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be regained, and the mimic stage-is for the nonce dismissed. 
It is a good sign socially, though bad for the players. 
In New York, however, the stagnation and loss that is 
settling down on a maiority of our theaters may be 
heightened by commercial pressure, but this catastrophe has 
been merited by the imprudence of managers and careless- 
ness of capitalists. In all this great city, a refined and 
highly cultivated family, a family sensibly fond of 
dramatic representations, can only with difficulty find a 
place of amusement where its members will not be offended 
by bad taste and scenic display. 
In this ‘‘flurry,”our metropolitan ‘‘show-houses,” for that 
is the proper name, must suffer, Some of them will probably 
go down altogether in the gale, and they should. The real his- 
tory of the Lyceum theatre is a chapter of disappointments. 
No one can say it was wanted. It filled no place, supplied 
no demand. Its management never had any plan, and the 
only resource left, scenic representations, had so cloyed 
upon the public eye that the building was not filled even 
on the night of its opening. The Grand Opera House is 
another great mistake, a magnificent dramatic temple built 
in a wilderness, and as unapproachable to the mass of our 
citizens as if surrounded by a swamp. Then its size gives 
the different extremest parts of the interior a gloomy, 
ghostly, unsociable look that chills and depresses.- The 
players on the stage from remoteness and from want of 
ability never get nearer the audience than groups of moving 
men, seen on shore by the passengers of a passing steamer. 
Here again are no resources but sensation and scenery. 
Wallack’s little theatre, corner of Broadway, small from 
necessity and not from design, was always crowded. “How 
is the Winter Garden to-night?” would be a current inquiry, 
and although that. great barn was well filled, yet acres of 
empty seats only impressed the beholder that it was “poorly 
attended.” “How is Wallack’s2” “Crowded, crowded.” 
Just so, Wallack’s is the place. The ‘“‘litttle bandbox” had 
almost as much to do with its good reputation as did its 
excellent actors. It isin the wind that all of our “Jarge 
buildings” are suffering, and that ail along the line of a 
group, under the charge of one manager, discontent and 
a black future threatens. 
The commercial history of theatres shows that not half 
the established theatres are profitable, and that a manager 
who undertakes to run more than one invariably fails. 
What is to become of one who dares to hold four, among 
them that elephant, the Grand Opera House? The fragments 
must soon be seen flying in the air. The pressure in Wall 
street will not be the author of this explosion; it follows 
on the footsteps of all vain men, who achieving a great suc- 
cess ina Jegitimate way, conceive that they can defy all 
precedents and work miracles. Let all attempted monop- 
olies go under. It is better for the general public. In this 
connection the statement that Clara Morris has left the 
“Daly Troupe,” will have a marked effect in more direc- 
tions than at first supposed. Mr. Daly loses a po pular 
actress who has been made by his undoubted tact in putting 
his “society plays” on the boards. This excelleni manage- 
ment was the setting that brought to Miss Morris her wealth 
of popularity. Can she succeed well, then, upon her own 
resources, and relieved of the glamour and enticing glare 
of the Fifth Avenue stage, a stage in which upholstery, 
fine dresses, and fashion did so much to delude the dazed 
audience into the idea they were really witnessing high, gen- 
teel comedy, when it was little else than Clara’s tears, and 
a fashionable opening of the fall fashions? We shall watch 
the result carefully and add a new confirmation to our old 
experiencés. 
We want a playhouse, genteel, patronized by refined and 
intelligent people, where we can hear popular music, where 
we can go and be amused for an hour or so, where 
we are not, as at the Grand Opera, ‘‘hung by the gills” to 
the prima donna and the tenor, and if inattentive or with- 
out gloves, are expected to feel that we are considered out of 
flace, and told by looks and grimaces that we don’t appre- 
ciate music, and all that sort of dilettanti nonsense. We 
want our popwar music all the season through; we suppose 
fashion will sustain the grand opera through the subserip- 
tion nights. Seats must be taken because they have been 
paid for, but music for the masses, if a snecess will bea ne- 
cessity, a permanent institution, The fact that. so many 
persons this last summer went up town, and suffered so 
many inconveniences to listen to Thomas’ concerts, is argu- 
ment enough to convince the most sceptical that we want 
a popular music establishment in the centre of our densest 
population. Whoever has faith and capital to start one, 
will be favored with great success and consequently great 
fortune. 
The ‘Geneva Cross,” judging from the crowded andi- 
ences that assembled at the Saturday’s matinee, is increas- 
ing in popularity. To the Germans it is evidently a source 
of delight, while all nationalities, save the French, are 
charmed with the manner it is put upon the stage. Miss 
Etynge is the centre of attraction. We regret that she has 
not a better opportunity to display herself in the softer and 
joyous scenes of dramatic life. The cares and sacrifices 
growing out of a loved country snffering under the foot of 
& conqueror; the scanty food and neglected dress of a 
military prison, are not the true field for her many graces; 
but difficult and unrewarding as her part is, she never for- 
gets its dramatic claims, and maintains it with most con- 
sistent action to the end, 
The announcement that on Monday, 27th inst., Mr. Les- 
ter Wallack will appear at his own theatre, causes a flutter 
among the old patrons of that house. It will be a relief in- 
deed to witness an old English comedy, and look over the 
intelligent and fashionable audiences that will assemble to 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
greet a manager who has throughout his managerial carcor 
made good acting the feature of his establishment. 
The irrepressible Barnum has found a vacant square on 
Madison avenue, which he has covered entirely over with 
a series of tents, and opened one of the largest shows that 
ever found place in this city, or anywhere -else, that we 
know of. It spite of the prevailing storm, the seats were 
crowded with a highly respectable audience. The menag- 
eric, which is very fine, is of more than usual interest, from 
the fact that as far as possible, on exhibition, it is arranged 
in scientific order. The street show on Broadway, Tues- 
day, created both interest and amusement from its queer 
mixture of the absurd and grotesque, with redeeming points 
of decided interest. The automaton gymnasts were greeted 
with hearty applause, and as they resembled so nearly the 
‘presumed to be human beings dressed in tinsel and paint, 
many honest people will never know the “other from 
which.” 
Mr. Daly has opened the Grand Opera Honse with prices 
reduced to a specie paying basis. The very excellent play 
of the kind, ‘‘Under the Gaslight,” with reasonable charges 
for admission, promises success. 
The Maretzek troupe has closed its season at the Grand 
Opera House. At the Academy the Strakosch company 
continue their presentations. ’ Salvini maintains his popu- 
larity, and every time he appears ina theatre he is more 
thoroughly understood and appreciated. His appearance in 
“Sullivan” would never be translated to mean “David Gar- 
rick” but so it is. We presume if “David” could come to 
life and witness the performances of: Southern and Salvini 
as his “double,” he would pray to fate to put him back in 
his “little bed.”’ 



Forest and Stream. 
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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 









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. 





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 Forrest 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. 4 
The first number promises well, and its preposessing appearance is no 
slight confirmation of its claim to a high and manly tone in its conduct. 
—[(Home Journal, 
It is tastefully arranged and handsomely printed, and seems to be wel 
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 ForxEstT AND 
Srream to favorable attention.—[The South. 






We may safely predict its success.—[New Orleans Home Journal, 



It is neat as to typography and yaried 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 wul 
be invaluable.—[Brooklyn Review. : 




Boston, October 21st. 
Our theatres are well patronized despite the money panic. 
We have Booth at the Boston, our single star, but one of the 
first magnitude. We miss the elegant and cheerful Globe, 
which was burned last spring, and there is some talk of its 
being rebuilt. The Museum fas an excellent stock com- 
pany, and plays the standard dramas with good appoint- 
ments and superior talents. The Howard is a variety show 
just now the home of the sock and buskin, with Stud- 
ley’s thrilling drama of ‘Buffalo Bill,” a wonderfully 
realistic and almost pre-Raphaelite picture of Western life. 
The natural and unstudied blank verse of the frontier 
speech, the attire and ornaments of the forest maiden, even 
to the minutest earring and oxidized bracelet, are repro- 
duced with the fidelity of a Buntline or an Emerson Ben- 
nett. It only needs the presence of a horse car or a balloon 
to make the entranced spectator fancy himself transported 
to the boundless prairies of the Far West. Jordenbts 
Alew Publications. 
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[Publications sent to this office, treating upon subjects that come within 
the scope of the paper, will receive special attention. The receipt of all 
books delivered at our Editorial Rooms will be promptly acknowledged 
in the next issue. Publishers will confer a favor by promptly advising 
us of any omission in this resnect. Prices of books inserted when 
desired.| 
THE Ways or Women.—In their physical, moral, and in- 
tellectual relations. By a medical man. New York: John P. Jewett 
& Co., No. 5 Dey street. 
The name ot this old publishing house, so long a household word in 
the book trade of New York and Boston, will be remembered with pleas- 
ure. J. P. Jewett has many friends who will welcome his re-appearance 
as one of the publishers of good books. The “Ways of Women” appears 
in amost fitting garb, with which the most fastidious can find no fault. 
The inside letter-press is every way worthy of the rich binding in which 
itis enclosed. As its title implies, it is devoted to the gentler sex, and 
will be read witb special interest and advantage. 
THE CHronotypr. New York American College of Her- 
aldry and Genealogical Registry: No. 7 University Place, 
This elegant monthly journal, issued by the American College of Her- 
aldry of New York, affords facilities for those families having a history to 
perpetuate such memorials as they may possess of value to themselves 
and of interest to the refined and cultivated, and embracing such history 
of places, persons and events as may be connected with their lineage. 
Such matters, carefully selected, will be found from month to month in 
the columns of The Chronotype. In typography there is no magazine of 
the day that surpasses it. Ina literary point of view it is Superb, and we 
heartily commend this journal to our readers. Our old friend, Dr. J. V. 
C. Smith, is just the man to preside over such a work. In his hands its 
character will be fully sustained. 
RoMANCE OF OLD Court LirE IN FRANCE, 
Elliot. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 
This is a lively, true picture of the “old gay days” of court life. The 
times of Louis XTII pass in review again in this charmingly told story. 
These were indeed the historical days of Henry Quatre, Gabriella d’Es- 
taces, of Louis de Lafayette, and the varied and romantic life of Madem- 
oisclle de Montpensier; a true life picture of the olden times, with all its 
flitting memories graphically illustrated with drawings. The reader 
has in these pages the sayings and doings, the lives, in- 
trigues and amusements of those remarkable personages who 
composed the ancient regime of La Belle France in a yoluptuous 
and exciting age. 
In picturing these personages the author has done himself much credit, 
we think, in confining himself to the historical language of the personages 
themselves, using their own language as far as possible to express the 
ideas of the times, Many of the characters are so well placed before the 
reader that, like the personages in an old finely painted picture, they 
seem about to step forth from their frames, so true to the life are they 
drawn. This is just the book for a present for the coming holidays. 




Got up ina handsome] manner, both as to presswork and arrangement 
of contents.—[Philadelphia Ledger. 
It is decidedly the most recherche thing of the kind ever issued in this 
country, and 80 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 unhesitatingly recommend the 
Forrest anp 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 Falls Gazette. 







There is a standard of excellence and usefulness not yet attamed by 
any sporting paper in the country, and ForEst anp STREAM will find its 
success at the top of the ladder.—[New York Graphic. 
Tt covers ground not occupied by any other journal.—[Waterloo (New 
York) Observer. ' 
Sincerely hope it will live long and prosper. 
success.—Springfleid (Mass.) Union, 











It certainly deseryes 



Health, longevity, and happiness largely depend upon such open air 
pursuits, and a journal like this is the best means to effect the object. — 
Portland (Me.) Argus, 
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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 haye 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. 









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There is a demand for just such a paper as this. Tt will give me very 
great pleasure, indeed, to do all I can to help your journal.—[Professor 
8. F. Baird, Smithsonian Institute. 
T have no doubt that Fores? anp 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. 
T have no doubt you will make it a marked success.—[Hon. J. D. Caton, 
I 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. 
Thave long wished just such a journal to receive into my family, that 
my boys may learn froma Wetter teacher than myself the best way in 
which to follow the sports that in years past have giyen me so much plea- 
sure.—[Henry W. Abbott, Boston. 










It is wanted, and must be called 






By Francis Under your manhgement it onght to be a success.—[W. H. Venning, 
Inspector Marine and Fisheries, Canada. 
You shall have all the aid and comfort I can give you in your enter- 
prise.—[Com. L. A. Beardslee, Washington Navy Yard. 
I must congratulate you on the yery 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 sucha journal as yours. You shall have 
my hearty co-operation.—{Professor Elliott Coues, Smithsonian Institute, 








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. 
J am glad to hear of your literary enterprise. It will give me pleasure 
to put you, or any one else representing the Forrsr AND STREAM, in the 
way of getting information for your paper.—[Andrew H. Green, Comp. 







CEC La ud Tae ae troller, and Central Park Com’r. 
BOOKS RECEIVED, “I take the heartiest interest in Forest aNp StREYM. I have always 
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thonght that an Americyn “Land fand Water” was needed, and that 
many valuable observations are yearly lost, through the want of some 
such medium of communication between fleld-naturalists.”°—Prof. q@- 
Browne Goode, Middletown Unviersity . 
I wish the Forest anp STREAM every success, and will be most happy 
tolend any assistance in my power to make it so.—Hon. Robert B 
Rooseyelt. Lid 


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FROM CARTER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. 
SHE SPAKE or Him. Recollections of Mrs. Denning. 
Fanny’s Brrtu-Day Gurr. By the author of the “Bessie 
Books.” 
TRUFFLE NEPHEWs, 
Tue Lirrie Camp. 
World.” 








Leiner 
Sees 
The beantifnl engravings of birds in Avilnde cost hundreds of dollars 
By Rey. P. B. Powers, 
By the author of the ‘Wide Wide 



family ought to have it. For sale Y all booksellers and toy dealers, or 


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The first number is a model of typographical neatness, and its contenta. 
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