The New York Herald Newspaper, December 7, 1873, Page 7

STAGE REVIEW. | ee Seck and Buskin in Prose, Poctry and Song. TRIUMPHANT fyALIAN OPERA. Who Write Our fPiays and Manage Their Production—P'aying Abroad—The London Stage any ts Latest Dramatic Children. ITALIAN OPERA. The Strakosch Company—KReview of the Past Season. ‘The latest and most satisiactory of reform move- ments is that which Mr, Strakosch introduced in the management of Ipalian opera during the season which closcd with yesterday's matinée, and which may justly be placed at the head of all other ope- Fatle seasons in this city. Although the adverse circumstance of a financtal panic, arfecting al) industria! interests and bearing in its train woes innumerable te those who inay be regarded ag the chief sujporters of opera, bad a baleful ine Muence on the pecuniary results of this remarkable season, yet the plucky impresario never faltered | in his arduous task of carying out to the letter his engagements with the public. We have been favored with operatic representations o/ a stan- dard of excellence far above what previous exp rience led us to exyect, and in two cases—the pro- duction of Meyerbeer’s greatest work, “Les Hugue- nots,” and Verdi's latest and most remarkable work, “Afda’’—the performances were on @ par with the best efforts of London, Paris, Milan or St. Petersburg. Mr, Strakosch’s efforts @urmg the past season have gained for him the admiration and hearty ment of every friend of true art, and have rendered it extremely dificult, if not impossible, for any of his successors to return to the Rip Van Winkle policy which nas so long characterized the ‘management of Italian opera in this city. He has broken the spell of depending upon a single artist asa chief attraction, and, by presenting an ensemble of talent, symmetrical and satisiactory in every particular, he has piaced Italien opera on the same gourd basis as that on which two or three of our leading theatres rest. The principal artists of his company, one and all, have gained jaurels which were formerly monopolized by the prima donna or tenor, and Signor Muzio, the chef dorchestre, has made the chorus and orchestra special attractions in themselves. The minor rdles in the various operas brought out have been en- trusted to competent hands instead of the incapa- bles who, from time immemorial, have been inflicted upon the indulgent public. In fact the company of Mr, Strakosch is so good,. collectively and indt- vidually, that no words of commendation should be denied it. Mme. Nilsson, whose claims to pre-eminence on the lyric stage are indisputable, came back to us, @ter ayear’s absence, a more finished artist “thanever. To the giamour of poetry and grace, which envelops all her lyric impersonations, there was @ marked accession of great dramatic power and intensity and breadth of tone and warmth of expression in her voice. New beauties were un- folded inhi well known interpretation of the baple: Violetta, the martyred Gretchen, the Bride of Lammermoor, the gentle Mignon, the impassioned Leonora and the coquettish Lady Genrsietta, But inthe rdle of Valentine in ‘Les Huguenots” she rose to a standard of greatness that dwarted all her previous efforts in opera, The American stage has rarely witnessed an exhibition of such histrionic and musical genius as the Swed- tsa Nightingale has stown in the fourth act of Meyerbeer’s great work. Even iu “Don Giovanni’? the weakness of the other artists in the t “served as a foil to the finished and artistic imper- sonation of the rdle of Elvira by Mme. Nilsson. Mile. Ostava ‘orriani, who deserves a place beside Mme. Nilsson, for the arduous task she has completed of undertaking such important réles as Lucia, Elvira in “Eroani,” Zertina in “Don Gio- vanni,” Filinain “Mignon,” Gilda in “Rigoletto” and the title rd/e in “AYda,” and achieving a gen- uine success in the last mentioned character, 1s a very young prima donna, possessed of a well- trained, flexible, pleasant voice, which in course of time will probably become an organ ranking with those artists whose names are ii- seribed on the tablets of fame. In “Aida” Mlle. Torriani has gained an assured triumph, con- sidering the immense difficuities of the role and her finished interpretation of it, Her débutin “Lucia” was made under circumstances which would have discouraged many a prima donna, Calle upon in a few hours’ notice to make her first appearance in a réle in which Mme. Nilsson had gained her most precious laurels, Mile. orriani gravely undertook the tusk and sprang at once into popularity. Mile. Maresi is the youngest member of the com- pany, and in the rdles of Margarita in “Les Hugue- nots” and Lucrezia Borgia she proved herseif a thorongh artist. In another r0/e she was not so successiul. Her voice is too smail in timbre for suci arduous music as Was assigned to her in “Don vanni.”? Yet the success of Mile, Maresi in the operas of Donizetti and Meyerbeer 18a favoranle augury of her future career. ‘Miss Vary has, during the last season, astonistied ever. her admirers by the great tmprovement vis- ible in her rendering of the music of Azucena, Urban, Siebel, Federico, Amperis, Nancy, Madde Jena and Orsini, im all of wich roles she pall well-leserved upplause. In the part of the and revenyeinl daughter of ition second (o no living contraite on the operstic boards tu-day. Close study, a miagnificeut vowe and a natural desire to excel in the ro/es eutrusted to her, have moulded Miss r and proportions of a greu Signor Campanitit cle among the male mein ber his déebat as Gennar tlensot Radames in “Aida the of the first attention ompany. bre ristied Linp ms young arti proved himseli one of the best teners the 4 has seen si the palmy y ida”? and Huguenots? sO sUrpassingly gr that the ehiet snare of the honors in both operas must be accorded to hin Unlike other ltalian tenors, Campanini is a thorough musiciau, and is Well acquaiuted with the intricate and vuice-destroying works of Wag- ner. ‘The most remarkable feature of his voice is that he sings better towards the cicse of an opera than in the begining. He combines all tle poette delicacy of Mario and Giugiini with the nervous power of Wachtel. A respiendent career is before Signor Campanini, au! there is every reason to ex- pect that he will become the representative tenor of the operatic stage, The next artist in pointofr merit that attention is M. Vicior Maure!, the principal bary- tone of the pany. With tue sole e: prion of M. Faure, there is not on Sperane Stage a baryloue whe can compare with M. Maurel. ‘Che only fault to be considered in speaking of nim, is claims the smaliness of his repertoire. When “Rigoietto” was produced, he was not prepared in the title rule, which every great barytone is expected to know. But he oyeras in which peared, Maorel has won the highest triumphs that an artist can wish ior, the perfection of singing and acting. Signor Nannetti, the basso of the company, in the trying roles 51 Marcel in “Les Huguenots,” Ranifis, the high priest, in “Aida; the Duke in “Lucrozia”’ @ Siva in “frnani,” has given in- dispatable ovidexce of bein worthy successor of Carl Ke Wiliout possess fe has ap. volce of t ‘olce of the great Gi Alisplays far more musical dneces hore artistic ef The second barytor Puente, deserves special commendation on ac vount of his signal services during the season; so does Signor Soolara, who has undertaken with suc- cess this season the srouiler 7Oles in certain operas, The chorus and orchestra, under the able direc Non of Signor Muzio and Herr Behrens, have been vf such a degree of excellence that few opera goers in this city cin point to anything in tuis line to compare with these departments ag presented by Kor Muzic and Herr Behrens, The mise e” ne in “AYda” will Year favorable comparison with the best efforts of our dramatic managers. For the first time in the history of opera wis wountry a grand werk in opera was presented without a flaw, either in the cast or the scenery and appuintinents, The following operas Were prodaced during the jast season, which consisted of 30 evening per- formances and 10 matincees:—“Travinta’ two, Lucrezia” two, “Faust four, “Lucia three, “Migzcu” three, “Il Trovatore” fon Eraani’ five, “Don Giovanni” three, “Martha three, “Les Huguenot” tive, “Rigvletio one, and “Ayda” Jour perforriances, Nothing can be added in terms of commendation to our previous reriarks on the operas produced doving this mageificent season, Mr. Strakosch bas successinily untertaken the role of operatic Pioneer, apd he bas proyed hupself tay season endorse- | 4 { with the plnek o! NEW YORK worthy of the task. He has gained the go yt wii and le of the best musicians IU ¢he ine- tropone, OUR, THEATRES. ee Who Mavic. and Act Ia Them—Their Aud nces—Our Plays und Who Write Prem—The Prospects of the Winter fe: \. To rue Eprron ov THR HERALD:— Theatrical managers think their winter scason is fully opened only after the trosts have housea residents in winter quarters aud incited country cousins to yearn alter the fashions, enticements, giamours and amusements of the metropolis. Man- agers know vial three-fithe of their patrons come from among the sojourners. The runs of plays svon exhaust the mere metropolitan two-filtha, Twenty or thirty years ago “rans” were not possible, be- cause of the fact just mentioned, Then New York Was not, a now, a city of hotels, shops and immi- gration depots, With the advent of Thanksgiving Day and the Borean blasts the full winter season to the theatres bas opened, It will be a long one, Substantially the autumna! one has ended, This Was brief and not remunerative. The opening winter season Gnds two more the- alres tian Jast year—those of DALY'S AND BOUCICAULT’S, Superficially considered, the competition seems too lively for the times, However, theatres run in special grooves, and do not interfere with one another so much a8 appears at Orst mention, It is uot necessary to particularize. Glances at the announcement advertisements will enable any one to verliy the assertion and make his own classification. Theatrical management, in the Main, resembles stockjobbing, It is dependent upon the good will which the theatre obtains, as stocks are upon the tightness or ease of the money market, The resemblance apphes also to the amount of pecuniary risk taken. Gain and loss to manager or stock operator come in like sudden proportion, Both make money rapidiy when for- tune favors, Both suffer large and sudden losses when tl] luck overtakes. Margins have to be sud- denly met, and a week of continuous nightly losses shows a large debit in a manager's profit and loss account. In each instance of Wall streeter and manager the risks are founded upon anticipation, guided by such calculation only as becomes pos- sible whenever it must be based upon many con- tingencies and unforeseen events, THE RISKS OF MANAGERS. Severely cold or wet weather, sleighing attrac- tions, the party and Lenten seasons, with rivalries from neighbors, are the events feared by man- agers, They are not so afraid of panics, however, because the data of 1837, 1845, 1857, &c., proved that worried people required and sought that amusement of the theatre which, beyond all others, takes the auditor for a time outside of the realistic world, in which he perhaps gallops ‘‘with care as a sad horseman beside him.” Every manager 1s careful to select an appropriate site for his theatre, an adaptive stock company, and plays which will not only fit the members hke well cut coats, but will also cater to whatever popular taste he contemplates under the “peculiar resources of the establishment”—as Mr. Vincent Crummiles phrased it when he suggested the real pump and two washing tubs for Smike’s and Nicholas Nickieby’s appearances. Managers like the good Crummles have always something cor- responding to the Crummies pony “to fall back upon” when a standing novelty fails. The man- ager makes often large profits upon a small in- vestment; like the stockjosber, again. He may hire his theatre, borrow a few thousands for stock- ing the stage, &c, &, engage a com- pany, pay an author, and do all that upon a self mortgage of his own receipts in the future, <A full house will usually give an average gain Of 200 or 00 per cent on the receipts over the night's moiety of expenses, Again, a half nouse will bring him little excess in the net, A thin audience will leave him debit when he ‘makes up the house,’ a process which he or his treasurer usually performs before “the lights have fled and the stage garlands are dead and all but him de- parted,”? THE MANAGER ON HIS THRONE. A manager is like a petty king of an old German principality. He is surrounded with jealous and envious neighbors. His subjects are unruly, queru- lons and lull of petty importance, He must Keep up @ show of resources, even when the exchequer is low. In short, he lives ever in the midst of bottled earthquake, and his best capital is that con- stant show of mystery which constitutes the popu- Jar charm attached to every playhouse. The “shop intricacies” 01 a theatre are great, and because the outside world knows so little about wings, flies, sets, grooves, slides, traps, lefts of centres, prop- erties, wardrobes, rehearsals, &c., that the secrets of behind the scenes remain so delightful to the aoa aow oi the pitite and of the god of tue gallery. The manager, with a theatre on his hand, begins bis preparations for a season much in advance of it, Ifhe opens in September he will have all his engagements sitned by April or May, He 1s in constant communication with the dramatic agencies who act as the brokers between managers aud playwrights, actors and what are called by stage folk ‘the baliet,” and by outsiders the “supes.’? All employés who tread the stage and are not in the bills belong to the ballet, Should an acior or actress fail or break their contract then un aweney Will urgently submit candidates with cre- dentials, THE IDEAL MANAGER AND HIS ASSISTANTS. ‘The periect manager shoulu be one ol executive talent, diplomatic tact, great patience, quick de- cision, firmness in resolve, autocratic w his profes- sional purposes, and Willing to receive and silt sug- gestions, although he may not use them, His execu- uve taient is needed to govern his subordinates; | his diplomacy for critics, authors and the public; Nis patience jor his perplexities; his decision firmness and autocracy to operate on events, hanges and complaints. The willingness for nints is needtnl, because his own brain may Wi tility in ynventioa and adaptation, They have Many such managers in Paris; two or three in | Loudon; but to discuss whether such an Admira- bie Crichton lives in New York might provoke in- vidiens discussion, Tue manager delegates and distributes tis powers and duties among members ofa cabinet. His stage manager is tls premier | ry of the interior; and his pusiness | { mes ab once secretary o1 state, oO} war, and postmaster general. The lead stage carpen- and machinist, the chief scene painter and the percy nan are under secretaries in the home partnient, of no p.can infue: An unpedanwc leader of the orchestra becomes his delight as yer of council, I he can select unimpas+ sioned box oficers, with patient and polite ushers, Who, cne and all, blessed witn the bump of in- dividuality, then Manager can long wear tne tap of w Fortunat A MANAGER'S TROUBLES. The imps in the life of a manager are, first, impe- cunious proprietors of those newspapers, which (10 quote ironi Horace Greeley) an inscrutable provi pace for some wndiscovered purpose permits to live; second, Nignty authors; third, Bohemians, who write cheap puils for cheapened editors, Tue “weakiy? new spapera demand advertisements highwaymen, It is your patron. age anda puff, or your silence and an assault pic- torialiy or otherwise. The autuor wants his “play"—viten & mere collection of narration, dia- Jogue, or insecutive sketches, without climax or bustness—produced, or elxe he will stab the com- pany with a communication addressed to some al tne varied circles in the newspaper zodiac, ‘i MONBYED MANAGER. When the manager has command of capital he | 4 enabled to produce spectucie und the siage | lormments of comedy at shortest notice, Many plays cannot be prepared without expensive dresses and furniture, The day has gone by when an actress can portray # duchess in a dollar silic oc @ Stage manager can furnish @ salon in a palace with chinis or rep, as used to be done in those “good old days of Drury and the Park, sir? which 80 many good-nature old guvstors still prave about. THE ARTISTIC MANAGER. The ol fest Manager in point of service in this city is Lester Wallack. It 1s about 21 years since bis father, the Veteran, and himself (o partnership in purchasing — Brougbain’s Lyceum, im Broadway and Mercer street, south of Broome, The estavlishment removed to its pres- eut site avout 1860, It was sald they began oh a capital of $5,000, Outof this venture has come a cojussal fortune, honestly earned, prudently con- served and benignly applied to artistic and sociat purposes, At this theatre Julia Barrow, Laura cene, Mrs, Hoey and Miss Madeline Henriques made iheir great successes, Sothern (under tne name of Stewart), Billy Florence, Floyd and Ringola first won thelr spurs with the Wallacka. A bound Mle of their playbills shows the largest catalogue artists of any house, among whom, beside the fore- going, May be enumerated Blake, Walcot, Holland, the late James W. Wallack, Brougham, Gilbert, Stoddart, Setton and Fisher, Mary Gannon, Mrs. Vernon, Miss Eytinge, Mrs. Lrougham, Louisa Moore and EMe Germon, Indeed, the 21 years’ history of Watlack’s should be written, Tor it Would be fonnd replete with incident, dramatic gossip, biography and greenroorm chit-c' Would also accurately reflect the amusement tometer in the various seasons, THE SPECTACULAR MANAGER, The next muiagers to notice in potat of dramatic | age are Jarret, & Pi been for lo years agnagers of A, el ther. ry of fer- | | brings HKRALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1873—Qv... <@-LE SHEET. known as Niblo’s Garden, founder, still lives at the age vf 80, but occupies his time mainly 1n cultivating things ecclesiastical, He is the well known patron of two or three up town Episcopal churches. The speciality of Niblo’s Garden has been melodrama and spectacle. Its managers are industrious and inteiligent caterers to their peculiar puolic, who never seem weary of recalling Byron’s tines— Not pious David when pefore the Ark, His grand pas seul excited much remark! TALL MANAGEMENT. The Messrs, Booth come next in precedence of | time. Their speciality lies mainly with the legiti- mate. Their diet tor the season may be likened to @ Sandwich, in which the scenic forms the slices of bread, and the substantial layer between them is variously changed Irom Shakspeare to the partica- lar pieces of stars like Jefferson, ie Mitchell, Florence, Owens, 4c. Their stage and its belong- ings are larger and more extensive than any in the country. Their managerial resources are com- prehensive in arrangements for heating, ughung and machinery or avording facilities to carpenter shops, paint rooms and dressing apartments, THE BOWERY MANAGEMENT. Willlam B. Fretigh has been for «# long time, } Aud as the snccessor of George Fox (the Grimaldi | of the present) manager of the Oid Bowery The- | atre. It has beea made in nis hands emphatically | a people’s playhoi se. No money is wasted’ upon adorbinent nor extravagant stars. And he 1s re- quired by the law of his patrons to change his bill at least Once every week. ‘The house never closes (except on Sunday), and in the course of a year tragedy, comedy, farce, melodrama, comedy- draina, burlesque, ballet, spectacie, dancing, banjo Playing and minstreisy have each and all had their } wurn like varying batter cakes on a hotel “griddle."? VERSATILE MANAGRMENT, George Wood, of Wooa’s Museum, is an old sStager in management, and origibally came to as by the way of the West. After Barney Williams surrendered the first Wallack building, he con- | ducted it as the Broadway Iheatre. When that Was pulled down to make way for stores, Mr. Wood leased the Banvard Museum and Theatre, on upper Broadway; and has made of it an uptown Bowery or London Ade!phi, He bas freqnent changes of bill aud rapid alternations of actors from sterling provincial dramatic schools, who come to this city eriodically In order to obtaim metropolitan re- eshers 10r rural use. ELEGANT COMEDY. Mr. A. M. Palmer is tue more recent manager. For rnany year’s librarian of the Mercantile Asso- ciation, he brought to his connection with Sheridan Shook in the Union Square Theatre large acquaint- anceship with business men, society and dramatic literature, This theatre is mainly run upon its company for comedy and hgut melodrama, but does not disdain to occasionally enlist a star In its firmament. “CONTEMPORANROUS COMEDY OF HUMAN INTEREST.”? Augustin Daly is a New York boy, and although only about 30 years old, and @ veritable juveutle waiking gentleman in appearance, supervises the management of iour theatres and has absolute: control of two, They are the Olympic, Grand Opera House, Broadway and the New Fi:th Avenue. ‘Lhe first is owned by John A. Dug, the second by the rie Company, the third by A. T. Stewart and the last by the Giisey estate. It is estimated that his annual payments for rent are about $100,000, Thus he directs four stock companies, and, save in age, resembles for executive capacity Commodore Vanderbilt, The latter waters his stock com- panies, as 18 said; but Daly is expected to infuse spirit to his, To think out amusement for other peopie is probaply a mutter of work. As yet his duties have not worn him into @ managerial per- vousness, Which in London lias often cropped out into brusqueness and the very opposite o! yielding diplomacy. And his elasticity seems chronic, oth the Olympic and Broadway appear to be maintained as star theatres with “Dalian” as well as Thaiian auxiliaries of company, scenery and properties, Already Aimée, Lydia Thompson, Mrs, Qates, Emmet, McWade and Miss Le Clercq have appeared at one or the other of them. The Grand Opera House 1s devoted to melodrama, spectacle and pantomime, but as every Mormon 1s said to preter one of his wives over the others, there is no doubt Mr, Daly’s warmest love will be given to his New Filth Avenue Theatre, woich opens next Wednesday evening. It takes its uame from obe- dience to the Latin saw, lucus a non lucendo, He never had a Filth Avenue Theatre, It was, when in Twenty-fourth street, as it now will be in Twenty-cighth street, located nearest to Broad- way. The people, however, got to caliing the cosey and, like a discreet merchant, Daly stuck to Ms trade mark. AN AUTHOR MANGER. On Christmas night the New Park Theatre of Mr. Boucicault is announced to open, This has also been described from planus in these columns, aud will, of course, be again enlarged upon when the impending event invites as matter of popular in- terest. Like Mr, Daly, Mr. Boucicault is restless and full of work. Two of his plays are underlined at other theatres, and he is, of course, preparing a third jor his own. Perhaps he writes too rapidly: and yet some of the longest lived plays are pro- duced at red heat. THE SUCCESSFUL PLAYWRIGHT is born and not made. It is one thing to carpenter adrama and another thing to beget it, like us dJove’s brain beget a Minerva. Your Falconers, Myrons aud Gaylers do the lormer, but your Bouci- caults, Sardous, Tom Taylors, Robertsons and Alberrys are born with dramaticknack, They who may be called original dramatists write nice closet piays, but ‘Lever good acting ones. The best of Shakepeare’s works are c structed upon incidents and events that a borrowed from writers on history, There must be genius in the successiul playwright, but genius begets a knack in adapting plots and dovetaiiing situations. This knack is to the dramatist what savoir faire is to the diplomatist, It is the key to his success in the proiession. One may character- ize and identily it, but cannot give it definition, Tie dramatist without this knack, and it seems inborn, Will find his dialogue degenerate into nar- | rative rather than illustrating and stimulating action; his situations will often develop antl-cli- max, ahd occasionally his best effects will ship- wreck upon commonplace. Boucicault probably possesses this knack better than any living au- uthor. He writes with great rapidity, and ali his ideas seem to fall at once into dramatic line with the precision of soldiers on parade. He evidently pictures on bis brain the stage effects as he cre- ates them with his pen. When he has finished his play it bas had @ full rehearsal already. Mr. Daly | has shown this knack aiso in “Under the Gaslight,’ in which the most mediocre incidents of every day town and country lite have been worked up into complications and dénouements which engender heurt-beats from the most unimagina- tive. Their experiences as managers have en- hanced this knack in both Boucicault and Daly, The sormer, however, has never been so successiul @ manager as author, One can be prodigai of ideas in the latter capacity, and then the prodi- gality aids; but prodigality in management has ey times brought Boucicault to his bottom dol- ar. SENSATIONAL AND MISCELTANROUS MANAGEMENT. A manager who has happy sympathy wish the popular instincts is Josh Hart, of the Theatre Comique. His playhouse is a dramatic restaurant, where during the season everything in the marke has been cooked and placed on the bills of fa He does not fish with reel and rod and de! bait, but pots his large drag net into the ocea amusement sailors, and through successive hauls into bis managerial coatrol the wivie of these in the course of a year. SHALL WE HAVE A VAUDRVILLE THEATRE? Perhaps there is yet room tor aiarce theatre ia wiitch people cau indulge a premeditated design to laugh, ‘The peais which saluted the Voke’s family lacks, are evidences of a popular demand. } such a place o! amusement with Stoddard, I Fiske, Davidge, Fawcett, Leffingwell and Be 4S men representatives of Momus, and Wile mon, Mrs, Seiton, Amelia Harris and =k Blanchard as actresses; and giving one short pur- lesque, one song, Vavdeville, and a couple ot farces every night, With an advertised time-tabi of ihe beginning of each one, so that might at least choose a dish or two. Of course tle fore such a theatre opened in order to secure te mnaterial before it Was scattered into otuer est lishments. As the theatres are now conduc merriment becomes an incident, not the full fect. ‘There is every prospect of a remunerative season to the managers. Some of them have, in cum- liance with arguments first suggested in the 1ERALD, adapted prices to panic purses, Others, who can command exciustve audiences, still retain the dollar and dollar and a hall pricgs. People must relieve their minds and gratify the Anglo- Saxon love for changing amusements. We area sombre and solemn ation at our business, yet we are plgrims in our leisure to the various shrines of imaginative heroes and lanciiul goddesses wlich the dramatic temples furnish than will be iound in other realms of art, MUSIC AND SLOW CURTAIN, THE LONDON THEATRES. Be Miss Braddon’s Drama=—Sketch of the Authoress and the Audience=—Mr. Bere nand's New Burlesque. LONDON, Nov. 15, 197. ‘There was great excitement in our theatrical cir cles on Thursday nigit, and every one taking an in- terest in the drama strove to be present at the tion of a play written by Miss Braddon, who, though one of our most popular novelists, had never put forth any spectmen of her dramatic power, It is some 12 or 14 years since that Mr. Edmund Yates, Who Was lorming the tramework tor (he Christ- mas number of the Welcome Guest, was so struck by the freshness and vigor of one of the coutriba- tions, professediy sent in by a lady a! tie naie of Seaton, that he directed the attention of the pro- prietor of the periodical to it, aad suggested that a writer of such promise should receive jurther en- couragement. Mias Seaton proved to be the as- sumed appellation of a young lady named Braddon, who was commencing tife by educating herself as an actress, but who at once guitied the stage and devoted herrelf to anchorsinp, with what success the world knows, It is the fashion in some quar- ters to sneer at Miss Braddon’s novels, but rhe of the eivaniating branes will greater in namber | ‘ ) Grand Ope | people been gathered in a single theatre might Princess’ Theatre, the occasion being the produc- | William Niblo, its | tell box bebind the hotel by its Fiith avenue name, | and nightly vocilerate “Lo Oblige Benson” at Wal- | | the public taste at this time is tc | mission of comedy to be uf | atheatre goer could not eat the whole dessert, he | engagements Would have to be made montos be- | you that there is mo oné, with the | exception, perhaps, of Mr, ‘Trollope, who is #0 prolife and at the same time so popular, The atrabilious critics of the Saturday Reviewo thought, | in their own generous manner, to do her harm by branding her stories as sensational, which per- ceptive people soon came to understand meant that they were full of fesh and blood interest, as distingushed from the washed-out, goody-goody twaddle of Holme Lee or Mess Katherine Saun- ders. Not that Miss Braddon’s novels have even the smaliest approach to “strong liking” tn the shape of pruriency; they are alike free trom the luscious, voluptuous nonsense of Guida and the coarse crudities of Miss Broughton. ‘Their tone is | invariably healthy, their plots well constructed, but not unduly enamored, and their writing—when the author is out of reach of her Lempritre and | Dr, Smith’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquiues— sound and pleasant. Moreover, it is well known that, unlike Many other authors who have not suc- ceeded hall so well popularly and pecuniarily, Miss Braddon 6 singularly dgyoid of literary Ray! and Jealousy; that she is néVer heard to speak in de- traction Of her brother and sister scribes, and that she is a8 simple winded now as sbe Was when she contentediy submitted her copy to the decision of those wiiom sue has passed in the race. In whe crowded house [do not think that there was oue person Who Was hot sincerely anxious ior the suc cess Of the kind-hearted, clear-neadeu, thoroughly English lady, THE AUDIENCE. It was a grand opportunity for any one wishing to show a stranger some of the literary celebrities | of London. 1p addition to the regular journalis's | there were present Edwin Arnold, the poet, and Justin McCarthy, une essayist; Octave Delepierr the Beigian Consul and writer; Shirley Brouks, th editor of Punch, and Frank Burnand, the brightest Oo bis staiT; Charnes Keade and Dutton Cook, the novelists; G. M, Feun, the editor of Cassell’s Maga- zine; Jolin Maxweil and William Tinsley, the pub- iisbers, and a Lost ofdramatists, including Palgrave Simpson, Falconer Reece, Frank Marsall, the author of ‘alse Shame,” and A. W. Dubour, ‘Tom Taylor's collavorateur in “New Men and Oid Acres.”” THE PLAY is founded on the story toid by Boccacto, Chancer and fiity others of the sufferings of pauent Griselda ; how that being of low estate was courted and married by a prince; how the prince’s wicked consin persuaded hun-—to prove, as it were, his wiie’s patience—to inflict upon her every possible annoyance and indignity to the exieut of deciaring that he would be divorced from ber and would Marry another lady in ner place; and how, in the end, Of course, vice 18 fotled and virtue triumphs, and they*two live bappy ever aiter. It is singular that a woman of Miss Braddou’s tact slouid aave selected such an undramatic story, luto which even her knowledge of stage requirements and her blank verse—which is decidedly above the average— have been insuficient to put tile, THE ACTING. There is only one dramatic situation throughout the piece and that is at the end of tie second act, where the prince banishes his wile and she'tells | ‘Dim, in spite of all his crueity, she still shail love him. This, treated by au actress ol finesse and | depth combined, might have been made mucii of, | but Mrs. Kousby has neither Jinesse nor depth, bor the faintest power of displaying the emotion re- quired. She never forgets that she is the ‘‘Beautl- ful Mrs. Rousby” of the Stereoscopic Company; her method of expressing passion is to open ber Jarge eyes wider than usual and to put her hair back Irom her face with her hands: and as to grief oF pathos she utterly fails in its expression, When Miss O'Neil played Juliet, she used, it is said, to weep reai hot, scaldiug tears, but Mrs. Kousby does nothing so unmiadylike or so discoimposing to the features, 1t is time that this sham ot “eminent artiste? and “charming actress’? should explode. Mrs, Kousvy has a remarkably handsome iace of the statuesque type; ler figure 18 not good, her movements are unyainly, and as an actress she 13 decidediy third rate, Mr. Rousby was better suited with the character of the tneau spirited lituie mis- creaats than with the dashing heroes which he de- Jights to essay and jor which ie is physically and artistically unfitted, Miss Braddon’s Cosmo is Shakespeare’s Jago belittied, and Mr. Kouspy’s erormance of it Was like the late Mr. Charles | Keaun’s periarmance of lago seen through the wrong end of the opera glass. ‘ihe scenery was very splendid, aud the dresses, notably those of Mrs, Rousby, Were very gorgeous wud 1m the best taste. THE succ was very loud and very noixy—salvos of appiau: Tecaliing of the actors, summons of the authoress, who first bowed irom her box and was then led across the stage. But it was a suceés destime, an outburst on the part of the public to show their | genuine admiration of Miss Braddon hersell, not of | the work tat had just been presented to them. ‘The play was generally felt to be tedious and will probably not have along run. When Miss Braddon hext tiles her haud at the drama—it will not be long for she is an indefatigable worker and has al- ways had a leaning towaras tue stage—she will provably eschew blank verse and the middle ages, ang give us @ story of our own day, with a plot of such subtiety and dialogue of such strength as she never Jails to incorporate into her novels. LITTLE TOM TUG. At the Op¢ra Comique Mr. F. C. Burnand has produced a burlesque based on the vid operetta of ‘The Waterman,” which will probably rival his Black Eyed Susan” in popularity. ‘here is no writer of genuine nonsenise—whicn when good is better than the most elaborate wit—to equal Mr. Burnand when be 1s at bis best, as he is im this Jast attempt. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. We infer that Mr. Want bnarenes is to play in fileen Oge” at Booth’s this week, ‘To-morrow evening the Vokes appear at Niblo’s, m the spectacular extrayaganza entitled “Tbe Babes in the Woou.’ We know that these artists have the laculty of pleasing, and that tae nie effects will be very fine. The rest of the story can only be told when the piece is presented, At a number of the theatres, iast week's bill will be contmued, “The Marbie Heart holding the stage at the Olympic, Mr. John £, Owens’ spectal- ties of Major De Boots and Solon Shingle at Wood's, and the Lingard speciaities at the Broadway, with a change in the comedy part of the busine Mr, John McCullough appears at tue Park Thea- tre, Brooklyn, this week as Richelieu, Gladiator, Jack Cade and Richard IU. Mr. McCullough, who is the proprietor and manager of the California ) Theatre, Was jor many years the leading support of the late Edwin Forrest, and bas become the pos- sessor by purchase of Mr. Forrest's pl The literary genius who does the b: tising work for the Olympic world that Mr. kdwin Adams 4 most Shed artist and A ca.” no Wouder so solve iu tears” when Adams going. {Wo propositions are well wor of theatrical managers, namely iiant adver. a8 an adnuring prouvunced the ppathetic actor in “ise their pumps ww vy the attention the tendency of fun, and itis the uuny, [twas the jun of Mr, Lester Wallack’s rendering of Foote’s “Liar” whieh 1 the play so delightful, Itisin the | power of most of our theatres to gratity the popu. | lar taste for ad good, hearty tun | | erities of the day, was intended b, nd yet subs rements of dra- f our suggestion? | ¢ wlceady printed the cast of ‘Home,’ | which is to be produced at Wallack’s to-morrow | evening. This comedy series has been excerdingly refreshing, and it will doubtless continue so to the | end. Se iar notasingle play which has been pro- | duced since Mr. Wallack’s return to his own stage | has been badly acted, and the public has vcesides | had an opportuuity of seeing & in many of hia old parts, in Loth old and new comedy. Another old comedy is likely to be produced before Mr. Gocel- canlt’s new play is put upon the stage. The popular ¢ 8 of the present aeason is Mr, L, Fox’s “Humpty Dumpty Abroad’ at the House, Never before have 3o many 6 after night as at this house during the last fort- night. There is proof in this that it is iu “Hampty’ | and the Clown that Mr. Fox's popularity consists. AS 4 comedian, Mr. Fox has rivals in Mr. Jam Lewis, Mr, Harry Beckett and oue or two others; but &s @ pantomimist he nas the fleld ull to himself, Since Grimaldi no artis has occupied a position so exceptional, Its lace is a volume of Mn and frolic, each Jook being @ fresh page of irresistible humor, This exuberance, ever changing and ever good, has plenty of room tor i'@ display in the brilliant scenes of the pantomine, and bas again taken the town by storm. As hus already veew announced, Siguor Saivini's | Second series of performances in this city begins to-morrow evening, at the Academy of Music, when Voltaire aita” will be given, The story of this play is as follews:—The Sultan, Orosmane, has become desperate!y enamored of Zaira, a cap- tive Maiden, who, though of Christian parentage, has been brought opin the Mosiem faith, Zaira returns Urosmane’s loye, but, discovering her Jather and brother tn Lusignaa and Nerestan—two of the Sovereign's prisoners of war—she ytolds to oir entreaties and vefuses to wed the Sultan, She conceals from Orosmane, however, her relationship to the captives, and alao uides = from shins the fact) that) she is enlightened as to her religion, Seing informed that she hag sreonent interviews wish Nerestap, | aud tBeir publication must be rewarded as an ad- | trae | grace and intelle ,3 | walk in mountarg | Greek philosophers and Greek lathe. Orosmane conceives the idea that Nerestan is a favored lover. ‘this jealousy ultimately maddens him. After along struggle to repress his fury he comes upon Zaira just as he imagines that he has acquired proof of her duplicity, He slays her, Ap instant later the real nature of her intercourse with Nerestan is revealed to him. Then Orosmane, who, like Othello, has loved “not wisely, but too well,”’ at once offers up bis own life in atonement for his crime. Fearing lest our condemnation of Mr. Alberry’s play of “Forvune” at the Fitth Avenue Theatre rught have been too severe, owing to the neces- sary shortcomings of a first night in a new house, we took occasion to see the piece after all the act- ors had become easy in their parts, but find that | We have no occasion to reverse our judgment. The Play 1s often brilliant in dialogue, but it is weak in conception, and without strong dramatic situa- | ations. It reveals, however, some very good acting under adverse circumstances, Mrs, Gilbert's execution of the character part of Lady Keating being especially praiseworthy; and the smile of | Miss Sara Jewetr as the young Widow, Mrs. Bur- rows, when the lovers Kitty and Tom Hawley are reconciled, is as sweet and bewitching a8 @ young widow's smile to her own lover, But the piece has no “go” in it, and it bas been withdrawn, The bill this week will consist of “Old Heads and Young Hearts’? on Monday evening, with Mr. Davidge as Jesse [tural, “False Shame, or New Year's Eve” oa Tuesday and Thursday evenings, “Alixe’’ on Wednesday and Friday and at the mat ince on Saturday, and “London Assurance” on Saturday night. This change, rendered neces- sary by circumstances, is a singular commentary on the taste of New York theatre-goers, A weuk play, but dotted over with sparkling repartee, produ by a strong dramatic company, acted on a stage where the scenery, furniture and all the surruundings were magniticent and in a theatre that is simply exquisite, failed to please because it was weak. Itis impossible to test the | qualities of a play except by producing it, and Mr, Daly was right in producing this onc. It was high comedy, it was by a dramatist of accepted reputa- | tion, it read well, but it failed to please. And this is the whole story. LITERATURE. SARA COLERIDGE." | It i8 now nearly forty years since the death of | Samuel Taylor Colerfdge, and yet it is fair to say that no name is more fresh in the literary history of England, nor is there any literary celebrity of | the last hundred years, at least, regarding whom | the more thoughtful and intelligent of the English | speaking people the wide world over are more anxious to learn something pew. With what may | be called the “student” class Coleridge is a | kind of household word, Among the many great men who, at the close of the eighteentn and the commencement of the nineteenth century adorned Hagiish jiterature Samuel Taylor Coleridge Was by universal conseut conceded the first place; and, notwithstanding the revolutions which have since taken place in the world of letters, he still, in the estimation of many most competent judges, retains his high position, We do not say Wat Samuel Taylor Coleridge was not in some respects an overrated man, All that we do say is that he gave an impuise to English thought surpassing that given by any man of his time, and that on the literature of his country he left an impression which the vicissitudes of time can never enace, ce the death of Coleridge in 1854 everything which nas been printed regarding him has been eagerly bought up and just as eagerly read, ‘The book now before us owes much of its interest and nota little of its success to the fact that it bears the name of Coleridge. When we say this, however, it is not to be Imagined that the book is wanting in intrinsic merits, Far from that, We know of no book of the hind given to the public in recent years which, for general excellence, can be | mentioned in comparison. In the letters of which this volume is mainly composed we discover all the taste of Mme. de Sévigné, with nota little of tie sparkle and yivacity of Lady Mary Wortley | Montagu. Sara Coleridge, of whom this book is @ not unworthy memorial, was the only daugtter of the great poet and philos- opher, she was born at Greta Hall, Reswick, in December, 1802. She was six years the junior of her brother Hartley and two years the junior of her brother Derwent. At Greta Hail she lived with the Southeys untii her marriage in 1829. Her | name nas long been well known to the literary world, Sle, Dora Wordsworth and Udith Southey are the personages of Wordsworth’s poem, “The Triad’—a poem which, it was supposea by some Wordsworth to illustrate the three Graces—Faith, Hope | and Charity. Sara seems to have been | exceedingly beautiul At 15 she is de- | scribed by Collins, the painter, io these words:—“Coleriage’s elegant daughter, Sara, | @ most interesting creature.’ Sir Henry Taylor, who saw her when she was about twenty, says:— “I have always been giad that I did see her in her | girlhood, vecause I toen saw her beauty pntouched by tirae, aud it was @ beauty which conld not but, | remain in one’s memory for life, and which is now | diatinctly before me as I write. The features were | perfectly shaped, and almost minutely di and the complexion delicate, also, but not w ung | in color, and the general effect was that of | composure | large and | I may say of Her eyes were gentleness; indeed, even to stillness, they had the of serene lustre which I rememper in her fathers.” In 1822 she dition to the wealth of the language. In one of her letters to Aubrey de Vere, she thus spoke of Keats, who was then dividing the sympathies of the reading public, “I must say that, spite of the beautiful poetry, as far, as words and images go, I've no patience with that Adonis lying asicep on a couch, With his ‘white arm’ and ‘faint damask mouth,’ like a ‘dew-tipped rose,’ with lilies above him and Cupids all around him. if Ve- nus was in love with such a girl-man as that she was a greater fool than the world has ever yet known, and “did not know whata handsome man is, or what sort of @ gentieman is ‘worthy a lady’s eye,’ even as far as the “outward man is concerned.” Such nice bits of eriticisim abound in the volume, AS a book full of reminiscences of an’ interesting past, as a worthy memorial of a lady of great moral worth, a8 well as high intellectual ability, and as a Ynodei of epistolary correspondence, we commend the ‘Memoirs and Letters of Sara Coleridge.” “Memoirs and Letters of Sara Coleridge,” edited by her daughter. Harper & Brothers, New York. LITERARY Tar Rev. Dr. Davigs, who did up the preachers of heresy last year ina book styled “Unorthode < London,” hag now done up the heresy hunters u- der the title of “Orthodox London.” THE SPENSER SocieTY has issued a second ¢ lection of the works of Joho Taylor, the wat : poet, it will next print Kendall’s “Flowers of Epigrammes,” a very rare and curious collection, first printed tn 1677, A Jesuit Faruer, oF Sronyaunsr, is writing & history of the doctrine of free will in modern Er.:- lish philosophy. MACMILLAN’S MAGAZINE renders Longfellow’s “Excelsior” into “pigeon English,” which is exa-~ peratingly ludicrous. ‘Tue LEARNED BARROW, theologian and matnes matician, regarded poetry as ingenious nonsense, wrote of the author of “Paradise Lost” as “One Milton.” Sir Isaac Newton acknowledged “Para dise Lost’? was @ fine poem; ‘‘but,’? he added, “what does it prove?’ THe Lecrukes for women at Cambridge, Eng- land, are largely and increasingly attended. Miss DickiNson’s new work o/ fiction has not yet been placed in the hands ot James R, Osgood & Co., all reports to the contrary notwithstanding. FROTUINGHAM’S “Life of Theodore Parker? will not be out until February. Lewes’ “Problems of Life and Mind” will probae bly make Its appearance before Christmas, THE “MEMOIRS OF MRS, SOMERVILLE” will be ready on or apout January 1. HARDLY ANY Book of late years throws s0 much ight on the literary society of London as the late Henry F. Chorley’s ‘Life and Letters.” Toe ©. L ASIAN question is to be furthes elucidated by three new books—the Baron Vom Heliwald’s “Russians tn Central Asia,” Sir Henry, Rawlinson’s “Political and Geographical Condition of Central Asia’? and T. ‘1, Cooper's “New Routes for Commerce. PROFESSOR GEORGE RAWLINSON 13 about come pleting his great historical work by a volume entitled “The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy, ora History of the Sassanians.”’ “THE NORMAN ProrLe and Thetr Existing De~ scendants in the British Dominion and the United States of America” is the title of a forthcoming book from the London press which ought to be interesting. Roberts Brovarrs will publish in the Unitea ee Stares “he Personal Recolections of Mary Somer- ville.” CHARLES G. LELAND, Who is lately quite a pro+ lific author, “The Legends of the Birds,” which Henry Holt & Co, pabiish in an ele- gant quarto, illustrated with colored hthographs. GaiL HamiLron’s new book of social and do- mestic sketches, issued by the Harpers, has the curious title of “Twelve Miles from a Lemon.” WHEN THE MaNusvnipr of Cariyle’s “Sartor Re- sartus” was put Into Mr. Mill's hands he, thought slightly of it. He saya:—‘ did not, however, deem myself a competent judge of Carlyle, 1 sel that he was a poet and that I was not; that he was aman of intuition, which I was not, and that as such he not only saw many things long before me: which I could only, when they were pointed out ta me, hobble alter and prove, but that it was highiy probabie he could see many things which were not visible to me even after they were pointed out,” “THR INFERIOR SEX,’ Meaning Men, have been written about in a new novel by De Thew Wright, a witty Cincinnati lawyer, Lee & Shepard, of Bose ton, are the publishers, THE APPLETONS have published @ political book on South Carclina under negro rule entitled “The Prostrate State,” by James S, Pike. Muu. RATAzZzt ept her husband's papers, and will follow the example of Mrs. Grote by pubhishing,, when her grief shall have somewhat subsided, work entitled ‘Rata and His Time, by a Witness: of the Last Ten Years of His Life.” ‘Toe JaraNn Mai’, an Engiish paper published im Japan, says the sending of Japanese youths to America and Europe to educate them as civil ser- vants 1s a failure. They return with & mere smat-~ tering of knowledge, a high conceit of their abili-< ties, astrong taste for beef and beer and a pros digious contempt for their own country. “THE PHILOSOPHY OF YIsTORY IN EUROPE” 19 the title of & Work which Robert Flint, professor at . Audrew’s, has in elaborate preparation. A FRENCH TRANSLATION of Caleb Cushing's of Washington’ has been published im ART MATTERS, A Russian Photograph of Nilsson. any photographs have been taken of Mmey published 3 translation of Dobrezhoifer’s “Account | of the Abipones, an uestrian People of Para- | gu French of the sixteenth century of the “Memoirs of | Sne: the Chevalier Bayard, by his Loyal Servant. Th sormer of these won the praise of her father, of her uncle Southey, of Charies Lamb and of Words- | worth, Her charming little romance and fairy tale, | “phantasmion,” long been weil known to A ican readers. AS one of her father’s literary | entors she revealed a high class of literary lity—an ability Whick the numerous letters of this volume admirably sustain, Her literary jaracteristics are well put in the following ex- from a@ letter of Aubrey ae Vere, one of her ored correspondents :— 0 those who knew her she remains an image of nal beauty that time can never has tarnish. A larger circle will now know, in part wt | least, What she Was. Withailher high literary pow- | ers, Sle utterly unlike tae Mass of those who dre | ajled literary persous. Kew have possessed such | learning; aud when one calls to mind the arduous | character of those studies, which seemed but | reweshment to her clear intellect, ike a wir, it seems # marvel how & woman's faculties couid have grappled with those "8, Just as no doubt it seemed # marvel, when her father, at the the echoes of that famous old cloister wilh declamatious ‘rom Plato and Plotinus, But in the davghter, as in the father, the real lnarvel was gether the accumulated knowledge, nor the literary power, It was the spiritual mind, Uhe rapt one of the Godlike toretead, ‘The heaven eyed creature, was Wordsworth's description of Coleridge, the most spiritual perhaps of England’s poets, cer- tainly of her modern poets, OF her, some one said “Her father had looked down into her eyes, aud leitin them the lightof hisown,” Ler great characterisuc was the radiant spirituality of her intellectual and imaginative being. ‘This it was that looked sorth from her countenance. Great and various as were her mother’s talents, it was not from them she derived what was special to her, Lt wis from the degree in which she had in- heriied the feminine portion of genius, She had a Keener appreciation oF what was highest and most orizinal in thought than of subjects nearer the range of ordinary intellects. She moved witn the lightest step when she moved over the loftiest 5 age of 14 wol ground. Her “feet were beautitul on the moun- tain tops’ of ideal thought * * She was one of those whose thoughts are growing while they speak and who never speak to surprise. Her Intellectaal fervor Was not that which runs over in exclvement; a quietude belonged to it, and it was ever modulated by a womanly inatinct of reserve and dignity. She never “thought for effect” or caved to have the last word tn discussion, or found it didicnts to conceive how others would difer irom her conclusions, She was more a woman that those whe had not a tenth part of her inteliectaal energy, The serivusness and the softness of her nature raised her above vanity and its contortions, Her mine vould move at ence and be at rest. It wouid not be dimeuit to jusizy even this high Praisa by extra from the eolgme before us. Many of the letters might a4 well pave been leit unprinted; but some of them are perfect gems, Nilsson, but we have seen none which, for beauty ofexecution and perfeciness of expression, will emporarily in possession of Mr, \ roadway, It is by a Russian was brought bither by Mie. Ntlssom Ia 4 since been presented by her to one o( friends. There is @ certaity ideality in the expression which recalls some ‘of tha tenderer ps Mignon aud Ophelia, if our photographers: core anything quite so quod as this itis to be hoped they will do su, Fox, afew days it will remain visible at the place wa have mentioned. BOOK TRADE SALE. bee I A Fine Array of Valuable Works, Messrs, Leavitt & Co., auctioneers, have just issued a catalogue of an extensive collection of valuq able and choice illustrated books, forming an unsurd passed assemblage of works connected with the ing arts, to be soid by auction on Wednesday next, and following days, at nalf-past seven o’clock P, M, Taig catalogue is beautifully printed, and in a style core: responding to the importance of the books. ‘1h@ title page promises mucb, and these promises are made good by the books themselves, which ara much better than many collections that hava been put forward with more pretence. Indeed, so valuable 18 the collection that it is cure rently stated “that a weli-Known uptown bouks seller and importer, who mak an annual bibliographical tour in Europe estinates it aa bi worth $30,000." That is a matter, however, a! which @ more certain opinion can be expre: after the sale. It will remain to be seen how far the panic will have affected the price of really fina, books—ior, of course, their value cannot e changed by such an event, Suci an opportunit, for securing books of this class rarely occura, am there are no books in this collection which wo not form a really useful and vrnamental addi toany library. ‘There are over 550 authors repre~ sented in the collection, consequently only a bris reterence can be given to a few of the most prom inent names, ‘The collection 1s unsurpassed im works relating to the flae arts, and it is: also ric! in volumes of history, biography, poetry, tl drama, and belles-lettres, ‘The books are geaerall in supery bindings, and in fine condition in ey Cts ae TOne the unique volumes named in the catas logue are:— ‘A gorgeous copy of Dore’s Bible; Gilray's Caricatures; a Superb original copy att i unital Abts : 0 Saute Nineteentn Century ‘Masterpieces tal Art and Sculptui i it labia the: Bagilen tained Glnns it pe,” two volumes, folio Zit" evox de Aumont in cre ‘of peare Galler of Art by ite Monument the galleries of Masters and Stories of Veni F Nubia,” colores trate Paris in’ its Splend Gruithology * atfohat peru ca Silver: Audabon's i Birdgand the ofiginal folio edition ; Nash's 0) and five volumes, colored plates; “Musee Lewis “Sketches in Spain,” Lord Kingsborough’s * tou ot Mexico,” colored plates, folio, lames; aa “Italian Art; Hogarth’s Works an earl ach cobb and atimeroddsihee olen cqCaly watuttic ‘The books are now on exhibition, and the alq will commence cn Wednesday evening next. Da comber 10, wt half-past ten o'clock,