Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-20
Letter from Boston.
lFRoM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT
BosroN, Sept. IS, 1871.

This has been perfect day for Il celebration,
cool, clean, and bright; and the whole of it has
been usel. The first sound heard in the carly
morning was 4 drum; the first sight seen was
soldier or a flag; and when twilight had fall
len drum beats were still heard, ard bright
fragments of the splendid procession still
shone in the lighted streets. All day
the streets have been crowded, and the
the common was an interesting and gorg-
eous spectacle, when the multitude had gath
cred there for services which not one in a hun
| bred could hear or see. The procession was
everywhere; do not know how long it was,
but it seemed to be flowing through every street
at once, and yet the men marched ten Or twelve
abreast. The fire engines excited the admira-
| ton of the women amongst the spectators, and
| a housekeeper could not look unmOved on such
| evidence Of care; the machines seemed to be all
metal, and were Respondent, not spot was on
them not even a blur; all over was one perfect,
even, brilliancy; thoughts of dull plate at home
would intrude, and more than one looker-on
said to her neighbour "Do you think it takes
all the time of one man to keep it bright?'
City life seems at its height again. One week
makes an astonishing difference in the streets
and in the shops; schools have begun, and
there is fresh energy and hustle all over town.
There is nothing of especial importance or
interest at either Of the five theatres; in fact
nothing seems of Importance excepting politics;
that is almost the only subject of conversation;
but other things are waiting their chance.
Madame Parepa-Rosa will give three grand con-
certs this week, the one on Saturday afternoon
to be ballad music almost entirely; Nilsson
opens an opera season with Faust, early next
month; Mr.. Peck's popular concerts" begin
next week; at the first one, Mr.. Joseph Heine
the blind violinist, and Mrs. Ada Heine, a
pianist, will appear for the first time in Boston,
Miss Kellogg and Miss Phillips are promised for
October; tomorrow, Miss Egeria Antonini,
Roman violnist, only ten years old, is to give
concert at fremont temple. But concerts are
thrown in the shade by lectures; their popu-
larity is surprising; seven courses are already
advertised-the old Bay State; the Boston,
which offers ten lectures for dollar, and is one
of the cheapest courses, even when the quality
is taken into account; the South End, with
fifteen in its list; the Citizens, which also offers
ten fora dollar; the Boston lyceum; the Parker
Fraternity, and the Berkeley Anna Dickinson
is to give three of the seventy-two lectures,
James I. Fields four, Wendell Phillips four,
George w. Curtis three, Rev. Mr.. Murray three,
John B. Cough three, and a host of old
and new lecturers one apiece. Women
have fair share of the speech and the
publicity. Pretty Mrs. Scott-Siddons reads and
lectures; Mrs Celia Burleigh maintains "wom-
ans right to be a woman;" Mrs. Emma Har-
dinge Britten talks about Paris in 1888 and 1871:
Mrs. Liyermore is to vanquish Gen. James A.
Hall in debate on woman suffrage; Mrs Eliza
beth Cady Stanton will make a dreadful prophe-
sy of what "Thc Coming Girl" will be; Olive
Logan will express her opinion of "Nice
Young Men," while Mrs Julia Ward Howe and
Miss Lillian Edgerton have not yet announced
their subjects.
Amongst the best of the schools for free in
struction is drawing school at the Lowell in
stitute, where young men can be taught two
evenings, and young women two afternoons
each week, from October to April With draw
ing taught in this way and in the public schools.
we shall be fitted to appreciate and enjoy the
new art museum, so soon as it collects its treas
ures for us.
The Athenaum is rich in portraits by Stuart
and Copley. Those of Mrs. j. P. Davis and
Mrs. Bernard Henry are the most beautiful of
the twelve by Stuart; the CopIey collection of
thirty-one is very interesting yet Lady Erskine
is the only beauty amongst them, though Cop
ley's two daughters are very pretty
in the large picture, called the Red
Cross Knight, where they, with their brother,
represent scene in the Faerie Queen.
His famous portrait of Henry Pelham,
usually called "The Boy with the Squirrel" is
there Any one interested in portrait painting
orin Copley's marvellous skill would find real
pleasure in this collection. A good many of
Allstoh's pictures are gathered here; two fine
old heads, called Isaac of York and Jew, be-
long to the Athenaum; the really grand Miri-
am is only lent for while, and so is the Rosa
lie, dim girl with eyes wide apart, and delicate
fingers idly resting upon her neck over which
Allston's admirers go into raptures; you re-
member that he wrote poem, too about her,
and the picture represents
fPIhp gentle Rnsalia