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AMERICAN ART JOURNAIL. 221 color to your.cheek, and the light to your eyes? It was all a mistake before I "

The leader of a forlorni hope, the martyr in his slhirt of tire, have rarely overcomne sel; more nob!y and entirely than did James Elton wlien he vrote the last few sentences of his letter. He dispatched It at ten o'clock, and composed himself for the night, leaving the door betweptn the bedroom and the stutlio-halr open, that air micht enter the room durin tlhe warm May night.

Herbert continuel asleep; the exhaustion was so great, and nature was also,asserting her right to replace the rest he had 0o mercilessly robbed himself of ror so many months and years. Elton was dozing, too, be it said; in fact, good, patient Elton was tired out, but it was a-very slight doze, for he started to his feet on hearing a sound ot a passer-by in the street. All was quiet again. He had hieard, about ten minutes after the movement in the street, a -slight rustle in the curtains at the

opposite side of the bed, but he fancied it was the window, or some outer door beyon, which had admitted a little air, and he did not move.

About dawn Herbert awoke. He moaned a little, and with the vag,ue unrest of weakness, stretched out his arms. A hand held a cup with a cordial to his lips.

"Thank you, Jim, " hibe said, and pressed tbe hand. It was so soft and: small that he- involun tarily opened his eyes. A female figure was bend ing over him; there was tender compassion, but there was sometlhing more solemn and more ex alted in those divine eyes.

"Notre Dame de bon Secours I Oh, i; I dream may I never wake agair'." His senses seemed swayin(r to and- fro -on the verge of delirium. It

was a low but mortal voice which replied Was all the debt to be mine, Herbert? were

you to save my life twice, and this time at the risk of your own, and was I never to prove that I

was grateful to you-that I loved you ? " The last words were added in compliance with

the wild and questioning, ardlor in the hollow eyes which were fixed on her, and then she bent low over his hand, and Herbert felt Nellies tears fall fast on it.

Six inouths afterwards John Herbert was paint ing at his great picture. He was paler, thlinner,

but the whole nian looked vivified into lhealth anid happiness. He and Nellie had been married a montb. It was November, and they had returnedl to Rome.

"How are you getting on, Herbert?"' said Elton.

"Famously; but when did you arrive?" "Only last night. I am en route to the East." "Nonsense," said a voice from the loggia, and

there, framed in by the hanging tendlrils of the tardy vinie, Nellie looked down upon them, radiant

with beauty and beautiful with joy. "II will not hear of your going, dear old Jim,"

she said; "you must stay this winter with us. We wid make you so happy."

"You have the right model at last, Herbert," said Elton, with a strange, wistlul lookt

"Yes, thanks to you, Jim, a model and a wite. 1 owe you both.". -

Herbert never attainedl to great precision or order, but he became a great painter, and in all his pictures there was the same noble -head, with its deep and spiritual eyes, and its lovely, loving

mouth. - He and Nell were happy though married.

MUSICAL GOSSIP,

Geneva-Switzerltind-if she, cannot have grand opera, is determined to make'4a musical sensation with a grand organ, and therefore opened at St. Paiul's Catthedral there, a new onie conistructed by

Merklin, Schuitze and & Co., with solemn fest, in :vhich (listinguished organists anid musicitns par ticipated, by express iLnvitatton from the Consis toly.

hIr. Goldberg sont a copy of his song, " Appellez moi toujours ma soeur" to Etiaeniie-Empress of

the Frencb, and was rewarded by a most flattering letter trom her, in which she thanked him for the

grateful feeling that induced his setting of those heart-spoken wrords to music.

Victoria, Regina, sent Mr. Gaskin of Dublin, in return for Earl Carlisle's lifAe,jnot only her. thanks

but ?20, beside, which he probtably deeimed a very

sub?tantial token of her satisfaction with his bio graphical offering to a queen.

At Sydenham Palace, on July, tlth they had anothar great ballad concert with Grisi, Parepa, Santley, Reeves, Miss Edmrnds, and Levy for cor net *work, beside illuminations. All for onie shil ling. On the Saturday after, the bnusic of Iphi <enia in Tauris," giveni by Tritiells, Guns, Satlutev,

&c., cost five shillings to hear, because it was

"classical."'

Milan rumors specify nine operas to he produced in Europe next season, viz: Verdi's " Don Carlos,"

Pacini's " Le Streghe di Hlofbou," Miceli's "1I Con vito di Boldassare," Pacini's " Monaldarea," Quar

terez's " Eloisa von Cleve," Pincherle's " I pro nmessi Sposi," Borioli's " II Romito di Legnaro," La Villa's " Rosmonda" and Bazzinii's " Turando." Their place of pe formanee is not stated and if

peace do not speedily return to afficted Europe, few of theni will probably liave that honor.

Louis Napoleon will, no doubt inaugurate his

Academie with Verdi a newest grand opera, but all

else depends upon the doubtful fortunies of war.

The London Musicat Wortd's Vienna corres

pondence says on June 23d,-before Austria had

succumbed in a terrible conflict witlh Prussia to lher needle guns, which shoot half a dozen timles, while

the Austrians can load and shtoot once-before that wailing proclamation of Francis Joseph was

issued: "Supposing that at the date I am writing

namely, the 23d of June-it were possible tor any

one to be ignorant of the warlike state of affairs in

Germaiiy, tnat he did not read the papers nor fre

queat the beer-shops, he would not, from wlhat meets his eye in the capital of the Hapsburgs, have the faintest suspicion that half-a-dozen Ger

man armies are now in the field, and about to en

gage in mortal conibat with each other. In all

public places of amiusements are.heard the souinds of music, not, it is true, the imnposing strains of' military bands, for these latter are niore seriously

emnployed, but those of civilian musicians, whose namne here is leg oni. People eat and drink, lauighi and joke, as ,usual, Even the tradesman, vilo has taken to look soinewhat serious of late, and not

without good cause, enjoys his beer, as though

Herr von Bismark had never existed, and breech loading rifles had never been introduced into the

Prussian army. A striking proof of tlhe apathy of the Viennese has just been furnished by Herr

Theodore Flamm. ' Thtis gentleman writes oni mlat

ters connected with the lower classes, and has

completed ere this, in the short period of three

days, several fIarces on subjects given Ihim- by the

public. He coticeived -the idea- a rather hazard ous one, by the way, at the present timue-of con

structing a summer theat' e at Dornbach, a charm

ing little place niot far from Vienna. No sooner

did he conceive thie idea, moreover, than he pro ceded to carry it into execution, and,'to judge from

appearances, his speculation bids fair to tturni out a'

success. Last Sunday a very pretty little tlheatre was opened in the, Gartensalon, as it is styled, be

longing to Herr Henke's establishmenit, the enter

taiinnient consisting of a piece de circonstance, en

titled "BEin Aneies' Unterniehlimen in Dornbach, w,,tten by//Herr Flamm himself; the burlesque, "Eine rNihiOse Parthei ;" and the farce "1Europa beim Friseur."-. All pifeces were exceeedingly well

received, and thebopening must be pronouinced a

hit. The most prominent memubers of the comn

pany are Herren Flamm, Sehneider, and MIle.

LamaXghof, a very pleasing ' chambermaid.' At

Treumanln's Tlieatre, Sziglicetti's ' Czikos,' thie

well-known Hungarian natiional piece, has been

produced to inltrotduce, as the hero, Herr Czeriiits, who greatly distinguished hin-elf boch as a singaer

watnd as an actor. HXe was well supported by Herr Tewele and Mlle. Fiedler but the house was only moderately attended.-With the exceptionl of al

most daily performance of some or other of the

numerous smaller vocal associations, the memiibers of which conifine thenmselves generally to the best

known and imiost popular chorusi s, there is scarcely anythingc doing- in the way of art."

Signor Randegger, a somewhat celebrated vocal

teacher in Lonidon, requests the World, to deiny a

report that he iintenided fighting- in his native land

for L'Italia Una. If dam-ue rumor spoke truly, when she

declared Grisi's voice to be exhausted, as ex

hlibited at Mapleson's opera this seasoni, then con

cert attendants must have queer tastes in musica 1

performance, as she invariatbly receives applause in

concert hails, even frommm very Ilstidious publics. At

Sydenham Palace on July 4th, she participated int a

ballad conicert with Parepa, Sanitley, Holller, &c.,

before 10,979 hetarers anlid is recorded as " u'a-le to

resist the enthusiastic den iands for a repetition of

her pieces oni each occasion of her appearance,"

while Parepa got.one encore only. That vocalist

is allowed to lave a good voice anid knows how t o

use it. She gets one encore firom near eleven thou-.

sand hearers, while Grisi rejected at Matpleson's, on pretence that she no longer has a voice, is in

the great orchestra at Sydenham Palacs, encored

whenever a chance is afforded the audience to do

so, and that with enthusiasm which could not be

resisted The interior fittings of Margate's new hall are

estimated to cost ?3,000 Rose Heersee's third and last matinee, at Col

lard's saloon-Londoni-was marled by a new an d

elegant harp solo, written anid played by F. Cha t

terton, styled the "The Nympb's Revel," wlhich is

said to be a most original and effective piece.

Lehmever's concert tthere, had an overflowin g

audience, inciluding Alfred Jatell, who camie ex -

pressly to hear Lehmeyer play his " La Carilla."

Two Gallic tenors are recorded to have sun g

there in first-rate Gallic style. Moites and Lefort,

the parLies indicated, may deem that a rathe r

equlivocal complimetit. Lonidon would seemi to have been less fortunate

in hearing Ardititi's "L'Estasi" than New York,

as it was noticed at his grand conjeert in Maiple

son's opera house, as sung for the first time, and

being a pertect gent was greatly admirel, even to

rivalry with his time honored "11 llacio."

'I he London Glee and Medrigal Uniion closed

their season before a crowded audience in St.

James Hall with remarkable success.

G isi sang at MIlle. Pacini's second matinee

"The Minstrel Boy" was,encored and then recalled

after singitng " Home Sweet Home" ,in r esponse.

l'he World's says, "-a double complinment, richly

merited, all thlings consider ed. That audience

comprised a brilliant assemiblage of fashionables

who applauded' Wieniawslki's violin playing and

Mlle. Pacini's nieat touch, very graceful style, and

nico} feeling in pianofor te perforinmance.

Jules Mottes a tenor fiom L'Opera Comique,"

tried a Mlkttinee at Collard's saloon and got a

very faslhionable assemilblage, but little praise or

applause. Master Coker is said to have deliglhted the la

dies present in " Bid miie discourse," by the pe.

culiar clharmii of hiis voice anid style. Had he

deliohlted.the gentlemen in a like degree the ap

plause would lhave been uproariou-s." The Sis

ters, Georgi vere as usual very popular with all

with all their audience. Miss Helen Hogarth's annual concert at St.

James' Hall, being patronised by the Lord

Mayor and wife and hlaving a brilliant list of

performers, naturally received critical attention.

Parepa, Louisa Pyne, Reeves, Ennequist, Tom

Holler Reiclhardt, Mme. Sherrington, with1

maniy distingrnished inistrumenitailists took part

in that concert and judging fromii report there

was sliglht prospect (f aniy beenefit to Miss Ho.

gtartlh, if all tlle performiiers -were paid full or

eveni lhalf their demnands. Harold ThotI1naS advertises, or hlis agents do

for hlim, a new song whlich is said to be sung with1 nparallelled success, by Palrepa and five

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222 AMERICAN ART JOURNAL.

female vocal celebrities, Price tlhree shillings.

Namiie of this marvel " Gallants so-Gay." Mrs. Mounisey Bartholomewb has composed for

the pinio-forte, six songs witlhout words, nmod

eled after Mendelssolhn's famous "Lieder ohne

Worte,'"but les s diffictult shie says.

Clhappell's benefit wlichl closed the Monday Pop ular Concerts proved a benefit indeed, for every part of that large lhall called St. James' was

crammed almiost beyond lhuman enduirance, says tlle World. There was a long and varied pro gramme iln whicl, the duet by Arabella Goddard

and Chlarles Hatlle,, given for the first time six years

aigo, by tlhemii in tlhat Rall, rellewed. its popu

larity, as their performiiance was Iso "deliciously

perrect as to hiold every learer in delectable

clhains," and wvhen closed, all present united in a

richlly deserved tribute of admniration to suchi

pianlists. A duet of Mendelssolhn had ififinite perfection

of performance by Mine. Goddard anid Piatti.

Halle and Piatti were enthusiasticatlly ap

plauded for otlher great deeds. Santley received marked approval for "Now

Heaven in fullest glory shone," and revival of a

recitative and granlid aria from HIandel's " La

Resurezione" composed in 1708. All wvent off

witlh iliore than satisfactory Ealt, so Clhalppell's announcenmenit 6f more concerts early in Novem

ber was received entlhusiast,ically. Mlapleson revived Mozart's -' It Seraglio" with

fair success, after it lhad slulmbered i n Lonidon

arclhives for twvelve years. In 1854 it was pro duced at Drury Lane Tlheatre by Jarett wlo lhad a douible opera tic company, Germian and Englislh, in the original form as "Die Entfeehrung aus

deni Serail." Tom Holdler is allowed to have made a de

cided step in the~ good opinion of connoisseurs, by Ihis Elvino to De Murska's Amina.

Thlere is evidently somi1e difficulty witlh Lon don critics in speakingu of Adelilna Patti's

"L'Etoile du Nord," at (ive's opera hLouse. In a mong inotice of tllat opera Ave find lher spolken of bLut scatntily, an(d witlh evident reserve. (One

expression is, "

Fortunately tlie last scene of all is thei most initeresting in the wlhole work, and

it affords Mlle. Adelinia Paitti admirable oppor

tunity for the display of lher dramatic gieuiUS." Not t wvord there about the falmous song witlh

tvo flutes oblirato. Agraip it is said Mlle.

Patti delivers the quaint couplets in wlichl Caterina announces the fortunate result of her

missioni to the fiatlher of Prascovia in the live liest style. Notlhing can be more spirited than

lher singring of the Ciipsey Rondo, and $he Prayer, atnid light joyous Barcarole that followvs it to close act 1st slhov Ptatti's lovely voice to the greatest advantagre. However, " L'Etoile du Nord" is the opera of aill otlhers in wlvichl it is useless to specity lhow this or that particu lar solng is sung. Thie audience seemed gener

ally deliglhted with the,performnance, but there were no encores."

Faure got oni creditably with Peter the Great's

very dillicuilt clharacter and nmusic. His druniken scene was- especially pathetic. Thle banid deserved higlh praise. So did the mise en

sceae, 6but sliglht. notice is taken of any charac ter leyond. thiose already namlled. "Well

elloughl " is said of them all buit tlle faxlling off in1 ecstatic, rapturous compliment to Adelina Patti is so lmarked that in comparison Mine. Slherrington, Naudin, Wiampi, &c., seem to xise in critical estimation While slhe descends with

fearful approach to collapse in iballooning. VWhen La (Urange and Miss Kellogg sang and einacttd "L'Etoile du Nord " encores were plentiful and

special lheed was given to executioni of pa rticular songs, especially tlhat one, respecting wllich no

word is uttered by those who heard Patti at

Gye's opera hlouse. In hiis programmiiiiee for the last week. of thih

season but t\vo nlo en 1tion is mnade of " L'EtoiIt du Nord," whlichl, if it h1ad beenl succcssful avould certainlly be ruln a dozenl nighIts, buvt Ade. huna Patti is named for one pe,rformance only

Slhe was announced for Annetta in "'Crispino e

la Comare " oh July 13tlh, withi Roncbni as Cris

pino, Ciamiipi as Mirabolano, Mlle. Vestri as La

Comare. In the Cobbler's wife Patti will doubt

less achieve more dramatic and vocal success.

Chliorley says Mlle. Artot replaced Patti as

Rosina witli credit, and proved lherself the.ne

coiiplishied dramnatic singer in "La Traviata,"

but loses her chance in "Don Sebastiann" by

GyC's neglect to. produice that opera this season,

as promnised in programme. He contends tlat

Adelina Patti's petite figure i- niot as some Co

temiiporaries assert, detrimental to lher success in

"L'Etoile du Nord,"tbit is just thic size Meyer

l)eer designed, to conltiast with the big, burly

Czar, as proved by hiis selection of Mile. Duprez

for that role at its first production in Paxris.

Wlhat is very significant of hiis opinion respect

ing lher performzanice in tlhat role, is the absplute silence lhe observes, miiaking no otlher allusion to

it tlhani denial that shle is too small in size to

reprosent Ruissia's first Empress. To make llis

silence about Patti still miore significant. he re

imarks " Every one commends Slherrington's per

formanice of Praiscovia's role." " Le Nozze" lhe

understands to be rehearsing at Gye's to follow

Ricci's ridiculous opera-" Crispino e la Co

mare "-and querulously 'asks wlhy is " Le

Nozze " put off to so late a period wlhen all faslh

ionable people vill be out of town. He speaks of Lubeck at Ella's imiatinee as' no doubt a

forcible and brilliant player, but inclined to play down hiis comrades in concerted mblusic, wllile

his cantabile and legato passages lack smootlh

niess, and hiis andante themiie was over ex

pressed. Auer, the violinist in tlhat concert, is

not rated so hiiglh by hiim as Ella puts hiim up

in p rint. He wants decision and breadth of

style, and plays hiis own part in, ratlher than

leads clhamiiber music. Having first noticed him'

as promising good deed, Clhorley feels justified in counselinig himi rather tlhan fattering to im

pede realization of tlhat promise.- Ella over

estimates himi as he does all wvlo appear in his

concerts, to aggrandise those performances. Thte Royal Academliy of Music is rumored to

locate, pro tern., at Soutlh Keiisington Scllool of

Art Witlh Sterndale Bennett as director-vice Lucas, retired.

Commiiieniting upon the disaster to nLusic ini

Germany from v war's talarms witlh its effect to

drive, initoEnogland distinguislhed singers or mlusi cains. Chorley announces MSoscheles' arrivtal in

Lonldon witlh a query as to wlhat effect hlis fliglht will hliave upon thie great Conservatory over wlicli

hie presidedt at Leipsic. Dr. Stainer, ani Oxford "'Mus. Doc.," is se

verely hiit a-bout-lhis " Gideon" as exlhibited by

extracts givein by the Or7chestra. " We cannot

gcall to minld aniythlinlg so nonsensical, randomn, and bad, writteni by a musician or even an ama

teutr of anv pretension, and are almllost tempLed to ask wlvhtlher they are not a houax '0 ' That is

a legit.imate Clhorley smasher. * Editlh Wvinne seems to be risinig. fast in musi

cal estimnattion, for slhe lhas be-en selected to sing

Adall's mnusic in Costa's oratorio, " Naamiian," at

*the coiningr Noriwiclh festival. 'T'nat part was es

pecitilly written for a very celebrated vocalist

of hIgD11h pretension. Tlhe opera houses at;Dresden and Hanover

clo ed when Prussia tookl possession there, but we see nio menltion of Joachimii's movemenits sinice hiis kinigly p,atroni left himin witliout any nu

sical charge at tIanover's court. A ne%v opera by Coheni, "'Jose Maria, is re

lhearsing at L'Opero Comique, witlh Montalaury as tenwor anld ex;pected to be a success.

Vera Lorini who may be remembered as sino

ing in Graa's opera company a year or two

Sin ce is, reportejd as perf'ormn:ig " L'Afr*icaline :' in Rome.

Chlorley says, " II Seraglo " is seldom hleard becaluse thie story is silly, and exceptional voies ar s, required for, itS music, a sohrano w'ith great compass upward and bass nvith great compllass down1ward, yet neithler " Don Giio

vanni," "Le Nozze," or "Ii Flauto,"' is worthier than this delicious opera.

Local color appaars t. an unusual degree with Moz4rt, its variety and vivacity are relarkable, and the Janissary effect is adimirably used.

Osmin's lhumor is mlatchled onily by the Bird

cat1ch1er's nusic in "Ii I'lnuto." Tlle opera rests ul)on its comic anad charliartcttristic portions for

effect. He cannot agree witlh tllose intense ad mirers of Titienls wlho praise her executio;n of the florid music, beca'use really it is heavy and incomnplete. Had labor perfected her powerful

voice inito unerring flexibility, slhe might rank as a second (atalani now, but the period for. that hlas passed. Gunz lhe canniiot like, as lhis voice is badly delivered, and he miglht be :singing Hot tentot, not Italitan, for all the listener could tell.

Osm'in shows Rokitansky to great advantage. His ricll, deep bass is well exercised tllere, the

passatge music is wvell given, and hlis slhake, un like some lazy tenors, is real. He lookls the npart and acts it well, althoughl not so grotesque anid

subtle as Battaile, wlho perfoimed. Osmia at " Le

Lyrique." (i. A. Osborne lhad an opera ready for Covent

Garden's English company wlhen tthat limited affair exploded so terribly. At hiis concert' re cently in partnership with the violinist, Wieni anski, lhe produced two- manuscript pieces, a draiiiatic scenla, " The Captive's Dreamii," and a

sonlg called " The Cloud," on words by Slhelly," the first suing by Cummings, wlho is said by

Clhorley to rise in value montlh by montlh, the second by Milne. Ruidersdoff. Both were ap plauned warmly. His owni grand dutet on tlhemes fromn " L'Etoile du Nord," excited -great enthusi asm. So- did a mo)-ceau de salont, replete with tlht grace and spirit wlvichl distinguishles llis piano forte music for chamber p'erformance.

The New -Plilharmonic conicerts terminated with. a. grand concert programme, in -lwhich Bee

tlloven's C minor Symphony and tlhree'excellent' evertures had admirable performnance.

The London Illustrated News designates " II

Seraolio as delicious usic, blt tlhat of a by-gonie age, lacking the highll spiced condiments nlow demandled for a sensationl. It nevrer can l e popular, but its delightful melodies clharm Mo

zart's admirers notwithstaniding all its dram'atic and lyric defects. '<

Menldelssolhn's" Walpurgis Niglt" was exceed inigly well performed at Sydenillani Palace con

cer't on a Saturday, withl Meric Lab)lachle, Stanlley and Cummiiings as principals, given as the first or substantial coiurse, and the sweetmeats whielc followed, as given by DeMlurskan, Trebielli, Lavini and otlher artists fro'm Mapleson's opera, proved very palatable to a crowd of musical, gour

mands. Alfred Mellon with his magnificent band- and

*liberal attractions, fared so wvell last year that lhe proposes tO r'Unl a promenlade concert seasonl at Covent Gtarden Theatre from early A&ugust to

late November, thlus cutting off Arditi's concert series at Maplesson's.

Mapleson ended hiis subsscription season on July 16tlh, and commeniced a slhort one for the

farewrell performanes3 of grealt artists on July. 17tlh, at reduced prices, and no dress regulations,

With enilarged pit at five slhillings adm'ission. Jenny Lind is reported as singing fur songs

ait A. S. Sullivan's concert vitli great eclat, and

refu~ed to repeat eithler whlen asked to do so. Thle L'ondonl Mu3ical World of J uly 14thl says

Adelina Patti lhad shown herself a genius, em- -

phsatically in Caterina. Blhmld Trom ap)poa-ed first in London at a pri

vate soiree, in Hanover Square Rooms, on July

18thl, b)eing her1aldedl as a mtusical prodigy. Thle gr eat organ recently piut up) in Dr.

Beecher's clhurchl is nearly completed and tuned, so anl early opportunlity to asccrtalin its merits will doub)tless be afforded. In order to defray* spart of its cost-put at $2a,00s0conceits are

colltemplated i Bostod Music Hall organ style, wvith ef% inent players to compete iAn shloviAng off

| its wondrous power ~nd marvelous stops.

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