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Art and Drama. 
N Monday night the Grand Opera opened at the Acad- 
O emy of Music with ‘“‘La Traviata; Mme. Nilsson as 
“Violetta.” This lady is indebted as much to her personai 
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 influence 
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 fora 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 Broadway, 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 tiie 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 musclés of the face that was not sur- 
passed probably by the elder Kean. 
The Faust Club, oi Brooklyn, composed mainly of ac- 
tors, journalists, and artists, on Saturday presented to their 
city a bronze bust of John Howard Payne; 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 establisied asa 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 likenegs is pro- 
nounced quite perfect by intimate friends of the deceased 
oet. 
i 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 hig 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 ley- 
eling, leaving every man to stand on his merits—with some 
glaring exceptions. 
Nilsson, Carlotta Patti, and Sims Reeves are making a 


FOREST AND STREAM. 
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 toa 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 solian 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 weck 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 debut 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. 
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42 sa EEE DS TS ERE 
INDIAN GOVERNMENT ys. CROcODILES,—The Field Was 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 killé@ 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 Tupees, 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 by the foot. 
—_—_—_—<+-e—____ 
—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 
fitth of the new wooden vessels which have been introduced 
into the navy. There is nothing remarkable about her 
construction, but considerable interést 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 temarkable 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 the value of his possesston 
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 @ 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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Gorne Sourn ror THE WINTER. By Robert F. Spier, 
M.D. New York. Edward 0. Jenkins, 20 North William street, Tl- 
lustrated with twenty engravings. 
In the preface to the second edition of this truly interesting work the 
author very modestly disclaims any particular merit inthe same. We 
think him altogether too modest. From the long and successful expe- 
riénce 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 for this journey, and how they should 
live while there, their diet, &c., are just the subjects treated upon in this 
work. Ina pleasant. crisp, and satisfactory manner the doctor tells you 
just what you should, and should not, do. Besides much knowledge of a 
purely medical character, derived from the severe application and close 
study of a medical man who loved his profession, may be found many 
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 many 
readers of “‘Going South;"— : 
“‘An indirect cause of pulmonary disease among young men is the need 
of a cheerful, confiding companion, for ‘It is not good for man to be 
alone.’ 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 in 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 applause 
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 marrying 
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 says 
“for the consumptive to visit public places of amusement and ball rooms, 
and breathe such an uritating atmosphere, as for hours they do, is sim- 
ply to peril life.” 
“What inconsistency for girls with weak lungs to be found on 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 sSqueamishness 
towards aman they 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 ladies 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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