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the stage. THE DRAMA. CHICAGO. TOE UNION SQCABE ENGAGEMENT. A dramatic event of more than usual impor tance is always the reappearance of the Union gfluare Company. It is invariably prolific of agreeable anticipation, and that anticipation is *arcly disappointed. This organization and that . -Vfßllaek’s Theatre, New York, are the finest gave in America. The latter, of course, has never been here. On Monday evening the com- DaD v begins an engagement at Haverly’s in a niay entitled “The Banker’s Daughter,” the wort of A K. Cazauran and Bronson Howard, d founded upon a plav produced at MeVlck er"s Theatre during the season of ISTT-’TS, entitled .“Lillian.” . The consistency and reliability and uniform fairness of the Dramatic A'cia.’ criticisms need B o comment from ns. An extract or two from e notice in that paper, dated Dec. 7, IS7B, will rive our readers some idea of “The Banker’s Djaghter,” built out of “ .Lillian ” byMcssrsl Bronson Howard and A K. Cazauran. “So important a production as this.” says the Alma, •‘written by Two American authors, warrants us in making some slight digression from the usual form of criticism to discuss the motif of the work. It is happily one which appeals to every husband and father, every wife and mother, in the community. The subject of the nutriagt de convcnance has often been treated in novels', and well treated, too, but never before have we seen it presented so tersely and forcibly as in ‘The Banker’s Daughter’ (a poor title, by the way). Two women in this playcmnrrv not from choice but for money. In the one case the coquette of 20 marries the man 0 / JS , avowedly for his money-bags. In the other, the girl who loves a poor man marries a rich one to save her fath er from impending bankruptcy. We have here • the two extremes of that atrocious system which is nothing else than legalized prostitu tion. The effects of such prostitution become jvident In the play. The woman (a good woman., tot),) who has married to save her father, after seven years meets the man she originally loved. Her heart yearns for him, but her purity forbids. This man became involved la a duel with a practiced spadassm about this wife; and ber husband, who bas beard rumors of the cause, arrives upon the ground, to find the wife bending over the murdered body of ber first love, utterly forgetful of conventional restraint. We have a noble touch of nature in his taking ber . gently from the dead man, and wrapping his cloak about her form, as if to pro tect her from calumny. AH this leads up to the • kevnote of the play, when the husband and the ■wife meet alone. ... It is. indeed, a play fin which the two excellencies of two writers are most admirably blended. Mr. A R. Cazauran in the emotional a'nd Mr. Bronson Howard in the comedy. The one equals the other. It is no more Ur. Cazauran’s play than it is Mr. How ard’s, and’ vise versa, and it is the onion of these two excellencies which makes the general ' success.” . This morning the company wiU arrive from New York, the majority of whom will put up at the Grand Pacific Hotel. Most of the people are known here. They are: Messrs. Charles B. Thorne, Jr., John ' Parsell. J. H. Stoddart, W. J. Lemoync, Josephß.Polk, M.V. Lingham, Walden Eamsay, C. W. Bowser, Harold Fos berg, Jl. F. Daly, J. W. Thorpe, H. W. Qnigiey, Miss Ellie Wilton, Hiss Maude Harrison, Miss Ida Vernon, Mrs. E. J. Phillios, Mrs. Marie Wil kins, Miss Sara Cowell, Miss Ella McCarthy, and Miss Hattie Anderson. The management, we understand, come prepared to present six plays If necessary daring the engagement, which will last five weeks. Besides “The Banker’s Daugh ter,” “ Lost Children,” “ Mother and Son,” “ A Celebrated Case,” “ The Mother’s Secret,” and “The Danicbeffs.” Manager Haverlv has wisely concluded lo make no advance in prices. There will be matinees on Wednesdays and Saturdays, but the Union Square Company will not play on Sunday night. QUITE ANOXEEE AETICI.E. Announcement is made that on Monday even ing “Wallack’s New York Combination ” will snpear at Hooley’s Theatre. The similarity in names, and the manner in which the posters are worded, may lead manv people into the belief that this is a company snccially.selected. organ-. Ized, and supervised bv Mr. VValiack, of Wat-, lack’s Theatre, New York. If any one Is under that impression. we may assure them that James W.. the " manager oi the tronne underlined for Hooley’s, and Les ter, the Eastern light comedian ana manager, are two very different persons, artistically, managcrially, and otherwise. Mr; James W. Wollacfc ts the gentleman wno has been for sev eral seasons associated with Mr. John Dillon, and Lester Wallack is tile actor whoreceotly drew the play goers of the town to Haverlv’s in crowds when he appeared in “Ours,” “Mv Awful Dad,” and “Rosedolc.” Not for a single moment do we Imagine that Mr. James W. Wal lack would intentionally in any wav, shape, or manner mislead the public Into thinking that be is the gen uine New York article, -or that he has the simoo-pare company from Broadway. Banish the thought. Therefore we are certain that Mr. James W. Wallack will thank us for putting him right before the public, and making clear bis position, which was so ape to be mis construed owing to the adroit mixing up of these two managers bv the efforts of the editor of his three-sheet posiere. The engagement at Hooley’s will last two weeks, and the Queuing play will be “ The Ticketrof-Leave Man,” with a cast comprising the following peooie: Frank E. Aiken, Owen FawcAt, Hafrv Eainforth, tV. H. Cogswell, Randolph Murray, Charles S. Coon, Miss Coral Dnfour, Edward Powell, Philip Bawlev, Mr. James, Misa Genevieve Bogers, Miss Alice Sherwood, May Wallack. BAn.BOADs‘AND COMBINATIONS. For some time past there has been consider able of a flutter among actors, managers, and agents of theatrical companies over the reported determination of the railroad magnates to abolish the reduced rates of travel allowed dramatic troupes. This flutter caused a meeting to be held last week at the Westminster Hotel, New York, largely attended by managers and agents, for the nnrposc of taking some steps to stop any movement on the part of the railroad companies that may be detrimental to the pro fession. A protective association was formed, and a Committee of Conference was appointed consisting of ilr. J. H. Haverly and Mr. Robert Miles. The prospect of this change in the price of tickets has brought forth no small quantity of indignation from the profession and a good deal of newspaper discussion—useless discus sion. According to Gen. F. K. Myers, General Passenger Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad In this city, there is not the slightest cause for all the hubbub. When be read the account of the New York meeting In The Tribune the other oav, he at once telegraphed East. Areply came that there was no contecdplated change in rates for the profession upon the Pennsylvania Road, nor upon any of the other lines between here and New York. The difficulty that had caused all the trouble and talk originated on the Bound Brook Line .between New York and Philadelphia, and of course any regulations they mny make upon that road will not affect traveling combinations either one way or the other. , Tb® Chicago managers of the leading lines of i, , on ' eTer - have been-compelled to ahom ht ;Pi nst a 6 , cbcrne °f robberv brought S lhe . ch “ B-rate ihcatrical- Formerly they would sell one an or woman who happened to have the indorsement of some irresponsible mans trer as an actor or an actress. The Impecunious element saw a scheme here xH?h money in it. They easily secS UckeU, from,here to New York at two-thirds the regu lar price. fend as easily sold them to the “ scalp ers,” making $2 or $3 through the transaction' This game has been stopped by the companies agrefemg to give reduced rates only to narties numbering not less than six. LOCAL NOTES. W. J. CoggsweU, of New York, Is at the laimer. August 0 fa underlined for Hayerly’s on The stage manager of “Doc” Mitchell’s combination will be J. B. O’Neill. Miss Grace Koth has" been engaged for Gns rhullps’ “ Under the Gaslight ” company. The juvenile business in Oliver Doud Byron’s company has been intrusted to Harry B." Had- SOD. i I nc l c Tom’s Cabin ” Company organ ised by Jim Nixon will - take the road, opening on Tuesday at Grand Haven, Mich. WebbT. Dart, manager of the Exposition Company. Des Moines, la., is in town looking re^,Si?? tcl |. ellaD i? snmberof5 nmberof his company dLV Oa Wednesday without a scar - They ha?e Mi-vr,? a^ ore Doyhfaon, a former member of W C r,? r^“, mp i n y- receatly dramatized Far- Aafwfi’n? Grif,” and last Monday, at the “Cfiid Theatre, it received its first Tgpresen- tatton. Although the work Is full of blemishes, arising from inexperience, there is no reason why. with a judicious revision, the play should not be made serviceable. Blanche Correlll, the Josephine of the Lanrent “Pinafore” combination, had a husband in San Francisco. She got a divorce from him last summer while playing at the Metropolitan in this at,-. The Emma Willard combination has reorgan ized, and will open inAtlantaonorabout the Ist of September. Scott Marble, the much-engaged actor, bas been secured as business manager. This makes his third engagement so far. Mr. Alfred J. Knight, the well-known el ocn tionist, of this city, has just closed a contract with the American Literary Bureau of New York for a professional tour in Nova Scotia. The trip will extend through August ana Septem ber. For the forthcoming week Glloert’s “En gaged ” will be Hie feature at MeVicker’s, and a fine feature it is. The piece has’ ran three weeks, and no work from the pen of that gifted British dramatist has, in this city at least, won more favorable consideration. Of course. “ Pina£ore ” is not included. George France and his combination, as al ready reported, came to grief at Kansas City. His hose-carriage was attached. The troupe couldn’t come home “on their baggage,” the baggage haying been seized by a voracious land lord. The dogs Bruno and Borneo unfortu nately escaped Sheriff’s sale by being shipped by express to SL Louis. “Flaying the Mischief,” a farcical comedy, and a face entitled “Smoke ” are underlined for flaveriv’s this evening. The players include flarrv Webber, Marcus Moriarty, Harry Pear sop, Joseph Clifton, James R’ver, Miss Eva French, Miss Marion Lester. We understand that the entertainment is under the manage ment of Messrs. Biaisdell and Blanchett. Mattie Vickers and Charles S. Rogers- will commence a season of six nights and two mati nees at the Academy of Music, Cleveland, on Monday. The Saisbury Troubadours have had a good many imitators, and Miss Vickers and Mr. Rogers are upon the same tack. They play in a musical extravaganza entitled “ Our Picnic.” The compamvin addition to the prin cipals,'consists of Miss Bida Vickers, Miss Ella Baker, Mr. E. W. Lester, Mr. Edward Williams, and Mr. £. J. Gcnung. It can bo said with certainty that the Megatherians—the minstrel speculation of Messrs. Huoley'& Emerson—in this city have done a paying business. The engagement has been for five weeks, and during that period there has been opportunity offered, and well improved by the. managers, to get the fifty black-birds into harness. Now they will travel, and they mean to rake /in a colossal fortune before the season is over. ’ Uncle Dick deserves one. The troune is, as we have frequently-pointed out, superior to what we generally get in the wav of negro min strelsy. To-night the curtain will descend upon the engagement at Hoolev’s. The troune will rest four days, when, on Friday and Saturday, they will annear in Milwaukee; on Monday at Joliet, on Tuesday at Davenport, on Wednes day at Ruck Island, on Thursday at Fiona, on Friday at Bloomington, and on Saturday at La fayette; on the following Monday and Tuesday at Indianapolis, and on to Boston, where, on the 25th of August, an engagement will be com menced. IS T EW TORE. >. THE CHAMPION BLOWEB CONE UP. Special The Tribune, New York, July 23.— Levy, the great cop netlst, is in trouble, according to report. And this time it Is something ont of the or dinary run of trouble for him. Hitherto, I believe, his botherations have been more or less intimately connected with matters of s strictly financial character. Everybody always knew that Levy could jerk more wind out of a cornet than any other blower in America; but there was at the same time a popular su perstition among tradespeople generally, and the purveyors of wet goods in particular, to the effect that he was not a desirable cus tomer. The belief was engendered, if my in formation is correct, through divers and sun dry experiences In which Sheriffs’ officers prominent parts, with results that were conspicuously saodeping to themselves. In short. Levy has always been considered as the sort of chap to do business with only on a cash basis. Bat in this case neither sagaci ty nor cosh can help him out, unless, the bus iness is enormously; exaggerated. ... _ 'CORSETPI.ATKR3 are occasionally afflicted with a disease which is to them abont what the pen-palsy is to a man who writes. It is known as the “ frozen-lip,” and is a sort oi naralysis which attacks the up per section oi the orbicularis oris. (I charge nothing extra .for that, even if I did learn it from the Rev. Jo Cook.) Men who play on wind instruments dread its anproaeh, because when it once fairly tackles them they may as well look abont for something else to do. Its causes are over-exertion and the reckless abase of power. Few men are more unceasing in their work than Levy is. He commands a big salary, and is almost “always in demand, winter and summer. In the cold months concert managers arc after him In battalions, and when hot weath er approaches there is invariably a sharp rivalry among the keepers of watering-place hotels as to which shall secure his melodious horn.. This year he has.hecn playing with Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore’s Band at the Manhattan Beach Hotel, Coney Island. His contract with that estab lishment provides that he shall perform several times eachsnttcrnoon and evening, and there is little doubt that.be has been one of THE VERT GBEATEST - ATTRACTIONS about, the place. The minute be is seen at tbc 'music-stand, crowds from all over the premises flock to bear him, and be is always encored just as many times os the law allows. That is a very different sort of business from playing; in concerts once or twice of an evening, and it isn’t any wonder that he should give out in time. People who knew him of old imagined his “lip” coaid stand anything on earth. But they were not thinking of Coney Island. That blessed spot would break any well-regulated scheme this side of Hades’ back-kitchen. I think it would fetch the Cardiff Giant or the Count Joannes. It did the business for Levy, anyhow. Several weeks ago be was threatened withthe “frozen-iip,” bat he pluckily stuck to bis contract, determined, like Grant, to “fight it out on that line if it look all summer.” It didn’t take so long, however. The trouble grew more serious as time advanced, and at last Levy, bad to pull out, so the story goes. He was succeeded by a Cuban named Salcedo, whom the intelligent newspapers hereabouts have been wildly praising, under the impression that he was Levy. It is said that the trouble which has overtaken the great cornetlst is A GENUINE CASE OF “ FROZEN-LIP,” and, i£ that is so, why, there’s the end of Levy as a player. Countless people will be sorry to hear aiitt loth to believe the reports. But it comes to me from a source which I have every reason to rely upon as wholly truthful. And, alter all, if the absence of the great soloist keeps people away from that double barreled, abnormally inflated, and sand-ribbed fraud. Coney Island, Levy may congratulate himself upon not having lived in vain. I don’t knoif that he is the sort of a chap who can rec oncile himself to.the pleasing frame of mind which makes one glad if their loss is somebody else’s gain. But there are plenty of missionaries who will be willipgto “labor” with him on that topic and take chances on bis conversion. Of course you remember D. S. Wambold, the central member of the firm of Birch, "Wambold, & Backus, who run the San Francisco Minstrels? Well, he is now in Saratoga seriously ill. He has been in delicate health for a number of years, but has gttcflded to his duties nightly with great courage, although suffering at times the keenest torture from his Ills.' The most malignant type of rheumatism has long and in dustriously assaulted him, and when he went away from New York several weeks ago to seek recreation and renewed health, he was in a most lamentable condition physically. Mr. Wam bold has one of the sweetest tenor voices ever heard, and his ballad singing is peculiarly pa thetic and effective. Kellogg and many other operatic artists often visit the San Francisco Minstrels’ opera-house when here to listen to him. And, aside from his artistic ability", he is one of the most widely-liked men connected with any branch of the theatrical profession. Everybody will be sorry to hear of “ Have ” Wamnold’s painful illness. MRS. EDWIS PRICK has been successful fn procuring a divorce from her husband.' The work was done with a neatt ness and dispatch which nobody expected, and the gentle and guileless Edwin is “os free as a mountain bird.” Wnen the family row first loomed up it nromlsed to be about as lively an affair as ever graced the nnre pages of stage his tory. There was believed to be in the case of Fries vs. Frlce more scandal than anybody ever THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY 37. 1879—SIXTEEN PAGER heard of before.' Bat some kindly influence got in its fine work, and the whole business quieted down until it was as calm as a bar of soap. Mrs, Price went ahead with her divorce proceed ings, her husband agreeing to make conccss’ons in view of her promise to substitute certain de tails in her complaint for others of a nastier and more sensational variety. With her decree the plaintiff now gets a large sum of money down as alimony, and is to receive stated amounts at intervals hereafter. It is probably just as well that the plan of action which was first talked of should have been abandoned, although it would have produced no end of business for the news papers. Mr. Price was Fanny Davenport’s leading man last season, and has been engaged to fill a similar position this winter. Mrs. Price rosumes-her maiden name, and will hereafter he known professionally and otherwise as Katie Baker. The mdre I look Into THAT INTERVIEW OP CAZAPBAN’S the greater is the number of inaccuracies I dis cover. Among other things was Ids announce ment that Steele Mackaye wasn’t going to have a Madison Square Theatre this season. If anv booy relies upon that statement In- will get sold,. because Mackaye and Eno—who Is the owner *t the Filth Avenue Hotel and Hall nronerty— bare come to terms, and are under contract one to the other, in genuine earnest. Not only that, bat the architect’s plans Tiro fully drawn, and Hie main Dart of the company is already eo gaged. The work of tearing oat the interior of Fifth Avenue Hall is to be put under way early next week, and the bouse is to be ooened as a theatre about Oct. 15. The place will not be the largest of its kind in the citv by any means, but the plana indicate that it will be one of the most sumntuous play-houses on the continent. It is to cover more ground than that occupied by the present structure, and every detail of its con struction will be carefully elaborated. The com pany thus far engaged Is remarkablystrong, and rather knocks into a cocked bat the theory that there weren’t enough first-class players in the country to . make up a company which coold successfully compete with existing New York organizations. Among those already secured are Alfa Merrill, Effie "Ellsler, Gabrielle Du Sauld, Blanche Gallon, Ancie Ellsler, C. W. Couldock, Tom Whiffln, Frank Weston, A C. Dacrc, Ed Coleman, and Joseph Fraukan. Negotiations are pending with several others whose names were given me in confidence to day. Mr. Mackaye will act from time to time as suitable parts come along, although be in tends to devote his time chiefly to the careful production of plays,—a pursuit which few stage managers can at all compete with him. I “ ray ther ’’think that company is pretty nearly up to most of the stock-organizations in Gotham; and when it gets into smooth working order if it don’t knock the socks off from some of the oth ers, I am “off my cobase,” as it were. KATE GIRARD has adopted the prevailing fashion, too. Which is to say, she has sued ber husband for divorye. Her husband's other name is George Fawcett Rowe, and hereafter the pair will Rowe their boats separately,—paddle their own canoes, so to speak. The grounds upon which the suit was brought by Miss Girard were adultery and desertion,—which seem to be the most popular Id arguments at law among dramatic families. George Fawcett bas been a real bad, naughty man, according to Mrs. Rowe’s affidavits, and he has had thyaudacity to tacitly acknowledge the corn by not fighting against his in dignant wife’s efforts to secure ber freedom. The referee in the case*, Mr. Nathaniel Cox, has been for some time taking testimony, and the other day gave a decision in favor of the plaint iff. Yesterday Judge Van Hoescn sustained the referee’s opinion, and Mr. and Mrs. Rowe were declared untied. The family disturbance all goes to chow the truth of the old adage which remarks that there's bo Rowes without a thorn. And speaking of thorns, NED THOBNE GAVE A JOLLY PICNIC at bis Tom’s River ranch last Sundav. Among the people present were John W. Norton and wife, John Chamberlain. Emily Thorne, Mabel Jordan, Prof. Harry Wall, M. Herrmann, Charles R. Thorne, Sr., and wife, Gus Heckler, of, the Dramatic Fetes, and Ned Thorne’s wife, who is professionallv known as Jennie Murdoch. The affair was a most enjoyable one from first to last, and those who took part in it will be likely to long remember the cordial hospitality with which they were entertained. The host, it will be recalled, was formerly leading man at McVicker’s Theatre. The “Banker’s Daughter,” which is to be produced next week at Haverlv’s, in Chicago, I believe, will nodonbt be much better played than it was in New York, owing to the sunstitu tion of Ellic Wilton for Sara Jewett. Miss Wilton is a very clever actress, and iliss Jewett is not.. That’s why the Chicago performance is likely to be an improvement upon the one given here. Somebody says the Banker’s Daughter ” isn’t identical with the “Lillian” which was played years ago at Hooley’s and McVickcr’s. Well, it isn’t. But there’s not enough difference in them to scare anybody ont of a year’s growth. THE CHANGES THAT WERE MADE in the play before its Union Square production consisted chiefly in lifting the weight of the piece from Indian's shoulders, and placing it upon Strebe-'ow’s. It didn't improve the drama itself, but it enabled the com nany to do It jus tice. Miss Jewett could never in this wide, wide world have properly played the original part of Lillian, and it was a tacit admission oi her weak ness for the management to order the changes. When the play in its new dress was first done in New York 1 had occasion to say that it was neither imnroyed as a drama nor in the way it was played. And! don’tsee any reason now why that judgment should be recalled. Indeed, I imagine 3iat the Chicago people who see the “Banker’s Daughter” next week at ilavcrly’s will be united in thinking that “Lillian ” as it stood when first performed in Chicago, was a stronger and better play, and was, on the whole, better acted tban it is by the Union Square company. lam not given to poetry, as a rule; but, when t say that Hooley’s and McVicker’a stock organizations in those days were no slouches, 1 know all rhythmic souls will appreci ate the soaring tone oi my statement. SABA BEENHABDT IS COMING. There is no doubt about it how. The business has been all planned and laid out, and Sara’s ethereal presence will bo lelt here early in the season.- She is to come under the guidance of Gllinann, an old oneratic manager, and Henry C. Jarrett, —the London Jarrett, not the Amer ican. A French company will be imported to give her the proper kind of support, and she proposes to sweep the country. , All this talk about giving her $ 200,000 for a season in the United States is •‘taffy.” She is to be paid $l5O a night for a season of 150 performances, or $112,500 for the entire trip. Sara will undoubt edly make the tallest kind of a sensation here, unless she concludes to give ns some of the kick-un entertainments which were incident to her London engagement. I don’t know as even that sort of thing'would injure her American (success, however, because our people, os a rule, arc overgenerous in their treatment of artists’ freaks. Irving, It is definitely settled, will not come oyer this year. He has concluded that ue has a good enough thingwherc he is, and that Amer ica will keep. I reckon he is right on . both points. There would, without question, he a good deal of interest in seeing him here, but there is room for a serious doubt as to bis finan cial success this side the pond. HERRMANN, THE MAGICIAN, treated the Dramatic A 7 eua corps to a little seance in mesmerism the' other dav, Mile. Verona Jarbcau furnishing the subject. The fair Debe sat in Byrne’s official chair, and Herr mann very soon had her under his control to a most extraordinary extent. She answered bis questions unhesitatingly, and submitted with ' the utmost nonchalance to the pleasant process of having pins jammed into herarms and checks. And when she returned to consciousness It was without the minutest remembrance of what had passed. Herrmann is what Artcmus Ward would have called a “festive buss.” He is al ways taking cigars out of your hair, jack-knives from vour neck, and S2O gold pieces from your lips, until you,wonder if you aren’t a hardware store, or something of the sort. And this mes merism business rather caps the climax of bis achievements. Next time Igo to call on Mary Anderson, I mean to bribe Hermann to tackle Dr. Hamilton Griffin. If he can mesmerize Miss Anderson’s stepfather for half an hour I’ll be his slave for life. CBABLES POPE Is in New York filling time for his new theatre in St. Louis. lam told that the structure when completed is going to be one of the best play houses in America. It is centrally located, and will be conducted to the very best of Mr. hope’s ability. He means to arrange for the appear ance of the best dramatic stars in the profes sion, add I think there is every chance of his making a success. GENEBAL NOTES. The yellow-fever outbreak in Memphis has created a most decided scare among, dramatic people this wav. The fall season in the South was pretty thoroughly made up, hut there is a general stampede among the agents of com panies intending to go down there in the early autumn. In consequence, Joe Brooks has can celed all dates at tue Memphis Theatre up to Xfec. 1, and the other Southern houses will doubtless fall into line soon. Haverly’s Genuine Colored Minstrels continue to be the attraction of the town, and the finan cial result is far ahead of anything that was an ticipated by the management. The company will remain a fortnight longer before proceeding to New England. Harry "Mann, the treasurer of Haverly’s, smiles a kind of cheerful smile as he hauls In the.casb, and the Frohman boys are in a congratulatory mood. They are running a good show, that’s certain, and they are running it well. The Genuine Colored will be succeeded by Adele Belgarde—her real name is Rosenthal or something of that kind, but Adele Belgarde is prettier for the bills. She is going to whoon us up with Romeo , Hamlet , Julia, and other high strung parts. Later the Criterion Comedy Company will play at Hayerly’s for three weeks in a new piece.- Ithcriel. PHILADELPHIA. PEOPLE PANNING THEMSELVES THROUGH “FATI.VITZA.” , Special Correspondence ot The Tribune, Philadelphia, Jury 2i. —The theatrical sea son has begun again, where it left off, with “Fatinftza,” which has been brought out with two steam fans, at the North Broad Street. The company was pretty much the same as that ot last season, Laura Joyce being the Falinitza. She sang fairly, but acted the part as it she was a woman masquerading in ton-boota and spurs. Mr. Clarke’s Correspondent was a gross libel on the profession, for which he deserves most condign punishment. Such a slow and stupid reporter as ho pictured to us would have been left onafive-cent fire for a country weekly!' Seymour mode the part of Dasha funny, but there was altogether too much low comedy about it., The most humorous feature was the ballet. It was under the direction of Mr. George W. Smith, who was probably the first ballet master in this country. Ho recollects when William Penn used to go behind the scenes and chuck the bailct-giris under the chin, and was a gray-haired man when Washington stopped in this city to see the sights on his way to Cambridge to take command of the Con tinental army. Most ot the ballet date back to that early period ot the country’s existence. They were in their prime long before the days ot Ellsler and Taglioni. and they forcibly re minded us that the ballet-girl may grow thin and lose her teeth, but, as far as can be ascer tained, she is immortal. Mr. Crossy means well —very well—but he does notvknow how. Ho got a lot ot new costumes, but he dressed the young cadets in fights, and they calmly stood round in the rigor ot a winter in the Balkans with that single thickness of woolen to protect their thighs. ALICE WATKINS. Mrs. Watkins sat right behind me with her latest acquisition. The performance seemed very tunny to her; most performances do If she is tue audience, for she seems to consider It the duty of a true artist to guy everything on the stage when she is in front. She laughed and talked until her lord and master remarked that she had no business to laugh, in a tone that suggested the possibility of her haying done quite as badly herself. At the end of our row sat Di Murska and ber husband, Mr. Hill. She listened politely and smiled as little as she could, but when one of the Dasha’s wives stepped out to sing in a real sad-iron voice, ■ “The Man In the Mood is Looking Down,” it was too much for ber, and she joined. Mrs. Oates in a hearty laugh. The rest of us tried to keep sober for example’s sake, but when the young lady bowed in acknowledgment, as If she had done’a good thing, the effort was in vain. This, by the wav, was Di Murska’s last appearance in public. She sails this week for London, where it is reported that an ongagemenfwlth Jarrelt awaits her. Time bas dealt lightly with her, but she has fought his advance with ail the apnliances of art nntU she can no longer risk the sunlight; in front of the footlights she still looks attractive enough. 0 Mrs. Oates docs not seem to be making much headway with her new company. Samuel T. Jack will assume the reins of management, and Mr. Charles .Melville will go ahead ot the com bination. Charley Drew is engaged, also Elma Dolaro,E. Horan, and .Gus Hull. James H. Junes and wife, and Rose Temple, who wcie with her for two years, would have been very useful people, but the Boston Museum .thinks so too, and they have been re-engaged for next year. Mrs. Oates promntly went behind the stage on Monday night and made overtures to Mr. Seymour, out be hesitated and has not yet accepted. EIVALEY AMONG THE MANAGERS. Manager Goodwin was very much excited when be beard it reported that Maurice Grau was going to bring Paola Marie and Capoul to the Broad Street, and he telegraphed at once to San Francisco to know if it was so. The facts were that Gran was to play with Ford in Balti more and Washington, but'in this city he was going to the Academy. Ford and Zimmerman had made no oflicial announcement whatever, but Mr. Goodwin rushed into a card in a single obscure Sunday paper,in which the Broa’d Street does not advertise at all, and denounced the un ' fairness of rival managers in announcing people whom they bad not engaged. There is no rea son why he should ho at all disturbed, for he has his list very well filled Indeed. Next week the theatre opens with.a new company, com prising Mr. Harry Hunter, Mr. Thomas Hunter, Miss Venie Clancy, and Miss Lizzie Harold as the principals for the purpose of pre senting o new musical absurdity for .which John C. MullaJr. of the Boston Globe Theatre, has selected the music. It is entitled “Jumbles,” and the Lone Fisherman thinks it will draw. On the 18th of August Miss Louise Pomeroy opens her season here with a full company, of which Mr. W. H. Leake is the bead. On the 25th that everlasting “M’liss ” comes back, and on the Ist we are to have the first hearing out of Boston of Sardau’s “ Andre Fortier," on which the Boston Theatre sunk no end of money last year. After a tort night of this we shall have a week of Sam Col ville’s angels, and four with the perennial “Black Crook,” before we ;have a sight of the divine Adelaide, who •is to come here immedi ately after opening in Brooklyn at the Park. Manager Goodwin is the only one now in town. Mr. of the Arch Street, is in Europe, and Mr. Gemmiil has gone to Cobasset without engaging a leading lady. Fred Zimmerman took the babies down to Capo to give a performance of “ Pinafore,” and, after quaking for fear that he would lose four or fire hundred dollars, came out ahead enough to pav all the expenses of his family down there for the sum mer. Mr. Ford lias secured .Gilbert and Snlli van’s company for next season and will manage them in New xork, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. Annie Louise Cary will be heard here with the Mendelssohn Quintette Club before she joins Mr. Slapleson. Florence Davenport and May have been at the Cane wearing tiic richest diamonds that have been seen there this year. Miss Emma Vadcrs is rapidly recovering the use of her leg under the skillful care of Dr. Gross. SCATTERING. GREEN-ROOM GOSSIP. Ninety-eight is said to bo the number of com binations next season. Pauline Markham is again in trouble in San Francisco. Her engagement proved disastrous. Tom Davcy’s health is so bad, it is said, that there seems little prospect of bis being able to engage in active personal "management next season. ■ Mary Anderson, supported by Milnes Levictc, Atkins Lawrence, and Mr. Chester, opens her season at the new Opera-House, Rochester, on Sept. TL . According to the Mirror John T. Ford thinks he has discovered another Mary Anderson in Lillian Spencer, daughter of Dr. G. VV. Spencer, of Pittsburg. She will be a member of his stock company next year. The Theatre, a monthly newspaper on the plan of the London Theatre, will appear about Sept. I.— Mirror. If the American publication is conducted with the same dignity, good judg ment, and impartiality as its namesake In Lon don its success will be a certainty. The case of Horace Walden and Lisa Weber, accused by a Cants Wright, of .Manchester, Eng., of stealing a saddle, harness, and bridle, came off at Preston on the 17th. They were committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions, Miss Weber, being allowed to lind bail. . Cheering news to the lovers of the leg drama: Bolossv Kiralfv writes to his brother-in-law of the Mercury' from Milan, Italy, Juno 24: “Handsome dancers are abundant here, and New York will enjoy several superb samples in the coming fall. Imre Kiralfv is in Vienna ship ping attractions. We sail for New York Aug. S.” The remains of Henry D. Palmer, late partner of Henry C. Jarrett. are expected to arrive in New York per steamer Celtic on August 1. The funeral will occur Irom Mr. Jarrett’s residence, at No, 13 West Fifty-third street. A meeting of the theatrical profcssiou.with which Mr. Palmer was universally known, will be held during the week to make’ suitable arrangements -lor the funeral. ’ . The thirty-fourth anniversary of the Royal General Theatrical Fund was celebrated in Lon don on the 25tb. David James, the Chairman at the dinner, said that the entire working ex penses did not exceed SI,OOO a year. There were 126 subscribers, while the annuitants num bered 51. Their annuities had been lately,re duced to 8300, *3OO, and §IOO, instead of §450, §3OO, and §l5O, as formerly, owing to the large increase of claimants. An appeal for subscrip-. tions to the public was to be made. The irrepressible Henry Sargent sends a letter to the JJramaUC iVewi in regard to certain strict ures said to have beau made by Modjosica upon His management daring the past two years. He says; When S. W. writes that Modjeaka commented on the manner in which she bad, been advertised, os he reports itin the tfun, ho* puts words in her month which she could not aave uttered. Of nine* tenths or,the advertising done, she knows nothing, and has no more to do with it than the Han in the Moon. If it Is * 4 too expensive, ** or a ** waste of money, 11 It is entirely my affair, as I alone pay for it. As for the * * devices '* used, I alone am respon sible for them. Hy theory in regard to bringing about the recognition of an artist, is the same os the practice of a gardener who wishes to bring a flower or a root to perfection in less time than na ture allots to it. He resorts to a forcing process. After weary months, the flower would blossom, the froit would ripen, without the 4 * devices ’* of artificial heat, and the most careful nrotectiou from rain and winds; but, given these things, the same result is attained In less than half the time. So an artist of the most distinguished merit may waste years to secure recognition. If he or she do not'snccoeu in informing the public of his or her claims, and inviting its judgment, the merit, for practical purposes, might os well not exist. It is like the lignt under the bushel. The object of any device’* to which I may have resorted has simply bad for its object to arouse the attention of the public, not to bias its opinions. y,vsic. REVIEW OP THE TEAR. THE MUSICAL SEASON OP 1878-’<9 closes later than its predecessors, owing to the summer season of opera; but we may now con sider it at an end, and therefore present a brief summary. of its more important features. During the season, which commenced June 1, isrs, there have been 347 concerts and 327 rep resentations of opera. The concert programmes include 2,919 numbers, representing 512 differ ent composers. The total number of perform ances, concert and opera, is as follows: Pinafore representations 162 Other operas.;. '....165 Eduy organ recitals 40 Turner Hall .. 33 Horsier School Church concerts Personal testimonials. Charity concerts... Tennesseeans Musical College... Beethoven Society. Wilhelmj Sherwood Germania Mie nncrchor Kellogg and Cary Schubert Institute,... Apollo Clnb. IVcrrenratfi. Amy Fay Lltta. Pratt Sym phony Chicago Orchestra Svmphony . Abt Society..., Atbenmuml Remenyi Miscellaneous Total... THE PROGRAMMES. For six years Mendelssohn’s music bos been given more frequently than that of any other comnoser, but in the season of 1878-’79 Schumann heads the, list with U 5 numbers, Chopin Is s&ond with 104, Mendelssohn third with 98, anoUeethoven fourth with 94. The other prominent composers follow in this order: Liszt, 90; Schubert, ST; Bach (Sebastian), 76; Handel, 46; Mozart, 43; Rubinstein, 40; Meyer beer, 34; Lecocq, 34; Wagner, Gounod, and Abt, 37 each; Yerdi, -38; Weber, 35; Johann Strauss and Dudley Bach, 34 each; Donizetti, 80; Merkel, 29; Franz and Rail, 23 each; Flo tow, 27; Snppe and. Sullivan, 25 each; Gnil mant and Hatton, 22 each; Benedict, 21; Bat tiste, 19; Rossini, 18; Ambroise Thomas, 17; Fratt, Planquettq, and Macfarren, IS each; Wicniawski and Gottscbalk, 15 each; Yolckmar, Haydn, and Ernst, 14 each; Yieuxtcmps, Koeliing, Balfc, and Gold beck, 13 each; Bach (C.), Cowen, De Berf ot, Lemmens, and Kuecken, 13 each; Brahms, Silas, Smart, - Kjgllak, and Wallace, 11 each; Bizet, Campanay''Hiller, Pease, and Soedcrmann, 10 each; Spohr. Saint-Saens, Raudegger, Offenbach, Bellini, Costa, and Blu menthal, 9 each; Anber, Bishop, Gumbert, Field, Rheinberger, S each; Tours, Thiele, Schreiner, Best, Reinecke, Mason, Lachner, Jen sen, Hamm, Heuselt. Garrett, Faure, and Barnhy, 7 each; Boccherini, Conradi, Lnzzi, Loescbhorn, Molloy, Mercadante, Rosenbecker, Tschaikowsky, and Ulrich, 6 each; Wider, Yogel. Tanbert, Schnltze, Sponhpltz, Ritter, Rinuk, Bcscb, Millard, Mills, Masse, Levy,Lux, Lassen. Krcutzer, Kuhnstedt, Hesse,Hoffmann, Hernemann, Gluck. Ga-lh, Gleason, Grieg, Faust, Dc Lange, Dow, Bilse, Calkin, Braga, Dana, Btadhury, Adam, and Archer, 5 each. In addition to these there have been twenty-live represented by four numbers; twenty-nine by three numbers; seventy-one by two numbers;. and no less chan 3SO composers have bad but one representation on the programmes of the yean OPERA SEASONS. There have been ten opera seasons (exclusive of “ Pinafore ” seasons), as compared with five last vcar. The first was the Di Murska sea son at Haverfy’s, Jnlv 8-9, and included two performances; the second, the European ooera boufte season at the Now Chicago, Oct. 2»-Nov. 2, including eight performances: the third, the Strakosch season at McVicker’s, Kov. Xl-23, including fourteen performances; the fourth, the Tracv Titus season at McVicker’s, Dec. 30- Jah. 4, including seven performances; the fifth, the Hess season at Hooley’s, Jan. 0-11. Includ ing eight performances; the sixth, the Mapleson season at Haycrly’s, Jpn. 13-25, including four teen performances; the seventh, the Oates season at Havcrly’s, Feb. 3-15, includ ing fourteen performances; the eighth, the Strakosch season at McVicker’s, .March 17-22, including seven performances; the ninth, the He.-s season at Hooley’s, April 7-12, including eight nerfonnanccs; the tenth, the Afrnee season at Harcrly’s, June 23-29, in cluding nine performances. In addition to these, the Rice party has given two seasons of burlesque opera at McVicker’s and Haverly’s, and an amateur troupe gave “The Doctor of Alcantara,” May 8, at the West End Opera- House. The operas performed have been as follows, including the number of perform ances: “Don Pasquale,” 1; “Ginifle-Giro(l«” 9; “.Masked Ball,” 2; “Faust,” 5; “Aida,” ■1; “Traviata,” 3; “Mignon,” 4; “Lucia,”4; “Carmen,”3: “Martha',” 3; “Trovatore,”3; “Favorite,” 1; “Chimes of Normandy,” 15; “FraDiavolo,”!; “Bohemian Girl,” 1; “Marl tana,” 1; “Sounambula,” 2; “Le Nozze di Figart*” 1; “Rigoletto,” 2; “Magic Flute,” 1; “Puritani,”!; “Huguenots,” 2; “Lc Petit Due” (new), 21; “La Marjolaine,” 1; “La rPcrichole,” 1;‘ “Der Lieber Trank” (new), 1; “Paul and Virginia” (new), 3; "Rose of Cas tile” 1; “Doctor of Alcantara,” 1; “Cinder ella,!; “Mine. Favart” (new), 3; “Les Brig ands,” 2; “Laddie Parfmncuse,” 1; “Grand Duchess,” 1; “Faliniua ” (new),l6; and “Trial by Jure,” 4. In addition to these the following burlesques have been given: “Ropinsen Cru soe,” 11; “Babes in the Wood,” 12; “Hor rors,” 4; “Hiawatha,” 4; “Pill-PalE,” 3; and a burlesque of “Pinafore,” 5. PINAFORE. How decply seated the Pinafore craze has b'ecomomay Be inferred from the following Btatement. It libs been performed 163 times, the various seasons and number of representa tions In each being as follows: Boston Pinafore Company. Jan. 27—Feb. 1.... 8 Amateurs. Feb. 21—March 8.. 14 Amateurs March 17—22. ..... 7 Duff Troupe March 24—April 12 2J Pauline Markham March 31—April 5.. f> Amateurs April-O—May 3.... 7 Pauline Markham May 10—24 .. ..... < Madrigal Troupe May SS~ ‘ Comic Opera Company May26—July 5.... 3- Juvenile Troupe June 2—14......... 16 Church Choir Company—June o—July 26.... 32 Total FIRST AETEAItiIi CBS. During theseason me following first appear ances of”professional artists have "been made in this eitv: Sopranos—Mrs. E. A. Osgood, Cata rina Marco, Mile. Litta, Catharine Lewis, Mme. Sinico, Mile. Kobiati, Marie Slone, Etclka Gers ter. Mile. Lido. Mine. Koeiiiug, Gertrude Franklin. Maria L. and Florence Ellis. Altos—Mme. Lablacbe, Laura Joyce, Mme. Gai imberti, Florence Rice-Knoi. Tenors—Sig. Kosuati, Westoerg, Las Zarini, Grazzi. Frances es, Fraooili, and Gillandi. Bassos—Kemmertz, Foil, McDonald, Thierry. Baritones—D. V. Bell, Matin, Bragan, PanfaieoDi, Moranski, Ualossi, and Werrenratb. Pwnists-Leila W.. Graves. Max Pinner, Walton Perkins, and Max Vozrich. Violinists—Wiihelmj, Remenyi, Ze line Mautey, Kaiser, ami Otto A. Schmidt. IMPORTANT WORKS. The following important,works have been per formed during the season: Svmphonies— For organ, C minor No. 1. DNo ■o jj minor No. 3, F minor No. 4, of Widor. by U. c. Eclcy; C minor No. 3. Beethoven, B minor No. 8, ScbnberLand the -‘ltalian,” Mendelssohn, by Pratt's Orchestra: B flat So. 1, Scnnmann, op. •11, Borgmnller. “Pastoral,*’Beethoven, -'bat tle Symphony." Beethoven, Koseuoccketa OrdiCßlrs Mvceltantous— ‘‘God in Nature. "Schubert. Apollo Club; Ninety-first Psalm. Meyerbeer. Apollo Clob; *‘Goa in the Tempest.” fcchubcri. Apollo Club; •‘Phaeton.” Saim-Saens. thicajzo Orchestra: “Orpheus," Liszt, H. C. Eddy; uai-. purgis Nacht, Mendelssohn, Beethoven' bocleiy; “Acts'andGalatea," Handel, ApolloCinb: . ■ St.' Paul," Mendelssoha. Apollo Clob;, “Lea Fre- l?£ cs ' Liazt, Pratt’s Orchestra; “Frithjof,” liraclr, Apollo Club; I *Odrfseas, l, Bruch, Bee- S?J en Society; '‘Die Traoung,” Plnttu H, C. “Fable of the Fairest Melaalne. ’* Hoff mann, Beethoven Society; “Elegie” Raff, Bee thoven Society; “Song of the Spirits,” Hiller, SS 1 ®/ 611 Soc l “Messiah,” Apollo Club; Mauzout Requiem, ” Beethoven Society, in addition to these works there have been jnven 4 concertos, 4 sonatas, 2 preludes and fugues, and 1 trio ol Mendelssohn; 3 sonatas, 2 \ indues of Merkel; 4 concertos, 1 9°i ‘v.o a ’o 13 choral crcludes, 9 tuques, X garotte, 2 trios, 3 preludes, X sarabande, 2 choral fanta- 1 sies, and X adagio ol Bach; X fugue ol Thiele: X concerto and X fugue of Liszt; X concerto. 2 sonatas. X fugue. 2 trios, and 3 quintettesof Kau; X trio of Gleason; 2 sonatas of Eabln-, stein; X quartet and 3 sonatas of Rheinberger* X tno and 2 sonatas of Mozart; X trio of Haydn -2 trios of Schubert; 4 sonatas and X fugue of De Lange; 3 trios of Ambrolse Thomas; Xtrio of Durand; X trio of Brail; 1 fugue of Gull maut; X fugue of Richter; ! sonata and 3 fan tasies of Lcmmens; J. fugue or Bernard; X con certo. 3 fugues, and E quartets of Schumann; X fugue of Buxterbude; X fugue of Krebbs; 3 concertos, 15 sonatas, and 3 trios of Beethoven; X fugue of Rinck; and several minor comooai tions iu this department of chamber music. The remarkably progress of music during the past t six years mar be best appreciated by the following comparative elate pent: Concerts, Operas. Humbert. Composers. 1873-’74.,..123 60 865 IDS 1574- 1 75 .. 184 69 1,456 284 187n-’76...,237 79 2.008 000 1876- 1 77....270 1)9 2.322 461 1«77- t 78.,..2fW 64 2,618 4«4 18T8-’T9.. 347 327 2.019 542 THE WEEK. «K. s. O. PKAIT’S RESrONATfOIV. As will be seen by the following card, Mr. S. G. Pratt has declined tbe leadership of the new Philharmonic Society which was recently offered him: Chicago. .Inly 24,1879.— Gentlemen of the Phil* ■ harmonic Society: Upon mature consideration I find it Inexpedient to accent the position of director to your'socicty, believing that, owing to profes sional engagements for the coming winter, and other work I have in hand, I shall not be able to fulfill the duties of such a responsible position without making sacrifices such as X feci 1 cannot now afford, - My interest In the formation of a permanent local orcbestra Is well known to you. Allow me to as sure you It will remain as keen os ever, and that I shall be glad to co-operate with you in the success ful accomplishment of this purpose. Thanking you for the distinguished honor con ferred. and trusting you trill be able to sec'ure tbe services of the celebrated conductor Mr. Theodore Thomas (whose offer ia.a very generous one), I re main very respectfully, 8. G. Pratt. Mr. Pratt has acted with good judgment In declining the conductorsbip of the Society. There has been, and is now, but one coarse for this Society to pursue, and that is to accept the offer made by Theodore Thomas, which was a very fair one. If be cannot make a success of it, it is safe to say do one else can. we have tbe material here for a first-class orchestra, or even an average good one, be will find it out and bring it out more quickly than any ooe else; if we have not that material, the Society will find it out as quickly as any one. We have the Societv: it now remains to be seen whether wc have an orchestra, and there is no man who can solve that problem as quickly as Mr. Thomas. If the Philharmonic Society means business, and is really working for music, let them take the best and secure a leader of made reputa tion. It is time to quit experiment. THE CARLOTTA PATTI TKOUPE. ........ 004 The indefatigable De Vivo writes us as fol lows from New York under date of the X4tb inst: De Marska will go to Enrope the latter part of this month. B. Jarreit has cabled her to go to London at once, to sing Ctiere and close the opera season, bat De Marska don't care to sing thore so late in the season. She has had offers from Vienna and Paris next season. Now I mast det yon know that I bare taken the management of Carlotta Patti, who will make her farewell topr around tbe world. We will commence here on Jtepc. 24, at Chicxcring Ball, and will give only fifty concerts in tbe States, as the contract with Cbizzola calls to leave for Australia on the 22dof December. But we will not fail to visit Chicago, the city of her great tri umphs, at least for two nights and a matinee, about tbe latter part of November, and I wish the grand new hall will be ready for her. The com pany we have is an excellent one,—artists all new to the public except the Diva Carlotta,— and we feel quite sure of their success; Hr. Henry Ket len. a great Hungarian pianist; he is called by tbe London papers, “The French Rubinstein”; he created lasi winter a great sensation in Italy, and. last year at the Trocadera: Mr. Ernest dcHonck, the celebrated Belgian •violoncellist (who is en gaged to Carlotta): Mr. Phelps, a successful Amer ican tenor, who has been singing in Italy foar or five years; Hr.- Ciampi Cellaj, a very fine baritone, and specially for concert; and Sig. Fortaua, ac companist. Ido think that this combination is one of the very best we have had for some time. Tbe pianist and vigloncclilst are spoken of os rare avis . Ji'ous terrons. Mr. Wilkie, the tenor, formerly of this city, was married recently to Miss Josephine E. Var rell, in Boston. Mr. H. S. Perkins, of this city, will conduct the International Musical Convention at Og densburg, >. y., in December next' Romenyi is engaged Aug. 19, 20, and 21 for the Saengcrfest at Toledo. He plays at Omaha, Aug. 1, on the return from California. Mr. Benjamin Owen, the organist of Plym outh Church, has opened new and elegant music-rooms for his scholars at 71 Randolph street. The concert at Lincoln Park this afternoon by Mr. Hand’s orchestra will be given under the patronage of Herbert C. Ayer, Esq. The pro gramme is a light, bnt pleasing one, and will un doubtedly attract an immen& crowd. It will be a pleasant announcement for piano plavers that the favorite “Turkische Scbaat wache” (“Turkish Patrol”), which has been played with such great success recently by the Chicago Orchestra, will be -published for the piano at an early day. A testimonial entertainment will be given to Prof. Lyman by the First Red Ribbon Club at its hall, No. 159 Twenty-second street, on Thurs day evening next. Jessie Couthoni, Mtnc. Sal votti, Mr. Lctficr, and Prof. Boston will take part in the programme.. Mr. Mathews’ Normal Course in Music at Evanston is largely attended, the class number ing at. present about fifty, embracing a consid erable number of teachers from distant points. Prof. Chamberlain, the voice-teacher from Oberlin, is chorus director, and-very popular. Mr. H. C. Eddy is busily at work at the Nor mal Musical lustitute in Canandaigua, N. Y., which is conducted under the directorship of iSberwood, the pianist. On the lltb and 15tb inst. he cave organ recitals with programmes made up from his now famous “ Old Hundred.” “The Girls High-School Music-Reader,” by Julius Eichberg,’ the Director of Musical In struction in the Boston, rfkblic schools, acknowl edged elsewhere, is incomparably the Lest com bination of songs lor soprano and alto voices that has vet been made in this country. The selections are made with excellent taste and admirably arranged., With characteristic modestv, Mr. Eichberg, though a composer of excellent ability, has included but one or two of his own compositions in hia book, though singers in genera! would have gladly welcomed more of them. The work ought to come into general use, and, if it docs, .will elevate the standard of music in our schools. ELBETOEKK MB. MaPLBSON’S PLANS. Mr. Hassard, writing to the New York Tribune from London, Bays: Mr. Supleson’s plane for the next season in America are still vairuc, and I preanmo that tncy will oe governed by circumstances not altogether within bis control. Mme. Gerstcr will certainly return: 1 believe there is no doubt that we shall bare Campanini, and Galassl also; and you have prooably learned that Maplcaon has captured from' StraKoech no less a prize than Miss Aoaie Louise Cary. Here is an admirable quartette to with; but a doable eet o! singers is "needed for a srood season, and negotiations with tbe others arc Incompicts. Mr. Mapleson in forms me that be Is making strenuous efforts to secure Nileson. Nobody believes that he will suc ceed Mmc. Nilsson la engaged for next winter in Madrid, and I presume that neither she nor the manager is anxious to pay the forfeit of £3,000 to which she would become liable by accepting the American engagement! Nilsson and Gerstcr would do well together, for their special roles are entirely distinct. Del Puente wlil doubtless return, and amon'" the less important members of the troupe »rc JlTle. Ambre and Mile. Lido. I amsorry tosay that there U more or less uncertainty about our eniovins the advantage of Sig. Arditi s services again this year, for he, too. is wanted « Madrid. X NOTABLE PAPEU. , Richard Wagner has been induced by the ed itor ot the North American Review to break his lone silence, and contributes to the August number the first part of apancr entitled “Work and Mission of -My Lite,". the following state ment of which wa taka,from the New York World: Wafer’s essay he announces to be the lost piece of literary work be will send out to the general Soo recent writing, he says/basbeen in the form of circulars to members ot the Bay reath Association.- “It required, .therefore, ™ appeal from another world—from beyond the SUKiTABT. LOCAL MISCSLLASIT. ocean from the so-called New World of "America— to induce me to allow my name once more to ap pear elsewhere, in a public periodical, and attach ed to a new explanation of my aims in art. The ‘Old 1 World, and especially that part of It In clndedin our new Germany, will bear no more from me directly on this subject.” This first part of bis contribution to what be considers as & new dominion opened for the sway of the Germanic spirit ends with the production of his “Rienzl” at Dresden in 1842. It thus covers exactly the same ground as that gone over in the autobiography prefixed to bis collected writings and published here in English some three or four years ago. The scope of this essay Is, however, altogether differ ent from that of the autobiography, being indeed nothing lees than an attempt on the part of the an tobiographer to fix his own place in the develop ment of German art. Whatever may be thought of the possibility of success in this under taking of a man to bold himself off at arm’s length and describe himself in a spirit of disinterested cariosity, it cannot be denied that the result of it is at least enter taining and suggestive reading.' There is perhaps nothing in this essay in the way of opinion which cannot be inferred from the “Knnstwcrk der Zukunft” and the “Judenthum in Mnsik,” but the connection here of the composer’s opinions with his account of his own work gives them a fresh interest. Beethoven first- and after him Goethe are in the thrones of Wagner’s world. Readers already familiar with bis work will not ho surprised that he rates Robert Schumann as only a lyrist, “a feebly defined yet really earnest and meditative kind of German talent” which Its possessor overloaded when he set it to epical tasks in symphonies and cantatas. Nowhere else baa he eiven a more definite expression to his disesteem of musical Jews, and especially of the two-of whom one, at the time when Wagner's career be gap.' was the unquestioned master of dramatic music and the other of absolute music. Of the former Wagner says: That race of co-between* most once more, and at exactly the right moment, elvc u* a man of peculiar talent*, whose task It was to complete the estrange ment of the Germans from the art that was peculiarly their own. This man.—who put upon the stsce with every appliance ol show and glitter and with all the re finements of theatrical effect the highest development of the most effective modem art elements,—a Iliscft misch of all styles acd methods In the form of the great “Historical Opera,"—this man was Meyerbeer. Of the other, Wagner's opinion seems much lest heretical now than it did when Wagner first an nounced it: Here, too. a member of that übiquitous, talented race took the lead. Mendelssohn undertook with his delicate httnd— bis exquisite special talent for a kind of musical landscape painting— to lead the educated classes of Germany as faraway from Che dreaded and misunder stood extravagances of a Uccthoven. and from rhe *ui>- Hme prospect opened to national art by bis later works, as from those rude theatrical orgies which hla more refined taste so detested In the historical opera of Ms fellow-Bebrew. He waa the savior of music In the salon, and with him the concert-room, aad now and then even the church, did duty asasa/on also. Amid all the tempests of revolution he gave to Ul* art a deli cate, smooth, quiet, cool, and agreeably tranquil form that excited nobody, and had no aim but to please the modem cultivated taste, and to give It occasionally, amid the shifting and turmoil of tnc times, the conso lation of a little, pleasing, and elegant entertainment. A new idea In art was developed.—the embodiment in It of a graceful, good-society element, quite foreign to the nations’* character and social life. MUSICAL /NOTES. Miss Adelaide Phlllipps has entirely regained her health, and will be heard at her best during the coming season. It is reported that C. D. Hess has engaged D’Oyley Carte’s Sullivan and Gilbert company for the coming season. M. Vieuxiemjp is in failing health, and has consequently resigned his Professorship in the Berlin Conservatory of Music. Mr. Joseph Maas, long and favorably known Id this country, is a favorite oratorio and classic al concert tenor In England just now; Emma Abbott’s English opera companv opens the season with “Pan! aud Virginia” at the New York Grand Opera-House in September. It is announced that Maplesonwill open his New York seas on. Oct. 17, with ‘‘Sonnambula,” Gerster, Cary, and Campaoiai being his strong cards. Reliable advices received in this city announce that Theodore Thomas will travel with his cele brated Cincinnati orchestra daring the coming season. The Mendelssohn Quintet Club, with Annie Louise Cary as vocalist, have engagements ia Brooklyn, Philadelnbia, and several smaller cities daring the month of October. The Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, opens Thursday, Sept. 1. with a revival of “La Fills de Mme. Argot,” Faola Marie personating CtairetUj of which part she was the original ia Paris. The Gran comic opera company will have as Its repertoire next season “Pinafore,” “Fatin- itza,” “The Sorcerer,” and “ The Cadets,” a musical extravaganza by Morris Warner and Gastavus A. Kerker, of Louisville, Ky. W. Page McCarty, one of tne editors of the Washington Capital , and Sig. Operti, the well known musical composer of that city, have near ly ready a dashing military operetta called “Buttons.” The libretto uresents striking new characters and an abundanccof humorous lines. Mme. Esslpoff has left London. As soon as she had- vacated her rooms in Regent street, they, were occupied by Dr. Von Bulow. The Doctor’s hatred of “ petticoat pianists ” Is well known, and it mav justly be said, without dis respect, thaUhe preferred her room to her com pany. A usually well-informed musical writer. In a London caper, has the following item, which will be read with interest: “During her recent visit to the United States, with the Manlesou troupe, lime. Demerie Lablacne was so Impor tuned to give lessons in singing that she has resolved to settle in New York, for the next two or three years, at any rate, for professional purposes.” * The Managers of the Cincinnati College of Music have Issued a programme giving the in formation that there will be given, during the season of 1879-’BO, eight orchestra concerts and eight public rehearsals by the Theodore Thomas Orchestra, and six chamber concerts by the College Quartet. The first orchestra con cert will be given on Nov. 6. The regular organ concerts will cease Aug. 9 and . be renewed the middle of October. . The New York Tribune says: “ Miss Florence Copleston, the daughter of a well-known New York journalist, has recently made her debut in Leiosic- with most flattering success. The yonng lady nlayed here a number of times in private before her departure for Europe, amt the Professors aud amateurs who heard he' spoke most warmly of her talent, and of the unusual promise that she gave for the future, and, it we may judge by the cone of the entire Leiosic press, the study which sne has bad for the last year under the personal instruction of Kapell meister Rcinccke has ripened this talent, and has formed her into a pianist who is likely to fulfill in every way the excellent promise that she gave before she went abroad.” The programme of the popular symphony con certs . announced by the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra for tne coming season will include the following works of the great composers: Bee thoven—Symphony In F, selections; overture, “ Egmont ”: overture, “ Leonore ” No. S-Schu mann—Svmpbouvln D minor, selections; over ture, “ Manlfrea. 5 ’ Raff— I “Leonore Symphony," selections. Spohr—Overture, “Jessonda." Men delssohn—Overture. “ Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Wagner—Overture, “ Tannbauser.” Bach—Air and Gavotte. Schubert—Unfinished symphony in B minor. Liszt—Preludes; Hun garian rhapsodies; polonaise in E: “ Kaast ” svm'phony, flretchen movement. Mozart — Overture, “ Magic Flute.” Wooer —Overture, “Oberon”; “Invitation a la Danse.” Saint- Saens—“ Danse Macabre ”; “Le Konet d’Om phale.” Tschaikowskl—Andante for string orchestra. , NEW MUSIC. Chicago: S. Bralnards* Sons—“ Niagara Falls Mazurka." by Oscar Schmoll; “Pattnllza." a potpourri, by J, C. Macey; “Keep One Little Thought for Me.” by G. W. Pern ley; “The Little Stream Beside My Cabin Home,” by G.W. Parsley; •*Congratulation Polka." by C. ArchambaaU; and “Pesione Waltz," ay tbe same. Boston: McGinn & Heath—**The Girls*. High- School Header." Dr Julius Eichbcrr, Director of Musical Distraction in tbe Boston Public School*. 1879. reGekah at the well A maiden ouce lived in a beautiful dell. Near the border of which was a wonderful well, - Where bright water? played. Thia maiden, one evening, when crystals of dew Were adorning the grass that on cither side grew. Toward the well slowly strayed. A traveler had journeyed all day in the sun, And paused by the well ns tbe evening came on. And weary was he: He rested, and said a prayer something like this; May 1 know chat the maid who drat shall say Yea To my query is she I As she came besaid, “DanucJ, I pray let mo drink ebc drew both for him and. bis camels, 1 think; And Then be thought of his prayer, stooped o'er her hand with the, grace of a Ulmr. And placed on her finger a beautiful ring, 3Jo«c lovely and rare. And She took it and blushed, while her eyes wire downcast— Then went on her way with her heart beating fast; While he. with rare grace. With a smile and a bow, kept pace at her side. And said be was warciiin:! tae place for a bride. And praised her fair face. ’Twas not for himself, bat his master he sought; And so skillful his wooing, task was soon wrought, • And be bore her away. And young maids and old are still striving to know Who first to tall strangers. some kindness shall show. . Eten down tothia day. ZO.CBA USSZXBXXX* 11