The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-01
RAMBLER'S READING.
Mrs. Sarah Cowell lie Moyne Gives
Selections From Browning,
Tennyson and others.

Owing to the serious ~indisposition OF
Mrs. Sarah Cowell LIE Moyne, the read
ing which she was to have given in the
Bergen Reformed Church some time
ago, was postponed until last Saturday
night. when the Rambler Club and Its
friends were given a programme ranging
from Browning to Kipling. The men
ton of Mrs. LIE Moyne's name suggests
Robert Browning, since she has estao'
lished the right to be known MS his great
est interpreter, and it was with a slight
sense of surprise that the critics saw but
two of the six numbers selected from MS
writings. YetIn the second or these, nerve
Riei," which generation Of readers mas
made perhaps the most popular OF
Browning's dramatic poems, Mrs. LIE
Moyne reached an eminence which
showed how well founded her commen-
dations have been. In view OF the state
ment, which has gained considerable
credence, that the whole poem was q
flight of ~fancy-that there was never a
Herve Riel, and that. consequently, he
never saved the squadron. honored
France, loved his wife, the Belle Aurore'
-iti s interesting to learn that Mrs. LIE
Moyne heurd the story of the poem, with
its foundation of pure history. from the
lips of Robert Browning himself, who
told how, when asked TO contribute
to the fun for widows and
orphans of French patriots, he tool the
record of Herve Riei's heroism. preserved
in the records of his native town, but uu-
recorded at Paris, and woye the story into
a dramatic poem. 1t old for 5000. which
he turned over to the fund. Since Mrs.
LIE Moyne heard Browning himself read
his own poem, 1t would be scarcely wise
to take exception to the Interpretation;
otherwise, one might have questioned her
putting the climax of the action at Riel' IS
choosing us his reward for saving the
SQUADRON only "leave to 20 and see my
wife. whom / call the Belle Aurore," in
stead of the point where the French ships
harbored, '9up the English come-too
late.n The other Browning number was
.Up at a Villa-D1wn in The City," the
story of the discontinued man whose
BODY was in the country, but his heart
where he could get his morning papers
In point of what one may call the
technique of her art, Mrs. LIE Moyne is
simply removed from ordinary criticism.
Art las become nature, and passed out
of consider alton. Her receLt attack of
influenza had. IN q degree, affected her
voice. so that while it was not hoarse, it
had been deepened to a somewhat mascu-
T~ennvson's one-act drama, 1.-THE
Falcon" filled the first half of the pro-
eramme. 1t is the well known story Of
Ser FEDERICO, who sacrificed for his dis
dainful lady, the falcon that alone re-
mafned of all his wealth. The rugged
beauty of Whitman's captain, My
Captainr' made ar excellent set
ting for the Browning numbers,
and by way of dessert two Kippling bits.
the first being MY Rival" in which a
seventeen year old girl declares that in
society she has no cnance against her
rival, who is forty-nine; yet her consola-
lion must be that when she reac hes
fo%rty-nine, her rival must be e~ighty-one.
the hpal number was that completely ir-
resistible chapter from The Gasbys."-
"With Any Amazement," describing the
delights of the Captains last day of bach
elorhood, when Maf1in saw him
| through" because he had been mugging
| up that beastly drill and can't remem amber
| q line of it," and when the gloon at the
| altar. suddenly losing bis voice, cannot
make his responses, is adjured to"say you
| will or Won wou't.n There's no second
deal here"
Altogether, the evening was a complete
| and unqualified success, The Ramblers,
| Young ladies well known in society. re-
| ceived and seated the guests. The are
| Misses Alletta AbernethY, Anna Borden
land, Jessie Fenner, Bessie Grant,
| HARRIET Harnett. Bessie Hunt,
Anna Koonz, Alice Lewis,
| Eleanor Miller. Amelia B. Myers
Nav f, Park, Hattie Parker, Jessie PEI
Lee. Kate Randall, Julia Reid. Emile
| Schroeder, May Skater, Edith Smith,
| Eva snyder, Eloise 1rott. Florence White
| Matte Wiegers. Maud Williams. They
were assisted by fourteen honorary mem