Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 24, 1878, Page 11

i THE CHICAGO [RIBUNE: SUNDAY. FEBRUARY. 24, 187-SIXTEEN PAGES. j 51 AMUSEALENTS. a- B Woll-Earned Tribute to = the Great Janau- : schek. The Leading Actress Speaking i {he English Lan- 4 guage. will Remain Another Week at Hooley’s Theatre. ghe Wit the Other Tocal Managers Have Provided Their Patrons. Green-Room Gossip and News at Home and Abroad. - tutline of the Cincinnati Festival— The Carl Rosa Opera Season. THE DRAMA. JANAUSCHER 4 gencrally acknowledged to be among the sichest possessions of the modern staze, and whenever she comes her presence appears to ve a beneficent influence in reawakeuing, +mone people who find pleasure fn_ theatzical (otertuinment, 3 more reverential fecling to- ward herart. That she is 8 woman of com-. manding genius and. noble aims bas been suffi- -gieptly exemplified in her career, and itis an ponor to the present generation of amuse- ment-seckers that, amid all its devotion o frivolity, there has been a genuine recoguition of her hizh purposes and splendid schievemente. In the dramatic temple of fame Jsnsuschek oceupies already as conspicuons a place as the most cclebrated among the queens 4 of tragedy, from Siddons to Cushmaa, nor can £he be 6aid to be second to auy of them iu. her carnest devotion to the profession which her pame bas ennobled. Among the actresses of The present day she stands alone,—for we do not jmarioe that Modjeska can be rezarded in any ‘nse a rival, save in popularity,—glone in the Jine of character she cmbodics and in her MASSIVE AND INTENSE DELINEATIONS. 1t s amone her high and peculiar merits that she has. never permitted herself to be subju- gated, 50 to sneak, L0 3 single character, as Charlotte Cushman did in Meq Merrilies. and Jeflerson in J2tp Faa Winkle, or, if we may trust the traditions, Sarah Siddons in Lady Macbith. Asnnerisms she has, to be sure, in common with allartists of whatever erade, but she has pre- e toa degree but seldom exampled in ar- fists of her strain a wonderful gift of sclf- repression. That Is to say, sbe is versatile in a lrge sense, Some lave found her act- jog monotonous. It is so, verhaps, vet f0 s the sea, and the everlasting 1ills, and sl great things in Natare. Tt cannot e szid, however, that her delincations of * char- adter bear any resemblance one to the other fur- ther than that they are foundad all upon the sme principle of creative art. Iu go far as mskice visible everywhere the touch of the grest artist is concerned, it may be admitted that there is a sameness in her pictures, but in poother sense. Many have admired the versa- tiity ot Charlotte Cashman, who could portray 2 Lady Macbeth and a Mrs. Simpson, and that of Younz, Kemble, and others, who could depict with cqual felicity a noble Roman and a vulgar Swotch Sir Pertinaz MeSycophant. Suchachicve- ‘ments were REALLY, NOT S0 ASTONISHING cxcept as regarded’ from 2 superficial pomnt of Siew. Charlotte Cushman as Swusan Simpson was, after all, but a Lady Vacbeth in disguise; there was no real transformation, and the sense of bumor was chiefly tickled by the drollery of the spectacle of a_tragic artist dofiing her pur- ple and crown, and enacting equally tragic lings in gingham. 1t is in reality a very eim- pleand ¥ transition,—as casy as that from fhe recitation of & passionate speechi in blani serse to Lhat of one in prose. Itis very differ- et with Janauschek, to whom such a thing womld be mere child’s play compared #ith the consummate _art required in the change from Lady Dedlock to Hortense. This is not a mere substitution of one costume for another,—a feat which any va- sty performer can nccomplish,—but 3 vérita- ble pasaing of the spirit from one form of menifestation to another. If versatility be Bela as beine the perfection of dramaticart, we cannot name auy actress who possesses the nality in sn cqual degree to that o Mme. anauschek. Her Brunhild, which was given twice during the past weck, is a work of high and sustained interest. No iutellizent person will deny its claime 85 a lofty and impressive delineation of human passion, which is worthy to rank with TIE GRANDEST OF IT3 KIND, and that Jansuschek finds in it an opportunity for the display of her highest power. At the same time, it must be said that the subject is too remote from human concernsto interest more thanafew. The great obstacle to its success, ina popular sense, will be found in itsde- damatory vein; the stately diction and fiue oetic flow of thought co:npels admiration, but the mcm‘lm tocrowd intothe compass of an ordinary drama. the fateful, mysterious legend of the Niebelunzen, and give it a mere domes- tic interest, has proved in 2 mecasure 4 opeless one. Shakspeare himsclf, who flinched {rom “crowding within his wooden O the vasty filds of France” in * Henry V.,” wounid hard- Iy have Liad the couraze to essay such a task, sad Herr Gerbel, with all his \m%gesfluncd Doctic power, has failed to endow his creation with a sense of reality, It is a drama which shonld require o kingdom for a stage and armics of men to give it the appropriate berote coloring. As it is, the action is dwarfed into a ‘mere jealous quarrel hetween two women, and, + however herofe aud impressive the delincation of the principal personage, there remains with the most enthusiastic speetator a vague, misty Irapression, lie the memory of adream, in which shadowy shapes of rods and moddesses were ‘mimicking the speech and actions of the sons and dauchters of this lower world. For this reason the play will be caviare to the general, and only > TIE GREAT NAME OF JANAUSCHER conld have cver brousht it into popular repute. - Let us not be understood as undervaining the grandeur of her impersonation. She is thor- ouzhly absorbed in the part, and succeeds in lting her gudrence up_almost to her own lofty eleration of thought by her_impassioned utter- ance gnd her uncqualed intensity of ex- pression, whether ju action or repose. Her scere with Sieqrried where love is uddenly iransformed into hate, her meeting with Criem- he'd on her way to the religious Testival, and aer futervi. ¥ with Guather and Hagen, where she compels them into compiieity with her pur- Dose arainst the lifc of Sigqfried, are amoug the fimest things in high tragic art we have ever been privileged to see. . ) dThe power of Mme. Janauschek is quite as ccply manifested, and more widely appreciated, in her interpretation of Laay Dediwek. Notbing more_profoundly touchipg than her meeting With Esther, when ehe reveals to her child the trae relations between them, has been seen on i‘;e stage; and this is only one of her triunipbs. I;:l' simple action, that convuisive clutehing of } e churchyard gate, when ehe looksat the neg- - lected grave pointed out by poor Jo, sends a sob throush the audicnee. These. and othe cidents that might be copumerated, are exhil tions of ““emotional ueting ' beside which mest oryour Pprofessional emotionalists appear almost: like mcchanical contor=ionists. 2 Jannuschek’s engagement extends over an- Carl Pretzel is to give a comic reading, ‘Just +for the Fun of 1t,” at Farweil Hail mxg Thurs- day evening. : - “The Two Orphans * has id é 01 proved a decided #1 s asMcVickers Thestre, and will be on boards for the present week. The superb LOCAL NOTES. other week., 1 Jannuschek’s repertoire for this week is as fol- §“: Monday. * Brunbild”; Tuesday, * Marie _‘l\lan v, Wednesday, Thursday. ana Friday, Chesney Wold *'; Saturday, * Deborab.” Mir. Charles Andrews bas returned to bis old Meitfonas Assistant Treasurer at Haverly's, ‘gfle&nflm&:fi; Bl:\c Treasurer, will kl:lcre- re 2 '?Nibflmc‘;.‘ verly the managerial re- scenery and the general excellence of the cast are sufficient warrant for its coptinuance. The piece bas probably never hdll o handsomer sct- ting since it was first produced in this country. . Mies Maud Kennicott gives a reading in Hyde Park on the 25th. * Those who have Tetened to mr; :x:u}fd Young lady will be glad to Lave 1 ity of hearing her once e glie leaves for the Sou%h. Sk TeRe pelD Mr. Alfred J. Knight will fl e al in- ment at. Farwcll TAil on Eidng, Saveb 1 Tor the benefit of tae Dorcas Society, cousisting of readings, humorous and pathetic. At the New Chicago Theatre th - ters open to-morrow evening for «';ime \}vzévcel; isni!n picee called “ Out of Bondage," which has been _griven suceessfully elsewhere. This combination 15 returning from a tour through the “South- west, and it wili be materially strengthened by the addition of fifty auxilaries, including a full 1&1]1[1'2.“:\:\' company anddrum-corps, with a strong Colville’s Folly Troupe at the Adelphi have done a zood business all the week, 704 their absurd {rolics, which out-Herod Herod in the way of burlesque, have suoplied the patrons of that theatre with abundant food for merriment. ‘The most agreeable part of the cntertainment was the fine singing and graceful acting of Mme. Roseau, who Is a vocalist of a considerably hizh- er order than we gencrally find associated with guch an orgaunization. The troupe remain for anotber week. ‘Miss Rose Wood_closed a very successful en- gogement at the New Chicazo last evening. In the course of it she has presented several pleasing types of familiar dramatic fizures, and on the whole has created for herself a highly-agreeable impression in the minds of her audience. ' The company supporting her is above the average, numbering 2 few artists of acknowledged re- pute in the profession, aud they are well dis- ciplined and present complete and symmetrical ‘performances. 3 The latest novelty with which Mr. Carpenter promises to rezale the public is a reading tour- nament, in which all the great histrionic artists who hare been earrying on a separate campaien will take a tilt at fhe puablic from the same platform, and on the same evening. Perhaps none of the combinations which have been re- cently formed have possessed the originality which will surround the one which Mr. Carpen- ter nunounces, s it includes every reader whose pame has achieved a national fame, including those noble ve denhoff and Murdoch, the two local favorites, Mrs. Laura Dainty aud the remarkable young renius Jessie Couthoui, besides introducing for the first time in Chicago celebrated Shakspearean interpreter Mrs. elt, and_reintroducing an old favonte in the person of Mina Slayton. The novelty of the idea. as well as the remarkable sroup of artists who will for the first time be heard in close con- tact, may develop an interest which will almost certainly make a marked sensation in local litcrary circles. The event oceurs on Tuesday evening, March 12, HERMAN LINDE, whose recitations of Shakspeare in German aroused so much amazement and delight in his own country, in Eneland, and_in the United States last winter, Las devoted considerable time to the study of the Enslish lan- cusze, and now avpears as the interpreter of Snakspeare in the vernacular. inde holds 2 bigh place among the learned artists of Germany, and brought with him to this country letters of 5o exeeptional a character that Ameri- can scholars in the East gave him a welcome of Tare cordiatity. Longfdllow, Emerson, Lowell, Whittler, and others of their class, are his enthusiastic admirers and friends, and he read in Boston recently under their auspices to one of the most cultivated and exacting. audiences of the Hub. As he designs returning to Epgland ir a couple of months to filla series of engagements there, his pres- ence in Chicago was taken advantage of by 1hose acquainted with his extraordinary talents, English is not only iree from fault, but it is -acterized by uncommion purity. Nature was Very indulgent in qualisying bit for bistrionic art. fe has a noble head, a face handsome and Tobile,—3 manly handsomencss, and a mobility Mose value in the change & “from grave to oay, from lively to gevere,” ~ can be appreciated only by those fortunate enough tosee and bear its favored possessor. Herr $35ac"s voice bas no cqual for richuess, for re- sourees, for range, on our boards; it su: Salvini's, but is more mellow M its tones. more voluminous, and nore terrible, as well as more melodious, in its full delivery. He recited nearly the whole of * Macbeth™ Trom memory. » Here Linde bas gone to Indianapolis to fill engagements th i the Lnghsh-spes have ap opportuui! parture from the West. 1SS H. E. HASKINS, of Boston, a lady of high literary cuiture, whose readings have evoked the unanimous raise of the literati of our modern Athens, will make her debut. as o reader in this city on Tues- day eveninz next in Trinity Chapel, coruer-of ‘Twenty-sixth street and Michigan avenue. Her selections are from the works of the most popular authors of the past and present, and, embody humorous, pathetic, and- heroie delincations. Miss Haskins is said to possess a rich and sympathetic Soice, and o winning naturalness of manncr that js strikingly effective in her dramatic readings. “Amoug the picees selected for het opening are the celebrated seene between Sir Peter and Lady Teazle fu *¢The School for Seandat,” Mrs. Browning’s * Mother and FPoet,” *Jane Con- uest,” *<The Perplexed Senator,” and others. "]'hc entertninment will be enriched by musical scleetions by irs. Gliman, Mrs. Robert Clark, and others. Among those who have cordially indorsed Miss Haskins' claims to distinction as areader are the Hon. E. S. Tobey, the Hon. William Claflin, Jonn G. Whittier, H. W. Long- fellow, Dr- John Lord, Oliver Wendell Holmes, W. D. Howelis, and other. OUTSIDE NOTES. Modjeska has had o California gold mine named forher. Aimec is reported sick in New Orleans, and Mr. Grau is said to bave canceled most ot Lis Northern dates. Munager McVicker, of Chieago, refuses to rent his theatre for Sunday evening perform- ances,” says an exchange. A number of young Japanese gentlemen now studying at Harvard prescuted AMr. Johu Me- Cullough with a beautiful bouquet. The Florences are doing remarkably well with ¢ Tne Mighty Dollar” in Pennsyivania and Ohio. They return to New Yorkin Aprl and o to Europe in May. The theatres arc doing well in Paris, Durin tne month of December the total receipts of all the Paris theatres were upward of $250,000: of this more thau 350,000 was taken by the Grand Opera, and nearly 540,000 by the Francais. The wake scene in ““The Shaughraun ”” has ‘been rotten-cgged again, this time in Nashville. Boucicault never receives any indignitics when performing as Conn, but the expericnce of others in the part has been more exciting than pleasant. Mr. Fred Williams, stage manager of the Bos- ton Mueeurn, has completed his, yersion of “the Leeent Daris success, * La Cigalé.” snd has copy- righted it under the title of *“The Locust.” While by no means a “one-part” play, the lead- ing role is admirably adapted for ladies of the Maggie Mitchell style of acting. Mr. E. E. Rice has_engaged both Sol Smith Russcll and George 8. Knicht for his Extrava- anza Combination during the Boston and New. Gork enmagements. He plays at the Boston Globe for two weeks, Feb. 25, and comes to the Grand Opera-House, N. Y., March 18 for iwo weeks, when he will oply present Evaugeline,” reserving the * Corsair”” for a later visit. e is now engaged on Lwo new works, “ Cigarette ™ and Minnchaba.” . « Champagne and Oysters,” at the Park Theatre, N. Y., has been denuded of its profan- ity, and Is_pronounced a_ success. The com- pany will visit several provincial cities with it this week. They open at the Arch Street Thentre, Philadelohia, on the 25th, ana_appear at Boston a week later. ~ They wiil then visit the West, and return to New York to appear ot the Park in a new play, 2t the end of Messrs. Rot- son and Crane’s cngagement. 3 . Neitner Ada Dyas nor Marie Wainwright will goto San Francisco with the Union Square Company. Miss Dyas savs she is unable to go Jor threc or four weeks, and Marie Wainwright, though offered an increase of salarv over what il getin. St. Louis and Ghicago in the other bratch of the Union Square Company, de- cided mot to accedt, in consequence of tho law matters which will demand ber presence in this section in & few weeks.—Dramatic svows. Mr. Josh Hart formally surrendered the lease of the Eagle Theatre on Saturday nizht last, to Mr. Wilkam Henderson. Mr. Hart leaves ‘the place without & reret, and honorhbly in every way, though he has been'n heavy loser. Inthe many hundreds of employes he has had 1 the past three years, not one is able to brinz against Do a singic dlaim of indebtedness. Mr. Hart, by the way, has taken a lease of the Twenty- third Street Theatre, as reported last weck. He has renamed it the St. James ‘Theatre.— Dramatic News. "\ James O'Neill is to be leading man in the new, branch of tbe Union Square Company just formed. He will stop in Clevetand and Chicago on his way- .- His opening part at Baldwin’s wall bistorical costhme imbersonations, and seléet, rans ai_the reading-desk Van- | be Jean Renaud in the “Celebrated Case.” The full company consists of James O'Neill, F. F. Mackay, Lewis Morrison, Forest Robiuson, Rosc Wood, Nina Varian, Mrs. Farren, Louise Sylvester. . A. R. Cazauran, busincss manager- hey sturted on_Wednesday cvening for San Francisco, A. M. Palmer accomnpunying them as far as St. Louis.—Uramatic News. The cast of *Our Bachelors,” which is to be on the boards at tho Park Theatre, New York, this week, is as follow: Prof. Banzle Mr. Frank Evans Mr. T. G, Rizs Mr. T. E. Hind . Maude Granyer . Miss Alici Robson “Mrs. A. F. Baker Ts. Frank Murdoch Eitty Miss Nesbitt The New York Sun, in reviewipz Edwin Booth’s cngagement, stys: This distin- zuished actor should never forget that he can- Dot play in the metropolis without calling to our minds the Shakspearcan standard of excel- Jeuce which be ereeted for us some time ago at the house which bears his name. It may be and undoubtedly is an ungracious thing to say that his series just closed will bear no compari- son with his former efforts. But_that is the ungracious construction to which our review Jeads. Therc was about this last scason a good deal of carelessness, hurry, incompetency, and ‘makeshift that no one could overlook.” The Boston Erening Transcript of Monday bas the following: * The queue of purchasers of uckets for the opening ight of Mme. Modjes- ka's engagement next. Saturday evening bezan to form at the Boston Muscum strect-door as carly as5:30 this morning. Ou account of the sharpness of the atmosphere the line of purchasers was admitted in the grand hali, and the tickets were sold from the chat-roont. By § a. m. nearly all the scats were aken. All were sold before night. While in Washineton the_ distinguished nctress was the guest of Mrs. Engene Hale, who_on Sunday gave a dinner-party in her honor. The compa- ny consisted of Gens. Sherman and Burnside, 81 Edwara Thornton, Senators Surgent, Came- ron, and Bisine, Mr. H. J. Sargent, Mrs. Gen. TRicketts, Miss Cameron, Mr.and Mrs, Hale, and Mme. Modjeska. Mrs. Hale also took Mme. Modjesku to the Cabinet ladies’ recention, and Mrs. Magruder, doughter of Judge Richardson, gave a reception in her Tonor. DUMAS AND *TIIE DANICHEFFS.” A correspondent writing to the New York Herald denies that Alexandre_Duinas ever Inid claim to tic authorship of *The Daniscnefls.” e says that the comedy was written and pre- seuted to the director of the Odeou, in Paris, not by a young Polish refugee, but by a young Russian nobleman, attache tothe Rus Em- passy to France. Tne piot and the situations of thg play were deemed cxcellent, bat, being writteh by a foreigner, the literary part was re- garded as somewhat inferior, and the autlior \was advised to Jook around for o French dramatist, Ao should make the necessary altera- tions. M. de K. knew Dumas and went to him_ directly. Dumas took the Dlay, eave it the wanted polish, and when it saw the footlizhts it was a complete success. Dumas asked nothing for his trouble but a share in the profits, nor would e consent to put his name on the play-bul. 1f your former cor- rcs%undent had beén in Paris “at the time he could have seen written in hugeletters upon the walls of the city the following announcement: “Theatre de 'Odeon, Les Danichetl. par Pierre resent av the vewski,” aud if he had been Odeon on the evening of the first representa- 1ion he would have heard, as I did, -the actor making this little speech, “Mesdames and messicurs, la picce que nous venoas d'avoir Thonneur de representer devant vous est l'eu- ¥re de Monsieur Pierre Newski.” Everybody present in the house that evening knew that Alexandre Dumas had had a hand in the com- position of the play; but everyboay krew also hat it was not written by him3 that it was the work of a Russian gentleman concealing hisreal name under the nom de plumns of Pierre Newski. This Russian gentleman was thenin the “salle.” and many people prescit knew, us well as I do, his real name and went in his box fo congratu- late him when the curtain was down. I saw myself Alesandre Dumas presenting bis hand to the young mun and felicitating him on his suc- cess. 1 Dumus pretend that he was g Never the author, and I understand perfectly the po- sition he has taken before the New York court. Hegays: ©I cannot swear Iam the Suthorof the *Danicheff.! Truly, cversbody in Franee knows and belioves that I did some- thing in the play, and o L did, but I cannot swear Lam the author.” I will say, in conclu- Sitnl, that Alexandre Dumas fils lsnotand never was accused by anybody of being a literary pi- rate. Ho never was sued in the French courts for refusing to pay the poor authors for their 1abors, and never has a Freuch newspaper made any commentary on the fertility of Alexandre Dumas fils’ authorship or his us¢ of other peo- | ple’s brains. AGES OF ACTRESSES. The Elmira (N. Y.) Adcertiser publishes a corrected list of the azes of some of our promi- nent actresses. Of course it is of interest to everybody, except the vietims, and bere it is: Mrs. John Drew . .54 Charlotte Thompson.. Mrs. John Hoey - Hme. Ristori... “Joste Mrs. Barney Willlame. 40 Wolf) 2k Mary Gladstane.......48 M cott-Siddons. Emma Waller 48 Emily Melvill Orton (Mra. 5 34 .33 Mazy Wells.... 137.Rose Wood. Lydia Thompeon......47-May Howard . Sire. D. P, Bowers....47Eliza Weatbe 3 8 8RiEy . P Dy ... Mrs. Caroline Richings- _{Lottie (Chariotte Crab- 47| tree). 7 Sophie Worrell (Mrs. 45| Knight) ... L11.43Mies May Fi ~142'Miss Faimy Davenpor 1 Miss Helen Tracy. Mre. Lander. Macgie Mitchell Kate Denin Rose Eytinze. Efle Germon . rs. Chanfran . 39 Lizzie Price (Mrs. Fech- | ter) Clara Lonise Kello; Kate Fisher, 20 9 MUSIC. . JIERSHEY POPULAR CONCERT. The next Hershey Popular Concert will he given to-morrow evening, at Hershey Hall, with an clezant, programme. Messrs. Eddy, Lewis, and Eichheim will play the "Mozart Trio in E, No. 8, for piano, violin and cello; r. Eddy, Buck’s transcription of “The Last Rose of Sum- mer ” and Arcadelt’s ¢ Ave Maria,” for organ; Miss Togersoll and Mr. Lewis, Wieniawski's «Romance and Rondo,” op. 9, for piano and violin: Mr. Eichheim, a Mendelssohn Andante for “cello; and Miss Ingersoll, Mr. Lewis, and Mr. Elchlicim, RafD’s fourth Trio, for piano, vio- lin, aud *cello. -The vocal numbers will be as follows: Duet for soprano and tenor, “As a Token,” from Mr. Gleason’s “Otho Viscont},"” by Miss Hiltz and Mr. Darnes: and Guelicl- mo’s ‘ Gratias Agimus® and Reinccke’s « Spring Flowers,” by Miss Hiltz. At the third concert of the serics, March 8, Mr. Licbling will play several piano sclections. MUSICAL COLLEGE CONCERT. The pupils of the Chicazo Musical Colleze will mve a concert at the Methodist Church Block, corner of Clark and Washington streets, on Monday evening, March 4, the programme of which will be as follows: Gottschalk’s *“Ra- dicuse,” by the Misses Kittie Richards and Jennic Malone; the **Arditi Waltz,” by Mrs. N. G. Ielehart; Becthoven’s Sonate, op. 10, No. 3, by Miss Agmes Knott; the “Una Voce,” from «Tne Barber of Seville,” by Miss Fannic Peake; tbe Adagio and Finale of a Haydn Sonata, by Aliss Claudic Buel; Meyerbeer's Arin and “I'rio, “Vago Suol,” by Miss Ettie Butler, and the isses Marston, Somers, and Bensley; Beetho- Jen’s Trio, op. 1, No. 8, by Miss Hattie Gillett and Mess¢s. Roscnbecker and Liesegang; an aria frém ‘Pacini's “Saffo,” by Miss Ada Somers; the Weber Sonata, op. 24, by Miss Zula Goodman; and a Trio from * Fidelio,” by the Misses Marston and Peake and Mr. Marston. LOCAL MISCELLANY. Mme. Rive-King cave a piano concert in Keokuk on the 19th inst., assisted by local musicians. During the recent opera scason in this city, Maric Roze reccived an offer from a Boston 3,yecum manager of $40,000 for 100'concerts in six montbs. The operetta of *“ Cox and Box” was given at the West End Opera-House last Thursday evening, and proved quite a success. It will be repeated, by reauest, next Saturday evening, at the saine place and with the ‘same cast. The Apollo Club at its last concert in April +will bave a brilliant array of outside_talent, in- cluding the Boston Philbarmonic Club, a new Boston soprano, and Mr. Sandford, a pianist, swhom Theodore Thomas introduced ths season. The Freja Singing Soclety of Chicago propose Fivin.rz two congerts at McCormick Hall dur- ng the last of March. They have secured the Swedish Ladies’ Quartette to,assist them, who Wr‘x‘l’y come from Philadelphin for this occasion only. fhere will be a concert atthe University Place Baptist Church on Thursday cveninzuest, given for the benefit of the Ladies’ Society. Mre. Laura E. Dainty will give some of her choicest selections, and a number of prominent musieal people will take part. There will be a musical and literary entertain- ment at the West End Opera-House on Thurs- day evening next, for the bencfit of the Sisters of Charity. Among those who have volunteer- od are Mme. Salvotti, Messrs. McFarland, Ru- dolph, Corby, and Dickson, and the Misses Mil- lic and Mary Green, Marion Fnxon, P. Weishar, ‘A. Smith, M. 0’Connor, and M. Kiar. The nest of the series of Mr. Baird's concerts will be given on the 25th inst. at the Third Presbyterian Chburch, upon Which-occasion he Wwill Dave the assistance of Mrs. E. A. Jewet! Mr. C. A. Knorr, Mr. Frank Powers, Jr., an the well-known reader, Mrs. Dainty. . Next Friday eveniog a concert will be given in 'Tillotson Hall, Englewood, at which Mrs. Weston, Mrs. Champion, the Misses Thearle and Baker, Messrs., Ledochowski, Goodwlllie, Pierce, and Smith will appdar. The programme is o miscellancous one, ending with an amateur minstrel performance. Messrs. Lyon & Healy, of this city, have just recelved a new waltz, ** Un Fete au Viilage,” by Rudolph Aronson, whose compositions are rapidly becoming popular both in this country and in Europe. _The waltz in question is an ad- mirable one, and should be 2 favorite onc for orchestra as well as piano. It is dedicated to Strauss. We are likely to have another candidate for popular favor, in_ the shape of a new menner- chor, orzanized by some of tho members of the present Avollo Club, joined by outside singers. ‘The new Club, if rumors are corract, will be o strone one, as it includes such leading voices as Barnes, Knorr, McWade, Noble, and others. We understand negotiations are pending with Michael Cross, of Philadelphia, who is an excel- lent feader as well as writer for male voices, to take the direction. The allotted copyright on Mendclssohn’s music baving espired, the rizht of publication is now open to the world. The " Littolfls have already improved the opportunity by putting an exceedingly cheap and haedsome édition of his works on the market, both for voice, piano, and orchestra, newly revised and fingered. “fhe prices are now at s0 low a firure as to bring his worls within the reach of all musicians. Molter has the exclusive agency for thie Littoll edition in this city. Meesrs. S. Brainard’s Sons, of Cleveland, have issued the following new music: ¢ Gwendo- line,” an air of tae time of James I, for piano: Gayly the Dance Waltz,'? for four voices, by St. raul Waltz,” by Vaas, for four W American Vocal Medley,” by Max Tenry C. Coey hands; Vernor; * Phantom Footsteps,” by Work; * Colleen Avarra,” sone and chorus, by Max Vernor; ‘ The, Snyt;’ song, by Eastburn; Q) Fair Dove, O Fond Dove,” by Gatly, ar- ranged for male voices; ** Midnight Polka,” by Charles Kinkel. Mr. Tomlins, the conductor of the Apollo Club. made his debut as a conductor in Milwau- Yee, at the head of the Arion Society, on the 16eh inst. The Wiscousin says: * We are pre- vented from giving o lencthy review of the toncert, but should state _that, without _excep- tion, Milwaukee has never heard such exquisite chorus-singing, such a thorough appreciation of the contrast between pianisimo und Jortis- simo, such a complete harmony of sixty volces, Ao wns given Inst eveninmg. Mr. Tomlins, the accomplished director, may well feel proud. The fmmense sudience (the vast hall being crowded) was enthusiastic, and complete atisfaction was everywhere visible aud sudi- bie.” . The programme_for the Turner-Hall concert this afteznoon includes Maon's +Fackeltanz '; overture to **Preciosa”; Koutsky’s Caprice, e Awakening of the Lion”; overture to wTanuhauser”: - Schumann's ¢ Traumerol™; the Seherzo from Beethoven’s Eighth Sympho- ny; Brabms' “Hunearlan Daaces”; Loeseh's «“geloction of American Sougs'; Strauss' «Myrtenstrauschen Waltz"; and Michaelis? wSpring Greoting March.” In this connection, it will be of interest that Messrs. Lyon & Healy, o ewel, John Molter, Bauer & Co., Carl Wolisohn, Dr. Maunbeimer, Emil Dietzsen, and others, have tendered Mr. Loesch, the conduc- for. a complimentary beneflt, which will take place at the Turner-Hal on the evening of March 24 The bouefit will be a well-descrved Compliment to an cxcellent musician and leader. THE CINCISNATI FESTIVAL. The soloists for the forthcoming May Festival in Ciocinnati will be as follows: Sopranog, Mmé, Eugenie Pappenheim and Mrs. J. M. Os- Zood, the Bostol s0prauo, who has been sing- ing in Englund during the past_two ycars with great suceess; contraltos, Miss Annic Louise Cary, Miss Emma Cranch of Gimciwnati, wnd Miss = Louise Rollwagen of Indiauapolis; tenors, Charles R. Adams and Christian Fritsch; baritone, Sig. Tagliapictrds bassos, M. W. Whitney and Franz Remmertz; organist, George E. Whiting. ‘The chorus will include ~ the Harmonic Soclety, Macnuerchor Soclety, and Welsh Choral Society, of Cincin- nati; Dayton Philharmonic Society, Hamilton Harmonic_Soclety and Urbana Choral Society. Theodore Thomas will have charze of his own orchestra of sixty pleces, reinforced by 100 Dicked performers. The programme will in- clude for the prominent work: Bach's “Suite,” Beothoven’s **Symphony Eroica,” Schubert’s “Unfinished Syinphony,” Becthoven’s * Ninth Symphony,” scencs from Gluck’s ¢ Alceste,”” ‘Handel's™ *Messiah,” scenes trom Berlioz’s «Romeo and Julict,” Liszt’s “Grand Mass,” scenes from the “Gotterdacmmerung ” und “Meistersacnger,” and Singer’s & Festival Ode.” - The following note from the buflders to the Orgzan Association gives some interesting details concerning the great organ: We have finished the various parts and pipes of the grent Cincinnati organ, and have already sent to its destination over thirty tons weight of this immense instrament, which is rapidly being put in place in the new large Music Hall. The orgon Will rank among the very larzest in the world, and will be the largest in America, o€ will be scen from the following comparison of the nuwiber of its pipes with that of other large orzans: Cincinnati Music-Hall organ, 6,237 pives. Thoston Music-Hall organ, 3,474 pipes. Boston Cathedral organ, pipes. Brooklyn Plymouth Church organ, 3,403 pipes. The Cincinnati orzan will have four manuals of sixty-one notes each, a pedal compass of thirts notes, minety-four stops, 6,237 pipes, and twelve pedal movements, mciuding 2 _grand crescondo cdul affecting the whole organ. Pneumaticaction feapplied to the four manualy, to the pedals, and 10 all the reaisters. Five powerful hydraniic mo- tors wiil operate the various bellows. The orzan 53 b4 \Will have an entire height of over scventy feet, 8 width of over fifty feet, and a depth of fally thirty feet. E. & G. G. Hoox & LAsTINGS. THE CARL ROSA GPERA SEASON. Tho Pall Malt Gazelte of the Gth Inst. says: Among the new operas announced for the scason of wincl: the opening ie fixed for the 10tn of Feb- Snary are Nicolai's *-Merry Wives of Windsor,” Produced in ltalian_some years ago by Mr. Mapie- Ton. under the title of *Falstalf™; and Jgnaz Frull's *» Golden Cross,” a two-uct work, which is to be plaved the same night_as -Sterndale Ben Tett's <Alay Queen.” Herr Brull is the pianist o appeared last Monday night for the first tine In England at the Mondsy Popular Concerts. Of his - compositions we know nothing. except that they are much esteemed Cin - Ger- many. Krom the circumstauce that the book of the ** Golden Crogs” has been turnedinto English by Mr. John P. Jackson, the tranglator of the +*Flying Dutchman” (and. we pelieve, also of «“Paunhauser ), it might not unreasonably be in- ferred that Herr Brull, like Herr Goldschm dt, the composer of the ‘‘Seven “Deadly Sins,” and Herr Holsteln, the composer of the +Hochlander, " be- longs to the Wagnerian school—as, for the rest, in o preater or lesser degree docs every dramatic com- sor of {he present day, including in pacticular erdi, Gounod, and_Ambroise Thomas. The ex- cellent libretto of ¢+ Die Lustige Weiber von Wind- sor “—about ay welt disposed for musical setting as any libretto that exists—is the work of the Jate Jlerr Mosenthal, suthor of *‘Deborab, ™ foolishly in the English version called ‘‘Lean.” It has been translated into English by Mr. ITenry Tlersce. e principal artists cngaged are Miss Juila Gay- Jord, who at the Lyceumn produced so good an impression bolh as an actress and as a singer in the character of Pauline and in several other partss Mile. Fechter, daughter of the famous actor of that name, who comes to us preceded Dy a reputa- fion made at the Opera Comiaue Of Varis; Miss Cora Stuart. who distinguiched herself at the Queea's Thestre some 1oNths ago in the opera of ““Biorn"; the favorite contralto, Miss Josephine Yorke; twodebntantes, Dilss Burns and Miss Meri- vale; Mrs. Aynsiey Cook; Mme. Blanche Cole (for some time principal vocalist at the excellent operatic representations of the Crystal Palace): 1. Maas, & new tenor, from the Kellogg Overa Company of America; Mr. Packard, the siccessful tenors M Celli, the succeesful baritone of for- Imer seasons; Mr. Lyall, the bestbuffo singer of the day ; and others. WHEREADODTS. The Strakosch troupe has closed its St. Louils engagement, and gives ¢ Aida,” ** Mignon,” and * Faust ” this_week in_Indianapolis. Gil- more’s Band played iu Cincinnati on the 17th, Indianapolis the 15th and 19¢h, Loulsville the 20th au 21st, and will playin Dayton this even- ing. Aptommas was in Dayton on_the 19th, and yesterday afternoon played in Cincinratl. The programme for Theodore Thomas® fourth Symphony concert in New York includes, over- ture, © King Stephen,” op. 117, Beethovenj| . Symphonie dramatique (No. 4, D mivor), op. 93, Rubinstein; ** Die Meistersaenger, &, mono- lozue, b, * Cobbler’s Song ¥ (Hans Sacus), Wagner, Mr. Franz Remmertz; two episodes from Lenau's ¢ Fuust” Liszt. The Barnabee concert troupe is in Maine. The - Pappenheim troupe is_doing a handsome business in New York. Hess troupe has just finished a successful enzagement in Cincin- mati. The Oates troupe is in Baltimore. The Boston Philharmonic Clab was in Bloom- ington on the 19th. The Hessian Band'ts fo St. Paul. Caroline Richings Is aiving old-folks’ concerts_in Denver. Dr. Damrosch continues his Sunday popular concerts in Gilmore’s Gar- don. The third concert of the Oratorlo Soclety of New York will take place Feb. 23. Haydn's oratorio, ‘¢ The Seasons,” will be given, for the first time in that city in its entirety, with emi- nent soloists.. The Swedish Ladies’ Quartette (the original) ison its way West agaln to give 8 series of concerts. At Mr. Peck’s annnal con- cert, at the Boston Music-Hall, which takes place April 22, Thomas’ Orchestra, Miss Kel- loge, Miss Cary, Mue. Schiller, and Siz. Taglia- pietra are on the programme. The solo-singers for Mendelssohn’s *St. Paul,” to be given by the Handel and Haydn Socicty of Boston Marth 6, are Mme. Pappenbeim, Mizs Drosdil, Mr. Ww. J. Winch, and Mr. Carleton. : MUSICAL NOTES. 2 Gounod is in Italy; Flutow Is in_ Paris; Joachim Is in London; Rublnstein is in Vienna. Ole Bull has given o_concert in Vienna with the assistance of Herr Helmesberger and Ciecil- lia de Gaul, planist. Franz Abt has published another volume of four part songs for ale voices, Opus 520. There's a nmlilfu composer! . Aunnette Essipoff is now in Berlin, where she is to appear at the Academy in a concertupon which the liveliest hopes are built. Under the management of Mr. C. H. Dittman Miss Emma C. Thursby is making arrangements to appear again in another concert tour. In Eurcka, Nev., the delizhted miners shouted to Dc Mursha, “Cut her loose, old gal,” #Turn on the music,” and © Raise the roof, litule one.” Maestro Domenico Mustafa, recently appoint- ed dircetor of the Sistine Chapel choir, is the direct successor of Baini, the biographer of Palestrina. E Mme. Nicoini has, it s reported, taken up ‘her residence at Milan, and with the avowed obs ject of seeing Patti and Nicolini in * Lucia” and ** Aldu” The Brignoli concert tronpe are gaid to be meeting with success on their Southern tour. They are on the Richmond, Norfolls, Charlotte, and Columbia route. Schubert lies buried in a Viennese cemetery which hias been closed for four years. The body is to be moved to a new cemetery and placed under 2 suitable monutment. g Mine. Trebelli has made a great sueeess at Stockholm as fides in **Le Prophete.” She was complimented personally by the Kinz of Sweden, and was recalled cleven times. Mr. S. B. Mills will, in Aoril, be tendered a concert by an orchestra from the New York Philharmonic Society and from Theodore Thom- as’ orchestra as a farewell just previous toa tour of Europe. Ten years ago there was & phenomenal boy soprano in New York City named Richard Coker. He has since blossomed into a powerful bari- toue, and recently made his debut as Alfonso in * La Favorita,” at Lucca, Italy. We learn from the London Fie J. M. Osgood will leave Eneland i on AMay 14, 15, 16, aud 17 at _the Cincinnati Mu- sical Festival. The talented singer Will enjoy a brief holiday among her friends in Boston, aud will return to Eugland in September. The big printing _presses_in_the Methodist Book Concern at Cincinnati are getting ready to print_the new hvmnn-book of the denomina- tion, to be called The Methodist Hymnal.” It will contain about 800 pawes, and ubout 1,100 ny “The old-fashioned bretliren and sisters will rejoice to learn that iustead of the okd Wesley hymos being discarded, they will be re- tained. ‘The St. Louis Qlobe-Democrat of the 22d says: «There has been some talk about a quarrel be- tween the two sweet pets of Mr. Strakosch in other citics. We know nothing about this, but we are prepared to pay handsomely for a truth- ful description_of the manner in which Miss Cary and Miss Kellogz met and saluted each other after the close of the opera last nizht. The casus belli was that Miss Clara had taken unto herself two loud *calls? distinctly at- tered in fuvor of Miss ‘Annle. There must have been musiz in the air of the dressing-roomn about 11:39 p. m.” e —ea————— "OUR FRIENDS. Tho storm-clond flits o'er azure skies, Teefs lic 'neath calmest sca, And fetters, all unseen, are forzed For streamlets blithe and frees A thorny crown ere longz may re: Whers now the laurel bends: Yet deem none wholly desolate Until bereft of fricnds. The avors fickle Fortune showers Al suddenly depart, And those whio live upon her smile Will tind her fulse at heart; But better far thun wealth untold, Or auzlit kind Heaven may seud, 1s the holy fellowship of liearts, ‘The love of one true fricnd? The exile pines in distant lands For his own native heath A 'sunnier sky may o'er him'bend, Greener may be the leaf; But opal tinte and emerald hues, Can these e'er make amends For words and toncs of rympathy, For converse sweet with friends? Who deems that Friendship is a myth, A dream, or youthful vision, Ne'er yet hatn found the secret path To her zbode Elvsian; No foot proiane shall enter in, Nor vice with virtue blend; Only the noble, pure, und trne Moy bear the name of friend. Natare hath many joys reserved For him who reads a What volumes 1n the starry sky! What myriads hid from siznt! And, wheresoc'er the eye may turn, 'Edch scene fresh charms will lend, But fairer still the beaming face Of some beloved friend. o soon forgot, moon, stars, and eky, And all ou ¢'er have rezd! Until. at last, oblivious 'Ot what you first nave eaid, An awful silence reigns supreme: 1t somethiny stranze portends When thoughi and speech alike forsake ‘Tiose who are only—{riends. Crtcaco. Many E. GIL¥AX. THE MISSION OF A FACE. [Written o sseing the victure of g gentleman. eiahty vears of nge.] . There's 8 16t in your face thut reminds me Of the faces I sce in my dreams, When 1 fit down beside the **Still Waters™ ‘Tt gladden the Licavenly streams. There's a look that suagests to me vict'ry Over all that is petty and base, ASof one who had fought and had conquercd, Yet catried of vattle o trace. ot a scar nor a stain of Lifc's battle, s Not a hint of a rapture struck down, No mark of 8 Cross or 118 anzuish— But a glory befitting 3 crown. 0 Soul that arlses triumphant, With a smile like the Anzels, T ween, Whisner low in my ear the lud secret ‘That maketh your sight 8o screne. Are the gates of the City 50 near yon ‘That the Heavenly joy you behold Of the Ansels who walk in their beauty. The streets that have pavings of gold? Do the toils and the burdens of living, Seen backward, sll gloritied shine, And Youtl's cup, that was bitter us wormwood, "Thrill the pulses of Mem’ry like wine? Do carcs and ambitions ecem trivial, %nd vamn all the tears Youth mustshed? Or comaes there an insight of comfort When Eighty's £nows lic on tie head? Noanswer! The calm face is shining ke the couls up in Heaven, [ ween, With n strenuth that is ever saggesting A star that is bigh and serenc. No answer! AndyetIam richer For the glimpse of a spint that wears So lofty and nuble a conrage “fterall of Lifc's tolls and snares! AcES Leoxanp Hitr. 38 ALDINE SQUATE, Ciricado, 111, s NELLY IN THE SHOP. Was it only a week azo, . Or lonzer? 1 cannot tell. You never saw her, Joe. llere's health! Where was I? . The story of pretty Nell, Ol 1 like this wine of the Rhinc. So mellow, and clear, and mild.— She was witching, this Nell of mine, With a face and a form divine, "Phongh litle more than a child. Yes, there Tmet. My fute, 'Twas her Inuzhing eyes That canght me. Ahl can 1 forget? 1see the sky in them yet, 2 %5 she glanced at mo roguish-wise. Inashop? Did T come again? Alas! Too often: my wants they grew So qulcis thut I could not pass A duy without buying 8 mass Of trinkets—but Nelly knew. One night, while strolling beside The Joke—we had quarrelec, and kept Yyide apart in anger and pride— She suddenly clasped me and eried, "0 kiss mo! kiss mel” and wept. Where i3 she? Don't ask me. Joe. Poor Nelly! dear little Nelll ‘Was it only 2 year ago, 3 Orlonger? Ab. mel Ibutknow What sorrows wine cannot dispel. .* CAVIARE. BOSTON. February Meeting of the Chestnut- Street Radical Club. Science Has the Floor, and Floors the Usual Talkers. We Hear About Nebule, the Stars, and the Planets. s A Toaf of Boston Brown-Bread Is Brought t in to Aid Our Wits, The Great Designer. From Our Own Correspondent. ‘BosToN, Feb. 20.—Prof. Benjamin Pierce, of Harvard College, was the speaker at the Chest- nut-Street Radical Club meeting of this month. Essayist we can scarcely call him, for he did not read a paper, asis the usual custom, but ad- dressed bis audience, standing before them with 2 bit of chalk In his hand, and a series of lizht blackboards at hig side whercon he frequently fllustrated his subject. 'This sabject was “The Nébular Theory.” In the opening the Profes- sor declared that, if the ncbular theory were simply a hypothesis, it could cither be disbe- licved or believed; but, since it is a theory, it must be considered as an organized system of fact. The theory is an ideal organization of all the facts in the sidercat universe,—of all the facts in the prozress of the stars from begin- ning to end. The beginningisa uniformiy-dif- fuscd mass; in theend it is a system. The be- sinuing is without form, and void; IN THE END IT 13 A PLAN, having in it the evidence of an infinite imagina- tion. "The nebulous perioas can be divided into difterent cpochs, aualozous to the periods of life fratn infancy to old age. ‘The Prosessor then wrote out upon the black- board four general periods® in Nebular Esolu- tion,—Chaos, Nebula, Star, and Planet,—sud stated that it is possible that there have been tmany chaotic periods from the beginning to the present time. In regard to our present system, he"ald thab, thore was ot first a collection of matter in a simple inactive state, not necessarily infinitely diffused. It may have been the rc- nains of old stars which have retained the re- sultant of their former motion, 50 that the har- mouy of the universe now may he transmitted to tlic end. The division which has oceurred in matter must bave its beginning in the original chaos, or the orzanized system could oot have Come irom it. The plan must have:been in the system from the beginning, as the plan of the ehele s din the czz. To the idea that there was a_ systen da the beginning without a plan, the Professor offered strenuous opposition; it was like any other absurdity in the minds of thinking men. The original chaos must have been invisible. Luminousness is evidence of living force. We can imagine what chaos is from what we sce about L:. The grains of sand, NETS AND DEAD SUNS, may be potentially ¢ But with light we come to the second stage—that of the nebul There are seve periods to this epoen, wh were illustrated on the blackboard. —These Were Nebulosity, the Nebula Proper, the Clus- ter, the Aunula Nebula, the Spiral Nebula, the Milky Way, aud the Magellanic Clouds. This classification aporoaches nearer to that of Sir William ferschel. Nebulosity is the least diffu- siou of light which can be seen through a tele- scope. The Nebula Proper has more clearly-dis- tinct boundarics than the Nebulosity, and the Jight 1 it is unequal. ‘The variation is some- times marked, sometimes faint. I the former case several nebuleare supposed to be con- nected. When these are concentrated they form clusters; buf the progress of this to the single nebula s made very gradually. The next is the Annular Nebula, which is a simple rines the Milky Way was described as possibly a foria of nebula: the Magelianic Clouds as tracts in the Southern Hemisphere containing nebulae. In this connection, the Professor remarked that TIHE CHILD'S TOYS—TRE TOP'S AND THE HOOP— illnstrate the same law mathematically in their spinning as the procession of the equinoxes. When we see such great truths brougnt into such little things, he said, it seemed as it Divine truth loved to mestle in the armsof a little ¢hild. * And who shall dare to say,”” he went on, “in the face of such fucts, that there is no Jove anywhere in Nature except in the cold and selfish heart of man?” From this the speaker proceeded to consider the stars, which he described as Round Nebule, Nebulous Stars Proper, and Double or Solar Stars. The spectrum of stars has extent and continuity, and can be easily distinguished from that of & nebula, which is a group or series of separate lines. 'Hershel came to the conclusion that it is impossible to draw a line of demarkation be- tween the different stages of star-development. Te compares the development to the stage of plant, life. In these successive staces we can vead theideal meaning and suggestion. And then the question comes, Is it true? Is Nature a false witness, or_can we believe her? From the stars to the solar system: 'O solar systems the Professor sgid we know but one. Yeo therc are probably’many in the universe. We must not expect to sce other solar systems, beeause the amount of light re- flected from the satellites is so small. TIE NEW TELESCOPES e thought pot so likely to bring out this small amouut of lizht, as, the lurzer the telescope the areater the difliculty, on account of its maezni- fing the vibratory motion produced by the vi- brations of the atmosphere. “ Persons,” he snid, “going out into a clear night when the cloudless heavens were seen thickly studded Wwith stars, would say: ¢ Whata pight for ob- servations through the telescope!? and yet it \¥as, 1 truth, the most unfavorable of niznts, Jhe very clearness of_the atmosphere produc- ing tenfold more vibrations. The telescone at Cambridge was richer in results than the larger onent Washington. With the Cambridge in- strument there were only two or three nights in a year when there wereany satisfactory results. For the Washington telescope not more than onee in three or four years could anythiug be seen through it.” # He should thinlk, then, that by this ecstimate the large instrument which is being manufac- tured out West might be of usc, perhaps one | night in a century! He then proceeded to speak of the various opinions of the various scicntists concerning the sohity of plancts. Sir William Thompson, he said, thouzht e bad proved that the earth was solidto its centre; but Prof. Pierce does not regard thisproof as conclusive. Thomp- son’s proof 1s by the processionof the equinoxes. When a planet’ is solid on the exterior it is in the inorzanic period. When it has cooled down <o that plants can live it is then orzanic. With a bumorous twinkle of his just here, the Professor said that he would give a very bomely illustration of this. «Every week,” he said, “T have from the baker’s A LOAF OF BROWN BREAD- The first dav, when it is fresh, 1 notice that it is hotter inside than it is outside. The second day, warmed over in my oven, it is warmer on the outside. Thus,a body which is warm on P imside must at some time have been equally warm on the outside. The earth is hotter in the interior than at the surface. Then it is cooling off. The leat of the interfor could never bave been greater than at the surface at some period of the formation. Life can be ex- pected only on a planet. There must be atmos- pheretomake an equable temperature, and there must be & sun to give warmth. Considermz the other plauets, Meren Neptune, and Ura- nus, their temperature must be very low, and therefore unfit for apimal life. Saturn and Yhpiter are so heated that it is ot likely T animal existence - could be pos- sible there. Mars® has been thought very much like our ‘earth; but an Englisn ob- server has recently brought out some facts that cast great doubt upon this old 1dea. Hethinks that swhat we call snow-caps on the poles are lods of vapor. Mars caunot be cold cnough ;:ur auimal l&f So only the Earth and Venus are left as fit for animal or intelicctual life.”” In summing up, the Professor asks the guestion, What is all this for? lis snswer is that the universe is 2 medium of intelligence to intelli- font beings, and it would seem that some wise S ivolmaster had arranged these problems, that we should make them a study. The greatest of our facts rest upon the Iaws of gravitation and motion. \V:J is it that these laws come down to the smalicst matters? There can be onl 7 ONE ANSWER POSSIBLE. There must be a plan behind it all.. ‘There Is proaf of desizn which cannot be cxplained un- Jess there be a Designer. It Is_absurd to say that this s all the resuit of an uninteilizent evolution of Nature. It may be that evolution is the machinery by Which the working of the plan is carricd on; but there must be a plan—a design—behind it. 3 ‘Atrthe close of the address, Dr. Bartol rose and expressed the appreciation and thanks of the audience., and gave @ general invitation to any one present Lo speak. No one responding, he began to_specialize by calling upon Prof. Hyatt, who, it will be remembered, read the essay on Evolution at the previous meet- faw. Cuoningly referring to Prof. Hy- .att's showing of the gradual retrogression of species with_old age, the Woctor slyly said, glancing at Prof. Pierce’s white locks, if this was the result of age he should like to find a ood deal more of such resulis from the same causes. Prof. Hyatt declined to enter into any discussion; but, confessing himself delighted with the lecture Prof. Pierce had given theu, said the only fault he found with it was that it was not long enough. 1E WANTED MORE, Prof. Everett said he found himself in the same Olver Twist condition. James Freeman Clarke also declined to enter the lists of areu- ment, but managed to give Prol. Piercee a tine tribute, by saying that he remembered him well as a elassmate of his, and that, followine us he had his carecr of science, be Was not at all sur- prised at the fine results which the Professor showed. He had always expected great thinzs of him. Mr. Weiss aad Mr. Wasson alsodeclined toenter into arzument, and they also declared that there wasnothing to .besaid. So the mecting adjourned, with the “after-talk ” of less importance, a3 usual, when the scientists have the floor; for, as ther bad all confessed, there is nothing to be said where the Positive Sciences are concerned when a mas- ter like Prof. Pierce has gono_to the farthest reach of humau discovery in his presentation of the subject. There is no room for conjecture, for metaphysical guess-work and speculation, Tor it is a province which has such boundaries of fact that GUESS-WORK AND SPECOLATION IIAVE NO BUSI- NESS IN THE CIRCLE, % where progress alone, in _patient discovery, can possibly answer any of the questions that grow out of the subject. But, feebly a3 some of ns could follow the profound researches of the profoundest of sciences, by our lack of scientific training, allied in_some “cases to naturally un- scientific minds. Ithink there was no one but could follow the spesker suffiviently to feela great interest in the fact that at last overlaid 2nd conquered everything: that in the midst of such positive studies, re the ideal seems eliminated, this brave apostle still kept his eyes fixed upon the _illimitable, and_believed in the Great Desiemer, whose desicps arc uct ouly with the positive problems,but are at the very heart of the Ideal. N.P. —_——————— MONTICELLO. {Fritten for the meeting of the Honticello Society. Fed. 20, 1973 Al hail to Monticello! We love her gray stone towers, But more the wrncred mem'ries Of consecrated hours We've spent within her bowers, So picturesquely fair, When we were souns together, And lightly touched by care. g Now that we have erown older, And stand without her vates, In'wider reach of vutlook, And ruled by sterner fates, We know menidian splendors Outanine the slowinz dawn— That noontide in the hicavens Sweeps up from blashing mora. Some bear a matron's honol s witnees weddinz-rings; And some have won the graces “Fhat tribulation brinzs: While all have left hehind ns Our dazzling halcyon days— Are carrying heavier burdens, . and walking public ways. But that onr thought has ripened, @ “Ana life become 3 pralw, We owe to Monticello— S0 ale shall oear the We own her matchtess teaching: Discern hier eacred | Reivige our feet were Upon this **mount of Heaven.™ We of the elder decades Reeall our gracious Queen; To uy she seemed a goddess! We knew no golden mean. And still her stately presence Ts mem'ry rich and rare Of intelicciual beauty, Which made her passing fair While we of fater kinship Look tn the eyes, to-day, Of our dear Alina Mater, Who taughit us bow 1o pray. A woman grandly zifted, Madouna of ou heart! We'll hold her fmat A portrait sevupurt. Tu this couvivial way: We'll tlasp our nutual friendsnips v everlusting bauds, An ¢ pledge our ** Alma Mater™ he work of willing hands. All bail fo Monticeflo! Translucent hlics stand, As entinels of Snauwer, In her enchanted land. God bless old Monticello? Her scarlet ivies climb E’en to the topmaost tucrets, In golden Autnmn-time. But, more than this, we glory She hath a silver tongue, That teils a sweeter - ory. ‘Thaa ever poct sang; That teaches trutbs immortal At hieart of holy things. To ranks of iist'ning dalihters, 'As blest 13 those of Kings. —————— CREEDS. This world is sick of isms and crecds, And Trath’s the medicine she needs. Men sho throughout this Earth arc known To search for ‘Fruth, and Truth alone, Who strangle Error in his den— These truly are the Kings of Men. Alas! e know contending crceds Of haif our woes have sown the sceds; ‘Thoy il fear Reason’s searching licht, ‘And Superstition’s starless nizht Tlanga Itke a dark, soul-sick'nin pal, ‘And shuts out Heayen's Hght from them ail. "Tiu strange Relizion—she who onght to bind 1n bonds fraternal all poor hamanxind— J Should rouse mew's passlons <o that they could o0 IThis beauteons Earth of onrs in human blood, Condemn each other to the rack and flame. And act like fienas in God's most holy name. O Thou Great Ruler of the Worlds we gce, We know the god they worshiped was not Thee; We kuow, thouzh zealots rave and bizots bawl, o one sect owns Thee—Thou art God of A3 That e'en the poor Indian is to Thee as dear As he who preys—on fifty thous'nd a yezr. 0 what a Teaven this Earth of ours will be When men think fess of creeds aud more of Thee; When, 'neath the Iight of Truth’s celeatial ray, Dark Superstition’s night will pass awiy; When all mankind, from creed-born hatreds free, Blossing ench other, will doubly sorship Ta Rosnerr T ¢ THE CRISIS, What think you would be the result if the carth chould stop spinning around the sunt Were vou ever neara laree and intricate mashine when onc of its wheels became clogred or broken—near enouh to hear the grating, Jar- ring clash, the sudden, deafening crashl As- tronomers assurc us .that precisely similar effects, only on_an fnconceivably grander seale, would be produced if our earth—onc of the wheels in the universe-machine—should sudden- Iy cease its revolutions. In other words, there would be & general clash and erash of sateliites, planets, and systems. What we term financial crises are due to similar causes. One of the wheels in the finance-machine becomes clogged, perhaps shattered. The terrible Wall-street scrash ™ which follows Is communicated to every part 6f the financial_mechanism of the country. Butnanalogies donot stop here. There i3 that other mecnanism, the most intricate of all—sometimes called an orzanism because it generates its own force—the human machiue. When oneof {ts members fails to perform ita office, the whole system is thrown into disorder. Members before considered unassailable break down under the unnatural pressure. The shock comes, and utterprostration Is the result. Rep- aration can only be effected by the restoration of the impaired parts and the readjustment of its levers,—the vhysical forces. There is onc part of the machine more liable to disorder than auy other,—the liver,—the great balance-wheel of the machine. * The liver being the great-depurating or blood-cleansing orzan of the systein, scv it ot work and the foul corruptions which gender in the blood, and rot out,as it were, the machinery of life, are gradually expelled from the system. For this purpose Dr. Plerce’s Golden Medical Discovery, used daily, and Dr. Plerce’s Pleasant. Pargative Pellets, takenin very small doses, are pre-eminently the articles needsd. They cure every kind of humor from the worss serofula to the common pimple, bloten, or erup- tion. Great eating ulcers kinaly beal under thefr mighty carative influence. ‘irulent blood polsons that lurk in the system are by thew robbed of their terrors, and by thelr persevering and somewhat protracted use the most tainte systems may by completely renovated and buil up anew. Enlarged grlands, tumors, and swelks ings dwindle away and disappear under the i fluence of these great xesolvents, 3 3 3 [ 3