Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 27, 1880, Page 11

THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 1880—SiXTE PAGES. 1 ; MUSIC. Roly Writ are apt to stilt and confine the genius Two Notable Testimonials—A Pitts- borg Conductor Coming to Chicago, ; The Musical Season Drawing to a Close —Operatic Ontlook Next Season, ACollection of Interesting News at.Home and Abroad. The musical season is substantially at an end, though sumfner entertainments of a light char- acter still remain on the boards, and the testi- monial mania still rages with unabated fury. qwo performances of this nature have been jven during the past week of more than ordi- pery interest, though in different felds of art. ‘The one was the testimonial to Miss Couthout, the promising young reader, who is about to Jeavo tor Europe to prosecute her studies in the French dramatic schools, and the other to Miss Elizabeth Scanlan, a very promising vocalist, whois also about to leave for Paris to study with Mme. La Grange. Of Miss Couthcui’s abili- ties we have more than once spoken in terms ot . Webelieve a brilliant future awaits her jn the- field of comedy, and that she will reflect credit upon Chicago. Miss also. gives the highest promise of future success. Her voice is a large, rich soprano of fine quality throughout, and her myle is very dramatic. Sho has a fine presence, remarkable intelligence, and is full of ardor and enthusiasm in her work. Such emphatic natural abilities will give Mme. La Grange material to ‘work upon, and we shall confidently expect to hear from this excellent singer in the artistic world. She has everything in herfavor,—youth, peauty, voice, and ambition. LOCAL MISCELLANY. Helmendatl, who has been playing first violin with the Mendelssqhn Club during the past season, has made Chicago his home. Mr. Robert Goldbeck has arrived in New York, tomake arrangements for the producjion of his new oper2, which will be performed in that city ‘next fall. Tho pretty little opera of “Boccaccio,” which has been given 50 successfully at MeVicker’s during the past week, will remain on the boards ancther week. “‘ Fatinitza" is underlined. Mr. A. R. Carrington. known all over the coun- try as the champion drum soloist, will appear at Baum s Pavilion every evening this week, His performances are said to be very remarkable. Atthe annual mecting of the Beethoven So- ciety held June 1, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, James P. Kelly; Vice-President, Florence Ziegfeld; Treasurer, H. L. Frank; Secretary. C. W. Wey]: Librarian, J. W. Hubbat Directors, Mrs. Clif- ford Williams, Mrs. S.D. Kimbark, Mrs. Frank Hall, Miss Eva Manierre, Holt, W. L. Fau- cert, George E. Dawson. J. J. Hattstaedt, F. G. Frank; Conductor, Car] Wolfsohn. Mr, Clement Tetedoux, the well-known direct- orof the Gouncd Club, at Pittsburg, Pa., has resigned his position and intends coming to Chi- ‘cago in September to make this city his home. The following extract from the resolutions -passed by tho Club ata recent meeting will ‘show in what regard he is held athome: “We shall miss in you the brilliant and thorough teacher of 5: who combines to a rare de- gree of excellence the tender and poetic feeling, ‘With a strong dramatic power and scholarly in- telligence: and to whom our city owes the proud -honor of being to-day second to none for its caltivated voices and cminent amateur singers.” He will be heartily welcomed here, OPERATIC NEWS. Mme. Marie Rize stipulates in herengagement ‘with Messrs. Strakosch and Hess that she shall eng only three tines a week. The season willopen, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, Nov. 1. ale and“ Carmen” wiil be included in the rtoire. ALondon paper states that ‘Leonora Robin- son is Col. Mapicson’s newest uisition. She bears astriking resemblance to Mme. Pappen- heim, Her performance of Leonorain * Fidelio" ‘was excellent, and she bas already become a great favorit. She will be a member of thecom- ny Which Manager Mapleson is forming for the Inited States for next season.” The next serson of the Emma Abbott English Opera company will be opencd in the Fifth Av- enue Theatre next November. The repertory will include Gounod's “Romeo and Juliet,” “Paul and Virginia,” “Carmen,” the “Guaren- nee” of Gomez, and Gouzod’s “The ‘Be- trothed." Liberal promises are made as to sceners and accessories. Signor Perugini will share the principal tenor parts with Mr. Castic. ‘The repertory of Blanche Roosevelt's new op- era company for next season will consist of two 9 by Cimarosa (the teacher of SMozart), “H imonio Segreto” and “L'Astuzie Femme- .” both serious spectacular grand operas; “Nell Gwynne,” a romantic opera by Cellier, which was played for twelve weeks in Manches- ter; “The Sultan of Mocha” by Cellier, and “L'Ambassadrice” of Auber. There is to be an imported balict with Parisian leaders. In adai- tion to this list there will be “The Mask of Pan- dora,” and it is aid, that Mr. Longfellow bas ixreed to writ seve! new 60) for Miss Roosevelt. ae ‘The engagement by Mr. Mapleson of Herr Hans Richter to conduct Wagner's “Lohengrin” at Her Majesty's ‘Theutre excited considerable comment when first nonouaced, and has been the cause of much preliminary discussion. The it advices received indicate the success of Xr, Mapleson’s experiment. Herr Richter, who is Wagner's confidant, made ruthless havoc with the altered score in use, in London, restoring aauch that had been “cur,” altering the orches- ‘ation, and, presumably, embodving Wagner's latest mendations of the work. The result was, howerer, 2 version of the opera which seems to have given special delight to the Warnerites, andto have elicited the greatest enthusiasm ‘over the conductor's abilities from critics of every shade of opinion. Mme. Nilsson was the Ela, snd Mr. Candidus the Lohengrin. Mr. Arthur Sullivan is reported to be engaged in the composition of another comic opera for Fyeduction in this country next scason, the lbretto being by Mr. Gilbert. If these two ac- somplisbed writers will only profit by experience and take to heart the lesson afforded by the com- parative failure of the “Pirates of Penzance.” sel in all probability make a success of their new opera. The conditions of manage- ment in this country are not influenced by the traditions or customs of the English stage. If tie public bad been afforded an opportunity to ‘now something of the words and music of the “Pirates of Penzance,” and tn become as famil- iar with it as was the case with “ Pinafore,” the “former opera would doubtless have met with more favor. Itis undeniably a more amusing ‘snd meritorious work than “Pinufore,” but no one has ever read the words or learned the ‘masic, and the result has been that ithas not be- ¢omeso popularas it deserved tobe. In this con- ection it may be stated that the latest rumor in tho English papers is that Mr. Sullivan will soon be described as Sir Arthur Suilivan. i MUSICAL NOTES. it isramored that Miss Annic Louise Cary will ive ono year to concerts and then retire from thestage. It is said that Wagner is to furnish Theodore ‘Thomas with a new symphony while the latter is Europe. acral’ “Othello” ral be piven in Paris next mn, when Adelina Patt! appear as Desdemona, Jtissaid that Mme. Isabel Stone-Pond and . Brignoli will head the Bijou Opera company ‘season. Itis reported that De Munck and Carlotta Patti will give concerts in Inaia and Gsypt before re- Europe. Richard Wagner {s seriously considering an Offer of £50,000 which has been made to him by an American manager for the purpose of in- . Sucing the composer to come to America and Sive a series of concerts. ~ Joseffy next season will give concerts in our Brincipat cities. Rummel likewise finds so much Sppreciation in America that he will remain. The brothers Mills, pianists, will spend the sea- ‘son at the watering places. Negotiations are said to have been begun with & view to secure the services of Theodore Thomas as musical director at Barnum’s New Museum, and especially to conduct the monster Soncerts to be ziven in the Tropical Garden and Opera-House. Tho original manuscript score, in the com- Poser's handwriting, of Mendelssohn's air, “ O ‘tin the Lord,” from the oratorio of “Elijah, been stolen from the Corporation Library at Guitdhall, London, torether with an autograph tter addressed by the composer to s Mr. Bar- tholomew, whose widow bad presented them to the library, after keeping them in her possession for over twenty ycurs. No trace of the thief yet been discovered. ‘Hille. Vallerin, the favorit prima donna of ser Mapleson’s company, will be remem- dered by many Boston people. and many will Fegret that she is threatened with the loss of er earnings during the Suardian, aofaj. Adams, died recently, and his executors have brought suit to recover about 813,009 udvanced Mile. Valleria to complete her qusical education. Mlle. Valleria is now Mrs. Hutchinson, her husband being a wealthy cotton manufacturer. ‘The joint writers of “H. M. S. Pinafore" and “The Pirates of Penzance” bave, mirabile dictu! resolved to collaborate in a_new and original ‘Sratorio for the forthcoming Leeds Musical Fes- val. To this end Mr. Arthur Sullivan has re- jected the story of “David and Jonathan” upon which report has said he was engaged; and the ‘Feason Mr, Sullivan assigns is that the words of of the composer. So the late Deat " a in Mil pocm; “The Martyr of Antioch,” has been se: ted, and the work wiil be ad rewritten by Mr. W.8, Ghbett ae fepert It seemsodd for Queen Victoria tobe an advo- cate of low-necked dresses, but the London pa- oe State with great gravity that her Majesty : made arare exception in favor of one yocal- ist enguged to sing at tho state concert by waiv- dpe £ Stringent rule. Low-necked dresses for ho lady singers are always de rigueur at. those a ‘aire; but, as Mrs. Osgood Is forbiddea by her Goctor to ever dress in this manner. the Queen 48 permitted her to disguise her neck in Hesb- colored silk and tulle on the occasion: mentioned. M. Victor Capoul thus refers to a painful sub- Ject in writing to afriond: “' Pinafore’ est uno ‘opérette anglaise quia fait son apparition en Amérique, voila bient6t dix années, absolument comme Je, philoxera en France!’ *Planfore’ Partout, ‘Pinafore’ toujours! Des troupes d ‘enfants chantent ‘Pinafore.’ Cestie ‘Pina- fore’ Bijou! Des négres et des négresses jouent et dansent ‘Pinafore!' C'est le minstrel's* Pina- fore!’ Enfin est venu le sublime ‘Pinafore, Bree des interprétes cclebres en Amérique, quly récédente, chautaient encore ceuvres classiques du répertoire.” = Asmall but novel exhibition is being held in a Luisenstrasse, in Berlin. 1t consists of all ‘inds of mechanical aids and contrivances for lanoforte Playing, such as hand, arm, and foger uides,’ etc. Among the inentronomes is 2 small“ tact-uhr.” ‘said to be far superior to those after the Milzi pattern. But the mostuse- ful invention perhaps of all, one which supplies a long-felt want, would, we should think, be ‘Trobach’s contrivance for turning the leaves of a piece of music, which can bo fixed equally well toa piano or an upright music-stand. Some of Tre pocimens sent os Beath ition have the ad- al advantage of turning back rea fare 4 a page foe a The New York Musical Review says: “Mr. Maurice Strakoeck wilt commence bis ext con- cert season at Steinway Hall on Oct. 4, with Miss Toursby and Mr. Ole Bull as his principal artists. ‘The respect due to old age must, of course, be accorded to Mr. Ole Bull: but it is, indeed, a dis— mal prospect to look forward to hearing this yenerable gentleman ptay his half-dozen thread- bare and wearisome selections. His tricks and mannerisms, which excited the wonder and ad- miration of the public thirty years ago, fall flat on a New York audience of to-day, and are of- fensive to people of musical taste ‘and cultiva- tion. For what he has been Mr. Ole Bull's name ul long de remembered. LG is a pity he is not w to occupy a footligntae? occupy a position in front of the New. York: Lyon & Hi NEW MUSIC. H. Ditson, & Co. Chicago: fealy: “Til Then,” song, by Ciro Pin- lienne,” written for Litta by Charles 8; “Safe Home at Last,” by Ciro Pin- suti: “Like the Song-Birds in tho Wildwood,” by Alfred H. Bissell; “ Ever with Thee,” song, by Rat; “Carol Polonaise,” by Baumfilder: * Chinese Serenade.” by Fifege; Excelsior Grand March, by G. F, Wilson; * Flowers of Joy,” val- sede salon, by A.M. Neuhoff; and * Recotlec- tons of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream,” for piano, by J. M. Webli. New York: W, A. Pond & Co. Chicago: The Chicago Music Company: “ Diana,” yaise brill- fant, by Edward Holst; “Hurrah! Hurrah! from Mexico to Maine,” by Sam Seevelt; and “ Hear dom Bells,” by D. S. McCosh, THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. ‘The Canal. To the Eattor of The Chicago CuIcaGo, June 25.—AtSummit the Canal Com- missioners have constructed a gate to shut the water from the canal in case of a break in the canal-bank south of that -place. This gate is ordinarily open, and just wide enough to let a ennal-boat pass. It narrows the canal at that poiat to the width of acanal-bost, for the gate istiht on both sides. To narrow the canal there is, of course, to narrowit for the whole distance’ south of that point. This gate must measure the volume of water that can go through the canal. It prohibits any good re- sult from opening the locks at Lockport. Why does not this gate at Summit reduce the size of the canaloyer one-half forthe purpose of drain- age? ENGINEER. A Plea for Our Boys? Eyes. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Crtcaco, June 25.—Lena me your assistance in this plea, namely: that all parcots shall see to it that the present narrow-brimmed or no- brimmed hat or cap be absolutely set aside. ‘The falseness of tho common position is that the “Glengarry” cap, and its wretched modifi- cations, are used to gratify a perhaps pardona- ble affectation of the style robust, in utter for- getfulness of the fact that we have no Scotch mist softening of the sun's fierce rays. Our boys’ eyes are unprotected in any adequate manner; and, I submit, aside from the immedi- ate discomfort and too often inflammation and injury caused, is it not reasonable to believe, that premature loss of vigor in sight and other gisone must inevitably in a majority of cases resul Idesire to advocate, for our boys at least, a return to the eye-protecting visor of our own youth, and earnestly appeal to all parents to pus away this vanity of the narrow brim while it be yet not too late. Our hat and cap makers will soon give usa stylish and becoming cap, with a visor, if we ‘but insist upon it. Joun G. SHORTALL. Crossing the River. Tb the Editor of The Chicago Tritune, Carcaco, June 24.—Wost Siders depending upon street-cars for passage to their places of business enjoy the pleasures and benefits of the best Mayor Chicago ever had and his Chief of Staff in the Board of Public Works. Overonc hour from Halsted street to La Salle, and a solid line of cars on Madison street! Those coming to business by means of theirown conveyances were very much gratified to, find, upon driving from one bridge to another, such a procession that it was impossible to get withina stone's throw of a bridge from a cross street. This was particularly pleasant when we learn that Adams street bridge has been closed three weeks and nota stroke of work has been done by way of re- pairs, Lake street bridge in the hospital, and the tunnel fenced up. We West Siders are happy, and will soon fecl lire singing, * There's only one more river to cross.”" Let our Mayor go off President-making, our Board of Public Works go fishing, the Con- troller {ssue bonds for improvements, and tho West Side, which almost equals in population both the South and North Sides, will zo West on apicnic. If swea will do anv good a few of us West-Siders will chip in and ‘hire an expert to—if possibie—do justice to the occasion. West-SIDER. Bathing in the Lake, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cutcaco, June %,—Why cannot Chicago be- come the Long Branch of the West? Is it be- cause we have no facilities for bathing? While on the shore drive of Lincoln Park a few even- ings ago, a lady friend remarked, “What a splendid place this would be for bathing!” and truly it would be a magnificent bathing ground. ‘fake the strip of shore from the horses’ drink- ing fountain south to the pier, and here we have a fine beach, well protected by trees on the west, on which small houses could be erected for dressing purposes. ‘The water immediately in front of this strip of beach is clear and shallow, and I cannot imagine a finer place for aswim. Why can we not have the privilege of bathing at this spot? If the Park Commission- ers will not grant permission to some enter- prising man to build houses on this spot, will they not give us permission to swim there early in the morning, say any time before 8 o'clock, and in the evening any time after 6 o'clock? I for one am fond of aswim, but cannot have it without paying, and this I consider is an outrage in the fuce of the fact that Lake Michigan is only two streets from my door step. Thousands on the North Side would thank the Commissioners for this privilege. Can it not be granted before the warm weather of next month sets in? Yours truly, SwooeR. Districting the City. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Crrcaco, June 26.—It is perhaps a little early to begin to make definit calculations based upon the current census, but, for the purpose of this communication, enough is known. ‘The population of Cook County, outside of the city limite, has without doubt fully doubled since 1870, when it was 51,000. And should this be true, there can be no question but that Cook County will be entitled to nine of the fifty-one Legislative districts in the State, riving us nine Senators and twenty-seven members of the ‘House in the Thirty-third General Assembly. ‘The total population of the State will no doubt reach 3,366,000 [7], which will be 100,000 less in- Grease than the average for the previous two decades. This aggregate divided by fifty-one, the number of Senatorial districts in the State, ives 66,000 as the ratio for a district, and this will give us seven districts in tho city, and a fraction of about 20,000 over, to be carried to the credit of the two country dis- fry districts. If it were lawful to divide theelty into twenty-one wards, the districting could be done with great facility. Each ward would thea contain about 23,000 inhabitants, and each three wards in the city would constitute a Legislative br Senatorial! district, with 2 population of, say, 69,000, each district containing about 3,000 of the surplus 10 eure to bencfit of the two country districts. ‘s ir to presume that the growth of popu: ation in the near future will be more rapid a, the suburbs than the average within the city roper, and hence the equity of giving: the bene- towns. Truly ie art the fraction to the bcc en GALLOWAY. Our Water Supply: [To the Editor of The Chicago Tribuns. Carcaco, June 25.—In view of the disagreeable fact which stares us in the face, that our drink- ing-water is corrupted by the discharge from. the river, and likely to be for an indefinit period, T beg leave to suggest to those on the look-out for business chances the establishment ofone ‘which I believe will pay Zat dividends. Quite a large business has already grown out of our cor- rupted water in the manufacture and sale of fl- ters; but a still larger and more protitable one awaits some wide-awake purty in the adoption of measures for bringing to our dwellings tho pure water of Lake Michigan on wheels, Yo obtain the pure water of the lake, which ¥e now only see from the high places of our no- ble city, it will be necessary to xo five miles or more beyond the crib. Let there ba constructed Water-tight boats something Nke our tugs. di- vided into compartments, lined with zine, which can be filled quickly by the use of a powerful stenm-pump attached to the engine that propels the boat. When the boat comes to its dock let Water-tanks on wheels be brought alongside tho boat, into which the pure water may be pumped ‘and then hauled to any divelling where the in- Inates esteem pure water of guificient value to pay say 25 cents per barrel for it, Tho details of the scheme I only hint at, but Tam quite sure it may be made successful and remunerative and & most beneficent undertaking as a sanitary ex- Pedient. Who is there having a true conscious- ness of the condition of our drinking water who Would not become a patron of such an enter- prise? For one I would be willing to pay double the price I have named for a barrel of the pure araten of ihe: ake. am anticipating loud guffaws from people outside. who have read of our Wator-Worke a something marvelous, but we must listen meek- ly, for our griefs “ smell to heaven.” AGRICOLA. IIiss Jepson’s Case. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, CHICAGO, Juno 2.—I have been ina state of boiling wrath ever since I read the first account of the outrage upon Miss Jepson; but as I read the continued account of it in my TrIBuNz this morning, and of the bailing of one of the scoundrels by one of Chicago's Aldermen, L have not been able to keep tho atfuir out of my mind atall. I want to know if it is to bo that these beastly villains are to get free of anything short of the extremest penalty of the law in sucha case as this; and I wonder if the sense of justice, and the love of Uberty and safety, and the hatred of vice and crime, have become so blunt- ed by the frequent repetition of such borriblo crimes us tl that they will stand still and not move a han or spend one dollar to send these wretches to jail. The crime has been committed, and we have laws to punish the criminals, and would naturally suppose the law would be applied in in this cuse if ever; but it seems there 4 need of money to employ lawyers to prosecute the case. Then let this need be supplied at once, and Jet us have the it lawyer in this city, if ine to make sure that this crime is severely punished. There is doubtless to be no want of money on the other side. Ald. McAuley is prompt to sign the buil-bond for one wretch, and bis Sutanic Majesty must feel very grateful indeed to Ald. McAuley for setting this imp of his free to outrage another womnn who may be so terribly unfortunate as to fall into his clutches. Andit has come to that the people of Chicago are compelie choose between letting these vile wretches con- tinue their course of beastly crimes, and putting their money against that of 2 man they have elevated to tho position of Alderman in order that they shail not!- It is a rather (iecouraging spectacle, butif the people will only move an act it will be nhealthy thing for this city, If they do not, and this crime goes unpunished, it will be a stain 80 foul upon the name of Chicago that the greatness ol its commerce will never wipe it out. You may call upon me at any time, Mr. Editor, for 35, to be used for the punishment. of these-villains. Respectfully, ONONDAGA. The Case of Miss McKee. To the Edttor of The Chicago Tribuns, Curcaco, June %.—It is more than two years since the trial of Miss Alvina McKee for the shooting of James McElligctt. At that time the public mind was agitated by the importance of the question which was to be adjudicated in the conviction or acquittal of Miss McKee—viz.: the right to resist private injuries,even when they are disguised as legal proceedings. Had Miss McKee been given the benefit of a broader de- fense; had the true history of the conspiracy which infuriated a woman and resulted in the death of one of the instruments of villainy been developed, the subject would never again havo been brought before the public, either in the courts or otherwise; but such a course was discountenanced by her counsel, and sho was merely acquitted, without any redress for the injuries she had sustained. ‘Therefore a suithas been instituted against those parties who haye rendered this lady homeless and im- poverished. One of these arch conspirators, against whom. suit has been entered, is Mrs. Cornclia Chad- wick, who resides at No. 27 Pine street, Numer- ous efforts have been made to summon this Woman to appear and answer this suit, but without success. Right here in the heart of tho City of Chicago she defies all law, secludes her- self in her dwelling, and thereby rdfusea to be sued. The Sheriff acknowledges his inability to serve the summons, although his Deputy de- clares his belief in her presence in the house. Let the people of Chicago bear in mind that this isastruggle of right against might; be- tween a defenseless woman and money and its influences. Is it possible that a person can shut her door fn the face of an officer and eny, prac- tically, “You cannot serve a suuimons upon me; I will notsubmit to it; Idefy you”? Are our laws so defective that there isnd way of getting suck people into court? Tho process of attachment is unavailable to the poor on ac- count of the enormous bond required. Has Miss McKee no remedy? A ‘Lwice since the trial alluded to above Miss McKee has sued one of the partics to the pres- ent suit for moneys had and received for her uso and benelit, and, although she obtained judgment against him in a Justice’s Court, upon appeal to the Circuit Court the reverse judg- ment was rendered upon a technicality of law. Ejected from her comfortable home, penniless, deprived of her means of support, though broken down mentally and physically, she bas struggled bravely against adversity, and is still endeavoring to sustain life with the pittanco she can earn with her needle, which, in conse- quence ed her shattered health, never exceeds a week. If our laws are so defective that only the poor and penniless can be brought into court on civil process; if Miss McKee must bear her injuries without redress, the people of walenee have an interest in knowing it. P.F. Cousta Jepson, % the Editor of The Chtcago Tribune. Carcaqo, June 26.—In the summer of 1850 the second Woman's Rights Convention held in Ohio had a resolution reported from its committee to the effect that “the difference in sex is one of education.” Of course this is not what the Committee wanted to say, and was not what the Convention wanted to say, yet there is good reason to belfeve the resolution would have been adopted but for the determined opposition of two people, and the discussion brought out the sentiment which sought expression in those words, That sentiment is, that women, if prop- erly educated, would be independent of mvn, and have no need of protection. Man's old-timo office of protection was to bo abolished. It was denounced-and ridiculed as a relic of barbar- ism. Speakers declared that women were just as much required to protect men as men women, if they happened to te the stronger. All that women required to secure independ- ence ree, muscle, and this wus to be acquired by education. * ‘When reminded of Christ’s prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem, and the peculiar hardship of prospective and nursing mothers, they sneered, but reluctantly consented to some slight modification of -the resolution; but the idea of woman's independence of mun was the prevailing sentiment, and this had been caught Prom the two preceding Conventions, the first held in Syracuse, N. ¥., the second in Salem, 0. The proceedings of these Conventions were spread broudenst over the reading world, and brought to hundreds of thousands of women and girls discontent and » spiric of bravado. The farmer's daughter must go out into the world like the farmer's son, to push her fortune, and the way was opened for every pimp and pro- curess to draw girls into their neis with offers of work and wages. ‘That love of personal decorn- tion inherent in all animals became the powerful aidof the new-bora and most unnatural spirit of independence which has drained our rural districts of female labor and left us to eat wheel-grease instead of butter and to import eges by the million, while our butter-makers and poultry-raisers ‘ate filling city brothels or begging work in shops at starvation prices. ‘nis most unfortunate girl, Cousta Jepson, is butone of the tensof thousands of victims of that daredevil independence which leads women to forget they are women, to ignore the peculiar dangers of theirsex, and to uuman men by re- leasing them from theirdutiesas the natural guardians of * the weaker sex.” ‘No woman has a right to expose herself to the danger of going alone into a strange city to hunt work.. This girl was doing wellin Mar- shalltown, saving money,and must have been with friends. ‘hy dijishe leave them without suitable precautions "to insure her personal safer; f No one pities her more than I, who believe that her ravishers should be identified, then banged on the spot. J3ut I also believe that the police should be required to arrest and imprison every woman_they find in any dangerous place after dark. The boast of “Not afraid,” which takes women into danger on frivolous errands, ia simply s plea of-idiocy. A woman who is not afraid to risk her Pen in the power of a ruf- fian iga fool, and should be protected, with or without her consent. Everything possible should be done for this girl brought into this horrible dilema by that viclous public sentiment which teaches, or tol- erates, the prevailing spirit of masculine inde- pendence on the part of women, but her case should serve to kill that sentiment, end teach our woman’s rights leaders to remember that women are and will continue to be women, and, as such, subject to dangers unknown to men. _ Jane Grex SWIssHELM. ‘The National Manuscripts of Ireland. ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, CHICAGO, June 2%.—There are three very nota~ bie yolumes in the Chicago Public Library at present, These are the National Manuscripts of ‘They consist principally of fac similes each of the best-known Gaelic, Latin, Norman, French, and En- lish old books produced in Ireland in ancient times, and that have escaped the multitudinous wars and invasions of which that unhappy country was 80 long the theatro. Judging by the remnant that has been spared by Dane, Norman, and Cromwellian, the early lit- erature of Ircland must have been enormous in quantity; and it seems & strange inversion of facts that the nation of all others of medieval Europe that was most noted for the production of books and a love of literature shonld be the one which to-day stands, if not the lowest, of a page of at least very low in the scale of education or love for books, However groat the distaste for books that too many Irishmen evince at present, it is certain that in the past they held them inthe highest veneration, and produced them in extraordinary abundance. A glance over the table of contents of the three volumes under notice will convince the most skeptical of the amount of the existing manuscript matter in the old Gaclic language, not to speak of whatis in Latin. The tive vol- umes generally known as tho “Five Great Thooks," coutain almost as much matter as ex- ists in: manuscripts of equal antiquity in the whole of the rest of Europe! These tive books ure known by the names of tho” Book of the Dun Cow,” the “Speckled Look,” the “ Book of Leinster,” the “ Buok of Ballymont," and the * Book of Lecan.”| They were written between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries; but the wrenter part of thon: consists of copies of manu- scripts of vastly greater age. The * Book of the Dun Cow,” for instance, isacopy,or rather a fragment of ao copy, Of ‘the original, com- piled in the Jntter part of the sev- enth Sree Bome, ot hese books are very voluminous, and contin probably as much mutter as the Old Testament. Ono of the strangest things connected with the ancient literature of Ireland is the fact that’so little of itis yet translated, There is not an ancient manuscript known to oxisteither in Saxon, old French, or Norse, that has not been translated and retranslated jong, ago; but since the death of O'Donovan and O'Currg, very little has been done in the way of translations from the old Gaelic. There are only two volumes of the “Brehon Laws" yet translated, and there are ten volumes yet tobedone, One prime cause of tho slowness in bringing out translations of the old literature and laws of Irctand is tho apathy of the nation at lnrge about them. Peo- ple who have been bora in Ireland, and whose + immediate ancestors were English or Scotch, might naturally enough be excused for not tak- ing much interest.in such a class of literature; but when we see the loudest-mouthed Fenians and self-styled Nationalists just as apathetic and jndifferent as the Saxon about rescu- ing from oblivion the strongest: possi- ble evidences of their country’s an- cient civilization, we are forced ‘to come to the conclusion that there is very little hope for Ireland until her children lefirn to love her better, and that a great dealof what we hear about the patriotism of the Irish people is an exaggeration. Another difficulty exists about transhuting these old documents, and thut is, the extreme antiquity of the language In which most of them are written; and there is yet an- other difficuity—namely: the contracted form of the writing. However, if the present race of Trish people cared to know what these old books contained, and to purchase them when trans- lated, translators would be soon found in abund- ance. Whatever has already been done in translating and copying those old books has been done nlinost altogether at the expense of the British Government. Matthew Arnold in his “Celtic Literature” speaks in the strongest terms of the immensity as well as of the interesting quality of the old literature of Ireland, He has in fact paid ita higher tribute of praise than any Irish writer ever has paid it; and Germany, as a nation, has done nearly as much to bring the ancient litera- ture of Ireland under notice as Ireland her- self has done, Within the last twen- ty-five years a school of German philologists bas sprung up, and bas given a great stimulus to the study of old Gaelic; and it seems probable that if the ten volumes of Brehon law tracts are ever translated the work will be dono by the scholars of Germany. It must, however, be admitted that John O'Donovan was the man who not only gave the first real stimulus to the study of ancient Celtic literature, but who saved a good deal of it from destruction. There rere great piles of vellum manuscripts in many Nbraries in Great Britain and Ireland that ex- cited hardly any interest, simply because thoy were known to be Irish, and littie curiosity, be- cause no one could decipher them. As soon, however, as some of them were translated their quaintness and beauty excited considerable in- terest, and O'Donovan kept on translating them as loug as he lived. His death seems to have doen followed by a general apathy with regard to early Celtic literature, and with the exception of what his assistant and contemporary, O'Curry, translated very little has been done since his death to familiarize the English reader with the hidden treasures of the early Celtic. But the work achieved in the three volumes of Irish nationa! manuscripts under notice is a step in the right direction. Nothing can exceed the admirable style in which those colossal volumes are brought out; no ex- pense seems to have been spared on therm, and to the lover of literatyre, no matter what his nationality may be, or to the artist, itis hardly too much to say that they are the most intorest- ing books in tne library; the Irish race may feel justly proud of them. It is true that they are a treat for the artist as well as the antiquarian; the fac similes of illuminated letters from the Book of Kells and other manuscripts are amongst the greatest pictorial works of art ex- tant; the very writing is a marvel of beauty and style; In fact, the illuminated Irish manuscripts, as works of art, exccl those of any other nation. Large as the three volumes are, they are not large enough to give specimens of all the'Irish national manuacripts;, but all the important ones_known to exist in Great Britain and Ireland, not including the Brehon law tracts, are mentioned in a summary attached toeach volume, and the time when the manu- scripts were written is also montioned as nearly as it can be ascertained. There are, however, large quantities of Gaclic manuscripts in the li- braries of the Continent which are not noticed in these volumes. ‘Iho citizens of Chicago, the Irish ones especially, should feel grateful to Mr, W, J. Onaban, as he was mainly instrumen- tal in having those magnificent books got into the Public Library here, and it speaks well for the literary taste and enterprise of Chicago that she was the first city in the United States to be- come possessed of such expensive but most, in- teresting books. ——— THE GORMANDIZER’S FATE. ‘You beat yourdog, your blows the as3 must take, Your horse you bit and rein; Man, monarch of the world of brutes, you make A bogy of your cane. = You find a calf, and straight his liver fry— With parsley deck his nose; ‘The steak, gashed from the patient ox’s thigh, Unto the gridiron goes. e: Roast or (with capers) boiled the sheep appears— The hare jugged—to your eye; To capons you convert the chanticleers, ‘A Venus doves to pie, O tender pullet, cackling at the dawn— O quacking duck sedate— O gobbling turkey, izuorant that anon Embalming truflles wait— Upon them all you cast a baleful eye. ‘You spare not the spring lamb; And the doomed porker reads upon his ety: “ Mene. Tekel, Peres, Ham!"* You fish the river, and you seine tho sea; . ‘The brook your trout-line feels; Through you so many widower shad there be, So many orphaned eels. You obdurates surdines and soles shall find ‘To prayers they offer up, Having in butchery breakfasted and dined, On slaughter will you sup;. Massacre quail and woodcock in the air— ‘To salmis bring thom down; The while the cabbage cruelly doth glare Upon the partridge brown! "Tis not alone to feed, your bloody steel Is aimed, nor at fume thronts: For you the bear, the beaver, and the seal Are mincs of overcoats. You slay the tawny lion "mid tne heat Of Afric’s desert red, To make a bumble carpet foryour feet Beside your luzy bed. Murder is not enough—with torture fell You your jaded sense revive: “The rabbit,” so your buoks on conkery tell, “ Pleads to be skinned alive’; His carmine hue the lobster to assume Boils in the bubbling pot; And on your fork impaled to living tomb The living oyster’s shot! Bat it shall come, the Day of Vengeance due, The Night of Punishment, F When, uaderzround, within four frail pianks, you Eternally are pent. ‘ For you a recompeuse in kind shall wait; Your crime shall breed its curse. : With joy the brutesshall pay you back your hate ‘That tired the universe. ‘The vilest of atl creatures they will take— ‘That you would most despsse; The merciless worm shail go and windows make In the orbits of your eyes. On lip, tongue, palate, paunch, he'll feed his fill, ‘And on your skull devour That which a week ago was Life and Will, Pride, Fantasy, and Power! ‘The brutes will laugh to see the Man of Prey Naught in the great All become— ‘The Eater eaten and a banquet gay For the avenging worm. ‘The New York Fashionable Mermaids. English Paper. Audacity is not exactly a rare quality amongst tho reporters of the American press. Arepre- sentative of the New York Herald, however. ap- urs to have distanced the most daring exploits yy the members of that fraternity which we have hitherto seen recorded. Alone and undisguised this gentleman has visited, for purposes of de- scription, a fashionable ladies’ buthing estab- lishment in New York, and tho account of his experiences appears in the Herald of May =. Without any previous arrangement, the reporter simply presented himself at the receptiou-room and requested to be admitted, as though the re- quest was the most natural’ one in the world. Some objection was raised by the Jady man- nger, who, however, ultimately consented to submit the proposal tw the bathers, and presently returned with the intimation that, “considering the circumstances,” the young ladies had consented to receive their visitor. A little delay was requested for toilet prepara- tons: bat, strange, W say, only ten minutes was thus consumed. ‘he adventurous scribe ac- knowledges to having felt some embarrassment us he wus ushered.into a long corridor opening into a series of darkened dressing-rooms. In a gallery ruaning rouod the swimming-tank sat a number of ladies; and, asa proof of the high- class character of the establishment, it is re- corded that they had “$10 parasols beside them,’ We read that ‘sirens from Fifth avenue, naiads from Murray Hill, and mermaids from Washington Heights were Coquetting with the brine.” They swam around “us if they were vivified statuary; they dived, they leaped out of the water, und played pranks with each other; while somo of the more ngile performed marvelous ‘stunts’ on the hor- izontal bar, nnd turned somersets backward and forward, until the place became a sort of South Sea Island, blushing with modern improve- ments.” They linked themselves together into what they called ‘a ratlroxd train,” and the newly-constructed figure “glided around the reservoir as gracefully as a sea-serpent.” The fair bathers, it appeurs, were incused In a spe- cies of modest ball-room costume, without trains, andin some instances the edges of the garments were ornamented with lace ruffling,. which, although moist, contrasted pleasingly’ with the snowy skin beneath.” The Herald's re- porter should remember the fate of Actazon, ENGLISH MANNERS, Caste and Family Pride—‘ Stand Aside, I Am Better than You. New York Home Journat. A trait that has often been noted receives fresh treatment from several Independent critics, all of whom are competent authorities. The first is the well-known art-author, James Jack- son Jarves, who thus writes to the Times of this city: That strenuous belief in social caste which finds practical expression in the family feeling, “Stand aside; Lam better than you,” is the dry-rot of British. civilization. It isolates sets and individuals, poisons social happiness, misplaces and mismates peopic, and breeds clusses of Ishmaclites, whoso sympathies and fellowship are limited to their own restricted spheres, Ono might suppose that the chief suf- ferers would be inspired with o desire fora sounder social constitution. But the malign in- fluence of snobbery intensifies as it descends in society's ordering. I know an elderly person af- ficted with the notion that at some: remote Period royal blood had found its way into her ancestral velus, but which, even if true, had not prevented her from depending on the charity of strangers—republicans, too— forahome. Having occasion one evening to go out, the favorit servant of the mistress of the house, # highly-respectable Italian woman, vol- unteered to be her escort, adding, as the crowd was great, “perhaps. you had better take my arm.” The English lady par excellence, a3 she considered herself, not daring to be separated, inthe haughtiest and most offensive manner dauntily took hold of the upper part of her sleeve with two tingers, holding it as if she were voucbing carrion, 4 pantomime which amused even more than offended the good-natured italian. ‘This manifestation was an apposit ex- ample of the base manners which mean ideas of caste generate. Unfortunately they are not very uncommon in some shape or other, sting- ing to the spirit when not brutally violent to the body. Can we marvel, then, at the distaste in which many foreigners hold those Angio-Saxons whose lives are passed in an unworthy bondage toa social syater which engenders such bad manners and obscures many excellent traits of character at bottom? So long us each caste or coterie strives for exclusive privileges as its own especial birthright, is arrogantly seclusive in habits, condemning everything not to its own manoer born, just ‘so long will the ideal man of English high life be a half-fledged, hot-house-forced being, of imperfect manners, exercising an unwholegome intuence on society atiarge. As it descends in socialscale, this type of humanity, being stripped of whatever gild- ing comes from aristocratic. training, becomes more intolerable and derogatory to human nat- ure. Could thiselement be eliminated from the social atmosphere of England and replaced by the personal independence and courteous self-respect of the Latin races, the world would possess those fine specimcus of the ideal human- ity which it is ever longing for, if not actually seeking. There are sound fundamental princi- ples in British character which need only this grafting to become altogether beautiful. The feeling which gives rise at hotne in. British cir- cles to contempt of those of a different social stratum is apt to be intensified when directed toward foreigners. A young American lady of my acquaintance, bearing a family name well known in the English uristocrucy, while sitting ut a table d’hote dinner in Switzerland, next to a party of English tourists, heard one of the indies, who had read her name on the hotel register, referring to herself, ask her companion, “Is she the Hon, Miss of London?” “No,” was tho reply, in a pointedly contemptuous’ tone, “*she’s only an American,” knowing and intend- ing that her remark would be overheard by the lady herself. To give greater sting to the gratuitous impertinence, another added: “You Know no American goes into good society in London.” Comment is unnecessary on this species of cultivated vulgarity in’ high lite, which is first and worthy cousin to the woman- beating of the lowest classes. ‘The Saturday Review, which certainly may be supposed to have an inside knowledge of En- giish society, substantiates the above criticism in this wise: “ Whena man takes a house in a good country neighborhood, armed with the best introductions, and is invited immediately to dine at the best house in that best neigh- porhood, he has every reason for self- congratulation; but let us observe how he passes his evening. The chances are that he finds a large party, and that he and his wife and the curate are the only guests who are not staymg in the house. The names of the jadies, written on strips of paper, are thrown into a china bowl, and the gentlemen draw them like lots, in order to see_whom they are to take into the dining-room, The stranger finds him- self between two ladies whom he has never scen before, nor is likely to sec again, while his wife is between the London doctor and the agent of the Irish estate. The party in the house have thoir own jokes and interests. Atthe mention of some apparently meaningless words there is immense amusement, concerning the origin of which the outsiders are absolutely ignorant. The subjects talked of ure chiefly the incidents of the day's shooting, or the details of a prac- tical joke piayed in the house the night before, or the doings of some friends of the family, who are mentioned by their Christian names only. The host and hostess are genial enough to the new-comers, but they introduce them to nobody, and talk of little but the common friends towhom their acquaintance is duc. This is su much the case that they almost seem to say, ‘We should certainly not have called upon you at all if Lady Plantagenet had not asked us to do so, and we have uudergone the nuisance of having you todinner (once) to please her only.’ When thedin- ing-room is deserted most of the party, both maie and female, xo into the billiara ormusic room, while only theunhappy outsiders, tho hostess, and one aged lady remain to ‘do company’ in the drawing-room. The new neighbors naturally feel that, tnough present in body, they are, s0- cially speaking, out of the whole thing, and the servant who announces that their carriage is at the door seems like an angel of mercy come to their relief.” The writer gives more instances of the samo éort, and concludes nis stinging indictment of English society, after some pointed remarks on the prevalent rudeness of gentlemen who make those feel uncomfortable whom they do not care to please, with tflis observation: “And if tho man of modern times is an olfender in this re- spect, the woman is often even more guilty. She revels in the art of being politely disagreeable, and enjoys nothing so much asseeing others feel themselves to be in a false position.” Offering American comment on the English review, Mr. Charles Dudley Warner remarks: “This ‘is a delicate topic, and if an American ad recorded such an observation of English so- ciety he would have -been set downas a boor. But since one of the recognized organs of polite society hus made it, we add that itis con- firmed by the experience of American ladies, who haye been greatly bewildered by what to them seemed a sort of ‘good manners’ with which they were unacquainted. This sort of rudeness generally comes from English women; this ignoring of a stranger guest in a drawing- room, this directing the conversation to private and jocal topics in which the guest could not possibly join, this art of being politely disagree- able. American women staying in English houses, by invitation, of course, have been sub- jected to exactly this sort of treatment by the ‘English women present, who, ‘instead of doing everything to put them at easc, make them all the time conscious that they are ina false position. We do not undertake to say what this sort of social brutality urises from: it has a deeper root than any conventionality, such as that which forbids the introduction of a stranger to the people she meets in a drawing- room oratadinuer. We are content to let the Saturday Review characterize it. But in no American household would English visitors by any possibility be so treated. It is a part of the national kindliness which is inherent in Ameri- can woman, and which no one prides herself on as anything uncommon in the way of good breeding, to put her company at ease, to avoid family or private topics that shall isolate the visitor from the conversation, to study the tastes and inclinations of the guests, and to make them feel that their enjoyment fs upper- most in mind. And there is no other basis of a genuine hospitality. A CLERICAL VIEW OF BRADLAUGH AND INGERSOLL. BRADLAUGH and Ixcersott—ignoble pair! In the New World, this one, with subtie speech, Seeking men's consciences to overreach, And make Leer Sieg Ee the Foul look fair: That one, al polluting English alr With creeds that only mocking fiends should teach, ‘That Virtue wound, and social bulwarks breach, Unloosing serpent-vices from their lair. ‘Why marvel we that Christian England chafes While this man fa her council-chamber sits, ‘Whose tongue her outh of fealty mistita, And none to ‘izeae, Brite. Gou. vouchsafes! His antitype this side the sea deman ust Engiand’s love for Bradlaugh, at our hands! 3 JUNE Ee Wriulas C. RICHARDS. Silver threads amongst the gold has been superseded by “ Lender Eyes of Blue THE STAGE. Bad Business and Poor Players at Our Theatres. Boucicault in London—His New Play, “Inchavogue.” Chat upon Events Past, Present, and to Come. ~ OUR THEATRES. City theatres, With the exception of Haverly’s, have had a hard time of it during the week; in- deed, with this exception, it is doubtful if a dol- lar more than expenses has been taken in. The managers assign as causes the weather and the races. No doubt those causes had something to do with the thin attendance, but it would havé been strange if, with everything favorable, such attractions as we have had had beon generously patronized. Thoy gave us at Hooley’s* Kerry Gow,” a bad specimen of the Irish drama even when presented under the most favorable cir- cumstances, but particularly objectionable when given with the cast cogaged in its reproduction last Monday evening. But we will comment no further, nor will we urge Mr. Murphy to get a new play. We are tojd that for years Joe's days and nights have been consumed in poring over ‘MSS. in the hope of finding unother“ Kerry Gow,” that he has become convinced that another such play will never again be seen, and that he has settled down into a quiet content, Dalziel mis- judged bis Olympic audiences when he concluded to give them a light, airy, Parisian farcical comedy. Thoy didn’t appreciate it, and if they bad they would have found that not an’ actress in the cast, with possibly the exception of Miss Ling: had any conception of the spirit of the work. Of Holand Reed and Ed Buckley we have spoken already. Both did well. They conveyed a very distinct impression, however, that they were strange cats in .a strange garret. ‘Toward the latter part of the week they seemed totake kindly to the situation, and, bent upon getting allthe fun out of the thing possibic, “guyed” the whole performance, their efforts in this direction pleasing the audience. infinity more than thelr work in the beginning of the week. Tony Pastor brought to Haverly’s last Monday night a good variety company. and he has been well patronized; in fact, Tony did the business of the week. “AN ARABIAN NIGHT.” Among dramatic events the most important next week will be the production of Augustin Daly's “An Arabian Night,” one of his New ‘York successes, and the first for some time under his direction. Daly in New York, after two or three years of failure, has recovered the pres- tige he won for himself during 1869-76. *‘An Arabian Night’ is woven from the following material: Alexander Sprinkle, a retired broker, notwithstanding the unpoétical nature of his business experience, the fact of being married and settled, with a mother-in-law, and in evory way associated'with the monotonous humdrum of conventionality, retains much of the youthful romance of hia disposition. Ho is constantly relapsing into bis dreams of unreality and ad- venture, and the consequent of this indul- gence in the realms of fancy are often of & commonplace and unromantic nature. Haroun al Raschid, the far-famed Caliph of the “Arabian Nights,” is the hero whose ad- ventnres he most delights in. To such an ex- tent does he carry his admiration of the great Eastern potentate that the impulse to imitate him is at times irresistible. Like Haroun al Raschid, and even assuming that name, bo frequently wanders forth smid the crowded streets or deserted squares in search of amuse- ment or adventure, relieving distress, reward- ing merit, or punishing cruelty. As his fortune isample, he can gratify these. whims, his gifts being usually of an inexpensive nature.—an un- limited supply of caramels to a party of chubby children or ua present of food and clothing to tha family of an impoverished artisan. Thus there is little injury inflicted upon the royal ex- chequer, but the inconvenient gratitude of some of his protégés occasionally subjects him to an- noyances he would part with a handsome check to be relieved from. This is particularly true in the case of the adventure forming the motive of the comedy. Wuile making a railway journey he has accidentally encountered a young lady whom he finds without the means of con- tinuing her .journey, when, to her astonish- ment, she is extricated in the most princely manner by a gentlemanly-looking stranger, who presents her with a through ticket to her desti- nation, and on being asked his name, that she may gratefully remember it, is given the high- sounding title of Haroun al Raschid, The sudden appearance of this young lady, who turnsout tobe asromantic as himself, and who tollows him into. his own house to thank him and repay her ob- ligation, throws him into astate of unenviable embarrassment, for Afrs. Sprinide is absent from- bome on a visit tosome relatives, having left her mother, Mrs. Wadabout Weebles, in churge of her husband's domestic comforts. Now, these attempts to play the port of Haroun al Raschid are looked upon with the utmost disfavor by Sprinkle’: mother-in-law, and, although the worthy broker might have little hesitation in presenting his,visitor to his wife, he isso terrified at the idea of acknowledging his relapse into his royal impersonations to his mother-in-law that he resorts to a faisehood. Kate Sprinkle, his niece, is hourly expected from Europe, where she ist school, and Sprinkle is reading the letter announcing her coming when surprised by the visit of the fair stranger of his railroad journey. So he hits- upon tho lient of presenting Rosa to the stern old Indy as his niece Kate, handing ber the letter in evidence. At this point of the complications Kate Sprinkle arrives, and Sprinkle is obliged to hide her in a neighboring hotel. Then Mrs. Weebles takes an unaccountable fancy to tho supposititious niece, and endeavors to bring abuut smitel, betweenherand the selfish Lafa- vette foodle. Signor Hei Berrown, the cham- pion cannon-ball tosser of the world, comes in search of the youug lady, who turns out to be the Idd Roseof Yucatan. Here Mra. Sprinkle returns to find two niecesand a Mr. Herbert Rumbrent, a painter in search of 2 model for his historical picture, and makes the confusion worse confounded by mistaking the cannon-ball tosser for Kate Sprinkle’s uncle, and the Wid Rose for Mrs. Weebles’ niece. Ars. Weebles then plans an elopement between her precious neph- ew and Rosa, and the cannon-ball tosser thrashes Lafayette, while the innocent cause of all this confusion finally straightens everything out to the satisfaction of everybody. The cast will in- clude Mr. John Drew, Dir. Harry Lacy, Mr. E. P. Wilkes, Mr. George Parkes, Mr. Charles Lecierq, Mr. Frink Bennet, Mr. Percy, Miss Ada Rehan, Miss Blanche Weaver, Mrs. Charles Poole, Miss Catherine Lewis, and Miss Mary Sylvia. BOUCICAULT’S NEW PLAY. Dion Boucicault just now appears to have re- covered his London popularity of ten or fifteen years ago. Absence has made tho heart grow fonder, and in the English metropolis, where a year or two ago his services were not in much demand, he finds himself aguin a lion. By the contract, “The Shaughran” was to have been withdrawn at the Adelphi Theatre June 19, but business has been so great that a contiou- ance has been determined upon, It is rumored that he has centracted to supply John S. Clarke. with comedies for a season of 10 nights at the Haymarket, commencing in August. The first one will be “Mar- riage,” rechristened ‘The Bridal Tour,” a com- cay which falled at Wallack’s and proved disas- trous on the road in this country. In Septem- ber the Lyceum will be opened with Bouci- cault’s “Corsican Brothers,” and they say he is writing a drama for Henry Irving founded on “Don Quixote.” “Contempt of Court” is in preparation at the Vaudeville, and the manag- ers speak of following that comedy with “For- bidden Fruit.” Boucicault’s new Irish play, to which we have already referred, is to be called “ Inchayogue,"—a title of a play, by the way, already familiar—and from # cablegram to the New York Heralc its'plot runs thus: “ An Irish[piiot, having saved a ship with a val- uable cargo from being wrecked on the coast, receives a large reward as salvage. He re- nounces his former occupation, and is eager to found a family and see honor shed upon his first-born and heir. This former pilot, now grown a proud, ambitious man of wealth, is the characterin which Dion Boucicault will appear. The London scenes are devoted to the advent- ures of the pilot's first-born, who, despising his native land and the traditions of his fathers, .mixes in London society and among Englishmen as Dudley Walsingham, denying his Irish origin entirely. This leads to an estrangement tween father und son, and the latter, deprived of funas, is finally compelled to seek his fortune abroad. The father grieves at the conduct of his son, aud becomes half-witted. The closing scene contains some sturtling sensations, scenic and otherwise. The boy, who his found fortune id “home “destroyed happiness of old jome “destroys aa his father hopelesiy insane. He has a partner whom he expects to arrive in the next sbip arriving in England. Outyide the house a storm rages. Suddenly a cry is sed thata Jarge veasel is drifting on the rocky coast, and will inevitably be wrecked. A call ig made for men to enter the boats and pilot the shiptoa safe anchorage. None know the safe channels except the old pilot himself and bis son; but tha old man, idiotically Hetenitie exunge be made to understand the ‘danger. @ son volunteers, His battle with the waves, his reaching the ship's side, are described by the onlookers. The old pllot’s attention is aroused; and when he hears that the ship hus been swung into safe unchor- ‘age, he suddenly exclaims: “That is my son! Only he and 1 know that anchorage!” His senses return; he recognizes his son; and when the son is reconciled to his cousin sweetheart, whom he rather ignored in London, the curtain fallson happiness all around. The piece is in four acts, the action of two taking place in London and af tho others in the west of Ireland.” In this plot there is a uggeativeness of Meckhn's “Man of the World.” OUR ACTORS ABROAD. ‘i eww York Mirror. 3 : A new and Incrative offering for professionats bas been discovered abroad. London is be- ginning to depend for its plays and players upon fecund America, and a clever actor or a popt- lar troupe can now include all England in the route for the season. What the Danites havo done at Sadler's Wells, and Modjeaka at the Court, and the Knights in the British Provinces, and J. S. Clarke at the Strand and the Hay- market, and Boucicault at the Adelphi, other American. favorits will accomplish at other En- glish theatres, and wo shall find that English managers will depend very largely next sen- son upon this country for their attractions. Up to this year tho law of supply and demand bas worked the othor way. We haye been importing actors and plays from England. Now, the tide has turned. and it is not unreasonable to suppose that, for the next five yearmat least, w2 ahall be called upon to send our best actors and actresses abroad at the very time that the great West requires more troupes than ever before to amuse its large and liberal population. All this means more work for professionals, and’ more work means better salaries, and more certain employment, and longer senzons.—in short, it means a prosperity which nobody could have anticipated two years ago, and which will make the profession one of the most remunerative, as it is one of the most honorable, that any man or woman can adopt. ‘This is good news, but it is not too good to Professionals have’ only to respect themselves, and take advantage of the coming prosperity in the proper spirit, and the results will surpass the brightest dreams of the moat sanguine prophets. ‘The best season abroad is the worst here, so that, when the requisit organization is effected, American stars and troupes will cross the ocean. as regularly as they now go from Cincinnati to Chicago. May, June, and July are the best months for theatricals in London. Then Pariia- ment is in session; all the fahionables are in town; money is plentiful, and the theatres are crowded. On the 1th of August shooting be- gins, and London; thins as rapidly as New York onthe ith of July. These Londoners who set the fashion remain out of town until October and November; December. January, ‘part of February are devoted to the pantomimes, and the regular theatrical season does not in un- tilthe pantomimesare fairly over. An American manager, commencing his season here in August, and playing through until the middle of April, can count upon three splendid months abroad.’ He will find the English managers more than ready to meet him half-way. Mrs. Bateman is already arranging for ler’s Wells a year ahead. Ifthe American season atthe Gaiety proves reasonably-successful,— and we do not think that Raymond and Florence will both fail—Manager Hollingshead will at once arrange fora regular anoual visit from American attractions. The be and the Olympic are always open,—although the London , Olympic is as thoroughly played out as the Olympic of New York. ‘The Opera Comiqne wilt be in market as soon Bs D'Or ly Caria bas finished: hia new theatre. The Court, like Oliver Twist, ! ask for“ more,” ufter its taste of “The: Banker's Daughter” and Modjeska. The best and most enterprising managers in Londoo— | Henderson, Farnie, Wyndham, Bruce, the Love- } days, and Mrs. Bateman—have been to America; and know what we can do, professionally, scen- * ically, and musically. They may be relied upon - to utilize this knowledge, now it the way mw: open, and England must be ied a3 practi cally annexed to this country Hereafter. LOCAL NOTES, Dalziel would like to take the Olympia and plant it at the bottom of the lake. George Holland’s “Our Gentlemen Friends” will be seen at Hooley’s on the Sth. The work of reconstruction at Hamlin’s The- atre is being pushed forward rapidly. a ‘The baby—Mabel Decker—of Dalziel’s “Oak- on Hearts” died on Monday evening. A whole week has passed without tle projec- tion of a new enterprise by Gen. Haverly. “The Shaun Rhue,” a2 Joo Murphy drama, will be given at Héoley’s to-morrow evoning. Mr. Luke Martin, now with Joe Murphy, goes with the Agnes Robertson troupe next season. . Manager Sprague is in town. His circus scheme, they say, has not been very successful, owing to bad weather. He will reorganize and start again next week. In addition to “ Box and Cox” at the Olympic. “The Black Crook,” under another name, will be seen. We are not exactly sure whether Reed or Buckley enacts the Crook. ‘Wil! Hayden and wife have gone to California, the destination of Cole's Cireus. By, tho way, it is said that Cole is interested with Hayden in the Tom’ Keene starring tour. At the Nations! during the week -Mattie ‘Vickers and Charles S. Rogers will play in amu- sical prece called “The Players,” x which “Love in Livery” will be presented.” “Tony Pastor,” said a variety man the other day on tho subject of Tony’s charitable deeds, “why, Tony has buried more men and women connected with the profesh an’ erected moro tombstones than any other man in the business.” ‘The Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon, recently erected by English and American sub- scription, will for three or four months in the year be timed into school of acting to turn out Garricks, and Keans, and Sembles to measure. Augustin Daly reached the city yesterday. He will remain here to superintend the production | of the plays at Haverly’s during the next four weeks, which have proved successful at his theatre in New York. “An Arabian Night,” “The Royal Middy,” and “Wives” will constl- tate the . The announcement is made.that they—we mean the new “glue brothers,""E. J. Buckley and Roland Reed—will positively appear in their specialty, “ Box and Cox,” to-morrow evening atthe Olympic. They further announce, forthe benefit of theatrical managers who will madly rush for them, that they have new printing, new dialog, new business, and a complete wardrobe, and that if necessary thoy will carry their own transformation scene representing Virtue and Perseverance rising triamphant from the ocean of adversity. GREEN ROOM GOSSIP. Janauschek has gone to Germany, where ske will remain during the summer. Modjeska, in a letter to a friend, says she will not come to America next season. Miss Ada Gray has closed her traveling sea- son. She will probably appear atacity theatre goon. In the autumn Joseph; Hatton, the novelist and dramatist, will visit this country profes- sionally. According to the Boston correspondent of the Mirror Robson and Crane may possibly add “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” to their repertoire next season. There is now in conrse of preparation an elaborate record of the plays produced at the Union Square Theatre. wi traits and ac- counts of their authors and of the actors who took part in the representations. The record is for private circulation. ‘ 2 A destinies young dam! mondaine. anda noted Parisian actress, Mule. Laure He: has re- cently brought ‘the architect of ‘her bath-room Into ‘court. It seems that the bath-rdéom of Bille. Laure wasa perfect combination of ele- gance, luxury, and case; there were Venetian mirrors, Smyrna carpets, Turkish rugs,—every= thing brilliant and costly that canbe fi ined. One fine morning Mile. Laure was pre; to get into the bath, dressed like Mother Eve, when there was a loud explosion, and windows, mir rors, chandeliers fell about her with a tre- mendous crash, Mile. Laure, thinly clad as sne a8, ran, with that modesty which is her the scene oh wi chief characteristic, from disaster in great terror, valet, and maid, and the male and female, opened wide their eyes on sec- ing this nalad rushing among them and seeking protection. It was afterward discovered that the gas-fixtures had been poorly put in, and that this was the cause of the disaster. Mile. Laure sued the architect and won. The architect un- gallantly appealed from the decision of the courts, but the baigneuse has been successful again, and will receive an agreeably large sum as damages. A BLUE MONDAY. - Cloud, and wind, and drizzle, and cok— Caps on the Iakea-riding, riding: Gast, and ree and Gh itey ie rops on the low gi 5. a When husbands threaten and womencry, ‘Things at sixes and sevens tly. (Why. Jack is gium as a man can be, And Gill is pouting petulantly!) Home like.a bee-hive, yesterday; Shone with a blessed store of honey: Aleck! the hive is barren to-day, And. all for the want of money, m That as of love and tenderness ally Temper stole, I guess. (For Jack is glum as a man can. And Gill is pouting petulantly.) Money! Mere dross. When held in hand, Miserably quick it slips thro’ flnge: Down in your pocket—understand?. A minute or two it lingers, lingera. “Your bills come in with a rush som And always when { am out ot dimes,” (Quote Jack as glumas a man can be, hile Gill keeps pouting petulantly.) Mat would beco me, of the Jyorid st att eo were Mon an lue, I wonder? If rain and halt coatiaued fo falls And everything clashed in tempest-thu: But time slides Monday out of the case, ‘And Tuesday dawns with a ahining face. Goa Gils tho dearest Of property of prope1 2 ‘LILLY 5 oA