, 1877-07-22
ks Seraphine" and the Pre-
liminary Season at
McVlcker's.
Programme Of the Summer-Garden
Concerts for the Present
Week.
Acknowledgment by The Mayor Of st. John
Of The Apollo Club Donation.
Emma Abbott as St. CeciIia...A
New Prlma Donna-.-Mu-
sicaI Notes.

sical Notes.
THE DRAMA.
1HE NEW PLAY At HooLEY's.
"Thc Danichet1s :" is romantic play. U1
>elfish and uurrquitcd lore is the pivot abou
which the story moves; the moral graudcu
of Osip is the strong pictorial effect. &c is
man who loves above his station, circumstance
give him for a wife the woman he desires: b
-cspects her mute protest against him, and re
stores her, rs pure as she came, to the man sh
loves He 2bdicates husbands rights aud en-
thrones q lovers. This is romance 1t Il
not life or manners; therefore it is no
comedy. Neither is it mclodrama, In tn
ordinary sense Of the term. 1t is senti
ment refined beyood the experience
OF life It is the far-taned altar of roses, dis
ti1lmg slowly from two tons Of flowers sixtee1
ounces Of perfume. Why is it that story 81
unreal. SO unnatural, SO impossible, has charms
for every listener? Is it because shattered
romance fingers in the memories Of most n1cr
and women. even when middie-ase has bowed
the head and gray hairs cluster about the
temples2 No doubt Osip has bis prototypes.
AL the tears arc not shed for him. The ghost
What~might- -have~been ''-now and then stalks
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echoes through the house. Good Giant Des-
pair, why do you torture your children?
Their Paul. Augustus, John, George, Anna,
31aria, Matilda, long ago ceased to exist except
rs creatures OF the imagination. Paul is the
happy father Of nine children; Augustus las
lately adopted new dye to conceal the rayages
Of time with his chestnut curls; John is dead,
George dishonorable bankrupt, Anua shrcw,
harla a qucruious invalid, and Matilda's fair
name somewhat tainted with suspicion. Be-
sides, they never we're what they were pictured.
The romance that now clusters about them
would long ago have been dispersed
had they been in possession instead OF
being in past expectation. ThcJ would
have proved, Un trial, not half so comfortable
spouscs rs those assigned by Providence. It is
well they were never Put to the ttst- As OBJ
1ccts OF romantic affection they may still serve;
their names lua: be locked in tie sacred cham
bcr Of the Ecart: 2ul the key Oe thrown away;
a.'d when orc secs uotlc, auas,nanimous, self
sacridciu:. l.ye- like OSp there mar without
wrong he thought Of the treasure so securely
hauucl1. No nuco to open that chamber; tll1
owner knows wIat it contains.
@ .r,ln cau iu!d ! Gre in lie hand,
l;y thinking o1 the frosty Caucasus.
Or cluy the hnn5;ry edge OF appetite
BY b.rc Imagination OF 3 fest:
The author of "The DauicEclTs' ~ has done
well to make OStp 4 slave. 4 freeman would
not marry as csip did. or, having married, sur
tcrs Or m;stresses within tho dominion Of lore.
The slaves there rivet their own shacklcs and
knock them Oh .7len tlluy please. 0sip had
been in bondage, mind and body, twenty-five
level Of ta,neness; it was possible for him to
give his Ui1c to bis master. If he
had grown up : in a healthy American
atmosphere, with the bird Of freedom screaming
shed ilrst- His devotion is none the less touch
inn. It is that Of Z dumb. affectionate animal