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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.
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