New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-07-18
Literary and Artistic Items.
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"a. which She acted with great power. The opera
was produced IN splendid Style. and judgn. by the
enthusiasm with which Il Vas received, its success
| can scarcely &c doubted The able musical critic
| Of the Lecdrr thus characterizes 1t
There : no Disgusting the fact under braves
Thalccrg never was composer nor does FlcrfraG
give aly hope OF his day reaching the neccs-
sary hight. He showS.a lautable ambition no, to
ia INTO The patchwork gathered from other operas
tu' IN avoiding plagiarism he has not reached
Originality. To be original something more IS
needed"
-NlScount Maidstone has written epic poem
IL * caa,os, entitled Aba-el-Kader" From the
specimens given IL The reviews. i, must be a weak
and tedious production
Mir \. A. Patton. who was the correspondent Of
Tt Times IN hungary. from October ls4s to JANUARY
ls5c has published the result Of his tour IN book
entitled " The Goth and the Hun" It abounds, Of
course, With misrepresentation OF the Hungarans
ard praises Of schwarzenberg and Fiaynau
The Queen has expressed her intention Of visit
ing the Italian Opera IN state early IN July AMI has
commanded Mozart'S ZgHberf0tc Magic Flutel for
the occasion. The cast Of the Opera includes Gris
Mario, FoYmeS, Ronconi, Stigelh. CASTELAR,, Ber-
tTandi. and Mdlle Anna Zerr. who has been engaged
10 perform the part the OF Queen Of Nish.
Another candidate for tenor honors has appeared
n the person OF NJ. Delagrave, who made satStao-
tory G,Lm IN the Ia, orita. His voice Is spoken OF
sympathetic in quality, and the manner IN which he
manages It Is much commended. Its principal de-
feet is slight want OF power. This time NAV re-
move.
Madame Taccani, Countess Tasca, is about to
| follow Madame Sontag's example, and return to the
stage The LADY Is AT present al Paris. She APP
Feared no; long since IN Belgium with considerable
success
-Guizot Is about 10 issue new work. HiStoire des
O-iginsS Ia Commencement Rerf setatg History
OF the Origins of Representative Government THIS
important publication Is really new work, being
Lectures
10 1892 which have vet seen the light, except
in The imperfect reports OF the Journal des Corrs
PabtlcS.
-Rarantc's Historic Gs Ia Contention Is on the
eve OF publication and the DrbdtS has given long
extract from It ION the Mas>acreS of September
which cxcltes curiosity
-Sverdrup the most renowned of all the Swedish
phlolocists died the other day IN his seventy ninth
year he for nearly fifty years Professor AZ the
Uniyersit of Chrstlanay.
Madame Charles Reybaud has sent forth another
pretty little story ldUSfnf, wherein provincial life
IN France IS dagrerrcotyped IL Is mere trife, but
Il IS charming
-rhackeray has delivered the sixth and last lee
tgre of hN course upon the English humorstS His
subjects were SrERNE and GOLDSMITH The Leafer
says
He stigmatized severely all sterne's relations
with women showed Up the sham Sensibllity which
wcpt through his writings mot altogether Such
sham. We believe. a. Thackeray would have Us think
but sincere enough IN places, though from
the volatility of hls mind serious emotions
soon .1sScd into laughter dWelt upon the
perilOuS thing IL to make market OF ones
sorrows. and sell the deepest experiences OF ones
lie at so much per volume and wound up with an
emphatic condemnation of the prurency OF SterneS
writings contrasting that prunency with the
purity of Dickens The compliment 10 Dickens
came gracefully from Thackeray but, unless we
take Dickens as the representative OF our whole
comic literature, 1t should be remembered that oil
the comic OF this day free from such in,
deCenclos soil the pages OF the seventeenth ana
eighteenth centuries Goldsmith was painted win
a loving hand All the generosity sweetness ana
Improyidtnce OF his Irish nature were emphatlcally
brough; forward and the lecture closed WITH
strong and in many respects hard-hlttlHg onslaught
upon the current complaint that literature rs a pro
fessiOn does not meet with the homage winch i It's
due lie .,en,",ned that 1t me, all us due
superb work, entitled the " Dusseldorf Song
Album" has just been published IN Germany. 1t Is
the olnt production of some of the most dstln-
gushed modern German poets, painters and com
posers. The songs of Elchendorf Gebel, Muller
and others, are welded to the music of schumann
Hitler Renecke, &c and illustrated by the pencils
of Leasing, Achenbach and Ritter. The work is got
up in most sumptu0uS style BY ARM & Go. of Co
logne.
A very interesting discovery has recently been
made IN Egypt. NJ Marlee, young French
scholar, who was dispatched on a scientific mission
10 Egypt, has discovered the exact site OF the
ancient city of Memphis, which has heretofore been
a matter of doubt After careful search, he has
found a great quantity of Egyptian and Grccian re-
mains buried under deposit of sand, varying from
six 70 forty feet IN depth. Among other objects he
recognized the SerGpeun. a monument described by
Strabo The avenue leading 10 It was filled with a
large number OF statues and Sphlnxes, some OF which
contained inscriptions. The drawings OF these re-
MAINS sent by VI. Mirette TO Paris, attracted much
attention, and it Is understood that funds VIII be
furnished him for the further prosecution OF his re-
searches.
Among the new dramatic works IN Germany, a
play in five acts, entitled Elm Gehetnniss a Secretly
by Mahde Raven, Is highly spoken Of. The dia-
logue is animated the characters clearly and sharp
ly drawn, and the plot, though simple and natural
increasing in interest to the close.
The greatest sale which any journal ever attain
ed is probably that of the number OF the illustrated
London Ners containing the account OF the opening
of the Crystal Palace. About one million OF copies
were sold. which at the retail price, would amount
to $4,000
Among other pecullarltles OF the Great bxhioi-
ton there is room next TO the Saloon for umbrellas
and canes where all stray children are brought ana
retained till they are claimed by their parents
The population Of Naples on the LIST of January
last was 4l6.475 Of whom 2O3,4 s3 were males. and
2l2gO2 females The number of births during the
wear 1850. was 1891 deaths, l5,Ol5 marriages,
3O5l In the prisons there are 2,l62 men, AMI i2s
women
Wilmer q SMITHS European TIMES OF July con-
talns The following curious statement AS severd
references have been made TO arms Of TINS descrp-
ton II may be interesting TO know that there IS no"
m the United Service Museum pistol, supposed 10
be 300 wears old, which, With the exception oil the
lock. Is constructed upon the same principle as the
weapons exhibited by Mr.. Colt, as will be perceived
By the following description, extracted from the val
liable catalogue OF the Institution, published N 1873
.l.l6O A snaphaunce sef-loading petronel, prooAoy
-, ch~i,s I The continuance consists