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Th«*- arniouncfiTient is made that Mis» V-.-.y T«-m-pleton will return tn-monwi armmtnm. '*' the AetialGardens. Ncw-Amstcrelim Theatre, aad play theoarts for which she ama originall\ cant la 'Uftingthe Ud" and "The Whole l>;imm Family." Shewill Introduce three- new i lier part e.fMathilde Magartmi In "Lifting the Lid." one en¬titled "Pa'a Hi«.!*. and Ma r*<->r*"t Care."" another,sung while *h« le dressed a.- ¡in Italian siri-*-turchin, and the third. 'Trie Different** BetweenWhat Tou Want i.nd What You (Jet.*

Mia« Nina Morris, m-ho comes to Keith's Thr-atreCO-amrrow, Is a comparativo stranger to vaude¬ville. For years she has essayed star rotea in themellowest of melodramas She will present a play»let entitled "A Friands ttdrtce"" at tlie« I'th-st.house.

Luna Park has taken on a new lease of Ufa simethe «return of the young head of the firm of man-a_rerlal* twins. Thomi *-'y.

The old aaying, "Necessity is the mo'her of in¬vention." has onee more found its vindication, andthe demonstrator le Captain Jack Bor.avlta. the.One armed ¡ion tamer at Rostock's. Coney lataad..Captain Jack has Invented a hand which will take

BIRD MILLMAN.At Himmcntein'i Roof Garden.

«_the place of the one that Baltimore, the lion,chewed qIT last summer. It is said that this handwill hold a whip flrmiy within its grasp, and willbe of »¿reat use to Bon2vita In his performancewith the lions. In speakirig cf hla Invention, Bona-vlta Hvi that the models are almost completedand that hu will apply for hi« patent in a fewdaysPromoted by the I_afayette Guards, a French

military organization of this city, and assisted bythe French societies« of New-York, the festivitiesarranged for next Friday, July 34. in commemora¬tion of the fall of the Bastlle. will take place at

"*! Dreamland, Coney Island. Every year the Frenchpopulation of the city makes the anniversary an

¦ Interesting event and celebrates tlie d.iy wit!, great¦enthusiasm. This year's eelebrallon will be a K.ila

Ífete, with a number of prominent Americans andFrenchmen present to give spirit to the feet i vi« ses.President Rooseve!t has writti n to .'olonel QfVaa

Of the I_afayette Guards that he will do his utmosta* present, and Governor Higgins and Mayor

_fe*»Oellar. have accepted Invitations extended themto attend The French Ambassador at Washing-

I

DOROTHY MORTON.At Wistaria Grove.

-:, M. Juascrard, and the French consul 8t New-.-k. M. de Magny, ar- «her V'tomit.ent

people who will be pit-seenl. *

The leading attraction in th«. afternoon will befan athii-iic tournament. h«eld under Th«- aua**4<

the Romande (Bwism To.in Manypromhiefcm ama.hit athlete«-« will take part. Tn«I_afa>«-'*e '"*.«ar<l_ will hold a ilrill with th<-ii band.

Jn ti will be a parade with e»»l-tlie l»-_liroejm. As a

ajijr 11 u 1 .-. Moulin} i-arrivel

'peal«' . da jjie-jiiainrue appi!»K a ie a¡iuiK contest be¬

tween Sanotaon, ¡t I"'- Uatoucbe, a;>ard of the Morelll i/rouji I: .-neh

» trainer, and Mme. atoreUi, who .> a native <»f Paris,«. !:«'ir .-le.-iu! acta H« y. who tjjvea a

nch.and of

. v . in 1 tieir armoryi-St.. where

«¦ i a ntt.

will be Mr. Wain n s í<»»irth Wagner nightat the ßt. Ñu-ñolas Garden. Following )>; the pro-.»Tamnie;Hul-lsrun* » March.Wiigner

,«Avt _-*ii« .....-.uoertViolon . fox -h*»tia aj,_

.k» ¦*_. >'<_..J »at Strauaa

Prelude -_

_- »afi-jntt . walkura'.Mr Hlnde-rmejer l...Wa«rr.er^^¦^1«. "Loheliictlt:" natanm and llebaatod. "Tristan und Isold«-., j

'tIon». Kaum . (ïcur.od1- «aa»

vho Know«»1.KoemreenU-h.1er Ballad'.Coaen

Mr. Hlnjermeyer.S...» -. RuUna'.ein

'»

isr.h. "The Diplomat''.Bous*Soin!.t. Harvey Wilson Hlndennoyer. tenor.

The "Hoy Paderewski." Willie Bcksta.^ will givei fre»> rcclti'I f»«r children between the »Res of eight_nd fifteen years *1 ÜM New-York Theatre, next

-. afternoon. at Idi. Every child betweenthe age limits mention«»«! will be admitted without

¦ wilt OboO-npenyfOaf parents or guardians.Brown person- win« go aiono will not be admitted.

Bcksteia sad the 0-O.Sg. m«nt of Wistariaa«.- planned »hi« nntort.teonont for the

.Bang folk, as .-hildren seldom attend the eveningroof carden perfoi manes.Admission, while free, -rill be by ticket. Tickets

mav be had upon application »it the New-YoraTheatre t>«>\ office from » o'clock to-morrow morn-

ln-r i:rtil the hour of the re.¡tal. Sch«»ol teachersand Sunday school teachers are invited to taketheir classes in a I ,<dy.

Additions have Icen ma«!«- to th.» Ann-rican Gal-

lery at tha Bdeo Muse«. Bwf| ep..-h In th.- historyof the country, from the time of the Revolution tothe present day. Is shown.

Next W«¦.!::«...'lay will be Texas Day at the Gal-

veoton Flood. «*oney island. Many survivors of the

catastrophe which destroyed the metropolis of theLone Star State will be present. Souvenirs will bedistrll.uled.

Manv changes Will be seen In the bill this week

at Hämmersteins Paradise Roof Garden. Among

UM uiwumna-iro will he the Hengler sisters, Hill and

Svlvanv. the Magic Kettle, th«- Mlllman Trio andMarcus and LeteUft Bossi. Iba musical horse, will

remain, as will also Contain Bloom «lemonstratorf Marconi's wireless t«>h graph. Ernest Hogan

and his company of twenty-five will int. «i.u.'e new

songs. and i hi- Girl from Coney Island will beheard in a new repertory.

Bam Bernard and "The Rollicking Girl" are pre-par;n_ to celebrate their 100th performance at theHerald Square Theatre. The weather seems tomake n<« difference with the crowds or with i ne

spirits of the playera.Keith's midsummer bill this week is headed by

the Colonial Septet, which, in th«; picturesque cos¬

tumes of our forefathers, presents "An Old TymeHalloween." Sherman and Du Fui n-st have a bur-

leSQUe entitled "The Kail of Poor Arthur." Toby»laude, tha tiny Knglish singing comedienne, lateof "A «""hiñese Honeymoon" the Brothers Hamm.Raynor's «logs. Hairy ami Walford. Charleo andAda Kalmo. Tom Moore, with "coon" songs, andJames Richmond Qlenroy, with Irish stories; theDe Anos, Madeline Disten, Htiwthori'p and Hurtand Joe Edmunds complete a 1>¡_ entertainment.

"The Heir to ih<» Hoorah" still runs at the Hud¬son Theatre. Chances hare been made in the castin the last week. Miss Jane Peyton has succeededMiss Beverley Sitgreaves in the role of Kate Bran*don. Miss I_nuisc Rutter is now Madge Casey, andErnest Lamson, Dave Lucy. The ootnedy entersupon its fourteenth week at the Hudson to-morrow.

At Terrace (larden Dr. Contenió, the bandmas¬ter, leads thirty-five musicians in the hand withWhich he won many medals at the World's Fair inSt. Louis.

At Proctor's Fifty-eighth Street Theatre "CoonHollow" will be the attraction this week.

Franklin FYles's four-act drama. "The (ïovernorof Kentucky." used one season by William H.Crane, will be given this week at Proctor's Onj-bundred-and-twenty-iifth Street Theatre. Therole of Governor Lee, created by Mr. Crane, willbe played by James E. Wilson. Miss BeatriceMorcón will be seen as Jewell and the others inthe cast will be Helen Tracey. G. A. I.essey, SolAiken, Robert Hill. Matilda Deshon. Daisy Lov-ering, Harold Hanseii, Geoffrey Stein and EthelConroy. The Sunday concerts will include Mr.and .\lr.. Mark Murphy, Eleanor Falke. JamesEL <"i:llen and Albora Trio and a dozen others.

The Mg theatre at Manhattan Beach, since itsopening, has had its full »juota of patronage. Thebill for the coming week will be headed by MissDelia Fox. who will offer u singing act made upof a repertoire Of songs that are both new andreminiscent. Al Bhean and «Mfarles Warren willpresent "Quo Yadis Upside Doom." and followingthem will come "Di«la," the Five Moaratts. Bedinian«l Arthur, MaiiZ ainl Mazette. W. C. Kell»', theItalian Trio and the Yalto Duo.

The Sunday performances at the ManhattanUeach Theatre, beginning to-day. will commencei^t 4 o'clock inst.-ad of 3. as formerly. The bill ismail- up of loot »«.< «'s stars. Including Henry K.Dixey. Mille Hartman, EHdney Grant, O'Brien &Have]. The Nevaros, McMahon's WatermelonGirls. Professor Meehan't Trans.it lan*__-- Four,¿.immer and others.

Klsie Janis will add her imitation of Anna Heldto bar Other rnimir portraitures at Wistaria drovethis WOOk. Sam Elton, "the man who made theSliah laugh." will be retained on the programme."The Girl in the Red Domino." a new Spanishdance, lia« BOVeraJ sensational qualities She willIntroduce other characteristic national danceslater. "The Hoy Paderewski" will be heard in anentire change of programme. Harry Bulger willsing new verses in his topical songs in "WhenWe Are Forty-one," and Kelly and Reno, Da Belle'i heresita and the Navassa Troupe will again beseen.

At Tony Pastor's the Four Famous NelsonComiques, Lorenz and Healy (their first appear¬ance at this house us a team). Joe Morris, theJew with the pipes; the Three Sisters Constantino,the Dainty (Tench Artists. Bro'iks Brothers,Mooney and Holbein, Bertnia. and Brockwav, BertLennon. William La Helle, Edith W. Richards andJules Larvette will be the entertainers.

Mr. Proctor announces for the week of July 10at his 23d-st. bouse Miss Edna Wallace Hopper,of the "Silver Slipper" and "Florodora" companies.as his star attraction. M.rs Hopper will be seenin a singing epedaliy. Charley Grapewin. sup¬ported by Miss Anna Chance and company, willpresent "The Awakening of Pipp " The ElinoreSisters; To-To, the mysterious mu.i.-ian; Hardingand Ah Sid; Ml!«». «»live. Europe's leading ladyJuggler; James J. Callen, "the Man from theWf»et"; Esmeralda Sisters and Four Flower Girls,and Will Roger and his horse, expert lasso andlariat thrower, complete the bili.

James K. Hackett has engaged by cable HarrietOtis Dellenbaugh for the role of Lady Marchmont,the middle aged peacemaker, in his forthcomingproduction of "The Walls of Jericho" at the SavovTheatre. Mr. Hackett is still in London watchingthe performances Of the play there where it has-been running since last October.

Theodore Kremer has cabled from Londondenying the report that he collaborated with Mr.Clyde Fitch in several new p.a.,... Mr Kremer willhenceforth wrtfo unaided by any co-worker, as healways has done. lit did However, adapt MrFitch's play entitled "A Woman in the Case"into the German text for i he Berlin stage.

The spe-ial engagement of M'.ss Rose Cogblan atProctors Fifth Avenue Theatre has been extendedfor tin- correal oreek. To-morrow Miss c««ghlrnwill appear as Lad} «lay Spanker in "London As-

Mr Proctor's stock includes John HGilmour, Wallaca Erskine. Charles Abbey E 1»Lyons, Frances Starr, Oraycc Scott, Arthur l.»-rence, Harold Roberts and Byron Onglej Thesuit comedy will be played in "moderncostume. A new scenic oiitllt has been preparedfor this revival.

The regular trial of voie-, for u.. De WolfHopper ..pera company lo u> lüke place next Muh-

tf o -ioi-k. at the Lyric Tbfotre. Mr. Hmg-per is to opon his eseeon lo Fr.«i Ranken a->d

i I».- Koven's new opera. "i:i\>-.-i "

onSeptembc! A. al the Lyric, .oUowlag the run of'Pantana." The trial of v. ,.-. s for 'The Karl andUve» Girl" will oecui on fucsday. Eioth tests willbe und« r the direction "f H H. Buni-ide. Magemanager,

J Bernard Dyilyi, h.,.. _, i, engagea for the roleof the Wootomer to "ThO Earl and the Girl."which is t.. open al the Casino Theatre the lastWi__. in August.

The MeoOra. IhObort have de«-ided to use an en¬tirely American chorus in the production of "Fan-tana," «m September 4. at the WaldorfTheatre, London. The principals in this companywl.l be English The <irga_l__tion now at theTheatre will remain in America through the

Of en at the Boston Theatre, Boston,- ii ght that the Engli.n produ.t'on is seen

in l.oiiaun.

PROFESSIONAL ADVICE.The new dot-tor had been callea) In to see a

lady with a s v. «.lien Jaw..Do» s it hurt you to talk?" asked the pill dis¬

penser."Too," ¡»h»- ropUod."Then d.m't," -aid i he M. D. "Two dollar«,I/ic-LBfc.".(Chicago Daily Nev.a.

FAY TEMPLETON.At the New-Amsterdam Aerial Theatre this week.

MUSICAL COMMENT.

Coleridge-Taylor and African Music.An Inconsistent Wagnerian.

The Oliver Ditson Company, of Boston. Is add¬ing industriously to its handsome series of publi¬cations entitled "'The Musicians Library,*' and, on

the whole, but with occasional lapses such as thoseremarked in this article. Is maintaining the highstandard set l»y the first volumes, notwithstand¬ing that the- original scope of the enterprise seemsto have been greatly widened. The recent publica¬tions are two volumes of "Modern French Songs."edited by Philip Hale; "Fifty Songs by FranzSchubert," edited by Henry T. Finck: "WagnerLyrics for Soprano" and "Wagner Lyrics forTenor," edited by Carl Armbruster; "Songs byThirty Americans," edited by Rupert Hughes;"Selections from the Music Dramas of RichardWagner," arranged for pianoforte by Otto Singerand provided with a preface by Richard Aldrlch;"Fifty Piano Compositions by Robert Schumann."edited by Xaver Scharwenka, and a volume of

NINA MORRIS.At Keith's.

transcriptions for pianoforte of African and Afro-t American melodies by S. Coleridge-Taylor, with! introductory matter by Mr. Taylor and Mr. RookerT. Washington.

Not all of these volumes call for either generalor detailed comment. Conventionality in selectionand treatment marks some of the volumes, such

j as the Schubert Song Book (the horizon of whichdoes not extend beyond the three most familiarcycles of songs, viz.: "Die Schone Müllerin," "DieWinterreise" and "Schwanengesang"», and theSchumann and Wagner pianoforte books. Thepurpose of editors and publishers, however, beingobviously to offer compositions the excellence ofwhich Is universally concede«!, perhaps the circum¬stance is pardonable. Nevertheless we cannothelp wishing, for the sake of the musical publicand the singers of high class songs, that three-fourths of the collection could not have been sacri¬ficed to make way for tiie scores of admirablesongs by Schubert which are known now only tothe owner« of the complete editions of his songs.It would be difficult to pick up a Schubert albumanywhere without finding the songs which Mr.Finck has chosen, but there are scores of songs ofrare beauty which are seldom printed and neverheard. Mr." Scharwenl:a has prefaced hl_ collec-

tion of Schumann's pianoforte pieces with an essaythat Is likely to'prove disappointing to all who ar«

familiar with the editor's literary cleverness. Aait is. Mr. Scharwenka's remarks are not remark¬able for either suggéstiveness or erudition. Yetthe publishers seem to have considered it worthyof twofold production, once in the original Ger¬ma ti and once in a translation made by FrederickField Bullard.

The "Wagner Lyrics. for which Mr. Armbrusieras.-uine*- responsibility, do not deserve a place In acollection of works which professes to have beencompile«! for musicians. We recall that on Mr.Armbruster's visit to New-York a few years agehis critically sensitive soul was so outraged at a

performance of "Lohengrin" at the MetropolitanOpera House (he having come from London to en¬

lighten the New-York public aJ to the plots o(Wagners operas! that he forthwith poured pagesof caustic comment into a German musical jour¬nal. Who.before had ever seen the pages carryingcandles |n the proeessi«>n which accompanies Elsaas she goes to the minister to be married? Suchtreatment cf Wagner was nothing short of scan¬dalous. Singularly enough he never seems to haveseen .the same bit of stage pageantry in London,whence it came to the New-York theatres. It is

EDNA WALLACE HOPPER.At Proctor's Twenty-third Street Theatre.

to be fear«*d that Mr. Armbruster's Wagnerian soul,which was fed for some years on the true am¬brosia in Bayreuth, is somewhat elastic. WhatWagner would have said had he seen the candlesIn t*lsa"s procession we cannÄ guess; It is re¬motely possible lhat tiiey would ne»t have appearerso incongruous in a churchly function to him asthey diil te» Mr. Arnibruster. We oan, however.without Intellectual strain guess what "*t_M Mas¬ter" would have remarked had lie seen or heardthat one of his assistants at Bayreuth had turne«!the familiar bridal march from ihe same o'pera,the spinning chorus from "The Flying Dutchman,''a portion oiv the love duet from "Tristan undIsolde," the top voice of the quintet from "DieMeistersinger" and the pilgrims' chorus from"Tannhituser" into "Lyrics"' f.ir soprano and tenorsolo. This is what the fastidious Mr. Armbrusterhas done. It is a sorry testimonial to his taste, andsuggests the thought that his proper held of opera¬tions is pretty far back in the English provinces,or In some of the remote region** of our own wildand woolly We**.In his volume at pianoforte transcriptions Mr.

Coleridge-Taylor ha» attempted to do for the melo¬dies of the native African atiel the negro slaveIn America what IJszt did for the melodies of

.It*-. _

.THE FALL OF PORT ARTHUR," AT LUNA PARK.

Hungary, and Grieg for those of Scandinavia. HI«

pattern, however, mmS Grieg, not Llsst. It araa

work well worth doing, and Mr. Taylor, who en-

tarai upon it with sympathy. Inasmuch as he wus

thereby oavtng a tribute to the race from whichhe is partly sprung, has done It well, even if he

has not a ways bodied forth the characteristic* of

the tunes, and has fallen into occasional moaotonyIn his handling of the variation form. The ten¬

derness of the "spirituals" of the negro slav«** n

America has appealed to him more powerfullythan the rude vigor of the melodies which ceme

ta him unmoderated by the iniluences which gave

more extended forms and dee*.er feelings to the

plantation songs of our South. It is something of

a pity that he was restricted In choice by the

Jubilee and Hampton collections, and that he

could not have made original studies among the

aged American negroes who preserve the most

characteristic elements of the music which their

forefathers brought hither from Africa. The

writer's experience in gathering these song» (whichhas extended over mora than a quarter of

a, century) has taught him that the best of them

are still waiting to be noted down, and that theirlutervalllc singularities are more numerous thancan bo discovered from the printed specimenswhich have thus far been adopted as models bysentimental ballad writers like Stephen C Foster,and the fabricators of "coon songs." But Mi*.

Taylor has opened a new field, and more may fol¬

low-more, we hope, from his gra.-eful and in¬

genious pen. The Held is richer than can bo

guessed from the material ready to hand, andinfinitely more worthy of attention than themonotonous phrases tone might almost say

phrase) of North American Indian music uponwhich ih*:se enthusiastic young men, HarveyWorthington Loomis and Arthur Farwell. are ex¬

pending tbotr energies, under what might be calleda sentimental literary influence inspired by MissAlice Fletcher. Concerning the negro "spirituals"Mr. Washington discourses entertainingly andfeellngiy in his prefatory remarks, as the follow¬ing extract will show.

Mr. Washington writeas

Negro music is essentially spontaneous. InAfrica it sprang into life at the wur dance, atfunerals and at marriage festivals. Ipon thisAfrican foundation the plantation songs of theSouth were built. According to the testimony ofAfrican students at Tuskegee, there are In thenative African melodies strains that reveal theclose relationship between the negro music ofAmerica and Atrlca, but the Imagery and senti¬ments to which the plantation songs jive expres¬sion are the outcome <>f the conditions In Americaunder which the transported children of Africalived. . . The negro folksong has for thenegro race the same value that the folksong ofany other people has for that people. It remindsthe race of the "rock from whence it was hewn,"it fosters race pride, and In the duys of slavery itfurnished un outlet for the anguish of smittenhearts. The plantation song in America, althoughan outgrowth of oppression and bondage, containssurprisingly few references to slavery. No racehas ever sung so sweetly or with such perfectcharity while looking forward to the "year ofjubilee." The songs abound in Scriptural allu¬sions, and in many Instances are unique Interpre¬tations of the standard hymns.The songs that had their origin In Virginia

and the more northern of the Southern States,where the slave changed masters less often, andwhere he was under the personal care and guid¬ance of his owner, are more bright and Joyous intone than are those which were sung In the GulfStates, where the yoke of slavery was more op¬pressive. The songs of the lower South are sad¬der In tone, less buoyant than are those of theupper South. . . . The question is often aske»*!.To what extent are these songs being sung by thecolored people, and to what extent are they beingpreserved? In the larger city churches they arebeing used but little, but In the smaller towns andin the country districts, where the colored peoplelive in greater numbers, their use Is quite general,and new ones appear from time to time. Severalschools and colleges of the South make an effortto preserve these songs, and at Fisk. Hamptonand Tuskegee they are sung constantly. New stu¬dents coming from remote parts of the South oc¬casionally bring In new ones.

It Is easier to make a capital collection of classi¬cal songs representative of everything under heaventhan to compile a volume like that put together byMr. Hughes. There are no copyrights in the wayand one has the world and a century to choosefrom. Of course there could be no standard ofcomparison In the matter of excellence between th*»hypothetical miscellany and the book before us.The only test of America's relative significance _uthe song field would be provided were one to putthe thirty American songs beside thirty GermanHeder, thirty French melodies and thirty Engtlshballads. In spite of the proclamation of meritwhich Mr. Hughes makes In behalf of his coterie,with which we are not going to be churlish enoughto quarrel, we should not care to see the experi¬ment tried, except, perhaps, in the last case. Manfor man. and woman for woman. America can prob¬ably match Great Britain in the lyric prize ring.Mr. Hughes has most amiably constituted himselfdiscoverer, champion and prophet of the Americancomposer, who. we are asked to beli«?ve. cameInto the range of vision some ten or fifteen yearsago. Between the era of the Red Savage and theapogee of Professor Paine aiere would seem tohave bien no music of original manufacture Inthis country. Alas, for the waste generations andthose who dwelt therein! Mr. Hughes marshalshis host of thirty and presents them in a valiantfront; all are pictured, all biographied for the bene¬fit of present and future historians. We mustcall the roster: John K. Paine. Dudley Buck,Homer N. Bartlett. Adolph M. F.rster. Wilson G.Smith. James H. Rogers, Henry B. Pasmore. Clay¬ton Johns. Harry Rowe Shelley. Reginald D,Koven. Richard Henry Warren, líerrlt Smith .Henry Holden Huss. William Arms Fisher riy.7bert Nevln, Frederick Field Bullart. W. j. Bau«,,"Harvey Worthington Loomis. Nathaniel IrvingHyatt. Homer A. Norris. Clifford X Pa*-e H"^fF Gilbert. Victor Harris. Henry K. àe^çJLntaaaF ...;:n.-y. Arthur Farwell. R,lbl- Goldmark. HsZT John p- Marsha!!- Davif* "SJ_y- **** Hftlp h*" ^-hered song, to fill twoflumes from more than thirty French compos¬es; .o that if one wishes to institute a cempari-**on between the two groups .which need n»»t beodious) he has his material at hand. Mr. Hale'scollection evinces a fine as well a, a broad knowl¬edge of the song literature of France, as alsodoe, hts preface, which is the most delightful es¬say yet written for the Ditson publications Thereare sketches of the composers and portra't, butthese are of small intere.u compared with thehistorical study of French Bul,g reaching back to3he days when Ctesar wrote "Omnia Gallia " etcThe preparation .f the volumes was plainly *work of sympathy akin to lore. Here is theFrench roster: Herman Bemoerg. Claudius BlancJnlea Bourval. Pien- de Breville. Cfctta t'ham-lnade. Ernest Chausson. Hodwlge fhrethn. Arthur»'oquard. Achille Claude de Bussv. ._« IMitesHenri Duparc. Gabriel Faun*, G. Ferrari H -faFontenailles, Cfear Franck. Alexandre C.eorge«'-tenjaiata OnMaiJ, Chirles niant BayaiddoHahn. Anaaatt Hohnes. Gecrges Hu,«. vino-ntd Indy. Edouard Uilo. Gaston I aiaalra. XavierI^eroux. Jules Massenet. Kmile Paladilh»- Emileasrd. G.brit! ritmé. Guy Gag-ana. t'.iri.r..-s*Willy de Rothschild, Camille Saint-Saens. Am¬brose Th.-mas. I_acia Thorn*. »Charlea M. w*Mar.From G Schirmer. New-York, we have <j ¡»et ofnoetic songs In the extreme at th.- Fren, h :* »man¬

tle vein with pianoforte accompaniment andviola atihllcata my Charlea Martin LaeStar. aci agroup of German lie.ier also in the modern stvle,but vastly SUStrmat in st-u»ture and me.o.liothought, by otti.k.t: Novacels. Loth groups areinteresting emanation» of the latter day spirit.Te the Sehlrmer list of operas has been added v. nWeber'H "D.r Freisohflti," with Natal!« Ma.-f..r-ren,s translation revised by Dr. Theodore Baker,and an intn.di.ct. ry «ttsi.. by R dl-lchTh.« essa> discusses in an entertalni*:;«th. many vicissitudes of th. opera during itscomposition. Its progress through the musical cap¬itals of the world. Including New-York, where it¡uni its first production on March 2, 1_"_. at «hePark Theatre, In English, and. doubtless, in an"adaited" form. Th» subsequent history of theopera Is »iut lined thus:

It was as successful for a time here as It waseverywhere, elae. and tl »tl.ui Scene" wasthe aensatlt.n of the theatrical season Other ver¬sions were brought over; In 1827. Charles K H.»rn.notert as singer, actor and i-omp . urn. ap¬peared in one as Caspar. Kind ithe librettist!, inhis little book about the opera, mentions per¬formances that were given of it ta n «

"The Wilel ti tata ta .>? I'.ohemtu. " A Germanperformance was given in v »

ft** at the old Broa hray 1»nd the- <<pera was ne»t Infrequent

fonneii » .,r¡»l Gem ;.tt up., N « Tare In thi Sts Ot tats v-mr».however, it has fallen out of the upara

was given al the Metropolit House»mrosch. In the season of lMO-as. and aT_Academy of .\fu«lc. under v. ., jS?

aril it is o< casionally i-\n Germany alone It keeps If»wherein may be found a. fin.» Ithat has been sa ici aba.ut

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a high class hotel has been thoroughly (mmmm-strated by Messrs. Reed & Ban to,, .^the Park Avenue BOO*. Of :r be»,^tifully illustrate«! announcements ,n The Trtbouahave brought ro this popular house a larga in¬crease in patronage of the ~'asm.Their advertisements have ..hown handsome __.*»

tone pictures of the exter;somest hotels in the country, and ahn of the da«lightful palm garden, which hi«., become ,t TTiatmeaZable dining resort f««r New-Yorkers wh«> ara» mammf-lng*part <»f the summer in r«>wn. This l» «^"roof gar«len." b ¡oors goidMon the ground floor, with tre»s. palm*. shrubaiSfountain, a» charming accessor)«- «^3to the most critical class »>f guest». *

Summer tourists en route to seashor or mee__>tain re_»irta riml the Park Avenue Hoiei i jjsatisfactory place to spend a few days, andTCregister shows every day arrivals of new .

from different parts of the country.

CATHOLIC SÏÏMXER SCHOOLCliff Haven. X. Y.. July 8 (Special -Th,« tan».

t.enth session of the Catholic Summer School of-America began work last Sunday. In charge h»r»is Dr. Sherman Willlms. of Glens rails. Ha |gassiste«! by Dr. James S. Cooley. of Ölen Cora.Long Island. A ong the prominent member* etthe faculty are Professor James R. Street, pfc. dof Syracuse L'niverslty. George Edgar Other*supervisor of music in tha Albany and S.-heneetaiphigh schools, a d Mrs. Margaret Mooney, pre-fessor of English in the Albany Norma'. CollegeThe registration in the various courses is larg».The lecture courses arranged for the first «seek

began on Wednesday and continued throughoutFriday. They were patriotic in character, owtagto their coming so soon after Independence Xng.

MLLE. AURORA.At Bostock's, Coney Island.

The morning lecturer was Professor Francl»Carmody. of the Department of Constitutions!Law in the Brooklyn Law School of St. LawrenceUniversity.The Champlain Club has been the centre nf

attraction this week on account of the presencethere of a large excursion party from Xew-VorOand Brooklyn.The residents of the New-Jereey Club extended

tl eir hospitality most delightfully on Wednesdayevening. The guests were received by Mr. and Mrs.John F. Lynch, of Jersey CityThree new houses are attracting much att I

at Cliff Haven. They are the Villa Fronteric, thesummer home of Miss Alice Ryan, of New-York;the Jersey Club, fronting the Champlain Circle oa

KATIE BARRY.In "Fantana."

the north, and the Buffalo Cottage, of decidedlyartistic design, on the lake shore.

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MISSISSIPPI BLOODHOUNDS.The State of Mississippi is to go Into the dog-

breeding business, limited to one classa.Mood-hounds. Several recent failures to run clown es¬

caping criminals with bloodhounds ami somemistakes made by :he hounds in tracking thewrong persons have convince«! the officials ofthe need of Improving the breed, th- houndsbeing hitherto hired as occasion demanded fromloeal parties. Mississippi ¡MM MO nought th*finest bloodhounds within Its borders, and willstart a State pack. .( _pringfie'««i Republican.

GOVERNMENTS AND PRIVATE ENTER¬PRISE.

The reason governments should leave as wide Ofleid ¡ta possible I . eater»prise is that government operations per; »¦

the «"tie t.-st whichful private fcOOEMOB lir>: "l>oes it p.i\

"" As so«'!»as private business concerns find that they ara«leinir oeoeetMog IM ). is n««t worth while ih»y shutit off. The] may make mistake-: in this line buttheir attempt is t«> regulateprojects an«! by their return, by vahetherthey pay «'i not In t!-<- government

tide hv side. Thers is n.< motivefor cutting (T th M «toes

dy in particular, and th»»beneficiaries of any a,. n cling to it likegrim -ion Trans«»rlpt.

Mnsaoi,

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Special Coursa (or Teac.iers and Professional.»Through Course for Benin per*.

SUMMER [_RM NOW BEGINNING.Or. E. EBERHARD, Prest, OS West \i_ St.

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