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JOHN SAUL'S CATALOGUE OF PLANTS for the spring of 1881. A descriptive list of new, rare, and beautiful plants, Crotons, Dracaenas, etc., etc., with prices. John Saul, Nurseryman' Washington, D. C.

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I

T is not many years since America was deemed by foreigners rude and incapable of appreciating fine music; and the sweet singers and master-instrumentalists of Italy, Germany, and France glanced disdainfully from their places of popularity and profit in the old art-centers of the Continent toward the young nation of the West. "Those Americans," it was said, "are unrefined, and it will be very long before they can understand the beauty and delicacy of a Mozart, a Beethoven, or a Chopin." Only twentyfive or thirty years ago, it was regarded a perilous undertaking for a manager to invite a celebrated musician to our shores; but Mr. Barnum was found bold enough to invite Jenny Lind to the American stage, and at great expense afford citizens of several of our leading cities the opportunity of hearing her magnificent voice. The great success of the Swedish Nightingale's" visit revealed the fact to foreign artists that in some parts of the United States, at least, there was sufficient esthetic culture to make them a new and desirable field; and then began vocalists, pianists, violinists, etc., to visit us, and their number has rapidly increased, until Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and other cities, have their regular operatic seasons, with concerts or musical festivals, which enliven the greater part of the year. Indeed, musical culture has so rapidly advanced, particularly in New York, that the tables have been turned, as it were; and out of our own circles have sprung musicians, whose talents and acquirements have won the admiring plaudits of the best European audiences. Not long since an English critic took occasion to say that the leading English concert singers of to-day are Americans, and the principal Italian prime donne of the lyric stage come from America.

Whether this be precisely so or not, the fact is palpable to him who will take

the trouble to examine into musical affairs, that the number of highly gifted native singers in this country is very large, comparing well with those abroad. Furthermore, the facilities for instruction at home have improved to that degree that it is no longer considered indispensable for one who intends to make music his or her profession to study in Europe, although a tour abroad, with its advantages for observation and comparison, is always a desirable addition to a course of technical training.

The small group of portraits at the head of this article will be recognized by the music-loving reader as drawn from those of our vocalists whose names are frequently seen or heard when high lyric capability and a successful career are topics of discussion. Of the four, Miss Clara Louise Kellogg should properly be considered first, as her excellence as a singer was recognized by the public long before the others won its applause. To say that she possesses a superior physical organization is almost surplusage, because a good constitution and high temperamental endowment are essential to superior artistic capacity; and a singer, especially, must have a strong physical basis for the maintenance of the vocal organs in that condition of harmonious vigor which is essential to the perfect execution of fine music.

Miss Kellogg's profile, and what of the head is available for observation, indicate delicacy, earnestness, ambition, and a good degree of practical judgment. While sensitive and spirited, she is, nevertheless, endowed with firmness enough to control her emotions, and patience enough to abide the result of events. She is not a creature of impulse and susceptibility, as many of the finest singers are inclined to be, but holds her feelings under good control, and has a capital understanding of herself. Her intellect exhibits a fair balance of perception and