The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-18

There is some very. pleasant reading in
Mr. Klems Thirty Years of Musical Life
In London. Within that period many great
singers and some great compos
ers came to the front. Jenny Lind
closed her illustrious career within it, dy-
ing in 1887, to the last lending her voice
occasionally for the promotion of chart
ties. Alboni was still singing in the sew
enties. Christine Nilsson. Scalchi Parepa-
Rosa, Wagner, Verdi Brahms, Ruben
stein, Gerster, Pauline Lucea. Sembrich,
Sir Arthur Sullivan. Melba, Paderewski
Patti, Gounod, Calve, Nordica, Lii Leh-
mann, appear among the geniuses of the
voice and operate and dramatic and con-
cert stage. Verdi wrought his best work
during those thirty years. The veteran
singer Sims Reeves, sang thru the whole
period and died in 1900, at the age of 80.
MIR. Klein, as q, musical artist, had per-
sonal acquaintance with most of the mu-
steal people of whom he writes. He re-
lates many interesting personal Incidents
and includes many letters Of distinguished
people. He describes the debuts of prom
/ inent artists as an eye witness and adj
nlirably succeeds in DOrtraylng operatlc
and musical life in England during the
period 1S7D-1900.
Felix Dahn, in his The Scarlet Banner,
! which is translated in a very spirited
4 manner from the original German, tells
+ a story of the sixth century, when the
4 Emperor Justinian reigned at CONSTANT
(! nople and was trying to prevent the utter
/ disintegration of the Roman empire thru
I the incursions and occupation by the Teu
| tonic nations of the north. The author
/ enters into the spirit of that period and
/ describes the overthrow of the vandal
/ kingdom in Africa, where the vandals,
/ after a century of occupation in luxur-
1 ious Carthage and interior localities, had
l lost their physical vigor and had adopted
= t1,o yF,oY IN C11St Of q N
! Belisarius, Justinians famous general
figures in the conflict, and in the final
i struggle the old herosm flames up in the
4 vandal heart and Gilamund courts and
1 wins death, and his wife, the fearless
I Hilda makes a funeral pyre of the king
1 and his war horse and then kills herself
A new revised and illustrated edition o.
1 Gold ThWaites' "Afloat on the Ohio,
under the title On the storied Ohio, has
been issued and it's attractive and vallla
lj bic contents will no doubt make it tbs
! subject of increasing demand. The au
thor, his wife and young son and a frienc
went from Browpsville, on the Monon
gahea river, just above its junction will
the Ohio, down the Ohio to Cairo. at the
junction of the Ohio and Mississippi riv
ers, journey of LOO miles, at the yer.
. leisurely pace of a large sl1iff the part,
stopping at all places of historic interest
= They thus obtained in a charming wa.
: a personal knowledge of that historic
: river.
Miss Anna Warmers West Point Color
was written by her at the request of
: = number of her friends belonging to
? cadet class at West Point. who Furnished
her with many of the incidents Whicl
I she wrought into the tale, and she feel
warranted in vouching for the substan
! tial truth of the book. She gives quit
fascinating story of young Charlemagn
, Kindred's experience during his fou
years at the military academy. His sis
Z tiers, Rose and Violet, determined tina
s'Magnus.' as they called him, should b
a soldier, so Magnus acquiesced, got hi
!, ! appointment and won an honorable posi-
! I ton, under manifold adverse agencie;
{ He kept his heart whole for his sweet
| heart Cherry. Miss Warner has muc
e to say about the girls who haunt til
: Point on al red letter days, and, in
. deed, on many other days.
A story of unusual interest for mani
@ boys is Frank KeIogg's Four Boys on tn
. Mississippi, telling of the adventures
Il some plucky young fellows who kne
how to shoot cook and run a houseboa
IS They were lucky as well as plucky, fc
4 they dug up a box of diamonds in
gloomy cavern and concluded that house
boating pays.