, 1875-12-26
Irving In ssHamlet'' and "Macbeth ,,-..
Miss Dateman, Salyini, and
Joe Jefferson.
Tho Popular Concerts-Madame Essipof,
the Pianist, and Madame Norman
Niruda, the Violinist.
Literary 1oplcs---Rrowning's "lnn-Album "--
Eorris' " Eneid n---Lorne's Guido and
lita Jean ingelow's "Fated
to Sc Free"

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LONDON, Eng, Dec, 6.-Despite fogs. mistt
and muddy streets, winter in this grand old lie
tropolis, has an interest in many respects create
than that OF the distinctive so-called s. season.
which opens with the opening OF the year. afte
Easter. and lasts quite into the heart OF tn
summer This season is the era Of fashion ant
frivoity, OF political and social excitement
London, then, donned in her gay attire appear
as the worlds Vanity Fair; in tbe winter it i
the worlds
THINKING AID WORKING LABORATORY,
the enormous chzysalis Of q eoon-to-be trans
cendeut butterfly. In the season, the flower o.
the English aristocracy, the peerless women ane
stAlEart men Brought to b]oom' by centuries o.
careful training, from the gnarled trunk OF the
rude Anglo-Se1on race, hold their court to
their pleasures all things are subordinate con
certs and operas are celebrated in the light oi
their eyes and By the glitter Of their diamonds
for them are rcuts and balls, receptions, draw
ing-rooms, raccs, fandangoes,- the deetins phan-
tasmagorian display Of a raet social dissipa-
ton. In the winter, these gay moths,
TO whom existence means the search OF pleas
ura, have winged their flight elsewhere; they
are hunting on the moozs, Or repoeing On their
grand old estates, pursuing tigers and elephants
in Africa, measuring trees in the Yosemite
Valley, or adm,ring Chicago's stately growth OF
palaces, sprung up in single night,-like the
eIttering palace Of fairy ~tale.-after the dew
astating wing OF the 6re-fend had left the city
bare aud desolsto, In all cli1nes. In all coun-
tries, they are found. always recognizable under
their lnnumerable MASKS counties actors Of q
angle weL-knoWn role,-thEt OF the English
modern tourist:
Caprice his only guide,
His home the world 80 wide
In the winter, Everybody, as the small clique Of
fashionable elite are everywhere termed, is
away, and over h:1shed London hroods spsll OF
PREPARATION AID EXPECTATION.
Here, now, in countless studios, artists are at
work, dreaming the dreams which patient 1abor
shall convert to realities, dinging down upon
canvas bold sketches, suggestions for future
Eork, or celebrating the carefuly-matured pic
d b,s which ehaH hereafter witness for them
on the walls Of the Academy. Here, now, in
countless churches, preachers wise and
learned. progressive or retogressiye, lib
eral thinkers OF utualsts, in their
various ways are displaying all their
force Of learning or eloquence. Scientists lit
terateurs Of all Eorts, journalists, authors,
poets, teachers, iecturerA students, are weaving
each his own thread Of the ghttering web
wrought from the magical loom OF time. And
beneath this upper stratum OF ethereal ntmoR-
phere, in which the children Of light live and re-
joice, or may il they will. in the ulurky under
world, whose Ian is hard toll for q bare subeist-
ence the rude masses, in their varying grades
Of comfort and ignorant misery. aspirations. and
brutality. sustain. upon living hearts aud bra1us,
the neye1-to-be upifted burden of the actual
physical existence Of that sturendous organism
~-society.
ct this 8eason subdued, classical, lntelfectu~
al Artists receptions, assemblies for discussion
among authors and liberal thlnkers, lectures,
readings, aesthetic teas,-at rarer intervals,
characters and private theatricais, the
sort Of entertainments which are the most pop
ular in OR small New England towns and West
ern vlI1ages. are all the rage in the innumerahie
ciuues (uot unlike little yillages in their way)-
separate cells Of the general Mye-of which Lon
don society is composed. The operas have not
yet begun, but the theatres are doing their best
to supply their place, and the noble classical
concerts, heard nowhere in such perfection as in
London, afford to weary heart and brain the
purest and most exalted enjoyment.
An american is surprised to find
THE THEATRES
In London 60 comparatively unathacdve- Small
uncomfortable, and poorly ventilated, and with
csupanies distinctly inferior to OURS, nowhere
can you enjoy the rara trent OF witnessing in a
ecene OF cosy comfort u at Wallack's, or Of
etately elegance az ut Booths, good play thor
onehly we'll performed thrpushout-an artistic
u,
them to be sustained even by this enormous
population. If their hundred and more gliu-
mering Insignificant lights could be melted down
into and merged with tho few more brilliant
iuminaries. it would be an advantage. The
Prince OF Wales is the most fashionable and the
smallest Of the London theatres smnllness in
alnost eyery thing ia in London recommends
Non- Here the 1eigning star ia
MARIE WILTON,
m actress charming aud spitituelle. woman
~l-.,h
from the fact OF her associations with persons
high IN 1ank and Importance During Col.
Bakers late trial, the excessive hostility with [
which be Was regarded by the middle classes Was |
matter OF universal comment; and, although his |
cowardly outrage wss sufficient in itssH to have !
accounted for this indignation, there Was, in |
fact, moro of it than appeared. The yirtuous |
bourgeoisis Of London had an old grudge |
against Col Baker. Whether with injustice !
ao to lea, thi Se 1eans noe Of Wales 1en no s fes
sipsted courses, and Of persuading him to cast !
himself at the feet Of the siren, Marie Wilton. |
It is certain that Madame Wilton, after being for
many years the mistress Of Col Baker, transfer
nection, although it did not Last long, proved
speculation for tho 2ctress, since, with
the prooeeus Of Royal muni6cence, she was en-
abed to build London its favorite theatre, |
which, with somewhat andacious gratitude, she
after her quondam lori.
Al the Lyceum,
IArNa AID N1ss RATEMAH
sre tormenting the ghosta OF the Scottish ThAne
and his wife. Macbeth, irreBolute man, but
daring aud magnificent wasr1or; Lady Macbeth, |
uhscrupu1ous, yet OF fiery and lofty
nature -~a1e almost equally trayestled by these
representations that Of Irving, servile crang-
log. hyetericAi that Of Miss Baseman, cold, !
formal, lmplacabia. 1t the Haymarket, minor
and court melodEanas are being paasably per- |
formed The AlhAmbra-tho Nlolo'e Of London
.-1s an enormous building, cold and comfort |