The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-12-17

the sisters Heron made their second appearance at the
Park Theatre last evening" and by their excellent per-
formsnoss the appreciation of their audience The
two pieces selected for the occasion the Four
Mowbrsys," and the "Happy Man. in which the chill
dren sustained principal characters The eldest Miss
Heron the infant Power she IL called plays the whole
TRUTH rarely that we see such versatility Of talent in
30 young The vaudeville Of the Loan Of Lover and
oes petite comedy OF shocking In the latter
csllent character and always admirably sustained by
him Tonight Miss Heron takes benefit and appears
In three pieces Paudeen ORaerty In the comic ORA
ma Of "Born to Good Luck" a. Little Pickle, In the
Spoiled Child and as Tom Tug in the musical farce
Of "The Waterman" in all Of which pieces her sister
viii also appear They certainly deserving Of good
house.
BowERr THEArRr.-Come rain or come shine, the
Bowsry theatre Is filed to overlooking every night no
matter what sort of weather have this
Is certain to be crowded and its Golfers to be filled 30
much for enterprise and determination succeed
gardess Of all obstacles that may intervene The great
feature at this popular place Of at the pre-
North's celebrated horse Tammsny both Of whom psr
form the latest edition Of the polka In the most graceful
style imaginable In fact Tammanys feats in that line
are unequailed, and the wonder expressed by oil who
witness them Is, how such unwieoy animal horse
could be taught to trip light fantastic toe SO
be hs Ss. IL s
tuition Of Levi North whose fame equestrian and
drama Of "Vsha" is withdrawn for the present and the
grand spectacle tho NAiad Queen" Will be reproduced
with which 1t has heretofore been performed The ORA
ma OF Sixteen String Jack" will also be performed.
a Asr I'M; piece Tsmm.ny WI dance the polka and
VIII witness him Mr. Dennson will sing popular song
Mr. smith will execute the pa: de maelo and the come
dy Of the Yankee Wool Dealer will conclude the
nngs smusements. Such bill this is worthy of the
Bowery.
CHATHAM THEATRE Notwithstanding the hail storm
Of last evening, there toleraby fair attendance
this theatre, and the respective pieces we'll
Ali. mt
Rob Roy MoGregor," win commence the amusements -
It will be produced with all the original music, songs
DUETS sses 60 Mr. Held will sustain the character
OF Rob Roy, and Mrs Mclean that Of Helen Mc0regor
The model artists, In their beautiful Tsbleaux VivAnts
Will next follow This exhibition from Its elegance Of
style, and skifu artistic arrangement by Mr. Fletcher
Is we received every night, and Is becoming very at
traotive The entertainments will oonouds with the
farce Of the Spectre rdegroom We are that
several new pieces Of intense interest," rehearsal
and will shortly be produced, and that Madsmosells
Yates denseuse Of consder.bls celebrity as having
will make her debut on Saturday evening This will
greatly enhance the attractive features Of the Chatham
PAtMo. orERA HovsE..Last evening Madame Au-
gustas performances in spite Of tho bad weather.
well attended Abouttwo hundred persons present
"a great number on such alright When tho German
farce was over gentleman slept before the curtain,
took on his hat opened his mouth and addressed the
audience in the following eloquent terms =
Ladies' and gentlemen-The orchestra being insufn
oent for the performance Of the ballet seven musicians
having left tho theatre out Of fifteen, requested
q s % nsp .ra
Your money will, therefore, be returned to yeu At the
This speech was very kindly received by the audsuos
better than many speeches in Congress and every
thing went Oh In very quiet and businesslke manner
plotted to pjurs Madame Augusta in her sxsrtions t.
satisfy the public We understand that this talented
English vaudeville company and several new ballots
German Is go. English farce With few songs and
charming ballsts, will most likely take.
LYNNE's MUSICAL ILLusTRArIoss OF SHAKsrEARE-
We attended last night at the Lecture Room Of the
Society Library Broadway, the soiree Of Mr. Lynne,
great poet Notwithstanding the sudden incsmsncy Of
the night, and violent hail storm which exactly
ct tho time for attending the lecture happy
ind on entering the room numerous company present
and ascsttering of elegant females along the benches
ik: diamonds Sitterng on dark ground. Several
present, aiding Mr.. Lynne with their voices and
talents We were much pleased with the reading and
we thought him perhaps too rapid and hurried. We
only say, this, however, en- passont, fer the whole
went OF WE'LL and much to the qualification Of the
distinguished and select audiences. Mr.. Lynne was
very happy In his comparison between tho witches
OF Shakespeare and the NEUROLOGICAL furies, or
Eumenides, Of the ancient Greeks 1t seems, how
ever, in our opinion, probable superstition that
the great poet derived the idea which he has embodied
in Macbeth from the abundant source of
and vulgar belief Of the age in which he lived Even
In the day there vestgss Of the vulgar belief
tSs r a1a s IT. spsoi.
fidelity in depicting to the life the customs creed and
his sxtensvs genius led him to wander 1t Is power
full homage rendered to the genius Of the poet that this
unSound.d admiration, notvitSstandins tn. rspusvs
and long since uniashonable agency Of these witches,
which in our day only serve to dishgure the play and
doned In Shakespeare which would tarnish the fame
of other poet The most common place ideas from
his mouth become elevated TO the highest pitch Of sub
Unity, and where others would fall into offensive
bombas In the effort to attain submity Shakespeare al
ways shows himself natural and sublime. What other
Oct he dav v at
the world and all its glory will to nothing In the
sublime language with which he has brought the ides
before Us -
This great globe itself, and all that It inhabit,
Shall be dissolved and like the bsseless fabric Of
vision,
Leave not q wreck behind ~
Here We have simple, common idea, masninoently
arrayed In language truly sublime and entirely free
bast IL in instances such as this that our great
poet great he knows how to present the comm0nest
thought In oil the burning glow Of originality and with
all the spendor and magnihcenco Of true subimity-
There better criterion Of his merit than that the
people In every age have understood and admired him,
and reished tho exquisite beauty Of his descriptions
without pretending understand, being able to ana
lyse the reasons for the admiration universally besow
ed Mr.. Lynne, with the mind of critic who under
stands his subject assists In great measure both to
appreciate his beauties and to unrave the Of
the delight which he causes US to feel This Is saying
much In favor Of Mr. Ii he could hardly wish to say
more for In eectng this purpose he not only shows his
own superior taste and judgment but furnishes high
repest every mlnu possesbeu same
qualities We hope Mr. Lynne win succeed In his lsudabe
and pleasing undertaking to his utmost expectations
deem this literary and musical treat combined de-
serving the public To speak Of the
beautiful music of Locke in illustration Of Macbeth
would be almost supererogatory sufhce to say his ad
mrsbls music was well executed and by admirable per-
formers.
CIRcys-BowERY AMrHrrHnATRE.-May Fly, the
ponies, Mr.. Sands and his children Mr. Sweet on the
eorde tlastique, b. w. Carroll, and bis pupil Levi on
their rushing stseds Msdigsn his charger and that
peculiarly funny fellow Lsthrop, the clown constitute
the features this house to night great variety OF
vauting tumbling and other feats will be performed
by the roupe which b now double one, viz Sands,
Lent Co ., and the original circus roups, both ad
nirabls but Joined together indispensable Tomorrow
Saturday an extra afternoon performance at 2 PM.
CgRnrr,s MIrsrRELs-Musio and black faces, wool
and harmony 20 together nowadays We have heard
OF people going for wool and getting shorn these
darkes however keep their WOOL and shear other folks
of applause and cash. they worthy OF It, for such
set Of singers rarely met with. Tonight they give
very excellent bdsncing, lecture on chronology cow
bsliogians, songs, 80. 10.
BRoApwAY O>Eor.-Mr. Greeley gets up good bill
here nightly In these long winter evenings the Odeon
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