The record-union., 1897-08-15

father, who is still alive at the age
of seventy-fve, is an Italian nobleman,
who resigned from the Neapolitan
Guard in 1910 because Of his political
convictions, and in 1S4S was exiled for
participation in the revolution. Mean
while he had studied singing in Milan,
and he was one of the singers engaged
by w. H. Fry for the Astor Place
Opera House Company at the end of the
season of 1913. He was bass, and
sang the part of Sylvia in "Ernani" on
his first performance in New York In
London he resumed his studies under
Garcia, and in 1852 married Mathilde
Graumann, German concert singer,
born in Frankfort She is the pres
ent Nine. Marchesi, unquestionably one
of the ablest singing teachers of the
century. For two years the pair sang
together, and then accepted engage
ments as vocal teachers at the Conserv-
atOry of Vienna. Later they made
their home in Paris, then in Cologne,
We're recalled to Vienna in 1869 and
finally returned to Paris in 1881. Sig
nor Marchesi's name and title are Sal
vatore Marchesi Cavaliere de Castrone,
Marchese della Rajata. He sang under
the name Of Signor Castrone. He has
composed French and Italian songs
and written translations of a number
of operas, including THE Flying
Dutchman, "Tannhauser'' and "Lohen-
grin"
Correspondent London Academy:
Books about Walt Whitman seem nu-
merous just now. In one, entitled
Walt Whitman the Man which is an
nounced by Messrs. Gay & Bird, there
viii appear a fac-simile of an unpub-
1ished letter from Tennyson to Whit
man. In it Tennyson refers to his son
LionePs marriage in Westminster Alb
bey to the daughter of the late Fred
erick Locker-Lampson. He also says:
''Trubner wrote me this morning, stat
ing that you wished to have a parody
of yourself, which appeared among
other parodies of modern authors in a
paper called London" I have not a
copy of it, otherwise I would send it
you" This parody turns out TO be one
of four or five in which the wedding in
the Abbey was supposed to be treated
by various hands, namely: Whitman,
Browning, William Morris, Mr.. Swim
burne and Austin Dobson. They were
the work of a hand that is still active,
among US. Here is the skit on Whit
man:
ID This is a wedding. All right,
then! I'm on it. Three cheers and a.
tiger!
CD CMarriage is not my name, but
you mustn't take notice of that, I'm
here because I'm everywhere.)
90 The parson goes for his glasses
I reckon he judges them misty Bully
for you, old man! L guess it's a tear
that you're wipingD
a. I'm the bride and the bridegroom.
I know all about it much better than
they do
90 I tumble with him for the ring,
and blush with her while he's finding
it.
(6) His boots are pinching me awful,
and the thought of her back-hair Ger
comes met
% My heart gives great throbs to
his waistcoat. and l feel with her that
some one has trodden on my frock and
busted the gathers.
(S) I am here though you do not see
me. 1 hear the organ rolling, the peo-
pie susurrating, the feet shuffling the
silk sibillating, the boys laughing, the
girls tittering, the old maids telling
them they ought to be ashamed of it,
the shoeblacks cheering, the corks pop
ping, the comic man making speeches,
the bride weeping, the page kissing the
housemaid below stairs, the rice rat
ting on the carriage-roof, the groan
the bridegroom gives as a slipper bet
ter aimed than &he rest strikes him on
the nose and makes him see a hundred
thousand candles.
90 I hear. 1 see, I feel it all, am
Walt Whitman. I guess I know all
about it.
Henry Frowde is about to publish for
the Egypt Exploration Fund part of a
papyrus book found at Behnesa, the an
cient Ornyxhynchas. some 120 miles
south of Cairo on the edge Of the Lib
yam desert, by Bernard P. Grenfeu
OF Queens College, and A. S. Hunt
Of Magdalen College, Oxford. 1t is pre-
sumed that the papyrus was written
at the beginning of the second century,
or earlier. The sayings are detached,
without context, and each begins with
the words Jesus saith" These are
preserved on a page of payrus five and
a half by three and a half inches, the
writing-uncials-be being very clear.
What The London Academy calls "a
rather pleasing hovler' has recently
been committed by one of its eontem-
poraries, a society paper of the Eng
lish capital. Here it is; "Messrs Ha-
com & Ricketts, have just issued dra-
matte poem by that ripe scholar and
finished writer. Matthew Arnold, enti-
tied 'Empedocles and Etna' In an
American journal the other day a re
print of Calverley's "Fly-Leaves'' was
hailed as the latest work of a living
writer.
Nelson's famous autobiography. con-
sisting of twelve pages of manuscript,
was sold at Sotheby's the othe day with
some of his correspondents. The LOT
brought f1,000 An importan Com
monplace Book Of Robert Burns
was sold at the same time for 1865
Apparently history has still a claim
over poetry which collectors viii not
ignore.
Literary Digest: In the recent evolu-
ton of Partisan taste, NJ. Eugene
Muntz foresees danger to the long-es-
tablished French school of painting and
architecture Under the above title
C'Cosmopolis' for June) he makes a
strong plea for an electicism which shall
include the best of all ages and all
countries. With regard to some of the