable mid- dle-aced gentleman. It seems to me all like a horrid nightinare, which even now 1 can't shake ofl. If l'could only sleep and forget. I've scarcely closed my cyes for four weeks. What with pain and my auxietics, with that company on my hands, I hate cudured the torments of the damued. But I stuck to my work as long as I could stand up. We did ‘a good weck’s business in Pittsbure, and had fair houses at Dayton; but at Cleveland we had that dreadful wet weather, and it put me on my back again.’” BOUCICAULT has been corfiding the secrets of his heart toa Detroit Free Pressreporter. He did not throw aoy licht upon the conuudrum, *What is comedy ¢ but he said “with touching pathos that success had been the great misfortunc of his life, and thenhe went on to explain: *When I wasa very young man I wrote *London As- surance.” It was a success at once, and I had a readv-made fortune. Instead of mounting by slow degrees as all workers ought to, 1 gained the top at a bound and lost the spur of feces- sity. I seemed indiflerent Lo suceess, and men whom I had never known became my enemics. Some called my indifference fatuity, but the Plain truth is it was ignorance. I did not know —could not realize—what I had done, and from that bour to this detraction has pursued me with relentless cruelty. - I do not say this bit- terly, for my only ambition isto touch some Thumnan sympathies; to build up that which shall genjal laughiter or wenial tears. 1 am a oly recluse, having little, very little, comuanionship with individuals; an inteose, ver longiug to reach out and clasp men’s hearts, to unlock the fountains of nature and attune my work to those exquisitc melodies which have their origin i the gentler emotions, whether of tears or laughter.”” NEW YORE NOTES. Miss Betty Rigl has returned from Europe. Mrs. 3larie Wilkins is reported to be con- valescent. Sydney Cowell joins the Park Theatre Com- pany the first week in January forthe remainder of the scason. It is said that Sothern will have to abandon the * Crushed Tragedian on account of throat discase contracted by talking bass. Hart Jackson is adating a four-act play for Den Thompson, to be produced in New York in January. Mr. Thompson does not go to Cali- fornia tutil after his New York engagement. Mary Anderson opeus st the Fifth Avenue to-marrow in the “Lady of Lyons.” She will be supported by Eben Plympton, J. B. Studicy, Milnes Levick, Fred Robivson, F. 0. Smith, and Ed Marble. 'George Vandenboff bus volan. teercd to play durinit her engagement. Mr. James C. Duff_has one week engaged at Booth's Theatre in December. Mr. Daly bas asked Mr. Dull to give it ap, and Mr. Duff has asked as a cousideration one-balf of Mr. Daly’s protits for that week, which the other has re- fused. It will break right in the middle of Daly’s season. That Society for the Prevention, etc., seems determined $o harsss poor Mabel Loonard, Frank Girard, her new guardian, very properly endeavored to utilize the talents of the child in a short sketch which he had written for her, and not the Society comes down again, and gots au injunction agsinst it. The followiug, correspondence between a well- known actressand a loeal eritic is genuine. It occurred before the protuction of 2 new play. The lady has been playing here for some years. She wrote: *Dear ——: [ at the theatre to- night, sure. What sized gloves do you wear? ———.* e answered: “Dear ——: Since 1 began aitlcising bad performers I do not use gloves. —— ——""—.Arcadian. Jangaschek’s Brunlaid, which was played the broadway Theatre last week, is?bn}':lcm::": ¥ the New York Tribune as **d grand ana impressive performance, full of passion, fire, fove, and pathos, tempered with grace and djo- ptyv. The part has tender passages, but she is he Amazon thrournout, and were not her pas- sionate fiercencss and invective redeemed by her expression of all-absorbing love and cruelest injustice, it would hardly be an acceptable per- fortnance; but as it is, 1t ranks, for sustained excellence and paseionate Iuterest, with the greatest achievements on the modern stage.” MISCELLANEOUS. From playing the sick orphan co long, Kate Ciaxton has become, it is said, a well-orf-un.— New York Graphic. J. Cheever Goodwin, the author of the text of “ Evangeline™ is writinza comedy, “ Oh Sit Still, My Heart, Sit Still. The latest farce-camedy is “My Mother-in- Law,” by B. E. Woolf. It is *“written express- 1y forthe rising young actor Neil Burgess, who has won some reputeas a female imper- act wus conceel: sonator. He' takes the part of JMrs. Diggory Gopsdl whish is said to be as clever a bit of act- ing a3 Col. Sellers or Rip Van Winkle. Sardou and Nus’ grand romantie play, “The Exlles,” which is now runniug for the second season in Paris,4will soon be produced at the Boston Theatre. Lotta begins a six-weck’s tour under T{emy E. Abbey’s manazement fn Syracuse, Nov. 19, then through New England, taking in Boston, and probably Baltimore and Washington. Commniodore Nutt is said to be engaged to Niss Jeunie Quirley, and -he is jealous of the gant. Goshen flirty with the little girl on the stage, and drives the Commodore distracted. For the part of a mad Bacchante, in which Miss Von Stamwitz appears in the fifth ect of #Messalina,” she studied by visiting the asvlum at Elin, IIL., and witnessing the ravings of Ju- natics of the most dangerous type. The Cincinuatl Commercial critic, who fs ex- cellent authority on the subject, soys that * ¢ Baba * is Turkish or Persian, or something of the sort, while ¢ Sardanapalus’ is purely As- syrian. The distinction, however, makes no difference in the shape or size of the leg. You caw’t tell an Assyrian leg, when it is in tights, from any other lerr.” Mrs. John T. Raymond (Marie Gordon) has gurt}mscd the exclusive right of producing the ramatic version of © That Lass o' Lowrie's 7 in this country from the author. Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett. This drama, under the name of * Liz,” has been the dramatic suceess of the London ‘season. It hias run for eighty nights and is still on the boards. Mr. E. A. Eberle, an actor of experience, be- cume strangely at fault in his part in an Albany theatre 8 few nights no. At length he ad- vanced to the footlights and said: “I don't know what is the matter with me, but I certain- Iy am not drunk—I never drink anything in- toxicating. 1 was perfect in my part at rebears- al this morning, but now I cannot recall a word of it.” He retired, and auother actor rcad the rest of his part. Iiis trouble was paralysis of the brain, and there is not much hope of his re- covery. For twenty years John E. Owens, the come- dian, has lived on his spleudid farm of 300 acres, ten miles from Baltimore. “My country friends,” he eays, “call me a_dandy farmer. RBiess their sweet souls! They dow’t realize the Irantic struggles I make to become one of the craft.”” Mrs, Owens is scholarly in her tastes, and is said toresemble Mrs. Haycs, wearing her hair in the same manner. Having no children of their own, Mr. Owens and his wife long since concentrated their affections on the children of Mrs. Warden, the comedian’s sister, and “ Uncle John * has been father to them ina most gen- erous way. Mr. Owens is 55, with half a mill- {on, and says be intends to take life casy, not playing unless he feels like it. i There scems to be a rather pretty row prepar- ing about “'rhat Lass o’ Lowrie's.” The boak L3 vroved 4 good subject for dramatization, and has nlrcady been done in various forms in London with great success. A rather fuuny story, Indeed, is told of a London _mauager o~ ing to Purls to buy the exclusive English right to a_play sunounced for speedy production, called “La Fille de Lowrie.” Seldom has a book had so immediate an effect. But, amidst it all, the real authoress appears to be the only oue 'who does mnot derive uny benelit from ol this. It seems, when the book was published by Scribner, the titie page neglected to state” that the riaht of dramatization was reserved, Anadyertisement, howerer, notifies intending dramatists that this rizht was actuaily reserstd n the office of the Librarian of Congress. One version ha$ been played already by Katie Putuam, and two or three more are preparing. The authoress her- sclf is preparing o version for Marie Gordon, and this she claims is the only authorized one. 1t may be well to let, others know that, even though the published book neglected to state that the right of dramatization was reserved, this right nevertheless holds good from having been filed in Washington. Much trouble in the future_way be avéided by a recoguition of this fact.—Dramatic Ne: FOREIGN NOTES. Ernesto Rossl is not coming to America. He will remain in Italy until the end of the carnival season; then he goes to Vieuna, Bucharest, and Kicw; and in the spring of 1878 he is expected in St. Petersburg. M. de Lauzannme. the French dramatist, is dead. He is known as the author of ** M. Cha~ potard,” La Filature,” “The Prayer of Tan- talus,” ¢ What Woman Likes,” and other plays of varied worth and popularity. Hisage was 2. Mile. Bernhardt,the French astress, has a curi- ous treak. She has been eaid to be dying of consumption for years, so she drinks brandy to beal her lungs, 1éads a life of [feverish excite- ment, made up of keen artistic labor asan act- -Tess, o modeier, and 2 painter. In her salon stie has a cercuel, or coftin, placed on a_ stand; it i3 covered with white satin and white velvet, and draved with superb, costly white thread laces; on thar she lies during the day, as ona lounge, and it can be seen by ber and her gucsts during their gayest»maddest hours of feusting. Her bed-room is also hung with white satin, aud rich white lace falls from_ceilingto the floor, but the bed alcoveand bed are covered with bluck satit, and the curtains are black, fuveral velyet and black lace. ‘The House of Darnley,” Lord Lytton's un- finished play, finished, after his death, by Mr. Charles Coghlan, has been brousht outat the Court Theatre in_Loudon. Tne critic of the Figaro says: “1It is a pleasant, if somewhat crude, comedy of the old-fashioned type, a0t so preachy as ¢ Money,” but very muci below that standard comedy in finish and dramatic_spirit. We do not belicve the suthor ever intended any but the first act of ‘The House of Darnley ’ to be accepted us complete; and we regret Mr. Coghlan’> fostering care was not _extended 10 the three middle sets. Much of the dialogue is good rythmical prose, while the general toue of the picce presents, by its moral _healthiness, au passion lett in hum., he will zreeable contrast to some recent works of our reigning dramatists; but it must be admitted that, as a whole, * The House of Darnley’ is a teeble play.” MUSIC. THE RIVE-KING CONCERT. The great testimonial concert to Mrs. Rive- King will oceur to-miorrow evening, and; as every seat in the bail bas been sold, we need not urge people to attend. The sale of over 2,000 seats in n single day is not only a very eratifying testimonial to Mrs. Rive-King, but, we believe, is the largest- day’s sale ever known in this country. The programme of the concert will be as follow: . a Spriné son L4 g0nE tong “Apoito Clb, 2. *Che faro senza Euridice " ifise Anng Drasdil. 3. Aria, “‘Honor and Arms" (Judas Miccabes)..... . <. Handel r. Sfjron D. Whitney 4. Prager and Barcarole, *Star of the i ok Nor ish Emi = {u.\'octnme G minor, op. 37, No 1 5 b Berceuse, op. 57. ¢ Valse, A fiat, op. i, frs. Julia Rive-Kino, A 8. Aria, ‘*Pin possente™ (*Amelia)....Rossi Mrs. Jennie Kemplon, 7. Chorus—¢* ave Maria " Apollo Ci PART I8 8.4g !By Celiws Avtor - Horsley * 10 “‘Downina Flowery Vaie ™ +Fesca Madrigal. Ctub. 9. Swiss song ... .. 10, Ar, «08 Emd Gl Zhirib *+11 Segreto v + +++.. Donizetti s Anna Dras 11 Song, **The Sailur’s Dream - Halley Mr. tyron D. Whitney. 12, ¢ Ave Marfa ', ... Bach-Gounod Miss Thursby and Apolio Club, _ [Violin obligato by Willinm Lewis. ] 13, Piano, ** Fantasic on Hunzarian Airs".Liszt dirs. Rive-Ring. [Orchestral part on second prano by Carl Wolf- sohn. 14, Trio. -'The Faded Wreath ™. ....Stephenson ias Thursby, Miss Drasdil, and ifr. Whitney. We are requested to state that 200 additional seats will be placed ou sale for the concert to- morrow morning. THE SWEDISI LADY QUARTETTE have given eight very pleasant concerts during the past week to good audiences, and have made for themselves a very flattering reputation. Much of the success "of the -concerts has been secured by Mr. Aptommas’ remurkable harp- playing. He is a great artist, even a virtuoso, but the following extract from a letter written to the New York Arcadian by its London corre~ spondent, under date of Oct. 25, shows that he has other dutics besides those appertaining to the harp: I am sorry to hear that the family of Aptommas are liere literally in a statc of starvation, ~ Aptom- mas mmself 18 in tne United States: but'if he have & spark of manly feeling or even of the harest com- ill take steps at once 1o teHeve the sufferingn of his own flesk and blood. A well-known_composer, writing fo me, says: :#*Aptommas, the harpist, has gone 1o America, Teaving an invalid wife and eight small children without the mezns of existence. I think a line from you mizht reach his csrs, and that he will do ecometihing ualess be is less than human. It is trae his brother (Mr. John Thomss, the harpist to the Queen, ) is prosperous, but one can hardly expect him 10’ gupport his brother’s numerous family, Besides, he has already been very kind to his brother. A concert hae been anggested, but little 13 realized by charity doncerts. The case s really & most sud one, as the lnvalid wife and eight help- lees children have nothing belore them butthe workhouse or death by starvation.” THE, OPERA. The operatic season of the Pappenheim- Adams German and Italian troupe at Hoolev’s ‘Theatre, which commences to-morrow evening, promises to be a great success. With Mme. Pappenheim the public is well acquainted, and concert-goers have alwags recognized in her a great artiss, and will therefore be all the more pleased to sce her upon the stage in some of the standard operatic roles. Mr. Adamsis known here only to the musical public of fif- teen years ago as an oratorio singer, but his reputation as an artist has preceded him, so that hic can count upon a handsome reception. Most of the other artists in the troupe are new com- ers, but there-is an old hand at the baton, Max Maretzek. he repertoire for the week will be as follows: Monday, “he Huguenots? ; Tues- day, “Flying Dutchman'; Wednesday, “fanst”; Thursday, * Lohengrin?; Friday, “Robert, the Devil”’; Saturday matinee, “Lo- hicugrin 3 evening, *“‘Fra Diavolo”; Sunday, “Der Freischuetz.” The cast for *The Hu- guenots” will be as follows: * YValentine. Mme. Pappenheim Raoul. ..AIr. Adams Queen Miss Herman Page Grimminger Marc r. Wiegand Nevers. {r. Blum St. Bris, Adolphe KELLOGG-CAREY CONCBRT- One of the principal musical events of the scagon will be the Kelloge-Carey concerts at the Tabernacle, which will occur or Tuesday, Nov. 27, and Friday, Nov. 30. The programme had not et been announced, but it is intimated that it will be an unusually attractive oue. This concert, troupe is one of the strongest that ‘has been here for many scasons, and will include Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, Miss Anna Louise Cary, Mr. Tom Karl, Siguor Verdi, and Mr. G. A. Conly. The affair wilt_be under the direc- tion of Mr. 8. Behrens. The tickets will be placed at an unusually reasonable price, consid- ering the excellence o the concert, and there is 1o reason why this mamoth edifice should not be completely filled. The maunagers will divide the seats in different sections, accordiug to their desirability, and will offer a scale of sectious, ac- cording to their desirability, and will offer a scale of prices which will be within the reach o THE HAYDN SOCIETY CONCERT. ‘The Haydn Musical Society will give their first concert next Thursday evening av Me- Cormick Halt. The programme will include the tollowing numbers: Overture, * Bohemian Girl,” Balfe; “Sonnenblick,” Kolling (violin solo by Emil O. Wolff), orchestra; cavatina, «Cupa Fatal Mestra,” Centemeri, Miss Jennie Dutton; Symphony in D, No. 2, Haydn, orches- tra; overture, arranzed from Rossini’s “Stabat Mater,” Mercadante, orchestraj recitative and aria, “Arm! arm! ye brave,” from oratorio “Judas Maceabreus,” Handel, Mr. Frank A. Bowen; March Tempo, from symphony * Leonore,” Rafl, or- chestra; song, “Birds that came in Spring,” Benedict (flute oblicato), Miss Jennie Dutton; gallop, *Chasse Infernale,” Kolling, orchestra. At the second concert, which will b given Jan. 81, Mendelssohn’s **Hymn of Praise” witl be sung. In this connection we are requested to state_that on Thursday; Nov. 15, those persons Who do not wish _to subscribe for the season, mnlh‘.m.- choice of remaining seats at one dollar ach. < ORGAN-OPENING. P A new organ recently erected inthe Cathedral of the Holy Name by Johnson & Sou will be opened this evening, upon which occasion a sacred concert will be given witn o very attract- ive programme. The organ numbers will in- clude Bach’s Prelude in C'minor, Lux's “0 Sauctissima,” Guilmant's * Marche Funebre ct Chant Serahique,” and Thicle’s * Theme and variations _in A flat,” by H. C. Eddy; Mucller's Sonata in D, by Mr. C. R. Mucllcr: and the andante movement of Beetho- ven’s Fifth Symphony, by Mr. Heman Allen. The “voeal ~ numbers will ~be as follows: Brosig’s ** Veni Sancti Spiritus 7; Greith's “Kysie, Sanctus, and_Agnus Dei”} from a mass in honor of St.Joseph; Liszt's “Ave Maria”; Singenberger’s “Saive Regina, O Salutaris, and Tantum Ergo,” and the Grego-~ ran “Laudato Dominum,’ by the Cathedral choir; an *Ecce Quomado” of the sixteenth century ; Singenberger's “Jesu _dulcis memo- rig,” and Witt’s “O vos omues and ““Bonum est,”” by a choir from_the Teachers’ Seminary of St. Francis Statfon, Wis., under the direction of Mr. J. Sinzenberg, President of the Cecilia Verein, The remaining number is a duct for organ and violin_by Vogt,to be played by Messrs. Allen and Eddy. S, KING'S CQNCERTS. Mume. Rive-King has been making a very hand- some success in her concerts during the past week. On last Monday eveniog she played in Milwaukee, Miss Thursby, Mrs. Kempton, and the Madrigal Club also appearing. Upon this oceasion she played Liszt’s Twelith Rhapsody, the second part. arranged by Von Bulow, being taken by Mr. Baird; Tausig’s transeription of Strauss’ waltz, * Wir Icben nur einmal,” and the Chopin Nocturne in G minor. The receipts of the concert were $L020. As Mrs. Kempton has become a resident here, the following from the IWisconsin will be of interest: * Mme. Kempton, the contralto, showed great artistic conception and an excellent method. [fer arias were executed with fine appreciation, and it was evident that ber schooling had been of the very best.” The Sentinel says: * Her method shows her to be an artist of more than ordinary at- tainments, who_knows kow to use ber voeal re- sources to zood advantaze.” On Wednesday eveniug, Mrs. King played in Indianapolis to a large liouse, her numbers being two of Mendels- solin’s songs without words, the Beethoven sonata in F minor, op. 57, Chopin’s nocturne in G wminor, op. 37, No. 1, the Berceuse, the Im- promptu in A flat, op. 2), the Waltz in A flat, op. 34, No. 1, and the Twelith Hungarian Rhapsody, the second.part by Mme. Heine. Carl Bergstein, formerly of this city, sang at the concert. Mrs, King has had ab invitation to join_a concert company now beingorganized by Mr. Hess, with Miss Thursby at the head of it, which she lias dectined. LOCAL MISCELLANT. Balatka’s Quintette Club is about to inaugu- rate its second scason in St. Louis. Balatka plays the "cello. @Part second of Mr. H. S. Perkios’ series of “ Graged Music Readers " has just been issued by G. D. Russell & Co., Boston. A concert will be given by Mrs. E. F. Cooke and pupils at the hall of the Methodist Church Block on Tuesday evening, Nov. 13. Mr. Alfred Wil has stolen Mr. Schultze's arfa “Celeste_Aida,” baving sung it at the re- cent concert of the Boston Apolio Club, mieeting of the members of the Bach Choir is called for Thursday evening nest, when an election of oflicers will take place. Miss Ita Welch, of Boston, will sing at the first concert of the Apotlo Club, Dec. 6, and Miss Henrictta Beebe at the second. Feb. 14. Mrs. Tinozene Brown, formerly of this city, will sing in_“Judas Maccabens” on the 15th inst.,, in New York. Mr. Maus will take the tenor parts. The Kelloge-Cary concert will_take place at the Tabernacle Nov. 27 and 0. The troupe in- cludes Miss Clara_Louise Kellozg, Miss Anna Louise Cary, Mr. J. Grall, Sigoor Verd, Mr. G. A. Conly. Miss Clara Goldsticker, at one t{me a resident, of this cily, has. made a successful debut at Nuernber in “ La Favorita.” Both the sine- ing and acting are favorably commented upon in'the Austrian journals. The Germania Mxnnerchor has jssmed its praspectus for the winter season. It includes a concert Dec. 15 a New Year's ball, Dec. 31; con- certs, Jan. 25’and Feb. 23; concert nd' ball champetre, March 20; and a “ Calico-Kraenz- chen,” April 2T Owing to the larze number of _applicants for admission to the class iu musical theory at the Hershey School, o second class will bs formed on Wednesday pext at 10 o’clock a. m., which will meet rewlarly hercafter at the same day and hour. Mr. F. G. Gleason has succeeded in working up a commendablespirit. of enthusiast on this topic. “The next reception of Mrs. Eugenie de Roods Rice will be ziven Wednesday evening, ch',oli: at the residence No.9 North Throop street, Mrs. Rice will piay a Beethoven sonata, Schu- manu’s “Novelutie ¥ i F, and the * Jerasalern Fantasie” of_Gottschalk. Miss Nellie Bangs, dauehter of Judee Mark Bangs, and a pupil of Mrs. Rice, wlll play the * Andante Spiunato and “Grande Polonaise ™ in E flat, by Chopin. We have received from Schirmer, New York, through the courtesy of the Chicago Musie Compasy, 152 State Street, the followiag new music: *Sounds of the Harp,” for piana, by C. deJanon; threesongs, Daybreak,” Donald,” aud “From the Close-Shut Windo',” the Jatter a serenade for bass or contralto, by G. W. Marston; “II Cauarino, & scherzo for soprano, by Vincenzo Cirillo; ' “The Creole Lovers Song, for contralto or baritone, by Dudley Buck: “Autumn,” soug for soprano or tenor, by Henry Wilson; three songs, “ILove My Dhvers rng Lily and_the Violet,” and * The Tryst, by Samuel P. Warren; and a transerip- tion of Miliard’s **Ave Maria,” Tor piano, by ¥. Bechtel. All of the above pleces are of & character tbat will commend themselves to those in search of new and attractive music. We have received from Messrs. Root & Sons the following new music: **Oar Old‘ Brown Homestead,” by J. 8. Slie; Balfc’s “Sweet- heart ”” and Ganz's ** Forget Me Not*'; and the following arrangements for the plano by Joseph Loew: ‘“Ah! 8o Pure,” from * Martha®’; o Night, My Child,” by Abt; Gounod’s Faust March; La Mandolinat3, by Loew: :,P:e Jlunting Chorus from *Der_Freischuetz™; The Broken Ring”; and “In Childhood I Dallied,” by Lortzing. ‘The fifth musical recital of Joseph Singer's upils took place at his residence, No. 2 West. Washington street, on Thursday evening. An interesting programme wes most _creditably crformed, several of the litsle violinists show~ ne marked talent,and all of them displayingan: artistic appreciation of their work, the result of the carefuf instruction of their conscientious teacher. The eathusiasm of - the youug pupils was warmly shared by the audicuce, and the entire recital was a suctess fully worthyof a much larger asscmbly. The second reunion_of Mrs. Watson’s_pupils occurred last Wednesday afternoon, when an excellent programme was performed. There were about sevepty-five prominent musical people present, who pronounced the ‘musi- cate ¥ one of the most interesting yet given by Mrs. Watson. These oceur every fortnignt, and are always enjoyable, both fn the character of music on)ered 2nd the excellent manner in which every prozramme is performed. Mrs. Gardner, Mrs. Barbour, Mrs. Watson, and the Misses Root, Potter, Lunt, Sprague, Ogden, Lyon, and Allport._took part in the programme last Wednesday. WIEREABOUTS. New York Is musically quict. The Hess opera troupe finished its scason yesterday. ‘ Masan- iello ” is still running at” Niblo’s Garden. Dr. Damrosch gave his third symphony concert yesterday. The Oratorio Socicty will give ¢ Judas Maccabrus,” * Messiah,” and **The Keasons,” this winter. * The Creation” was given in St. Louis last Thursday evening witn Miss Thursby, Mr. Bischoff, and Mr. Remmertz in the solos. The Thomas Orchestra played in Washington last Tuesday and Wednesasy, and on the Tith and 17th will be in Boston. The Kellogz-Cary troupe closed its secason in San Francisco yesterday with Mignon,” and on the 19th and 20th will sing in Denyer. The Holman English opera troupe will be in Louisville this week. The Emma Abbott troupe sang in Fort Wayne on the 9th and at Lafayette, lud., on the 1 . The twenty-filth auniversary of Inez Fabbri on the stage was = abserred with a testimonial comcert om the 29th ult. The Mendelssohn Quintet Club will lay in Cinclonati Nov. 20. The Oates troune is n Buffalo, Lydia Thompson in Baltimore,and Aimce in Philadelphia. Camilla Urso played in Worcester, Mass., on_the Sth. The Cincinnati testimonial to Mme. Rive-Kinz will occur on the 14th. The Anna Granger-Dow opera com- pany is in New Haven, Maas, Carieton, and Ad- elaide Randall bave joined it. MUSICAL ROTES. The Soldenes have proved a failure in Aus- | tralia. . Mr. Caryl Florio has been chosen Conductor of the New York Vocal Society. Briguoli is letting himself out to Lyccum Com- mittees for Sunday-school purposes. M. Henri Vicuxtemps has, despite the rumos to the coutrary, resumed his post as Profussor of the Violin at the Brussels Consersatoire. The Steinways have opened a Stcinway Hall in London. Itisin Lower Seymour street, near TPortman Square, and seats about 600 persons. M. Gounod {5 composing » comic opera, to be entitled, **Maitre Pierre,” the libretta by MM. Poirson and Gallet, who were the authors of the book *Cing Mars.” The Council of Trinity Colleze, London, have Iately daccided to throw open its hizher mus sieal examinations to women. The first ex- amination under the new statutes will take place eurly next year. Miss Adelaide Randall, the contralto, and Messrs. Joseph Maas and William Carleton,well known as the tenor and baritone of the Kelloge opera_troupe, have joined the Auna Granger- Dow English opera company. On the 25th uit. the London Crystal Palace produced, for the first time in any hall, the seew ond symphony of Schubert. The work is still in manuscript, aud it is one of those which were discovered in Vienpa in 1863 by Mr. George Grove and some of his friends. It is said to be, however, of little or no musical value. Sir Julius Benedict recently made a speech before the Philharmonic Societ London. in which he said, speaking of Mlle. Titiens: “ am only cxpressing the feelings of all who knew the deccased when I sey that the loss by her death to the public, and _more sspecially fo hex fellow artists, is frreparable. Without desire to speak disparagingly of living artists, I can with certainty sav that no one living is fitted to take her place, either in oratorio or in the grandest Toles of the Iyric stage." The Handel and Haydn Society, of Boston, will give four concerts this season. The first takes place Sunday, Dec. 23, when will be per- formed Bach’s “ Christmas Oratorio,” Parts 1 and 2; J. C. D. Parker’s * Redemption Hymn,” ond Saint Suens’ ¢ Christmas Cantata.” On Wednesday, March 6, Mendelssohn’s **St. Paul * will be revived for the first time in three years, and on Easter Sunday, *“The Creation ™ will be verformed, also for the first time in three years. Miss Emma C. Thursby, Miss Annie Louisc Cary, Mr. J. Maas, Mr. W. J. Winch, Mr. M. W. Whitney. and Mr. M. E. Stoddard, of New York, bave been already engaged as soloists. The London Atheneum of Oct. 20 5 says: “ Mme. Adelina Batti a0d Mme. Christine Nie. son, having completed their series of concerts iu the provinces, have left England, the former for her representations at the Scala, in ) ilan, the latter for her engagewent at St. Petersburg and Moscow. Mme. Gerster-Gardini, after singing before the Emperor and Empress of Germany at Baden-Baden and at_the festival of the choral sacicties av Cologne, has departed for Russia. The Hungarian prima douna, we learn by tele- graph, has made a most successful debut at the Russian Capital in the ‘Sonnambula’ on the I7thinst.; she was recalled cight times before toe curttin at the conclusion of the opera?? ——— WINTER, (By Aubreyde Vere—Written during the Trish Pamine of 1549, on @ nation buried tn a single night under the double pall of snow and fumine. Fall, snow, and cease not! Flake by fak The decent windine-shoet compose; " Thy task is just and pious; make An end of blasplemies and woes, Fail flake by flake! by thee alone, Last friend, the sleeoing dranght is given: Kind Muse, by thee the couch is strewn, "The couch whoac covering is from Hesven. Deecend and clasp the mountain's creat; Inherit plain and valley deep: This vizht on thy materual breast A vanquisled nation dies in sleep. Lol from the starry Temple Gates Death rides, and bears the flag of peace: The combatants he separates He bids the wrath of ages cease. Descend, benignant Power! ButO, Ye torrents, shake no more the vale; Dark streams, in silence seaward flow: « "Thou rising storm, remit thy wail. Shakenot, to-night. the cliffs of Moher, Nor Brandon's hase, rongh scal Thou Isle, The Rite proceeds! From shore to shora Hold in thy gathered breath the while. Fall, soow, In stillness fall, like dew, On church’s roof and cedir’s fan, And wold thysell on plueand yew, -« And on the awfal face of Man. ‘Without a sound, withont a stir, In strects and Wolds, on rock and mound, © omnipresent Comforter, By thee, this night, the'lost are fonnd1 On quaking moor and mountain moss, _With eses upstaring at the siy And arms extended like a cross, ‘The Jong-expectant enflerers lie. Bend o'er them, white-tobed Acolste! Put forth thine hand from cioad And mist; And minieter the Jost sad rite ? Whete altar there is noe, nor prieat. This night the Absolver issues forgh; This night the Eternal Victim biceds 0 winds und woods—0 heaven and carth! Be still this night. The Rite proceeds. ————— ** A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS,” I was thinking, when fhe river Glowed with sunset’s dying light, And my heart seemed like an ocosn With your love and presence bright— 1 waa thinking how the ripples, Murmuning, the shore caressed— Of the happy, happy moments ‘When my lips to yours were pressed ; And I thought that, in the whole wide world, 1 loved you best of any, Now teil me, darling, do you think My thonghts are worth a peany? Cmicago. Nov. 5. K R THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS; Commanications intended for this Department ‘| should be addressed to Tew Trsmtxs, and indarseq **Checkers.™- CHECKER-PLAYERS' DIRECTORY, Athonwnm, Nos. 63 and 85 Wishington street, PROBLEYM NO. 39. By **TnE CHEVALIER" Black. . 757 7 A{//V% > Yiits, White, White to move and draw. POSITION, NO. 30. By ** AMATEUR, " Chicago. White men on 8, 14, 19, 32, Kings 20, 24, & White 16 play and win.. TO CORRESPONDENTS. B. Manning, City—Game on file for examiration, Fred Johnson, Ironton, O.—Papers sent asre- quested. 1. D. Lyman, Washington, D. C.—Will aitend to it for you. R. E. Bowen, Millbury, Masa,—Corrected, and matled you on the 5tk inst. W. C. Parrow. Boston—Thanks for your kizd subscription. Liave wnitten., A. J. Heffner, Boston—Subgcription recels: with thanks. Tue SuNpaT TRIBCSE I8 $2.50 u?: year. CHECKER ITEMS. Mr. A F. Worcester was not very successfal with the Chicago players. His fali score has not beew reported 1o us. e know, however, that with the three leading piayers here he cid not win. agame. We wish him beiter success next time, Mesers, Welaban and Cleggett have been wreat ling for the checker champlonship of Connecticat, A match of sixteen ganies played at the Insurance Building, Hartford, resulied in the following score: Welahan, b; Cleggett, 4; and six games were drawn. The New Enqland Checker-Player comes up emiling azain, afler 1ts three months ecspension., The publirhiers have issted the August, September, and Uctober numbers simultaneously, and promisy that the succeeding numbers will be issued fu regu- Jar order to complete the volume. While the game of dranghts seems to be dailr fn- creasing in popularity, it s bardly to be expected that it kus, 3 yet, attained that degree of onblic gavor in this country which we see cxhibited in the frequent match play of our European brethren, A recent issue of the Glasgow fleratd furnishes a fall account of six ditferent matches justcompleted be- nween the representative teams of diflerent towns, cuch team coutamin from five to nine-playens & side. The result of the several matces, con- fenead §0 as o omit individual scores, is as fol- ows: . Drajen. Totat, Uddingston....11 58 THlifeoultry. 113 ] Overtowa L2111 i Overtown 7 0 Huil. & 3 Shipié 13 Fd *These teams were selected fram the Church Iosti- tute Chess ged Draughts Club. Mr. Ledler's team was 'victorious over the Sveretars”s team by two zames. The Iiustraled New Yorker 13 no more, The publishers, however, continue to amuse their readers with a - witty, sparkling, rollicking pzper™ under their former name, Wild vats, Sowme months ago Mr. Dempster, the draught editor of tie apove journal. promised to furnisy 1s read- ers from time to time with 3 woodeut Irkeness and Diographical sketch of xameof the leadingdraugnts players of the country. In fuifilment of this pramise the jaat issue contatns u portrait and saort “>checkered" history of the noted metropohitan player, Mr. Melvin Lrown. 3. Brown iyalaw- yer by profession, who seems to have found sufi- Cieut leisure to become one of the strongest plag- ersinthe lund. e nas played nearly all theex- perts in the conntry during ‘the past fftcen years with very zood success. ile was Mr. Yages'ad- viser during bis championship matchee, Indhis counsel was of invaluable service to the bovin Finaing the world's chaumplonslip (rom the ** e oo SOLUTIONS. N TO PROBLE N0. 23 ! 13 ' 2824 —22 1410 £ ST o O (a) Only move to draw. SOLTTION To POSITION No. 38. See game No. 126, this issne. GAME NO. 126—SWITCHER. By W. M. Prrcrry, M. D., Terre Haute, Tnd. 2 S5—u@®)| 6—2 2925 (4)] ¥ (a) Same a3 OId Fourteenth, A. D.P. Varn3 at third mave. (b) Loser. (c) Solution to Probiem No. 38, and suggested as an improvement on Game 93! Mr. Hatzler plaged 25—13 at this drasyn, a8 under: 25-18 1522 | 136 | 1418 | 2314 | ete. . Drawn. 123—19 |W. wins. | Whtte wiaa. 2025 |24-%0 12-18 (3) [ 1619 HROER 17- a2 ‘The above is not given s a complete analysis of Problem No. 28, but is rather intended to present a few variations which scemed to me upon cssaal inspection to give the blacks as good defense 88 was to be made. Of conrse friendly criticism 13 cordially invited. Respectfully, V.M. P GAME NO. 127~IRREGULAR. Played in Providence. R. L, between Messrs. Hill and Turner, the former playing biindfold: Hil's move. ~20 |6 —13 n-is -1 Drawz. GAME NO. 128—GLASGOW. Tlayedat Vassar, Mich,. between Dr. E. J. Hovey, and the Deauchts Editor. .Uove)l"ls gre. % 3 ) a5 Itovey r8° =2 7. Sizned. ‘The Doctor thought he could have drawn the. glamcfiby the following variation: L 2- =21 1113 o5 | 559 & BB e Ww—ii -z | sfgaed ———— HOW_THE DAYS GO BY. How the days £o by—how the dsys go by! How swiftly they pass along, With a burden of teurs for some of our hearts, And for others a cheery song. And their step is light throngh the world belows Sometimes “t1s o wilvery thread they bear, %' And now they have severed a Jink of the pasty And now they have gone—0 tell ny where! Tor fo! 25 we looked. men call them a month, And the months into, rs bave rolled. And the vears 1nto Life, like drops in the 8633 And Life—Ab! the tle is told! We ask of you not. O ye fast-speeding dsys, To stay-your flect steps for awhile, Nor bring us, while others arc buried ic W0, Forever your sunniest amile. But take not our love lor the precions Past, Qur bepe for the Fature dim; Mellow our hearts, if you tonch them at all— Bring us a blesaing from Him. Bring It. O morn of the rising light! Beaotifn) sunset. let 1t not die; deo And we'll **wateh and wait” while the ebb-l " fows, _Till ouratsys nave all **passed by Nov. 0. 187 AMD- Blackmenon2, 3, 12, 13, 17, 18, 28, King30, 27, point, ‘nnd the game wss

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