Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-01-25

fectlve on the middle notes as on the up
per and lower ores. yet of wondrou,
strength and purity; and nothing car
surpass the clear rich tris, like those
shaken down from some bird singing in
the mid heavens. Miss KeIlogg's exc.
cution is said TO be unexcelied, and her
musical conscience is something unrivaled
after every triumph in song she saws to
herself or her mother, But better
next time" She has also much dramat
ic ability. and the Germans have com
plimented her Marguerite as being the
only real Gretchen among all The pre-
tenders. Possessed of prodigious
memory, and always up. not only in her
own part, but in the whole opera. she is
rumored to have remarkable power
over the other players on the operate
stage with her. conducting n large meas
ure of the performance, as one might
say, herself-prompting, bringing wan
derels back 10 the key, silently suggest
ing action, and holding every body as
near the mark as bis or her own defect
i've talent allows. This is something
unexampIed, not only for its enthusiasm,
but 70. its rnseifi~h de7otion to art in
the desire Of perfection for the whole
| performance. rather than success for her
self that shall eclipse the rest; and in re
rnarkabte contrast, we have heard it said
Of rivalin1 diva that it was with great
difficulty that that little lady learned her
own role. requiring 1t to be repeated to
her a hundred times before Der ear or
her memory received impression.
Miss Kellogg comes of quite a pecul
lar family; her father is an inventor of
no small merit, though sharing the i'll
| fortune of most inventors. and seeing
other people acquire w-allh by The labors
of his own brain. one of her grand pm
rel is was famous for his mathematical
aitanments. ard grandmother, still liv
ing, is an excellent vinlinist. and used
formerly in the beginning of the cotton
manufacture to superintand the erection
in large mills Of a valuable invention of
of her own; and thus may be seen an
other argument in favor of that idea
TINT music is the sublimation and ideal
ism of mathematics. Miss Kellogg's
mother is certainty one of tho most no
table women in the country-stil young,
good. kind, and wise, che sings little.
plays littl', paints little, mo :els lit
tie, and does all well. She attended
personally to the education of louise.
WAS her instructor in much, has been
her constant confilante, companion, and
manager designs all her costumes. su
periBtpnds her dressing, stands always
behind the scenes with wrap ready to
fold round her as she leaves the stage
having never vet seen her from the front
and shielding her always a. carefully
as daughter could be shielded in q
mothers drawing room-a daughter, in
this case, well repayiug the care 10y ahect-
ion, uprightness, and rare intelligence
Miss KeIIoggs stage wardrobe aud Jew
els are very rich aud elegant; among the
latter is an antique crown of amethyists
set in fragile workmanship of gold fill
Crane which she wears in L'Etuile
lu Nord,' and to which romantic his.
tory is attached. She returned from
her brief European tour aud musical
success laden with exquisite and costly
gifts from princes. dukes. and duchesses,
unspoiled bv all flattery she received.
though doubtless well enough pleased
by the enthusiastic praise with which the
savage and incorruptible Davidson OF the
Times greeted her. Her voice was en-
riched by rest and change OF climate,
aud we have reason 10 expect dlstln
guished conqueslS from her in the future,
shedding par. of their glory on all her
countrvmen and women. In her face
Miss Kellogg bears a striking resemb
lance To she ueiress Rachel, owing to the
shape of her features and her dark and
deep set eyes; but her happy open
smile and her changing color give her
n luxuriance of womanly beauty to
which the slim Hebrew, classic and
white and lustrous as sta.Ne, was a
, stranger. In manner she 10 exceedingly
nervous, self forge,ful, and never in re
pose, bu, constantly vibrating to the in
fuences about her.
ANNIE WHITNEY.
1t will not be considered rash state
mcnt by those who have studied her sIen-
der volume, issued ten years since. to say
that Anne Whitney has written some
poems unexceIed by any woman OF mod
ern times. Mrs. Browning's genius was
of an entirely different type,and although
| Miss Whitney's is as essentially woman
| w rs hers, IL is the womanhood of the
| future bv which it is to be measured. -
Such poems as Camille the Last
Dream, the Hy mn to the Sea, and the
sonnets to Night and to Beauty, for
power, for music, for imagination, aud
all delight, are certainly among those
classic things that since the days OF Sap
pho only men have written, and very
few Of them. Miss Whitney has. within
the few past yeas. turned her attention
10 sculpture, and after exhibition Of a
striking statue, called Africa repre-
senting the gross mother of a race
throwing off the skin of the brute that
has wrapped her. ami rising from her
sleep with face in which the soul is
just awaking she went 10 Rome to pur
sue her studies, and has but just arrived
home. In the volumes oil Fredrika
Bremen, recording her visit aud expert
enees here. Miss Whitney is frequently
mentioned. SHE ia very handsome