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bade good night , and went ; and I came up to my own room , to report to you this my first experience in the political life of England . Abnegation and false seeming still , as far as I can see , crush the vitality of the great nation , not less in its public affairs than its home . But there is a life struggling underneath , and at times seen , either in the heaving of the surface , or in the rending of it—a life compressed , but strong and real . I begin to discern it . ,
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KnuOA / rroN . —In early lilt ! , the brain is too lax in its Htrueture and limited in its powers of action , to permit safely the study of some of the profonnder parts of knowledge , which the injudicious anxiety of parents often forces upon young minds ; or indeed long-continued study of any sort . Hash is the attempt in early life to enter on the study of algebra or geometry , or whatever else demands sedulous exercise of the powers of reasoning , in preference to the lighter labours of memory . The accumulation of facts ; the learning of languages ; and the investigations of natural history , iirc safer snivels for youthful study , which build up the mental powers , and do not break them down . The obscurity in sifter-lift ; of many of the young men who have won the highest honours in our Universities , too plainly show us that their labour was beyond their tth-ength , and could not be unstained ; and as such unnatural effort * an ; Kim ; to bo followed by exhaustion mid inaction , this strong endeavour after eminency tiefeats itself .-Couoh ' h Illustrations of Instinct . Money Vat . uk ok Mjnistkiih . —1 believe we Hritish hnve be * .. <| uii « us well governed as we deserve , perhun » better ; but wo somethncH have men m h . gh authority amongst us , even as cabinet m . n . sfers , to whom no prudent private person would give s , x and twenty ^ hillings u-week for an ything they could do . — J'Vaseir ' s Magazine . —August .
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THE LAST NIGHT AT COVENT GARDEN . Let me say one word about the last night of the Huguenots and of the season at Covent Garden . Vivian has told you "that Mario was in glorious voice . Yes ! It seemed as though he were resolved to assert his supremacy at parting , and to be the despair of all succeeding Raouls . He had already convinced the most obdurate cavillers that neither Meyerbeer , nor the snows of Russia had yet worn out the manly and voluptuous tenderness of the loveliest of voices ; though the fatigue of Grand Opera may perhaps have lent a certain coy reserve and dainty delicacy to its use . And his acting—ever more intense and more elaborated ! Griei seemed a . litfclo © wfc of voice and epiritw , t , L . ovigh still la , JDiva ; but , en revanche , we had Anna Zerr , who , at an hour or two ' s notice , took the part of the Queen , and gave to Marguerite a prominence unsuspected by those who had only known Madame Castellan ' s sweet but insipid version of the character . Madlle . Anna Zerr , by the animation and grace of her acting , and the brilliancy of her singing , not only superseded the indulgence which was officially asked for her , but achieved a triumph of her own , and divided the honours with Mario , who seemed at first a little scared at the unusual torrent of Gorman gutturals . To be sure , these gutturals became a shower of pearls as they fell irom Anna Zerr ' s lips . By the bye , the four horses appeared as usual in the second act , and I did not observe that they excited the indignation ot tne audience as on the first night of JPietro , and yet Meyerbeer surely dwi not compose the horses , or wo might understand why certain critics aumire in the Huguenots what they denounce in Pietro . But then Moytbeer is never noisy , and he never wrote good dance music—witness Rataplan and the JPas des Patineurs . i . « ch * t-m « . ant ;_
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" STRIKE ! STRIKE THE LIGHT ZITHER !" J > you have the . slightest inclination to leave the gay and festive scene , the halls , the halls of dazzling light , and roam with mo , ami readers
green , I will soothe your weariness , and wake up your languid spirit b new sensation . . ^ But before I call it a new sensation , answer me , Did you ever ioJ t with Styrian peasants —( thick-ankled maidens , of incorruptible unnf temptable virtue !) to the sound of the zither ? Do you know what tli zither is P You do not . It is of the guitar genus , but infinitely mor ! musical . It is about two feet long , and possesses a distinct base and treble . The thirty-one strings are silver spun and gut , in the base in the treble there are three wire strings on which the player strikes with a small plectrum worn as a ring on the thumb . This at least is tL perfect instrument , the Viennese and civilized form of the zither—not that of the one played on by the aforesaid unattemptables . But from my meagre description you can form no idea of the " ravishing division " with which Herr Schnitzer plays on it . We were at supper the other night , supping as only people of esprit can sup , when one of the newly arrived guests proposed that he should drag a friend of his out of bed , and bring him with his music into our sparkling circle . Said—done ! Before an ordinary man coul d hate yawned away his surprise , Herr Schnitzer appeared ; and placing his queer little zither on the table kept us spell-bound for hours—His volant touch Instinct through all proportions , low and high , Fled and pursued transverse the resonant fugue . ( Milton Bays fugue , but for fugue in this case read melodv . ) And quickly his pup il joined him , and we had duos to witch the heart away ! The questionings were endless ; the desires to learn this instrument and witch away the coy reluctant hearts of maidens , not of the Styrian type , were loudly expressed . There was something so tremblingly plaintive in its tones that we all felt such an instrument cunningly played during the soft twilight hours , must subdue the haughtiest of beauties , and as we were all intense bachelors , ( with the most steadfast intention of remaining so ) you may imagine how eager we were to get Herr Schnitzer ' s address . ( In confidence I give it you . It is Thomas ' s Hotel , Jermyn Street . ) Thus furnished we now know where the secret of Orpheus may be learned , and our exultant cry is , " Beauties beware !" But even to the more sedate reader , happily not haunted with visions of unsubduable Beauty , this bit of information may not be without its value , for I assure him in all seriousness , if he desire to have a new musical delight , let him engage Herr Schnitzer to play in a soiree intime , and he will probably not be content with hearing , but will desire to learn the instrument himself . Vivian .
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DREARY LONDON . "London is the best place in summer , " said Horace Walpole , " and the only place in winter . " But he said nothing of September and October ! 0 the dreary dreary place it is just now ! One wanders forlorn through Pall-mall , and desolate through Pimlico—not a dinner , not a ball , not ^ an " at home , " not even a cosy evening of unpremeditated " dropping in , "nothing to vary and brighten existence ! The operas are over : Covent Garden closed on Wednesday night ; Mario being in such magnificent voice that the close is a calamity . Everybody is away . Albert Smith shuts up Mont Blanc on the 11 th ; he retires into privacy and meditation , intensely occupied with his work , The Geology of the Glaciers , some day to astonish Europe . " Last week" everywhere meets my eye . 1 begin to feel apprehensions such as must have visited the " Last Man . " What am I to do with myself ? If only some " great American tragedian" would give a series of " Shakspearian impersonations , " or Charles Kean open in " Macbeth , "—anything , in short , for me to fall upon in merciless delight . But no : London has no amusement now . Jane is away : O when will she return ? Julia is flirting at the President ' s balls . ' Isabella is at the sea-side ; it is true , as she remarks , she has left me her husband to keep me company , —la belle recompense ! ( I don't know what your opinion may be , but I don't care much about husbands—do you ?) I must return to my Christian Fathers . There is no other resource . I don't say it is lively , but it is a resource ; and who knows what treasures 1 may discover there ? And yet stay ! what is this ? Sadler ' s Wells reopened , with All ' s Well that Ends Well , a play no one has seen , revived with all Mr . Phelps' care ; that gives pause ! Tertullian or Parolles ? Chrysostom or Bertram ? The perplexity of Buridan ' s ass between water and hay is the perplexity I feel . While I am making up my mind , here is a word from the Times : — " At any theatre besides Sadler ' s Wells , we should be surprised to see a revival of All's Well that JEnds Well , but the Islington establishment is a sort of museum for the exhibition of dramatic curiosities , and we have no more right to be astounded tit finding some Elizabethan crudity within its precincts than at finding a Buddhist idol in a missionary collection . That the piece is by Shakspeare , and that the piece is rare , is in itself a sufficient recommendation to the manager , who is sure that a number of English literati will pay him a visit , just as the headmaster of Westminster School is sure that Terence will attract the « Old Westminsters . ' There is the further recommendation in All ' s Well that Ends Well , that Parolles , whose episode stands quite apart from Boccaccio ' s tale , affords Mr . Phelps an opportunity of displaying that comic humour which has , of lato , been , brought forward almost as a new talent . By his strong , sharp delineation of the poltroonery of Parolles , and that abject servility which succeeds empty vaunting , he maintains an interest in an otherwise weak piece , and commands incessant roars of laughter . As the plot of the play is of such a ticklish nature , we should in ustice observe , that by making the production of the ring the sole condition named in Bertram ' s letter , and by other judicious alterations , the offensive peculiarities are kept so far in the background that nothing is left to shock tliu ordinary spectntor , though , at the same time , we cannot help remarking that these sacrifices to delicacy weaken the real motives of the action . " The misc . en scene is in the best taste , as is usual at this establishment , and the applause of the audience , which wan bestowed on the revival of the piece last - night , showed that the manager ' s exertions had not been in vain . ''
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 4, 1852, page 858, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1950/page/22/
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