New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-13

Gnbert's, but Captain Basil Hoods story is
pleasing in dialogue and humorous in lyrics. and
he succeeds in hitting off Irish characteristics
without giving offence TO the most sensitive
patriot colleen from the island The music
is mainly Mr.. Germans for only the first two
numbers were completed in Instrumentation by
Sir Arthur Sullivan and other melodies required
changes in orchestration; but the work has been
done so sympatheticaIIy that Irish opera OF
singular vivacity and brightness has been pro-
duced. The Emerald Isle has become favor
lite opera at once. 1t offers the merriest enter
tainment TO be had in London where every the
atre manager is making strenuous efforts to
amuse a jaded and disprited public.
The Giibertian figures in the opera are the
pompous lord lieutenant TO whom etiquette is
as the breath Of life; his wife, the Countess Of
Newtown: his little chaplain. DR.. Fiddle, and
Sergeant Pincher, who has at his fingers ends
the names OF all the pretty girls in his Devon
shire village. The romantic passages are less
whimsical than Mr.. Gilbert has ordinarily pre-
ferred, there being two pairs of strangely mated
lovers-Terence O'Brian. the young Irish rebel
and Lady Rosie Pppin, the daughter of the
lord lieutenant, and Pat Murphy, a fiddler
shamming blindness, and Mole O'Grady, mis-
chievous peasant girl, with talent for dramatic
representation The most comical parsonage, in
spired by modern English farce rather than the
cycle Of Gilbert and Sullivan opera. is Profess
sor Bum, reciter, hypnotist and magician en-
gagged 10 teach English elocution TO free classes
in Irish infant schools, and employed by the Irish
rebels to inveigle the hirelng English soldiers into
the belief that the of Carrig- Cleena, where
conspiracy centres. haunted by fairies
capable OF imprisoning them under bonds of en-
chantment until they are hoary Rip Van
Wrinkles. This is Mr.. Walter. PASSWORDS part
and limit
tesque masquerades and spectral illusions he is
irresistibly funny. Although there are many
Characteristic Irish melodies and choruses the
bright and vivacious Instrumentation and the
picturesque staging the chief charms of the
opera which can hardly fail to prove popular on
both sides Of the Atlantic
The summer exhibition OF the Royal Society of
Water Colors contains two of Mr.. Arthur Mel
ville's astonishing impressionist drawings. One
is A Cairo Street and the other "A Highland
Autumn" The faces and figures in the street
are pricked in with blobs and blotches of color
and autumnal tints indicated by puddles OF
flowing pigment on paper. The sketches have
brilliant effects of color and light, but the power
expended in their production is misapped. Mr..
Melville has remarkable talent but such draw
ings as these are not serious contributions to
art. but merely curiosities and vagaries of i'm
pressionist method. Mr.. Robert w. Allan keeps
his impressionist tendencies under better
straint, while Mr.. Albert Goodwin is content
With being Turneresque in his dreamy pictures
Of Italian towns and English churches. and
Miss Clara Montalbs with ivory and yellow
mannerisms Of her own in painting Venice as
nobody ever sees ii. There are dozen more
excellent drawings in this exhibition. Among
these are Mr. waterlows "Hemingford MIL
HuntinEdonshire'. Sir Lawrence Aln1a-Tade-
mas drawings Of Antium and Marcius's house
in "Corioanus." Mr.. G. Clausen's stable in
terror with horses Mr.. Alfred Parsons's Dairy
Bridge on the Greta" and lovely garden pictures,
Mr.. Napier Hemy's fishing boats and marines
and Carl Haag's strongly modelled Arab figures.
"Fadimeh" and "On the Way from Sinai to
Cairo" I F