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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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ON Monday night the Grand Opera opened at the Acad- 

 emy of Music with "La Traviata;" Mme. Nilsson as 

 "Violetta." This lady is indebted as much to her personal 

 popularity as to her professional abilities for her hold upon 

 the hearts of the fashionable and music-loving world of 

 this city. We mention this fact to strengthen our pre- 

 viously made assertions, that the Grand Opera is still, as an 

 institution, an exotic, and no effort in any direction can be 

 left untried which will force up the subscriptions to meet 

 the enormous outlay attending these performances. The 

 occasion was somewhat damped by the fact that it served 

 as a background for the announced appearance on the Wed- 

 nesday following of Signor Campanini, who comes before 

 us with all the " marvelous freshness," so much praised by 

 the London press, and which press has very little influenpe 

 in musical matters over our public. 



The regular season of the Union Square Theatre opened 

 on Wednesday night, with a company commendably strong, 

 with a promise from the management that its boards will 

 present plays carried through by excellent performers, in- 

 stead of sensations and scenery. Now that Wallack's has 

 gone the way of all the earth as the nestling place of legiti- 

 mate comedies, the public must look, as a rule, to the 

 Union Square for the best attractions of the social drama, 

 and we have no doubt that it will eventually be recognized 

 as the place where families will be most likely to find highly 

 cultivated and pleasant recreation for a leisure evening. 

 The opening night presented a new play, entitled the 

 "Cross of Geneva;" rather an. unpromising beginning for 

 the five comedies which are to follow. But managers are 

 obliged to surprise their audiences as well as please them, 

 and no doubt the "Cross of Geneva", will answer the 

 first desire. The hour we go to press precludes the possi- 

 bility of any critical notice. We congratulate our play- 

 goers on the reappearance ot Miss Etyng, who, we under- 

 stand, after some four years of retirement, resumes her 

 professional career with a determination to pursue it with 

 enthusiasm, and 'devote her energies to the achievement of 

 the highest possible position in her power. 



The new Park Theatre, located on Twenty-second street 

 and Broadwajr, building under the direction of Messrs. 

 Stuart and Boucicault, is rapidly approaching completion, 

 all the artists having been engaged. But for some difficulty 

 in obtaining a satisfactory title to some portion of the 

 ground on which the theatre stands, it would have been 

 opened at the beginning of the present theatrical season. 

 To the old residents of our metropolis, the revival of the 

 name of the Park Theatre will be gratefully welcome. No 

 positive announcement is made of the character of the per- 

 formances. With so many theatres all under way we think 

 there will eventually be a "corner," and two or three will 

 be swept away in the "crash." 



Salvini is beginning to be understood better and better 

 after each performance. He is personally a man of the 

 finest presence of any actor that has ever appeared on our 

 stage. Tall, grandly developed, with a fair complexion, a 

 dark, penetrating eye, expressive features, and a mobility of 

 movement of the muscles of the face that was not sur- 

 passed probably by the elder Kean. 



The Faust Club, of Brooklyn, composed mainly of ac- 

 tors, journalists, and artists, on Saturday presented to their 

 city a bronze bust of John Howard Pajme, author of the 

 popular song of "Home sweet Home." Mr. Payne was 

 born in New York city on the 9th of June, 1791, but his 

 father for a while was established as a physician at East 

 Hampton, which fact identified him with Long Island, a 

 fact that has been so handsomely acknowledged by the 

 members of the Faust Club. Over thirty thousand persons 

 were present to witness the ceremony of unveiling. The 

 bust, as a work of art, is excellent, and the likeness is pro- 

 nounced quite perfect by intimate friends of the deceased 



poet. 



Mme. Nilsson on last Sunday attended St. Thomas', Fifth 

 avenue. Her presence was greeted by a choir of forty 

 performers. After the services for the morning were over 

 she visited the choir, where she was welcomed by Dr. Mor- 

 gan rector. Verily, the Opera and the Church shook hands 

 on the pleasant occasion. 



Mr. Brougham has, for the present, left the stage, and is 

 announced as a lecturer. His subject is "Darwinianism." 

 He proposes to illustrate the text of his argument of the 

 gradual development of the lowest order of shell fish into 

 our sweethearts and wives by drawings on a blackboard, 

 Mr. Brougham being most expert with his pencil. We 

 have no doubt but that Mr. Brougham's clerical manner 

 and singularly severe expression will have a very edifying- 

 effect on his audience. If the ushers are not watchful 

 some people will "larf out in meeting." 



At a reception on Saturday night, given to Wilkie Col- 

 lins by the Lotos Club, Mr. Bradlaugh was' present as an 

 invited guest. After the usual ceremonies, the usher for 

 the evening called on Mr. Bradlaugh for a few remarks. 

 Mr. Bradlaugh made "a few remarks" in his peculiar and 

 most radical vein, which were received with the wildest 

 enthusiasm by the members of the club. In conclusion, 

 he said, by way of parenthesis, that there was not a fash- 

 ionable club in London which would permit him (on ac- 

 count of his political principles) to cross its threshhold, 

 and that "at home," for the same reason, there was an al- 

 most impassable social gulf between himself and the hon- 

 ored guest of the evening. Our institutions are very lev- 

 eling, leaving every man to stand on his merits — with some 

 glaring exceptions. 



Nilsson, Carlotta Patti, and Sims Beeves are making a 



stand against the "Diapason," obtained in Great Britain. 

 Sims Reeves says he has waged war against the unreasonable 

 pitch for years. In Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Naples, 

 and Florence the pitch is considerably lower than the Brit- 

 ish, and all alike. Mme. Nilsson is reported to have de- 

 clared she will not sing in London again until a change is 

 made. Verdi's music, or rather the prejudicial effect of it 

 upon the high notes of the voice, is developing more and 

 more. These counterfeit notes are neither easy or agree- 

 able, in fact they are unnatural. The Italians must get 

 back to a more natural style. These fireworks and tran- 

 sition scenes in the human throat are as pernicious as they 

 are on the sensation stage. 



There is a new musical instrument invented by one Fred- 

 erick Kustner. who gives it the significant name of Pyro- 

 phone. The tones are produced by a gas jet, and partake 

 of the quality of the voice and an a3olian harp. If this is 

 so it will be a sweet novelty. 



Mrs. Charlotte Winterburn has become conductor of a 

 new choral society of graduates taken from the Normal 

 School. 



Mr. Simpson, the Scotch ballad singer, has given his 

 well-known name to a quartette formed of rich, fresh, well- 

 trained voices, destined to sing glees and madrigals without 

 accompaniments. 



Miss Ward, an American actress, who has elicited some 

 interest in literary circles in London by her dramatic effects, 

 is shortly to appear at Manchester, England, as Lady Mac- 

 beth. 



One of the pleasing events of the week was the recep- 

 tion of Wilkie Collins at the Lotos Club. The novelist oc- 

 cupies Dickens' rooms at the Westminster. In this matter, 

 at least, he resembles Dickens. 



Miss Violetta Colville, an American debutante at Milan, 

 has received the honor of a paid engagement in that city. 

 Generally the pay is the other way, large sums being prof- 

 fered and accepted for the opportunity to display vocal 

 prowess in opera. Rival and professional jealousies pre- 

 vented her acceptance of the offer, it is possible she may 

 make her Mmt in New York next spring. 



Mr. Lester Wallack played last week in Brooklyn (new 

 Park Theatre) before a large audience, in his own play of 

 "Central Park," with much of his former ease and spright- 

 liness. 



There is a quartette formed in Brooklyn for the perform- 

 ance of English operettas and operas that can be given 

 without chorus. This club is of ability, will be popular in 

 the country, and will serve to educate the people. In this 

 connection, we would state that there has also been organ- 

 ized in this city a company of four of our best dramatic 

 singers for parts of Italian operas in costume, and without 

 chorus. The performance promises to be exceedingly ef- 

 fective. 



Indian Government vs. Crocodiles. — The Field has an 

 interesting article in regard to crocodiles. Some years ago 

 the Indian Government offered a reward of one rupee (2s.) 

 per foot for every crocodile not less than five feet long 

 which should be killed in Malabar. This reward did not 

 seem to have been sufficient to stimulate the natives to go 

 in for crocodile catching on a large scale; consequently but 

 few were captured. About nine months ago the restrictions 

 as to size were rescinded, and a general battue of crocodiles 

 commenced. Some idea of the number killed may be formed 

 when considerably more than 30,000 rupees, or £3,000, was 

 paid during a period of six months. Between the crocodile 

 of Egypt and that of India there seems to be but very little 

 difference. There seems to be no end of ingenuity in the 

 English officials offering a reward for killing a noxious fea- 

 ture bv the foot. 



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— The monster ship which England has christened the 

 Shah, out of compliment to the potentate, has just been 

 launched at Portsmouth, and is regarded as one of the com- 

 pletest ships in the navy. She is built of wood, and is the 

 fifth of the new wooden vessels which have been introduced 

 into the navy. There is nothing remarkable about her 

 construction, but considerable interest has been excited 

 about ships of this class from the mere fact that they are 

 wooden, and that in the present day it should be found de- 

 sirable to recommence wooden ship-building. 



— A lemarkable and important geological discovery has 

 been made south of Golden, Colorado. It is a deposit of 

 gray clay filled with trunks and limbs of trees resembling 

 cedar, but transformed into bright, hard coal. Over it is a 

 capping of conglomerate, and over that coarse sand rock. 

 The coal deposit is tilted at an angle of thirty-five degrees. 

 Apparently co-extensive with the conglomerate are found 

 rude flints, tools and arrow-heads, indicating that ages back 

 what is known as Colorado Territory was inhabited by a 

 people who manufactured stone implements. 



— There is a guano island in Lake Minnetongo, Minnesota, 

 newly discovered and containing eleven acres, a portion of 

 which is covered with a deposit identical with that found 

 on the guano islands of the Pacific, though not as thick. It 

 has been occupied by a squatter for a number of years, and 

 he has only just become aware of tin; value of his possession 

 by being offered a large sum for it as soon as a title can be 

 perfected, which can be done under the homestead and 

 pre-emption laws. As this island has been omitted from 

 the United States' surveys, it will be necessary for him to 

 secure a special patent. 



— Among the incidents of the late gale on the coast of Nova 

 Scotia, it is related that a schooner at Cow Bay, coal laden, 

 with a deckload of cattle and sheep, was driven away up 

 into the woods, and the captain knew nothing of the disas- 

 ter, till next morning he heard the cattle bawling and the 

 sheep bleating among the trees. 



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The best use you cau make of seventy -five cents, will be to buy a game 

 of Avilude, the most instructive and delightful game ever published. If 

 your dealers have not got it, send tbe money to West & hoc. Worcester. 

 Mass., who will forward it by mail, uostpaid. 



" The best of its class." — Boston Evening Transcript. 



Going South for the Winter. By Robert F. Spier 



M. D. New York. Edward O. Jenkins, 20 North William street \\- 



lustrated with twenty engravings. 



In the preface to the second edition of this truly interesting work the 

 author very modestly disclaims any particular merit in the same We 

 think him altogether too modest. From the long and successful expe- 

 rience of an active, studious profession he has given to the public many 

 valuable discoveries, observations, and suggestions— things "new and 

 old," the sterling information thus given, especially relating to pulmo 

 nary diseases, being invaluable. The necessity of persons .of a pulmo- 

 nary habit needing a change of climate more than active medical treat 

 ment is clearly shown, Who should go to the South for the winter, how 

 they should prepare themselves fortius journey, and how they should 

 live while there, their diet, &c, are just the subjects treated upon in this 

 work. In a pleasant, crisp, and satisfactory manner the doctor tells von 

 just what you should, and should not, do. Besides much knowledge of a 

 purely medical character, derived from the severe application and closy 

 study of a medical man who loved his profession, may be found man y 

 cogent and strong arguments in favor of a morality that all our young 

 men and young women would find it perfectly safe to follow. The fol- 

 lowing home truths, coming as they do from our bachelor friend the 

 doctor, should have due weight (as we presume, they will) with the mauy 

 readers of "Going South;"— 



"An indirect cause of pulmonary disease among young men is the need 

 of a cheerful, confiSMQ companion, for 'It is not good for man to by 

 alone. 1 Just so long as man and woman are mutually necessary to each 

 other there can be no real happiness for single men or women. A single 

 man ill or unhappy, is forced to go to associates or friends for sympathy! 

 while the married man has a sweet tempered wife to care for him and 

 has no need of the 'deceitful friends who cast aside the veil they used to 

 wear." 



"Let every young man marry early, for therein consists the only hap- 

 piness— the sure road to success in life; and iu all his efforts to se- 

 cure the glory, titles, or riches of his ambition he will receive the hearty 

 approbation of his wife, which is far better than the deceitful applauses 

 of the world." 



"What chiefly deters young men from entering into married life early 

 is the preposterous nonsense of love of dress, and the fear of marryinw 

 a wife doting on extravagant display, and ignorant of all those little do^ 

 mestic arts that make families happy." 



The doctor is justly severe upon that most pernicious fashionable? 

 habit so much practiced by young ladies of the present day. He say.-, 

 "for the consumptive to visit public places of amusement and ball rooms, 

 and breathe such an irritating atmosphere, as for hours they do, is sim- 

 ply to peril life." 



"What inconsistency for girls with weak lungs to be found ou the 

 dancing-floor, frantically whirling around, and strained to the breasts of 

 men they may have only been just introduced to, and know nothing of. 

 Why is it that pure, modest young girls show so much squeamishness 

 towards a man tney have known from childhood, holding his hand at 

 arm's length, but behave outrageously foolish on the floor of a ball-room, 

 where they are ready to be clasped in the arms of a man they knew noth- 

 ing of, and till that hour a perfect stranger; and yet, with her head re- 

 clining on his shoulder, his arm around her waist, she shrinks not from 

 his embrace ?" 



We would like to quote from this live book many of its sterling facts, 

 upon the many causes that make the consumptive's road to the grave SO' 

 sure and swift. This is one of the reformatory books of the times, and 

 although written for the especial perusal of a few friends, we are sure it. 

 will be read by many, and we trust it will be the means of opening the 

 eyes of many of our young ladles to that fatal practice of keeping late 

 hours, eating late suppers, and dancing all night in ill-ventilated rooms. 

 A third edition of this work, enlarged and improved, is now in press. 



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