as critics; and to the
restoration
of the fifth
aot to the stage by Edmund Kean.
aot to the stage by Edmund Kean.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
de Keyser, Herr Adolphus Munster of Cologne
and his Wife (a pair),
the gentleman in black dress DR. ÉDOUARD NAVILLE has just pub- of musicians; also letters, previously un-
with white lace collar, and black cloak drawn lished two Funerary Papyri of the Twenty- published and some highly characteristic,
round him, the lady'in black dress with gold First Dynasty, one being that made for by Mendelssohn (with whom Davison had
stomacher, large white ruff, and white lace cuffs, Queen Kamara in hieroglyphics, and the been intimate long before he began to
6511. Renbrandt, Portrait of an Old Man, in
dark dress edged with fur, and large dark cap with
other (in hieratic) for a priest named Nesi- write for The Times), Berlioz, Gounod,
feather ; seated, holding a stick in his hand, 3151. khonsu, of whom nothing is otherwise known. Jullien, Macfarren, and Sterndale Bennett.
A pastel by F. Cotes, Portrait of a Lady, in the peculiarity of the Kamara example is There was one quality in Davison which
blue and white dress and pink cloak, fetched 3041. that, while the hieroglyphs are clearly and
deserves mention,
well executed, it is evident that the vignettes
especially at the
were considered by the scribe as of more present day, when interest in music by
importance than the text. The other shows British composers is increasing at home
JAPANESE COLOUR-PRINTS.
the transitional period when hieroglyphic was
and abroad. This was the encouragement
WESSRS. SOTHEBY's sale of the collection of giving place to cursive writing, even for he gave to those of his time. His son tells
Japanese colour-prints formed by Sir Frank ritual documents, many words being written us that two of his maxims were: Eng-
Swettenham began on the 1st inst. , and concluded according to the older method in the midst land is not an unmusical country," and
on the 9th, among important prints being the of the running script. Both probably bear
following : Utamaro, Reflected Beauty, 941. ; witness to the gradual decay of the beliefs
“The people at large can be trusted to
301. Shunman, The Tea-house Ichiriki, triptych, towards the end of the Ramesside period latter Wagner would have been in agree-
A Reverie, 351, 108. Kunisada, Trimming a Lamp: enshrined in the Book of the Dead,' which appreciate the best music. ” With the
461. The total of the sale was 2,5101. 88. Od. fell more and more into the background. ment.
in dark dress, pith white stock and now leted contention that was independs, taccording his though he did not approve of his theories
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serve
“ ARA-
the work are naturally less satisfactory,
HERR WAGNER IN LONDON.
though, on the whole, it is an interesting
HERR SIEGFRIED WAGNER came to London experiment.
in 1895, appeared at a Wagner concert, and
conducted works by his grandfather and
The performance deserves praise. Mr.
DRAMA
father, also a Symphonic Poem of his own
Graham Marr's impersonation of the prophet
composition. For his father's sake he
was able and earnest, and in his singing he
met with a kindly reception, but he
showed skill and fervour. Miss Helen
did not show gifts, however immature,
Culver, in the Jezebel scene, also deserves NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
calculatod to raise great expectations. He
special mention. The choral singing was
(Notice in these columns does not preclude longer
has now paid another visit to London, and
effective, but the orchestra was not strong review. ]
gave a concert at the Albert Hall last Sunday
enough. Herr Richard Eckhold, the con-
afternoon.
ductor, made the most of the material at Hobson (Florence Edgar), A MODERN CRU-
His programme included excerpts from
his disposal.
A DRAMATIC PAMPHLET IN
five of the seven operas which he has pro- VERDI'S ' Aida’ is so fine an opera that
THREE ACTS, 1/ net.
Fifield
duced — the first, *Bärenhäuter,' in 1889 ; | it gives enjoyment even when performed Mrs. Hobson's dramatic pamphlet is
the latest, ‘Schwarzschwanenreich,' in 1910. indifferently, but last Monday evening more pamphlet than drama, but might
It is strange that he did not perceive the at Covent Garden there was an exceptionally perhaps be performed with effect to pro-
hopelessness of following so directly in his strong cast. The names of Madame Kirkby mote a health campaign in villages. The
father's footsteps. Had he tried some dif- Lunn and Mlle. Emmy Destinn have long sophisticated town-dweller would be apt to
ferent and less ambitious branch of the art, been associated with the rôles of Amneris take the scene in a butcher's shop rather as
he might have achieved fair success. Owing and Aida respectively, but Signor Giovanni farce than as drama.
to the influence of Wahnfried, theatre Martinelli, the now tenor, impersonated
directors were easily found to produce his Radames here for the first time, and the Ibsen (Henrik), COLLECTED WORKS : Vol.
works; but not one of his operas has pro- high expectations which he excited at his
XÌI. FROM IBSEN'S WORKSHOP, Notes,
voked discussion or excited enthusiasm. début are being fulfilled. In addition,
Scenarios, and Drafts of the Modern
He opens up no new paths; the influence of M. Ding Gilly, another excellent artist,
Plays, translated by A. G. Chater, with
his father's music on him is as natural as and M. Marcoux appeared as Amonasro and
Introduction by William Archer, 4/
Heinemann
it is strong ; but the signs of individuality Ramfis, so that the presentation of the
that would be welcomed are absent. There work was specially impressive. Signor
Vol. XII. of this pleasant edition of
is some bright writing in the ' Bruder Lustig' Panizza conducted.
Ibsen's Collected Works contains notes,
Overture, and the Kirmess-Tanz' from
scenarios, and drafts of the modern plays.
MR. ARTHUR FAGGE has been appointed There is an Introduction by Mr. Wm.
* Herzog Wildfang' is pleasing; while the
duet from his latest work—which, by the national Musical Festival which is to take emendation, and textual material. It will
a member of the committee of the Inter Archer, touching upon points of revision,
way, was ably rendered by Frau Lilli place at Paris at Whitsuntide. He will
Hafgren-Waag and Herr Walther Kirchhoff also be one of the adjudicators.
as a useful compilation of Ibsen's-
foreworks. " As in the rest of the series,
proved a mixture of conventionalism and
Tristanism. Richard Wagner's early operas
AT Leipsic next year, on May 22nd, the the print is large and clear, and the equip-
were, it is true, more or less failures; but first stone will be laid of the Max Klinger ment of the book in excellent
taste.
before he had reached the age of 42—that monument to the memory of Wagner.
of his son at the present time—he had He was born and studied here with Weinlig, Knoblauch
(Edward), KISMET, AN
BIAN NIGHT IN THREE ACTS, 2/ net.
written ‘Tannhäuser and · Lohengrin,' and and it was here too that he published his
was at work on ‘The Ring. '. From early first works, a Sonata and Polonaise for This text of the play which filled the
days he felt his strength; but his son, pianoforte. During the centenary festivities Garrick Theatre for a year may serve the
all Wagner's stage works ("Parsifal,' we purpose of recalling it to those who wit-
apparently, is not yet conscious of his weak-
What he has accomplished is the presume, included) will be given at the nessed it.
outcomo of talent and persoverance.
Stadttheater.
Menachmi (The):
ORIGINAL
His attempt to introduce folk-melodies THE seventh meeting of the Musical
SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY OF ERRORS,
into his music deserves recognition, but Association will be held at the King's Room,
the Latin Text, together with the
everything depends upon the use made of Messrs. Broadwood & Sons', next Tuesday, Elizabethan Translation, edited by
them. The Last Rose of Summer' is a when Dr. T. Lea Southgate will read a
W. H. D. Rouse, 2/6 net. Chatto
beautiful melody, but in Flotow's 'Martha' paper on Music at the Public Gardens
it only served to show the poverty of the of the Eighteenth
Century:', and examples Library contains the Latin text of the
The latest volume in the Shakespeare
composer's melodic invention.
Herr Siegfried Wagner is very quiet and and other gardens will be rendered by Messrs. Menæchmi,?
. together with Warner's spirited
pleasant
unpretentious as a conductor ; and, to speak R. B. Johnson and L. G. Stanton and other and idiomatic rendering of that
and fine conceited comedie, taken out of
frankly, the performance which he gave of artists.
the Overture to 'The Flying Dutchman,' A NEW volume of “The Musician's Library,” The translation is certainly worth reading
the most excellent wittie poet Plautus. ”':
although the London Symphony Orchestra which is published by Messrs. Macmillan for itself, though Warner is very free with
was engaged, proved disappointing.
and Messrs. Stainer & Bell jointly, will his author, and the star which marks a
appear soon. It is entitled 'A Practical
Guide to the Modern Orchestra, and is what altered, by occasion either of the time,
the Poet's conceit is some-
passage where
written by Mr. James Lyon. The author's the country, or the phrase," might have
Musical Gossip.
object is to place in the hands of composers, been sprinkled with a more liberal hand.
THE 'Elijah, in Harrison Frewin's stage conductors, and students, in the most Its connexion with Shakespeare is slight;
version, was produced at Liverpool last concise manner possible, a guide to the he may have read it in manuscript, but it
February by the Moody-Manners Company, general characteristics of the instruments
in use at the present time.
was published at least four years after
and on Tuesday was presented by the same
The Comedy of Errors' appeared. Dr.
company at the Kennington Theatre. Operas
Rouse contributes a short but useful Intro-
are frequently given on the concert platform,
duction.
and, though there is loss, a few of the older
kind bear the transplantation exceedingly Mon-Sat: Londoa Opera House, Kingsway,
Shakespeare, HISTORIES AND POEMS; and
well. The story of Elijah is strongly dra-
TRAGEDIES, 2/ each.
matic, so, indeed, are many pages of the
Oxford University Press
Mr.
A. McWhirter and Mies M. Scott's Recital, 3. 15, Steinway
scoro; and but for the strong advice of
This Shakespeare in the Oxford Editions
Pastor Schubring, who helped to prepare the
London Symphony Orchestra, 8, Queen's Hall.
of Standard Authors is now complete.
text, there would have been still more. The
James Friskin's Pianoforto Recital. 8. 30, steinway Hall. We noticed the first volume of comedies
composer, in a letter of 1838, says :-
last year.
Prof. Dowden, whose 'Shak-
spere :
his Mind and
“With regard to the dramatic element, there
Art,
still seems to be a diversity of opinion between us.
member gratefully in view of later and,
With a subject like Elijah it appears to me that Leopold stokowski's vrchostral loncert, 3. Quoon's Hall. wilder criticism, gives the reader satis-
the dramatic element should predominate, as it
Doris Woodall's
Song Recital, 3. Bechstein Hall.
factory information in his introductory
should in all Old Testament subjects, Moses,
Thornely Gibeon's Vocal Recital, 8. 15. Bechstein Hall.
perhaps, excepted,"
studies to each play, dealing with sources
The Widow scene, that on Mount Carmel,
Ernst von Lengyel's Planoforte Recital, 2, Bechstein Hall
of the story and modern investigations of
the texts, and adding brief æsthetic criticism
and Jezebel's. denunciation of Elijah are
and a word or two about the performances
impressive on the stage; but other parts of
King Lear?
nesses.
THE
OF
2
PERFORMANCES NEXT WEEK.
Bux. Special Concert 3. 30. Royal Albert Hall.
National Sunday League Concert, 7, Quoon't Hall.
Mox. -SAT. Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
Mox. Uregry Hast's Farewell Concert, 2. 4, Quoon's Ball.
Louis Persfoger's Violin Recital, 3. 18. Bechstein Hall.
Maggio Tegte's Vocal Recital, 3. 15, Æolian Hall.
Hall.
Xonia Beaver's Vocal Recital, 8. 30, Æolian Hall.
TUES. Guiomar Novaes's Pianoforte Recital, 3 Rolian Ball
St. Petersburg Quartet, 3. Bechstein Ball.
Percy Grainger's Concert, 8, Rollan Hall.
Blenn Gerhardt's Vocal Recital, 8. 15, Queen's Hall.
Robert Lortat's First Chopio Kecital, 8. 18, Bechstein Ball.
WED. Bessie Grifiths's Concort, 3. Stoinway Hall.
we
re-
Sonia Darbell's Vocal Recital, 3 30, Rollan Hall.
Donald Tovey's Last Concert, 8. 80. Rollan Hall.
THURS. Twelve o'clock Chamber Concert, Ælian Hall.
William Pitt's Vocal Recital, 3. 16,
Æolian Hall
Philharmonic Nociety, 8, Queen's Hail.
Jacques Thibaud's Violin Recital,
8. 16, Bechstein Hall.
FRI. Momorinl Concert (The Titanic Band), 3, Royal Albert Hall
of famous actors. Thus in •
Arthur Rubinstein's Pianoforte Recital, 3, Bechstoin Hall.
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season
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SO
we find references to the bibliographical
investigations of Mr. A. W. Pollard and Dr.
MR. HAROLD BRIGHOUSE, who wrote 'The
MESSRS.
W. W. Greg; to Charles Lamb, Victor
Price of Coal,' is having a new one-act play
Hugo and his son, and Dr. A. C. Bradley of Wales's, entitled . Little Red Shoes. '
of his produced on Monday at the Prince BELL'S BOOKS.
as critics; and to the restoration of the fifth
aot to the stage by Edmund Kean.
Each volume has a Glossary. The type at His Majesty's Theatre opens next Monday
The eighth annual Shakespeare Festival
is good and clear, the names of the speakers with The Merchant of Venice. ' It is to be
READY WEDNESDAY NEXT.
being given in full throughout, and the lines performed four times, and for the rest of
are numbered in fives at the side of the page. the week will be followed by Twelfth Night A CHRONICLE OF THE POPES.
The text is that of the late W. J. Craig. The and Othello,' the latter being allotted one
binding is apparently in red or blue, as we
performance.
From St. Peter to Pius X.
get the Histories in the one and the
Tragedies’ in the other.
AMONG the season's important matinées
By A. E. McKILLIAM, M. A.
Altogether, the edition is one that makes will be those at the Haymarket Theatre
Post 8vo, 78. 6d. net.
a strong appeal to the ordinary reader. on June 25th and 28th, in aid of the Keats-
But we think the best form of the volumes, Shelley House in Rome. The programme will BELL'S CATHEDRAL SERIES.
as they run to 1168, 1220, and 1312 pages be entirely devoted to extracts from the
respectively, would be on Oxford India works of the two great poets whose memory
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Sutro (Alfred), FIVE LITTLE PLAYS, 1/6
Terry, Miss Geneviève Ward, Miss Marie
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Duckworth
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The artistry of these plays is apparent Mr. E. S. Willard, Mr. Frederic Austin, and
Bangor-Bristol-Canterbury-Carlisle - Chester
from the fact that they do not depend for Mr. Forbes Robertson are among the artists
-Chichoster-Durham-Ely-Exeter-Gloucester-
success on the stage alone, their pathos and who have promised their services.
Hereford - Lichfield - Lincoln - Llandaff - Man-
tragedy being strikingly poignant in the
MR. GORDON CRAIG's absence from Eng.
chester-Norwich-Oxford-Peterborough-Ripon
printed page.
-Rochester-St. Albans-St. Asaph-St. David's
land will prevent his reading the paper on
St. Patrick's, Dublin-St. Paul's--St. Saviour's,
Vaughan (Gertrude), THE WOMAN WITH THE The Art of the Theatre announced for
Southwark - Salisbury-Southwell-Wells - Win-
PACK, 1/6 net.
Ham-Smith the 22nd inst. at the Royal Society of Arts.
chester-Worcester-York.
This play, with its thread of allegory
The death of Auguste Strindberg, the
concerning the white woman's burden, is
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framed on such broad lines as to be under well-known Swedish dramatist and novelist,
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took place on Tuesday last at the age of 63.
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Dramatic Gossip.
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The novelties of the second week of Miss appearance of reviews of books.
bury Abbey and Deerhurst Priory-Christchurch
Horniman's Coronet
not
We do not undertake to give the value of books, china, Priory and Wimborne Abboy – Bath Abbey,
pictures, &c.
interesting as those of the first, though
Malmesbury Abbey, and Bradford - on · Avon
between them they provide a varied and
Church.
agreeable evening's entertainment. Mr. Τ Η Ε Α Τ Η Ε Ν Ε Ο Μ.
George Calderon's one-act play "The Little
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Rouen: The Cathedral, and other Churches.
stretches over three acts material that is
Amiens : The Cathedral, and other Churches.
Paris : Notre Dame-Mont 8. Michel-Bayeux.
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It would be cruel to analyze Mr. Martin's
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by Mr. Bernard Shaw, will be given on
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Monday ; Mr. Galsworthy's 'The Silver Box'
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the General Assembly, which acquitted to an uneventful childhood and youth.
SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1912. him on the several counts of alleged The life at his father's manse did not greatly
heresy, and left him still free to act as a differ from many others, and his University
CONTENTS.
minister and celebrant, but expelled him career (entered upon at the age of fifteen
from his professorship on the ground of —he was Professor at twenty-four), with
WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH
A MODERN EPICUREAN (A Night in the Luxembourg) 588
the “ dangerous tendency” of his teach- William Minto as rival and contemporary,
TWO IRISH REBEL-PATRIOTS (Autobiography of Theo-
ing, reads like a mediæval record-except was spoilt by illness. His letters are un-
bald Wolfe Tone ; Some Notes of an Irish Exile of that in the Middle Ages he would have distinguished. His work as assistant in
FORERUNNERS OF THE ENGLISH Novel (some oiä been burnt at the stake. We have for the physical laboratory of Prof. Tait at
English Worthies) . .
tunately for the most part advanced be- Edinburgh is more interesting, if only as
589 yond such verdicts, in Scotland as well as showing that Smith had the capacity to do
SHELLEY AND BYRON AUTOGRAPHS; THE EARLY
CHRONICLES OF SCOTLAND; BOOKS AND MANU-
elsewhere ; but as a matter of history the original research of high quality in the most
trial was momentous, for it won for the diverse departments of knowledge; but it
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS (Theology — Poetry, 691 ;
Bibliography-Philosophy-History and Biography
Free Church, once and for all, the right was a tápepyov which had no definite
-Geography and Travel -Sociology, 592 ; Political of free criticism of the Biblical documents. relation to the main bent of his career.
Economy-Education-Philology-School-Books-
Fiction, 593; General-Pamphlets, 594 ; Foreign,
As the authors justly say,
Indeed, in spite of much interesting in-
FORTHCOMING Books ::
“Prof. Smith's struggle for the freedom formation, the Life' fails to give a clear
SCIENCE-VIEWS OF AN ANTHROPOLOGIST; NOTICES of scholarship in the Free Church of Scotland conception of Smith's mind and the per-
is in their opinion an episode in the history manent significance of his studies. This is
of their country of abiding interest and
CHINESE PAINTINGS; SKETCHES BY RUBENS ; importance, which must be studied by all not surprising, for his peculiar charm, fully
GRAVINGS; RAEBURN PORTRAITS; GOSSIP. .
who wish to understand either the Scotland appreciated by all who knew him weli,
MUSIC — MASSENET'S 'DON QUICHOTTE'; GOSSIP; of 1843 or the Scotland of 1912. "
was not such as can be easily described.
and his Wife (a pair),
the gentleman in black dress DR. ÉDOUARD NAVILLE has just pub- of musicians; also letters, previously un-
with white lace collar, and black cloak drawn lished two Funerary Papyri of the Twenty- published and some highly characteristic,
round him, the lady'in black dress with gold First Dynasty, one being that made for by Mendelssohn (with whom Davison had
stomacher, large white ruff, and white lace cuffs, Queen Kamara in hieroglyphics, and the been intimate long before he began to
6511. Renbrandt, Portrait of an Old Man, in
dark dress edged with fur, and large dark cap with
other (in hieratic) for a priest named Nesi- write for The Times), Berlioz, Gounod,
feather ; seated, holding a stick in his hand, 3151. khonsu, of whom nothing is otherwise known. Jullien, Macfarren, and Sterndale Bennett.
A pastel by F. Cotes, Portrait of a Lady, in the peculiarity of the Kamara example is There was one quality in Davison which
blue and white dress and pink cloak, fetched 3041. that, while the hieroglyphs are clearly and
deserves mention,
well executed, it is evident that the vignettes
especially at the
were considered by the scribe as of more present day, when interest in music by
importance than the text. The other shows British composers is increasing at home
JAPANESE COLOUR-PRINTS.
the transitional period when hieroglyphic was
and abroad. This was the encouragement
WESSRS. SOTHEBY's sale of the collection of giving place to cursive writing, even for he gave to those of his time. His son tells
Japanese colour-prints formed by Sir Frank ritual documents, many words being written us that two of his maxims were: Eng-
Swettenham began on the 1st inst. , and concluded according to the older method in the midst land is not an unmusical country," and
on the 9th, among important prints being the of the running script. Both probably bear
following : Utamaro, Reflected Beauty, 941. ; witness to the gradual decay of the beliefs
“The people at large can be trusted to
301. Shunman, The Tea-house Ichiriki, triptych, towards the end of the Ramesside period latter Wagner would have been in agree-
A Reverie, 351, 108. Kunisada, Trimming a Lamp: enshrined in the Book of the Dead,' which appreciate the best music. ” With the
461. The total of the sale was 2,5101. 88. Od. fell more and more into the background. ment.
in dark dress, pith white stock and now leted contention that was independs, taccording his though he did not approve of his theories
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serve
“ ARA-
the work are naturally less satisfactory,
HERR WAGNER IN LONDON.
though, on the whole, it is an interesting
HERR SIEGFRIED WAGNER came to London experiment.
in 1895, appeared at a Wagner concert, and
conducted works by his grandfather and
The performance deserves praise. Mr.
DRAMA
father, also a Symphonic Poem of his own
Graham Marr's impersonation of the prophet
composition. For his father's sake he
was able and earnest, and in his singing he
met with a kindly reception, but he
showed skill and fervour. Miss Helen
did not show gifts, however immature,
Culver, in the Jezebel scene, also deserves NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
calculatod to raise great expectations. He
special mention. The choral singing was
(Notice in these columns does not preclude longer
has now paid another visit to London, and
effective, but the orchestra was not strong review. ]
gave a concert at the Albert Hall last Sunday
enough. Herr Richard Eckhold, the con-
afternoon.
ductor, made the most of the material at Hobson (Florence Edgar), A MODERN CRU-
His programme included excerpts from
his disposal.
A DRAMATIC PAMPHLET IN
five of the seven operas which he has pro- VERDI'S ' Aida’ is so fine an opera that
THREE ACTS, 1/ net.
Fifield
duced — the first, *Bärenhäuter,' in 1889 ; | it gives enjoyment even when performed Mrs. Hobson's dramatic pamphlet is
the latest, ‘Schwarzschwanenreich,' in 1910. indifferently, but last Monday evening more pamphlet than drama, but might
It is strange that he did not perceive the at Covent Garden there was an exceptionally perhaps be performed with effect to pro-
hopelessness of following so directly in his strong cast. The names of Madame Kirkby mote a health campaign in villages. The
father's footsteps. Had he tried some dif- Lunn and Mlle. Emmy Destinn have long sophisticated town-dweller would be apt to
ferent and less ambitious branch of the art, been associated with the rôles of Amneris take the scene in a butcher's shop rather as
he might have achieved fair success. Owing and Aida respectively, but Signor Giovanni farce than as drama.
to the influence of Wahnfried, theatre Martinelli, the now tenor, impersonated
directors were easily found to produce his Radames here for the first time, and the Ibsen (Henrik), COLLECTED WORKS : Vol.
works; but not one of his operas has pro- high expectations which he excited at his
XÌI. FROM IBSEN'S WORKSHOP, Notes,
voked discussion or excited enthusiasm. début are being fulfilled. In addition,
Scenarios, and Drafts of the Modern
He opens up no new paths; the influence of M. Ding Gilly, another excellent artist,
Plays, translated by A. G. Chater, with
his father's music on him is as natural as and M. Marcoux appeared as Amonasro and
Introduction by William Archer, 4/
Heinemann
it is strong ; but the signs of individuality Ramfis, so that the presentation of the
that would be welcomed are absent. There work was specially impressive. Signor
Vol. XII. of this pleasant edition of
is some bright writing in the ' Bruder Lustig' Panizza conducted.
Ibsen's Collected Works contains notes,
Overture, and the Kirmess-Tanz' from
scenarios, and drafts of the modern plays.
MR. ARTHUR FAGGE has been appointed There is an Introduction by Mr. Wm.
* Herzog Wildfang' is pleasing; while the
duet from his latest work—which, by the national Musical Festival which is to take emendation, and textual material. It will
a member of the committee of the Inter Archer, touching upon points of revision,
way, was ably rendered by Frau Lilli place at Paris at Whitsuntide. He will
Hafgren-Waag and Herr Walther Kirchhoff also be one of the adjudicators.
as a useful compilation of Ibsen's-
foreworks. " As in the rest of the series,
proved a mixture of conventionalism and
Tristanism. Richard Wagner's early operas
AT Leipsic next year, on May 22nd, the the print is large and clear, and the equip-
were, it is true, more or less failures; but first stone will be laid of the Max Klinger ment of the book in excellent
taste.
before he had reached the age of 42—that monument to the memory of Wagner.
of his son at the present time—he had He was born and studied here with Weinlig, Knoblauch
(Edward), KISMET, AN
BIAN NIGHT IN THREE ACTS, 2/ net.
written ‘Tannhäuser and · Lohengrin,' and and it was here too that he published his
was at work on ‘The Ring. '. From early first works, a Sonata and Polonaise for This text of the play which filled the
days he felt his strength; but his son, pianoforte. During the centenary festivities Garrick Theatre for a year may serve the
all Wagner's stage works ("Parsifal,' we purpose of recalling it to those who wit-
apparently, is not yet conscious of his weak-
What he has accomplished is the presume, included) will be given at the nessed it.
outcomo of talent and persoverance.
Stadttheater.
Menachmi (The):
ORIGINAL
His attempt to introduce folk-melodies THE seventh meeting of the Musical
SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY OF ERRORS,
into his music deserves recognition, but Association will be held at the King's Room,
the Latin Text, together with the
everything depends upon the use made of Messrs. Broadwood & Sons', next Tuesday, Elizabethan Translation, edited by
them. The Last Rose of Summer' is a when Dr. T. Lea Southgate will read a
W. H. D. Rouse, 2/6 net. Chatto
beautiful melody, but in Flotow's 'Martha' paper on Music at the Public Gardens
it only served to show the poverty of the of the Eighteenth
Century:', and examples Library contains the Latin text of the
The latest volume in the Shakespeare
composer's melodic invention.
Herr Siegfried Wagner is very quiet and and other gardens will be rendered by Messrs. Menæchmi,?
. together with Warner's spirited
pleasant
unpretentious as a conductor ; and, to speak R. B. Johnson and L. G. Stanton and other and idiomatic rendering of that
and fine conceited comedie, taken out of
frankly, the performance which he gave of artists.
the Overture to 'The Flying Dutchman,' A NEW volume of “The Musician's Library,” The translation is certainly worth reading
the most excellent wittie poet Plautus. ”':
although the London Symphony Orchestra which is published by Messrs. Macmillan for itself, though Warner is very free with
was engaged, proved disappointing.
and Messrs. Stainer & Bell jointly, will his author, and the star which marks a
appear soon. It is entitled 'A Practical
Guide to the Modern Orchestra, and is what altered, by occasion either of the time,
the Poet's conceit is some-
passage where
written by Mr. James Lyon. The author's the country, or the phrase," might have
Musical Gossip.
object is to place in the hands of composers, been sprinkled with a more liberal hand.
THE 'Elijah, in Harrison Frewin's stage conductors, and students, in the most Its connexion with Shakespeare is slight;
version, was produced at Liverpool last concise manner possible, a guide to the he may have read it in manuscript, but it
February by the Moody-Manners Company, general characteristics of the instruments
in use at the present time.
was published at least four years after
and on Tuesday was presented by the same
The Comedy of Errors' appeared. Dr.
company at the Kennington Theatre. Operas
Rouse contributes a short but useful Intro-
are frequently given on the concert platform,
duction.
and, though there is loss, a few of the older
kind bear the transplantation exceedingly Mon-Sat: Londoa Opera House, Kingsway,
Shakespeare, HISTORIES AND POEMS; and
well. The story of Elijah is strongly dra-
TRAGEDIES, 2/ each.
matic, so, indeed, are many pages of the
Oxford University Press
Mr.
A. McWhirter and Mies M. Scott's Recital, 3. 15, Steinway
scoro; and but for the strong advice of
This Shakespeare in the Oxford Editions
Pastor Schubring, who helped to prepare the
London Symphony Orchestra, 8, Queen's Hall.
of Standard Authors is now complete.
text, there would have been still more. The
James Friskin's Pianoforto Recital. 8. 30, steinway Hall. We noticed the first volume of comedies
composer, in a letter of 1838, says :-
last year.
Prof. Dowden, whose 'Shak-
spere :
his Mind and
“With regard to the dramatic element, there
Art,
still seems to be a diversity of opinion between us.
member gratefully in view of later and,
With a subject like Elijah it appears to me that Leopold stokowski's vrchostral loncert, 3. Quoon's Hall. wilder criticism, gives the reader satis-
the dramatic element should predominate, as it
Doris Woodall's
Song Recital, 3. Bechstein Hall.
factory information in his introductory
should in all Old Testament subjects, Moses,
Thornely Gibeon's Vocal Recital, 8. 15. Bechstein Hall.
perhaps, excepted,"
studies to each play, dealing with sources
The Widow scene, that on Mount Carmel,
Ernst von Lengyel's Planoforte Recital, 2, Bechstein Hall
of the story and modern investigations of
the texts, and adding brief æsthetic criticism
and Jezebel's. denunciation of Elijah are
and a word or two about the performances
impressive on the stage; but other parts of
King Lear?
nesses.
THE
OF
2
PERFORMANCES NEXT WEEK.
Bux. Special Concert 3. 30. Royal Albert Hall.
National Sunday League Concert, 7, Quoon't Hall.
Mox. -SAT. Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
Mox. Uregry Hast's Farewell Concert, 2. 4, Quoon's Ball.
Louis Persfoger's Violin Recital, 3. 18. Bechstein Hall.
Maggio Tegte's Vocal Recital, 3. 15, Æolian Hall.
Hall.
Xonia Beaver's Vocal Recital, 8. 30, Æolian Hall.
TUES. Guiomar Novaes's Pianoforte Recital, 3 Rolian Ball
St. Petersburg Quartet, 3. Bechstein Ball.
Percy Grainger's Concert, 8, Rollan Hall.
Blenn Gerhardt's Vocal Recital, 8. 15, Queen's Hall.
Robert Lortat's First Chopio Kecital, 8. 18, Bechstein Ball.
WED. Bessie Grifiths's Concort, 3. Stoinway Hall.
we
re-
Sonia Darbell's Vocal Recital, 3 30, Rollan Hall.
Donald Tovey's Last Concert, 8. 80. Rollan Hall.
THURS. Twelve o'clock Chamber Concert, Ælian Hall.
William Pitt's Vocal Recital, 3. 16,
Æolian Hall
Philharmonic Nociety, 8, Queen's Hail.
Jacques Thibaud's Violin Recital,
8. 16, Bechstein Hall.
FRI. Momorinl Concert (The Titanic Band), 3, Royal Albert Hall
of famous actors. Thus in •
Arthur Rubinstein's Pianoforte Recital, 3, Bechstoin Hall.
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investigations of Mr. A. W. Pollard and Dr.
MR. HAROLD BRIGHOUSE, who wrote 'The
MESSRS.
W. W. Greg; to Charles Lamb, Victor
Price of Coal,' is having a new one-act play
Hugo and his son, and Dr. A. C. Bradley of Wales's, entitled . Little Red Shoes. '
of his produced on Monday at the Prince BELL'S BOOKS.
as critics; and to the restoration of the fifth
aot to the stage by Edmund Kean.
Each volume has a Glossary. The type at His Majesty's Theatre opens next Monday
The eighth annual Shakespeare Festival
is good and clear, the names of the speakers with The Merchant of Venice. ' It is to be
READY WEDNESDAY NEXT.
being given in full throughout, and the lines performed four times, and for the rest of
are numbered in fives at the side of the page. the week will be followed by Twelfth Night A CHRONICLE OF THE POPES.
The text is that of the late W. J. Craig. The and Othello,' the latter being allotted one
binding is apparently in red or blue, as we
performance.
From St. Peter to Pius X.
get the Histories in the one and the
Tragedies’ in the other.
AMONG the season's important matinées
By A. E. McKILLIAM, M. A.
Altogether, the edition is one that makes will be those at the Haymarket Theatre
Post 8vo, 78. 6d. net.
a strong appeal to the ordinary reader. on June 25th and 28th, in aid of the Keats-
But we think the best form of the volumes, Shelley House in Rome. The programme will BELL'S CATHEDRAL SERIES.
as they run to 1168, 1220, and 1312 pages be entirely devoted to extracts from the
respectively, would be on Oxford India works of the two great poets whose memory
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The artistry of these plays is apparent Mr. E. S. Willard, Mr. Frederic Austin, and
Bangor-Bristol-Canterbury-Carlisle - Chester
from the fact that they do not depend for Mr. Forbes Robertson are among the artists
-Chichoster-Durham-Ely-Exeter-Gloucester-
success on the stage alone, their pathos and who have promised their services.
Hereford - Lichfield - Lincoln - Llandaff - Man-
tragedy being strikingly poignant in the
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printed page.
-Rochester-St. Albans-St. Asaph-St. David's
land will prevent his reading the paper on
St. Patrick's, Dublin-St. Paul's--St. Saviour's,
Vaughan (Gertrude), THE WOMAN WITH THE The Art of the Theatre announced for
Southwark - Salisbury-Southwell-Wells - Win-
PACK, 1/6 net.
Ham-Smith the 22nd inst. at the Royal Society of Arts.
chester-Worcester-York.
This play, with its thread of allegory
The death of Auguste Strindberg, the
concerning the white woman's burden, is
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not
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pictures, &c.
interesting as those of the first, though
Malmesbury Abbey, and Bradford - on · Avon
between them they provide a varied and
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George Calderon's one-act play "The Little
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the General Assembly, which acquitted to an uneventful childhood and youth.
SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1912. him on the several counts of alleged The life at his father's manse did not greatly
heresy, and left him still free to act as a differ from many others, and his University
CONTENTS.
minister and celebrant, but expelled him career (entered upon at the age of fifteen
from his professorship on the ground of —he was Professor at twenty-four), with
WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH
A MODERN EPICUREAN (A Night in the Luxembourg) 588
the “ dangerous tendency” of his teach- William Minto as rival and contemporary,
TWO IRISH REBEL-PATRIOTS (Autobiography of Theo-
ing, reads like a mediæval record-except was spoilt by illness. His letters are un-
bald Wolfe Tone ; Some Notes of an Irish Exile of that in the Middle Ages he would have distinguished. His work as assistant in
FORERUNNERS OF THE ENGLISH Novel (some oiä been burnt at the stake. We have for the physical laboratory of Prof. Tait at
English Worthies) . .
tunately for the most part advanced be- Edinburgh is more interesting, if only as
589 yond such verdicts, in Scotland as well as showing that Smith had the capacity to do
SHELLEY AND BYRON AUTOGRAPHS; THE EARLY
CHRONICLES OF SCOTLAND; BOOKS AND MANU-
elsewhere ; but as a matter of history the original research of high quality in the most
trial was momentous, for it won for the diverse departments of knowledge; but it
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS (Theology — Poetry, 691 ;
Bibliography-Philosophy-History and Biography
Free Church, once and for all, the right was a tápepyov which had no definite
-Geography and Travel -Sociology, 592 ; Political of free criticism of the Biblical documents. relation to the main bent of his career.
Economy-Education-Philology-School-Books-
Fiction, 593; General-Pamphlets, 594 ; Foreign,
As the authors justly say,
Indeed, in spite of much interesting in-
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“Prof. Smith's struggle for the freedom formation, the Life' fails to give a clear
SCIENCE-VIEWS OF AN ANTHROPOLOGIST; NOTICES of scholarship in the Free Church of Scotland conception of Smith's mind and the per-
is in their opinion an episode in the history manent significance of his studies. This is
of their country of abiding interest and
CHINESE PAINTINGS; SKETCHES BY RUBENS ; importance, which must be studied by all not surprising, for his peculiar charm, fully
GRAVINGS; RAEBURN PORTRAITS; GOSSIP. .
who wish to understand either the Scotland appreciated by all who knew him weli,
MUSIC — MASSENET'S 'DON QUICHOTTE'; GOSSIP; of 1843 or the Scotland of 1912. "
was not such as can be easily described.
