Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1880, Page 3

THAT NIGHT IN JUNE. {By the Author of ‘‘Phyllie,” ‘"Molly Bawn,” ete.) “ What a charming day grandmamma!” say3 Mr. Wilding walking into the small morataz- room in Penywern Road, Sout! eae ¥ and directing a genial glance at the faded re- latins of what once was beauty, reposing in an antiquated armehatr. It 13 a charming diy. Cutside, the sun ts beating heavily on road aad house, and such luckless belongs a5 must walk abroad. The whole earth 1s bowing before its majesty, going hurably, and imploring with faint gaspsa breath of ‘alr. Inside, the bituds are all pated down as though to exclude it 1 in the grate a fre—an actual, roaring, mad- ning fire—is burning. «Charming, ts 1t?” says grandmamma, dectin- ing te see thé gentality of her visite ature prodace a charming day in tats age? I She ts sitting with ner knse4 Well Into the fire, and with t that usually greets her grani upon her withered lips. “Why not try @ foot-warmer and 2 says Mr. Wilding. furtively wiping hi * You don’t take half care of yours: during the present incleme: ylask what has beought y Gay?” interrupis she, with an Sfactowoness diticuly to co.abat. customed Wo her incty nei bivg to him, nd a here to vant of ane Ba isan ty; antas Hecnby ts 2 13 less to Mecuda, he hardly takes It to heart “An Overpowering destre to 322 you,” he re e bul with ag adauraol? assay auitabllty. whois hresslag “Ke-p tien tor yo Mt you wave aay. Soe coasiteraion for ay today, Whatt an intelligent person yo * meariaars be lansuldly, me ~Lut, of ¢ LILLE Yuu ts 1 npos WUFSe, & Very Second sty @ here this Moratug. Tae t ne Opera, ant { taoasin € ike va near Pactt gala.” d to hear her wita you ato € { Nethueyg of the sort,” s bh emphasis. ose palae wel oun evjeci to trusiing ber or. I always say Jo aan mal @ foolor she net ton the fe ued t OE as | | siy how | SkS he, WIth so mica ngs her, mouth, and the di Brenda,” says grandnan and re awe faded er wad hodex fushion, gs up to Leiy X'S chair, and standing bellad her, on the top of It. So stauding, ber face iS den Irom grandmamma. I bave some Uckets for to-night. I want grandmazina to let you come aad as ir Pactt,” repeats Wilding coldly. Siiss Molyneux is preparing to Zo into essta- ics Over this news, When sh Is stopped py a Vigerous gesture of the hand and a frown from her cousin. Changing her role oa the spot, she says indifferentiy: “ [have seen Patt! soofien. It ts good of you, George, to think of me; but really— Says grandinsmma, maxtog a pralse- Worthy but utterly hopeless eifurc to turn ner Beck so as to see the lower-like face bendiag Over her chair. ** What Is it yousay? Notesre? I beg, Brenda, you will not try Lo coay the hi 12 airs that distingushed, and render obaoxtow: the youth of to-day. I think yon ought to go. ‘The tickets are bought, and I Object to extrav- sganee. Certainly you should go, if it were not fer Disney. Is it that you think ne would ob- ject?” anxiously. “| Was not Untnking of Lord Disney,” saya the girl proudly. Wilaing ts staring very hard at her, an4 she lowers her eyes; acd tiushes hotly—sue searosiy knows why. Perhaps she fears he may see le Tepughance, aud detestation, aud deep grief taat disfigures th= beauty of her face. ~ Even if Brends ts to marry Lord Disaay,” Says Wilding, calmiy, carefully particatae about giving Bim his formal utie, “I do not % interrupts the old dame fleresly; “If in- me with ‘lis? te bts coast a faint. a Wilding, in a low turns his glance wha Stal course she will unimna, shriily. pou ah eLgazel Brenda aciuirable, so s! tlements? Taurry htm,” goes on “What! tarow even a ment tbat has laste Was fiftesn! able e2- ida g0e3 to the opera wita asks Willing. {a an Impa3stve tone. mt know, lia sure, w =e you know, at atric.” Lis age,” says would be g slowly. eorge?” ty generaliy accompanies He is r He {3 jast im bis prite. “So difitcult to define that word ‘prine, murmurs he provoktngly. erred. He cant be you, grandmam: Perbaps, 1, 1 may as weil see Pattt ore the seacoa closes,” puts In Breada is you Toadvise my going grand- I sliall ace-pt George’s offer. * Well, be sure you take my_ late! “Ga can't have my servants kept up all night,” says Lady Molyneux, determined to sustala bi ubamlabillty to its dreary end. “Half-past ten fs my hour. And as José will be wisa you, you et yourself in and go to bed, for one alght, Without assistal Core hates late hours.” “But of course I | he 1s even younger than ip’s mald, 15 virtually mis- yrantzing evea over tue Tyrant grandmamma, every one sees the sense of thts remark. “Tshan’t forget, dear, ening Lady Molyne somewhat ay 8 Brenda, straigut- 3 cap, Which ‘ha3 gone ring the heat of argumeat. uppose the matter has arraag1 says Widing quieuy. * by, graud- mia I shall see you to-night, Breaia,” ‘ng out his band. She gives him hers, aad s. to his, eyes luminous and glad S Lot care to Conceal frora him the sail: 13 upon U Perhaps she raly knows how dangerously sweet that cure is Isit Indeed Pattl or George Wild- S Yoloe, She Likes best to hear? She hag mised tO marry Disuey, and she will marry Of course, that 1S quite settied. Nothing can that: but Just now—now—for a litle While | i ¥ LOU be happy? And Jose will be with her. thing can be sweeter than Oace or twice before she has gone to the Opera with her aud George, and she has always been so engrossed with the music and so deaf to all other sounds, and so absolutely determined not ‘oenter into conversation of any sort, with hy one, that Brenda and George might as well hay- been alone. “Yes, lo-night. she says softly,” and smttes at him again, and sends hit away outwardly calm, butwith a heart tnat curses fate aad btaudmamma, and, above all, Lord Disney. At the appointed hour he calls for her, and at iis command she descends the statrs beaeath the gaslight, clad in her prettiest gown, with a soft blue ‘cashmere cloak around her, 2nd 02 her head the daintiest of swansdown hy from which her eyes look out, dark and misty and loving. Her hair ts roaming at its own sw®eet will across her low broad forehead, bi color is somewhat heightened, altogether su loeks dist ing’ steps t ta night brougham, and away to Crom Well read U0 take up Jose. taken up! (the expres «= Alas! Jove ts not'to t ston of sorrow ts «lt my own); upon the siairs with a huge white fleeey shawl twistet round ber unhappy head, she stands, “ike Niobe, a! tears.” “It is toothache,” she explains ta mams4 tones, That fend amongst pains has latd hod ef ber, and having her safely tn nts clatches, retuses to release her without a heavy fine Fred—her husband—has gone fur & dentist to extract this Bne. “ And of course it 1s dreadful, darling, raaliy quite teo dreadful, but you see I can’t go; s) George must have sole change of you to-aight.” ~ Grandmamma will be so atigry,” says Bron da nervously. « Why need she know. Grandmamm 13 an old bore,” says Jose, with heartfelt meantag. She is very you and {3 @ person of ee niable spirit; a8 @ fact, mamma with trreverence, and ¥ith and opeuest never find it out,” she goes. fend in wilt te bad listened to all her: theories, a year I shouldnt Fred now. Ont dear, oh! dear, in. “Sie will cheerfully as ber, “It I world-worn be Married to will he never fs only | | Seong! | exclaims come! This pain ts matdening. There, go | ,FOUtwO. Andtake yreat care of her, . And bring her hom? directly, you andi shall tell Fred to supyress all the dentist to morr»¥.” oe very deceitful, doesn’t it?” say: ni poor \ “It is nothing wien you are used to it,” re- piles the married sis‘er. “AndI am safe tobe foundout; I always am,” says Brenda “ Weil, itis all grandnamma’s own fault. Oa her head be it,” says Jos», who seems to enjoy the situation far more than the otner two. “Never be a bugbcar, Brend; you see what aw- ful mischief accrues from making oa2's self a mind if this hate- 1S Go away, do. And come and see me to-morrow, and tell me all about iu” kno} ‘The Opera ts charming. and Pattl excels her- self; but Ume files, and bright things fade, and | soon the curtain drops, ‘and Spanish cast fall; and Brenda, with a sigh, piaces her hand upon her coustu’s arm, aud’ soon they have made thelr way through tie fashionale thr and are speeding homeward through the serted streets. As they arrive at number seven, some clock in the di Pebimes twelve. They rua uy steps, an nda pats her laud in her pooket | 10 draw ont late y ey. “Be sure you dou’ commit yours’ abou Jose's defection,” says Wilding head stops short, struck by the chan; + George, did I give you the k a frightened tone. “No. It was on the sideboard whe: out. [told youto remember it. i got it?” “Thave not. J never brought {tat all, I must have given it to you,” de-veraiwiy. “T am sure you did not. “Nevertheless try. ‘T every pocket you have, Brenda tat He does try every pock=t, one atter ty but in vain, no key betrays It “Well, never mind.” s:y: only put a good face on the the servants.” “Ring! You might ring ustil mornta: might Fing watil you were D acc in renda With th: linp wien ‘and Lebody could hear you. your pocke s Mr. Wilding, at 1 sé of the awfulaess earth shall wed y night. The “Cnaste d and goue to bei; tue stars Not a sound d's ura3 the slien ad; Except aN oc. tonal cough from Fenmo: Ing Wiib the broagham ing ome, and who sits upon ti medel of propriety, and of $9 mauth as glances tn their direciton. aps he fs wra) i dreains of days gone by whea he ai nmore were “a-courting secret sympathy for the two on the door-ste, A huge black cat, hideous asa gnome springs from some dark and witha welrd yeil rushes across ihe roa, and disappears dowa some area at the opposite side. “this ail comes of doing what I knew was wrong,” Says Brenda presently, fladlag her companion silent. “I wish,” ungratefuliy, “yo1 had never asked me to go to that horrible pe “{ thought she sang very well,” alluling to | Patt, “And I certainly coulda’t be expected know how things were golng to tura out, Mr. Wilding, somewhat agyrjeved. “You shouldn't have listened to Jose; shou d have brought me straight home, all your fault,” says Brenda most uafatriy. “Well, 1¢ wasn’t I forgot the lateh-key, any- how,” says Mr. Wild: unwisely incensed. At this unlucky speecd ils cousin, seeing at last a good opening, gives way to bitter re- proach, “Yes, that 13 just like you,” she sa tears gathering in her lovely eyes. brald me now, When I am most uahappy, It you Were in trouble, George, I would nos treat you so.” Jon’t speak to me like that,” says Wilding miserably. **] am far more upset about this un- fortunate matter than you can be.” “That is impossible. Grandmatnma can’t look at you as though she meant to devour you ta | one bite.” “If I had anywhere to take you,” goos on George, “any home of iny own, with some old | aunt at the head of it, for instance. Lots of fel- lows have aunts who live with tuem.” gradzing- ly. “But 1 never saw the aunt that would live with me; and, of course a bachelor’s rooms Wouldnt do, not itl paved the streets all night. Why on earth amI not married?’ says Mr. Wild- ing di-tractediy. “Is this a titne to talk nonsense?” asks Brenda with sudden vehemeuce. “Of course, if you were tnurtied, I should not be here at all, and that would end the whole matter.” She is looking up af Lim from under the be- witching 00d, two angry eyes, that say iar nore than thelr owner is aware of. Her lps are Guivering: two crimson spots enrich each rounded cheek. Wilding, gazing at her extreme beauty, loses his head. “Iam not sure of that,” he says, unsteadlly. “I think if 1 were marri fa, and you oaly, would be standing just there, “George! George! have you forgotten?” en- treats she, shrinkfog from bim. “] have forgotten nothing, not even Disney,” returns he, recklessly. “I Know you don’t cate for that Bal old corpse, laid out by Poole; how could you?’ And I love you, darling— darling. Forgive me, Brenda; I saould not speak to you like this how, and here, but it has been on my heart for so long, and—I can’t help It But, if you will give me even the faintest encouragement, you shall never marry Disney, I swear.” Perhaps he might have said even more, but Miss Molyneux has burst into tears, and has covered her face with her hands, and 1s 5)b- bing quietly but bitterly. “Don't do that, Bread. ‘xclaims he passi ately. “I can stand anything but that. La: here,” desperately, “something mast be done, you know; you can’t stay here all night. Walt one moment.” Running down the step3 he touches the de- Voted Fenmore s elbow, and says somethtag to bim ina low tone. An earnest conversation follows. ‘Then comes a faint sound as of silver falling upon silver, and then Wiidiag returas to his cousin's side. : “Come,” he says, quietly, taking her hand. “I have arranged for you. ‘Tiere 1s no help for it, Brenda; you must do a3 1 tell you.” Brenda, stillerying silentty, suffers hersel‘ to be led to the carriage, and togetuer they enter Wagan, and drive away. 3 At luncheon, next day, Brenda, 1s stngularly silent. Lady Molyneux has fortunately asked few questions about last night's proceedings, and Lord Disney—who Is with them—disdata3 to seek Information about anything In which Wilding has had a part. Theodore, Brenda's brother, fs also present. Grandmamma’s indifference {s all that can be destred; Disney’s sullen allence equally happy; | and, infact, ail is going merry as a marriaze: bell, until Theodore unconsciously, bat fatally, Jets fal a Dombshell that biows the blessed calin to atoms. “I say, Brenda, it was well you forgot your latch-hey last night.” says this misguided youth with the utmost tontunie. ‘1 found 1ton the sideboard atter you had left; and but for tt could Lot bave let myself in, as 1 have lost my | own.” His sister turns very w “Brenda’s—my latch-k you mean,” says grandmamma quickly ut you dre-rn, Theo- gore. Brenda had tt with her at the Opera; she herself could not have gct in without tt.” Brenda casts an anguished glance at Theo- dore, who fs—and, what 13 worse, looks—ais- unctly puzzled “ Explain, Brenda. You surely had tt,” says grendmamma in a voice that admits of no eva- | sion. Disney, laying down his knife and fork, | Sazes with balf-closed eyes at the embarrassed | girl. iad what, grandmamma?” asks she faintly, to gain ume. “What? ‘The latch-key. Are you deaf?" says ma. grandmami Brenda ts silent. Les are at any time abhior- at be useless, ie. rent to her, and now to tell as — Loreigee has been mar! “ Brenda, speak!” says mamma in awtultone. “You had it with you?” = “Of- course she had! What a fuss about nothing. It must have been my own I found,” breaks in Theodore, lying vallantly, but vainly. “T had not, grandmamma,” says Brenda bravely, but in accents hardly intelligibie. “Then pray how did you come tn last night?” “J did not come in at all,” replies Brenda in an agony. “Grandmamma listen, let me explain—” But grandmamma 1s quite past explanation ‘She has risen. and is stunding with both he: | oid withered hands pressed upon the table. as thengh to support her under this crowain: horror, and 1s glaring at the terrified child with tierce dark eyes, “Am I to understand,” she sa: “that you spent last night out of my hose sof Jou Would let me speak,” says Brena sobbing. “Answer me, wretched girl, Were you with your sister?” ‘No. She—* Not here, nor with your sister, but with George Wilding, I presume. Ha! Not an- other word! I always knew what wouid com> of your intimacy with that degraded young pedns is all, shocking “shocking.” says was isney tn low. aggravating manner. “, er°—brilantly—“shocking! ma! ly- ‘Of course, Miss Molyneux, this, thts young man—1 aving found more favor in hong very maree sad,” with an elaborate i cousin. it than I | her proj ‘Theodore, rising abruptly. coes to his sister’s side, and passes bis arm around her. “Look here, dmamna, 2, that,” he says with a frown; “It ght do at t1e “Duke’s,’ but it 1s out of place here, ana I wou’t have Brenda abused.” Here some one with a grateful smile, removes: his arm from Brenda’s wats, and piaceshis owa there instead. It 1s George Wilding, who has entered unannounced; just a minute or two bs- fore a small, plain woman, who appears, and Stands, unnoticed in the doorway, with a pretty’ swansdown cloak sand hood ‘upon her arm, that contrasts oddly with her own meaher garments. “Who is abusing Brenda?” demands George Wilding, looking quietly upon tne assembied group, yet with acurious light in his eyes that Marks him dangerous in b “Who is casting evea the Legh 1 fal He shali answ er to me for ti. at Insolently. at mistake, you know. | It Js ali my fault,” says Tuevsure, with extreme coLtrition Here 1 n the doorway, | i the conversati comes | ought you feared You | , Tarning nore, a3 pily are here, y: Of all your goodness Ws x How you te fortable in your own house, w the siupidity the arrang nouse— found herself oat ta une ©: how you.yourself, Drought ber =<fely back here chis morulng. * Oh! I'am sure, my lade soachnan? wife, cropping a cu:tser. aly sorry I €0) do more for Mis M i dob she was desperate uncomforia I did my best.” “What ts all this?” says grantmunmt “T fall to understand; aud rid au uDointaaton tome.” “ When we found tt Impossit servants, aud knew the latch-ke gotten, Ptook br : where, If pot exact she was at least a3 safe as Duchess,” with a Kind bow ady; ou to ring t up your | been for- Den’ cry, 3 are to» sacred to b2 wasted on ‘such a miserable ovessioa as the present.” ~ Did Miss Molyneu night?” asks Lady couciman's Wile,” w {ng to wuderstand she ported. y lady; she came tor a vice to her. Ipyseli this morn! specttully to E and are lone th which Fenmore do any time is most dange “Lam quite Mrs. Fen B: & 3 3 n for your strange bod | ange Of sheets at avery mac nda in a suited toa! d against George's gray der. | ig, turutag to ard you with fan » this Is hardi “AS Tor you, si the discouifited lord, “iaving iy own ears decline the bouor Vii a Unls young lady, I bez to Just as well you did $- bad uot the siillest you.” inte: on of marryiag | ‘s exclaims the aristocratic fossil, taking | fire at tits insult. “No, sir, not U! contemptuousiy course, the D after all, when one natural. What bond December * Brenda,” begins wrath. “GO and put on your things Tupts George sternly. your sister.” Go, my love,” ina ford whls ihe trembling girl, who at the word gladiy from the room. “You, behaved infamously wo h determined to earry things \ “And when you sald she she another night beneath you truth. Jose wili receive he with ber until 1 marry hes. 1 ¥ ber heart broken. If you wish to her for this morning's conduct, you at Cromwell Road.” Having made this gallant suggestion, he has the good sense to bea: an tnstaut retreat “T must say I think you Ge: e every bitoft it" says Theodore to his stricken grandame. “You have acted toward Breada, for the last two years, like a regular old Tartar, and nere’s the end of 1.” “Leave the room, you wicked boy,” com mands grandmamma in a shriil lone; and Taco- Gore for once obliges her, more, I'thiak, be- cause he wishes to go that! from any htgh sense of Guty, “ Acd I have alw: hun.ored him tn ever, Hees mo pat her e; I deserved such treaument—1’. “I can’t help saying I agree with Tacoiore,” says Lord Lisney solemuly, with agzravating slowness, “Eh!” says grandmamma, tastaatly puttiag down ihe handkerchief, and turoleg v0 face the enemy with renewed vigor, as she eeents hos- tility In a fresh and unexpected quarter, ‘Yes, ye: You he acted abominably,” goes on Disney, who fs evidently not afraid 0: an old woman. “You hays accused thai charming young lady, your g-anddaughter, of an indiscretion she would sxorn to comml. You have jumped at concinstuus, and [ts—tts — its execrable form, mada, to jamp at concli- sions.” “*Form!’” says grand namma, witheriogly, “what ts it you mean that? 13 it the it Could there aud Ja,” Inter- | Ke you to Ae) you spoke ti ne Ball Bt can sve her the vile manners of the preseat ‘This 1s a cruel shatt; w iu spite of Poole and Lioby perceptibly. You should have tavestigated matters before going too far,” says he, somewhat depressed. “so should you,” retorts she; “ you were in a vast hurry, methinks, to relinquish your bride ’ “T blame you for it all,” re urus he flervely. “Tut, man! Don’t think I care for e ther your blame or censure,” says Unis indomi abd} old dame, regarding him scoratuliy. “Geor Wilding will marry her now, and that pu sa finish to tt, And I'm not sure I’m not glad or tt. Demanding your pardon, Disney, I begla think be is the better man of tne two!” “ Your opinion, madam, 13 of course tadisout- able,” with alow bow. * ut yet I flatter caysel‘ your granddaughter was wiliing enough t) be come Lady Disney, until you— “Did you ever hear of young Lochinvir?’ asks graudmamma, with @ maddening cac <le: “it remiods me somewhat of your case. Ani What was that George Wilding satd about May aud December?’ iia—ba—good, very | good:” fou are an odious old woman!” says my lord, losing ail patience. “ Eb?—where’s your vaunted manners, Dis- ne}? Your courtly bow—your Jncompirabic smnile? I will trouble you to leave this roo a. this instant,” says she, strikiog her gold he wed tly bea, 1, Win #3 nd the aud Kirnme cane upon the floor with considerable force. “I obey uu, mnadam, willingiy—and now take my leave of {t, and of the hous#,and of you too, I hope, forever,” returns he furiously, a11 pein the room aud through the hail, passes beyord the portals of number sevea— never to return!—Zemple Bir, A Revived Art of Conversation. Js there no great principle which can be isd down as the basis of a revived art of: converss- Uon? We think there is, and we will proveed to develop it with the modesty that should erer eos the announcement of a new discovery, lowever important. And, first of all, it is hope less to endeavor to revive the past. If conver- Sation ever really tlourlshed, and we almost doubt it, the conditions which produced tuls vigorous growth have passed away. What siuc- cess it had was certainly owing to the men of genius who devoted their lives to it. Nowadays men of genius have other things todo. Tuere are never very many of them, and they are not allowed to waste thelr time. If talk ts to be re- Vived at all, it must be popularized, like every- thing else, and brought within the capacity of commouplace people. Now there is one way by | Which even the stupidest of us may make his utterances invariably interesting and often amusing, it s—here comes the great discovery eee as0D the conversation of fools so barren is that 1t is a slices, thelr principles and their weaknesses, wi Y not be left fn Such hopeless igaoranse ‘ot wht: ther the worhd ts tending; for, atter atl, the fools are the mest twportant Class; the Clever moa Preach and write and work, but with all yet 80 unlike, Who share thelr homes but 2 he aca ae mame re break down the invisible arrier and ee tat the real life of those ch Joyed ones smile and wu and jous: ave borrow trom improved in the | of the real thoughts that are working fn Wont teas Beak is rl in So the men flatter and le because they think and see int + States mr Pate and talng 3 they the women like it, and the women accept it all because they itis man's nature; and ths en think are empty-headed angels; } compar. | season, begtan. | Yon of the | and the entertainment was prosounced | | much of the original mu: | York, Wil be withdrawn after 0 | ‘The fi | movement to bis 0. } ovo symphon | drama is in @ worse condition MUsICAL AND DRAMATIC. } —The managers of the theaters who have been fortunate enough to secure good attrac- Uchs Pave bad no good reason tn the northern eiies to Complain of the way In which the sea- sen Of T*St.+i bas opened. The past two weeks with thers bas been a succession of good houses; ile io Washington, with plays equally a3 the honses pave been stu; or at least only aderela, With Rosstat’s beau- ses here, except at the it 45 nlling the thea- rk,-bnt' was played here with the smpany to almost empty benches. This improvement af both the Na- nd tt $s to be hoped that tt WHI continue, key’s “O Be Joyful Cottere,” in Wallace Walter's new piece, A Flock of 2 fu) week th Baltimore, ‘sbext week. Li 1a crowded houses tn New York and Patia tel 13 unde) lined tor the National next wee bas been mai lally Chaaged, a attrscth ns of the play inereased. Magi chet appears for the wees commenciug 0: — The het weather of the early 2 TY prejudtetal cf ifaymarket rs. Mi ama 13 Very Soon Ld be gl — Jerome Hopkins’ Samu an oratorio in some thirty @i g with Bost lrvady begua, under the ¢ composer. The | work has e much laterest_ there, and suc’ Oscood and nvers ha i dence Lo ald PRLS Sepoy's Bill by Herr Mana’s Crystal Palics . Hopkins being the mented. 's new opera house ia Indian- was opened by Lawrence Barrete in +f tis week, Supported by R. E oy Y, In which are Loals Ja ainwright and Kate Meek. Political magnates of both parties w hearsais bave Mr, Mavch Raa lately — Gey. English’ encii dle Joy anie success, 0 Laity of Lyon. p beautiful fairy story Cin ste of Roast 1, with asec, and other music x Maretz« tng at Col, Str Park theater, ange and demoast-at —'The burlesque of tie opera of Carnier nglish Burlesque Compaay, at ecnth Street Theater, New Us Week to make room for an English version of La Fille 1 Tambour Major. — John McCullough will begin his New York th nue engagement In Vir y Will be prodiiced with spe —The New York Oratorio Han, will begin its seaso ini iiahe concert wili be given in Noveaiber, stein 1s sald to have added a pan Sum phony. to add one more und he will have € Ss. —Mrs. Bouctearit, affectionately through this country as Agnes Roberson, for tresses ever Inspired a stronger personal itd, has commenced a farewell tour Mirough * siates, opening last week in Paladelpnia. was received there with all the old time and has lost none of that cunning in her art which was wont to fascinate lovers of the drama, —On Monday evening, October 11th, at Hav- —k eventh embered opera wiil be given, entitled je by Mr. Dudley Buck, and the W. A. Croffut. ‘The’ mustcal reputation of Mr. Buck leads to the expectation ofa musical sensation. Croffut was tursaerly a Washington correspondent of the N.Y. Trivune. — Mr. Joseph Jefferson entered upon the third | ind last week of his engagement at the Arch, Philadelphia. THis representations of the char- acter of “Bob Acres” Is a masterplece of acting hat hes won the highest approval of the crit ics, 28 well as Of the populace, and it flads a mn plece of equal artistic merit in Mra. Drew's “Mrs. Malaprop.” —Comley & Barton’s Larrn Tennis has been received with favor in New York. a3 well as in Boston. It is commended for stmylicity of plot, nt dlzlogue. quaint concelts, preity musi¢ noveity In tue costuming of the charac- ters. ed on Friday last in the Liverpool to join ta rakeseh Opera company. Her tirst appear ance will be made in Boston. — Mesdames Patti and Nilsson are tea. E ing a’ alos. Minnie Hauk 13 at Ouchy, Mts+ ‘ter her short but suc engage 4 W 2ke @ profession Ul wur ally evident which Lave mad» in the United States are brought before ua, with the result of showing an absolute dearth of dramatic power.” —John T. Raymond has a new play, 4 Thread of Silk, written by Arthur Matthison, uh Englishman. — The regular season at the theater will be opened Octob: Fytinge In a new society Beauly. 3 UE some dress busin — Daniel Rochet, Sardou’s play, 18 fins fixed upon as the opening plece ta th York Union Square theatur's regular — Theodore Thomas proposes to org large chorus in Brooklyn, as well as in New York, for the performancé of choral works in connection with the concerts of tue Palusr- monte Society of Brooklyn. — Max Maretzek is not so far from tells the Cincinnati people that society plece: ireaks, farces, and empty nonsense hve drawn full houses and helped to degenerate the Amer- ican stage.” —An English journalist and dramatist on a visit to this country writes to the New York oves:—Vt 1s a melancholy fact that to-day the New York than it Was Jour or five years ago. The variety show has taken possession of the New York stige. A lew years back I made a tour of the New theaters. Comedy, drama, and cupied the boards of the leading s' mounting and dressing of the pieces were ex- celient, tue acting line, the audiences large and appreciative. To-day minstrels and baifuons cccupy the temples of the drama. J don’t opject to minstrels and buffoons. Ilike them, Butt like them in their own halls. Mr. Wailack flads himself without a mnanagerilal policy. “I like your pisy,” he said this week to an intimate Iriend of mine who read to him anew E.gitsh New York Park 4, by Ross A he into the hand- 2 ty play ppuy going | drama, “it would suit my company, it would be acredit to all of us, but it istod high-toned for our market, The public Just now must be amused, you must make them laugh; they don't want strong filustrations of life, example; of irtue triumphant and vice defeated; they want tion, color, movement, laughter, and you must Send them away happy. They will not have anything thatis sombre. The coadition of the drama is dupiorable in New York at this mement.” — It was Bogumil Dawison, the German trage dian who, at the Winter Garden Theater, New York, spoke bts lines in German whiie others used the English language, Salvini probabiy occasion in writing as follows in relation to his tour in this couatry with an Eog- lish Foes company: “As to the effect which the differences in the two languages will pro- duce on the ears of the audience I see very weil myself thatit cannot produce a very agreeable effect. Nevertheless, others have tried (ue Ger- nan language with tne Eaglish, and I am told Ubat the effect was not disagreeable, and it will be much less dis: Ne with Itallan, as the language is so much tobe preferred under suc i circum:tances to U an. In aay eventit i$ a game of chance. We will see th result, I have come to tils conglusion in order to free Myself from the exorbitant demands of the Itailan artists, with whom It is impossible to ne- gotlate. When the word ‘America’ is eran Uney ask treble what they are worth.” Savini will make lis first appearance in Booth's The ater Ge Ree abirty “fret of Ji etre! a3 “Othello.” Miss ie won wiil be the ““‘Dzsdemona,” ani Marie Prescott “Emtita.” Out of deference to the the Adventists have kind! of the world this year to the 22d of November, It would ve a blessing to allot us, however, it we are going to have thesame kind of a time over it as We had last year, to hurry the thing up and have {i over some ‘time in Octobar.— Burlingion Hawkeye. A Lewiston (Me.) man has trained a cat to catch squirrel, H2 takes the animal fa his Ars, Scotits abort unl he sees @ saulrrel in a tee, ont, varaee the Gat up on the trank, lets her go. | ‘The cat a! ouce wnat chase, captures the squirrel and returns it to her master, pr-sideatial election ¥ posspanes the end L’Affaire Burdett-Contts. Lonpon, September 6.—A nen’ may take some cre¢it for havin from Commenting on a subject about which me gue of every gossip and scandalmonger been incessantly w: for some weeks Dust. Everybody one meets professes to know all about the circumstances connected with the contemplated marriage between the Baroness Burdett-Coutts and Mr. Wiliam Ashmead B irt- Jett, and_the opinion expressed almost invaria- bly exhibits an ignorance and a lack of commoa charity which does not increase one’s admira- tion for one’s species, Very little belug kaown of the facts, the scribes who deal habitually in fiction have had a fine field. Perhaps the most delicious story was that told 1a a Phila- delphia paper, in which the baroness was re; resented a8 having taken a faucy to Mr. B: telt when he was at Oxford, her practice be to entertain ten or twenty of Ue most brildaut young men from that_ unl ergpty every year at her country seat in Wales. “Tae imigina.ion which produced thls has no rivalon tats sid of the Atlantic. Tam old fashioned enough t ihink Ubat the anarilage of Lady Burda Coutts 1s an affair with which tie public i nothing whatever tO do, and think 10 st peers UWO persons, Was hive yt to act as tney thins fe Tual interest, wtp erence Of the b Al ranks of soci a Las Whol WIS ud ne gre jection Was mI understood e Su b. resisted. An astuie recnmmended Uuat ad taken of th w ssisston Of tbe properiy. y cace, Would go to this realty SS devin. “Lhe prohivicors Was undsubiedly tram sd from matiylag auy- becy Who happened to be an aliea, bay to ex- ii hur person who fs’nv loa to Whica it 1s how being pac to its spirit; aud if pavlt telsm Of bei flairs 13 warranted at au, GhCSS 18 certainly entitled to our §; Ma paintul ajlumma, lorced upun iy conduct of oue Ww siosest Hes of Die iving. ary 4 bound to her by Ube di aud gratitude, erlstic oi the astute law 1S SOON as Unis Tue plece of Dusiness cin be iunmediately spread au ec version Of it lar and Wide, To anouner maa was owing lo bls 1g) that the state enough’ warrant’, Lully Cau devise, © Of his relations with Un Lot au affair or yesterday usiIves by entertaluloy us " iS fa whien it 13 the nav wigar minds to revel. It the compulsory with trem Coutts’ bank would seriously impair li jortune, She would sul be immensely wealthy, and, moreover, she 1s not the woman to be deterred irom Going what she belleves to be right by contiderations of this kind. Bui tere ls sone hope Unat matters will uot b> pushed to this extremity, A compromise is likely to be arrived at, and pending that, Mr Bartlett will endeavor to establish’ his legu! viatts as a British subject. ‘The optatou o: ligh authorities supports the idea thathe wii succeed, though the question raises an entirely novel point in iuternational law, and wii, it decided tn Mr. Bartlett's favor, affect the na- ionality of a great many Americans who are blissfully unconscious of the legal subtle: which threaten their cltizensulp without offe ing the compensation of an enormous foriuue. ‘The baroness ts at present awaltiog the ssue at her country residence, Holly Lodge, High- yate. I may reimark, in passing, for the beuen. Of the tmaginative joutnalist in Philadelphia, should he be endeavoring to extend his kuow- ledge of the subject, that Lady Burdett-Coutts as hot, aud never had, & country seator any property in Wates. Holly Lodge is a pretty iittie place, surrounded by charming grounds; but it is ‘Ler house in Stratton street which gives one an impressive idea of the vastness of her resources. Stricuy speaking, there are two ich Jresents an imposing ‘The exterior, however, yrinth within, ‘Th: rooms 13 bewildering. Y. pass iLrough = gail eS, dressing rooms, concert rooms, ball rooms, getting glimpses of ‘Staircases which ' seem to jead nowhere, and feeling generally that the architect must hive been a imaa of aston ishing fertuilty or tind. One of the most strixtaz objecis is an immense cabinet containing a col Jeclion OF China Which probably bas few rivals. ‘The greater part cf tunis enormous dweiling, however, 1s Wrapt iu gloom and white holiaud: Since the death of her intimate friend and com- panion lor itty-two ars, Mrs. Brown, the baroness has cnlertalied Little company. tically she lives in only three rooms, Uurou a witidow of one was dragged whe eaiticd to the Lower. rywhere there 1s & complete absence cf ostentation. ‘The pI a them rare, th Sa terrille scarcely sugy multituae ot perbaps the Fuse 1, repre Ize, Whe y thre: ile Gining-table and disturbed one’s di- Jon. u he energy extracrdt y of the baroness are y which many & y. Her capacity for own, and tuough her benevolence 13 bo! "SS, nO begelog Impos- ler could ever hope to cutwit her. She hag ali the shrewdaess of the Charity Organization S> ciety without the calious that body noibing giore than a systen police. Her knowledge of polities and pol clans extend over half a century: aud as she cau write as well as speak with no little grace and foree, lug of S an Whose unblemished life aud magnificent benefactions have made her nam a household werd, when a matter which cox cerns her happiness 1s the subject of ribald mockery to every chattering slunderer, who, to use the strong languave of Macanlay, has -‘a front of brass und a Longue set on fire of—” well, a place which one would not choose for a sum: mer retreat.—Vhe Parisian, Customs at French Restaurants. Speaking of wines, we must wara our readers not quite to accept as gospel all that the wine list ata Paris restaurant may promise. In the first place tle Cliquot is sure to be an imitation (except in cme rare instance); for it all goes to England, America or Russia, and there ts hardi,~ any to be had in France. Then, it you are giving a jarge din: you may be certain that the third bettie of eoampeens is notof the same quality as the first, for the restaurateurs count upon the effect of the first bottles, the repletion caused by the dinner, already half over, and the general jovialty of the company to allow them to pass Off inferior wine, and no examination ot the cask or bottle will lead to a discovery of the rau ‘There is a good story told of a famous restax- ratcur Wwartuly recommending to a cus‘omer, whom, although rich, he knew to be no connots- seur in wine, a certain Bordeaux, which he alleged to be of some splendid old vintage: “I can vouch for what I say,” urged the restaura feur, “for T know it was put 1a bottle the day my grandtather was baptized.” The innozent victim consented and the wine was brought in— a bottle so covered with cobwebs and dirt that {t looked more like a large rat than anything else. The “cradle” was handled more Crefatiy by the butler, and the cork was drawn with much ceremony. Imagine the horror of th» poor restaurateur and the hilarity of the cus aos when a fy ‘came buzxing out, rejoicing a> ing regains 3 Another fact worth remembering is that no matter what you ask for, even if it be a fried piece of the moon, the waiters will invariably reply, *Yes,” and cither bring it to you, or. oa relurnin , aesert with sorrow that unfortu- nately there is ro more left! Mér known author, tried this joke emptorily order: rengo. “I am monsieur,’ more sphinx?” exclaimed Méry, isumnent. iin SS Jor ‘was frightenea hold teverr‘and was 60 seal oe tne violent action of to death by a dream, at Awaken- Deart hitherto retrained | qa HOLMAN’S PAD. HOLMAN’S PAD. HOLMAN’S FD, ACKNOWLEDGED BY EMINENT PHYSI- CIANS AND THE PUBLIC TO BE THE ONLY REAL REMEDY FOR MALARIA, CHILL- FEVER, DYSPEPSIA, CHILDREN’S DISEASES, LIVER COMPLAINT, E1C., IF YOU GET THE GENUINE-NOT ELSE. 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