The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-08-06

The exhibition at Chicago has run half
its time and they are still quarreliug about
the musical arrangements. Theodore
Thomas has not had free nand, and
many people think he has had too much of
his own way In the character of the per-
formances, which naturally, as an artist,
he has endeavored to render high class.
Mr.. Thomas now seems to have the opin-
ion that it is useless and ont of place to
aim at more than entertainment, and he
would elmin ate cOnservat0ire severity ana
dignity 1t is hopeless to educate masses
who come and 20 every week. and almost
as hopeless TO expect the cultured who
would enjoy an ear bath in Wagner to be
always there 10 take it. A score of pOpu-
lar bands distributed through the grounds
would do more to entertain the masses
than all the musicians on earth mustered
under a common roof and grinding out
barm0nies and caeophonies that not nne
In hundred can analyZe or criticize. But
the citation and enjoyment that comes from
operate selections, Overtures and light
pieces almost everybody feels and only
pedaniic bores with their heads In the
clouds disdain.
One of the partners Of McClurg OF Chi
cago. the famous bookseller, has been
giving his views on what is popular read
ing and the tendency Of the time. Fiction
leads. and it is proper to find history. which
has good deal Of fiction interlarded, Sec
ond. and then come biography. travel. Sci
ence. philosophy and poetry. The poet is
little read in Chicago. but Longfelow W,
Tennyson. Browning and other great men
are somewhat in request. A revival of
Shelley has occurred both in America and
kA ttata
DICKENS are constantly popular. Bret
Harte - losing ground, and Rudyard Kip
ling, owing to resentment at sighting
criticism Of Chicago and other places In
America, has fallen off in appreciation,
although at one time running r. L. Steven
son close. Most of the writers who are
popular enjoy success on both sides Of the
Atlantic A preference Is shown for con,
tlruous tales rather than unconnected
short stories. Immortality comes to few.
Both Byron and Wordsworth have dropped
out OF sight and no doubt old readers are
shocked.
A Presbyterian pastor in Brooklyn has
tried the experiment of rendering his
church attractive by getting the young
women OF the congregation to act as pew
openers. P0llteness requires the admis-
sion that the attraction was there, but 1t
dld not magnetic the susceptible young
men of the neighborhood TO the service IN
any remarkable degree. One Of the flock.
who cast critical eye over the result, de-
clared that mot dozen young men came
to the church out of curiosity to see the
ushers. This hope founded on uShers Is
surely absurd. What would young women
say II they were credited with going to
church TO see young men open the pew
doors? Why success in the other case?
The miners of Colorado are still recon-
mended to look around for gold. and not
take Senator ingalls, description OF the
tramp as literal They are tolt that within
seventy-fve miles of Denver there is mucn
auriferOuS ore awaiting extraction, tuaI
within radius of eight miles around Lake
City there is gold enough to pay the ma.
tioBal debt, and that the bleak blasts OF
adversely should blow no longer on Colo
RADIO. Granted that quartz mines are
abundant. the labOrer must nave capital 10
60 hand in hand with him. ana the capital
list seems to put his money IN otner Things.
The poets are to have the 29th OF August
all to themselves at tho fair. mere are
enough of them to raise the attendance to
the maximum long hoped for but never
attained by the management save on hide
pendence dav. Lest there should De any
exhibition of jealousy in the poetic tenn
permanent the committee muet be circum.
spect In distributing wreaths OF honor and
1udicious in the selection OF recItations.
In ancient Persia there were 10000 poets