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4 LIFE AND GENIUS OF JENNY LIND.
IN writing a memoir of this distinguished illness sho sought consolation from airs of a aongstress, whose fame has extended over the plaintive or melancholy nature. In fact, sing- whole civilized world, we are limited to fewer Ing might have been called the passion of her facts than the generality of biographers are, existence. When nine years of age she was when giving details relative to persons who, remarkably forward ill mind—so much so, like our fair subject, have achcived eminence as to be considered an extraordinary child. as public performers. This is easily ac But she was neither strong nor beautiful in counted for, by the different 's be features, though her face then, as well as it tween M . • .ii,l ai,d the majority now is, was character: ,,1 by an expression of her professional brothers and sisters, for of more than re beauty, and which has while they have aaeningiy availed them be, n frequently noticed in those persons •ry opportunity that preaentod it gifted by nature with a high degree of ge obtrude, iii a purely personal point of view- nius. world, the. with remarkable good 1'ortimatcly for the future sonirstress, and icnt, has maintained a dignl- fortunately too, for the world who were to he letireincnt; at be has charmed by llcr powers, a .Madam lamdbcrg honors and the plaudits that have heard the youthful Jenny Lind sing. So '"'en apesj her by the most brilliant pure was the voice, and so correct the nota of European audiences, with a meekness that tions, that the lady was alike delighted and so far as the actress and the singer are astonished. She informed the girl's parents Concerned, must enhance her in the I of the treasure they possessed in her, and of all right-judging persons. warmly urged them to devote her to the This highly gifted artiste was born on the Jenny's mother, hov, d a t' «Ictober, in tic ii the city genera] prejudice against a theatrical life, of Stockholm, llcr parents, kept a school and therefore diaoountenanoed the proj much reapeoted by all who Hut all opposition waa ultimately withdrawn knew them for th.ir UToMlr of conduct; b the Importunities of Madam lam,! theogh neither their pursuits nor taetaa were , oiitinued with unwearied zeal, to rage tlnir daughter in the press her suit and the expressed willingness Study of th of the child herself, who had bean questioned to bci ic so :,t. and for on the suhj nary apti Jenny l.ind's first Introduction to mu
tude • , re- •a a (I, c >r,|, 1 known iii Stockholm, named Cim- and almost every thought of the in: oo ii cdiately alter he had heard her Jenny wai > and that as enthusiastic in biaootnmendation. lie took her to Count I Bake, the manager oj :"' i Theatre Royal in Stockholm, and requested by blithesome songs, and even iu the hours oi him to hear her sing. The Count, directing AND GENIUS a cold look at the girl, who stood trembling thought, had ended like that of other before him, asked, in a disdainful is l)er Fritt- whether Cruelius believed him mad, that he oharaotoT which Jenny had should consent to bring a "baby like that" often proteased a wan i perform | upon the stage; but both coldness of l'*)k and but now, appaienlly, llty of her harshness of voice were dispelled wl. cv.r doing so was heard Jenny sing, and he was as n paaaed away, when a fortunate others for her appearanee. The result was eireuii led 1.' t to public notice.— that she soon aftcrwar i in a child's The fourth act of Ml y rbeer'i Ilibertle Dia- character at the Court Theatre, and astonish ble was aunouneed for performance at a pub- ed every person present by the vivacity and lio concert in Btookhohn, • was originality of h Through i wanted for the part of Alice. The rep* Pucke's Eqolc or Mu- bed to tative of Alios has little to do in this a.; the Court aa continuit y.Mid a solo, and DO person had been found tnition far a year, and then passing her to a who »,.uld undertake it. Herr BV i younger, and aa 1 abler mu membered his lata pupil, thought there one i • whom tie I danger in entrusting her with the part, pil progressed very rapidly, and a her bis do- in whet may be niam of the lld undertake it. She science, upon which all a that she would must be based. Continuing to perform children's parts, manner; but an extraordinary e, vaudeville were written for her in rapid liaed of performance. By what succession means we know Dot eata' hope that I Impromptu effort, which is i had I I of her fir 1 fir- aded by a great i inger tune was sue This waa found her voice laatored to her. thro' id the aatoa :• twelfth year, and may membering ither days, be aa n two Important listened with such deep atlcntiiciios, and divisions of IHT professional career -tb applauded so enthusiastically, that the poor wor! displays wl, which third and fourth I . had ator of juvenile parts, she had mad) d a few hours sit r, by thoai in her art, the most Import which, it had h iiis m ant her pros- be called upon to essay. 'I l great waa of herself and friends, th h.-r joy when the delighted Bergtoid her she whose tones had so oft must now study the pari of Agatha. She had to awaken audience, to higher raptur. thus, en the day dream of her youth, promis- was now mute, and all efforts towards its re ; for she was farther covery seemed entirely • told t ra in But though, as w rief was which she was to make her debut great, she bore it with an out holm. of resignation that a It i , lion •one who witnessed r was seen with her first appearance at the Stockholm la her eyes—no murmur was heard from her re, on thei lips. It may have been that while those was her behavior that her fellow pn •ad while ah is sunk I not make b.r out. Fran what they in profound sadness, some casual ray of hope knew of her farmer efforts, coupled with the flitted across her—f • ,„ i]ul i„.r musical studies were persisted in with some would be made by her in Agatha, bat that, even if . vet th i for the result. At her re organ had not been elicited admira-. el in. d to have hist oon- was silent to those in the Tie to the minor parte, and her career, , and immovable. The night came, and with
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it the eoilcetiveness of singer. Many in the spent by Jenny Lind in profound solitude. theatre that night were old play goera, and It has been reported by a lady who was ac had witnessed I musical perform quainted with the singer at the time, that no ances of their time ; but we have heard it re one paid the slightest attention to,or expected cord rho had personal opportunities any thing of her. Wretched in mind, Jenny, of judging, that the enthusiasm then display in the presence of visitors to the person in ed was the acme of everything he had ever whose house she then resided, would retire seen. Jenny Lind was at once, and bj • mier, and from (here watch with J, the prima donna and favorite.— ful looks, the gay hoes of those near her,and Willi B her perform:!', listen with a painful earnestness to their rehearsals, she devoted herself to her lively converse; they never dreaming what, The difficulties attendant on the full develop there was in the future for that "quiet, odd- ment of bi ;s it will be looking girl in the corner," as she was some thought, v.ry great—perhaps equal in magni what unfeelingly designated. The true tude to any ever surmounted by a Hannibal or solitude of the heart is never so keenly felt as Napoleon, though of a more purifying and in tile midst of a large city. That poor •fifing tendency. During eighteen m Jenny well knew, aa indicated by what sho and while undergoing these necessary studies, rding this portion of her life. she | : nryartbe, Alice, and \ These are her words. "1 waa living on and other parts, requiring from my tears and the agony of home sickness." which the moat practical actresses would have At the end of tin' specified time, Garcia shrunk, and which w, - , more for- found her voice improved, and commenced to mid.. uthful a periKin, with a frame bar lessons. Some idea may be farmed fragile and dclio.v of the energy with which she set about her Jenny Lind's impatience for tlio full task, when we say that nine months only emir d the were allowed her to receive the Instructions time nature learned to require. llcr of her new master, and that, at their termi was to r. and place li.rs.lf nation, she had acquired all she had hitherto under the tutelage of Garcia, who was wanted. Wliile a pupil of Caroia's, ^, first mast, r of the day, and she riser, who has ainoe arrived at labored in '.tain the sum neeeasa- •i the musical world, shared ry for a two year's r, the French Instructions with Jenny. This lady's \ Capital. Il.r paaraanU found it impossible for . a much superior quality to Mademois thee, iiout yielding up elle land's; and Garcia was considerably an- their means ,,f - thing, how- in consequence, as the farmer did not in In r art, a tithe part of the talent constant I \ • and with a firmness of purpose that would I by her fellow pupil. "Had Ni he, then •but but your talent, or had you but Nisei in 1 • forth alone for I should b ," would Is line,HIS,-ions lis it were, of , of all who the Improvement which waa taking place in her. the quality of her voice. This ha,I Arrived at her dctina og Itself during the whole pi riod h«'r a indnaaa, and rasp of her - hid with an a; not ai yet acquired that m -, but she hod sua which it waj, at a later d ""isi sajer said—" My child, Re! |S>illt • ni and power, tfa doubt of its being one of the most CXtrpord.- Dut : la, that you r. and captivating thai, has aver been heard upon I and lur" ' aralaaato sa> on of both, , ; ; • lings of the poor . [uali- In point of delicacy, file \i.iec of I'cr- i to It, but it has BO litt.e • LIFE AND GFXIUS strength in it, that the most trifling affection been a stranger After a month's absenoa, of health will put it out of tone. So she was recalled to Sweden, to perform at susceptible is it of any influence of this nature, dilation ceremonial of King Osoar.— that she has frequently been known to sing While at Stockholm a proof of her great at her Ma popularity a ig her country people was jesty's Theatre, half a note below or above j in the OOadnot of • number oi the scale of the orchestra. Sehnadef Devri- wealthy bankers, who tempted the young ent, or Adelaide Kemble, or Gulia Grisi, are with a proposal, that if she would aban all possessed of strength of voice, but lacking don her design to quit Stockholm, theyv this delicacy, have never been able a1 each iiiinualh depoail a sum (brten years,and trast it so forcibly as they would have been, r a fortune. The fair object of had they been gifted like Mademoiselle Lind. this offer was deeply touched by this proof of Strange as it may appear, Garcia, though iintrv people'! estimation, and ml aconsuin:: m and a man of genius, squleaeed in their wishes, had not did not comprehend the entire resources of word been already given. She bad made an his Swedish pupil. As an instance of his in- engagement, and aha felt herself solemnly rention, it may be sta r fre bound to fulfill it. The evening on which quently copied her piorituri, and a she bade farewell to Stockholm, was one men' them instead of his own. Of universal sorrow for the loss of a d;i Jenny Lind had been a year in Paris, ter, than DM fat the temporary ab- when shj was visited by a countryman, a of a publlo vocalist. Thousands gath musical composer, who had known I ered in the tl por- Sweden, and who came to brii. t her admirers hurried after her to Stockholm. By means of • m she >!, of her, was procured an introduction which h In October, 1844, she made her first ap- a vi Doa in Berlin, Tbc effect produced by destiny—6he made the acquaintaiu•<• ••( ..ley- her performance will be long remembi erb' 'i tied his ad From that time her name beeamc '' familiar miration of her genius; r as household words" throughout Europe and ••• Oe, obtained lier those other portions of • vili- i to make a trial 1 ziition and the Arte wei During her four month In the Pra The pieces she there sun;,' wi !•• I, Jenny Kind performed thi . • ly from the operas of Robert rata, the fifeiuMmeaJa, the l'illt ir DiabU, Norma, and Der Frietchul. du Regiment, besides appearing In the new star: the i'tiuij) nf Silrgi,i. Many and mm ceals. f..r ai nt at as her triumphs had been, her last Berlin. But Jenny „-t sick, and waa an nnparalledoM, ETo sooner had - d to return I . and soon the curtain falhn, than ' rush was after left Paris for Stockholm, where she made to the stage to bring her forward. waa received with enthusiasm. En '• l.iudl Lind!" was eeb.nil from all quar- treaties poured upon her, that sho would d to shake remain at Stockholm, and a» bar love under the power of acclaniaii for her native city was great, there see.. Previous to her return to Stockholm, Jenny be a possibility that she would do as wi I most of the tnw us of Northern but on the other hand, there washer i ; and everywhere earned B rbeer, and the prospect In Hamburgh a silver wreath waa presented which it seemed nothing less than madness |0 her; an.I in the curse of the following summer, when she was present at oo" 'igagement. . the Rhine, looaaion of the went to Dresden, where Meyerbeer wva ployed in the competition of hU last I with ihe and studied h. r part with him, at the same none, acquiring an aeqna i, tru. ••*K Rossi (Hem 1 by man language, to which she had h her | nator OF JENNY LIND.
of her age. At Vienna—that imperial city, pipe-shops; sat in kings' chambers, and of which it has been said that it has a " contin warbled themselves into the wealth of prin ued audience of judges and critics," so great cesses. So soon as Mdlle. Ungher becamo was the effect of Jenny's appearance, that famous, sho transferred herself to tho Italian she was courted by the highest in the land. stage. Tho voice of Mdlle. Scheduler (with The Empress and Arch-Duchess Maria treat others) early perished, from ed her with the most marked consideration ; misuse. Strong as Madame Schroder-Dev- and it is very amusing and novel to be told rient was in the expression—may one not say of the enthusiasm she exciud amongst all the extravagance ?—of the tender passions, it ranks of society in the capital. At Frankfort is many years since sho was endurable as a her performances created the most lively in vocalist. Mdlle. Lulzer was spirited away terest, in proof of which we quote the follow from the stago at the moment when her repu ing correspondence from the London Athe- tation was becoming universal. When a neum : singer of so much pretence, yet so incom plete, as Mdlle. Lowe, on the strength of an FRANKFORT, OCTOBER, 1S4G. irreproachable toilette and audacious rouladet, Mn'i.i.E JKNSY LINO :— command hat public as that lady did " I wish somebodv would kill Lady Kil- when 1 was in Berlin, in 1889—not merely gobbne !" was the cry of Lady Morgan'a he roines, when driven past all patience by hear the poverty of the land is shown, but tho ex- ing perpetual panegyrics of an absent leader !so, of the musical desire. Comparison, of eountn The race of trni tin u, can hardly bo possible with those whose 0 in their souls" this y.-ar in ly to echo the same de satisfaction in a want supplied would feel any sire with regard to Md'Ue Jenny Lind. attempt to measure or reason, or hint tho 1 have kn Melody 1 h- • •option, IB outrage. Yet it is by countered D/rthing of the eurionty ai comparison that one educated iso to say) 1 by In r. Dine where you under a dispensation has the best chance of would dur of free Trade—and Jenny Lind: of anything like a distinct impression of roadi this wcll-belovc.l and eagerly sought idol of Spai uedy any. title Jenny Lind -. of the Pope and the people and y< '. If asked, then, hmv and w hat is Jenny I .ind tnpared with tin' long line of brilliant eemtatrie* familiar to the English ? I should ig—how in ae—and the lik- it what had first seized me in her per- that, what dilettanti l'oruKn ithcr tho voice nor the the method, but a certain genial charm, which its crowning grace to all representative appointment and unci Art. It might be remarked of the organ, the Pond. fiVhaiUiisa whereao of the lower register arc not oflirst-rafe quality ; it might he asserted of the execu- lK k prim " bal more wondrous feats have been cx- grou, '• '"• 1 by other ladies, but, in a German tiotli- translation of u l.i Fine da Regiment," (the ve passage* e • h I saw prima donna,) a the nana mixture of cordiality, feeing, and refinement, k cliampagn- struck it is true, to the pcr- uiusieian — and which lias nothing Alkiw what you please for the par 1 gifts,or acquired technica- tgrntf exaggeration in t' but evcrythingin their employment.— | 1 .1 liutire •red with the exhibitions of her sister when nence is unique in my • i the Germs [dllo, rieneea. There is reason for tti ' nation was i lint- porcelain beside tawdi on I>amoreatts,who. have ruled the realm of opcm-hoU«*-*nd I which ninety out of a hundred women (and s LIFE AND CI the entire public to boot) would ha Aminu, is I • of great ok'vll a apl .,-,- I heard an) Iii I cannot tell hole : • who in- exqusite than her largo in the final scene, t--11 the pro —but 11, re the finish of her pianissimo is beyond all (•pan Bt ef • I with too fort • showy, and una from fori the '.. and sickly mua ease on sue1! "id there, Lind continued I iliant, however, ainging the melancholy all expn :n sliort— mcnt, i bed flowera un- stud. In nslydropfroi presumed, of Amino so much as Ophelia. Should that first impressions may be trusted. A t ,,r he treated musically, (and why actor, fir .—but should not Mendels ohn, who has proved his coarseness is im; him. A Pasta Of tin.- Shaksper.-an taste already, undertake it ?) Ihq.r. z may work with a d oro representative. Nothing is but • lly. wanting—country, temperament, cast of A tri; ss, tone of voice, nor that refinement denee. Si. 1 felt that M . ht put forth which perhaps gives to her p 1 as more or less power,— more much too much of the lady aa Malibr 'his or the other had of the XingareUa. 1 .should like to Bee evening—but that sic what Macule, l.in.l would make of Rosinl'e such unloreablr mono, with h.r haunting ' Willow . nor exhibit that or of VVeber's I'.uryiint/ie, which, utt. know, is but fan d, spoiled -t.s. The • of the to please t' of the \ leneae.— • from ,i save the mark'.—that would not earn nnder- tolerate the •• mole oinqne spotted." But, r out, alas 1 the o i ininr in which the i b opera is written for the . is been the , 1 fear, prevent from approaching it oordiallly, and it is uv .!• tsassi wasre Fame'* prou I as atir.' tloncd only to intimate my Im] the 1 saw Mile. Lind, direction which a oharminj 1. nt that lit, but and ird in aonaeaa, it—when heard at Frankfort by a Londoner— The third opera In which 1 »,i« Mile Lind ^advantage. Nut only is heimpor- ." by Spontiui. This, with tun all the power and skill displayed in it is not a —i; I seine with • nl. 'i'le- i Kubini or a Mario, is she obi with a eon the sir. ti-h, and the passages of raos- —but Hcrr Cuhr, the melody ai • 3uch a work, then, eminently oalla foroomplet ill tile rk yet low oh for no small amount niorelaehrym.^eih.i:. .' .-_•:, ulj is. lor. In tin . the Frankfort n .1 hindraneea rath, r than helUM to M'Ue l.ill.l. The best of h,r I nl oat ihb nii.l.i', a rarity in tonalsml *.|*ni. I me. 1 lie part otJuli p it I ; Wio'ir vrn.' '1 E •: -i at'S > wsse^ssVp nl of Tti. anwwIsssrfB CM ssaasMaastiS •I'.iule where a rnllenland* at as aas • OF JENNY LIND. 9 plisliments—must ii .. d at the se her prime, was not so fearlessly unsparing of nt of ornament, In which her upper notes. Those of Miss Kcmble, But lu-r con, brilliant as they were, had less flexibility. I • put forth i ly in her I am far from plcasin i this at rued to, tempt at a character—perhaps, because to rom a point totally different—that it is . otire impression produced by Mdlle • which ! Lind certain peculiarities and delicacies con tribute, which arc not described in the cut- i, Semiramide, Lucn alary of musical criticism. ' from the champagne point of cu- • rvour, it is limit sine I have been red, or had my fancy so Interested, Will any one understand me if 1 sa\, much by way of oumpai there seems to me in Mdlle I.ind's art a •n, that tou.h of the same northern depth of feeling • aa and elegenoe, as I lass. I am told that as a con- find i with all its dignity) in Thorwaldsen's • hera.l- sculpture, and (with all their Homeliness) in I riku Bremer'a novels, and (with all its |g Anderson's ' Impmvisa- tjeraore •vitli all their unpretending sim- •—her natural voice is pi in the Song! of l.ilidblad | ,u November 1845, till the end of above and b March 184*, she was at I'.crlin. On the id, in the Theatre Ander Wleii, she Ii fllH.ll her drbnt before perhaps the | •r a treasure In Europe, throw all their passages and her appearance was the signal for I can Nl. pro- I, for the first time in "'an nary, 10 LIFE AND GUN I US 1847. It had received a new name, being " Dcr Krevsehutz." In all of them her suc- re-christened Veilka. The Theatre (An d been aa triumphant as in the three Dcr Wien) was crowded to excess, and the first it had been in Berlin. In the last sho entrances and lobbies were filled with people was to appeal in the succeeding season, and unable to procure aeats. Jenny Lind acted by it to heighten, if that ware possible, tho and sung admirably; marching song and enthusiasm which her former success had flute song were exquisitely performed, and there excited. She accordingly returned to the curtain fell amidst a perfect storm of Berlin in the spring of the succeeding year. applause. The popular enthusiasm far her was no whit On the last night of Her appear.: abated. It had rather increased during her spectators, who Iiad mode almost Intermin absence. Tho box office of the theatre waa able calls for her to come before the curtain, he first, few days after her and besides, indulged in every form of ap return «ith inquiries as to her first appear- plause, accompanied her home; but no and when the habitues of the theatre sooner had she arrived there, than her pres learned that it would not take place for a fort ence at tho window was nor night, complaints were loudly mado of the could the cruwd be prevailed upon to B< \ dilatoriness and carelessness of the manage until she had shown herself tint: ment, who ought, as they said, to have been tive times, those in the a anally better prepared for her return. Neverthe repeating—" Jenny Lind, say you will less, when she at length appeared in the Der again." Freyschutz, all had changi d. So enraptur The King of Prussia, who had been a fre ed were they with her exquisite ringing iu quent and char: this opera, that oomplimanl after oompliment lind, and in il the title of aped upon the management, for having " Swedish lied theni 10 wait while they were pre- her, • it. Such, indeed, was the fickleness cess • wrote exhibited by the public, that it was proa a led 'a, in which who was the director he desired her ria, to appointed by the court to the theatre, with a of the M'I.II, for his care and assiduity in un most tile novelty—an opera, indeed, which King could, in any town in Germany, have been produced upon the stage in less than three in h tunable Such are the benefits produced by the monarch that the siiiu-r heard opposition of a slight bar to the excesses of prophecy of tl leoeas which wee to make her the n /una donna \\ . > that the reputation whioh of modern Kui hail been a. quire I .'end Ma.lem- n. Pariaand to London. Garoiahad, th.re- eiaal Kim:,' and I will tell the opportunity of rejoicing in the sue- you that your reputation will not be hashed to oeaa of his piq.il. nieenwhile, It was in Lon will enrapture the don that the auBoeaa of Jenny was destined to ie musical ! deep root. ' am was a b • her feelings at the moment. They Mr. Burnt, who waa, at this time, the ma- must have been pleasurable ones, and, no •f lli>- Di-ury 1.-me Theatre, had ' doubt, she has often i wonderful reports of the talents of the fair the royal prophecy has been fulfilled, and she d he thought that if he could al has attained the highest point of fam lure her to his theatre, be wodd I u,r' she was now again to quit me, or • aomewhal similar Stockholm, and return to ' from which ho performed during her sojourn, in h.r city, in four operas. Thes. of Mahbran. 11. sent t,. ,,I.I narnbula" and oil', r • n.l. It was an . beer's " Robert le Diable," and r\ I. Jenny l.in.l i.lt, OF JENNY LIND. 11 however, some difficulty iu acccptingit. Her other considerations, quite as weighty, that acquaintance with the English language was, would have made a commonly prudent per at the time, but a slight one, and sho was son apprehensive or fearful. There were the fully aware was anything rather than suffi chances that the opera itself would not be so cient to enable her to appear upon the stage, got upas to afford Jenny Kind, those aids which with any chance of such a success as had at the bet singer or actor requires, and which tended the advent on the Knglish seeno of ore as necessary to the effect of his or her Malibran. she, at length, however, deter pcrforman, -. , proper lights, shades, mined upon accepting Mr. Hunn's pro; and minor details, to that of a picture. Again If necessary, she was to appear in three cha- Mademoiselle Lind, when she undertook to learn the Knglish language in three " onths, The first and principal of these was, of to enable her to appear in the Knglish version course, to be " Robert la Diable." Mr. of Robert It Diable, was not aware of the Bunn, however, had previously only given in great difficulties of the task, although, for the his theatre the Knglish version of thai opera. purpose of anrmnnnting them, she persevered This is destitute of any recitative, lie was night and day. And as another reason why now to give it completely, and as it had origi she should feel a willingness to compromiso nally been written by the composer; and with Mr. liuun, was tho character of that Jenny Kind was to have three mouth- gentleman, in a financial point of view. In her to acquire the Knglish language with suf speaking of the lessee of a great National ficient peri able her to sing it. To Theatre, it is but natural to credit him as a this task she accordingly applied herself. man of means, but Mr. liuun, throughout 'Ihc terms agreed upon w his whole career, has never had that advan night, f,,r twenty performances, and th tage ; and failing in bis pecuniary obligations tract between the parties was signed and to .Mademoiselle Kind, it would have been in ["•op. rl,- attested at Berlin, in the pr vain for that lady to seek iv.li of the Karl of Westmoreland, Ambassador When all the circumstances are taken into iroin England, himself a musician and com deration, DO person, it is thought, can poser of no mean order. i!ut soon after, of- do otherwise than commend Mademoiselle "•rsot a Banjaaa I th. atr.-s poured Kind's conduct mi the occasion, In offering •nupon Madelines, de Kind, the terms the handsome mm of£8,000, to Mr. Bunn, higher than those of Mr. 1'.:. on tho proviso of his holding her free from 0a e8 * i ao great an anxiety was felt to at the agreement lately made between them.— 'he new prima dunni, that she was requested And we must designate the singer's conduot to name her own | amendable when we reeouect that be no doubt of '• the offer was made after she had received the Lind's original intention to execute her port opinion of the Attorney General and other of the contract with Mr. Rutin. The assi eminent counsel, to the effect, that the claim duity will, which she applied herself to the of Mr. llunn was nugatory, and after an offer **""> of the English language, which her had been made, on his part, to givo up the fort,K'filing nppcafanoe at Drury Line The Drury Lane engagement without the ex y're rendered B^eeaaary, was, in Itself, a suf- action of any compensation, provided she lu'"'-' : nor would would perform at Covant Garden, which "he Inn,. ,.Vrr BaaBjdM u> eoiioeal her engage- howev. r, sh. expressed her resolute deter •neiit .vith Mr. Huiin, but for his implied un- mination not to agree to. The pecuniary lose If we look dis- she then offered to submit to wua double tho '•,-0 affair, there waa Inducement she was to receive for her b to daunt the aia came , meiit with Mr. Kunn, if that gentleman had been in a position to avail himself of her agreement. I services ; and she had farther refused to ttl- •**. Hunu'. tardineee in prc|»ring for the ' low Mr. Kiunl.-y to bear any snare in tho sac ..id waa to rifice, which was made entirely by her own ma ke her first apperraneo, at his the ltre, luis and to remove the possibility of any im- .v been referred to; but there were !i the partof the public, that she LIFE AND GFNIUS had been actuated by personal or private mo- i the ofl'er, therefore nothing was left for Mad- tives. :lc Kind, than to proceed to London, The I Iter from the sin for the purpo-e of fulfilling an engagement this subject, will be found worthy ofperuaal:— with Mr. Kumlcy, of her Majesty's Theatre VlKVNA, 1 and to abide the issue of any suit the Drury SIB,—I had the honour of receiving your dght prefer against her in a r, 1846, in which Govt of 1 .aw. you pr< tend to ,i lina ges for II,. You are The matter was finally settled in March, peri 1847, by Mr. Bonn accepting b.r original >Ie my offer, This controversy gave birth Bpp. my ar- rival • to the following witty poetry i JE.N.VV MXDK.V. trai a hicli f It ; prob- On Lind, when Drury's sun was low, abl. And bootless was the wild beast show, 'iut 1 am de- Tin- leasee counted for a flow - > til bad Of rhino to tin- treasury. faith, however lit:. and 1 ou the Jenny Kind, whose waken'detgha thouaan or returning the pa- Saw Drury in a pi • to the persoii I shall ap- Refused for any sum per night, To sing at ih. V Willi rag.- and pain, in vain displayed, uper drew bui wooden blade. and I In fury, half an.1 half afraid 1-or ins pi dary. a law Bunn in a llainiiig frenzy flew, dr. Edward Jem And sp., ,|iU the goose quill drew, No all necesfarv and fur With winch he is accustomed to thcr instructions • Pea such a deal of p.. 1 r,: Ml. red Kunn. 1 le wrote the maiden, t,. remind al, Drury- :• n. llcr of a itract she had signed, Lind was To I iriu-y Laic's condition blind, ace .a her solicitor:— And threatened law accordingly, Sia,— I am instructed by Mad< Jen Implored the man to aet bar Q a leti • mains in fl r your in- Bring him that he should be spec- K. iiuiii. nil..I h. Two thousand pounds she otl'.-r'd so ,d has voluntaril. In would only let her tout assistance or Bunn, who would have her bond, said No; | urckaae pea W .ii ity. id I am And BC a let him hi And try ho* mii.li if. it Who I.:,,I prop 11, I ng stage, defend any « r to in- stituto againa And left him to And quest ,r sulioitor to send any is riv honor to be, bedient \\ 1 aervant. I -sq., Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. Mr. Kunn, however, would not a. At «ainng Drin 0l*rt F IL. OF JKNNY LIND. 13 And feebler still shall be the flow saii.ui came over the inhabitants of London. Of rhino to the treasury. Something had happened—what was it?— Was it in the air, or under the earth? The Opera triumph '. Lumley br Which class of the Kosionician spirits was at Thy bacon thou shall more than I work ? The salamanders—the sylphs—the Wave, London, all thy hero] naiads—the gnomes I Nobody knew. There And cheer with "all thy chivalry. was a eeriain epidemic sensation perfectly unaccountable. and still yon Star doth run ; "Most people know that a divining rod is a But for treasurer Dunn, sort of stick a hich is mysteriously alii et.-.l by And Mr. Hughes, and Poet Kunn, the pre en,.,• ot eertain subterranean things in And quadrui>cds and company its immediate vicinity, perhaps by springs, perhapaby mineral formations. Fewei For Sweden's Nightingale so sweet, the people who know that there are oertain Their fellowship had been 01 human individualities who may be culled liv- The sawdust underneath wfaoac feet . and who, when approach h been the drama's sepu'.chcre. ing the object for which they have a niystcri- ire attacked by some ati 0a h.r departure from Stockholm pain for which they • to account. attended by the moat extraordinary demon In this condition exactly were the whole of stration. It wa-M.il the Kh! r was the Londoners ,,u the day, and at the hour in rsons question. The banker in his counting ii fancied for the instant that the chink of the If into a light melody ; at In) the in. r.-hant saw the words of the bills that loud cheers and lively music. The r due arrange themselves into a musical - ted with various notes IV ihe .11 the harbour were ma stately scinil.r.-vc to the fluttering iipjm < and the"! 1,aW tura—the chillies of the I clock heard to give a fuller and more mu the vessel atoned in sound, and there was s. thing orchestral ill the rattle of the cabs and omnibuses. eight. 1 ler last porfermance in her nat •• i, uioii became more was in aid i - "fa char!' finite, and there was a kind of notion lhat it lion si,,, had founded ; and I -1'ad led from the direction of lilackwall. Was the a mission on this OOaaaion were put up t ethereal spirit, which floated down Fea- inmense prices. ohuri ! ('ornhill, and tli.n In 1 at Blaekwallnt four oYWk OB ladea of the Ex. day afternoon, the 17th / in the en < ..ration ; We know : now that the persona who by the Countess of Uinsdale atenmer from had hitherto Iii toned to in. l",i Hamburgh. She appeared : on commercial scores, ami been en- and h.r arrival In K- .us ehinn a, and harmon and omnibuses, were now eonaoioua, ol knowing why, that aomethil •omh aide at*the river Thames, to h.r ular a four- met was of opinioa that a marvel for bet of rarliameiit At a subsequent peri.-. : llor- of an arrival of an unusual quantity of white aelf i uOur readers who are aware that Jenny r next door neighbor a .i rived at I' the 17lh, at 'J 'nown authoress P. M., Will I to ace,.nut for 'edy aaaoonasshe wasma.1 • w'tn all these strange phenomena. -' At about hall ..'clock, on the th. , stranger, sent ber card, as a •ii.- il.iv, a still more poa Ir m mark of attention, and reo. " felt among the audi, nee of Jenny,between whom and Mrs. Hall a that Uj interoouree sprung up. Hut thia was r.l.i.-kw.iir at tho oast-end, -. repairing to the brill almost th. the privacy main lenny Lind i In the tain. 1 during h. I tudii me, under :: . ...ndonin 1- •id to '1 due Foeoari,' li the part of the old llowing article, copied from the New Monthly Maganine, describing the si' o ,.r •JTivsl in 1 be read with interest: Saturday the 17lk ult., estrange aon- th.- lyi ant 14 LIFE AND GENIUS his ' getting up' a veritable removal of a grim was amazed at her power as a mimic. The picture from the walls of the ducal palace, opinion of this great artits, of the voice of the and the grief and indignation which he ex Swedish prima donna, may be instructing presses, on being deprived of bis power, after toour readers. He says that each note is like a ao in pent in the service of an un p.arl, and, on another OOoasioD. he ai grateful republic, are marvellously true and claimed that hers was the 'atngingof heaven.' impressive. A v. ry pr.-tty opera, ' I due She pronounced Italian so well, that we hear Foseari," though not remarkable lor its origi she has even corrected the prompter bin nality. In connection with the very elegant compli •' But, as we have said, what was the un- ment of 1-nblache, as stated above, there is and what waa the 1111- current an anecdote that tends to exhibit , when it wius known Jenny Lind in a charming light. Due morn Lind was in ing, during the rehearsal at her Majesty's the house ? To that ama •haired, inno j Theatre, the songstress, recollecting what cent-! insciouj a first Kahlachc had said respecting her voice, re- ,1 him to hud h.r his hat. He readily aole question was, 'Where ml !' complied, though at a loss to guess the reason why tin- lady wanted it. Taking it from the The i is.lciiny Lindl' Signer, with a graceful courtesy, Mademoiselle sensations of the audience when they Lind went to another part of the stag.-, and had actually seen 1 were— putting her mouth to the broad brimmed stop. The prudent painter of the chiijieait, sung a favorite air, to the astonish sacrifice of lphigenia filling himself ii ment of all mar h.-r. When she had con quale t» eXpres- father, eo- cluded she went off to Kiblachc, and request 1 the face with drapery, i ing him to go down OB his knees, as she had terminate would not rentB a valuable present for him, she returned the i.be the sensations of the persons who hat, with the remark, thai she had made him •ad seen Jenny Lind.'' ively rich, according to his own show Another Knglish publication, The Illus bad lill.d the familiar trated London JVeira, of the same Ins head with " pearls." Tin re above, thus speaks of lie Kind:— wan * charming simplicity in hot manner at "IfMXat. Jaanrt KIND.—This celebrated this time, and In r action had been so alto artiste, in spite of all gether unexpected, that her fellow | i trary, has now arrived in this country. Per als w.-re delighted with her, while as for haps no artist has en I .ahlaelie, 0) lull Of BZtaoy BB he before her de • • the Collld have been had he been presented with ' her arrival giving addi- labia things In- had named. ing her 1! In . Lind f..r th. awaited by a ven by all lions.- in London, Mr. Lumley h.-uard- those art for its ..» II sake, ed aJl his hop-s for the season at least. It are n< whim and fashion of th Her debut il had op.ii.il very indifferently, the land, so imp. nt in tl from his operatic corps having LK-.II n artist waeua and serious during the I r ; and to the reach add to his anxieties, the new Italian Opera enough, bain id part oi Alice, in | tardea was nearly finished. The great " stars'' of Mr. Lutnlcy's estab e years of disoour- lishment, < irisi, Taiiiburni, Mario, and l'.-r- eh:!. sinni, were soon to appear al (Invent < iardcii. del: while (losta, whi i at the old Ital regards the abag akrs up for it as re- tan < ipera House had i the gards the a iharactt-r of Alice is ...I also iransl. IT. .1 his ser- lou.-b.n^ and beat lad calls f.rth those ut.tu.. vioea to flu- new nt, and t.«>k the 1 i«»- bust artistes of h!s troupe with him. her a. -t an :•• l.uni! a ,.f (jreut and art, wl ii 1c .ir,l. ...tisi-i.s in . \einplarv nerve, and did Dot softer In him. He ii..s is it, Those wl... ar.- aaa kneu It M f,,r lb,, interest- •-, and have them awav. .nil. . would have been depressed. It is true, that a new OF JENNY LIND. 15 singer hod been announced, and was to ap was terrific. Coats were torn, head dresses pear ; but she had also been announced some rendered shapeless. Several ladies were months Binee, by another manager, whom carried out fainting, and Dot more than she had foiled, at the very moment he was half of those who sought admittance gain counting, in imoginotion, his profits upon ed it. her. " May she not fail me ?" was a query The reader, thus token to the interior of that the leasee of her Majesty's Theatre the Open 1 louse, will not be displeased at might, very reasonably under the cireum- fancying himself inside its walls, which he stanoe have put to himself. And if she did may well do in reading the annexed graphic appear at the appointed time, was sho certain criticism from tho Illustrated tendon News of success t of May 5th, 1847. Lumley was certainly a good judge, but 'HUB MAJESTY'S THEATRE. when it is remembered how much the fame Burr Ai'fiiAii.vM-K or Mntxa. LIND IM ' ROBERTO IL DIAVOLO.'—It is barely possi and future of even the most highly gifted ble to do justice t0 the effect produced oil our- public professor de|H-n.l upon the pub' -. iii common with the oonoourae ofper- price, who can say that the best judge is .i-s,milled on Tuesday and Thursday 'ght in his ougury. nights nt this theatre. We have arrived at a new stage of our theatrical experience. A In the mean time, her Majesty's Theatre new |Hrccplion of musical art has burst upon .1, and Mademoiselle Lind arrived in us; it is as thoughW« now learned tin- the London. It was clear that she would now first time what singing really is, and have appear. The musical world was all astir, been, with all our fancied knowledge and taste, grouping, till now, in darkness: and and began to talk on the forthcoming ". I error. The ' trick of voice,' the well-pre Tin- cantatrict waa a Swede. Could she pared bursts, the at tc-tio ' etlects,' Much wo apeak Italian f What was her personal ap have hitherto applauded to the skies, are pearance ? Had she the black eyes and • red to b dy so many mistakes, and artists appear to have been laboring all their haughty face of Grisi ? Or was she pule, ;.i attain that which they were batter rsiani ? At hcrrchcar- without. We have learned thai the best way aals a few oonnoisieurs were admitted, and to tread the singe is to seem wholly devoid of they Were loud ill their eulogi UlllS. Till' lllll- theatrical art ; the best way to sing is to ap pear never to have learned. All conven •oal critic of the London Times (a journal tionalisms are overthrown, all traditions of that i rly retains in its rev: the operatic atage turned Into contempt—and, departments men highly qualified for lb by w I appearance of Mile. Jenny hors) aaid, that beyond comparison, Jenny I jnd at Her Majesty'* Theatre. An excite ment almost unparalleled in theatrical annals Lind was the first soprano of the day. An has prevail.-.! as to th.- appearance of the "pinion like this, promulgated by the ]• Swedish cantatrict•; the highest espeotat P"Per ..f Kurope, had universal currency.— were formed, while on the other hand, there was a fear—not an unnatural one—that sho At length tlu. eventful night came. Luiulcy could not equal her Immense n potation, and had expected a full house on the occasion, but BOOM Up t" the ideal of those vvilll whom tin demand for boxes was more than he bad had been, far so long a period, the topic of anticipated, as he discovered when sending i and the object of extraordinary 'nt". the office for the placea usually appropri interest. This fear was proved to be ground ated to the representatives of the I- less—lcnny Lind baa surpassed all expoi tion, because it had been Impossible to be pre 'ii paper*, he was told that all pared to. soincth | new—so in this dilemma, he gave up fa unlike all we have heard before. Kaeh one, •o the Times' critic, and made the " am it is true, formed his own Idea ol'thc vocalist; hlil.-lllecto era, by furnishing them ••.rile, or to some existing with nulls, a few of which were still availa prima donna : most people expected, indeed, ble. riority in degree, but -•-. unprepared for tl irity ill kind if had spread from the two d **»°a m.. be affected, and t perfect control 0 «* in the afternoon, crowds of purity, and deli- drc*a* at th of : •• ( in Thursday, " Roberto il I T but if Mdlle. l.illd's and ind that, not being aide to bcStoW ,s truly - mark:. The part • is admiral I.bid's powt'i in ibis afraid of h n of nd iin-e, not a line, en I,I, not with the I h.r ait, • of identif) ii • it was. surjMss. ot truth. Ill it will jump. nd spp nose and piety which the h wnh h. r OF JENNY LINO. 17 does she identify herself with her part, that | concluded ; which might he compared to a it is difficult to persiiad person looking upon the sea, the boundary of than the ... which is untrue. when witnessing her imper On Thursday night, Donizetti's op ra"La Figl a meuto," waa performed for she the purpoee of Introdo lie. Jenny Lmd in a new role, letely •ul. and • other triumph. Her Majesty, the< lonaort, I ide, ami the Grand DuJ tine, • nt.-,' honored the theatre with their pre- | which is another—gl > this " La Figlia del Reggiment irat of her im- opera Doiii/.ctti wrote for the French i 1/iea from the first moment ami was performed at the Opera Comique sh'- . 1 Well-sllS- luring the seasons of 1830 and lN-lo. k has I. The moat striking how- nbsequently performed in almost every .a the Continent. This was the first opportunity Jenny Lind with had of displaying h.r comic power., and the striking contrast she exhibited in th • two acta whii of thia charming opera, was indeed ,-is remark- and enchain of j Mdll nuance of Maria setting •olll- plishment. is truly a wonderful piece • •: •artiste Inii- ration for the lofty charaoter of All ithics in behalf of tho :ua, is not SO astonishing aa that, ing for an Instant the truth of the ' i'-ly enlist . har- • i,. ra Vt the ttler Hut, with Mdlle. Jenny Lind, whatever . I..-re united to the win ner • forms the lull know . irrica id it is the how thor- eier- . ,, h the ever v. nes. The look ol • I • hell I, nod r.en.-ii wi;' and throughout, for never does I ..in hardly .lev. lope, kind's imn ices' 19 LIFE AND GFNIUS She has two airs in the first ac', both pretty aame journal as the above is extracted from, by her. will repay perusal. It is taken from one of ia also a d her and the numbers for Juno. 1847. i ''which Those who wen- fortunate enough to be much intrin-io merit, present at llcr Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday 1 ra when ig will long remember the spl.-ndour of s. It that temple of lyrical art, which w. Bonseqnenee s our French neighbors aay) for two sol- ; and w i mnitts .'the Stat.- \ but ofhar Moat < Iran Majesty, and the triumphant -blllo. Jenny Laid in the clu-i Bellini,an Sni I.I Ij as half-past three o'clock, .il parties had assembled at the various r entrances of the theatre ; and the doors were A again with such aom : ,| half-an-hoiir earlier than usual.— BBaaaai Is of her Majesty's loyal subjects tht ber to in'.-.- per II Mall, who greet.,! tin- Queen in mute to the theatre, whi re h.r Majest] e.l a Ith a flourish of trumpets by the U.nd of tbeGuarda, and cheers by 11 bled st "Per i.s.rs. l'r, O'clock, the he pr-n 1;.,.!', th- Marchioness Queen entered the Royal box with bis Royal •ess Prince Albert, accompanied by then I nto the th.-ir suite : when instiuiianeoiisly the band ir i pa. i. up "( tod Save th.- Queen." which was of h.r sup- ling members of la troupe mel- \Ild lie IIS of her HHI - M.lme. I 'asl. bail singing t full sen . inclusion waa highly enthusiastic llerMaj- BBJ rfe fully iieknowl.,1 plaudits of her loyal subjects inside the h on j and the parformanee oiilnui.nced. te. who can " 1-or twelve y. popular ii :ry id most th.-re is a charming strain of melody that j true lover of IM' " The admirable perform s,]ay • Jenny Lind, as the I >mi.l Pi is aa, remarkable for h.-r superb vocal- •ar of ittfully iinpressiv, reading of tin- role of 'a In r intitc, she waa lb flic same marl probation as on other occasions, which were renewed on h.r incut of the clebral.-d ana ' ('.. w hen pure. BO full such th of time, that everybody present was \ aslonished and delighted I! 1 able for . not of th.- text, whi i duoed j Borne ehromnti.- fioritwri, m Inch w < intonation, and produced a most brill nut ef- ca.feii/.i waaaaisataffecti:. l\ given, m which Mile, l.in.l r.vel HI all the Can ably seconded by M.I Of Cambridge, and the i • • has Ano'.!.-r:i"Vc. ..f Md,:,. ...'.!,. Ijnd'sper- Yiirnwi, i at his Majesty^ Theatre' from the : a splendid burst OF JENNY LIND. 19 here and there, which constitutes the beauty and fault-finding, to every heart that is sus of haT performance; it is a fine intellectual ceptible of a spark of feeling. • ptioii of the character which is sustained We do not speak of the encores, tho calls throughout, not a look or gesture escaping before the curtain she obtained, for all these her, but which is in : and ;l,v bl iimonials to genius such as khia is not. are ar. oonvinoed, the effect of art, butofihat marvellous power of idem The over-charming opera, " La Sonnam- herself with the character she performs, bnlar was repeated onThurday night t te which none posBeaato . from of the must densely crowded bona bar first entrance, heir ..din dignity witnessed. Rldll. Jenny Lind continues her and incr of the priestess, maybe triumphant career In her favorite rule, Ami traced the workings of a heart ill at ease.— no, in which she displayed on Thursday Warn thing the beauty of her evening all those wonders In the veal art opening recitative, terminating with those that enrapture as well as astonish her hearers. long s, so inexpressibly touching, Every ovutioti that was possible waa resorted in w ! to for the audience to testify the delight they Diva' is sung by her with a touch of:sadness, had experienced: she was .idled for after Ihlcnding w.th the calm sweetness of the air. I"., and encored amidst a tumult of ap And let us remark, en passant, th plause, when floral crowns and a shower of notes she throws in while the chorus take up hou.jiiets were thrown at the feet of tho fo- the strain. in which the - I broken in Thc Jenny Lind mania, at this time, is so U|sm the voice of t! It is only graphically described by an American cor- •Mdl! , can proJucu such 00 n hut, we cannot resist giving it: ..d part of the ' t'asta t character LONDON, Friday, June85, 1847. from the first. The one, calm an Having the f.-ar of the American public in i' !. w here s! my eyes, I dared not think of return 1'ollione. to mnnl, is tlu outpouring of ing to the United States, is., called,) without eing that greatest of all lions the Swc- We must i- tho inter JENNY LINO, alias Jenny s, splendidly given a- Lion, alias.fanny Linnet, H/IVM Jenny Night- to that where she a) DUrder her I of attraction in Lon cbil.li don just now, about which all the fashion and appeared to aa nd uumitu- fortune and taste of the metropolis centre and ruth and probability.— tate, as by a universal and Irrepressible Even " Ethiopian Serenadera" and I look and • •• 1 longO Melodists," have to " clear i]r track" indications of a brain almo '.and ti f •• (lilt of da WIN, < il.l Dan it h'-r appears , while the " nipt, douin Arabs" leap out, of her way like so una one H | road- many frightened satyrs. In the full blaze of . taken, and her Game, which mantles the whole I. id has been w don, and indeed lights up all Eur j other luminaries, however bright, flicker 1 and fade away like rushlights in llie 1 sun. She towers up over the most formi dable rivals for popular applause —over the Ellslers, t1 the (Irahns, the Cerilas, the Tagiimi*. like .! ajidt,„, | | kilnlu Hutchinson's " H of L\nn,..vcr I •u the Ukal s The of potatoe hills. Her nam very tongue, and her fame in every trumpet. • " L.li.ve It or not, I have seen uusur- and I I LINK—stood upon my and rather than not have Bsen her, .-•• '• upon my Immortal her i.iee and heir hi I Weill ill aorua, I to w horn in n rash mom let no nnti bigamiat i rage before reading tin-tin. u u—pilot. We hurried to the doors of the . two hours before the time in.l found them abends and ay a crowd, in the midst of which we wi pa in a maelstrom. Wo soon 90 LIFE AND GI found < as if every i a im person ., ing Then came the tinkle of a • of a a full length and ind him- stray COW—then another not "1.-st, self, i • ab bread, upon and then—up went tb curtain as if have been a revealing a v. hole troupe of open- Bthed, Inxur ibracee to i a pru un,an thro appear to be unlim ned. All this was incrca.- waa tlie intr.slu. ted by the mad orchestra, which ha your ribs, and among got " Wl t" and " spliced" were now up ,tiling in the way of noise, iin.l -which broke forth upon the already wounded uir with an amount . it-gut clatter Within such If away t a while, as if it was agin and beautift Still, t ' ICXN1- I.INli. The from brain ind hurr .. th from ili.ir uplifted ' emble 'lik. . with ind the paaaagaa as led by th.- rapt thouunuila before her,and then with • Join and . an i s and char, ttutat ,,l so ahi but lie ,, thai to And this was lit prelude 10 i up- -,i. with tin Each ut of the of tho ..id: itthe rush with " one shoe am mud i '.r/ii .'.I Hi ;>e of them with the skir to. Iii parts of It, and I .ward the close, I • i. a.t nf ntoaatln,] [ll it was, a quiet mi whi.h : moat •su-ii. .1—of a good seat and we put up .rent a host e was her ioal fire and oolama of sound « • a hundred imp*' .on .in,! niaiin. r ; bar cut in f sound ilia ^>ent iu.ll. and l! tural rated ita last scrape, a: ;uld • bud Jo weau"onoeu*.r UUUi- I PURITANI. OF JENNY LIND. 21 iiUladd, and »ii*- Where tress M Donald is, is I he head of the table. Just Jenny Lind is, is the sublunar) . m uu- throne ef tl elf victorious over faltcring « i and exult all \ Von ing i a foot n> our should sec her. She is not one of your trembling di Charlea ll's beauties, whoae voluptuous nsli-oni the s! 11 dcptiis above, like a • •harms steal aw< Bote ft*. ihoir. and give tl>. e fever and ago t ourcharm- i Nui.i. GWYNNC, or a DuoiiKsa or - .iig>trv«s, mean CLIVILANO, or a Miaa STIWABT, to be hunt- but AUBV id in •.ugh town ' mu,. the I or j in the a in the land ; but bur beaaty la of that i heart of the • old J order, which inspires the rapl beholder with spirit wh< : her ill the ual delight. in as it, were a new i hu- baa iy; iii the soul oi by thought and serenity and implied)- holder; :, int.. perfect loveliness by her not h i. and enthusiasm. so full „: duly, Verdi's new fare " / Masnadieri" was played several timi its gi off with great eclat. Jen plen- with thunders of sppl i en- i the charming duettino in '•'.a nn iii .' Lind it ; I, honors.— and ad it to conduct, Im ...I III llstes ed several and houqatts innumerable w ress. OS if the . Lind .luring her i at the Opera iii London, of Amina in Inn's Soniiaiiibn' from a critical authority, will afford • iety that waa her •• All the ie I m, but on the < lontii t. \, . adora- [duet,' I i at H' r M II' , on IT'S I her LIFE AND GENIUS vocalisation is, that, in her cadences, she pre-I known that BeTuni visited Ixmdon in 1835 serves the chara. music she (ho died on the 23d of September in that is singing, for which the am- year) to witness Malibran's representation of so famous. These impromptus of I. Amino in his ' Sonnambala,'and, singularly taste are invariably executed and finish..! oft' enough, just one year afterwards, on ih,- very in a style that d. day, Mali bran died at Manoheati dilettante. This was most remarkable on Kith being precisely -,. It Thursday, when she poured forth her cx.jui- was in 1834 that Bellini com] l'uri- site embellishments with a charm and grace tani' for the Italian Opera in Paris, for the that won Btion of four greatest artistes • - m lie- iii one week, namely, Griai, Tuniburim, Ku- ginm: . and Kihlacbc. The Eii'ira of Mdlle. Lind is a very inte pheity, and resting delineation. It is an artistic concep mind. tion, carried out with that conscientious In the early part of tho lost scene, so and unflaggingzi riaingal] h.r per- powerfully was the interest of the aud formaiie. s. 'I'll.- polac.-a, " Sou v. riveted to th.- perixrmanee, tliat uukroken xoaa," was brilliantly sung and encored | and, sileii' I throughout the house, suc- in the opein. Kibliiehc, the inten eeeded by anch a hurricane of applause and sity of delight at the lover's approach was ad. ' as bullies all verbal d : Mdlle Lind was • it of vocal: in Ah mon era played by Mdlle. Kind, to ..ur minds, was in After the finale of th.- first act, where, in an under the fall of the curtain, Mdlle. Lind was . r.lrira pours forth her i, so for, and appear, r was il Artmn's supposed Bight with a ri 1 in any tl val. Then ' Qui la voce," in the to h.r truly , is very similar in the dm artistic and enchant \\ e siluation to that in the Lucia, and there! shall therefore conclude by saying it was per- afforded lm The lust • th.- faintiii ration to ri We annex some additional criticisms on on learning that Artnro bad only fulfilled his duty in saving the proscribed Queen, was Mademoiselle Lind's performances while in very ably depicted. Mdlle. 1-in.l was much Loud aahiad to vouch f.r their ac applauded for her exertions, and r.-c.n. curacy, a:. ,; by such i f.rv.iit ovation at the end of the opera. those persons who have never had the plea < In Tuesday i t'i " Nona di iitced at this theatre, with n sure of hearing her, can for what crowded to th.- ceiling i Md'Ue. Lind she is, as a vocalist. The performances cri filling the role of Susanna ; Madame Castel ticised below took place in tho August of lan, the Countess , BignOT Coletti, tha Count; 1847. ll.rr Stand, i Lablache, HER MAJESTY'S THEATKK. Doctor Uurtoto. Md'Ue. Lind sang Susanna tani" was r. rived on with classical purity, and toted in h.r ino-t Saturday "*^HaBBBBBBBBmBal iting manner. Theduet of" Bull'arla" I in a new part, that and the ana " l'.-b vierd," were both raptar- all the compositions of • ,1 : and an iiiiac. piuiied BMT- one, always excepting the ' ceau, by Jenny Lind, Stand.gl, Lablache,and baa enjoyed a _ Madame Grimaldl, In the second act, was "i'untani Adeem , amidst a furore of appl writt was tolktundM^^^^^^^ Satiirdiiy after-season at wards, by indo,"' played at •! with Mdlle Lind's match . isafna, in ' I JI Sonnain- secured him h.s eugasjement at La 8c. The house was orowded to aaBaVasj- Milan, in lSgT, where he produced bis Ived with, if pea rata" for Rnbini. Th rodooed hi- i.tanie the riiiitati tee was . and Marie Lalande and Tambor 'i as if to defer for a name hailing aaarauii renowned in Italy, be Bg, At lb. • wrote the "CaptuVtti ••^•1 . save the (,.. and tWeame his n, .h-audience ra^aUBaUBBBaunB^B^BUa^B^B^B^B^Baaa^^^^^^Bp, It wn L.u.Ion pu v« following in the wal ..f this dat.-, in aubatanl rata, Jenny land's celebrity, that si.. bis ' Norma,' in whi I'ecies of article that the in Italy. It is not get* ilttte, and waa known in aH OF JENNY LIND. 23 classes of society, from tho highest to the i, he was seen applauding, and then, lowest. No artiste had ever enjoyed more as jf ashamed of himself, he again relapsed into his usual stoicism of demeanor. It signal tokens of royal favor; and her i was in the second act that he was moved en lent private character, the .[Utilities of her tirely out of his usual self-possession. heart and her mind. ;. t wonderful uHer sublime duet with Bertram moved H in her vocation, rendered her not un him Into passionate applause; and when, with her last notes ringing in his ears, she casts worthy of such Queen Victoria herself at the foot of the cross, be could con scarcely missed a pal til lliaillili of Mademoi tain himself no more, but throwing himself selle Lind'- ,vn and gave an evident back in his box, he turned to his wife, who token of her apj of this artiste, by had accompanied him, ami said, " She—is— an—angel." lie was charmed and electri commanding Norma to be played on the night fied. The enthusiasm clung to him all that she visited the theatre in suite. night. The following aneed I with •• Next morning he drove out without cer the Queen and uisheJ singer we emony to Jenny's hermitage at Wimbledon, and sent up his card—entire stranger as he quote from the New Monthly Magazine. In all but that which makes genius with bich Mdlle. on.- kill. Jenny looked at, it and read Jenny Lind, in Llboni, tin- ii.-mit—\Y. C. Maori I the "Orders were Immediately given for his it w.c remarked that the admittance, and in a brief space of time the knew each other as well as if they had the friends of years. told • Mdlle l.in.l was accoiie her how highly lie had been the night before itcd with her singing and acting—of on t! Other remarked • In- laid till tress BOOB ill'- that i probably from the two .! i ;, it being precisely in that part olllisl tO of the performance of which the meanest was in- tiddler in an orchestra would be the better .. 11.r judge. This mattered little. He had been ,1 from his equanimity by it, mid fortu • Jenny nately tie- ,-riti- l.in.l, and He then added that he himself waa liberty t" allowed to bo something of an ac- win. herself. Jenny i ; ,; it w Id gratify him exceedingly Lin.l profit HI, and witness his representation of one u oha- I the s. Jenny complied with tho wish, and Whole colli commanded ' King Lear.' An..;! i-ly the ••(hi the night appointed. Maoready had one of the best boxes ill the l'l ill,-ess, |> The atre, at which he was then engaged, set apart for the operatic ayren. Shi hted uaeaaang h.-r perform- with his performance, and applauded fre quently and appropriately. It got wind, how . Lumley, n ever, that ah .. house, and from that ley had in. rtorm- • it John Hull paid no more attention to ancc, aa ithese were already taken He Maoready. " The star" of the evening was at the great trag' * the one by the brighter star that hud enter Ji uny ed his hemisphere, Two or three tunes, in- lllek i John Lull tried to get up litre, in Robert U Dmble.— the exquisil iss.— Macrea.lv was there, and, unfashionable decorum and good sens,., nevertheless, in lus hab.;s, as are all great in Ii .1, and the intended honor waa allow re previou ed to puss. The cv.-iii:, :,, ,i • and, with their usual p the tnn< the theatre to give her th,- eh they had hithert • Iministering. Maoready ba I in the MIIC coin,, round to receive her oompli- re.l him with all tho rankneaa which at ter- of the Swedish nightingale, an i • ithusiastie adinir. I p by - bleb. rich and melii as faded uj • dy had taken tile precaution of order- 24 LIFE AND GFN1US waiting. Aft.r ing !.• I earrnge m i London, Ma l.in.l took a tour of the i hour in Oxford English provinces, and . Dublin.— borne, .'. SO 1 llter- Wh.rcv.r her name was announced ll was t! a- her main, c.l as there had been in London. At Man- of h. - ng and c i, the " Swedish S ived bly with thai which .-• ' it to £1000 for three m, bta performanoe] and in our readers. V. A Maud ooln. r.nisibly we B in the ter paper, speaking of the Jenny Lind mat locality bi. < toe , id the transient excitement I was tak- created by the visit of the Grand Duke ( .Hi stamine of I. ing la at present heard her walk soiitc- of in Man.! the approaching ap- wha •! the : the famous Jenny Lind.— ,.,l and business like, as BeraD) counted, they, ,., ar to havi their ill h.r trooM< • ,.u.l interest, ipathy, to have worked themselves into th. nage. a perfect jurors of excitement and delightful about i which, in these " do really alarming. Truly may it be sai.l of them, that they arc in a Saturday m .1 or of the theatre was in.led by II [wo or tbi-.-c hundred gentlemen, all v. take tickets and |. ||„. 'ling eantatries, who baa already turn- 1 th. i,all the population of the "lis. When the doors were opened, and , the rush was terrific, and the untiring effort! from h rin. re had. I the -..si as the crowd were p.-rinii; ! ;,. .•» t. r, tl, It the hands the ei II h ami overpowering heat men ll.sh. the polioeraen in atten was nte-xj, ei.-d pleasure, I ! here before, III fnvor at a ly knew what she w of air, '. ho could v had kisasd th mob did And i loin, t.. lin-ir arbjoh in tin them. And nil led up to . without lie that hour. only «.» • n tor an In.. loyal, OF JBNNT LIND. 25 four nights, instead of two, as bed to have been at Manchester. noui 1. Tie Aft.r singing at Plymouth on the 11th, aha returned to London, and on the succeeding the her departure for Berlin by —Sonnambula, on Satarday .-:•:! \> the Hamburgh steamer. Li Fialia del Reggimento, on Relative t" her re-appearance in the Prus- the two latter ni -it was ipital, the Universal Gazette of Berlin, amber, 1847, says—"Jenny •iter an almost biennial i by filler. absence, crowded, as it may he supposed, In the IS 17) a .very part of the Opera House, on Tuesday, sup , to Modem- the 12th. Returned from England, covered Mr. Lumley, aa a " ti•'. with renown, the favorite offered her perfor r her noble qualities and . mances, as Marie In Donizetti'a pretty, bat whii Hiinsy opera, La i'igiio del Reggimento. fan Uer reception WBB enthusiastic j and Jenny iwarded for her exertions by unanimous waa of pm. in height.— before tic eur- The • lorniv and uproarious cha ed v -. at the f • h were racter, and by the profuse show, ring ot'oro- bouquett." After lauding Jenny Lind's idealization of It VI araoter of Marie, ami declaring the ex tin treme difficulty of deciding whether her dro Sgures I . ll deserved the success of led. the evening, the oriti< iy— "Such spiritual and physical power, are u their profaaad o extraor ' ' . " has dinary a flexibility of the organ, which has but it gain.,! ally in the upper regis :h, as ter, 01 lost the hiiskincss one the Italians say,) the mezzo I,—in short, such viitiiiisita and perfec- rcally wonderful, and ren She will der iii ! by th.- appear- try with feelings of more than I woman easy of explana tion." has sunk .:• heart; the The folio-. relative to .Mademois ded in elle Lind in li.-r native laud, which appeared in the Illustrated London News of a date ii any , lent to that to which we have thus far ; that hi our memoir, portray her i u ill which she was held: quite as ty of lolni i if ii , as she has in • i tie- '.'.I instant, she par- tly and gra;. 3tookholm, and !,, ,.n the l • -moon, at about four, the Adol- ! tour. • Opel was .1. At all she ap|M Dterfered, .; 'j lie tie, but a and . aa great as it lias par- LIFE AM) GENIUS sons made an irruption from Ii it was in the middle of the night, . be queue, b the population had assembled to bid her actu adieu, and drew h.r carri.; I the : their ag- of the city. Wll.U she h-fl Stockholm, ind in a few init. six weeks since, the quays wi I by fisl Bl per .i.iitn men ; all lie sons \ the harbor were manned, and amidst the | of the hands of music she waa eoll- Adolphus- iner iii whichaheembarked in the | the Queen of Sweden and nuni nut." to approa. Little can bo said of the professional career what of Mu.lemosicll" Lind,from November, IS IT thos-- ember, ISIS, except that licr popular sold • ity was thoroughly sustained. In the spring of the lu-t named y.-ar, she returned to l-'.ng- most cinhus .is- known 'ova :•. -appearing at Her Majesty's Theatre •liege ill,' in London, on the loth of May. Thcfollow- pgeons in tho house. Mu is a brief notice of the events ; this . '• Mademoiselle Jenny Lind's perform) of Annua, in the Snnniimbula, w.i with tl iiroiisdeinoiistrationsof ap- atatii. untrv The universally iv. a soi. « of h.r delineations at nat- istcnoe as an art d on urahi. mil entire it-, c- onvcntioiialisni. llcr d.liv- p"•'." >••'.-• ; ' Beof th sexes, born with the slow movement In the lastaoeDeia one of the most poetical readings of that dra grate matic situation ev.r heard ; and ln-r delivery art, tl . ie with youthful buoyancy th of effect Her throughout the operaia all instinct with in- •nelit is mod and unaffected ; and her voice, in the Upper has wondrous power to charm ; a her ornaments and embroideries are in tho on, such • hi Thursday the 87th, sin- app. .ii-.-d in pillar part of Lucia. Some disturb had b 1 in the house, but it waa ny's entrance, which waa by three hearty rounds of applause. ed London critic thus notices her. he gave th.- recitative ' Aneor non .. lined - ful. -.idy ; i could be more delicious than her ,.,, in il 1 ,ii', 1 . . „ fi, r-. !f a!.v. endow* d w th c.-.l ill III. nt of Lind, in f of Ie traction of the o|K-rii lid's fiico— I ill lie up- whose truly admirable pa mark • greatest : been fully .- im. June sic ,1 as ' brilliant! left Berlin and Vienna, al- OF JENNY LIND. 27 days, and the repetition of the opera had been tho following cxtraot from tho Illustrated put off in couseipi. London Times : From first to lost she was received with ' Such thrilling effect, so breathless a sen sation does the vision, as dramatically depict continued ,s. There are few lyric ed by Jenny Liu.l,produce upon the audience; ports better adapted to Mademoiselle Lind's , ntial docs it appear, even in a musical us than this heroine of Sir Walter s point of view, to vary the impression on the ear,and complete the intention of the com prolific muse. Lucia is full of those gentle, poser, that its omission for a single night womanly characteristics tha' other would now excite the deepest indignation on of th an— the part of tho audience. Mdlle Lind has demonstrated that, in this part, even on tho tions ; and the Italian librettist has pn Italian librettist has been reflected some of ed them, in Lucia, in all their perfection. In the deep original inspiration of tin- Wizard of tho opening, something like the presentiment the North; whilst Donizetti, a man of un of a horrih atod ; and Jenny questionable genius,in nuisie likewise hlmselfa wizard, has evoked every resource he pos- Lind be imbued with the f 1 in himself as well asiu his art, duly to of Lucia, on her first entrance : a gentle me interpret the e.x.juisite beauty of the original lancholy pervades her, and she seems to option. shrink from the pRxpoaWoa ••>' Edgar, to ad This has been rendered amply evident by dress her brother for his consent to their uni M'llc Lind's performance—by union of the histrionic with the musical clement., as a real on, with an instinctive horror. Her- lyrical actress in her interpretation of Lucia. ing of the wild passions of Edgar against Her vocal execution, with exquisite shades of her race waa administered with consummate intonation and modulation, full of brilliant and delicacy. In Lucia she is the heroine, and original passages of embellishment, is still held in su! 10 the dramatic portraiture. II.T portraiture is commenced, continued, and In the first scene she appears full of joy and concluded with the li,. of art. Be expectation at the meeting of her lover; but fore ' : in tin- part you already trace that, melancholy presenti ment which overshadows the brightest hour of Lucia, many other admirable singers had of those predestined to misfortune. This is n performed it, and ex. condition essential in a poetical, and particu But whilst they had availed themselves of larly in a dramatic point of view. Then fol the allotted situations and music as ihe , ia- with her brother—h.-r strug gle between incredulity and conviction when -tract. the fot ..f li.r lover is shown to her, and that a which, having read, she demands again. The fiddle player u. . t and i of hope, the agony of parting with its ample histrionic resources of the part had last vestige, arc portrayed with hcart-scaroh- ing truth. More forcibly still is depicted tho to remain quite latent.— effect of her lover's malediction in the bridal So thorn i the pre- , and there by her sudden wil.lness of s prima donne, who had in expression she foreshadows her ultimate mad- Luna, that the part was merely a vchi- iid tin- crushing of mind and heart which produce her death in the last act—tho for vocal so much did climax of her performance. There the fliok- tiny fear to encounter the dramatic llioughts, the successive impressions of difficulties by which it was beset, that whole hallucination arc all rendered in turn with the [•ogee of the must express . and •tattling and impressive affect As she falls, the spectators arc left thrilling in breath inspiration, had been less silence—a marked pause is required by suppressed. In the final scene—that of them to recover from the impression, and then a's madness—the whole vision of her iiipplause, and of enthusiasm unprcecdcic imaginary bridal, lb cription of nnc journal thus notices Madcmoi- ..tenia! llir.K-s. of her flitting thoughts l.ind's appearance as Adina, in Doni and hallucinations, had been omitted. The zetti's L'Elisird'Amore :— aajaj was always reduced to the andante and "On Thursday, for the extra night, Doni- eabaletta ; and generally, the music, instead . popular comic open, 'L'Elisir d' of being sung in the original, waa transposed Amoro,' was performed for the first time this to a lower key. Mademoiselle IJnd has re i, with the attraction of Mdlle. Lind's stored this scena to the original key of F. ii this country in this coun try as Adina. The house was crowded to uinot better conclude t excess in every part, and the opera went, oft Jenny Lind's performance of Lucia, than by I with great eclat, there being no less tlianfour 28 LIFE AND GFMl'.S encores in the second act. The part of Adina \ • • t in the in s no display -.,- Mr. l.uiiiley, who has placed the . 1.1 and all itsappliun- . itrol. •• I which too!. the 31st day of duly, wan cntii t all .1 ; bm Miaa Lind having per i • produced a sum far beyond ti ions tile .. .1 with ; i sir patients in the the Art Jour intended for two hundred nal:— I I.. • I our -in Hall at i.-. When Collie fthe M'tr..,. rt-rooin wa I >w- |..-r- .ui.l I in lb. I. Boh : and ii here I to • line alter h.r the Iii- I ward litem now lihcr l by , now . Inch be when h< . added • living ' In tie • I by lie of I.md, profosuoaal care hooorabl. -p. ak of b. , a of m.i,,! and di i her duuest « area apart nan more mu.].. . - . to Mis most -.;..•-.- who must . of .V i I LA. IOR OF JENNY LIND. 29 all the many clioritica of England. It is not On the 21th of August llcr Majesty's affair, that Theatre closed for the season; Jenny Lind ml. and examining appearing once more an Amina. On the fol the whole of ita arrangements with care aha was called upon lowing Saturday morning she sung in a con- don 'f h.r own, who iven in the saloon of the theatre, for the had e.tion : benefit of the chorus singers, assisted by Thiilf T artistes. red. The operatic and concert tour undertaken An..!' . though in a more by Mdlle. Lind, in conjunction with M. Roger, of the Loyal Italian Opera, Belletti, private manner, waa made known by the re r I'. Lablache, and Mr. Balfe, began al cipe lari. Birmingham on Monday, Sept. 3. On the This lady, in a violent effort at some enn- Tth they performed at Liverpool; on the 9th Bra), and was ordered and I lth at Manchester; on the 14 th at Hull; the South of on the 18th at York; and at Newcastle on mil Cork, Kdin- IIO 1 d, she ;i, Cheltenham, Leamington. Clifton, Bath, Bristol, K hen in the Plymouth, er towns w . , i|„. ture, the carriage of • I by this delightful canta- trice. •• V.'ii told me In September Mademoiselle Jenny Lind appeared at Brighton in the Sonnambula and You will ' rli" del Reggimento, assisted by M. - of a bund: >rs 1''. Lablache and Belletti. In ,,• but staring place she was, as in followed by thorn •sidence, as if to d Glasgow in the early part of 1-, and though the "gude" people of noted for their dee,! d by her more cnthii public i"-r tilt ill of Jenny Lind were well attended, and she warmly applaud ed. The prices of admission were twenty-fivo ' hihlin : by the warm- 1 Inhabitants of which beautiful city, it It ma. ''"' f"'" ID! natural for her a kindly .!ani. Bnt any anticipation form.-d onthe subject was more than realized. When it was known was sitting 'in her aa that th icigncr teas to visit ., « ho the I [ waa hi ,. r name and the ... ire to hear h.r. Even the trials, with their probable re •IT my lit of for a time. Wh l.in.l was in Dublin, its for the benefit of the l.in.l I' poor, each of which realized £1600. The After u.Ion, Lord Lieutenant, paid bar much attention, and invited her to his table at We make an extract from the Eirrmnn's Journ , r the loth a of her n created in Dublin by Madamol- .nee s lie Lie " Yesterday morning the box office of the 30 LIFE AND GENIUS Theatre Royal waa opened, for the purpose of conductor. A concert was also given at the giving the public an opportunity of seh Victoria Rooms, Southampton, the tickets place's in the house, in order to hear the being a guinea and a half, each ; and she dish Nightingale' There was downright sang ot tho Town-Hall in Brighton, and gave pogit ut manifested—nearly as a second and last coiic-rt at Bristol, Shortly much as t!. charmer*' h afterwards, Made isclle Lind sang at two We have not beheld the like for a is at Manchester, in aid of the funds of irly as ten o'clock, carriages, the Loyal Infirmary; all tickets having been gigs. sold some days previously. In consideration tions toward the Talbot Arcade, and not only of her liberal services on that occasion, the Hawkins street, but the square in frontef the people of Manchester presented her with a theatre, soon became crowded. The Arcade superb dressing c ntly fitted with itself was thronged with human beings, young silver requisites. On the plate of silver was ladies—aye, and old ladies too—were promi engraved the following inscription, " To Ma nent in the crowd. They did not complain demoiselle Lind, through whose gratuitous in the least of the pushing and crushing they exertions, the munificent sum of 85] •_' pounds received. The fact is, the scene could not be , ali/.e.l, towards tin- erection of an ad likened to any thing we know of. Man ditional wing to the Manchester Infirmary, out of the box office, with smiling faces and this Dressing Case, with the accompanying torn coats (black frock and dress, i not think necklace of pearls, is presented by the pso ing of the garments at all but too ra token of gratitude for her with complacency at their tickets . and with their best wishes envied by their leas fortunate n for her welfare and happiness. bore, who could not get in to pay their In December, the venerable city of Nor several thirty bindings for as many box seats. wich was favored by Jenny Lind's Altogether it was laughable to sec the i While there she appeared at ihre ., neas with which the crowd pressed forward, and was received with tin- utmost enthusiasm, to secure places. Some policemen wei i in her passage to and from Si. Audi sent ler (?), and the parties who Hall, in which the concerts were hold, and and thirty shillings to the boxes, and five when she visited several of the charitable in- stitutionsol iiow- shillings to the gallery. ed by crowds of persons, who sheered her Dun: the "Swedish Nightin- heartily. I ts, had to retire nesdayand Thursday evenings, and Saturday thro door, and let his next i morning. The musical arrangements were bor take up his position before our old friend under the direction of Mr. C. I'". Ball, lata one Mr. Barry, the box-kw [s.r. The theatre has of the leaders of the Drury I-me band. Mr. been measured from pit to gallery, and eig Balfo was the conductor, and Madame and tickets allowed for each seat. The sea: r !•'. Lablache, and Signer Gardoni, all been numbercu, and th • in addition to Mdlle l.in.l. tickets received corresponding numbers, so About ' "'I'd the three that no inconvenience, annoyance, or certs; tin- i anted to abo ..ut of which Messrs. (!. K. Hall and (i. will be shown to the aeat correspond Smith, the gentlemen who got op the the number. The aide paaaagia and t • r h.r brilliant have been supplied with seats, and t! nunc, Monday at Bristol, and mi who have paid to bear the git umphs. Sh whose vi- Dublin, that w.ie to |, ,! the early part While at Noi . at wl I in tl..- I'ip Labhehe, and BeUeiii, rang quentiy a- I lleboa OF JBNNY LIND. 31 and his family in their rides and drives, and The following criticism on the performance on the occasion of divine service in the Ca at Exeter Hull, London, in connection with thedral. Some persons, insensible to the di- the Mendelssohn Scholarships, will bo found viue influences of music, and who, ill the -ting. narrowness of their conceptions, allied the vocal and instrumen tal talent at the performance of Mendelssohn's functions of a public singer with something • Elijah,' at Exeter Hall, was greater than at pr.,! it horror at this. Others any previous interpretation of that sublime •laud the prelate oratorio. The hall was brilliantly and fash on the propriety of I ionably attended ; including the preaen a of the I >uke and Duohess of Cambridge, l'rin- ill him a priest—no more; in the Swedish oess Mary of Cambridge, the Prince and songstress, a priestess—no leas. The landau- Princess of Hohentohe, the Hanoverian and ,ius hkc hers are truly religi" Prussian Ministers, ihe Archbishop oft terbory, the Bishops of London and Nor • Is who had heard her wich, .. " Ihe hand 1 iprise.l upwards of one hun her departure from Norwich, dred first-rate players, with Sainton and Tol- i upon by a beoque as principal violins. The chorus. of two hundred members of the Snored con, ottoman, who begged h.r ae- Harmonic Society ; two hundred professional iiuiful shawl, imd some other choristers, including the boys from the Chape] art. ,!ch manufacture. She gra- Royal, St. Paul's, Aie, one hundred and fifty oiously received tho preoenta, and afterwards from lliillah's Singing Claasea, and thirty pupils fi-oin the Royal Academy of Music— ; three songs. In the aggregate, there were not far short of seven hundred executanta: Benedict, aa the intimate friend of .Mendelssohn, being tho the I ile in corn- conductor. men or, in At the head of the lending vocalists was behalf of the Mdlle Lind, who, with that alacrity she al- her ih.-mks for her gl •ii.1 in a benevolent purpose, and a beautifully illustrated and el. had offered hergratuitou .Miss A. bou us Paradise Lost, with Williams, Miss M. Williams, Mrs. Noble, ! nival,i Mr. Lockcy, Mr. .1. A. whicl lo, Mr, Benson, and Mr. Maohln were ham, in aid of ti tal, the re- the oth. r prinoipal aingi -. which in., The absorbing attraction was Mdlle Jenny Lind's first appearance to sing ill a sacred aggregate of more than £13,000 contributed work, and in the English I ! [< r ae.-.-nt is excellent, and nothing could be more 1 in two months, lie distinct than her enunciation, she Bang nine of the Hospital pr.-*, tiled h. r with 0 cabinet times, beginning, in the first part, with the double quartet ' For he shall give his angels,' of the choicest workmanship, ihe ground next In the recitative ami dint ' Give me thy being rich maroon inlaid with silver, with and thirdly in the quartet ' Cast thy i compartments, burden.' In the second part, she opened withtheair In It minor 'Hear ye, Israel ;' I in with gold and | itains rio ' Lift thine ey.s ;' next, in the ak, j.-wel ease, folio live 'Night folleth;' again in the quar .mpnrtments elegantly tet'Holy, holv j' end, finally, in then,mi ill a , .! hath sent ;" and in the quartet 'Oh I come every one.' iiificent rosewood case lined with n rctlects the greatest credit on the rt tunc previously, she had sung at I judgment i I of Mdlle. Und BBftaht, by which that ah' '•• departed from as Alelldi • did Mdlle I. nl interpret th- ailJjl— to the sir g her i cadence I tor nd gnve at npranu part b< r to the in the el the quartet icai.icd. uff on the I 32 with astonishing steadiness,and hi 1.1 on them upon the heart of the audici.. rapt th a suataii. • that I. like a v "iir bestow.-d on the trio, ' Lift thine eyes.' applause. Hut, it' 1 mistake not 'lis time iwa full w.i; that the • llo- by I Lo- |9, .1 \, <; In : ' Aeh, Ifh Fuhl. • It was translated in Knglish, how all ot' all for, , . the Would I .1 n- which ' A!. Tin' oaten ' 1 s .,f th. waa present at such all pow- it.— only • in us thrill, but il was the wll • h.-r tr h.r form. H.r dink blue eye, hit a mo il a ink- had .i woman " an absolute and infinite ight- " It was several moments after ful, a:. :i. Now and tin heard, and tl strains, tin. but i • * flrhfci appear! HI barea, j.r.-*p.l ; marr. OF JENNY LIND. 33 like Fanny Kenible, get united by th The trading and seafaring community of the of a legal wedding, but it will not be the w, .1- one, and to. solemn University dignitaries of loek of the heart, but the merest and most •her. A-cre alike susceptible to tho heartless form. If she marries an Lnglish Prince, Peer, or Priest, it will be. .htingitlo's" sweetness ; as were the ac marriage in this country ; but if complished and distinguished personages who •ant—though his nan. formed the roya\circle at the English Queen's ter, and hia ..f—it will I" ed a bod marriage. Kiiinor says she is to mar The lovers of mnsic, native and foreign, ry in, If so, " the Lord have who happened to be in London at this time, ul'." But I digress. will not soon forget tho concert given by the The hwt song which we had from Jenny Sweedlsh ranfa/xi'ceat Exeter Hall. It wan • •• -rt under notice, was a new- indeed a splendid display of artistic genius, one, and 1 led while the spectacle of rank, fashion and Till: I.ONLI.Y ft l beauty ii called forth, was such aa Is not often witnessed. Subjoined are the details : KVk, "Tho Concert given by Mdlle. Lind at Exeter Hall, was fully and fashionably at- .1. llcr Majesty and Prince Albert honored the performance with their presence, Rata and were most loyally received, the "Na tional Anthem " being performed, Mdlle. Lind singing the first verse simply and ener- lly. In the reserved seats, the liukeof uvea behind .111..! he.'ill. Wellington, accompanied by the Marchioness ..f Homo and Miss Burden Coutta, waa re This t - lintive song, was sung ed and much cheered. Benedict was with great power, and moved the In inductor, and had collected a very su ! by a perb orchestra of about Ll1' perfor t-s, with storm. It rat violin, l.indlcy as first violin- "11 which passed over Jellllv i iid Ib.weti as first double bass: there face as sh, words ; whan sic • !-,. RoUBBelot, Lucas, Phillips, llaus- of inann, Blagrove, Hill, Hughes, Nad.-uid, Tol- : rhc^k ke, liauni.imi, Pros- I ioili. Harper, Williams, Jarrett, Piatt, her 1 with and oti bed instrumentalists. a ruddy glow as "The choral strength waa judiciously se- nt had from the professional bodies, and tho London Sacr.-d Harmonic Society.*! Alto if forever gether, there was an affective ensemble ,- and the " storm dark o'er the VU the execution of the Coronation Auih.-m of OcllH-llill.l, Handel, " ZadoO, the Priest,'' at once proved it a Uuhiwl 1" thai tli.-re was quality as well as quantity.— I have liiuch more I should like to add This p iltowed by Handera bravura about Jenny lend, be song, from "Samson," " Let the bright sera sh,- it making near to th phim," cleverly sung by Mdlle. Lind, with lish people by her acta which the trumpet accompaniment superbly played are iiiunbcr and ex- Harper, jr. But it a I for Haydn's " Creation," to develop the great happy xtdlle. Lind In thi 1, ousand* is falling upon - iii the " Elijah" of Mendelsshon, shu lur hke ihe morning dew, wh i impression on her auditory.— aotouaness of a pure hie enables her to bear She sustained the whole of the music allotted with otherwise impossible, all the to the soprano in the "Creation;" and she ..nil. did this with untiring force, for ul ihe conelu- let of March and first of April, • with much more effect than at the I mencement llcr first solo waa marvellous wish." The air is ndmira- nh and Buckingham ipted for her exquisite upper notes, and Palace. Perhaps these occurrences oended to the 0 In alt, and sustained worthy of note, more out of i utifitlly In tunc, llcr next display was In the air " With verdure clad," which she versity of the an a whom sin of M.lllie. 1 lulckcii appeared, than to anything else. But the and Bath. It is not so conveniently noted i inger'a triumphs were equal in each place. for her register as the other portions of tho 34 LIFE AND GENIUS oratorio; but she sang it with a delicate ap- \ociition, and in the facility with which ; the composer's intent ahe reaches the 1 he second part she hod the air ' On but In imperturbable steadiness of time, and i . ' and a magnificent reading she in the precision with which every response and point of imitation is taken. Intheaaoond tlie holding note on port of the concert, l.-iiny Lin.1 sang with hie of the word 'cooing;' lio- Lablache, the well known sffo duett," Corn • ou.d be more captivt ting than this new In which a pupil goes through, to her master, a variety of exert we have never heard it sung with such hi r illustrated the ty and grace as by Jenny Lind; and sh, resounds the nightiiu it, too, with delightful naivete .'ind arch- under "t the so ocluded by singing a new prano part is in t1 ! pieces. I: Knglish ballad, composed for her by B a in the concluding part,' By 'The Lonely Rose,'a pretty trill.-, to Hal i ,' and whi.-li ' .at iut.r. st by her all tl...'. tod •owned her sue. and • ;.. rforiiianec, mid especially t\' : rtiona by an extraordinary by h.-r beautiful delivery of the words. It is ahnati unnecessary to say that her pcrfor- duo. 1 she impart. .1 a warmth and man. veil with enthusiasm which .Tie s : .-use plan,! went on crescendo durin ig." .1 has sung in ibis . < in the evening of Thursday, the 12th of which the tote Mendelssohn was the April, the first of I scries of " Grand Classi lor. Her pronunciation cal Lie :." as they were called, was serve aa a model even to our ca at the 1^.inIon Opera House. The was arranged as on the occasion of an ducting the expanses, it is ealcti oratorio, the chorus sin .1 on u; I platforms, and the principals I. -n.iis Inslitu- in front of the foot lights.— ttou; for it was for Wh.-n Mdlle. [ind was conducted on tho rable institutions tlia: Mdlle. Lind has . .1.1 iblaoha, then-was a general buret The Concert than commenced I!. with the overture to // Flauto Magico.— I was no regular distribution of parte; -am* authority than speaks of Made and the artistes Mug alternately tho various moiselle Lind, on the occasion of her gratuit- Mdlle. [jii.l took tho soprano ]>or- arance at Exeter Hall, for tie tions which, in the opera, arc assigned to inaer, in I'ttmina and the Queen of Night, the mother. acknowledgment of his able an -he sang in the first part the difficult vioea during her provincial tour si- \ tion rendered the concert somewhat heavy. cerning the flickering lights and Bhadoe of but tho culminating point of attraction was thcatrical enterprise, dream last year that this ii there should be such a night when Lind, and she delighted her auditory as public curiosity would be more piqued as ro- usual. • leuny Lind, and the 'Soniiambula,' p.-rhaps the beat, and also the most frequent With reference to the concert given at ly repeated, of her parts, more attractive than r Hall, in aid of tho funds of the ever it was to the public. Now, indeed, four musical charities, we may remark that as well as within must feel Mad how much increased curiosity and inl> must be ; months having been spent in cleared, so that each institution should re upon tho retirement of Jenny ceive the equal apportionment of £800.— Lind from the stage, the topic, ad nauseam, About the same date she gave a conce rt at during this lapse of time, of every journal, of every eotioo-hoiiso, and ovary fireside. Manchester, in behalf i Infirmary; the proceeds of which .', 7s. fid.— " The eagerness to behold the great Swed ish vocalist is the gocatcr, as no ono knows, also sung at L up to this moment, whether she retiree this Chester, Shrewbury. liiold, year or next—whether she will sing six . for public charities. At Shrews nights, as agreed to, or unto the remainder bury and Cheater the sale of tickets had to be of tho season. What may he most justly ob- I is, that Mdlle Lind has done that stop] norning, so great was the which was wise and just in returning to tho enthusiasm. stage for a few nights, at all events ; and this entirely aetting aside the Intereatsof the great While the singer was in the zenith of her hinont, which had Buffered injury from glory, alniircd for her genius, and I her withdrawal In exact proportion to its de for her qualities of heart, there arose a audden votion to her. She was born on the stage,— rumor that she was about to suspend I on the stage she acquired her fame and for tune,—on the stage she gave the most useful her dramatic p.rformancce. example of moral conduct, and through the At first it was generally discredited, for aha alone acquired means of beueli- persons arc not willing to believe the m.wt " On the opening of the doors there was a positive truth, when it militates against headlong rush of the wel] dressed crowd, th.ir Interest or their happiness. The pro never seen anywhere before Jenny Lind's babilities were discussed by all classes, and • ntrai f the great vceat- evi-i . arming Jenny, un .vas that applause, that cheering and enthusiasm expressed in all possible iiiim- like th. majority of opera - I arrival in England, pular fir. spread had been witnessed at any theatre. Her her adisputable her talent, that in its high on ; every phrase drew forth the whispered utterance,at thousands who before did not know th. ucral delight. After the first aot lity and, if they Mdlle. Lind was called for, but she did not ts existence at all, only allied still the applause lasted tea minutes at l,u m At the close of the next act, and at the it with th ' final fall of the curtain, the enthusiasm knew ind unprofit no bounds, mid the eai.i.itricc was obliged to able," hail, imioculuted with the mania that .1 from all parts of the house. She first arose in royal mid a appeared before the curtain, when sho was hailed by renewed plaudits and Ihe showering posit Of bou •,'acen in her Jr.i Another London paper thus notices this ugham Palace, to the amall event: •ur, in lu spite of w'ar and rumors of war, and tlu' generally im of public affairs, : the stage V. and patrons of the kept in perpetual ex oaarvareati. not yet married, a with the frcqueoarra of t!. ... ared from the stage. I 111 isca; and go th.- la: tier mind— your ears were sure to be saluted with the <• h we do notpre- euphonious ayfla I. At .-in• ro- en's Theatre on Thursday i us spoke on ; rise to such a furore aa is • I .-.tie did those, the moat learned in dis- .-. ho had chanced to pass up the LIFE AND GFNIL'S tlaymarkot yesterday evening, between five onnade watching the arrival of the long and aix, would have at on. -, that atring ..f oarriagea, and the visit of H.r Jenny lind bad returned to the stage •o the theatre increased, if possible, the thing sh'-rt of such an occurrancc ...u! i general excitement. sasnmhied, at that early hour, such cr. . Immediately the doors were opened the i>it seekers for admission a .ml gallery lllery ware crammed to suflls-ation.— •sty's Theatre, The stalls and Isix.-s were more gradually, at that time—tliat is to say, nearly two hours but ii. |y filled, and before the CUT- led for op TO was occupied.— Ther -ptioii of Made, miy Lind, bled as tl ;pit and gallery could a. tin-shouts ..f applause whioharoa every TTle • . mill- .•id the waving of handkerehcifs, were nle, u an indication that ihe enthusiasm which has lie crush—we remember the held tin- public lor two seasons is st,II in full crush on the me~ n arable -tth of May, 1*47 when The belief that Mai l.iml Jenny mad debut in the char. had retired from the stage, and Intend iilv, which, after all. an Jenny Lind aiffht for the 1 recreation as far as the habitues of last two seasons, out never nave we rienoed such a crush as that of '. ,'//;( to th. e last night.— The Sonnambula was the opera cho*. There was something like the delight which easion, and when Jenny Li: i« felt at the neovery of a lost child ill the as A ,'•», warm th which the public received Mad- hearted country maiden, as ahe alon. nd. took it, the whole house " I at Ai, Lack t.. them in th" fullest Keen was - reputation. There is no dial in.et.iig ••; ii.. nds ruth.i occasion to h.r performance tic reception ;—euch a wan 'd Wel- Amii tittnihula-, for if there is any come—such a buret of almost ter in her , which has tiiu.sia.sm as that with which s lived in th: memory ..f lb.- London publio Sh, wetncl deeply a ':• . I that is the part. But last night it .seemed as moved tremulouslv as te 1 • if her votes had even improved, and as if she sion to her acknowledgments. had acquired a e nand over unina, Would l»', OH- her resources. Those high notes, so unrival -.ir and led in in,I admitting the finest na away the v 'hat lias ever ap - tion without h.s,, their peered, and Annua is on. .• through tlie 1, of her characters, and the . with : hitherto unknown. most frequently aetto tooet shake, which waa always her In never did she surpass, we doubt • expedient, appeared more delicate than ever equalled, faat -r.-Tmanee of last eveii- the old applause. In h.r ing. The se.: 'Untwas a cliarin- ornaini nts feet, and surprised her audience b) tie- facility and nating mixture oi OJld tillli- brilliancy of her i win mark..! by thai perfect identity with the char- Bhe was in ex bioh has always ren • music deliriously. The dered h.r Aiiiina one of the most remarka finale was a afrrioa n let! to ble imp. rsonations on the Stage. 11 r sim- • lights, and t aa th,- Imp, :rl. her iiianii. r, * Low easily sh old half d.-lighic.l, half terrified, when she is raile r 'ts of the '. mid at tie- same linn that 1 arouse th ,.i Llviuo, ll.U when loaded with tho nambulixt scene, and thr.-e nines at th. l of an imaginary .is forcibly eluaton of the opera, when she was again greeted with the waving of bats and I iy of kerchiefs, and bouquets afoison were ale - od many ohroa edon ! though he do.-s not refer to i .!,ing. The Times of the 27th ult. thus speaks of "MR. Pit's, ma DIARY.--.Saturday, May her triumphant reception: i. the Hay- •eene presented in the Haymarket mark' Jenny l.in.l, whom . ycv.crl.cy evening "ii the opening of the I lid Opera doors was fully equal to that of the • lot. Want .it o P. M tth i4 May. 1*47. w ' n.w,I, and there :i Mob of P.-ople first made her debut in London ..- did say they groups were iimilarly placed ab-1 had e hie 11. < ,: , is five, I '. ol us clodc as I L1TB AND GENIUS 37 could to the Pit Entrance, and the Throng " This fair vocalist has managed to keep increasing; and by-a Ilea In their il public of London in a Mutter since i .Ill-SSI's standing without their Bonneta h.-r very first appearance. H.-r reported mar in the Street. Many of them between the riage and her retirement from ii, Carriage Wheals and tuul. r • fruitful themes for newspaper para- i never see more a latter event has really occurred, Can At last the though •>••• trust, like many similar rctire- Doora open ; w blob did I. • ' they -ty only be pro tempore. Mrs. aever would, and 1 in with the Press, , Wi her mind, and, after all, Jen terrible Crush, and tl ny is but a woman. She played for the last their Dresses torn in th time on Thursday, the Kith ult., and aroused I thought it a g'>"d dob that my wife was not such a furore, lh.lt we give two accounts of with | the remarkable seen,., [foreignersare apt to With much ado into tho Pit, the way be dub the Knglish a phlegmatic people, but ing stopped by a snob in a green j when thoroughly moved, the evidence of cx- and bird's • nt is palpable enough. era would not stiller to pass. The pit full in During ihe whole of Mademoiselle Lind'a a twinkling, and 1 f.un to stand where 1 heal union! this season there h.-cs not, been so ntly a ordinary a m was exhib d out, last night, when, as the bills stated, her 'last ot her operatic performance' was to lake place. Al- 1 did never b. inoui • • intained nothing in ,: toll of to imply that she would not hereafter sing at concerts, the public thronged to llcr MajOS- tains, did I 'rave Picture in a Gold i.e.uie as if she were about to take her was v.-ry handsome to leave altogether, and they never were, under , to s.-e Iter or to hear her 1 the Overture pi again. the Curtain up for th And, Indeed, the acting of Jenny Lind hi ambula; the part of Auiina ae: lllllll element 111 ||.T pOWtf Of .. The M attracting the public that by quitting the ope- d all, upon ling tin- mere concert . her identity. The their - Bata nee of h.-r reception when die sang at and Is i" tlie •• classical concei I" from that when she whil iir.-.f in La Sonatnhula must have and struck BO] one who witnessed the two scenes. ihr.ll Though the theatre was the same, and the of the midline,' nearly the sum.', on both occasions, she was gi ted in the cha racter of Amine, just as if she was making " P.ut what did ii" !.'•- her debut, and th, p. noeft bad it being aa Hovel' been gu'ell. llellce the public, who thought they were witnessing for the last i is the imbination of Jenny l.in.l th.- act- i ' think . th Jenny Lind to were not ul: u in so niueh mistaken in giving all the force of n final interview to their visil last night. Roberto il Diavolo, which, on the Lon don Italian stage, has never been very pope "f her But i M lar as a whole, hut which bus depended for Into tl Chat • -'•' • and ^'"~ ; '"'-h traction on the Alice of Mad : de made to sing r. and ter in which she first sang before a London called up audience was eli,.sell as the one in whlell ..li • was to take her leave. " Ma Normandie," s and with the Immortal softs »oes ahake, which baa is Heapa , ,1 h.-r hearers, drew rll.Wu must mad rnenrr, and th the crosi, wiili terror in the shrink in,.I fi ,.iud» and 1 •' ni the countenance, seemed even more strik ad all sho had given away in Charity.— ing than usual as a display of hiatr i ni • [Punch. power. The Increased aweetneiaand fu The six nights pcrformanoea presented the of llcr voice this year have b. en a theme of universal remark, ami never was It mi same aoenea of melodious than lust night. but the last night, the final leave taking, sur applause which she received at the passed every thing .-v. r • tneeai .1 in England. ihe opera was something \Y, quote tlu» 1 ils of thia I lnarkahle. She was culled three timet by an 38 OF JENNY LIND. audience that occupied even the obscurest accustomed, that her feelings became too nooks of the edifice, and that universally rose •sod, and her emotion found when she appeared, and so continuous were - itiiu.le expression In teara. th^ plaudits that they blended with each other iking last even- into one roll of heavy sound. At the last i!l that has passed we call she appeared particularly moved. can but indulge the hope that the leave taking her paper says,— i final, but that Jenny Lind may be indued again, at no distant period, 1 id took her leave of . sumo the throne which she iias unnecessarily . the same character in which she alxliuai made her debut two years since, in that of a in Roberto II Diavolo. Not even in Immediately after her retirement Innumer lie public excitement to Bee able rumors were circulated concerning her Jenny Lind do we remember a more strik ing acene than the Opera House present. .1 matrimonial nta. At one timo it last night. To say that the place waa crowd- was a young clergyman—at another a noble quately to describe the auffo- man, but it was finally rattled that a Mr. 1 lar- density of the mass who filled the pit ris, a relative of Mrs. (It-oto, wife of the I galleries ; and in the reserved portions of the theatre—the boxes and stalls—every avail ncnt banker, was to be tho happy man.— able nook and crony was filled. This obtained general belief, from the fact " Her Majesty, Prince .'• that Jenny Lind bad for sometime been of K -sent, and all the rank and dent with and partaker of the elegant h. fashion of Loudon seemed to I- talitica of Mr. Crete (In the loth of May to pay the last tribute of r.-so I her passport from the Swedish Lind, on bar secession (let us hope, not filial; age. It had been diflioult to Minister, and left London. The | persuade the public that she was real!. full of confiicting accounts concerning h.r u rminrd to leave ; bat, wheu the official an departure and marriage, tine paper affirmed nouncement seemed to place the fact 1 all pi 'en.-ral rush to witness M ihe best authority, that she had 1 married by I e'a ; another Anne that she was murricd in Kir- do not mingham; another at Mr. Crete's Man any similar burst of el id the But no. Th -ale had flown without ral op-rising a mate. Thus I. ft the scene of h.r great triumphs—the greatest artist, and on the noblest women the world has known, has been ab'.< < in such an occa iiiost probably never to return, but certainly sion we cannot CJ to be forgotten. Jenny Lind art we have too deep a sense of the in at her liomcat Stockholm shortly after, « - lass which the lyric drama has su the accession of Jenny Lind to beoon, ahe w us only she could bej she cal. Be it .air task to In that retirement in which she delights. the parting acene between Jenny Lind oman, and and the public at the fall of the curtain. nothing better than to pass h.r inorn- ' s, pit, galleries, rose aa with one i o the quiet and natural occupations of and purpose; and in a few moments I came forward, led by Gar her sex ; either in tambour-working or new tributes of applause. She waa visibly tul and tranquil affected, yet shrunk from all op .incut. Never possibly would you aioo •r know ony one who more thor.n. that public by whom she bad been s and ao affectionately cherished. Scare, and wholly partook of all the gentler and she retired, when another atorm • more feminine oh of the homely loud and peremptory than the first woman. Tl . has add. fab? singer appear name warm and enthusiastic applause I and sur was renewed ; and the bouquets fell in show passing talents than any of h.r other quali er*, urn* the call was I ties. Il naturally endeared itself to th. ' now Jenny Lind came on atone . when brought into contrast with with suppressed emotion, bowing 1 kly and reverently, an.! and more [.crvcrse nature of other , ortu- public singers. of speaking. Tl. waa BO great, so prolong, j be bant have ever yond even n*t gt irl I gs tOWb.. !, »! .• hlube.U borne such a reputation, as a priv.. LIFE AND GENIUS ual, as that which has lx;n accorded Ji i. in addition to the firstamount a further sum of one-fifth of nightly profits on a reputation, too, which has won her the •dig ii. concerts. e wherever she has been known. We may slate the terms given to Messrs. has had her lovers, and is even now Helled,ct and Hell.-tti are very liberal—such living with the !. as, in reference to Mr. Benedict, could alono hush , d him from his eminent position Mdlle. Lind, on her part, iaaroni, who in her day bore ng in 150concerts, including oria- repul . within one year, if possible -or, if not, seen upon the Italian Btagc. Nor was Mali- Withill eighteen mouths j to have full control bran free from the whispers and aneed as to the Dumber of nights or concerts in a- number of pieces In each for virtue. In be former, as well as the latter, to deed, with on, as we before said, I health and safety of • I she to appear in opera. •grand and earned a ' iking It is farther proposed that the life of Mad- • -lie Lind, and that of each of her assist- name bf the force of h a ho has Dot ahall be insured for the full amount of afforded the public the evil influence of her eUlelltS; il lib, half Of example. Tliia justit the sum to be paid to their heirs or assigns, the public in favor of Jenny Lind, and the remainder to Mr. Barnum. The party her a name m ven for her IVB for America the last week in Au gust, or first week iii September. Daring virtues, than for : . has made nterim Md'Ue. Lind will remain on the her the greatest of iHsts. Continent singing for various eh.-inlies, and an be said of her career from "'ill p ie duration to Stockholm, h.-r native city. The following is a copy of this ; the letter addressed by Md'Ue. Lind to Mr, eerta in S and the surrounding Barnum: :•• perform LUDECK, sib January, I SIR: At the request of your agent, Mr. ed no profession.; \boiit the , who is now h.re, and whose object is, last of th. an public b at the earliest opportunity,i '00,1 agitattd by the rumors that Jenny was coming that I have Ibis day concluded u. Ai •ii. by bun, 1 I Stales of the .; ... hich America pi the details of which are set forth In a formal mutual agreement; and I cannot but .--,; lotion latitude for the anxiety you and your and We ndcr my intended tour re ore i ! par- plete with coinfo- ; the speculation may meet your most M on, is mv D and no endoavo- • ting th) on the part of, air, your .1 i:\NV LIND. I'.vitMM, I'.squire, lianistau Villa, port, Connecticut, United Suites. : by me, Jawn LIND.) already specified by some of our e •\\. ..t eyes oil with tin- fair Jenny's name Mr Itanium agrees toprovid. Mdl append. .I thereto ill bold llll.l legible round thousand dollars per I tile him.bed and fifty Bights, lte- baggage tor 1-. r-. : and |kirtv. t.. pay all .iiid i tposer, and Betot , expenses, inelud , are in accompany her pro- llie former i i,000 ater- i- one half that whom she has particularly seleeteJ following htt.r eoniiiiiinicatel place at h.r duq»«d ill . aeh c :ty :l to the press. A Ml 111. IV Ml'SKI'M, fell . in, ni of Mdlle wh ell -Ie \ :n, rie.i. I i, that ajonaerta, lay ratified I ment made e sum Ul 40 OF JENNY LIND. by my agent with this distinguished vocalist. During the last eight months she has be. n It is true that in engaging Mdlle. Lind and oharltahle the musical associa purposes, and she la now founding a lei,, te aoconi] •.. • d hut institution in Stockholm, h.r aa composer and pianist, M. at a 00 A visit from such a Woman, who regards uni Helletti. my u_'• nl h.r high ar- gift from Hon amount I had anticipa1 or tin- amelioration of affliction and the I tress, and whose .very thought and deed mous • »p[)ear, ar much philanthropy, I feel persuaded will prove a as M - l.udha un- *» alone, nor do Messrs. try which she has visited, and I f.-.l eiery H.,,. ..land B in-, that my oountrymea and women • bed talents are, at this will join me heartily in saying, " may G moment, -.iniii: ;>s I ma make.. by this The public's obedient servant, entcrpr ire you that if I knew I P. T. BARNTJlt tit, I would At the present time Jenny Lind i is am I lee shall be visit..! by a in the divine course of charily, at various boae voea 'ere have never been ap- places on the Continent. Wo extract from aar aa .-, and foreign pa;. srhaat aatrjaatB eliarity, aiinplieity, and iiuy l.in.l has arrived at Berlin, and will sing at two or thr. . >ell known that Jenny Lin brated eon the can 1 l.-ss than ' mettle, a night or two ago, at • -reuoal err. I'.runswiek, where she had given a concert. and th" pr..- I In r • i Khin i, a large vineial raarna in England, and that BUB) irse assembled to cheer h.-r, and to received £600 per iiitfht. .My was prop. •lits in En ; I h.r by lb.- band of the hussars and lavc.l the arrival of ihe aerenadera, the mob ilu»i,iaaii ' > tilled ihe air with very unhuruioir . whilst of m ; they had been deoeived, and kept out of their heils for nothing, made a < '•.': •• nl on of Ar: and Manu- show of attacking the hotel, and br,... the blinds and win I de Park, London, in 1851. It was A parrty "' hussar officers Is i' ..T, drew tl . and declared tiny would us,- them should the si nt id greasion be made. This, it appears, fright ened some, but exasperated others, and might, bad not the troops been called out, her oiiie difficulty, cleared tl desire to visit America, as propose my At length harmony « . ar - rival of the bauds, and by ihe blonde Jenny • Lind has numerous bettor c appearing at lb.- bul ly. a great an- Ai Bremen Jenny Lind sung in Ilaj • on." Before coming to Bremen, the i', ,1 eiuitii • .at one "f which was for can be laid befor. : of that town. The students II ni honor ol . and visit us. In her enajaav: inarched by torchlight. < >u the following as t! morning they give hel ed an escort for her to Nordh And again,— e her debut in England, she liaa g Mdlle Jclln It oil to the poor, fr.nu her own private purse, | the • v. . b 17, at the ' more th an th.- artseaa amount »h.,h I have Theatre, I w [oil hi I, ill'' H hole of tl I ill.' |>oor Britain, where aha has sung gratui: have realised more than ten times that am .unt. •in M pora LIFE AND GENIUS 41 'The Camp of . rritten neighbors and others, and tho friend (of our expr ml in isviii who had seen them and gives us these which h< r i] the particulars, says that no daughter could have tones of t! an extraordinary triumph for her. The pub written Loi more familiarly and atVection- lic d ichimin's wife still wears, 1 the usual marks of satist. of the calico gown in nit on works, and changed and re-stitch- the Italian me- t, which up vcry dress she puts on, a to tail in (!. rina- m.>st costly diamond bracelet, her parting ny, «bite Horn Jenny Lind. It would bo u . j«u-U! of the house. After hard extremity of poverty that would induoe the concert, the members of t1 : serenade under the windows of the h.r to part with it. fair artiste, and some of the young men of the ...ions opera singer had been more town got up a In her . than I year the tenant of Mr. C , and the staid and elderly citizen had BjEver sc.-n incidents not generally kuc her. lie had his lodgings in town, near his give as bcm of business, and he sent his clerk to then- Brompton quarterly to receive the rent, re in I. nd hired the suburban plying, with a Muff disavowal of all knowl- residence' of a stout and worthy citizen, tak , to such of his friends ing lis furniture, hia carriage and coachman, natural inquiries of curiosity. his servants and ,11 de Burring, however, at one of scriptions, on rent. The only addition that these quarterly settlements, which an agent she i usual serv c.uld not very well dispose of, it became nec lislim. ut, was the all' essary that Mr. C should call on his who, upon the o|H'ii lawn i tenant in person. The stout landlord's 00- garden, whenever ti would any count of his visit very much amused his way permit, or otherwise in th friends, lie had expected an uncomfortable of pretension and eel-oniony. lish Church for the ; Id.— rvantat the door showed his old The r to the drawing room, and the ncx had a niiiiut i from of the stables ; and his wife, the moth irden, with dress unhooked behind, hair two or tbr. Hot very smooth, (these pet sec . ond-hand from the first narrator,) and as cor ind ao- dial BB the oldest friend he had in ihe world. froni the rank and fashion of d him by his two hands, crowded him down into a large arm-chair, insisted set—a kind of tribute I ! cha- upon knowing why be bad not been to aee steiuly and unvai h.-r .1 had been la his ly r.' . and finally aeated herself on the floor much at his feet, to talk over matters. Quite over- Duchesses and .villi this last condescension, the >h being refused ill her door, thai i' - Englishman was •lie was oftoneat seated in : f the •lie knee, ll, hayu resort for . very hour I that Im could not sit iii a chair while of leisure, tending the coachman's IK. she sat on the floor. At this, the u Jenny jumped np, and taking Mr. C'e. hum all her ev. two hands, drew him to | win.low scat, and Been.. • is a very fat man,) cess by hi- daily as if and with a tenderness of brok man in telling the story. Here she pulled i waa as t from her pocket contract and receipts, and .. i, which was soon set- 43 OF JENNY LI Ml. tied ; and the landlord took hia leave, delight i. two : and so on to Charleston ; ed with Jenny Lind, but not quite aure that and, as one of Mademoiselle Lind's great in he had been in full possession of his senses. ducements t,> visit Alii.: the Kails Just before the celebrated si. ger left this re of Kentucky, residence, a lady who had been and other in of OUT country, contact with her by some of rta will very possibly be given at Alba neighborhood, and wh > hod cono ny, Rochester, ,- rth; strong affection from her, ask.-* one day, and Cincinnatti and Umisvill.- \\ Bat ; and as a keepsake. Jenny flew to her • New Oil. dressing-room and brought down jewels and Thus, then, as her admirers arc so numer costly articles of dress, and eagerly b ous, and the buildings where she will sing, her to choose a:. i.ut an nparatively small, we font artic. .as not win I that many, in our own city at least, will havo oroould accept. It was with tl tliedis:ip|Kiinlmeiit of not being able difficulty uVit the ini; old be to hear h.r, unless some larger place than made to agree to let the kecpsak •w possess is arranged for her enter only the flowers th tainments. i in ' It may be said that her voice will not fill aity a- 1 taint a v.ry large r.s.m ; it is not so—for we ha70 or qualification by knowledge of the world. us accounts 'tie, Tho above particulars, showing tho ad in a building temporarily .re.ie.1 for h.r it' her pedestal, as th. -.in.!! 15,000 persons, which number will by no means diminish the interest of her waa at each of them ; In Manchester, Kng- reception in An Trade Hall, at each of a I persons were in and .ami attendance; at Liverpool, at the Amphithea best class of our country people—the unos tre, 5,000; in Kdinhiirgh Music Hall,3,0001 tentatious and | • n then amot: UO-fifth <>f the applicants for tickets in ali . and we only trust that a could be supplied ; and ions pr.>pheti>- :, with her , and almost disturb- •• suited from the disappointment. r her Ma.!. i.-mcly anxious cilieaof oi that hi ut should be made so as to BBC in all circles are al as many of her friends as poss.ble, ready very earn nquirea son. rolls tllllt 00 ilieollvcnicllCO •or concerts. Tin should be felt by her audiences ; but so gr.-at in th ill, and we only hope that was th rough all Europe, that the imeroua a-! only plan found to SB r trying an opportunity of '..<• many,i was to put double the blanks to num ary powers; but we fsar many will b. bers, in I Is.v, and allow applicants to draw ; h« treat, from the fact I if a blank to retire for that if a lind viaita our great country, in a great number, to p iy for the ticket and ol measure, from curiosity, and ahe purposes [renter numb | through all the principal States, termin imfortably a ,1.— ating her tour at Havana, and r This wi and impartial Europe via t will 11II1II will preclude the |s«.,bility ,«" r,.-v . • • our cities i and, according to the plan it is Mr. 11.'» * which we hare seen, she • low as possible. Ill time allotted to the one hundred and titty I concerts, in about twenty civ Mild, which gives to New York, me lit the eight; Philadelphia, six ; Baltimore, four; aamc; but ! 1.1 at BUO- OF JENNY LIND. 43 tion for enormous sums; and we have now fercnt from that which has awaited nearly all before ua an account of two concert- of the celebrated artists who havo visited ua by her in the town of Norwich, in the last thirty years. Jenny lind is he- a place of about eleven thousand inhabitants, 1 not only by .1 reputation beyond pa where 4,11:1 tickets were sold, which r rallel as ie artist, but by 11 reputation for £1,8 .1 in. re vil mode; kind-heartedness, in- lage, whi, ' ii.r to ic, and all tho fairest virtues establish a fund for the purchase of fuel for thai .'.' -i-n the fairest portion of creation, tile poor of that place in winter. which may well challenge the warmest wel- that admiration for the true, tho beau Pa whole tiful, and the good, can call forth. her debut (0 her retiring last year, ha one , f unapproache.l enthu I from tin- Liverpool Tunas.] dl'.NNY LIND AT THE HVBRPOOL siasm and triumph. Through town and PHILHARMONIC. country, at home and abroad, amid tl The first of these long and eagerly antici if the palace, and the pated feste. 1 Ight in tho lowliness of the cottage; all have but one splendid new ball of the Philharmonic Sooie- • her—an admiration which ty. There were upwards of three thousand •s present, including the orchestra. The seems to be a spell which totally cut: appearance of tho hall, magnificently lighted, h.-r hearers. Wa MM, a few days ago clustered with beauty such as only Lancashire :ig with s. who had, in can boast, delight and expectation animating England, on two occasions, paid |90 to hear every countenance, was something which tho h.r, and only once succeeded iu getting a •it>.-. In all England, per plac : their inability to haps in Europe, there is not such a beautiful ribe the wonderful and enchanting devoted to musical performances as the ..ngatreas, and wk Philharmonic Hall, and on no previous occa- that liny w. r .itli delight, and m we call to mind so brilliant an as seemed to be lis; r to the mu sembly as th ited last night within celestial beings. • ,,f earth. its walls. Tho great spell of attraction was, There is italllc fact, of course, denny Lind, the idol of (iermany win. h, w I t, puts and England, whoso name has never onoe riority filled, since the beginning of her triumphant which is, that throughout all Baroy, and by career, whether announced iu the divine all classes . be the gri cause of charity, or offer ad as a simple medi and most wonderful vocalist that um of public amusement, to bring together Mr. Barnum is entitled to great credit for the crowd -whose virtues arc even nioro the ciirii 1 attempt dazzling than llcr genius, unparalleled as that ing (aetting (aid' -, in arrang is—and whose successes have thrown com this great undertaking; and the American pletely into the shade those of every other ,'fully appreciate his noble and great ,.f modern times. anxi. hem an opportunity of hear- The knowledge that denny Lind was on the ' greatest of all artiste. iheso shores, not to return for nt ' !i -that some four- -sant task is nearly con. i' 'i, it 1111 |i r| alt. inma ••• v. *.••—••• - -—- •1 of all true worshippers at the [and-twenty hours after her second and last alirin her launched on the by b, of the bosom of the vast Atlantic, on her way to a distaut, though a friendly country—olothed 1 hats, coats, frocks, boats, I the event with tenfold significance and in and shoes, stages, Jenny Lind night caps, terest. That such a distinction as denny .r no livery Lind's last public npp.-urai, land but that of should bin 'ded to our town, in • 11 pass at par unless endor».s] by the face of munificent propositions from tho 1 this the modern Babylon—must ardent desire to greet the new-jomer far dif-1 be indelibly recorded as the brightest page in 44 LIFB AND GFNIUS the mu-ical annals of Liverpool. With Mr. audience had assomblcd. M. Benedict, Ludlow, the active and intelligent se. on appearing in ;he orchestra, was rec of the Philharmonic Society, and with the with the warmaat demonstrations, and the committee of that society, who, with the in • t began with Ml all Pa grand overture defatigable exertions of the agent f Mr. to Znuliertbittr, which I ugly well 1 Barnum, sue. • I \V. Thomas ofli- her wings, arrest her g as chef d'attaijue with his usual in- . Itoe, and adroitly enforcing the indica silvery notes that, for threi .our tions of th i.In.-tor's baton, A chorus, past. irope. "All bail! Queen Victoria I" arranged to a if hav march of Mozart, from La Clemcnza di Tito, ing I fa) sing the Messiah • was hardly BO well executed by the choir as great :inie In this old have desired ; but the well-known try, duet ,, ll.lla illllll. ' .dso ia from I • iniraniiile, most effectively generally known; and I I lletti, who possible, be a ati were loudly applauded 00 their entree, put i humor, and prepared them for the g.Lind .vent of the evening— Hut not satiaffod even with the name of Jenny Lind—which imme ch alone would auli. diately followed. ahod a lustru on any mu.-ic.il p Tie ' wan the Ph. Ii .tin..: solved bi I real for a demonstration that l> °. in every way irrepreoohab' ! Up to Wel. gaged a bust of t h.r, and such a volley of cle ilBIO buss-j a id within tre, w I... has played in conjun the walls of a theatre or Mart-rooao, Tht Md; .nd. but iu aalvo was thrice r nd at length the - an admir I'SS, W ho Seelll. able musician, has a \ the warmth of h.r reception, was enabled to rous voice, and is in all respects worthy of .A very the friendship and patronage with win. few bars of the pi itative to BeBI- has been so king and constantly i popalar biariira,' QBJ lav -,' from the celebrated songstress. M - \\ \\ diams, one of our best contralto singers, is ni / Paraxial to show that denny aally known and aa s.d in this lost none of its inconceivable charm, wh ' and strength it waa oountry. M. \ pftrably the beet before. The udagio waa horn play i, tho phrasing largo and finished, the intonation and jt.on, but for having made pure and truthful. The cadenza disooveriea, and new efbots apoo be not. in- the instrument, that have at once aalnnaahiij and • •,. r heard. In the rabalet- ta, M 1 oouplet, the most profound theuriata and acos»i Last, not Lwst, no more able and xealous di • I to its brilliancy without taking rector could have been aatocted than the ac from its complished Benedict, whose reputation, as a bout with •musician and pianist of the highest or broke out into by no lu.-aus oonfioed to this oountry, I winch did not abate tends to Germany, luly, and France, until : I upon hi. expositions for the stage and I ahamber are generally known and tier, .ugly nipli- appr.< lafnxsa ning aaiatas that ao peculiarly be. • bar. Long before the hoar announcad for com- ht o'clock—the whol. vaggcrated AMi: . \ M a u L A . OF JENNY LIND. 45 nothing in his account of the concert which and was unanimously recalled. Tho last, an Jenny Lind gave for \ den-Baden, -hing display of flexibility and energy, on the 6th instant. Tl was encored in an uproar of applause, So • • tracing, as ,• audienoethat they became and flexible, as powerful and mellow a- irdleas of the in- to, V, is more than ever un tho singer, would hear of be superfl : ' Idlle Lind, after some hcei- that Mdlle. Lind has vastly improved in good I, and repeated the last niove- looks. Her long rest has been evidently be I'lcnt ..f the .obi with augmented power, neficial. She is stout.-r and fuller in th taking a vup to Kin alt) while, as well as we could make oui by the with the clcarmss of a bell, and with the ut aid of a powerful glass, the paleness of her most point and certainty, will easily bo cre cheek has beeomo slightly tinged with the dited by those who have had proofs of her ruddy hie rnina, and indomitable will. tional .-harm upon her pleasing and intellect!! \\ a must not paaa over: th. r enooro, and nl oounteni. one not so arduous to eoni].ly with, which After a barcarole by Bieei (a parody of He Lind obtained. We mean a Rossini's ' I dii' sung with spirit v.ry beautiful ballad by Mr. Benedict, by Belletti, an ballad, •' Take this lute," composed purposely for the : my Youth,' | Cipsy Was .1 songstress, and sung by her which was nicely rendered by Miss Andrews with immense approbation at the l-ondoncon- —a young mezzo soprano,d Mdl'i' Lind's pronunciation of the dany Mdlle Lind to Ami-r English tongue is exceedingly pure and arti tin- . and in the culate, with just so much of accent as gives Dram II Turco II it a special and fascinating .ptaintnois. In the ballad style —which can be said of very Italia, w .11 the few dramatic singers -she excels quite as re treasures of h.-r florid art, and all the genuine markably as in the florid and bravura school. humor of h.r comedy, which even away > the stage i \t the There is a combinati >f simplicity and enr- end of the andante Mdile Lind Introd -s in h.r manner that has a peculiar cadenza, which was almost baroque in im charm, while the few eiidcnccs and orna- I she introduces only serve to give in- niility ; but, dashed offwith the ea- ntiment and character to the me- it make every thing pass muster in . in lies the , ..1 ballad her used as much as it sur: which many who are exclusively the connoisseurs. TheJJorifurr and I to that style of art would do well to incuts in the cibalrtta w, re as elegant as study and profit. Nothing could be more th. y were won b rliill;, m-l another hearty and spoiitaius.us than the encore reca'.' : the duct. awarded to this ballad, which was uccom- throughout the whole of wh mofortc by Mr. Benedict ti aaraaaded the efforta of ' i witii The last effort of Mdlle. Jenny Lind, and uinot enter inu> minute detaila about perhaps the most captivat- the whole of Mdlle Lind's performances, laliatoua Swedish mel which were more than usually numerous, and odies, which, from the lips of the ''Nightin- were further increased by the encores. I may vie In characteristic beautywlth aha one knows with what perfection she sings the national melodies of Scotland and Ireland, pathetic cavalina in A flat, (with the I immortalised in history and poetry. The oclloa,) from Der Freischuti; and equally f the Shepherds, in which, by a singu- eetobrated is her version of Moxart'a fine air Interval, (a sharp 7th Prom A from Zaubtrjiatte, ' Non paventere,' w harpi frei|iicntlv repeated, the peculiar having been expressly oompoaed for a mprana call, by means of which the ticks are brought endowed with unusual compass, is beyond the usly Imitated, gives Mdlle. •rity of modern singers. In for indulging in certain capricea both of these Mdllo Lind created a furor ution that, amidst an appan 46 LIFE AND GFNIUS plicity, present more than usual vocal diffi puzzle, wo think, M. Vivier, himself to ex culty. The exquisite intonation with which plain. Houblu and triple sounds were not the quaint interval alluded to was invariably only produced at isolated points, but encum taken, and the rich expression of humor and bered lor rather not encumbered I by the archness that gave a men march of progression and modulation, So in spite of their Hyper!. gr.at a variety of tone wo never before heard I'.O the secret of the —try, upon a wind instrument of any kind, much thoroughly enchanted the audienoa. leaa upon so ungrateful a machine as the horn. l!ut, independent of these mechanical inoiseUe Lind accompanied herself, marv. that peculiarly h, and, on quitting the piano, the uproar was to M. Vivier, the inorceau iscxtr.-inely j.leas abaoluf- it. Twioe did t ing and full of character. A happier or more songstress reappear, but the applause still animated description of a chaso was never continuing, she once more came back, and, written for a solo instrument. The applause tripping lightly across the platform, reseated that followed this remarkable performance herself at the piano. The silence was now was nothing more than deserved, and an as universal as the noise had been, just pre core waa demanded with so much unanimity, viously. Every breath was held, lest a sin that, with all his bashfulness, M. Vivian gle drop of the " rain of melody" should be not avoid accepting it. He wasac.-oiii lost. This time Mdlle. lind sang a pastoral panted on Ihe piano forte by Mr. Benedict in love song, so full of wild tenderness tliat it masterly stylo. almost turned the torrent of jubilant cnthu- aiaam into a more sober stream of sadness; Tho chorus quise redeemed itself in an ad but when, flashed with triumph* she rose to mirable part-sohg of Mr. Benedict, ' Bv lovely, re Buna haste,' in winch If tongue was k>* anii.1.-- melody of striking cheers, every palm extended to beat against freshness, the composer has happily caught hbor, in honor of the gifted and ad the .piaint manner of the old madric mirable artist who had afford.-1 such intense writers. This Has anOOTed unanimously ;— gratification to all present It was really u and much applause waa also bestowed upon scene to remember. Morhy's fine madrigal, ' Now is the month Let us do justice in the abort apace that of Maying,' equally well executed. Tho remains to the other excellent artiste who as hut name, were sisted at this very remarkable concert. First obtain or ltd. tti,who delivered the and foremost the extraordinary performances irresistible tarantella of llossini, ' I-i lianza,' of Mons. Vivier on the born call f. i with Infinite spirit; and by Miss Williams, in attention. Ilia opening piece, an Andante in very ballad. 'I've sat in gilded £ minor, accompanied by the orchestra, is palaces,' oom|s> cd by h.r brother, Mr. T. chiefly to be admired for its musical pretcii- ms, which I h contral aiota. Iu style is elevated, and addressed to sail on.— to the exclusive intelligence of connoisseurs; Two. t and lain, in • it is only the exquisitely -finished tone and . ,1 M must not he overlool execution of the artist that can make it intel his . It song, ' I would ligible to the laity. This can hard that my love could silently flow,1 and the make its way, as wae proved last night by the exhilarating ' Wedding Marsh,' from A atriet attention and hearty applause bestowed Midsummer Sight's Dream. The fornicrwas upon the mareean, at the conclusion i d some of his 1 •mid wa can neither pretend MU soprano. Th.- bitter waa i otoe nor explain, being satisfied with their id.— iu'.r us.. b.-.uiy. In In second pieea, enti i hire to Jesstmda waa tled La ChaJhe, M. Vivier addressed leaa successful, th" wind lustrum to a larger audience and created a furore. aadly out of ti in the first mo" flow a single instrument could be made to do 10 flat minor, where the canto forma of tha the complex and original things that abound priests is so I with th. ! ighly characteristic assrreai, march I LIFE AND GENIUS 47 We should have mentioned thata Mr. I'n- maskable for unusual sweetness of tone, com demer, an pianist of talent, played bined with equality and brilliancy—all highly a fantasia between the parts, on a new piano desirable qualities ; but, owing to the excite forte, manufactured by .rdiiiiin and ment created by Mdlle. Jenny Lind's con- Urn, York, called : in the firstpart , the performance Caiiipana Pedal Piano-forte," which has ob . aer did not command the at tained mu, across the That instrument is re- tention den.ni .led for its right appreciation. FAVORITE SONGS OF JENNY LIND. Till-: SI UvK A1JTN E HORN. C.1.L\.M:' In the wild chamois track, The stare ofheav'n are gleaming, At the breaking of morn, Above the earth at rest; With n hunter's pride, •.are of heav'n are gleaming, o'.r the mountain side, Above the earth at rest. iind of the AlptlM horn, were beam Tra la la la la la hi la la. peace into my breast I I), that voi.e to me, Tile dew of he... llg, 1 each tender flower, Where'er my I.»>t«teps roam : Would thy soft tears were weeping, And I long to be bound, Its 1 -: sbow'r. When 1 hear that sound Again to my mountain home. The night now reigns a In the wild chamois track, A .1 ure than balm ; At the breaking of morn Tin night lew- r. -us ids.., • O'er theanoiinlain side, A dream more pure tliou balm ; . ,1 by the sound of the Alpine horn, - but prove me, . eta. st by calm. I have crossed the proud Alps, I ), •mi tin' Uhone, Till! IIERDMAN l'AIXSONG. And ; pot, ll.i mountain Liketb. And the lull and the \ alloy I call my own j Tra la la la la la !••• j evening song; •rd lira peaceful valley, Then ''i, I gate and long. And on: Onward flies my view, Out '"'i't tear Toward the distant brae, And o: That she dwell 'ncath ! With ii deer. 48 OF JENNY LIND. LOVE SMILES NO MORI THE LONELY ROSE. Love smiles no more, A rose gazed from the bower queen, Hope's light is i Upon the summer light; Pleasures arc o'er, And never had creation Sorrows come on ! A flow'r so fair and bright, Life in ate future no bliss can im' rt. A I'.OW, r an Mr and bright. Since fate has aunder'd w- ' t fromheart . ll.r m.slcst form so soft, so inc. k, By those glad bow'rs, "With morning radiance dy'.l, Where oft we've roved, Beam'.! like the lovely, blushing check In you'hbi! hours. Of Borne young village bride, Loving and loved, The blushing check of some young bride. Ah ! ne'er again Joy bids ua to meet, But soon a storm dark o'er th. Stealing our heart with pbjasurca so sweet Its mountain fun Mem '17 alone, 'loud, .1 ill the twilight pale, Lends one bleat thought The Imely roao lay it Live calls its own Tin- lovely rose lay dead. And ntle mind Teal thou wih welcome the tear and the sigh, under sorrow's dart— Grieving o'er joys and days gone by! iss bui leaves behind tod heart, BY TIIK WAVES. Too oft a blighted heart. By the aad aea waves, I listen while they moan BMLLB ACAIN. * A lament over graven Of hope an.l pleasure gone. Smile again, my bonnie lassie, I am young, I was fair, Lass, iin; I once had not a care, Pr'ythee do not frown, sw.ct lassie, From the rising of the morn For pain. To the setting of the sun. If to! rely , pine like a slave 1!.- a fault in me By the sad sea wave, Thus to use me ao aevercly Come again bright days Is not kind in I] Of hope and pleasure gone. Oh, smile again, n isate, From my care last night, Las mi ; By the holy sleep beguiled, Oh, 10 ii.- lassie, In the fair-dream ligbt, Pr'ythee smile I -MV BMBSM HJ"'I) LaM BBBMBML Fare the w.-ll, my bonnie lassie, 0 how sweet 'mid the dew, Laasi. v. .-Il: Every flower that I knew Time will show tl male, Breathd a gentle welcome hack t.-ll. To the worn and weary chad. Thong! n'.l by fate tosever, 1 awake in my grave, An! part, lie aad aea wave; me thou •hah aver Come again, dear dream, Own my faithful ' So peacefully that smiled. H.N 13. 1 smile again, Ac NEW BOOKS ROW IN COt'iar, OF PUBLICATION By W. F. BI H<.1>N, 'i'i Ann Street, rVsw-YorlU 5KW atOTBi R AI.KXAMHiU DUMAS. THE BUCK TULIP. Tranalated by FAVITTE ROBINSON. Price. —This work will be ready on or about the 20th of October. n THIKli Vtil.lML 01 DOW, .M'NiOR's 8EEM0I. Now ready. Price, 25 cents The first ai i olumea of these celebrated 8cm- MONS are now bound up in one into. THE LADDER OF (Jol/D. 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