New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-19
EareiCu LIENS.

After the Easter holidays Grisi and
Cruveli reappesred in London. The former has
charmed the public for eighteen years, aud the critics
cannot find shat she fails Her retree was made In
Norma for which her peculiar gifts are so well fitted,
and which develops all her powers. The enth lsasm
was unbounded Cruvelli has appeared in Beetiovens
Fidelo in which opera, Leonore she Ia allowed to
be oachable is historic in the annals OF Art
SAYS one critic at is the IDEAL, says another She
has also sung Norma, in which part she excited SO great
sepsaton last year. and violently divided the town.
II has evdt ny not the imperial fnh Of Crisis person
stiop-which is Pastas Initiated here by Parodi-but
has its own characteristic superiority The fact that
Cruvell has much improved since the last season, is
fine augury for her We confess strong pre-
objection for any singer who is great In Beethovens
music because in singing that, in deineang Shaks
pere, there can be greatness without genius.
We read that a fine fresco of Giulio
Romano has arrived safely in England.
We find in a letter from Dusseldorf
to the Agmsine ZetaHg interesting account of the
recreations of the artists in that to during the last
wiuter-fsncy balls of historical misunderstanding
in recent German iterature-and performance of Shak
speres "Much Ado About Nothing, which occasion,
as in the Poets time the female parts were taken by
beardless boys Leasing is painting sundy pictures,
among which is Luthers burning of the Papal bull with
figures half the life SIZE and the monk who In the Island
Mas watched years by the dead body of the ex
communicated Emperor Henry the Fourth. The "gs-
NAL Leutze" lie mentioned absent in America; Scha-
dow the Director of the Academy, is busy upon his
Heaven He'll and Purgatory; Hibner is exborted to
desert the Mandy PANTY style for more nervous efforts,
and Hasencever is still busy at his peculiar local pic
lures of scbool-vstations &c. Andreas Achenbach
maintains his position tbs first of the Landscapsts,
and his brother Oswald is named the author of truth
full and beautiful Italian landscapes.
1t is announced that Prince Metternich
is going pass few weeks at his estate of Johannisberg
upon the Rhine.
"A picture of Rubens, for which a few
years since the Spanish banker Aguaio paid 5000
francs, was recently sold in Paris for 5000.
-Duncker, the Berlin publisher, an
nounces engravings from the frescoes of Kaubach in
the Berlin Museum.
We see thut the Prince of Canino's
valuable museum of natural history, his library and
his gallery of have all been purchased by private
American gentlemen.
The Society for the Diffusion of Chris
knowledge has prepared an Arabic translation o
the Bible from the Greek text under the auspices
Dr. Lee one of the most eminent of modern Oriental
ists and Fares scbdiak, an Arabian Poet Thspresen
Arabic version of the Bible issued by the Propa
ganda in Rome in the year l67, and was, of course
translated from the Latin text
The first hundred representations of
the Pophe at the Royal Opera in Paris realized for the
600 francs.
The well-known female traveller, Ida
Pfefsr, recently arrived In the East Indies at the
island of Borneo She staid short time at Sarawak,
the residence of the English Governor, whence she
made visit TO some of the mountain tribes She in
tended to ascend the Saksrran far 1t IL navlgsbe
thence proceed to visit the Dutch possessions and then
60 on to C9lebs.
m. Gaillardet, in a letter to the Cour-
rir des Etats Unis, says that Madame Tedesco has
achieved great success in Haevys new opera, and
has been engaged at salary of 10000 francs per