Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-31

the Duoms at Florence. A very few pictures
have place in this collection; but you notice at
once Allston's frightful elijah fed by Ravens"
and a very attractive landscape by Daubigny,
hung in a bad light, and called "After Sunset"
There are a hundred other things, as valuable
and interesting as those have mentioned, and
the collection is well worth taking some trouble
to see.
The Mendelssohn quintette club has engaged
Signor Crillo for the Italian department of their
new musical college. Mr.. Howard Ticknor,
now living in Naples, writes enthusia ticaly of
Signor Cirillo as a man who is needed in Boston
and who is capable of doing great deal of good
here. He was educated at the Naples conserv-
atory; studied singing under Bust, the best
master that Naples has had in this century;
also composition, the piano forte and the organ
His private lessons give him constant occupa-
ton; he received offers to go to Genoa, also to
take CHARGE of a government institution at
Athens, but he wanted to come to America, and
the offers of the quintette club were definite and
liberal. Dir. Ticknor says: "Sgnor Cirillo is
close student as well as q panstaking teacher,
and his system of training, which is quite his
own, is sufficiently elastic TO be adapted to the
special wants of each particular pupil, instead
of being applied arbitrarily to all alike. have
seen excellent results from it even when the pu-
pills were not unusually gifted and were study
ing merely as amateurs and | know that it
would effect great things for anybody who
should go to work with will under his direc
ton"
Mr.. Williams Lecture Bureau" pamphlet is
out, with a list of about sixty lecturers and
readers for next season, and large number OF
singers and musicians. Chief among the new
names are James Anthony Froude of London,
with course Of lectures on the Historical Re-
lations of England and Ireland;" Edmund
Yates, the novelist, with four sketchy lectures,
not in course, on English society and authors;
Mrs Leonowens, with her wonderful and ro-
mantle experiences at the court of Siam; sgd
ney Woollett, an Englishman, who recites un-
commonly well; and Mrs. II. B. Stowe, who is
to read from her own compositions. Mrs. Le-
onowens is very interesting, and Mrs. Stowe is
a delightful reader; but, Judging from the diff
Guilty of hearing both of them across a small
room, can't believe that their voices will nearly
on the back seats seldom do hear the women on
platform, and perhaps don't care much about
it, for they all have opera glasses; and as the
females lecturer usually addresses herself to the
eye as much as to the ear, greC. satisfaction is
obtained from the study of her clothes and man
ners. Of course, Mrs. LWermore and Anna
Dickinson are exceptions; they have voices fit
for public speaking, and never strain them in a
vain attempt to be heard.
Joaquin Miller, with his mustang and MeXi-
can saddle, is expected in town next month. If
the saddle is half so heavy with silver as his
friends report, the society for the P. of c. to A
will have to take the poet in hand, and human
ize him. Mrs. Greenough has a new novel in
press. A translation from the French, by Miss
Preston, is promised for the holidays, and we
all look eagerly for novel written in English
by Hialman H. Boyesen, young Norwegian
gentleman, who has become, tits said, thorough
master of our language, and recites it with ease
and power. Pleasant things are told of both
the book, and the author who is now in Cam
bridge.