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Vivian Ik The Dumps. I Have Received Thi...
child of nature , into a mocking man of the world . I have been so near to _« successes" when I have received letters from fait strangers addressed to jne , but full of "that darling Vivian "—using me as a species of paratonnerre to conduct the lightning . And yet again I have been so near to staid and proper habits when ( as on one memorable occasion ) I have found that same Vivian reading a volume of sermons aloud in an unearthly voice to a serious family , who always speak of him as " that exemplary young man . " Now , do not let it be supposed that Vivian-was not perfectly sincere in reading these sermons : for do we not all " play many parts , " and he had prepared himself for the feat by a serious attack of indigestion . Well ! once more sick of the season , and of the streets , and of the Parks , and of the staircases of London houses ( at countless balls ) and . of operas with
habitues and lorgnettes , and faded small talk , and of all disguises of ennui , he has hied away to the Sabine farm of a friend whose solitude is more peopled with the good and great , than even London with knaves and fools , for antiquity is his solace , as the present is his earnest study , and the future his serene contemplation . Ah 3 " constant readers , " you would not know Vivian re-habilitated by country air , and early rising . But what an office he has left to me , to " do" the operas and theatres ; to me , who for some weeks past carefully abstain from places of amusement , finding no attraction half so powerful as the attraction of the Dog Star ! Does he expect me to to Drury Lane—which however I am glad to 111 fj _+ _*\ _^^ _- _^ - _««^ _j .. .. _ . __ — -
go _JAUCS , s , _a . s _~ .. _~~ _gj _^ ~~ _~ _^ , — _^ _, _ _, __ hear is to be opened by a powerful dramatic company for legitimate performances P For the present I prefer to lounge away an hour in the Surrey Zoological Gardens , at Jullien ' s Concerts d'Ete , humming an accompaniment to the JPrima donna , and glancing from the Mons . himself to my country cousins , who cannot take their eyes off him for a moment , but feast on the expansive glories of their demigod . Cremorne , too , is enticing to the street-weary ; and one may fairly plead guilty to Vauxhall ; but you will very probably insist on hearing something about
FAUST , produced at Covent Garden last Thursday . As I was unable to be in for the beginning ( a very rare occurrence with me ) , you must accept on hearsay the report of the first act . But first let me tell you that grand old Spohr was nobly welcomed when he took Costa ' s seat in the orchestra . His age , genius , and fame merited the reception ; perhaps , too , we do not like him the worse that he is persecuted by the Elector of Hesse Cassel . The overture ( I am told ) caused a lively sensation ; and
in the first act Ronconi , Tamberlik , and Formes roused the house to enthusiasm . The second and third acts ( when I was present ) certainly did not excite any enthusiasm , but a considerable distribution of welldeserved applause . The last act was a disappointment to many ; the curtain seemed to descend abruptl y on an Inferno closely resembling the last scene of Don Giovanni , with a " property" or two from the incantation scene of the Freyschutz , fiends more brilliant and fire more bright , and the siti _^ ation was just similar enough to suffer by comparison . With regard to the music , who can question its extraordinary
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merits—the rich and varied instrumentation , the profound science and the wayward beauty P Yet I frankly confess how difficult I felt it to assume indignation when a terribly sincere friend , an arch musical hereticassured me " that he had been unequivocably bored ; that he believed nine-tenths of the audience had been bored too , but were ashamed to confess it ; that he had watched the _habitues retiring in pairs to exchange their private opinion of what they publicly extolled—that the music was fragmentary , patchy , overlaid with modulations , and indeterminate : deficient in symmetry , freedom , and breadth ; that , in short , he was bored , and not ashamed to say so ; but that for all that , no doubt the opera was a masterpiece of composition , as Spohr was , unequivocally , a great composer . "
Wow , without pretending to discriminate at this moment what grains of truth there may be in this blunt testimony of my heretical friend , on a second hearing only , ( I heard the opera once before given by the German company ) I may briefly say , that the audience was immense , and included all that remains in town of art , science , learning , wealth , and rank ; that many portions of the opera were heard with evident pleasure , and all with attention and respect ; that the" critics were en grande tenue ; and that the libretto is about the most intolerably imbecile and confused even of librettos . The argument is dwarfed into a mere nursery fable of which Faust is the wicked man , and Mephistopheles the Bogie . Those who went expecting to find Goethe set to Spohr , must have been ludicrously deceived .
Formes was the artist of the night . He was quite at home , and evidently revelled in the character of Mephistopheles . He sang the difficult music assigned to him superbly , and his costume and attitudes were those of a perfect Wretch—or , as some will persist in spelling it , Ketzch . But I still protest with Yivian against the practice of making Mephistopheles such a mere fiend . He should sink the fiend in the accomplished gentleman . Uonconi is certainly not well fitted in Faust : a character too closely resembling Don Giovanni : but he sang his music with power and effect , and acted with great purpose and dignity . Tamberlik took every occasion he could find to display the summits of his glorious voice ; Anna _Je ? err was probably as good a _JRosina as could be found in Europe ; and
Castellan lent her full rich voice to the uninteresting Cunigonda—a sort of ditto of the Frincess in Robert Le Diable . Castellan as an actress is always—Castellan ; never the character assumed . After the fall of the curtain the grand and venerable figure of Spohr again appeared before the curtain , in obedience to a hearty summons , and was loudly cheered . Probably I may have more to say of Faust before Vivian ' s return ; or , which would be better for you , he will . I have only now to add that the orchestra did the most entire justice to its presiding chief , whom the Times distinguishes as the " greatest conductor on the continent , " and to his work * - and the mise en scene was as lavish and magnificent as the execution ef the music was unexceptionable . Costa , I believe , p layed the organ—a tribute to his great brother artist equally worthy oi both . X , s Chat-Hoant .
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Queen Elizabeth . — Elizabeth , whose despotism was as peremptory as that of the Plantagenets , and whoso ideas of the English constitution were limited in the hi g hest degree , was , notwithstanding , more beloved by her subjects than any Rov _ta _^ ign before or since . It was because , _substantiallyshe was the people ' s sovereign ; because it was given to her to conduct the outgrowth of the national life through its crisis of change , and the weig ht of her great mind and her great p lace were thrown on tho people ' s side . She was able to paralyse the dying efforts Av ' uh which , if a Stuart had been on tho throne , the representatives of an eflete system might have made the struggle a deadly one ; and the history of England is not the history of France , because the inflexible will of one person held the Kcformation firm till it had rooted itself in the heart of tho nation , and could not bo again overthrown . The Catholic faith was no longer able to furnish standing ground on which the English or any other nation could live a manl y and a godly life . Feudalism , as a social organization , was not any more a system under which their energies could have _scopo to move . Thenceforward not the Catholic Church , but any man to whom _dod had g iven a heart to feci und ti voice to speak , waste be the teacher to whom men were to listen ; and great actions were not to remain the privilege of the families of the Norman nobles , but were to bo laid within the reach of the poorest plebeian who hud the _stuif ' bini to perform them . Alone , of all the _s <> - vorcigiiH in Europe , Elizabeth saw the change which had passed over the world . She saw it , and saw it in faith , aud accepted it . The Kngland of tho Catholic Hierarchy and the Norman Huron , was to cast its shell audio become fhe England of free thought , and commerce and manufacture , which was to plough the ocean with Is navies , and sow its colonies over the globe ; and th « the roll _lii-Ht thunder birth HiihIi of the em-lien ! and _glitter through of t . hi'He cnormouH and torccH achievenicntH of tho tho forty _yeai-H of the new era reign ol its _hifl-Llizuheth with u grandeur which , when once lory in written , will bo neon to ho _anionur i written , will bo Been to ho among the most phenomena which tho earth us yet ban wit-Tho work wan not of her creation ; the heart , _Kithlinio neased . ol the whole Englinh nation wan nth-red to and _J'lli / _. ahoth ' H plaeo wuu t <> rocogniHo , its depths ; to love , to loHter , und to guide . —From the for . Inl y . WvslminsteiReview
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THE _Affectiosatewebb op _Bwai / _rsTrMEw . —If there is one passion more than another which distinguishes the manly and generous heart of the Englishman , it is that of personal attachment . He ignores foreigners at a distance ; but when they come to him , if they come recommended b y their make an appeal to his eyes and his worships them . We all recollect with the populace received Marshal Soult London a few years ago altogether by surprise . . , ago as thatmagnanimous man , Lord Londonderry ? yet when he appeared at George tho Fourth ' s coronation , the sight of his noble figure and bearing drew shouts of applause from the multitude , who thought they hated him . George himself , worthless as he seems to have been , an object of populai for how many years had he been admiration ! till his wife , a more urgent candidate for tho supplanted him . Charles fligate of monarchs , lived till tho day of his death . A saint in rags would bo despised ; in broador in silk , ho would he thought something more men . cloth , than ordinary _, and barefooted , dressed up like St . Francis of _Assisi , bareheaded would be hooted ; St . Francis Xavier , a Mandarin , with an umbrella over his head , would inspire wonder man ' s Lectures . antecedents , and ears , he almost what enthusiasm on his visit to . it took his own countrymen Who so unpopular thirty years us man , Lord Londonderry ? George tho Fourth ' s corona- eye of pity and sympath y , tho Second , tho most proin the hearts of bis people It ia the way with _Englinhand delight—J . Jf . New
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Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1852, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17071852/page/23/
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