New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-03-30
NEW-yoRK, SATURDAY moRNING MARCH so 1874

NE W d ORsih, "a EsDAI "
The HoME LIBRARY. No. l. Prc= ri cea.s HEApLsY.,
LETTsRs FROM Italy. J. S Pjair, Ill Fuitonsl-
MI. HEADLET is well educated. enthusiastic
traveller, of good sense and fine feeling and VII
ting Of q country that is always fresh, and where
material IS SO abundant, he does not forget the
truth SO often forgotten By European travellers,
that life Is short though Art is long. The temp
tations TO long descriptions OF paintings and sta
tuary are no temptations to p7oxty and weari-
ness with him-the objects Of art color his nara
tive by lending 1t fine glow Of sentiment, by
ture and real life. They serve the highest moral
purpose in the best and most agreeable manner
We know the traveller to be in Italy, not by his
descriptions OF old palaces and paintings, or By
recurrence to It's skies and softening distances
but by the glow of sunshine in his mind. We
know his love Of nature by his love of man and
the beauty of art by his admiration for the beauty
and grace Of woman. To read Nh Headey's
book IS to travel with the best companion in the
world among some of the finest objects in it. To
find Italy reflected in his mind is the readers re-
ward for the pcrusal Of this agreeable work, and
we could say nothing to express our meaning bet
ter, if we were writing long review.
Mr.. Headley had one advantage which is not
common with the modern railroad race OF ira
velers-he resided long enough in Italy to form
real acquaintance with its society and domestic
life. Hence his book is something more than the
usual record of bad dinners passport annoyances,
fcas, lazzaroni and cheating Positions which
beset us in books of travels. Here is nothing to
betray, as there commonly is, that the writer has
purchased a copy of Mrs. Starke and Murray's
Hand Book, and set up an author on this very
moderate investment The adventures are per-
sona the style is original, and it is written cur.
reate cGlamo, with freedom and viyacity, the
hardest things to initiate and the very last for an
author to borrow. We have seen nothing more
spirited for long time than the description Of
storm and man lost, in the first letter. 1t holds
the reader in breathlcss suspense. The following
incident is equally well told. Itsso striking and
picturesque that it clings to the memory like a
personal adventure.
DEATH ~ THE THEATRE.
have seen and heard much of an Italian love of
music but nothing illustrating it so torcibly as an
incident that occurred last evening al the opera. In
the midst Of one OF the scenes, man N the PIT near
the orchestra suddenly seized with commissions.
His limbs stifiened; his eyes became set in his head
and stood wide open staring al the ceiling like the
eyes ota corpse; while low and agonlzng groans
broke from his struggling bosom. The prma dom
ma came forward at that moment but seeing this
livid deatl-samped face before her, suddenly stop
ped with tragic look and start, that for ORcC
perfecrl, natural. She turned TO the bass singer,
and pointed out the frighiful spectacle. He also
started back in horror and the prospect that the
opera would terminate the spot; but the scene
that was Just opening the one in which the pr-
madonna was to make her great effort. and around
which the whole interest OF the play gathered,
and the spectators were d, termned not 10 be dsap
pointed because man was dying, and so shouted,
$50 on, 60 on" Clara NOvello gave another looS
towards the grooming man, whose whole aspect
enough to freeze the blood, and then started of in
her part. But the dying man grew worse and
worse, and finally sprung bolt upright III his seat.
A person sitting behind him, all-absorbed in the
music, Immediately placed his hands on his Shout
ders pressed him down again, and held him firmly
in his place. There he sat- p!uioned fast, with his
pale cOrpSeike face upturned, IN the midst OF that
gay assemhlage, and the foam rolling his lips,
while the braying OF rumpets, and the voice OF the
singer, drowned the groans that were rending his
BOSOM AT length The foam became sueaked with
blood as ii ooZed through his teeth, and the convul.
sive starts grew quicker and fercer. But the man
behind held him FAST while he gazed in perfect rap
ture on the singer, who now, like the ascending
lark was trying her lotliest strain As ii ended the
| house rang with applause, and the man who had
held down the poor dying creature could contain his
&C. tacy no longer. and lifting his hands from his
shoulders, clapped them rapidly together three or
! { { Il
:. Bravo, bravu.' and then hurriedly placing them
back again to prevent his sprnging up, in his con-
v,llsive throeS. Ii was perfectly maddenlng spec
tacle, and the music Jared the chords of my
heart like the blows of hammer But the song was
ended the effect secured and the spectators could
attend 10 the sufferer in their midst. The gems
d'armes entered, and carried him speechless and
eless out OF the theatre. III this be the refined ma
lure and sensitive soul, love OF music creates,
Heaven keep me from it, ond my countrymen Give
| me heart with chords that vibrate to human sut-
ferng sooner than TO tbs most ravisning melody,
ave, that can hear nothing and feel nothing else,
when moving Pity speaks. But so the world goes
men will weep ing ass, then pitch brother
into the dich. \ play, oh how they can appreciate
and feel it, they are so sensitive! buta stern stirring
I fact, they can look coldly on as a statue!
The allusio1 to Lord Byron at Genoa is just,
and dscrimnates the three companions the no.
bic bard, Shelley and Leigh Hunt, though the
GOODNESS OF the latter was evidently temporary
restraint, and not habitual to the sunny and gen
ereus poet.
To-day, accompanied by Durande, have been
over the palace Lord Byron occupied when he was
in Genoa. Here were galherey! tor awhile, Byron,
! Hunt Shelley, and the Countess OF Guiccioi. Coun,
- Frenchman, has bought the place. had
! often net him in society, and he showed Us with
great civity the various rooms, together with the
/ improvements he was projecting. When Byron first