New-York daily tribune., 1855-08-23

'H"NV" ouu VI S'IIunt, iefbuip Ndfmn Ol u
,oft Summer night The Doctor lounged in the
orchestra Jules Jenn slept on sofa in the Green
room 1t was not long be.fFe old Veion, az be writes
himself, wss fixed then enrPtured, aud rushing to
where J~niD slept dragged him 10 the boxs inssiog
that be should listen to the actes[
From that hour those two WORTH. N have announced
that they made RacheIs reputstio.q. Silly Veron
jauniy JsniD dressed in your little Nief criticisms
when did puuy men make a repuiati,,ni Genius
alone made it snd wrote it on her brow. And doubt
LEES when, a. poor little girl, tbe strollst through
France begging and singing for a living sh felt the
divine fire bissng round ber brain though sh may
not have been able to account for the strange ard
burning And she returned TO her home ih At light
Of ier tral and her triumph, she could not have bet
ter described Der vicory than in the naughty words
Of the great Roman: ven vioi, vico With the
instinct OF her eek she sought one small revenge Be-
fore appearing al the Theatre Fsncais, Provost the
great comeoian, TO whom she had applied for an en-
esgemeDt, had. with a unusual in his pol
bhed oD, told Der TO "go and sell bouquets on the
" "Boulevards." The evening after her triumph she
TO Provost with adozeD glorious bouquets which
had been cast at her feet the night before and hold
ing up The fa rant bundle, cried out: "Wil you
"buy 2" From the 10th Of June 1888, her has
been untrektn triumpb and the shades Of Cor
nellie ard Racine could they have been called TO life,
would have not been the least amazed among the
wondering.
What would have been their horror TO zee their
Greek, r. man, Hebrew ideals destroyed and instead
of talking loving, fretting signing and dying, with
that blending of sntique compOsure and modern
poiieDess, upon which they were modelled, {, see
young Hebrew girl with almost savage independence
aromd her, talking with feeling loving with vehem-
ence, freitng with passion, signing with intensity,
dying with pathos The spell of Sephoces is broken,
the unities Of Arstote prosated. Corneille and
Racine are disturbed in their graves They trembIe
for The safety Of those artistic links by which they sd
welded the oracle of Delphos and the Court of Yer
sailes the Forum and the Tuileries the Temple and
TIE Cathedral How can these fra bonds between
elt meDts so anomalous be preserved if the genuine
gold Of eloque1ce and passion shines where The cold
steel Of rhetoric and defamation cleaned How
pale and puny all the efforts of art in the presence
of the omnipoence of genius! A young girl accom-
pli he'd what CorDele deemed beyond mpishment.
With wonderful tact and inimitabe grace she blends
the loftiness Of the Roman with the fervor OF the
Hebrew, the intellectually of the Greek with the
poieness of the French and the haueur of the Heather
with the humanity Of the Christian. But Rachels
merit did not rest here. She not only linked together
clemens the most antagonstic by throwing the whole
strength of her brain into the interpretations of her
part, and becoming thus the first woman who made
Camille and Atbalie Phedre and Pauline, ineligible
and attractive the stage but has done much
and here lies her cbiefmert She taught how to con-
vey the value of SOrd by throwing her whole soul
into utteTance, look and manner, thus striking
at the same moment soth the senses and
the intellectual perception, and by intensifying
her gesttucation, eectrifying through every nerve
without sacrificing dignity TO intensity or Judgment
to passion In all her various deneaoDs of sensatons
she created excitement without being excited herself
The French dread nothing more than rdicue, aud al
though dramatic by their Imagination, they love
scenes" even in daily life yet they are practical by
common sense and laugh at the actors when the
scene is past. Never was there greater risk than in
Fe1ch tragedy taking the slippery ep which leads
from the sublime TO the absurd. With enthusiasm for
the sublime the French uIe railery for its opposite.
The manner in which the bellies Of antiquity fretted
away their time in twaddle about their commonplace
love affairs is in many instances ridiculous but the cir
cunsiapce and the time were generally sublime The
fiji ulty of catching this sublime without falling into
tue ridiculous wonderfully accomplished by Rache'
A commanding atmosphere OF intellect hung ever
around her. and stood sentinel where so many varying
and monotonous attitudes threatened danger 1t she
talks with loquscity or loves with tenaclty, or scars
with audacity, or weares with stupidity, or nouns
with intensity or muses. with placdi'y, you may have
found fault with the ridou ous and anomalous thing
she did but never with her. You can never wrest
yourself from the impression that woman OF genius
stands before yOu and whatever may he the part she
has to play that power of genius ever ascinates you
throughout It was its perpetual preseneewhlch made
her debut such brilliant success. The women IN tue
audience-and nowhere more than In France arc such
cue stiops settled by women-a sharedn the general
acmiration. Women are not apt to appreciate 100
Lishly each others qualities; but whatever may nave
been their instructive oesire none dared TO dispute the
genius of one who was so terribly brllant' FROM mat
evening TO within the last four months, when iVai
star appeared in the dramatic trmamen she mas oeeh
looked upon as the undisputed queen OF tragedy Such
fame of European stretch has naturally gwen orlu 10
all manner ef interpretations of her character ana po"
eys Some say she can ouly deneate the terf'oew'n'
ont portraying the softer passions; oilers nSe in'o
ecstasy. worshiping her as an artistic coame'eoh'
wearing every color of mind and soul WIN tue saie
dazzling brlliancy, perfection and model lor az
AGES TO come, exhausting praise until words ian "
eynress their frantic admiration. hterary au!
osin frds that she does not come up To her pallou
lar ideal. A phi anthropeal woman expresses Ho'
bepevoept feelings by andering the genus OF one
who is not known among technical phiah'h'oP'''s
- fasbionable woman with significant smile
uinLs her rather a singular looking person, ana
- ,bo tbeater travel strange tales OF romantic
..,,als and oriental orgies. Indeed, upon rea'ing
bo o,inons which for the last seventeen years nave
hoor written about her. the conviction when presses
Itself most strongly upon the mind Is inst next 70 SUI