The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-31


mad received, and she accepted the omen for good.
Her face lighted up few faces can at the famil-
lar sounds, and the two hand some women kissed
each other with hearty good will. was preju
diced Immediately.
"By the way, have you noticed her applaud when
she is not on the stage? She claps away for Gaz-
zaniga so vigorously that Pm half afraid she'll fall
from her chair. she throws bouquets, she
her handkerchief and is entirely forgetfu of her
self. She laughs and cries just like ordinary
auditor. | went into her box on the night. of
'Robert lie Diable;" she told me she was one of the
public now. | asked her how she liked being one:
Very well, but she'd rather be on the stage. ooh
assure you, there is nothing like the stage; ah
me! the applause! &c sont les plus bellies chooses
du monde, les applaudssementsw And she looked
! like little Corinne she spoke. Pm sure she
deserves to be crowned at the capitol. For was
there ever any more exquisite sentiment than that
portrayed by her in the first act of the 'Traviata
anything more delicate more natural than the
first feeling of love indicated on her mobile face
anything more sadly truly, beautifully done than
the parting with her lover in the opera? She
is not Violetta, however, no lorette so
refined in bearing: Traviata shrinking
ly. modestly, decately loved, as she. s.
Whether the passport is right or not, don't
know; whether the Clementinis are related to the
Piccolominis not, don't care, but this little
Maria is princess by nature. She has passport
that is quite as good here as in Sienna and people
understand it too, who studied Italian, any
mos than she has English. Apropos: You should
hear her speak English, or try to. That tiny little
mouth gets all pursed up and puckered in her at
tempts to pronounce the words stuck full of
consonants, and she laughs merriy at her mis-
takes. One morning she had been practising some
difficult passage in the "Figla del Reggimento,"
and ran up to the piano. to try it again. She re-
peated the strain several times till it perfect,
and then turned to me with the air of conqueror,
and exclaimed in very pronounced style, GAIL
drightF' And so sheis call bright"
TIE res OF Po9E YGTxs L. the
Ia,sof Corpus Ggrst Goi 0xt@fd yo: I2mS' Sp SIS,
sale by Henry Taylor, Sun Iron Building.
The reputation which this sketch has acquired
seems well deserved. "Romance" is its proper IL
tie, for it is no novel of society, &c.-not one of
those pre-Raphaelite productions of Dickens Sue,
or even Thackeray, whose art seems only to be to
give feigned names and imaginary scenes to every
day and women. We cannot help recognizing
the likeness and wondering at the elaborate skill
with which the minutest and apparently most tri-
vial traits and shades of traits are painted
by that class of writers. Theirs is art, and,
in its best estate, a high order of art--yet
surely not the highest-else, were the best pos
sble painter of a town pump or Swiss chalet
the superior of those masters who have made
known to us the forms of Gods and the hues of
Heaven. The pretense of the superior truth of the
pre-Raphaete literary school is false unless things
existing and things true be convertible terms. An
architect may deform a landscape with tower that
shall violate every law of proportion and beauty,
but when built it becomes part Cf the landscape
an existing fact. Is the painter satisfying the high
est sense of ruth who should pourtray most accu-
rately such a scene? Would not even photo
graph of it be untrue, fairly considered? If the
thing painted described be carricature or ex-
cepton in itself-is the picture written or
painted less so? Is not this one of the cases in
which the old legal maxim, ''the greater the truth
"the greater the libel" may fair Y apply-at all
events in the well understood sense that an ex-
veyed by details, not one of which is false? We
not arguing against any school of art or litera-
ture, but merely endeavoring to assign to each its
proper place. And so say of this French ro-
NANCE which has an almost, nay, quite impossible
story; whose characters merely outlined for
the most part; whose scenery is not detined whose
incidents sometimes absurd that it is essen
italy true, because of its being of infinite
ly higher order of truth, than those pictures of
cry day life which the glory and shame of mod
ern literature. This "poor young man. was not
born in straw, brought up among vagabonds and
thieves, apprenticed to tinker, then become a
strolling player and lastly by some specially natural
man, but such model gentleman as to lead us to
regret that all gentlemen had not had the same
early advantages. Far otherwse-he is young
Count of the highest type, developed in circum-
stances of luxury, and first made conscious of his
poverty the period of his fathers DEATH when he
was twenty-five; who was never really hungry but
once; who speedily relieved from all chance of
want by procuring "irst-rate situation" through
the agency of his fathers attorney, and sent off to
Brittany to take charge of an estate whose
mistress is rich and romantic widow, with
beautiful only daughter.
The whole force of the conception, consists not in
dragging human soul, matter of how high
nature, through the mire and dust of degrading
want, but in showing the just and true and conss-
tent action of one whose honor and sensibity and
all manly qualities have been developed to the point
of perfection by prosperity not abused. This
fined and noble nature is not made subject to the
manifold fierce assaults of poverty and misfortune
nor depressed below the point where selfrespect
disappears and whence a perfect moral recovery is
almost impossible. such sound fruit is not ripened
wholly without sun.
We have also received from Henry TAYLOR, Sun
Iron Building
admiral of the Turkish Navy. Written from New York
Ans as se6 t@ b APg
added ndry other critical and explanatory auda
Of he no amG p SeW 9o
Charles Seribner; l2i Grand street, London Sampson
These letters are very clever and have most of
them been published in the New Y ork Euening Post
Also
form edition of GEORGE " N RETSoIDs Novels Also
The BRIDE LAMMERMooR. of the twenty-five cent edi-
ton of the Waverly Novels by the same publishers
From Cushings & Bailey, No 262 Baltimore
Life Voltare by Lord BRoUGHAM and critical notices
by Lord M ss and THOMAS CARLYLE 1vol l2mo
The PRovIXcIAL LETTERS BLAIsE PASCAL new trans
THOMAS NctRIE Preceded by Life of Pascal Critical
Essay and Biographical Notice vol l2mo., PIP. 40
Both of these works are edited by o. w. WIGHT,
A. NJ, and are from the press of Derby & Jackson,
l19 Nassau street, New York, uniform with the
edition of Montaigne's works noticed by US last
week. They of the very best class.
From the publishers
GDRAsIL; Or The Tree of Existence By JAMES CHALLES
vol. l2mo,, PIP. 10 Philadelphia Lindsay Baks
This very dry mummy very nicely en-
balmed.
From Evans & Hoyt, Al Baltimore street -
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in Applique BeadWark BTdsg Canvas Work Knitting
Netting, Lattng, Worsted Work, Quilting. Pateh- work.
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