and light
perception
of folly," the incisive
speech, and the delicate play of fancy,
A NEW version of 'Edipus Rex,' by Mr.
speech, and the delicate play of fancy,
A NEW version of 'Edipus Rex,' by Mr.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
8.
30, Bechstein Hall.
Sat.
Chappell Ballad Concert, 2. 30, Queen's Hall.
Norman Wilks's Pianoforte Recital, 3. Bechstein Hall.
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total of receipts. M. Roll, the President of
by Mrs. George Cornwallis-West in support
the Society, attributes this diminution to
Under
of the Shakespeare Memorial Fund.
Musical Gossip.
the competition of an ever-increasing number
the conductorship of Sir Henry J. Wood,
of minor exhibitions, which distract atten.
Last Saturday afternoon M. Egon Petri orchestral concerts will be given every
tion from the larger Salons. In order to
combat this decrease in visitors and sales, gave the first of three pianoforte recitals Saturday. There will also be sixteenth-
. Liszt wrote three century concerts in the “ Fortune Theatre,
M. Roll is convinced that it is now necessary sets of pieces entitled * Les Années de under the combined leadership of Miss
to discourage as strongly as possible those Pélerinages, and all are
to be given. Chaplin and Mr. Groell.
individual exhibitions which have proved so
The first contains nine numbers, some of
inimical to what he contends are the more
which, such as the “ Pastorale,' Au bord
democratic interests of collective Salons.
d'une source,' and 'Eglogue,' are delight. Sun.
Sunday Concert Society, 3. 30, Queen's Hall.
M. LÉON BÉRARD, the new French Underful, and were performed with rare
taste.
Secretary for Fine Arts, has announced his and
Tuxs. , WED. Fri. , Sar. London Opera House.
Others, however, proved
intention of opening the collections of the less interesting. The pianist has a fine
Louvre more freely to the public, and his touch, masterly technique, and full under-
opposition to the institution of any paying standing of all he interprets; but his Royal Choral Socioty, 8. Albert Hall.
days. ". M. Bérard has also expressed his fortes are at times overpowering, and this
hope that the Luxembourg Museum may was particularly the case in No. 5, 'Orage,'
be transferred to its new home in the
CA
a piece in which forte up to a high degree is
Seminary of St. Sulpice at an early date, naturally permissible. But in loud passages
Thomas Dunhill's Concert, 3. 16, Steinway Hall.
and proposes to approach the Municipality generally M. Petri seemed to lose
all
of Paris with a view to the creation of a control over his fingers and feelings. Of
worthier and more complete museum of Weber's romantic and seldom heard Šonata
decorative art.
in a flat he gave a rendering instinct with
life and poetry.
On Friday evening next Mr. William
Archer is to deliver the third Conway
THE fourth concert of the 100th season
DRAMA
Memorial Lecture at South Place Chapel, of the Philharmonic Society, took place
Finsbury, his subject being · Art and the last Thursday week at Queen's Hall. Mr.
Commonweal. ' Ńr. Israel Zangwill will Percy Pitt's Symphony in G minor, originally
preside, and admission will be free.
produced at the Birmingham Festival of
1906, was, unfortunately, placed right at
* THE EASIEST WAY' AT THE
The projected Danish Art Exhibition at the end of a very long programme. It
GLOBE.
Brighton will be opened on April 1st, the is a work on which he has evidently
pictures being selected by the Danish Com spent much thought, so that one would
THE author of "Paid in Full’ has
mittee, consisting of the artists Willumsen, like to hear it again under more favourable earned the right to an attentive hearing;
Skovgaard, Dorph, and others.
conditions. The music is cleverly scored. on the strength of that interesting work
WE regret to have to record the death M. Cortot played the piano part of Beet- we have learnt to anticipate from Mr.
of Charles William Sherborn, the engraver,
hoven's Concerto in E flat. He is a brilliant Eugene Walter drama of some ideas, and
who died last Sunday night. His eldest performer, but we have heard more emo-
drama also which is rather violent and
son will issue in due course a sketch of tional readings of the work. _An exceedingly
explosive. There is no lack of intelligence
his father's life, and an authentic list of his fine performance of Sir Edward Elgar's
plates.
'Enigma' Variations was given under the in his new Globe play, though its "psy-
direction of the composer.
chology” is of the cut-and-dried sort,
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION announce that
the Queen has presented to the Indian On Monday evening the programme of and its unconventionality has its amusingly
Section o the Victoria and Albert Museum the London Symphony Orchestra at Queen's stern conventions ; his study of a frail
a series of examples of Moghul, Rajput, and
Hall included Mr. Joseph Holbrooke's woman's frailty is carried through with
Tibetan industrial art of considerable beauty its production at the Crystal Palace twelve obviously devoted much attention to
symphonic poem 'The Raven,' which, since a grim if shallow consistency, and he has
and interest, The most important among
them is the toilet-tray of a Moghul princess,
years ago, has been revised.
It was con analysis of the temperament and weak-
of rock crystal, exquisitely carved and
ducted by the composer. On account of
nesses of her type.
the mournful character of Edgar Poe's
But the note of his
drilled with repetitions of a flowering plant
poem,
motive; the sunk decoration was originally
it is difficult to illustrate by music without piece is one of unrestrained and almost
jewelled in the approved Moghul manner,
the risk of becoming monotonous. Mr. tempestuous energy. His men and women
that is to say, the hollows were inlaid or
Holbrooke, by impressive moments and by seem always at a fever heat of intensity ;
filled in with soft gold, set with cabochon clever orchestration, avoids to some extent when they are not storming at each other
rubies and emeralds. This tray was made in
that danger. Sir Edward Elgar, who in bursts of passion, they are bubbling
Delhi during the sixteenth or seventeenth appeared for the last time this season,
over with exuberance and must shout at
conducted Brahms's Tragic Overture and
century, and was evidently the work of one Schumann's Symphony in c.
of the celebrated jewellers attached either
Mr. Jules the top of their voices. Their diction, too,
to the Court of Akbar the Great or that of Wertheim's rendering of the pianoforte is correspondingly vigorous—full of strange
one of his immediate successors. A depres-
part of Saint-Saëns's Concerto in G minor American idioms, taken from the tap-
sion in the centre marks the place where the
was very good, but it lacked the brightness room or the warehouse, piquant to the
Begum's toilet-box, also of jewelled crystal, and elasticity of tone which the music point of harshness, expressive in the very
would have rested.
imperatively demands,
crudity of its metaphors, and enormously
The gift comprises, among other beautiful
The concert of the London Choral Society alive. Thus 'The Easiest Way' may be
things, two perfume-boxes (attardán), silver at Queen's Hall on Wednesday evening began said to leave two different impressions
gilt,
decorated with translucent enamelling, with Bach's short Mass in F, which is not in
made in Lucknow during the seventeenth
on the mind-one of boisterous restless-
his grand style. Next
Brahms's
century, and formerly the personal pro- Rhapsody' for contralto solo and male ness, which is only vital force in excess ;
the other of a complacent disregard of the
perty of Wajid Ali Shah, the last King of chorus, and finally Beethoven's Mass in D.
Oudh. The one has a floral-diaper design The performances, especially the last one, subtleties of art or insight.
filled in with cobalt-blue enamel; the other showed goodwill on the part of soloists and Laura Murdock, like the heroine of
is decorated with animals and floral motives choir, but as regards ensemble, intonation, Sir. A. W. Pinero's Iris,' is a woman whose
in cobalt-blue, copper-green,
and
manganese-
and light and shade, much was wanting.
slavery to luxury will not permit her the
purple enamels.
MR. GRANVILLE BANTOCK'S ' Omar Khay- gratification of an honest love that
dán), or box to hold the writer's equipment, Musikfreunde, Vienna, last Wednesday under and, just as the theme of the two writers
There is also a Moghul kalamdán (oalam- yam' was performed at the Gesellschaft der involves poverty and personal discomfort,
of ivory carved in low relief with rosette the direction of Herr Franz Schalk. The
medallions, conventional flowers and leaf German text was the work of the secretary-
is similar, so is the solution of their
motives in long panels. It was made in Delhi general of the society. A cordial reception problem. But there is a world of differ-
early in the seventeenth century, probably was accorded both to the composer and his
was accorded both to the composer and his ence between the elaborate painstaking
in the reign of Shah Jahan, and is a
clever work.
magni-
of the English dramatist and the rough-
ficent specimen of the refined low-relief style Music will be a special feature of “Shake. and-ready methods of his American col-
which dominated throughout the Moghul speare's England," the forthcoming exhibi- league. Every mood of Iris, every refine-
period.
tion at Earl's Court, which is being organized ment of feeling or hesitation of judgment,
came
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was laid before us ; Mr. Walter's light player possessed, and the gift which all who was he willing to get the Englishman new
women never take long in making their met him acknowledged he had, of changing
met him acknowledged he had, of changing lamps or dancers, sign contracts for him,
decisions, for they always follow the his face to suit the character he was repre- soothe neglected correspondents, dispatch
line of least resistance. The one woman
senting, Dr. Hedgcock suggests that in engravings and new French plays, and act
early days there
is dissected nerve by nerve, the other is emphatic and theatrical in Garrick’s gestures he also kept Mrs. Garrick coached in the
was something over- as cicerone to his comrade's acquaintances ;
more or less externally observed and
and business," and concludes that the latest Paris fashions, and secured for her
portrayed, with the result that Sir increase of ease and distinction noticeable laces and petticoats; and he even stopped a
Arthur provides a true tragedy, whereas in his style after his sojourn in France flirtation of one of Garrick's nieces with an
Mr. Walter's play must be described, must not be put down to the influence of ineligible French officer, and packed the
notwithstanding the vitality of its charac-
the French comedians he saw, unless it is little miss off to England and safety. The
Monnet
ters, as problem-melodrama:
to be described as a negative influence, nay, letters of both men do them credit.
In order to prove that the conventions
a revolt from their bombast and attitudiniz. is the most obliging of “universal providers,”
ing.
to quote Dr. Hedgcock's term, and Garrick,
of the new melodrama are as rigid in their
Dr. Hedgcock has an amusing section amid all the pressure of professional and
fashion as those of the old, it is only neces- on Garrick as a devotee of Shakespeare, and social engagements, reveals himself as
sary to point out how Brockton, the points out that, while the admiration was grateful, kind-hearted, generous, and lavish
actress's protector-lover, can pardon in- genuine enough, and helped largely to give in return for services and hospitality.
fidelity in the woman, but not her making the English actor his vogue in France,
him a liar or a falsifier of his word in the coming there as he did in a moment of An Actor's Hamlet. By Louis Calvert.
eyes of his rival. Madison, her journalist Anglomania and reaction from the classical Edited by Metcalfe Wood. (Mills & Boon. )
traditions of the drama, yet the autocrat -Mr. Calvert's study of the character and
husband, again, has ideals about of Drury Lane was too much in sympathy mental condition of Hamlet is founded
chastity, and knows Laura's “ past,” but with the average tone of criticism in France solely upon consideration of what Hamlet
cannot forgive her a second lapse which not to accept some of its dicta as to Shake says and does. From this examination he
has, after all, only been brought about speare's barbarism. ” Indeed, it was in concludes and attentive readers must agree
by the old conditions and privations obedience to canons of art formulated first with him—that it is an error to suppose
recurring. Both men ultimately abandon by French savants, and adopted generally Hamlet drawn as the irresolute man of
her, and she is left, after a futile threat by eighteenth-century "intellectuals,” that thought, contrasted with Fortinbras, the
ho tried to correct the English poet's sup- man of action. Indeed, the idea of a
of suicide, ordering her maid to paint her posed lapses of taste, and so botched Ham division between thought and action is one
face and deck her out for further excur- let,'* Romeo and Juliet,'' The Tempest,' and not at all likely to have presented itself to the
sions along “ the easiest way. ”
A Midsummer Night's Dream in a way mind of an Elizabethan. When, however, Mr.
The acting at the Globe is as strenuously that is remembered now only to be laughed Calvert begins to dwell insistently upon the
earnest as the play. Mr. Guy Standing's at.
reality of Hamlet's madness, we are obliged
Brockton combines effectively brutality
About his first trip to Paris Garrick to remember that madness is a state subject
and cynicism, and has a fine masterful always preserved a discreet silence, due, to great differences of definition, and that
Dr. Hedgcock seems to think, to the visitor's everything turns upon the interpretation of
way with him. Mr. Godfrey Tearle's
attempting to draw away dancers from the the term. The rough-and-ready classifica-
Madison has the right air of good-natured Opera, and so in all innocence being guilty tion of the law courts reckons no man insane
egotism, and a vocabulary that is enter- of a political crime. However that may be, who can distinguish between right and wrong.
taining and picturesque. Miss Nelson this visit brought about his association with By this criterion, Hamlet was assuredly sane.
Hall offers a very full - blooded portrait a distinguished, if flighty ballet-master, whose Mr. Calvert himself acknowledge the conduct
of a courtesan past her prime; and Mr.
att Fétes Chinoises produced anti-French riots of the prince in the last scene to be rational,
0. B. Clarence's showman, and Miss
at Drury Lane, and whose art owed much and has to explain this condition as an
Violet Rand's negress attendant-though example. Noverre, the person in question, shock. That Hamlet, in
as to its later developments to Garrick’s instance of mental recovery after a second
a position of
both persons are unnecessary to the plot was the creator of the ballet pantomime, in singular horror, fell into a state of extreme
afford diversion at their every appearance. which dancers tell a story by means of nervous tension is plain, and that only a
Miss Sarah Brooke plays the heroine's gestures and movements, as distinct from narrow line divides such a state from
scenes with the requisite vehemence of the
divertissement, and Dr. Hedgcock madness may be conceded. But, surely,
is little in Hamlet's behaviour
declamation, but she conveys the idea — insists that it was from watching Garrick there
which
that the Frenchman learnt the possibilities that goes beyond that of a highly strung
may
be the author's—that Laura's
of dumb show, and therefore of “choreo- nature in a condition of strong emotional
emotions are largely on the surface.
graphic ” drama.
disturbance; and some of Mr. Calvert's con-
Garrick would seem, during his Paris stay, firmatory circumstances are not very good
to have cultivated mainly the society of the evidence. When, for example, Hamlet fails
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
philosophers and Encyclopædists, and among to kill the King, are we really to see in this
them, of course, was Diderot. Dr. Hedg- omission the hesitancy of impaired will ?
In David Garrick and his French Friends cock argues that the change which came
Is it not rather the truth that Hamlet,
(Stanley Paul), a work written
over the author of 'Le Paradoxe sur le incapable of killing in cold blood, is clever
thesis for its author's Paris University Comédien,' as marked in the difference of enough to appease himself with specious
degree, and now translated from the French point of view to be seen in his early writings reasons ? __Nor is it just to assume that
and enlarged by certain attractive digres. on the art of acting and in this far-famed because, Hamlet is not shown discussing
sions, Dr. Frank A. Hedgcock contributes document, may well be put down to the Ophelia's death with Horatio, he must
a welcome because really scholarly addition impact of Garrick’s personality, and that have forgotten all about it. Even, however,
to the biography of England's greatest
actor. the final pronouncements may echo chats if Mr. Calvert carries his theory too far, he
His aim has been to tap Garrick's French he had with Diderot on stagecraft.
does a service to lovers of 'Hamlet' by
correspondence, hardly used hitherto; to Of the French correspondents of Garrick, setting them to consider afresh the amazing
describe his friendships with such players perhaps the most interesting were Madame depth and richness of its central character.
as Le Kain and Préville, such authors or Riccoboni and Monnet. The former, an
journalists as Favart, Suard, and De la ex-actress and novelist in the Rousseau Three Comedies. By Ludvig Holberg.
Place and such whole-hearted admirers manner, maintained in her letters a sort of Translated by Lieut. -Col. H. W. L. Hime.
of his as the Abbé Morellet, Madame Ricco- platonic ardour for the busy actor-manager, | (Longmans. Holberg wrote several valu-
boni, and Jean Monnet; and to give (for and wrote an extraordinarily spasmodic able and laborious works in addition to the
the first time) adequate details of the and exuberant, not to say hysterical, style. thirty-three comedies,” says his translator.
"English Roscius's two visits to Paris. Three only of Garrick's replies have been Several other laborious works
He has also estimated briefly, but interest- preserved, and these, which the biographer inclined to say. A close intrigue, com-
ingly from a French point of view, the various quotes, exhibit the recipient of such enthu pounded of crabbed fathers, melting heroines
aspects of Garrick's activity, throwing here siasm striving gallantly to respond to the and equally melting heroes, subtle maids and
and there fresh light on the subject of his lady's effusiveness, but finding the task valets, villains balked by disguises which
appreciation. Urging, as others have, that increasingly difficult as they grew older. are resolved in the last act by a simple
not a little of the actor's sprightliness and Monnet's friendship was of more practical recognition, and frustrated by marriages
vivacity sprang from his Gallic blood, he seeks value. A retired manager with time on arranged and legally performed with a speed
to disprove the noble birth of Garrick's his hands, he seems to have been ready to which leaves imagination toiling breath.
French ancestors. Dwelling on the versa- do
any sort of errand for Garrick, and acted lessly behind-what is there comic in it
tility and wonderful mimetic power the as his general factotum in Paris. Not only'all ? We admire the ingenious artifice, but
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Plautus. We look in vain for
the quick
the direction of Count Markievicz.
and light perception of folly," the incisive
speech, and the delicate play of fancy,
A NEW version of 'Edipus Rex,' by Mr.
JUST PUBLISHED.
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Mr. Yeats's adaptation
Plautus knew, or borrowed from his Greek
written in prose Information.
originals,
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,
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illustrating scientific instruments and experiments will
Miss Édyth Olive will appear.
MISCELLANEOUS
help to fix the names in the memory.
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MORING
LOGIC, DEDUCTIVE AND INDUCTIVE.
GRANGECOLMAN,' a new play in three MURRAY
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By CARVETH READ, M. A. , Professor of Logic at
acts, by Mr.
Sat.
Chappell Ballad Concert, 2. 30, Queen's Hall.
Norman Wilks's Pianoforte Recital, 3. Bechstein Hall.
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total of receipts. M. Roll, the President of
by Mrs. George Cornwallis-West in support
the Society, attributes this diminution to
Under
of the Shakespeare Memorial Fund.
Musical Gossip.
the competition of an ever-increasing number
the conductorship of Sir Henry J. Wood,
of minor exhibitions, which distract atten.
Last Saturday afternoon M. Egon Petri orchestral concerts will be given every
tion from the larger Salons. In order to
combat this decrease in visitors and sales, gave the first of three pianoforte recitals Saturday. There will also be sixteenth-
. Liszt wrote three century concerts in the “ Fortune Theatre,
M. Roll is convinced that it is now necessary sets of pieces entitled * Les Années de under the combined leadership of Miss
to discourage as strongly as possible those Pélerinages, and all are
to be given. Chaplin and Mr. Groell.
individual exhibitions which have proved so
The first contains nine numbers, some of
inimical to what he contends are the more
which, such as the “ Pastorale,' Au bord
democratic interests of collective Salons.
d'une source,' and 'Eglogue,' are delight. Sun.
Sunday Concert Society, 3. 30, Queen's Hall.
M. LÉON BÉRARD, the new French Underful, and were performed with rare
taste.
Secretary for Fine Arts, has announced his and
Tuxs. , WED. Fri. , Sar. London Opera House.
Others, however, proved
intention of opening the collections of the less interesting. The pianist has a fine
Louvre more freely to the public, and his touch, masterly technique, and full under-
opposition to the institution of any paying standing of all he interprets; but his Royal Choral Socioty, 8. Albert Hall.
days. ". M. Bérard has also expressed his fortes are at times overpowering, and this
hope that the Luxembourg Museum may was particularly the case in No. 5, 'Orage,'
be transferred to its new home in the
CA
a piece in which forte up to a high degree is
Seminary of St. Sulpice at an early date, naturally permissible. But in loud passages
Thomas Dunhill's Concert, 3. 16, Steinway Hall.
and proposes to approach the Municipality generally M. Petri seemed to lose
all
of Paris with a view to the creation of a control over his fingers and feelings. Of
worthier and more complete museum of Weber's romantic and seldom heard Šonata
decorative art.
in a flat he gave a rendering instinct with
life and poetry.
On Friday evening next Mr. William
Archer is to deliver the third Conway
THE fourth concert of the 100th season
DRAMA
Memorial Lecture at South Place Chapel, of the Philharmonic Society, took place
Finsbury, his subject being · Art and the last Thursday week at Queen's Hall. Mr.
Commonweal. ' Ńr. Israel Zangwill will Percy Pitt's Symphony in G minor, originally
preside, and admission will be free.
produced at the Birmingham Festival of
1906, was, unfortunately, placed right at
* THE EASIEST WAY' AT THE
The projected Danish Art Exhibition at the end of a very long programme. It
GLOBE.
Brighton will be opened on April 1st, the is a work on which he has evidently
pictures being selected by the Danish Com spent much thought, so that one would
THE author of "Paid in Full’ has
mittee, consisting of the artists Willumsen, like to hear it again under more favourable earned the right to an attentive hearing;
Skovgaard, Dorph, and others.
conditions. The music is cleverly scored. on the strength of that interesting work
WE regret to have to record the death M. Cortot played the piano part of Beet- we have learnt to anticipate from Mr.
of Charles William Sherborn, the engraver,
hoven's Concerto in E flat. He is a brilliant Eugene Walter drama of some ideas, and
who died last Sunday night. His eldest performer, but we have heard more emo-
drama also which is rather violent and
son will issue in due course a sketch of tional readings of the work. _An exceedingly
explosive. There is no lack of intelligence
his father's life, and an authentic list of his fine performance of Sir Edward Elgar's
plates.
'Enigma' Variations was given under the in his new Globe play, though its "psy-
direction of the composer.
chology” is of the cut-and-dried sort,
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION announce that
the Queen has presented to the Indian On Monday evening the programme of and its unconventionality has its amusingly
Section o the Victoria and Albert Museum the London Symphony Orchestra at Queen's stern conventions ; his study of a frail
a series of examples of Moghul, Rajput, and
Hall included Mr. Joseph Holbrooke's woman's frailty is carried through with
Tibetan industrial art of considerable beauty its production at the Crystal Palace twelve obviously devoted much attention to
symphonic poem 'The Raven,' which, since a grim if shallow consistency, and he has
and interest, The most important among
them is the toilet-tray of a Moghul princess,
years ago, has been revised.
It was con analysis of the temperament and weak-
of rock crystal, exquisitely carved and
ducted by the composer. On account of
nesses of her type.
the mournful character of Edgar Poe's
But the note of his
drilled with repetitions of a flowering plant
poem,
motive; the sunk decoration was originally
it is difficult to illustrate by music without piece is one of unrestrained and almost
jewelled in the approved Moghul manner,
the risk of becoming monotonous. Mr. tempestuous energy. His men and women
that is to say, the hollows were inlaid or
Holbrooke, by impressive moments and by seem always at a fever heat of intensity ;
filled in with soft gold, set with cabochon clever orchestration, avoids to some extent when they are not storming at each other
rubies and emeralds. This tray was made in
that danger. Sir Edward Elgar, who in bursts of passion, they are bubbling
Delhi during the sixteenth or seventeenth appeared for the last time this season,
over with exuberance and must shout at
conducted Brahms's Tragic Overture and
century, and was evidently the work of one Schumann's Symphony in c.
of the celebrated jewellers attached either
Mr. Jules the top of their voices. Their diction, too,
to the Court of Akbar the Great or that of Wertheim's rendering of the pianoforte is correspondingly vigorous—full of strange
one of his immediate successors. A depres-
part of Saint-Saëns's Concerto in G minor American idioms, taken from the tap-
sion in the centre marks the place where the
was very good, but it lacked the brightness room or the warehouse, piquant to the
Begum's toilet-box, also of jewelled crystal, and elasticity of tone which the music point of harshness, expressive in the very
would have rested.
imperatively demands,
crudity of its metaphors, and enormously
The gift comprises, among other beautiful
The concert of the London Choral Society alive. Thus 'The Easiest Way' may be
things, two perfume-boxes (attardán), silver at Queen's Hall on Wednesday evening began said to leave two different impressions
gilt,
decorated with translucent enamelling, with Bach's short Mass in F, which is not in
made in Lucknow during the seventeenth
on the mind-one of boisterous restless-
his grand style. Next
Brahms's
century, and formerly the personal pro- Rhapsody' for contralto solo and male ness, which is only vital force in excess ;
the other of a complacent disregard of the
perty of Wajid Ali Shah, the last King of chorus, and finally Beethoven's Mass in D.
Oudh. The one has a floral-diaper design The performances, especially the last one, subtleties of art or insight.
filled in with cobalt-blue enamel; the other showed goodwill on the part of soloists and Laura Murdock, like the heroine of
is decorated with animals and floral motives choir, but as regards ensemble, intonation, Sir. A. W. Pinero's Iris,' is a woman whose
in cobalt-blue, copper-green,
and
manganese-
and light and shade, much was wanting.
slavery to luxury will not permit her the
purple enamels.
MR. GRANVILLE BANTOCK'S ' Omar Khay- gratification of an honest love that
dán), or box to hold the writer's equipment, Musikfreunde, Vienna, last Wednesday under and, just as the theme of the two writers
There is also a Moghul kalamdán (oalam- yam' was performed at the Gesellschaft der involves poverty and personal discomfort,
of ivory carved in low relief with rosette the direction of Herr Franz Schalk. The
medallions, conventional flowers and leaf German text was the work of the secretary-
is similar, so is the solution of their
motives in long panels. It was made in Delhi general of the society. A cordial reception problem. But there is a world of differ-
early in the seventeenth century, probably was accorded both to the composer and his
was accorded both to the composer and his ence between the elaborate painstaking
in the reign of Shah Jahan, and is a
clever work.
magni-
of the English dramatist and the rough-
ficent specimen of the refined low-relief style Music will be a special feature of “Shake. and-ready methods of his American col-
which dominated throughout the Moghul speare's England," the forthcoming exhibi- league. Every mood of Iris, every refine-
period.
tion at Earl's Court, which is being organized ment of feeling or hesitation of judgment,
came
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was laid before us ; Mr. Walter's light player possessed, and the gift which all who was he willing to get the Englishman new
women never take long in making their met him acknowledged he had, of changing
met him acknowledged he had, of changing lamps or dancers, sign contracts for him,
decisions, for they always follow the his face to suit the character he was repre- soothe neglected correspondents, dispatch
line of least resistance. The one woman
senting, Dr. Hedgcock suggests that in engravings and new French plays, and act
early days there
is dissected nerve by nerve, the other is emphatic and theatrical in Garrick’s gestures he also kept Mrs. Garrick coached in the
was something over- as cicerone to his comrade's acquaintances ;
more or less externally observed and
and business," and concludes that the latest Paris fashions, and secured for her
portrayed, with the result that Sir increase of ease and distinction noticeable laces and petticoats; and he even stopped a
Arthur provides a true tragedy, whereas in his style after his sojourn in France flirtation of one of Garrick's nieces with an
Mr. Walter's play must be described, must not be put down to the influence of ineligible French officer, and packed the
notwithstanding the vitality of its charac-
the French comedians he saw, unless it is little miss off to England and safety. The
Monnet
ters, as problem-melodrama:
to be described as a negative influence, nay, letters of both men do them credit.
In order to prove that the conventions
a revolt from their bombast and attitudiniz. is the most obliging of “universal providers,”
ing.
to quote Dr. Hedgcock's term, and Garrick,
of the new melodrama are as rigid in their
Dr. Hedgcock has an amusing section amid all the pressure of professional and
fashion as those of the old, it is only neces- on Garrick as a devotee of Shakespeare, and social engagements, reveals himself as
sary to point out how Brockton, the points out that, while the admiration was grateful, kind-hearted, generous, and lavish
actress's protector-lover, can pardon in- genuine enough, and helped largely to give in return for services and hospitality.
fidelity in the woman, but not her making the English actor his vogue in France,
him a liar or a falsifier of his word in the coming there as he did in a moment of An Actor's Hamlet. By Louis Calvert.
eyes of his rival. Madison, her journalist Anglomania and reaction from the classical Edited by Metcalfe Wood. (Mills & Boon. )
traditions of the drama, yet the autocrat -Mr. Calvert's study of the character and
husband, again, has ideals about of Drury Lane was too much in sympathy mental condition of Hamlet is founded
chastity, and knows Laura's “ past,” but with the average tone of criticism in France solely upon consideration of what Hamlet
cannot forgive her a second lapse which not to accept some of its dicta as to Shake says and does. From this examination he
has, after all, only been brought about speare's barbarism. ” Indeed, it was in concludes and attentive readers must agree
by the old conditions and privations obedience to canons of art formulated first with him—that it is an error to suppose
recurring. Both men ultimately abandon by French savants, and adopted generally Hamlet drawn as the irresolute man of
her, and she is left, after a futile threat by eighteenth-century "intellectuals,” that thought, contrasted with Fortinbras, the
ho tried to correct the English poet's sup- man of action. Indeed, the idea of a
of suicide, ordering her maid to paint her posed lapses of taste, and so botched Ham division between thought and action is one
face and deck her out for further excur- let,'* Romeo and Juliet,'' The Tempest,' and not at all likely to have presented itself to the
sions along “ the easiest way. ”
A Midsummer Night's Dream in a way mind of an Elizabethan. When, however, Mr.
The acting at the Globe is as strenuously that is remembered now only to be laughed Calvert begins to dwell insistently upon the
earnest as the play. Mr. Guy Standing's at.
reality of Hamlet's madness, we are obliged
Brockton combines effectively brutality
About his first trip to Paris Garrick to remember that madness is a state subject
and cynicism, and has a fine masterful always preserved a discreet silence, due, to great differences of definition, and that
Dr. Hedgcock seems to think, to the visitor's everything turns upon the interpretation of
way with him. Mr. Godfrey Tearle's
attempting to draw away dancers from the the term. The rough-and-ready classifica-
Madison has the right air of good-natured Opera, and so in all innocence being guilty tion of the law courts reckons no man insane
egotism, and a vocabulary that is enter- of a political crime. However that may be, who can distinguish between right and wrong.
taining and picturesque. Miss Nelson this visit brought about his association with By this criterion, Hamlet was assuredly sane.
Hall offers a very full - blooded portrait a distinguished, if flighty ballet-master, whose Mr. Calvert himself acknowledge the conduct
of a courtesan past her prime; and Mr.
att Fétes Chinoises produced anti-French riots of the prince in the last scene to be rational,
0. B. Clarence's showman, and Miss
at Drury Lane, and whose art owed much and has to explain this condition as an
Violet Rand's negress attendant-though example. Noverre, the person in question, shock. That Hamlet, in
as to its later developments to Garrick’s instance of mental recovery after a second
a position of
both persons are unnecessary to the plot was the creator of the ballet pantomime, in singular horror, fell into a state of extreme
afford diversion at their every appearance. which dancers tell a story by means of nervous tension is plain, and that only a
Miss Sarah Brooke plays the heroine's gestures and movements, as distinct from narrow line divides such a state from
scenes with the requisite vehemence of the
divertissement, and Dr. Hedgcock madness may be conceded. But, surely,
is little in Hamlet's behaviour
declamation, but she conveys the idea — insists that it was from watching Garrick there
which
that the Frenchman learnt the possibilities that goes beyond that of a highly strung
may
be the author's—that Laura's
of dumb show, and therefore of “choreo- nature in a condition of strong emotional
emotions are largely on the surface.
graphic ” drama.
disturbance; and some of Mr. Calvert's con-
Garrick would seem, during his Paris stay, firmatory circumstances are not very good
to have cultivated mainly the society of the evidence. When, for example, Hamlet fails
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
philosophers and Encyclopædists, and among to kill the King, are we really to see in this
them, of course, was Diderot. Dr. Hedg- omission the hesitancy of impaired will ?
In David Garrick and his French Friends cock argues that the change which came
Is it not rather the truth that Hamlet,
(Stanley Paul), a work written
over the author of 'Le Paradoxe sur le incapable of killing in cold blood, is clever
thesis for its author's Paris University Comédien,' as marked in the difference of enough to appease himself with specious
degree, and now translated from the French point of view to be seen in his early writings reasons ? __Nor is it just to assume that
and enlarged by certain attractive digres. on the art of acting and in this far-famed because, Hamlet is not shown discussing
sions, Dr. Frank A. Hedgcock contributes document, may well be put down to the Ophelia's death with Horatio, he must
a welcome because really scholarly addition impact of Garrick’s personality, and that have forgotten all about it. Even, however,
to the biography of England's greatest
actor. the final pronouncements may echo chats if Mr. Calvert carries his theory too far, he
His aim has been to tap Garrick's French he had with Diderot on stagecraft.
does a service to lovers of 'Hamlet' by
correspondence, hardly used hitherto; to Of the French correspondents of Garrick, setting them to consider afresh the amazing
describe his friendships with such players perhaps the most interesting were Madame depth and richness of its central character.
as Le Kain and Préville, such authors or Riccoboni and Monnet. The former, an
journalists as Favart, Suard, and De la ex-actress and novelist in the Rousseau Three Comedies. By Ludvig Holberg.
Place and such whole-hearted admirers manner, maintained in her letters a sort of Translated by Lieut. -Col. H. W. L. Hime.
of his as the Abbé Morellet, Madame Ricco- platonic ardour for the busy actor-manager, | (Longmans. Holberg wrote several valu-
boni, and Jean Monnet; and to give (for and wrote an extraordinarily spasmodic able and laborious works in addition to the
the first time) adequate details of the and exuberant, not to say hysterical, style. thirty-three comedies,” says his translator.
"English Roscius's two visits to Paris. Three only of Garrick's replies have been Several other laborious works
He has also estimated briefly, but interest- preserved, and these, which the biographer inclined to say. A close intrigue, com-
ingly from a French point of view, the various quotes, exhibit the recipient of such enthu pounded of crabbed fathers, melting heroines
aspects of Garrick's activity, throwing here siasm striving gallantly to respond to the and equally melting heroes, subtle maids and
and there fresh light on the subject of his lady's effusiveness, but finding the task valets, villains balked by disguises which
appreciation. Urging, as others have, that increasingly difficult as they grew older. are resolved in the last act by a simple
not a little of the actor's sprightliness and Monnet's friendship was of more practical recognition, and frustrated by marriages
vivacity sprang from his Gallic blood, he seeks value. A retired manager with time on arranged and legally performed with a speed
to disprove the noble birth of Garrick's his hands, he seems to have been ready to which leaves imagination toiling breath.
French ancestors. Dwelling on the versa- do
any sort of errand for Garrick, and acted lessly behind-what is there comic in it
tility and wonderful mimetic power the as his general factotum in Paris. Not only'all ? We admire the ingenious artifice, but
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Tintagiles,' by Mr. Alfred Sutro, in which
METHUEN & Co.
illustrating scientific instruments and experiments will
Miss Édyth Olive will appear.
MISCELLANEOUS
help to fix the names in the memory.
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LOGIC, DEDUCTIVE AND INDUCTIVE.
GRANGECOLMAN,' a new play in three MURRAY
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By CARVETH READ, M. A. , Professor of Logic at
acts, by Mr.
