The Forrest City times., 1893-11-10

well performances; Snc Otereu instead a series of dramatic concerts. Only one took place.
 Although the 'Flauto Magico," which was chosen for the first performance, would seem to be independent of act ing. the libretto is so eminently stupid and undramatic, yet, in spite of Jenny Lind's splendid singing, the whole af- fair fell flat, to her great disappoint- ment Never before had she met with cold reception. Mrs. Grote and Lumley entreated her to give the oper- atic performances but she would not yield. At length my father succeeded where they failed. They suggested that Harris could not object if he really loved her; he urged the unfairness of disappointing Lumley. and finally the unsatisfactory termination which failure would put to her whole career. So she promised to give six farewell nights. Lumley was overjoyed, and sent us boxes for all six. The enthu- siasm of the audience knew no bounds. Yet no one could believe that the sing CT, in the very plenitude of her powers (she was only twenty-eight), really in- tended these to be the last of her tri- umphs But it was so, and after the curtain fell on the last of the six she never appeared again on any stage. Mr. Harris had consented to those erformances, and he and Jenny were once more on good terms.
 She lived at this time in little house very near us. It was called Clairville cottage; it was covered with roses and creepers; it had pretty garden, and was thoroughly rural. The backs of the houses in Brechin place now oc- cupy the ground. She and Claudius Harris often joined our country rides. He generally fell to my share, and did not find him exciting company. Lord Lansdowne sometimes joined us and also came to meet them at dinner. but we did not venture to invite anyone else, except the Grotes and one or two others of Jenny's intimate friends. All seemed to be going on swimmingly, and Mrs Grote went off to Paris, followed soon after by my father, but before he
 went he said to Jenny Lind Some thing tells me that your marriage will not take place If it should be broken
 off again, write no letters and have no
 farewell interviews, but join Mrs.
 Grote in Paris immediately.
 Affairs had not been going on so smoothly as appeared. MT. Harris had
 asked Jenny to insert in the settlements promise that she would never act again. To this my father objected, and | he also insisted that Jenny was to have
 uncontrolled power over her earnings.
 Mir. Harris said this was unscriptural,
 and the engagement was nearly broken | off, but renewed in consequence of the despair MT. Harris exhibited. He also terrified her by threats of torment here after if she broke her word; and last of all, when in the joy of reconciliation she was singing to him, she turned | round and saw that he had gone to sleep. Not long after Mr. Senior reached Paris there was tap at the door of Mrs. Grote's apartment one evening
 about seven o'clock, and in came Jenny.
 The ill.assorted marriage was finally | broken off.
 The emotions of the last few months
 had told heavily upon Jenny Lind, but with the sense of freedom the power of enjoyment soon returned, and she rode | in the Bois de Boulogne and walked on | the boulevards and in the Tuileries, and listened to the nightingales. One day
 she took my father to house in the place d'Orleans, near the Rue St. Laz-
 are. It was built round a courtyard, l with fountain in the middle. Jenny
 gazed at it without speaking. After | c..Js ko . ,ico oroi m 1a ir, | that house; I envied the fountain be-
 cause it was not obliged to sing " The house had been the residence of | Manuel Garcia, the most celebrated
 master of singing in Europe. and she alluded to the time when, in despair
 at the loss oi her voice from fatigue
 and bad management, she slowly re-
 gained it by means, first of rest, and
 then of skillful practice under Garcia's
 teaching.
 The domestic happiness for which sine
 had so long sighed was soon to ue hers.
 After singing in concerts and oratorios
 in Germany, Sweden and Liverpool, she
 sailed for the United States on August
 2I, 1850. Her success in the New World
 was as brilliant as it had been in the Old, and her charities as munifcent 1 Her company was joined in 1851 by Mir. Otto Goldschmidt, who succeeded Bene-
 dict as pianist A deep and true attach
 ment sprang up between the two young
 artists, and they were married on Feb
 ruary, 5, 1852.
 Her horror of being lionized led her
 sometimes to reject overtures which
 were made in perfectly good faith to
 express the respect and admiration felt
 for her; hence she was not always pop