PRICE 25 CENTS. JBlKATJTOirkH.Y H1LIL terser IRAKIS ID. <4r^~?z*£iHt <*s wa k. \ ^ ^ r4^ ^ t5*fC 'o I w , rt& DUTIFUL tH*^, vf BY s • NEW-YORK • v.:-- ill. J. UurgcB0, 22 2m\ ttvul §j] TH E LIFE AND GENIUS OF IIHMI no ffc»8erk: IU. 5. Bttrge*0, 22 Sinn 0trett 0* 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kept a school and therefore diaoountenanoed the proj much reapeoted by all who Hut all opposition waa ultimately withdrawn knew them for th.ir UToMlr of conduct; b the Importunities of Madam lam,!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 ALi< OF JENNY LIND. 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.