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is THE SUNDAY OREaONIAN, PORTLAND. MAY 13, 1900. realitt. If cur days Tiers made of sunshine. Not & shadow "to annoy. Bid the light of love entwine Evermore this heart of thino TTith. its filling wealth of Joy". Wherefore would the wisdor; be Of aught that's taught of misery? If temptation fled affrighted At the echo of onr tread. If our steps were ne'er benighted On a pathway all imllshted; If no burning tears were shed, "Wherefore would the merit be. Of doing- right continually? If no circles e'er were broVen, And ao loved ones borne axvay. If no fareuell Tords wero spoken. If no heart held memory's token When the giver slept in clay, "Where would all the pleasure lie In that meeting In the sky? Hra Emery Dye- KNIGHTS OF THE CROSS Henry Sienklc-crlcz's Xetvr Story Abounds in lovo and Fighting: Late Publications. There Is plenty of loving and fighting In Henry Slenkiewlcz's new story, "The Knight of the Cross." The volume now issued Is the first half of the story, and It doses -with the heroine in danger of losing her life. She is imprisoned la the castle of a hard and cruel knight, and if she escapes there "will be war and sean daL How she gets out of the scrape will not be known until the author has com pleted the second part of the story, upon whieh he is now at work. The first half of the story mai.es a book of over 400 pagto and the second half probably will be as long. The plot of "The Knight of the Cress" is laid in Northern Europe in the days when Lithuania had become only recently a Christian nation, and the hero In a young Lithuanian knight Zbyshko, the young nephew of Matsko, the Im poverished Lord of Bogdanets, In -the course of h.s travels, seeking adventures. meets and falls in loe with Danusha, a sweet little maid of the court of Princess Danuta. Her father, Turand, had de voted his life to the duty of exterminat ing the Knights of the Cross, because his oung wife had fallen a victim during a siege made by them upon his castle in his absence. Zbyshko, in his des re to win peacock feathers for his little lady from the head of a German, attacks a Knight of the Cross, who Is on emissary of the King, and for this Is thrown into prison, and, after a long delay. In which the knight refuses to extend pardon for the offense, Zbyshko Is led forth to execu tion. But at the moment Danusha ap pears and throws her veil over him, an ancient PoLsh custom, which eaves the condemned a maiden having chosen him he cannot be executed. Then old Mats ko. 'who is elck, returns to his home, and the young knight is assisted In taking sare of Mm by the daughter of a neigh bor. He and Tagcnka, the daughter, hunt bears together, and he looks with favor upon her, but his heart is v.ith the Utile dainty Danusha, to whom he re turns. He eaves her from death In a w-ld boar hunt, and while he lies sick a messenger coma? to take her to her father, who is reported to be sick, and just a Bhe departs he begs that she will marry Sum; and, the Princess consenting, the ceremony is performed, and 6he departs immediately for her father's house In the meantime, the knight rescues her father from the snow, where he lies as dead, and It Is discovered that he has never sent for his daughter. It is but a trap set by the inexorable Knights of the Crosa to compel him. to release a- prisoner, and into the same trap goes Turand. Zbjshko fights a duel, end at the end the fete of Danusha Is still doubtfuL (Little. Brown & Co., Boston.) TRUSTS OR COMTETITIOX. Both Sides of the Great Question of Pnlilic Interest. A. B. Nettleton, formerly Assistant Sec retary of the Treasury, sets forth the re sults . his investigations into the trust question in a book bearing the title. Trusts or Competition? Both Sides of the Great Question in Business. L3W and Politics." Those editorial portions of the book "w hlch are devoted to an analysis and characterisation of the trust rystem aim to establish certain definite and fund mental pro positions, for example: First, the competitive system, under which the human race has achieved its development end progress, has not proved a failure and does not need to bo supplanted by Its op posite, a rystem of private monopoly like that embodied in the trust movement; sec ond, the trust system centrally consist of capltal'stic combination ror the main pur pose of monopolizing industries; it is, therefore, unfair in its ethics, unscientific in its economics, violative of the spirit et thq common law and essentially hostile to the pubhe welfare; third, any eombina. tien or consolidation, which controls from TO to SO per cent of an industry has a prac tical or working monopoly of that indus try, and the remaining compstitors are often tolerated by the trusts In order tq conceal the fact of -virtual monopoly; fourth, under the reign of the trust pos sible or so-called "potential" competition is no sufficient check upon monopoly or protection for the publle against unjust prices and other still greater wyor-gs; fifth. largf-"-ale production, with corre sponding carltal, is beneficial up to the maximum of efficiency and economy In manufacture, but the trust system pur posely and arbitrarily carries enlargement and consolidation beyond that maximum point and to the point of monopoly thus making the cheapening of production a fa'se pretext for destroying competit'on; sixth, the maximum of economy anS ef ficiency la production la reached short of monopoly, and Is represented in America by great mdepondent competing concerns; seventh, the Industrial trust, as known in America, instead of being universal, and hence presumably natural, is practically nonexistent in other countries (except as recently attempted abroad by American promoters), and, hence, presumably art!- ficlal; eighth, the reeent great Increase In our exports of manufactured goods has been mainly achieved by large independent establishments, which have carried econo my and efficiency to manufacture to the maximum without seeking to obtain mo nopoly; ninth, the trust system tends to Invite and eorapcl prematurely, and hence dlsastrousTy. that form of socialism which consists of government ownership and J muTi3.gemei)t 01 an great industries, renxn, there Is neither occasion nor popular dis position to antagonize corporations or cap. ital as such; the objeet of general hostility is simply monopoly housed in corporate J follows in tne series or popular nature form, and using vast capital opnrcsslvely I books with colored Illustrations, the same and unlawfully; eleventh. In proportion J author's "Bird Neighbors and Biros as the trust system prevails, and survives. That Hunt" and Dr. Holland's Butterfly the people are forcibly excluded from In- , Book." "Nature's Garden" is not a bot dustrial careers, and he door of eppor- ' any. hut a familiar help to an understand turJty for young men is shut; twelfth, ing of the life history and character of the trust system being fundamentally un- more than 500 wild flowers, so that the sound and unjust, no remedy of palliation I reader or student may come to know or regulation wftl meet the case. A re them in a personal way. The llfe-hlstory turn to Industrial liberty through disln- ' of every flower, its dependence on the in tegration of the trusts is the only adequate sect-world, an explanation why it has its treatment of the problem, and this is en- particular color and shape and odor, lead tirely practicable, if th people so desire. through the continued and systematic ap plication of eommon-law principles by avt highest courts. (Leon Publishing Cq., Chi cago.) MRS. ELLA UIGGIXSOX. Yoaaj Poet "Who Is "Well Known in the Xosrthircst. ? Mrs. Ella Higglneon's- name has be eome familiar through her two books of short stories. "The Flower That Grew in the Sand" and "The Forest Orchid." and more recently by a volume of poems, "When the Birds Go North Again." These books have been popularly received by the public and favorably regarded by the critic. Their writer is a young woman. Her first work was as an infrequent contributor of poems to various publica tions. Her gift of story-writing was &o spontaneous and of such simplicity that it won immediate recognition. Mrs. Hg- ' th-nSS' a"d to P0-11 out to her ey rinson's Maiden nam -irai: -Rhondac; ov,a ! women Just how they may everywhere was born same SO years ago in Council Grove, Kan., in the Neosho Valley. Her parents moved to Oregon in her child hood, and for a number of years their home was In Oregon. City. Ella was or ganist at thfe Congregational Church. She learned the printing trade in the office of the Oregon City Enterprise, and even then wrote stones that attracted considerable attention. There she was F'LSZln'.i? AZ I an of Colonial life and Colonial people. business herself. She went -nlth her hus- ... ,., . v ,.t-, -iv ti. k.., band to La Grande and later they moved Jt n.ovell t0 bef r"ko"ctd " Je h"2 to TVhatcora. TTash.. their prewnt home. ld h,erotae fi'and ut nittiF and Mrs. Hlgglnson was fond of outdoor sports. ! strongly as real people, whose hopes and and the woods were a continual and ever- fears and lovea are genuine and of ab fresh attraction to her. This is apparent sorbing interest Ralph Hazell. ex-Army in her books, for her intimate association I officer, unhappily married, goes to Aus wlth Nature is one of the charms cf her tralia to live down his sorrows, and there writing. She is described as of fragile , meets Avis Fletcher, an English girl, who appearance, light brown hair, grayish- has also gone to this far-off colony to blue eyes and strong features. Her man- I forget her troubles. That they meet Is MRS. ELLA ner is frank, but rather reserved. Her husband Is an Eastern mas. though eince their .marriage they have lived en Puget Sound. Prlatltive Love. "Primitive Love and Love Stories." by Henry T. FInck. contains a vast amount of valuable information on love, marriage and the marital habits of peoples of all ages and all degrees of savagery and of semi-enlightenment History and romance and poetry and prose, have been made to give up their contributions. Folk-lore is drawn upon, and there are many love stories of a primitive character, told Xcept araoss most highly developed and " i'"uu,V:, .'. Small. Maynard & Co.. Boston.) briefly and effectively. TVhile certain por- i iX'x"' -"." - --t -a.w tions of the book bring it distinctively under the head of erotic literature for BOOK XOTES. private libraries only, the- author treats , KcatucUy ncmp TMda the Scexse of the subject with all possible delicacy, and i -!. x-n.i a high purpos eis apparent all through the J , . ., , , work. ! J2"" Ine Allen, in his "Reign of Briefly, to sum np his argument it is . Law," which will be published by the Mac that love is a composite and variable sen- miUan Company, is the first author to lay tlment and not -a rimple feeling, and that the scene of a novel in the hemp fields of love amomr all Drimltiva tvodIm and ex- Kentuekv. The period of the story Is STiri-H CvIM ffim;sn?&.,3?r ft- r'JSvSS'j JaZ?! civilized organizations, has always beer and Is always based either on the natural inclination to perpetuate the species, or the absolute, celfish holding of women a property, for their use as slaves or breed ers. Altruistic love, which is the only truly romantic love and whleb finds its satisfaction in the happiness cf the loved one, is he tells us. rare. Charles Scrib- ner & Sons New- York.) Flower-Boolc of Intimate Knowledge "Nature's Garden," by NeltJe Blancban, the reader to much more than a botan nlcai knowledge of it The flower becomes a living, almost a human, thing. The book contains SO full-page Illustrations, photographed directly from the flowers themselves a collection of flower-pictures that were neer before procurable except at a great eost (Doubleday, Page & Co., New Torft) A Woman's Pari. "A "TYbman's Paris" is Intended for the use of the American lady who is about to go to Paris, and who wishes while she Is there, to quote the author's preface, "to do the agreeable things there areto do, and to avoid the disagreeable things there are not to do." The author is an American woman, who knows her Paris, and who has tried to take up, systematic ally but readably and enterialningtly, the Questions of living, servants, cabs. I churches and theaters. snopptng, aress- j makers, sports, prices arid a dozen other have the best and pleacantest experience possible. The book Is illustrated, and con. tains as a kind of appendix, chapters on the Exposition and on "Fair" prices. iSmall. Maynard & Co., Boston.) Henrts Importunate. "Hearts Importunate," by Evelyn Dick inson, is a story of Australian life, with lf4 1ns1 Mnlnv n nrr llfTIftOTTS HIGGINSOX. a result of fate, and that there Is a union Is the happy conclusion of much woe. (Longmans, Green & Co., New Tork.) At Stnrt and Finish. Most of the stories in "At Start and Finish." by "mHiara Lindsay, were in cluded la a former bock. "Cinder Path Tales." now out of print To these the author has prefixed a now story, "Old England and New England." The princi pal story Is a description of the interna tional collegiate contest near London be tween Oxford and Cambridge on the oni side and Harvard and Tale on tee other. around 1S63. The chief characters are a w " wimiF wi9i BnA -rminc vaman. TkA lA.t- I ter is & very child of the Civil War. and adapts herself to the- new eandhloas of social liberty. The youth also develops, but along the lines of religiaa and scien tific thought. Thus these" two characters, each" a child of a revolution, finally meet, and the latter half of the story shows their influences upon each other. The young woman represents the passage from the highest social organization to the ob scurest and hardest manual work. The young man represents the passage from the lowest social condition to the highest intellectual plane. Sir. Allen's love for the Kentucky landscape Is evident throughout the book. Even ono who is interested in outdoor life or Nature study will be glad to learn that Frank M. Cnapman, the well-known ornithologist and writer, whose books upon birds have become standard authorities, is completing a new work to be entitled "Bird Studies "With a Camera." Mr. Chap man's success in photographing live birds has not been equaled, and the numerous il lustrations which ha has obtained for his new book are said to be of peculiar In terest and value. "Bird Studies "With a Camera" will be published by D. Apple ton & Company, who are the publishers of Mr. Chapman's "Bird-Life" and "Hand book of Birds of Eastern North America." "The Hotel de Rambou'.llet and the Pre cleuses" Is the 41tle of a forthcoming book by Leon &. Vincent, whose Blbliotaph delighted book-lovers a year or two ago. His latest book Is a bright and entertain ing sketch of the establishment and influ ence of the famous predeuse movement and the women who established It. after ward mads the subject of Mollere's com edy. The dramatist had in mind not the men. and women who gave the establish ment a beginning and endowed the move ment with vitality, but those who else where degraded and caricatured Its high ideals. The book will be published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The Bible and the Book of Common Prayer have supplied titles for Miss John ston's novels. "To Have and to Hold" at once recalls the noble marriage service of the English Church and foreshadows the felicitous outcome of the story. "Pris oners of Hope." her earlier book, found Its tide in the Old Testament and cornea from a. verse of the book of Zechariah. It might be Inferred from these clrcum stances'thatMlss Johnston Is both a Bible readar and a Churchworaan. Ethan Allen Is one of the most conspic uous figures in "A Danvis Pioneer." by Rowland E. Koblnson, whose faculty of portraying the romance of life In the woods and mountains has been fully proved by his several previous volumes. "A Danvis Pioneer" is the story of a brave and simple settler of what is now Ver mont The territory was secured only af ter a struggle for possession with the "Yorkers" as well as with Indians, and this struggle so little antedated the Revo lution that the raising of the company known as the Green Mountain Boys and their part In that struggle for liberty form much of the rarrative. A Danvis Pioneer" contains a love story, full of ro mantic touches, which recounts the trials of the young settler and his act of su preme self-sacrifice to shield bis o'd friend's young daughter. He does not miss his Teward, and the wrorklng out of this recompense constitutes the romantic charm of the narrative. THE MAGAZINES. American Poller in the Far East a Help to China. A very timely article on "The United States and the Future of China," by Hon. William "Woodville Rockhlll, is found in the May Forum. The author, who Is well qualified from his diplomatic experience In China, to write on the subject, shows how the present policy of the TJnlted States in the East affords to China the oportunlty she has long needed. The un fettered political position of the TJnlted States In the East has enabled her to do for her commerce, and Incidentally for that of the world, what no one of the so called treaty powers could have done without complications, and as a result of the declarations obtained from the powers by the United States, China Is af forded an opportunity of a thorough In ternal reorganization- The Engineering Magazjno for May has three articles dealing with the Important issues Involved In tho present and threat ened labor troubles In the United States. They are "Labor Questions in Englant and America." by Charles Buxton Going, drawing a striking parallel between Amer ican conditions In 1900 and those prevailing In Great Britain in 1SS7, and pointing the certain lessons of the great English en gineering strike! "Manufacturers' Asso ciations, Labor Organizations and Arbi tration," by H. TV. Hoyt an able presen tation of the possibilities and duties of a federation of manufacturers; and "Works Organization for Maximum Production," by J. Slater Lewis, tracing the Influence of trade-unions in affecting manufacturing costs and output, and summarizing the enormous advantage, o employes as well as employers, which has sprung from the settlement of England's labor troubles in 1SSS. The leading article In Appleton's Popu lar Science Monthly for May gives a very clear and interesting account of "The Comlqg Total Eclipse of the Sun" of May 2S. It is fully illustrated with maps and diagrams. Professor F. H. BIgelow, the author. Is tho profeseor of meteorology at the United States Weather Bureau at Washington. Controller Bird 3: Coler gives an account of the 'finances of New Tork City under the title of "The Most Expensive City in the World." He shows very clearly that lis money Is recklessly wasted and Indicates many departments in which economy might be practiced without at all lowering their efficiency. Among the timely articles in the Century for May is an essay by Andrew Carne gie entitled "Popular Illusions About Trusts" Thfe writer contends that the popular welfare is increased by trusts; also," that such aggregations of productive capital are usually short-lived. "The only people who have reason to fear trusts," he eays, "are those who trust them." An editorial in the same number entitled "The Real Danger of. Trusts," while agreeing with Mr. Carnegie as to the material ad vantages of such combinations, seta forth wherein they are a menace to the inde pendence of the individual and the stale. Bret Harte's inimitable story, "How Reuben Allen Saw Life in Trlsco," heads the dhort fiction in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for May. Egerton Castle's dash ing "Bath Comedy" scars its climax. Oth er contributions in the current number of this, magazine- are: "Women in Club Life." by Jennie June Croly; "May Parties Here abouts." by Rosalie Mereler; "Bird Mlm ie. and Others," by J. Oliver Nugent; and verse by Frank L. Stanton. E. Paul ine Johnson, Ruth Reld, Ralcy Husted Bell, Jennie Betts Hartswick, Florence M, Metcalfe and Harold Bolce. Governor Rooievelt'a familiar faea and figure form the frontispiece cf St Nicho las for May, the first article therein being from his pen "What We Can Expect of the American Boy." In this esry Colonel Roosevelt distinguishes between moral and physical courage, and maintains that both forms are necessary to a complete and rounded character. Incidentally he praises Kipling's "Captains Courageous" and de plores his "Stalky & Co." In McClure's Magazine for May Pro feseor Dean C Worcester, of the Philip pine Commission, gives an account of General Lawton and his last campaigns as Professor Worcester came to know them in the course of his intimate asso ciation with Lawton in the Philippines. The article is illustrated with a series of portraits of Lawton and other pictures. Under the title "The Ancient Hebrew People," Dr. Lyman Abbott begins, in the May magazine number of the Outlook, a series of articles about the life and liter ature of tho Hebrews In Old Testament Times. Subject and treatment will make this one of the most Important books, when finished, from Dr. Abbott's pen. A feature of the June Woman's Home Companion will be a paper by the famous opera tenor, Ernest Van Dyck, who tella of h!s career, vocal training and various experiencee on the. stage. 3MUSiCi The Tuncfal Tener. A city clerk, brimful of sons. "Was moat unlucky wight; He .thought It was a grievous wrong In ledger lines to write. This youth who bent o'er poad'rous torae, A manly tenor he. Although perforce be stayed at home. His thoughts were far at CI At last the "boards" he pressed Tet sadly failed to please. And why? Though pleasure filled hla breast His voice was ill at Es. TV. Ironside in Hondon Musical Opinion. GRAU IN SAN FRANCISCO Grand Opera Season Opens There Xovember lit Why Hot a Pert land Season. Also? The news that San Francisco will have a three weeks season of grand opera by the Gran company early in November, when the rerular American season will ! be Inaugurated, will doubtless be greeted with mingled feelings of jealousy and envy by Portland people. The organization, numbering 22S people, will, according to Maurice Grau's announcement, arrive in New Tork from Europe October Zl. and will come to San Francisco by special train, opening November 12 at Morosco's Grand Opera House. The citbs outside of San Francisco which will be visited by this company, according to the present schedule, says Music and Drama, are: Los Angeles, two nights: Salt Lake, one; Denver, two; Kansas City, two; Lincoln, one, and between St Paul and Minneap olis three nights. The company will then return to New Tork for the regular sea son at the Metropolitan, where English as well as Italian performances will be given during the Winter of 1S00 and 1301. In stating that San Francisco has had no grand opera season since the Tamagno Pattl Company appeared 10 years ago, Mr. Grau ignores the Melba season of a little over a year ago. For the arrangement by which the performances of the Grau Com pany are to be enjoyed, the people of this Coast are largely indebted to Manager Alfred Bouvler. Are there not enough music-lovers in Portland who would patronize the Grau Opera Company to make it worth the while of this company to visit our city? At least an effort should be" made to bring about this desirable result It is doing an injustice to our constantly Increasing en thusiasm for the highest forms of musical art thus to Ignore us as a community in favor of cities that are perhaps, musical ly, of less Importance than Portland. It is not yet too late to add this city to the list of places to be visited. By all means let the effort be made. BEETHOVEN'S SECOXD SY3IPHOXY. "Written "Before Composer Soul "Was Stirred by Sorroiv. Beethoven's Second Symphony, which Is to be given by tho Symphony Orchestra this week, was completed in the year 1E02, the composer then being in the 32d year of his age- The first sketches for this symphony were found In his notebook, which was edited and published some years since. It Is evidence of the care which Beethoven bestowed upon his w ork that the sketches for it occupy 11 pages of the book, and we have the further tes timony of Cipriani Potter that he wrote three complete scores before he was sat isfied. When finished It was dedicated to Prince Llehnowskl, and was first heard at the Theatre au der WIen (Vienna), April 5. 1S03. The Second Symphony shows ua the composer in the normal condWon of a man at peace with himself and the world, happy in his art and not yet stirred to his very soul by the sorrows of life. It begins with an Introductory adagio. The sturdy opening on a hold on D, In uni son by the v. hole orchestra is at once fol lowed by an exquisite phrase for the oboe and bassoon. Similar contrasts prevail until the opening of the allegro con brio in -t-4 time. The theme Is given out by the 'cellos, and in the repeat the bassos softly join them The last part of the motive is somewhat emphasized by repeating the step of a third on quarter notes to a connecting melody In the winds, until the strings take up the theme, and carrying It up into the seventh, enlarge the scope for a sweeping violin figure, which, with a pronounced staccato phrase eervos qs a connection with the second theme. Konc More Jubilant. This theme is scarcely inferior In its Jubilant expression to any similar outburst In Bethoven's later works. The finale of the Fifth Symphony may have a more impetuous rush, but we have here the same joyous spirit, exulting in Its youth and strength. This feeling is intensified In the repeat by a trill-like figure in the violins, apparently trembling with excite ment to break Into the fortissimo of the second half of the theme, until, after a number of abrupt chords fortissimo, the full orchestra, stops on a diminished sev enth chord, followed by a three-quarter's rest, during which the question naturally ..am Iwm .Vm .m!v.9 f 4Va hf.a. vw I next?" We aTe in expectation of some craehing resolution, when a. soft murmur I CLiiSS i fciu tlltll'l V. fc.. .uc3. f . l.b iii i . I - . - .-.--, -i i . .,.,,...- iJi MARCELLA SEMBRICH. fr3a-tiie jttliipnrtrifceg, the ear. and sot until after & crescendo of eight measures are we gratified with & satisfactory clos ing. The cloee is exceedingly hold, the tbaase-s rlelns la' a slow chromatic scale throughout 9ft octave from D to D. the vlellns trying to counterbalance it by an other extreme, of gigantjc strides. Th& movement ends with a feeling of exulting Joy and happiness. The larghetto in A major. 3-8 time. Is one of the loveliest slow movements Bee thoven ever wrote, and Is a special favor ite In th concert-roem. The opening theme given out by the strings an re peated by the winds, la a flowing eanll lena. of exceeding beauty, uninterrupted by any ataccata. Even the syncopations in the violins have a coaxing character, rather than the sp'rit of stubbornness. The second phrase, with its endearing half-step, only intenrfflea the general feel ing expressed in the first A long dia logue follows between two lovers, which hardly needs musical quotation to. be thoroughly understood by the attentive listener. It is one of those grateful feats of genius that captivates the casual hear er a3 much by ita perfect beauty aa It delights the student who investlgatesthe means "by which" such perfect expression of a lovely sentiment is obtained. A Three Note Motive. The scherzo here appears under its own name, and is In the key of D, S-t time. It is built upon the ehort motive of three notes repeated over andr over again, first by the bassos, then by the Violins, and ?soin hy the horns, after which the oboes uim n xccc?cTa, at uiio uuia iuiiujiiuu and again piano, but ever tripping along staccato until the violins in the second part Indulge in a temporary sweep of de scending scale, followed by a reminder of the leading figure of the first allegro. The three- note motive, however, soon stops such vagaries, and barring a short chro matic phrase, carries the day. The trio begins with a short phrase for oboes and bassoons, played twice, and end- Ing In D. The violins, as if vexed by the liberty the winds have taken In appro priating IS measures to themselves, follow with a determined stroke on the third (F sharp); and as it bent on destroying any pleasant impression that the winds might have left, turn the note Into the tonic of the chord of F sharp, eventually quieting down on the same F sharp, thus preparing the way for a more socIaT fueling among all the instruments of the orchestra during the remainder of the trie. The finale allegro moito. In D major, expresses the same happy mood that characterizes the preceding movements. The opening motive 13 thoroughly charac teristic of Beethoven, and for piquancy has few rivals among the composer's works. The close is worked out into a code of considerable length, starting from two successive holds with a new rhythmic figure, which however soon merges Into the general whirl of joyous mirth that pervades the whole movement Upton's History of the Symphonies. Knelsel Qnartet at Wanamaker'i. John Wanamaker, having secured the agency for a well-known piano firm In New Tork as well as Philadelphia, went about to convince the populace that a de partment store man could do things on a scale as elegant as the next fellow. Hav ingscnt out several hundred engraved in vitations to people of quality, he engaged the famous Knelsel Quartet; Suzanne Adams, of the Grau Opera Company; Mme. Antoinette Szumowska, the pianist; John Cheshire, harpist; Gustav Dannreu- ther, violinist, and Max Lelbllng, accom panist, to give a concert in the art gal lery of his store on Broadway. These well-known artists gave a delightful con cert, which was heard by an audience of fashion. Symphony Concert Programme. Following is the entire programme of the. Symphony orchestra for Wednesday's concert at the Marquam Grand Theater: Beethoven Adagio moito. allegro con brio. Larghetto. Scherzo, allegro. Allegro moito. "Largo" Handel Waltzes "On the Beautiful Blue Dan ube" Strauss Intermission 10 minutes. Paraphrase "Lorelei" Nesvadba Wolfram's prize song, from "Tann- hauser" Wagner Mr. Paul Weesinger. Overture "Don Juan" Mozart MhsIc Chair at Wellesley. It is understood that Mr. John H. Ma son, of New Tork, has been asked wheth- er he would consider a call to the pro fessorship of music at Wellesley College. It is the intention of tlL Wellesley fac ulty to supply the dps Jm.ent of music with such assistants and facilities as shall insure its development on the lines fol lowed out under Professor Albert A. Stan ley at Ann Arbor and Mr. George C. Gow at Vassar College. Emille Frances Bauer Coming, The friends of Miss Emilia Frances Bauer will be glad to learn that she is expected to arrive in Portland about June 1. to spend the Summer. On her way West ehe will stop for a week's visit In Chicago and for another in St Paul. At the end of the Summer she will re turn to Boston to begin her regular Fall classes In mudc Temporary Change. Miss Agnes Watt has been compelled, through ill-health, to give up her work temporarily in the choir of the Unitarian Church, and has one to Hood River to recuperate. During her absence her place as soprano soloist will be filled by Miss IVelguth. MARCELLA SEMBRICH MOST WOMANLY "WOMAJf OX TKH ORERAT1C STAGE. Slietcli of Her Career She. GlvearAd vlce on. Ideal Training of a Singer. .ii. By many ,musicians Madame Marcella. Sembrich Is considered the' greatest sing er of the as$ ranking abpve AdellnaPattl or Jenny Llnd. For years no musical critic in Europe or America has uttered a word of censure against her. "She is above criticism," is the universal com ment She has sung in every celebrated opera-house in "the world. Emperors, kings and queens have showered costly presents upon her, and felt honored by her singing for them privately. But this flood of praise has not In the least turned the head of the great . singer. She is known as "the most womanly woman on the operatic stage." Her home-life is ideal. She and her husband. Herr W helm Stengel, who accompanies her in her tours, are so happy In each other that their companionship is Idyllic Her career has been most remarkable a strange Intermingling of romance and genius. At 5 years of age she played the piano. At 6 she began studying the vio lin. At 11 she was sent to Lemberg to study under a certain Herr Stengel, a well-known teacher of the nlano. A vear later she went to Epstein, of Vienna, and continued the study of music, but after three years suddenly dIscoered she had a voice. She at once began training it, and In 1S77. when only 15 years of age, made her debut In Athens as Elvira In "I Puritan!." In the meantime Herr Stengel had not, for an instant forgotten his bril liant and lovable pupil. Shortly after her debut he asked for her hand and heart and finally his efforts were successful. $150O a Night. Madame Sembrich is now 39 years of age. She made her. first American tour in 1SS4; came last year as the leading so prano singer of the Grau Opera Company, and returned this season In the same ca pacity. Her voice Is about two and a half octaves In compass from lower C to F In alt It Is of such crystalline purity it seems to emanate from a spirit rather than a. per son of flesh and blood. She receives fifteen hundred dollars for every appearance In grand opera. She modestly attributes her success to hard work and constant prac tice. At the farewell concert recently given by the grand opera stars at the Metropolitan, New Tork, Sembrich's singing of the mad scene, from "Lucia di Lammermoor." though it came aftfr midnight., was the oc casion for an ovation such as is seldom ac corded a singer even by enthusiastic Americans. AH records seem to have been broken, possibly because it was realized that Sembrich Is not to be with the com pany next year; since she will sing only in concert when she returns In the fall. She was almost buried under red roses. Women tore the flowers out of their gowns and threw them on the stage, men tossed their hats in the air, and for a time things looked as they might at a political conven tion when a stampede Is made for a favor ite candidate. A dozen times she vanished behind the scents only to be recalled. In a recent Interview, Sembrich gave some plain, sensible advice as to the ideal training of a twentieth century singer: "I can tell you what my course would be with a young girl of whom I was anxious to make a great singer," she says in the Ladles Home Journal. "It Is not likely, in the first place, that I would discover be fore, she was fourteen or fifteen years old whether or not she really possessed a voice. It would only then be possible to tell if she had the capacity for the career, for without a voice of sufficient caliber and quality nothing can be accomplished.. Urges Piano Study. "If I Intended to make a girl ready for a prima donna's career I should begin early to make a musician of her. Nothing else Is of such assistance to a woman who wants to become a singer as a thorough mastery of some musical Instrument My first intentions were to become a virtuoso of the piano, and therefore I devoted my self to a thorough and exhaustive study of that instrument, which it Is scarcely to be expected that any woman merely in tending to become a singer would do. But nothing In my entire career has proved of such value to me as the sound musician chip that I acquired then: so I would put at the piano as soon as she was old enough any girl in whose future I was Interested. She should learn that thoroughly, or if she preferred the other instrument, it would do her just as much good to learn the vio lin. Her early years should be passed In acquiring knowledge of these instruments. If she should fail to do that, and fall to take any interest In them. I should be very doubtful for her future as a singer. "Even If her voice had begun te develop at the age of 12 or 13, she should not at 15 take more than the most casual practice, singing simple scales and avoiding any exercise that might fatigue her or damage the fresh quality of her tones. I should take her to some teacher in whom I had confidence, and see that her voles was properly placed, as that is the one thing absolutely vital to a singer's succefn. My voice was not properly placed at first, so I jeturixltTltSly and'studied for eighteen months forfgeVto remedy that defect after I had already devoted three years to study and was ready to make my debut She Mnst Help Herself. "When her voice Is once well placed, and her production of It, as we say. Is so per fect that every phase of her natural gifts Is revealed more depends upon her than on anv teacher in the world. By that time she will know all that will be taught to her in the way of exercises and: prac tice. She knows better what she needs than any other person in the world. If she cannot recognize her deficiencies and adapt her knowledge to remedy ing them, nobody will ever be able to do It for her. And most im portant of all things is to see that her, teacher in the first place poses her voica (as the technical expression Is) in the right way. It would be Impossible for anybody to say what the right way Is. as every particular case is different It Is enough, to say generally that it is the way which, shows off her voice to the best advantage. After that time the singer must depend upon herself. The knowledge that she his acquired, her own musical feeling, and her intelligence must help her. "I should make no particular rules 'of health for a girl who was singing. Gcod health is the same for everybody, ani I should merely look after her as I wculd any child. After she had become a singer. or had begun to study even, there night be certain things it would be necessar for her to do, but at first It would be Impor tant only to be as much as posslblelike every other healthy, sound-minded mild; and if she followed the same rules through. the rest of her life her condition would be all right" Siegfried Wagner as Condacto Siegfried Wagner has beenin Pans ion- ducting the Colonne Orchestra in his father's works, at the Chatelet. for the last two Sundays. Opinions differ a to his being a great conductor, but the pro grammes were "well selected and artisti cally given, as was an overture of his jwn composition. He certainly has not Jthe genlua of his father as a composer, but possibly will make a greater conductor. Although feted very much, and taker! to call on the Minister of Public Instructpn, he did not receive a 'French decoration, and left Paris with only a signed phu- graph of the Minister. V