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Art and the Brama. 
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HE opening of the Broadway Theatre*(for ashort time 
the ‘Fifth Avenue”) with opera bouffe promises to be 
a success. The company is fair in vocal power, and trained 
with that careful attention to small as well as great matters 
that is so charming and so peculiar to the French stage. 
Much of the music is of a pleasing character—not so fresh 
as Offenbach’s, yet destined to become popular in the par- 
lor and the streets. The opera is put upon the stage with 
great care, and while the ear is delighted with sweet sounds 
the eye is charmed by rich and tastefully arranged costumes 
and scenery. There cannot be a doubt but that the opera 
bouffe, in some modified form, is eventually to become 
permanently popwar with our musical public. It is a plea- 
ant middle ground between the grand opera and the best 
efforts of the negro minstrels. What, the masses want are 
‘“nopular airs,” and they do not care to be educated up to 
the ‘‘higher style of classic selections.” There is no more 
reason for expecting the public will willingly listen to the 
“sublime creations” of musical composition than that they 
will, at the present time, countenance the best efforts of 
tragedy. But there is this to be said : New York never had 
any heartfelt sympathy for the grand opera; but did have, 
until corrupted by scenery and {society plays, a most excel- 
lent taste for the best dramatic compositions. 
—The reappearance of the Lydia Thompson troupe at 
the Olympic commences her sixth season inthe United 
States. The effort has been made, of course, to introduce 
some new and attractive faces, a charm that cannot be alto- 
gether dispensed with, even if made subordinate to the 
nether extremities. By some overlooking of precedence 
the text departs somewhat from the usual tediousness so 
eminently peculiar to this troupe. The scenic element, as 
one of the chief attractions, is liberally appealed to. In 
spite of a desire to the contrary, one is reminded of the 
famous ‘“‘Crook,” in the ‘‘farewell scenes of the happy 
land.” The attempted wit and most accomplished«‘slang”— 
just the same as if these intellectual efforts were better— 
will pass unnoticed. The great charm about Lydia Thomp- 
son has been her happy affectation of rural simplicity, her 
seeming innocence, her golden hair, sympathetic voice, light 
face, and unexceptionable health. To see her three or four 
years ago flying about the stage, light, saucy, singing like a 
lark, and skylarking like a merry imp, was always worth 
the admission fee—for the suggestion was inevitable that 
the plump little lady enjoyed it herself, and accomplished 
her task of gamboling just as lambs do, because she couldn't 
help it. Alas! time is telling upon Lydia, for her luxuriant 
hair is losing its tangle of ‘‘golden spray,” and that ‘“‘sweet 
warbling” has gone altogether. Insatiate time ! 
—The ‘‘Vokes family” are charming the public at the 
Union Square Theatre. Unpretentious, but always agree- 
able and mirth-provoking. 
—The new Lyceum Theatre, Fourteenth street, will be 
opened Monday of next week. It has a handsome interior, 
and suggests the idea of elegance and comfort combined. 
There was a time when a ‘‘leading theatrical critic” pub- 
ished in a ‘leading daily” that Fechter, ‘‘who surpassed 
Garrick as an actor,” was to open this house. Fechter does 
not open it, and as an actor he is professionally unworthy 
to untie the latchets of Garrick’s shoes. Nothing in an in- 
tellectual way is announced at the new Lyceum to make 
memorable the occasion of the opening night. The card is 
to be, so says the advertisement, ‘‘splendid spectacular 
effects of a strictly legitimate character.” Anything that 
is legitimate will be a change for the better. 
—Mrs. Chanfrau commences her annual series of engage- 
ments at the end of this month. 
—Mrs. Heron, it is reported, will shortly publish her biog- 
raphy—confined to her professional life. 
—Von Bubow, Liszt’s ‘‘ other favorite pupil” —Rubenstein 
being the first—is announced to visit this country. He has 
no thread in his compositions. 
—It is probable that the splendid lots on Fourteenth 
street, made desolate by the burning of Barnum’s Menagerie, 
will have a building erected thereon for Gilmore’s concerts— 
a following of Thomas’ garden. The location, with fair enter- 
tainment, would make the speculation profitable and pop- 
ular. 
—Some ill-natured critic wants M. Boucicault to convert 
all his English and French characters into Hibernians, so 
as to suit ‘‘the hang” of his voice. 
—On Monday last Booth’s Theatre opened with Mr. Jef- 
ferson, very appropriately in the character of Rip Van 
Winkle. The slowest Dutchman of the Catskills, under 
the reign of Wouter Van Tuiller, would have revolted at 
doing one play steadily for ten long years. Can’t we have 
a change, Mr. Jefferson ? 
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At Andrew Clerk’s, 48 Maiden Lane, is exhibited a 
magnificent oil painting of “Speckled Trout,” by that inim- 
itable artist, Mr. Holberton, of New Jersey. A pair of half 
pound beauties are lying beside their favorite stream upon 
a couch of moss and ferns, while the but of the cruel rod 
that ravished them from their native element is seen near 
by. Asa work of art it is stmply exquisite, but as an imi- 
tation of nature it is as well-nigh perfect as the hand of 
man can make it. Dr. W. T. Clerk is the fortunate pos- 
sessor of this gem. Mr. Holberton is painting-a duplicave 
of this for Frank Buckland, Esq., editor of Land and 
Water. 

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Forest and Stream. 
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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 
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The first number is a model of typographical neatness, and its contents 
are sufficiently varied and interesting to secure for the paper a cordial 
reception from that class of the public to whose taste it caters.—[New 
York Times. j 
It isa handsome sheet of sixteen large pages, and is filled with a va- 
riety of very interesting reading.—[New York Sun. 
There is need for a new advocate to make the American people more in 
love with outdoor life, and Forest AND STREAM promises to do the work 
admirably. The varions departments are edited with knowledge and 
skill.—[New York Journal of Commerce. ; } 
The publication of a new sporting journal, Forest AND STREAM, is 
another evidence of the increasing love of our people for the sports of 
the field and athletic exercise. There is every evidence that good fortune 
awaits the new-comer. That this should be so is a source of congratula- 
tion.—[New York Express. 
The first number promises well, and its preposessing appearance is no 
slight confirmation of its claim to a high and manly tone inits conduct. 
—[Home Journal. 
It is tastefully arranged and handsomely printed, and seems to be well 
adapted to persons of cultivated tastes.—[New York Tribune. 
Mr. Hallock is an enthusiastic sportsman, a good writer, and compe- 
tent to make a “‘sporting paper’ fit for household reading.—{[New York 
Commercial Advertiser. 
We commend with special earnestness the claims of ForesT AND 
StReAmM to favorable attention.—[The South, 
We may safely predict its success.—[New Orleans Home J. ournal. 
It is neat as to typography and varied and interesting as to contents. 
—([Hartford Times. 
The matter of the sample number is both appropriate and interesting. 
—[Brooklyn (E.D.) Times. 
It is a necessary publication, and we welcome its birth with open arms. 
It occupies its own position, intruding upon no pre-occupied ground, but 
it is an elevated position. To sportsmen of the gun and fishing-rod it will 
be invaluable.—[Brooklyn Review. 
Got up in a handsome, manner, both as to presswork and arrangement 
of contents.—[Philadelphia Ledger. 
It is decidedly the most vecherche thing of the kind ever issued in this 
country, and so far as we know is the peer of anything similar in Eng- 
land. All its departments show a practical and intellectual filling up 
which challenges general favor.—[Germantown Telegraph. 
Judging by the number before us we can unhesitatingiy recommend the 
ForREsT AND STREAM to all who take an interest in out-door recreation 
and physical culture. It will no doubt merit the patronage of our sport- 
ing gentlemen.—[Every Evening, (Wilmington, Delaware). 
The terms are very reasonable for such a large and necessarily expen- 
sive paper. We commend it to our sportsmen friends most heartily. We 
like the ring of its editorials, evidently written by the true lover of nature 
in its multiplied and beautiful forms.—[Niagara Halls Gazette. 
‘There is a standard of excellence and usefulness not yet attained by 
any sporting paper in the country, and Forrest AND STREAM will find its 
success at the top of the ladder.—[New York Graphic. 
It covers ground not occupied by any other journal.—[Waterloo (New 
York) Observer. 
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WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY. 
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I hope you will meet with entire success in your project. My days of 
active life in the field and forest have gone by, but I recall my experience 
with pleasure, and I feel that I owe my health in a good degree to early 
habits of free exercise in the open air in forests and along our streams. 
—|Horatio Seymour. ‘ P 
‘here is a demand for just such a paper as this. It will give me very 
great pleasure, indeed, todo all I can to help your journal.—[Professor 
S. F. Baird, Smithsonian Institute. ' 
I have no doubt that foREST AND STREAM will have a large circulation. 
Consider me a subscriber.—[George A. Boardman, Naturalist. _ 
Such a journal, conducted upon the principles and with the spirit which 
you announce, will certainly find warm support.—[Rey. J. Clement 
French. 
J have no doubt you will make it a marked success.—[Hon. J. D. Caton. 
J wish you the best sort of success in your effort to make a journal of 
out-door sports such as a gentleman can read and write in.—[Charles D. 
Warner. 
I doubt not it will be a great success. 
for.—[Major John H. King, U.S.A. ae : ; 
1 have long wished just such a journal to receive into my family, that 
my boys may learn from a better teacher than myself the best way in 
which to follow the sports that in years past have given me so much plea- 
sure.—[Henry W. Abbott, Boston. : ’ 
Under your management it ought to be a success.—[W. H. Venning, 
Inspector Marine and Fisheries, Canada. . ; 
You shall have all the aid and comfort Ican give you in your enter- 
prise.—[Com. L. A. Beardslee, Washington Navy Yard. 
I must congratulate you on the very attractive appearance of your 
paper. Keep it up to the standard you have marked out for it, and it will 
become an assured success.—[Rev. Charles F. Deems. 
Nothing but the exigencies of my roving life have prevented me from 
starting, or trying to start, just such a journal as yours. You shall haye 
my hearty co-operation.—[Professor Elliott Coues, Smithsonian Institute. 
Your paper is just what we have long wanted, and will take well in the 
Southern States.—[Dr. R. P. Myers, Savannah, Ga. 
The editorial matter, the contributions, and the make-up and general 
appearance of the paper are just such as Fishrod and Nimrod admire. 
—([Genio C. Scott. P 
I am glad to hear of your literary enterprise. It will give me pleasure 
to put you, or any one else representing the ForesT AND STREAM, in the 
way of getting information for your paper.—[Andrew H. Green, Comp- 
troller, and Central Park Com’r. 
It is wanted, and must be called 

Children begin now to save your pennies, that when the long evenings 
come you can buy ‘‘ Avilude, or Game of Birds.” If your storekeeper 
has not got it, send seventy-five cents to West & Lee, Woscester, Mass., 
and it will be sent by mail, post paid. 
“ Avilude is a superior game.” — Worcester Pulladium. 


The subject which our learned correspondent discusses in 
another column of stocking trout waters with -black bass 
and other more noxious fish, is worthy of most serious at- 
tention, and any effort of any parties, authorized or un- 
authorized, to so stock the waters of this and other States, 
ought to be resisted in every legitimate way possible. We 
can add nothing editorially to the weight of his arguments. 
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Henry Ward Beecher preached in a White Mountain hote: 
the other Sunday. In the course of his sermon he remarked: 
‘Religion is God’s hotel table where the guests call for 
what their particular inclinations suggest.” We hope he 
did not continue the parallel, and maintain that the minis- 
ters are like hotel waiters, who dispense of the blessings of 
the table in greater or less abundance as they may be moved 
by present or prospective fees.—Providence Journal. 
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An Unpieasant Socran Rouprrurre~=The Brooklyn 
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