New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-12
QUEEN VICTORIA IN FRANCE.
HER TENT AT GRASSE-PRINCE KULAyn
BONAPARTE- REFORM.
Paris, March

BONAPARTE-MUSICAL REFORM
Paris, March g.
The Queen Of Great Britain is again visito,
in France She and President Camot have been
exchanging pleasant kilograms which have
heartiness of tone not usual in the official world
The Queen slept in her yacht at Cherbourg and
landed Of the Arsenal Wharf. Orders were sent
by the Government not TO let her be stared at By
q crowd of strangers her feeling being that not
even cat should look at Queen. This greatly
delighted her. The Maritime Project, Admiral
Lesps. surrounded by his staff and having his
wife beside him, received her and the Batten-
bergs All the officers were in uniform. Madame
Lesps had wonderful basket, taking the form
of a ship, and filed with orchids and other flow.
ers. sent down by the Foreign Minister and fur.
nished by the Gardens Of the City OF Paris, TO
present TO the Queen. The basket was beautifully
trimmed with moss green ribbons, and small
Union Jack in silk was hung out at the stern.
The Queen was greatly amused at the nautical
character Of the gift, and as she moved on after
receiving it, she thanked Madame Lespis, saying
L" Je suis plus sensible que je ne puis vous dire
yotre chamante attention. Madame Lespis has
since come 10 Paris. She was struck with the
homey heartiness of the Queens manner, which
does not in the least impress one as that Of a
spoiled child of fortune.
The Queen used to have two Indian servants
She now has four. Her lap dogs were earned by
a lady and gentleman, and were beautiful little
creatures. The Indians were placed nearer TO the
roval persons than the British attendants, and
there was this time no Highlander in kilt.
Miss Alice Rothschild, who, through the Princess
Louise got the Queen to come TO Grasse, is sister
Of Baroness Alphonse de Rothschild, and though
she was born and brought up in London, lives the
greater part of the year in Paris and in the South
NJ France. She is q maiden lady no longer young,
is fond of literary people and loves flowers and
the fine arts but is not so successful In nigh gar
dening as her sister, or IN painting as hef COUSIN
Baroness Nathaniel de Rothschild. her gardens
and greenhouses at Grasse are among the sights
Of the place. the staple trade of which Is scents
extracted from flowers. The Queen passes hours
each day in these grounds. Her donkey phae'oh
takes her round them, and her windsor Ten, i SET
up ON a terrace on the crest Of hill planted WIN
oranges, commanding lovely view oil the pau
below Grasse and of the sea.
There is no truth in the report that rrince
Roland Bonaparte is engaged TO be married 10 'he
Dncbess dowager of Aosta, daughter OF Prince
Jerome Napoleon and the Princess Clotliae'
Roland is scientific, broad-minded and PARTISAN
He lives with his mother 1.-THE daughter OF an
ou.,sor ond formerly seamstreS), his sister
Jeanne now Marquise de Villenenor, ana MS
Young daughter, who is heiress to the 3o'ooO'ooo
francs in which he has a life interest, and Tor
which his wife, nee Blanc sold her interest In the
Monaco tables. Roland is a great traveller lie
is now the owner of the house in Corsica IN "hcn
the great Napoleon was born, and often visits that
island. A royal wife would be merely a purden
70 him. Laetitia wants to be Queen OF l'AVi
end in all likelihood she will be at least Pnncess
of Naples
The class which benefits most by Passion week
IN this country Is the theatrical one. The play
houses are shut up on Holy Thursday, uood
Friday and the Saturday before Easter ana the
players generally go to Brussels or 70 the
Provinces to give Rotations. What never nap
no,,d before within nv recollection Of Paris, the
Moulin Rouge, fast dancing saloon and garden,
has also interrupted It's usual form Of entertain
ment TO give Stabat Matters, "The Seven WORDS
on the Cross" and chapter from La we oe
Jesus arranged as oratorio by Legacy he
what might be termed an impresslonlst composer
and holds that Remains musical feeling is sach
that there is well-dened rhythm In all his prose
writings, but in peculiar degree IN " La we ue
.Jesusn Paulus also at his concerts gives Stabat
| Matters and masses of Beethoven This may In
dictate that musical taste is growing purer ana
broader, and that the truths which were realized
by the great composers of religious music go home
to the hearts and minds of the crowd when, nav
ing been stated with naturalism, now seeks re-
| freshment in pure idealism. On the other hand,
oneratic music invades the fashionable churches.
Palestrina is thought bore by frivolous votaries.
| They mortify the flesh in Listening 20 an ofaVorio
| of Dubois or mass Of Mozart.
The Opera will probably next year initiate the
Opera Comique in giving classical concerts, and
in Holy Week spiritual ones should m men Ht
tempts to initiate Oberammergau., a passion play
is on this evening at lie Theatre dAppLcatlon and
another at Ia Sale des Conferencea --L~Nt> .