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Public sstimation ID erect allows that II / maj
generally writes good things Ill that be writes mus
be good and hence il il that vast amounts sf trasl
are accepted q of value because they ars from pei
which has earned ! merited reputation, while mncl
that il valuable does mot receive the award Of meri
due because The author has not yet established nam
to endorse IT. 10 the question What's in name p
We should answer, there's everything in name If
De- attschsdto bit of vszse and to prove this, /
queer experiment has been il progress for two years
reaching its denouemsnt on the slst Of December,
which ,aav lie editor Of the Buffalo Republic repub
Ilished piece Of verse entitled Autumn" and &C
credited 70 william Cullen Bryant, conessng that s
himssf wrote i two years BEFORE and endorsing Il
With the name Of that poet, sent It forth to Try iii
fortunes throughout newspaperdom. They were bril-
liant for the verses haye been copied into hundreds
of papers, among them the rst critical journals oi
The country, who were dazzled to their demerts by
the shining forgery Of an authors name which was
appended. All Of our readers probably, have seen
the verses, which are iair imitation Of Bryant'a
style.
Bryant, who Is the principal editor Of the Evening
Post and who, during the two years. did not expose
the fraud talks somewhat bitterly about it in the col
umns Of his paper, remarking that "it was in the
highest degree unfair and nnhandsome to make an
author, fhimsel1 who has bad verses enough Of biz
own to answer for, responsible for verses which be
never wrote.n
Operate.
Junca, the basso, who was reported BY New Orleans
papes to have died in New York, did nothing Of the
kind, but Is very much alive and in good voice. .
The New York Post has certain contempt for New
Orleans opetc taste which it asserts nclines to the
little Partisan comic operas the farces Of the mus
cal drama rather than to the grand productions q
the masters. Estates 1--WE seldom see one OF Verdi's
operas announced for production at New Orleans''
the Post seldom sees such announcements, it is be-
cause Il does not take the trouble Of looking, for
yerdis operas are announced as frequently, If not
more frequently than those Of any other master.
pretty place, indeed is New York for criticisms upon
the operatic taste Of another community
that of New Orleans come from, when her half !
million Of people cannot support an opera company
for single season! Recent Piccolomin experiences
have given editors and critics there smattering Of
opeatic ideas which they are airing most pompously,
spreading them out very thin, to make them cover
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making preparations for tremendous enterprise in
the amusement line. He has leased the Boston Thea
ter for year, and intends that It shall always be in
use and to effect this, he will engage ballet troupe
70 dance, German dramatic company to play, and
Everett and Spurgeon to lecture on the nights when
opera is not on. He is treating with Ristori whom
be is trying hard to coax across the water to appear
at his house, in her role Of Italian plays These
arrangements be i endeavoring to make and whether
he will succeed remains to be seen.
a Boston Prayer Meeting.
Religion must be falling into melancholy disrepnte
n and about the modern Athens when to secure pro
priety in their religious meetings the brethren have
to go armed with long poles, wherewitha to fog the
evil one out Of the boys during the sacred services
We presume that such irreverence is consequence
OF religien having been SO abused by its being
mingled with aboltionism, sprituasm and other
sms, that the young have lost their respect for what
they should regard with an awe which would compel,
as it were decorum amid the scenes Of its observance
The Moslem disciples carried the koran in one hand
and the cimetar in the otherthese the bible in one
hand and cudgeln the other The tortiter in re has
taken the place OF Christian suapiter Il, odo-mus-
Gle preferred to moral sussion decorous scene Of
this kind is described in the following paragraph:
At religious meeting, few evenings since, not
far from Boston, when the services we're most inter.
esting, some rowdy boys began their antics in the
way OF making buzzing noise ; when slowly and
dignfedly from various parts Of the meeting, arose
brethren, with long poles, which descended on the
heads or poked forcibly into the ribs Of the wicked,
Who not anticipating such vsitations started to their
feet in alarm, and rushed out OF the place as il the
police were after them.
We should like to see for the thing would have
charm Of novelty, the phalanx Of strong breth
rem marching into the meeting. house, each armed
with hooppole Of dimensions Of which the mere
sight would be sufficient to cause bad boys soul to
quail within him.
The Extraordinary Libel Suit
OF the homeopathic physicians Of Paris in behalf
of their abnted system against an abusive allopahc
journal, to which we referred in this column some
weeks since came up for trial and was dismissed the
tribunal refusing to entertain the proposition that
system could be libeed in legal sense The injuri-
ous words were, that homeopathy was neither doc.
trine, nor science, but q trade" and that "if an
epoch had presented itself when the method Of
Hahneman could be employed by any one who was
not abjecty ignorant crack k-brained visionary or
wretched charlatan was certainly nat the present
one.n