The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-27
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

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PurSAu's MAoAmsE.--The September num-
her of this hrivins monthly abounds in inte-
resting matter. 1t opens with q smartly written
article lin literary sense) un er the head Of
sOur Parties and Polite !" but the views of |
Me writer are, in other respects, not marked |
by Any great profundity Of thought or intimate |
acquaintance with the principles of civil polity.
We would recommend the able con uctors OF
Ais excel Mt periodical not to abandon the |
ground which they have so successfully occu-
pied, by allowing it to degenerate into mere
party organ-and that, too, more sectional than
popular in it's tendencies and sympathies Tue
Fresh. charming pictures OF forest life presented
TO as in the paper entitled Wood Notes" are
continued ia the present number. The writer
n evidet tly close and enthusiastic observer /
Of nature; and to his pass, onate admiration of
the ever-varying aspects and phenomena OF his |
favorite study, he unites that felicitous po wer
of des cripton which is only to be acquired by
careful literary cultivation. In an able article
FROM the French of Scudo we have just and
carefully considered analysis of the merits OF
that exaggerated school Of music properly de-
dgnated as the pro iigious," Of which List is
the type and the incarnation. Those who re-
fuse To submit their correct natural taste TO the
arbitrary canons of the quackery of art, and
who look upon music as the Legitimate expires
sion of poetry and sentim mt, and not as mere
vehicle for the display of mechanical ex-
oellence, will find in the structures OF
the writer-himself one of the ablest of
modern musical critics-much to CONTRIB nd
uphold their judgment At period when com
petition in operate music has reached point
with US which renders it important ths.t we
should not be led away by the eclat Of imported
regulations, sound criticism Of this sort cannot
fail to have a NEST beneficial influence upon the
pablo taste. There is q growing tendency
amongst us to form independent IDEAS on artis-
tical subjects, which it Is desirable to strength
en- and encourage, byepposing to The interested
dieto OF hirelng enthusiasts the matured judg-
nents of writer's who have made music life
study, and who are too honest to submit their
Judgments to the scientific pretension and affec-
tation of fashionable coteries Whilst on this
subj, ct we must not omit the opportunity of
quoting from the lucubratons Of that desultory
and ubiquitous philosopher, The Editor at
prospects Of the operate stage in this country,
which have present interest: -
But let us leave the region of dollars and hypothe
Gated stocks. Let fly from that oeaulting street ;
bet eschew bankers and directors bulls aud bears
and some lighter and more graceful topic
There's the opera Dimes, thou Apollo of the boxes,
does not Thy heart beat sort OF overture of delight
1t the yer, sound OF the werd All you say, In that
skgant Iacka6aisical manner which you alone know
how 10 manage ; ali J dear delightful Aston place,
A. hat hon honvN ko,x~,
did spend there, lapguishing with Donizstti, firt
ing with Rossni trembling with N, zart, deateaed
with Verdi, Trufi, Benedesti Bosio, Beletti-names
that, spehke, corjnre MP visions OF past delights
What delicious little boxes, what enchanting gos.
sips, what mods aud becks and wrsathed smiles few
acaoes the little house in viii n everybody knew
everybody II was heavenly, tell You!
But those times are past now, and the old Aston
IL gone with them, and Ia It's place splendid edr
fee las sprung into existence. farther mp We ca 4
NOT VI Dture to predict the success of the Fourteenth
Street Opera House, because tosbe connected wit /
N opera enterprise appears to be Is unlucky fot
oee concerned rs 1t was to be the owner Of the
6eian Horse, to have piece Of Tholosan gold 10
eDe's pocket.
But, say you, Dimes. that, notwithstan ling all
these terrible failures, opera managers appear 60 be
. thriving Iacef
dnl seas IN PUSHES off to Europe to engage troupe
He has just been utterly ruined by his last specula
ticn YET we find hun takicg drst class passage on
board Of n Cunarder, and drinking his Burgundy
Axd Geisehhemer every day at dinner, After he
has been gene couple Of mouths, iudca il, ru-
mors reach US thTougR the medium of IT, srcss, OF
the great things that he has been doing tre won
derfui artists he has engaged, the ext. 1inary
sTaragems be was obliged 10 resort to In o. Ter to
circumy ent ival impTesaros, who wanted 70 obtain
possession Of the celebrated prima tonna assoluto,
SigroIa Chjzzzilini, from the Teatro Saa Felce.
h Is also limited that he has been obliged to pay the
tists prodi9ious sums Of money, as earnest for tae
continuance OF their engageHsnss, tnoafn wnere
Well, IN n month or 30, the broken dowa aud bank
rupt manager returns per steamer In the very best
health and spiI,ts and accom- anied by the differ
ent nbers of his new troupe. Ha! at last toe
cam sign about be conducted with spirit. Eve
~ wall Is Covered vith placsrds containing glow
ing prospectus OF the ensuing season. There are at
lesst two oozen new operas never performed IN this
country that are to be produced almost iuluediate
ly, "wih new sec merry costumes and decorations,
q, an expense of several millions Of dollars" Tie
public is on the tp,toe Of expectation, aud every
one talks sbout the good time coming, and every
ore feel sort OF mental shower bath when La
Bopnambula Is announced for the first night Aud
La Sopbambula tits. through the whole season. with
perhaps slight sprinkirg OF Lucia, just to fres1en
the peo lie up little. But they co. notwithssend.
ing, with good nsiured pertinacity worthy of all
praise, and listen TO the choruses they know by
heart and the solos they could sing in III ,ir sleep
with sort OF trusting nfdence that the manager
win perform his promises yet The season draws to
clse Notwithstanding the fact Of the house having
bstn fpli early every night it is dolenlly,
that III mayer. poor fellow, is again ruined. One
two OF the chief artists get suddenly ndisposed
the evening OF the performance, and the ticket are
resumed. /, leaks out, however, thst the real cause
IVES rebellion on the part OF the tenor, who was
Owed tbrc weeks salary and who peremptoriiy
refused to sing until he paid. Every one pties
The poor bankrupt manager, and when II is an
Dounctd on the bills that, close to the season
and chance for the imprssarfo TO redeem himself,
the grand opera of Toe Titans" will be produced
"w, new and appropriate scenery, magnificent cos
1unes, ard gorgeous effects, ct an expense of-Hes
ven knows now msny-thousands Of dollars" the
public, one and ali, determine TO support the enter
prisipg manager. The Titansn IL produccd-the
seem to labor under. the impression that as loag as
fbe scenery Is new" It does not matter In the
least about its being good-and the house is flled