The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1877, Page 9

AMONG THE ACTORS. [3 cierto Dion Boucicault on the Dramatic Situation. PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS. oe Sharp Raps on Critics’ Knuckles—A Pugnacious Criticism. y _-aHE P Comparisons of Audiences in Three Countries. pas 3 THE AUTHOR-ACTOR AT HOME UBLIC CAPRICE. Dion Boucicault te one of the dramatic meteors e@bich bas been dashing across the horizon for nearly quarter of a century. him, He has wade some failures and drawn blanks in the lottery of life. He has made other attempts and secured prizes with which bis pame is likely to be ‘Adentified in connection with the most brilliant works of the modern stage, It is worth while to apply to _bim the comments that will be found paraphrased further on, to-wit:--'*?he bubit of depreciation 13 one that has oxisted“or 2,000 yeara, We ali exaggerate the past, Each generdtiva makes « classic of its predeces- “for, Time hides vlemisi Seem to be fuultiess, We recall grace, furm and color when it (gin the distance. ‘his may bea reason why living men in their own generation are not Bo esteemed is when they are removed by death. It 1s mot easy to vescribe the physical Boucicault surrente calamo; but 11 Shakespeare in the Central Park could -tep down trom his pedestal, don a bomoly drown hat, get into commonplace moderu clothing, knock around democratically, utter bright, pugnactous and epigrammatic thoughts, be severe, and yet at times be geutie aud pathotic, the reader would have g gen- eral ides of one of the strangest of individualities ip our present dramatic society, On the other hand, if you will dress Boucicauit like the statue atoresaid, lean him against a mantiepicce, compel him to cross bis legs and pose with bis head apon Bis wand as do the tigures im some of tho old pictures, you will have a very fair idea of a man who, in pis everyday life, without knowing at, represents the great stage figure. Boucicault is not aware of tho resemblance, and ts therelore modestly careleas in refusing to regard the josts of his friends; yet the fact is that the bald head, with its ‘thin fringe of hair, the sharp features, the keep, blue tye, the direct voice aud sententious style, are re- minders at least of some far-off intellectual inberit- ance identified with the great bard, and so they make him imteresting. Of course we don’t kuow how the Avon poet talked; but the man who attempts to follow Dion Bouciowult with the view of catching his “very best”? commits himself to a conversational stream that foams aud tosces and bubbles and sparkles like a tataract. Clear, incisive and reminiscent, he flius- trates what is called, “talking like a book,’? and the poor devil who attempts to follow bim conversationally and professivnally bad botter turow up his situation. Something has be¥n printed about his large income, butthere is nothing in the arrangemeut of his apart- macnts that suggests More than the comforts of a man thoroughiy at ease, The rooms are not papered, bur bung with drapery and decorated with picvures, There is @ sideboard in one corner, an easy louuge in Another, an upright plano aguinst one wall and au ex- quisite specimen of Japanese lacquer work, which verves the purpose of recetviug Whatever bis private Secretary chooses to file. The table at which he works \s a kind of graveyard for dead thoughts—applications for work, invitations to dinner, suggestions about plays, cards of visitors, his own “notes aud queries;”” in fact, a thousand bits of paper scattered just as care. lessly as a literary mano might be @upposed to throw them, A stroke of lightning couldo’t make more confusion, When the writer called tne host looked like a Jesuit in white. He was buttoned to she chin in a close fitting silk lined dressing gown, driving a quill at ine rate of forty pounds to the square inch through something that seemed like writing, and was indisposed to be communicative. Jt might be quickly perceived that the guthor-actor 1s one wha wastes few words, yet whew the visitor suggested (hat the purpose of his mission was to secure some infor- mation with regard to the object of the dramatist in Writing the article in the North American Review on the decline of the drama, and in which the mischiev- ous influences of the newspaper press are discussed, Mr. Boucicanit dropped bis pen and plunged at once into the theme. THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. “1 was pot upprepared,’’ he said, ‘for the treatment . [have received editerially throughout tue country as the result of the article to which you refer. But the criticisms all appear to ve in the same vein, The writers mistake abuse for argument. 1 could bave answered wyseif beer, They have not on any occa. Bion addressed themselves to the real task of subvert- Not everybody uuderstands | wuich because out of mind | ing the views | advanced, but seem rather to bave | been content with throwing dirt—a baptism that have been accustomed to for many years. The most important answers that came to me are from private trends. By them 1 am accused of salling into the popular error of deprecating my own generation, yet as to this 1 observed in the article itself that the de- - Preciation of one’s own geveration is a bubit that vas | existed for 2,000 years, Bach generation has mado a classic of its predecessor. We ali exaggerate the past. VUbjecia thut are near to us betray their blemishes, while the same objects far removed lose these tauite to the sight and we recall only the grace of their form aud color, This may be a reason why living men are rarely in their own generauon so esteemed as when they are removed by death to a dis- tance. It 18 the same witb living works. Ja some of the editorials { have been jocularly asked, ‘Behind what paper isthe coming Shakespeare secreted?’ to whom I uaively refisred us a possible editor, The expression I made use of was intended to convey the idew tha, a brain which might bave tureed out to be SWakespeariap bad probably veen debsucucd by news- paper practices and processes, wai so Leen devilitaied and reduced to a kind of mechamical level, stwaled apd made incapable of ever arriving ut the growiu | Wwhict it might Lave wemieved in the healtutul mental exercise of mediation wuich tLe poets of the Shak Bpeare cru eujoyed, Aguib, 1 um ireeiy accused of baving couiributed to tue deine of the uranin. Tors accusativn, howevei upuecessary, avd 1 dismisa it With the Femark thas in my Own ui I sreely wa. mit iu AN EXPERIMENT WITH THE PUMLIC. “But bow comes it, | the urvma be so deteriorated ANd tue pUblic uste £0 depreciated, [bal you Have whe bardibovua to produ. ea legitimate comecy in five aris, AuY EXpect such a success as hus aitended tue ‘scnu0l Jor scandal,’ tue ‘Rivals’ aud other plays ol (bis cuar- acter?” “Well, to be frank, | have written this work to tost as far asl can (he question Whetuer there Is really beuler cies Of wring WOW That has existed during tue wp years. My own Wwpression 16 that in New k there i a puvhe bapable oF appreciaung tue finer touches of comedy. Li ceriainly cocs wot exist in London, How tar i ob- tains bere and to Whal extent it ena be depended on 1 go not know, bat ts obly right to ascertatu by experiment, and iu the view Lf have COMposed Martine.” in omy juagment it eis the best work of this calibre tout IT have writte Tf it be well constructed and thougbtiuily souceived it Wiliserve ag a test, and the critics will de able Lo judge how iar (am right in consiverit i have cone, thar the poy war romantic urama ts more suited 10 the temper of the present hour than the Uigher delineations (ut are to ve sound io the oid somedies. Mr, Wallack will be equally gratified to find (oat there 18 & growing taste among the pai ior & Leer Clase Cf Work, and We are prepared to Wake sucrilices Jor its Jurther cultuyution if Buco be re- quired,” “speaking of your new pla; other comedies With the sai “Yes, a comedy, im th ‘Marriage,’ have not Jy been produced f’” acid, written by Kovert Beli, was provuced at the Haymarket theatre, iv Lou don, i 1843. 1 Jewrn (bat a turee act play With the Bae tile Was also produced in New York jour or tive Yours ugo, tue author of Wuieu Was Mr, J. Stecle Mace kaye, wud sll anyther, to Providence, Ki. the view of the suiject that 1 bave taken, however, 18 so different that there caunot possibly Ue any siti- lary vetweon tue Works «My Comedy covers a space Of igrty-eigh: Bours, represoutiug y Uitore the the wedding Worniug, the weuding evening, morbivg al the weduioy and jay alier ihe The: tm the ite ol every man anu edding. ri Womun Lave never, sv far as Lam aware, been created us tho suyjeet wud Action of &@ comedy, aud yet they ee embody the most emotional events in bu lite - re the great advi at Mr. Waliack’ company the ooly ope either tp this country o! in Great Britain whieb, in my judgment, capavie of perfectly representing such comedies as ‘ibe Rivals,’ ‘Londow AssuTaber’ or ‘Sve Stoops wo Conquer. 1 dou’t ink tbat either of ibe-e piays could be ade- qustely cast tp any Otber theatre in the world. Li, therefore, wy own comedy bow in hana shouid iu any respect fail it must necessarily be my own tauit.’? YHK PUBLIC CAPKICE. But has pot the caprice of tue pu do wiih the success of every play?” “No, om th its success, but with its popularity, which'is a very different tbing, Many plays succeed, yet tail to draw money; thut is, they jai to be coutin- wously wtiractive for a long period. The puoliec ca- price is more frequently extibited in the appreciation oftheactors than of We plays, Asap illustr«tion, the London public, during the last dtteen or twenty yea Ve exercis@d \bis Caprice most cruelly. Seven- leen years ogo they took up Mr. Fecbter and fora while made him an ido, then droy ped him. They took up Mice Bateman and srery d ner, They took up Mrs. Rousby and dropped her. Finally, they have tal up Sir Irving, and, probably in a yeor or two, they will drop him. These urtists deserved a certain «mount ot popularity according to Lheit respective merit did vot deserve tavors that were bestowed at a1 aud withdrawy toe next by reason of the were capri- Clousbess Of their andiences. Again, there 1s a certain ignorance on the part of tue pudlic Which ought Ho to be overlooked. Aciors like Mr, Sothern apd Mr, Jue Jeflersow have played i New York for years. Que represented Lord Dundreary and tne other Rip Yan Wiukle. By the New York paviic tueir performances were regarded a8 pothing exiraordinary, yes ihey went to Lurope and Were received a3 actors and stars of great merit, Mark tue contrast. When they re- turned (o this city It Waa suadeniy diseuvered Ly the critics aud the public that that which was invisible during their lng period of triul was deserving of ar tistic prominence. Don’t you see that there 1s som thing Wrong aid that savors of popular ignorance in this? Kither these actors were vot entitied to the merit discovered 1m them by English audiences or the New York playsoers were sinuglariy biiud to excel- jence that commanded public approvation elsewhere, ‘Are they uotin many Other cases losing just such op- portunities nowt?’ KITICS AND THEIR IDIOSYNCRASIRS, “You bi binted that modero jourgalists aro mot capable of twiriy estimating \he Vusae of an actor or play.’” 1 regret to say that I ve it true, and, though 1 expect. much apnoyunce by reason of the asserion, 1 reterate (bat ignorance on tbe part of tue criLics 13 proven by (he iaoy tbat (hey nave no xtaudard of eric m whereby to measure any kind of artisiic ex evilence, Av actor WO 1s praised in one payer wil ve abused im avowwer, ‘The reauers oi the Jourouis flud- ing (but the critics capnot agrees amoiy tuemavives ay lo tue good and tue vad waiurally throw the opia- ious Of she pFess Ove side, avd bus tue press loves its) prestige, in short, there a lack of coherence jm togir judgment aad the public lose futh im them. Tiasevere article appears ia apy one of the pap. rs upon a work or a performauce the acior orauther 18 invariably ed by his irieuds, ‘What bave you uone to tue critic?’ Li, on the ountrary, an excecaingly lavoravie article appears, it 1s inwe- diately accredited to some tavoravle influence exeried upon the opmious of the writer, In no case voes the ublic ut lurge dream tout these opinions are measured by. @ fair and eritical stanuurd of the work ol the actors red to, By these meuos the press hus lost its power over the public. If am audience teaves u theatre ovlightea With the performance they cunuot ve subse- quenuy persuaded by the finest criticism that tuey huve wot been pleuses, On «he other hand, if a dull periormance bus been given, no amount of praise can induce the reader of a news- aper n whe loilowing moraing to beueve that he tas been gratitied, When ue very well Kuows that bo bas been bored. ‘The influence of the press in theatrical matters, therefore, 1s mainly exerted upon and sup- ported by actors, actresses and managers, Who vatuiy beeve that an atice may dy them ap injury ora service, It ia ali wrong.” “But is this peculiar to America? Are we all go in- divicuaily bad? Do we stand alone?” “By po means. 1am speaking in general terms of America, Engiand and France, and suggesting a thought which I think will bear examination in the three countries, ” THB TAGE AND TUR ACTORS, “You bave stated muny reasoza tor the decline of the drama, but you donot let us know in what par- ticular it bas declinea, Where is the falling off #?? “In the urt of acting chiefly, aud im tbe art of stage management. La comedy we uave lose (he true vei; actors no longer study cburacter, but strive to outdo euch other in caricatice, All the popular parts that stund out during the last thirty years are caricatdtes, not delineation of characier, So strong has been the taste ‘lor these extravagunces that comedians who prefer the study of nature are obliged to enter the contest by waopting what we call ‘eccentric’ purts, Such is dip Van Winkle, which wituout his Gerwan wecent and bivuders of fanguage would fail to capuvate, Such also 1 Covm im the ‘Shaugoraun. ‘the popular elements in those two do not lie in the true character of eacu, but in the eccentrici- hes with which the characters are cloibed, Tbe actors ure, therefore, striving to excel each other in extravagance, They study tho outside ipstead of the mside, ‘the ladies think of how they i¢ something to shall dross, bow vbey will look, nov bow tue parts tuey gusta should te played. ‘fhe Journatists also encourage this shallow sysiem by criticising the color of 4 gonticman’s gloves or the propriety of his bat ina certula scene, as il such details were Worthy of serious attention. 1’ have seen Mr. Macready play Joseph @imodern irock coat and gray Lrousers to Mr. Fyrren, who appeared as Sir Peter Yeazle in a cur velvet court guitof the jast century, But the per- was 80 excelient that (like the cannon intro. duced by Shakespeare atu ‘Humiet’) the splendor of the work overwhelmed the offence of the anuchron- ism,” “You mean that our comedians are burlesque ace sors?” ‘Many of them are mere variety minstrels without the burat cork, Ihey imitate the gays and sbsurdi- ties of those negro clownr, a3 I baye seep ludivs in Europe imitate the carriuge and mauuers of the demi- monde. ‘hus the trae crait of acting js alinost qus0- lete, When { direct the rebearsals ot a play | hud many performers who are iguoraut Of tbe irst prin- ciples, the clements ot theart. For ucttag is av art, and (bere is a right und a Wrong way of using gesinre, aud motion, There is grammar of action known to arusts, and certain movements are, as it were, bad gramuur, and certain gestures are bad spelling. To overlook such aud spplaud these offences are errors too common in Journulists, Who suould know better. ‘There is u reader to correct errors of the press velore these articies are prinied, But they allow. periorm- agpces td go belore the public with similar errors pfomineut.”” ‘Are there any theatres in England or France where such errors are corrected?” TUK SCPERIOKITY OF AMBRICAN ACTORS. “Phe Americun actors ure imineasurably superior fo the London periormers, where the art bas re.ched bottom; nothing cau go much lower’tuan what | wit- nossed and bad to contend with in London. There 18, however, OUly Obe sheatre where the artis pi lectiy understood and correctly observed—that is the Theatre Fraagais, tn Paris.”? “Are the acu re aware that they are losing their toohutcal proficiency ¥”? “Wien they ure Shown where they aro wrong they Perceive it; but! taucy they consider any altoration Of their action rather as au tinprovement on what was | good than a correction of an error in art”? “Is there always @ reason tor what you call right and wroug in art??? “Yes; arustic reasons, For examplo, a gesture in- tended to illustrate the speaker's ineauing should always precede the words It accompanies. Thus, wuen fn tppeal 1s made to Heaven, the arms sould ve raised before the words are uttered. The reason is Ubat the eye of the spectator is quicker of apprenen- sion than the ear; so the gesture of raising the arms prepares the wind for the expression of ihe thought which follows; that il you avwempt to reverse this p'ocess and utler the appeal Urst, crying, for example, ‘By Heaven!’ and ben raise the arms, the ef somewhat ndiculous. [bia rule ts one of Oi the thany that govern actiog and oratory, y Ue 14 tt Known that we have [requeutiy to geek ‘star’ actors tor offending agatugl it,” MORK ABOUT THE PRESS, Stoce you are brave cnougo ty utter your opinions concerniag the press, aud iuey are oot particulariy complincstary, 10 view of the fact (hat you are ukeiy to be the prey of tbe critics within the nexi jew haves, i would uke to hear sili urther tram you on the suy- Jeet.” ‘hen let me be frank again and say that the press bas sporied aciors aud iauugers by giving them con- gideratiow aud notice iar vevood What they are en titled tA manager Watches Wii Jealous eye every word tual is printed couvermiug a Val (oeatre. Mi P. meueures (he uunver of lines given to Mr. Q and raies (We Journaist soundly if be fuds bimsell w live shorts, He -euds down Lo tue newsvaper aotives and pulls und expects (uess to be priuted in the editorial columns free of churge. Surely Messrs A. or iiflany beve au equal fight to bave thelr yoous commended, Agwin, the managers a.d actors become so sensitive they cannot tolerate the silune censure. This wrong. You cauovt cox horse Lo Wib # greai sake, he 1s urged to dou by whip and spur. Judicious censure is the most vainavle assivtance Lo a Lagatre,”? iy judiwious do you mean severe 97? Yes, i deserved, Let me quote an example, About @ MOL ugo 4 Piece Was produced iu Loudon, [twas not a good pi evidently, alihough written by « very able diawatist, Mr. iH. J. Byron, Ihe journais criticised it severely, 1 Telegraph, geveoraily ove of thy le, especiuily when Lanuling an eminent autuor, sp ‘U Mr Byron’s pame nad not been announced vo one could buve vehever it possible thar a play so clumsy 1a artangement, 80 desuitue of imteresi, so wid y uunaturar in incident, so dull and heavy in | Teli, 80 jorced ih burmeK and 80 bald in aialogue coulis bave been put forward by u practised band.’ Another journalists speuks of tt as ‘withour Iiterary of duy kind, Abd a proiaction tuat would dis- the raWest schoolboy dramatist’ Lt any eric ou aNew York Jouruu) were to deal with a theatre here 1p this fashion | feei eure tout there woud ve found bail «dozen managers Woo would memo ialize the editor With « round robin, requesting the removal Of the writer from the staf, ‘ine offended theutre wound immediately withdraw its advertisement, and there would be a general outery. You catnet complain of want of hard knocks, DU Have beeo severviy hanuled occasionally,” Not as severely us I deserves iu many wh the rigbt pices. lett myself oven I ewived natal or din squirt irom bebing We come of a Sa not dou may apreawr service U Ati bit, tur (hat mereases Lis Values pont OUL & Chora adds Hoth iDY Lo His svore?? 3 You aby more rewarks to make about the res PiHSS KUPPIAS “Well, Lshould lke to draw (he attention of editors to a race Of marauders what ta lita would be called rufani, butte tue teuthieal World are knows 1s ess men.’ Wen un important ‘star,’ a singer OF an uclor, 18 aDvouneed as New York trom Europe, or ii some native genius re- \ NEW YORK HERALD, quires to be fired off here, the ‘business man’ se sare to appear, He informs the aspirant that noihin; be done wuhout press iniiyence, and be (ine , cap commang the press. lt 1s needless to say be can do notning of the kind. But be produces, ta proof of his powers, a book, in Wh ch is pasted 4 series of pulls cut trom tae New York NewAto ang otner infineutial pavers, proving what he hus doue lor 4 star when be toed last year, His process 1% Ingenious. Like @ consummate architect, he begins at the bottom by laying @ foundation by what may be calles the pull tupda: tai. He gets ope of ihe many correspond put ip the Peoria ‘of that by adiog Wes ana gives it toa New York jouraat, say the 7imes or Tribune, ws av euiturial acvertisement—I meag of those im the news pages, headed ‘advertisement.’ He ‘bev cats off tu heading aud sends to the HERALD 4p advertisement in which the pull appears, with the bame of the other journal adaed, New York Daily Times, as if it were ibe editorial comment er opinion Ol that paper; and im like manner the sume trick 1s played ov Low HkKALD, aud the Jémes Is taade to quove aL Opinion your paver pever utiered, fay star immediate! $100 w Week and tra’ sides ar Toe tortucom- engages the ‘business man’ at ng expenses. Large sums ve- drawn trom the ster tor ‘press purposes,’ y t Deheves he oF she 18 paying ty Venal journalists, who, in fact, do wot receive a cent,’ “You leel convinced, then, that the critics ave not JOF (heir praise, as some people Lbink they e* here Muy be a solitary Inatance or two where a critic hag received movey, und ‘hese are generally con- fined to the lower closs of Journals; but l feel cerwam Were 14 Hot 4 respectubly journal in the Unitea states that can be fairly accused of Disekmall og ip this m.a- ver, Jouruaisis, of course, have their likes a d dis- uinan, and it is human to err; but they are vought, at least that is wy conviction, “if it 4g suspected chat a critic pprovcbavle in Luis w au edslor immediaiely removes bim trom the puper.'? — such an iustauce ocourred within your kuowl- “Not within my knowledge; but [ belteve it has been j done, It proves tuat even tue suspicion of impurity will not be Loverated.”” “MARKIAGR.” “Your new comedy ‘iiurriaye’ is announced as: a legitimate comedy ia five acts How do you expect it to rank beside your otner comed ‘Loudon Assure ance’ aud ‘Vid Geads aud Young rin 7??? As alterary work Luhink it is superior to eith of them, being @ truer comedy in boat sense, It ja wha is dan epigraminat ¢ comedy more in the Vein of the vider »choai of Vougreve, where the dia- Jogue 1s composed Of am Wuimerrupted coun of epi- grams, This style of play requires # Wakeiul audience 40 Ca 6b Lhe ports as rapidly 4s tuey are mide. ouch apultc existed thirty years ago in Loudon, and I $sLink there iin New York, espectaliy ow tirst miguts, # select audience quite up to the iitellectual murk.’? “Do you mean to couvey that there is nou in Lon. don suc pablic capabie vt appreciating ibis cass of work?” “1 do ean to convey just that, 1 think, next to a French uudieuce, the Atnerican appears to we the brightest aug keenest tu tue world, The Lonuon puv- He bus een debauched by melodrama, caricature and burle-que, and have lost the taste for bigher and bet- ter things”? “But they go to see ‘The School for Scandal ?’'” “Yes, ag (hey woud tutlli aduty, Because itis the thing to do. TI saw it piiyed there, and very badly played, to a silent house.” “You seem to have very strong convictions??? “L would not give aceut jor # man who had weak oues. And my strongest conviction is that the world 43 a good world, aud New York 18 avout the best pla iy it—where ti men are the loveliest, the meu the most genial fellows, the sky the brightest and ¢ restuurunts the best on the face of the earch. There is nothing aman can want here except money to enjoy ital, Good moraing, and boil this talk dowa!”? ‘The dramaust here pulled toward bim a pile of proois fresh from the press, und for a moment buried ; but, quickly recovering, pointed toward a ocked buflet iu the coruer of his study aud paid the usual soctal compliment He excused himsell, pointing to another of bisconvictions, He drinks iced tea with lemous init, We wended oar way, wondering whether lemoa juice ever wus injectyd into his style und flavored bis opinions. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, @ musical benefit for Rutus Jerome Hopkins sugge! Hateh, “Struck Onl” increases in public tavor at the Union Square Theatre. The man fish is one of the chief attractions, of tho New American Museum. “Jane Eyre” is anuounced for this week at the New Park Theatre, Brooklyn, Galimberti has carrie: hor Spanish coquetry to Bal- timore and mago a sensation, ‘be Mighty Dollar’? will be presented by Mr. and Mrs. Florence to-morrow night. The Tivoli Thestre presents an extended variety programme to tho east aide public, ‘The San Francisco Minstrels continue to amuse the public with their pleasant entertainments, Mme. Ruderedorf, removing from Boston, will shortly tuke up ber res!dence in New York. The success of “A Crushed Tragedian’’ atthe Park Theatre ts prodigious, Mr, Sothern bas made a hit in the queer character of Fitzaltamont, An organ recital is to be given to-night at St. Stephen’s Church, in Kast Twenty-eighth street, for tho purpose ol liquidating certain debts, Miss Adelaide Lennox will play Armande In “Led Astray,”? at New Institate Hall, 1a Newark, on Thurs- day next, with Mr, W. H. Thorne as the Count, Bryant’s Minstrels could not resist the temptation of burlesquing a burlesque and “The Crushed Trago- dian’? will be one of their specialties this week. Miss Fanny Davenport hus been decidedly success- ful at the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, and | ber engagement will be continued during the present week, ‘The Heller combination begins a seugon of two months at Horticultural Hall, Boston, to-morrow night. In Deeomber Mr. Heller will occupy his new theatre In Now York. ‘Law of the Land’? is the title of the new pleco which ig to be brought out at Nibio’s to-morrow evee- ing. Unusually strong scenic effects are announced | by the management. Den Thompson will appear at Wood’s Theatro, Brooklyn, this week, in bis popular character of Joshua Whitcomb, asgisied by Miss Julia Wilson. “Lhe Dead Shot” ts also on the bill, Mr. James C, Duff has purchased from Messrs. Palmer and Frenen the right of the “Pink Dominos” for the New York cities and Canada Miss Jeffreys Lewis and Mr. F, B, Warde will play the leading rdies. “Miss Mathilde Wilde, dramatic prima donna, and Henry Wiegand, basso, have recently arrived and will appear in Philadelphia next Monday, in Meyerbeer’s ‘Les Haguenots,” under the mauagoment of Dr. J. C, Fryer. Tony Pastor’s Theatre ts to be closed during the week, except to the painters, ourpeutors aud uphol- sterers, who wiil prepare it tor the winter, On Octo- ber 8, Tony Pastor and his company will open it for tho son. The twenty-third Regiment Rand of Brooklyn (Con- terno’s) yesterday gave a complimentary concert tn Prospect Park, Lt waaa gracelul recognition of the handsome manner In which they bave been treated during the summer by the Park Commiasione s, Thore is the high antuority of the Associated Press for the statement that avn Octopus, or Devil Fish, de- voured aa indian Woman on thy California coast re- cently. Que of these curious animals is now to bo seen at the Aquarium, but visitors need not be afraid of its attentions, Among the recent additions to the staff of artists at Giimore’s Garden 19 Master Willam H, Lee, a boy so- pra.o, He slugs wiih remarkable sweetness and fills the place witu ease, ar. W. J. Flom ng, of Niblo’s Garden, has generously tendered, for the benefit of tdwin Adams, bis entire theatre, As be writes:;—"'No gus, music, stage hands, ushers, doorkeepers or any other biils to be deducted from recvipts!? This is the rigut way to do it, and the man who sets the example deserves pr vise, ‘This evening at the Grand Opera House, the enter- lainment is denominated *Eyerettism” and embrases, io the ianguage of the announcement, tery, Amusement and Spiritualism.’’ To-morrow the “Danites’ will be given, 10 Which Mr McKee Rankio and Miss Kitty Blanchard will sustain theif original characters, Miss Emma Thursby on Wednesday ovoning sang to ‘fan audience of 7,000 people at tue concer: in the Pub- Ne Exhibition Buriding, Phiiadeiphia, Miss Annie Borie, sopraio, will sing there this evening. Apropos of these entertainments, the cost of ad- mission is Oaly twenty-five cents; and although the hati is four miles from the heart of the city, itis hightly thronged, ‘The dramatic sensation of the week will bo the pro- daction of Mr. Boucicault’s now Gve-act comedy of “Surriage” ac Wailack’s, What the play will vo ts principaily conjecture, but the east is powerful, in- cluding ali the leading members ot the compuny. The acenery, of course, will be entirely new, and as tho plece has been renearsed uaaer the personal direction of the author, 1t will be wugoubtedly presented with ag much perfection of detail as “Tue Shaughraa The musical event of ine opéra boulfe soasou will occur to-morrow (Moaday) eveuiog at Mr, Dut’s New Browdway Theatre, Thiruieth street and Broadway, a piace which will, doubtless, be found more hight, fresh music of tue French scuool than tho erence, Mys- | | title rather infringes on Signor Brignoli’s territor: theatre just vacated by Aimée’s company. “La Marjolaine”’ by Charlies Lococq, which rao for over two hundred nights in Paris, will be the opening autraction, Mile. Aimée ussuming the title réle. Mile. Mario, MM. Moliard aud Jouard have also excellent Darts ip this opera Gilmore’s Garden during the week has been the scene of a beautiiul fora! and borticuitural display, which, Im connection with the cuncerts, bas dfawn large sudieucea daily and nightly, bis evening ibe performance wii be one of unusual inierest. An im- mense orchestra will appoar, compos broedel Society, comprising all the'leading musiciaus of New York, under the direction of Mr. Adolph Neoen- dort, Mr George Mavala, Mr, Fred, Rietzel, and othe who bave yeverously voluuteered 10 aid of Gilmore's Baud European Fund. Tne anuval benefit of Mr. P. 3. Gilmore will take piace Thifrsday evening, October 11. Tv bas been proposed that Mr. Gilmore shill present @ phase of Verdi, ns he did at Boston ou the occasion Of the Jubilee, ‘The “Anvil Chorus Fesied asa leading piece, and it is understood that the impresario will select this tor the prodaction of cermio new ef- fects, A hundred or two of anvils and a battalion of Voices are the neccesary clements of success, and without exploding too much contidence we are per- mitted to say that such mw result is possible, At any rate, Boboly cam try the experiment better than P. 8, @, ‘The Hess English Opera Company leave New York this week for Cincinnati, where they will open their season oD Octover 15. The imiiiat opera will be “A Summer Night's Dream,” music by Ambroise Thomas, which will be presented with the following cast:—Queen Elizabeth, Miss Emelie Melville; Lady Olivia, Mrs, Zelda Seguin; Shakespeare, Mr. William Castle; Lord Latimer, Mr ©. HL Turnor; Inokeeper, Mr. Benitez This opera will be toliowed by Pianquette’s sparkling work, ‘The Chimes ot Normandy,” of which the cast will be—Miguonetie, Miss Emeiie Melvilie; Germaine, Mrs, Seguin; Ger- trude, Mra. Searle; the Marquis, Mr. Castle; Robin, Mr, Turner; Gaspard, Mr, Morton; Sheriff, Mr, Seguin, Maillar’s popular work, ‘Villars’ Dragoous,” is the third op the bills, aud will be given with Mrs Seguin, Miss Searle, Messra. Castle and Peakes in the principal réles, The Enghsh librettos of those three operas have been written by Mr. M.A. Cooney, business manager of the company. After the Cincinuat en- Bagewent the company will appear in Louasville and Pittsburg, Ihe Western tour completed, the company will come East, anda long engagement\in oae of the leading theatres in Now York 18 already arranged. ‘The stevmship Coton brought an tinwense stock of mise en scene, Lage appointments and wardrobe, last week, MUSICAL REVIEW. Society Wattzes. Composed by Clifford Putnum, New York: C, Putnam. These waltzos are rather above than below the aver- Age piano waltz, Of course they are modelled on Strauss, aud there are places which sound Uke posi- tive imitations of that composer, for example tho phrase on pages 5 and 6, 10 A dat, There is « serious fault ip the gecond number, When the second endiag to the Arst division ts used tt will be found that there is ope measure too mauy for comfort in listening or possibility in dancing. In spite of these drawbacks they are better tuan most publications im this branch of dance music, Makcu Miuiraing, Same composer and publisner. This 18 betier iv point of ideas (bau most piano marches, but the fault of defective rhythm noticed once jn the waltz is present bere iv bewildoriug abundance. lv the second division (commencing page 4) @ measure is wanting in the middie which is made up by a measure too much at the voginning of the third division; perhaps tho slight fact that tor auo complete half of a division the ear bas been turtured by false accenis 1s too unimportant to bo considered by Mr, Putnaro, In this third division, both in the first and second endings, two moasures are tacking. The beginning of the trio gives a3 tive measures in the piace of jour, It is evident trom these two com- positions that the only way in which Mr. Putnam will evor learn to write rbythmicaily will be by counting his measures on his dngers, Burixg Stats Gator, By B, Mollenbauor. New York: 8. T, Gordon & 3on, This galop is a specimen of what can be done by a man who bas a certain amount of technical knowledge and ho talent, It has absolutely not one idea from beginning to end, but it flows on smoothly enough witn ita series of harmless platitudes, and dribbies itselt out at the end tua run utterly impossibie for the class of players who buy this Kind ot (so called) music, Crossixo tHe Daxowe, March. By Juan C, Salcedo, New Yoru: 3. f, Gordoa & Son, This looks like the work of a pretty good musician. The march Is by no means bad, thouh the trio is vory suggestive of a well known German song, and the but a few words mngt be said about tbe printing of the music, This is utserly wretched, The plates have evidently been priuted by a novice, and the proof reading has been very carelessly done. No one, from this copy, will bo able to play the march as the com- poser wrote it, for in wnany cases no one can tell what the composer did write, bul wo are quite sure he did not write what the printed copy gives us. Wuky rue Brossoms Cover vs, Daniing, Song and chorus Words oy Arthur W. French, Music by Charles Baker, Ciacinuati, Olio, Trash, in every respect Fairy ANGeting, Song and dance, Words and music by Joseph P. Skelly. . f. Gordon & Co, ‘Trash, also, but vulgar trash this time—vulgar trom a musical point of view, of course, Going Back To Tuoss | Love, Words vy Annie M. Curtis, &. T. Gordon & Sou, Ashade betier than the two preceding, but badly harmonizea. Writs ro My Over tue Water, Love. Son; chorus, Words by Haus. New York: mbit, Weak, but inoffensive. The water over which Love is to write seems to have entered largely into the ma- terial of the composition, Gaxrie Heart Be turk. Song and chorus Word v} George Cooper. Music by a. Lerman, New Yor! M. Lerman, We hope that Mr. Lerman is prepared to acknowl-- edge his indebtedness to the old German song upon which his song is built from beginning to end. We may uot agree with Mr. Lerman, but we proler the original’ Pact axp Vinainie (Victor Masse) Potpourr, Ch. Neustedt, New York: Edward Argosou, Very poor, The raus introduced are awkward and, as natural consequence, ineffective. The airs are not woll selec.ed and are unskiifully connected, Fuyerat Marca Gotterdimmerung. BR. Wagner, arranged by H, Cramer Edward Aronson. Quite a good arrungement. Cixq Mars. | Charles Gounod, by Joseph Rummet, Edward Aronson. An exceedingiy good potpourri, Mr. Rammel’s Dame is pew to as, but, Whoever he be, he has shown Song and chorus. Masic by Harry Percy, and Music by Joseph Potpourrt arranged Mme. Agramopve, tue widow | considerable taste in bis arrangement of these aires | of the dashing Cabab general, has also been singing | here with great effect, from Gounod’s atest opera, Uw Fere ac Vituack (Waltz). | DaNs# CARACTRNISTIQUE BAL Masyce (Gulop) By Rudolph Aronson, Pub. lisheu vy Hdward Arouson. Of these turee pieces the second is the best, In all of them there are ideas (a commodity for which wo canvot be too thankful), and in all of them ts plainly | shown a lack of the necessary technical siudy tor car. ryimg oat thowe ideas, The waltz might have been taueh improved by cers@in alterations in the distriva- ting of chords, and, in other places, by changes of harmony. In the Danse Caractéris:ique, the last meas. ure ou page 4 and the first eleven measures on the suc. ceeding page 5 should be cut out and outirely re-write tem. AS they stand at present they are characteristic of nothing bat the tight place Mr. Aronson found bim- solf in (harmonically) ana the difficulty be experi« enced fu getting from the domimant sevonth of B minor back to A minor, The galop starta with an idea almost ns gvod a9 119 title page (which is Saying =& great deal), though the upper B nataral in the might better have been left a B flat like its predeces- sors, in spite of the B natural underneath, and has, in fact, all through, a sort of can-cauy flavor and plenty of go,’ but nothing, not even bis lame attempt at a modulation into that extremely foreign key, can ex- cuse Mir. Aronson for writing in KE flat the trio to & gulop in F, and bys bald way of jumping back to his first key for a conclusion, without even a pretence of an attempt to lead there, 1 of itself suMcwn proot that he had felt bis mistake and gave up as hopeless all attempts at hiding 1, even to the ear Ip spite of thes» seemingiy sfvere criticisms we think that thore We promise io this young composer; tor, said at the outset, he bas ideas, and wo cannot say this of every composer. of the Aschen- | tenth measure | | | | | peculterities, ite wadacity, its versatility and the pro- | and no longer, * , SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1877—QUINTUPT.R SHEET. LITERATURE. Isis UNVEILED. “Isis Unveiled,” a work purporting to treat on Oriental tterature, magic and religion, bas just been puulished by J. W. Bouton, of ths city. The typo- graphical execution—everyiMing coming within tbe province of the printer aud publisher—is complete. The work itsell, occupying a Geld so new to many readers, will be judzed according to the interest taken by them in the topics which it discusses, Scioliats will barry to diseard 14 wits some scoraiul remark, 10 the hope that their admirers will accept therr judg- ment without furtuer ipvestigation. But “lsis’’ can- not be dismissed thus unceremoniously, There are too many investigators who do not receive opinions thus submissively, Tuese will welcome the new publication a8 & most valuable contribution to | philosopbical literature, Even those who hesitate | to accept the bold conelnsions of the author will yet gladly recetve the book as affording a vast amount of information ia regard to topics about whieb thero oxisis a vivid curiosity but iittie accarate con- ception, So thoroughly bave the storehouses of an- clout and medieval learning been ransacked that few Subjects of much interest appear to have beeu left unnoticed, The genests ot the human race, the emi- gration of peoples, the submerged continents, the rela- Honship between the myths and worships of the peoples of the Old and New World, Buddhistie, Bra- mini¢, philosophical and theological ideas, as they ouce were believed and their influence apon modern thought and dogma, have oll received the fullest attention. This was necessary ia orter to render the work, which it proleases to be, “a master key to the mysteries of ancleut and modern science and theol- ogy.” In accordance with this purpose Mme, Blavatsky hag divided her treatise into two parts, one aevoted to science wad one to religion, Sue bandies with little ceremony the claims and assumptions of modern savaus, however imposing their pretensions, when they,are adverse to ber views. She believes that an- cient philosophers, Oriental not less (hau Greeicas ond Hgyptians, have been conversant with much the Science that 18 now regarded as moderu amcovery; | also that pandits, lamas and other waxes to ke hoart of Asia and India are still in posseani edge transcendiug that of occidental selon) pu es . tries us much as the erudition of the proleseor ex creds the attainments of the pupils of bin chute In takiug such ground she is far from veing pretentious, There is vo doubt of her abundant assurence; but she Speaks from the curd, She has been « travelierin the principal countries of the Bast; spending ber eniidhood tm Armenia, the Caucasus, Persia and ‘Turkestan, and many years of adult life amovg the Hindoos, Singalese, Uhivetans aud Egyptians. All the time she was eagerly acquiring knowledge, She had no scruplo to learn trom lamus or fakirs, aud wherever it was practicabio she entered the sucrot lodges and associa- tions of the Bast, passing through the ordeals of initia- ton, Of course sbe bas uot ventured to revoal what had been disclosed ip the crypt; but when it haw be- come already known sho makes abundant quotations, Which coutain the gist of the «atier, Numorous translated extracts {rom the Kabaha, the Hermetic tablets, the Vedas and sacred books of the Persians and Buddhists, as well as of the Grecian and Lovian Philosophy end of sages of the. mediwval poriod, are thus interspersed through tho work—often, bowever, to be criticized and correctod. She bas made the Chaldean of the pro-Abrabamte period live again; and, what is hard foras to believe, insists that ho was of whe Aryan or Indo-Buropeay race and the disciple af Bramin sages of Upper India. But the oldest faith—we can bardly cali it aworship—she declares 10 have been the religion of wisdom. In this sho oontlrius the assertions of the Alexandrian Eclectica aud their modern foliowers. ‘The great world ‘religion, vow known ay Bududism, 43, accordingly, in ber view, the most ancient und, with all its adulterations, tue truost of any, She pro. tosses to know its arcane doctrines, and regaras them Aastot only antedating the Vedio, Bramin and Maz- | dean theologies, but as comprising the sublimer reve- latjoa of the mysteries and the principal philosophical | doymas of the Wost Others have not learned this, | because they did not possess the key, The religious and scientific wealth of the oldest peoples of the earth hax been so jealously guarded (rom tnqaisitorial tor. eign by mysteries of jargon that tho many have denied the exietence of anything worth seeing, and the few Lave been #0 discouraged by the obstacies in the rond thut, for the most part, they Lave abandoned | the undertaking. Bat meu do not for so many cen. | turies perform the rites und accept the ordinances of # religion that is merely a farce, “Laia"? everywhere asserts the antiquity of the older peopies and doctrines, Many eforts have beoa wace to show the laws of Manu aud the Aryan conquest of Hindostan to be almost within the confines of modern | lustory, Tne Mababbarata aud Ramagana bave been declarod post-Chiristian, But further kuowledge of Hindoo methods of recording time is disproving that evolution as well as emanation and even the positive and molecular philosophies were taught beside the Himalayas. Telegraphs, and even telephones, se to have been older tham history, “Seventy thousand years of experience’? in au indefinite number of cycles are cited in demonstration, But the book {s not all dry logic or tedious philosophome, The autuor 1s too true to the laws of her sex not to be sprightly or Vivacious, and even capavle of stinging invective, She outdocs tho “Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” in marvellous story; and, whilo deuying super- natarsl miracles, she does not hesiiato to relate occurrences that surpiss the eapacity of faith usually possessed by mankind, Like Parcius and Paracelsus, she peoples the mid air with spiritaal existences, ciemental and elementary, good, bad and indiferent, They can be evoked by music and peculiar vapors, aud then made to reveal secrets or run on | errands, Magic and necromancy are no fewons. | There bave been, there now are men who cen “con- | jure down the moon,”? It is bo impousivility to man. | ulacture gold, as Raymond Luliv did for Edward Ul, | Roger Bacon disclosed spiriiual scenes to human view. Theso are common matiersin Oriental coun- | tries, and the madam doseribes several which sho herself witnessed, However sceptical we mey be tn | many respects she 18 confident aud sincere, From | Goa the Universal Mind to Nirvoma, the final bitss, there ig po marvel! that she Joes not believe, Vam- pires, the dead or cataleptic absorbing vitallty from the living, the virtue of tresti-spiit biood to attract spirits, the possibility of reincarnation and of losing the soul- life ag depicted by Bulwer-Lytton, tue power of infl ct ing mortal mjury by cutting out the bowels aud then | | has spread, and ladies av: Of Dickens elaimed for i by misjutging ‘admirent, The story is fully tansiated by Rosalie Kautmaa, ~ LITERARY CHIT CHAT. William H. Rideig has the leading article tp Scribe ner's, Harper's aud Appietons’ for October. The “A Yankee Tar and His Friends” im Scribner's is one of the jolliest of magazy riches. In their pioasint office in Clinton Hall the Mesers, Leavitt bave framed he photographs of the contempor raneous French and German paioters, with their aus tographs, Why don’t they complete the list and bave the publishers, The Roberts Brothers have published the wirest sayings from Epictetus in their daily Little Wisdom Series, Tye same firm have just published « new edie ton of “Jolly Good Times ia Paper,’’ ‘Kast Lynue,” the ever popular, bas been published by Dick & Fitzgerald in a haudsome octave volume, Printed in good, clear typo on tne paper, There were more juvenile gvooks sold at the trade saie this your than ever before, The September number of the’ Portfolo ts received through J, W, Bouton, and is brimful of beauty. Que of the novelties exhibited at the book trade sale was a patent process of sewing books by wires, whicb is a great improvement over the oid way of sewing with thread, ay the wires are darable as well as flexible. May Agnes Fioming’s new novel, ‘Stlevt and Trae,” George W. Carleton & Co,, starts off with an edition of several thousand, The latest and, in some respects, best of the seriet of poems now being contributed to the Avolution by George Edgar Mouigomery, bears the suggestive title of “The Living Age.”? We may remark, by the way at the Kvotution, whien isin its way the American Feaminer, beretoiore published ag @ monthly, is about to become a semt-mouthly, This change shows progress. T September nurober, just issued, con taln# several important articles on social, hterary and otific wopics, The lavor question is discussed in three separate essays, and Edgar Fawcett, the poet aad eritic, begins @ series of articles to be called the “Currente Calamo Tapers.” The cetcbrated Mra, Annie Besant hug been engaged as the London corre spoudent of this journal. NEW ROOKS RECEIVED, Jungle, Peak and Plain, 9 boy's book of adventure. By ‘ M.D. HON, “Gassoil, Petter & Onlpia. 4, and that ty all. } howdy sarah Doudney. Cassell, Petter ny. By David J. fil, New York: perose und stupla. ky Moun Columbian Book Chup hack-wor By Mis.” Annie Mrs, Bdwards’ ony of Nova Cabsitria, 1). By Samuel Suith, be valuable to the futare bi 1 Burnett, nuthor of Pa Company. » Bone Stocking. Sheldon & Co. One oi ‘be History of tue (up to the year 1 pent whish ma: by Mrs. Lowrie’s.”” Putlade A Vocabulary of t P. Krauch, Gb. D. vatiaule detinition manner of Whately, igth. ‘Tho Life und Epistles ot st By Conybeare and Howson. ilactlord; Columbian Book Company, A cheap edition of a valuable theolosical work. THE PARIS FASHIONS, wards. New York: usual uovels, or New Jer- A reprint THE NEW DRESSES—DIANONDS NO LONGER RULK—WILD LOOKING HATS MANY COLORED SILES AND VELVETS, Pauia, Sept, 13, 1877, There 1s a great deal to say in favor Ot the new crese styles thie fall, Detractors declare they are theatrical and romaptic, but the truth is art im dress rules tbe day; this art 18 called style and style is the attribute of trog artists. Whatit effect is the chief aim? What harm 1 thore in associations of a pleamng nature? What if daugbtors have been inspired by u shade or oy the folds and lines of a great pamntimg should these eg- hance the perfection of their Hgures? It is rather a matter Of congratulation that there should be fashions, colors and matertals appropriate tor all ages, vuital tothe (a Fund dark, to tho slender and stout, to tue | pensive and to the buoyant, HAvPY vOMMNATION. ‘The great rule now observed is so to combine toilet that it need not be ruinous and yet be fascinatiag. The fleecy, solt neigeuses aud odd bourrettes are therclore proferable to those materials which glittered & few months ago under gold traceries and trans. jormed gentile ladies into bold parvenus. How much more sympathetic ard women in our present sourire underskiris, Our corunuia of mooashine beads, our mossy tinted lowers, our watered friaues aud cheviile than whou they pinned to their Jackots a green or orange tcket Dearing the name of sowe four-legged winner, wore clanking chains, har- ness straps, fly-away streamors, portraits of thoroughbreds oo their bracelets and hoofs fos cuff inks! Lt was then quite bon fon to sit ip boudoita attired indemi-coats with whipin baod. Horsefesh decorated the panels of bedchambers, men und wome! were horsey tuo; racing was a passion, 2 spyculation without fun; our very idioms got racy, MIGHTY CHANGER Society has improved; tities and fortune fonger suilice to give rank; diamonds add certaimiy to ine relulgeut beauty of youth, bat nowadays even dia- monds aud youth cannot replace cukure. We, for all these reasons, welcome the plastic arts and inclu vur preferences the new clocked atockings with opea moonshine beadwork ob a pik instep, the bigh cotburn boot which roireshingly comes in between a Sheet of macadam and. one’s oyesight, the Variety of ways wives dress their har with marteaux, soupirs, boucies d’esprit, small in folios, 1m quarto and caurk olvt effects, A REMINISCRNCH OF KOUINSON CRUBOR. This leads us to bats, TH prectiest aud newest is » drav, shaggy, Saft beaver, trimmed with seven or eight einerald colored birds, alt huddled together tu frout as the foot of a drab plume. The shazginess of thy aspect and the culonial sougeters origimated a notion in the mind of one of our best modisves, Mine. Josse, that this was the kind of headgear that Rovioson | Crusoe and bis companion would have liked, aud, Parisian ke, she cu) toned it Friday.” The name themscives of the oppor- tunity ailurded by their short rans to Paris to gota “Vendreds,’? Not one has beea uniucky as yey Lt ie wonderful how the slightest breeze mak shaggy felts stand up their bairs, and how Sweetest Woman cun suddenly look; but there 1s some. thing im being able to smooth her down with equal facility. QUEER DESIGNS. We have said bourrettes are queer—we meant the designs on them, for the foundation is always sober Tuy, toad, trog, myrtie, granite, drab, bine or slate healing the hurt by the mysterioas Axidsa, the pro. | Their drollery cousists in lumpy, knotty patterns, longing of life for ceuturies, are a tow of introduced aad i/lustrated as actual facts. Une who reads the book carefully through ought to know the topies marked ali over (vem in bright orange, red, myrtle, tileul, &e, The study of @ bourretie is almost as ex. cing a8 a journey over cobble stones. One follows a everytaing of the marvellous aud mystical, except, perhaps, the passwords. | “Lets” will supplement the Anacalypsis. Whoever | | loves to read Godtrey Higgins will bo delighted with Mme. Blavatsky, There ig a great resembianco be- tween their worka, Both have tried hard to tell everything apocryphal and apsealyptic. It is easy to forecurt the reception of this book, With ite striking notices and ictions of digious variety of subjects which, it Imaules, itisone of the reimurkablo pr the century. “FORBIDDEN FRuIT.” | No one bata lunatic would think of comparing the | German novelist Hacklinder with the Hnglish Dickeus, yet his American publishers-gHstes & Lauriat—say that in England be is Known as tho Ger- may “Boz,” To be sure Huckiindor paiuts German | life, but it ts of a very diferent class from that vor- | trayed by Dickens. If the novel before us, “Forbidden Fruit,” 9 to bo taken as @ fair specimon of his style he tsno more like Dickens than he is Hike Joaquin Miller, The plot of this sory 1 $0 simple that it could be told as well in ono chapter as in a dozon, which is very unlike Mckens, and there is not the first trace of humor, whch also is unlike Dickens, The sister of a young officer of hassars wisbes to got btm married, and, bebeviog that forbidden trail ts the sweetest, she tells nim that the Yourg lady she wants him to marry | isengaged to an old man, The bait takes for an hour for the young officer becomes en- amoured of a girl whom he believes to be in love with bis brother-(n-law, aud bor he marries. Tue action takes place within a few days, All the characters of the book fali in love on sight, One young officer proposes. «to «oa young lady, “sees bor mamma’ and ts accepted in an even- my. Mr, Hackiiader’s style Agreeavie, siraightior- ward und chasto, and he puts oue oo intimate terms with German housenolds and depicts bome lite as we ine in the material, lor instance; it commences as fine ag a hair and Sets out on its itinerary trom one selvage to another right across a width; it 18 all at once stop- ped vy a jump of wool covered over with silk—the Jump 1s tu the shape oi @ millatone; it warns off round A corber and mects a signpost; there it stops as Il to recollect tho way aud runs on underground to the wrong side, but jumps out again further on, coiled about with apotuer color it bas picked up om the way, IMPELLED BY CURIOSITY, There you follow it, keeping @ sharp eye on its meanderings anti it stumbles overa heap near a kind of ecross-barred gardeo gate. The cause of its stoppage is 4 heap of fint-sbaded botches and faint, milky pebUles that have bangled themselves in a high barricade, But the line perseveres, twists in and out, wowinding its colors as easily as French radicals tura into moderate republicans, All the vicissitudes of human lite are symbolized on a toad bourrette, where. ag Woe neigenses are make-believes. One would think while contemplating them that Hie ts as soft us land's wool, and the parts whieh are speckied over with white floss sand are deceptive tmages of existence, intended to Hlustrate our lives carrying silver dust along in acalm, oily stream, SILKS AND VRLVRTS, There aro no allegories in piaia blue, green, brown and moss ualté clots; they are mathematical; there are ligval squares, cubes, lozenges, circular orbs and other patterns, These are appropriate for neat attire, and they are matched in corded silks wih wonderful precision, Stamped vVelvet# are mostly im the ‘chamois tints and gray angora shades, THE NEW CAB COMPANY, A mooting of the Mantiattan Cab Company was to have been beld tn the oMfee of Mr, Elliot F. Shepard yesterday noon for the purpose of considering the #iate of subscriptions aud to take action thereapon, n members were present, how jc hope itis, There ig a freshuess avout this story thet is quite irresistible, While it bag nowe of (he Qualities | hoped that subscriptions wil be received from abroad,