ENNY LIND. of pleasing and gratifying the increasing patrons and readers of the ECLECTIC them the portraits of distinguished personages and celebrities in eminent positions as an embellishment to our Journal of this month, a portrait of Jenny Lind, whose Id-wide; and to one so well known as "The Swedish Nightingale," we need only al sketch.] adame Goldschmidt,) | time at the Opera House, London, as , 1821, in the city of Alice in Meyerbeer's opera of "Roberto er father was a teach- il Diavolo," and received the enthusiastic 1 her mother kept a plaudits of an audience crowded to exadies. Her musical cess. She became the star of the season, sweet voice attracted filling the house with similar audiences on yet very young, and every night of her appearance. She afion as a pupil into the terward sang in the provinces, and was where her progress in again engaged for the following season was extremely rapid in London. She also sang at concerts t the age of ten years and oratorios. Her concluding performon the stage as a per- ance in London was on the 9th of May, haracters, and contin- 1849, in "Roberto il Diavolo;" after - in vaudevilles with which she returned to Germany, and while Dout her twelfth year, at Lübeck entered into an engagement es of her voice became with Mr. Barnum, the American specuwas deemed advisable lator, to sing in America. She landed at m the stage. After New-York in September 1850. The apfour years her voice plause which she received there and in recovered its tone, as other cities and towns of the United power, and when she States was quite as great as it had been ce as Agatha in the in Europe. In June, 1851, she concluded schutz," she excited her engagement with Mr. Barnum, and ion. She was engaged commenced a series of concerts on her kholm, and continued own account. In the same year, Miss favorite for three or Lind was married to M. Otto Goldschmidt, › removed to Paris in a skilful performer on the piano-forte. self by taking lessons Madame Goldschmidt returned with her ebrated singing-mast- husband to Europe in 1852. She has g about a year in Pa- since lived partly in retirement, but has ed to Meyerbeer, who appeared occasionally at concerts in Vi› opera in Berlin. It enna and elsewhere in Germany, and also d advisable to make in England in the winter of 1855-56. Her rials before German voice is a soprano, with a compass of nearreturned for a short ly two octaves and a half. The upper to complete her en- notes especially are very clear, delicious e repaired in August in tone, flexible, and perfectly at her comhere Meyerbeer was mand. Her acting was also very perfect, er performing a few particularly in such characters as Amina 1 great success, in the in "La Sonnambula," Susanna in "Le attended the fêtes on Nozze di Figaro," Alice in "Roberto il the King of Prussia Diavolo," and several others. The prind sang at Frankfurt vate life of this most celebrated of vocalhe following winter ists has always furnished a high example in, where she excited of moral elevation; but her munificent ism, as well as subse- charities, of which England has received where she made her abundantly, have produced a love and April 1846. On the veneration for her character as warm as appeared for the first the admiration of her professional talents. From the Building News. NEW HOUSE O F PARLIAMENT. the internal portions of the balance, and the latter has a sheathed now completed, and the upper sword in her left hand, and an olive branch, he Victoria and Clock towers emblematical of peace, in her right. The ng externally, as rapidly as the figure of the Queen is 8 feet. high, and those low and the hazardous nature on each side upwards of 7 feet. each. The is will admit of. The scaffold- whole are carved from the purest blocks erected to its full height for of statuary marble that the quarries of of the crowning portions of Carrara could afford, and, as a great work at the angles of the former of ideal sculpture, deserves great praise. he roof of the latter is nearly The back of the throne on which the In the interior, the Peers' Queen sits is surrounded by lions, exnow finished, and is a perfect pressive of British strength and courage. tectural design in the style of In front of the footstool are sea-horses, composed. The spandrils be- emblematic of dominion on the ocean, and bs of the groining of the roof inserted in panels on the three sides of the olored blue, of the richest ul- pedestal are bassi relievi of Commerce, and are studded with golden Science, and the useful arts, having in the lieve the quiet light and shade background, in faint relief, the steam-endings of the roof, which are gine, the wires of the electric telegraph, usly left in one color-that of and other representations of useful obself. The bosses, clasping the jects. rsections of the ribs, are emith emblazoned shields, surth foliage in great variety. corridor, leading directly to Lords, is now also completed. this communicating passage ed of a pointed arch, the form peculiar to the Tudor period, ed into compartments, having ss inserted in them, which has leasing effect, and serves also corridor very effectually. ince's chamber very great ade been made. Mr. Gibson's up, representing her Majesty toria enthroned, having been osition under one of the princion one side of the room, and is y finished. The Queen is retting on a throne, holding the her right hand, and from her pended a laurel wreath. The s supported on the right by a stice, and on the left by Clemformer holds the sword and Around the walls, in panels prepared for them, eight of Mr. Theed's beautiful works have been fixed, together with two paintings of Edward VI., and Mary in the larger panels above them. The former are exquisite productions of the sculptor's art, and have been successively electrotyped in bronze from the original models. The subjects comprehend respectively, "Edward VI. signing the Charter for Christ's Hospital," "Lady Jane Grey," "Bastion Carbot," "Catherine of Aragon appealing to Henry VIII.," Sir "Walter Raleigh spreading the Cloth for Queen Elizabeth," the "Death of Sir Philip Sydney," "Queen Mary looking back on France," and the "Murder of David Rizzio in the presence of Mary Queen of Scots." The two paintings to which we have adverted are stiff, elaborate, and Holbeinish in their character, and by having a somewhat deep plinth at bottom, somewhat destroy the effect and proportion of the oblong panels in which they were placed. HE LAST MOMENTS OF NERO.-MISCELLANIES. LAST MOMENTS OF ed that he had a masthe table at which he dashed to pieces his stal glasses, called for ich he was afraid to ed into the Servilian on what he should do hin his sleeping-room, e night; and when at that his guards had m, but had carried off ontaining the poison, overing of his bed, he to the Tiber, where the bank, and slowly It was then, baresed as he was, that he y the faithful Phaon, ver his shoulders, tied about his head, hoistvretch on to a horse, ard a country-house danger of discovery, andoned their horses, thickets, brakes, by and at length reached the desired asylum. the Emperor were y, despite the care wn by his friend to n the ground for the upon. Phaon asked self for a while in a ro declared that it e a grave, and he was be buried alive. He all, picked the burrs is dress, drank from and a few drops of er the thought of the to imbibe of boiled in in snow. He was TERARY NERO. [June, at length got into the house, where he turned away in disgust from the piece of brown bread which was offered him-his last banquet; drank again a little lukewarm water, flung himself on an old flock bed, and cursed his destiny. They who surrounded him counseled him to make an end quickly; and thereupon he had a grave made before him to his exact measure. He ordered sundry preparations to be made for his funeral, commanded water for the washing of his body, wood for the pile, expressed a hope that they who survived him would allow his head to remain on his body, and he then burst into an agony of tears at the thought, as he said, of what a clever fellow the world was about to lose: "Qualis artifex pereo!" was his exclamation. It was not his only one. He cited lines from various Greek and Latin authors as applicable to his situ ation; and when reproached for dallying so long before he put himself to death, very appositely and naturally inquired if any one present was willing to show him the way by setting him the example. He then made a few more pedantic quotations, and finally, with trembling hands, put the dagger to his throat. He would have held it there long enough had it not been for Epaphroditus, who grasped his hands and forced the weapon into his throat. The terror of the ex-monarch was fixed on his features after death. But even he had friends; five thousand crowns were expended on his funeral pile, on which his body was laid in a splendid silk coverlet. A couple of his old nurses collected his ashes, and an Imperial concubine accompanied them in the task of solemnly depositing the remains in the tomb of the Domitii. MISCELLANIES. Pastor's Note-Book. By uthor of CHRIST IN HIS OTLAND, ETC. New-York: Boston: Gould & Liniggs & Co. 1857. Pp. 342. 0. ion of Robert Turnbull as arantee that a book from his pen is worth having and worth reading, because written to improve the mind and mend the heart in the best sense. The life pictures in this volume comprise thirteen graphic moral paintings, whose lineaments stand out in bold relief to the eye of the mind, so as to be seen and felt by reflection on the retina of the heart. The main object of the book seems to be, so to throw the strong light of vivid experimental truth in its burn doubt, sk flee away brooding with this c service, an hope will those who GRACE TI Mrs. Sa Blakema Louis: V 1857. Pp. THIS is no preface, but plunge wedding; is the gra stories, reli ducts the r in life's jo imbued wit in which is discussed. book-a so graved exp of her own expressing frauk, outs mand, and suaviter in CHILDHOO EVERTS. 115 Nas WE not new book, is the prop young. and he pe to the sto training t activities tality in t Everts fit divided i trated by earth-th forcibly life. Th metropoli hood, miniatur encounte C. S. second notations preface, down, fro cured to to make which rel duced to tion of th myself of offering s took the notes I h explanati volume is nbeams upon the gloomy clouds of n, and infidelity, as to make them minds over which they have been rds of night. In this regard, and in view, the author has done a good e a good and useful book, which we ad by all skeptical minds, and by ot so. ; OR, LOVE AND PRINCIPLE. By R. FORD. New-York: Sheldon, D. Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co. St. a Crowell: Louisville: Kirk & Clark. With a portrait of the Author. k of twenty-four chapters. It has eliminary remarks or introduction; nce in medias res. It begins with a , in the estimation of most persons, macteric of human life, and of all romantic, or otherwise; and conthrough various scenes and phases till its final close. The book is strong religious element, prominent mode of baptism, which is freely volume seems to be the author's first first love, and judging from the enn of her countenance, she has a mind d intends to use it energetically in iews of religion and of life, in that language which she seems to comently sparkle, fortiter in re, if not PROMISE AND TRAINING. By W. W. v-York: Sheldon, Blakeman & Co., reet. 1857. Pp. 271. A NEW KIND OF FORAGE.-Prince Schwartzenberg has lately made successful experiments in some of his farms for converting the leaves of the ash-tree into forage for cows. About fifty pounds of the leaves were, in October last, arranged in a tub with alternate layers of salt, and kept covered until the beginning of March, when they were taken out, mixed with chopped rye-straw, and given to the cows. new food appeared so palatable to them that they would select the leaves with the greatest avidity, leaving the straw untouched. The leaves were then given to them without any mixture, and were eaten with the same relish. The MIRAGE. The curious phenomenon of mirage was lately witnessed at Simand, near Arad, in Hungary, when St Martin, a village three miles distant, became distinctly visible to the astonished inhabitants of the former place; so distinctly, indeed, that not only the houses, but also the people walking in the streets, could be distinguished, all of colossal size. The inscriptions on the tombstones of the Jewish cemetery thirty-five minutes, and then faded away. The ig were perfectly legible. The apparition lasted about norant multitude interpreted it as a sign of the end of the world, which they confidently expect to take place on the 13th of June. THE ELM DESTROYER.-This insect, known to naturalists under the name of Scolytes destructor, is a most dangerous enemy to the chief ornament of public walks. It is a small beetle, scarcely two lines in length, and is generated under the bark, which it undermines in every direction, thus causing the death of the tree by intercepting the circulation of the sap. Most of the fine elms of the Champs Elysées are ravaged by this insect, and means are now being resorted to save them from certain destruction, by peeling off the old bark. Dr. E. Robert one of the members of the Commission Scientifique du Nord, has, by numerous experiments, ascertained that the whole cortical system may be regenerated by this method. The larvæ contained in the bark are thus removed, and the insects in their perfect state destroyed. pleasure the publication of any written and digested, whose object gious and physical training of the the twig is bent the tree's inclined;" a good and useful service who adds knowledge as to the best mode of ng of our species for the duties and In this world, and a glorious immort. The pastoral experiences of Mr. o write such a book, which he has DEATH OF H. R. H. THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER. o parts. The first is happily illus--WHITEHALL, April 30: This morning, at a quaronly perfect exemplar ever seen on ter after five o'clock, her Royal Highness the Duchess hood of Jesus. The second part is of Gloucester, aunt to her Most Gracious Majesty, ed by a parable of the voyage of departed this life at Gloucester House, to the great -d point of departure is the port and grief of her Majesty and of the royal family. y of the Western World, and Childrows" of life, through which the sails out into the broad ocean to erils of life. s & Co. have reprinted from the edition, "Bacon's Essays, with Anchard Whateley, D.D.," who, in his Having been accustomed to write e to time, such observations as ocseveral of Bacon's Essays, and also ces to passages in various books the same subjects, I have been ine whole before the public in an edisays. And in this I have availed ssistance of a friend, who, besides valuable suggestions, kindly underf revising and arranging the loose ten down, and adding, in foot-notes, obsolete words and phrases." The k octavo of over five hundred pages. "GLOUCESTER HOUSE, April 30. "Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester expired, without suffering, at a quarter after five this morning. "FRANCIS HAWKINS, M.D. "EDWARD H. HILLS." In accordance with the desire of the late duchess, the funeral procession will be conducted in a comparatively private manner. With the exception of the presence of a detachment of the Life Guards to escort the funeral cortége to the terminus of the Great Western, Paddington, nothing beyond the ordinary display observable at the funeral of a private individual will take place. Orders were received this morning at Windsor for the opening of the Royal mausoleum in St. George's Chapel. The remains of the illustrious deceased will be placed by the side of her royal husband. The bell of the numerous churches in the metropolis tolled during the day, and at the Royal churches the bells rang muffled peals. west-end had their shops | pect to the memory of her hose private virtues and her to persons in every e Princess Mary, Duchess burgh in the Peerage of ss of Connaught in that of ater of King George III. as born the 25th April, great personal attractions, e. Miss Burney, in her f her as "the lovely Priness was married, the 22d ›usin, Prince William Freloucester and Edinburgh, Tield Marshal in the Army, ember, 1834, without issue," extinct. The Duchess of d Ranger and Keeper of letters patent, on the 38th >wed Duchess, though latars, still enjoyed and saw | been a charm during her ontinually visited by her ustrious relatives, and she 1 in the very midst of her kindred. LORS OF LIGHTNING.-The o classes does not last for th part of a second; but a han one millionth part of a > light of electricity of high with this velocity, the most at can be produced appears exemplified by Professor beautiful experiment. A ith such celerity as to renis seen for an instant with If at rest, when illuminated because the flash had come el had time to make a perolor of lightning is variously verging to violet. Its hue intensity of electricty and re. The more electricity the air in a given time, the g is the light. Violet and observed to be discharged -h in the atmosphere, where analogous. The electric ugh the receiver of an airwiolet light in proportion as -Peterman's Physical Geo m Elder, of this city, is now memoir of the late Doctor can scarcely fail to prove, icturesque narrative of the enturer, but also an intelliharacter, which was more n the funeral orations and stendom, at present, knows man now so famous for his that life that we may excoming memoir. The pubal, however admirable, are his noble private qualities. up of water from his thirstdier at Zutphen, that adds love to the admiration we give to the historic Sidney of the court and the battle-field; and in like manner, the private generosity and compassion, the self-forgetfulness, the self-sacrifice, and the thousand nobilities which were revealed in Dr. Kane's daily intercourse and relations with his fellow-men, and which the world can not honor only because it does not know, are more to us than the calm intrepidity that dared the dangers and endured the horrors of the Arctic shores and seas. Something of this, the memoir may make known to us. If it prove to be what we expect it will, it can not but add a deeper feeling to our present apprehension of the life and character of one whose epitaph seems most fitly written in the words of the old ballad: "He was a true and gentle knightAh! well-a-day! Amen." TURKISH POETRY.-Under the title "Conseils de Nabi Effendi à son fils Aboul Khair," M. de Courteille, Professor of Turkish in the College de France at Paris, has brought out a translation of a poem of Nabi, one of the most distinguished poets of Turkey, who was born under Murad IV., about the year 1632. The translation is pronounced by competent Oriental scholars to be well executed. It treats of religion, the duties of man, science, virtue, the phenomena of nature, and numerous other objects. THE German papers report the death of Prof. Karl August Hahn, of the University of Vienna, one of the greatest old German scholars belonging to the school of the Grimms and Karl Lachmann. Prof. Halin was born in 1807, at Heidelberg. This, after the recent death of Prof. von der Hagen, is another heavy loss to that branch of science of which Prof. Hahn was one of the chief authorities. it Should Be," by Rev. John Bayley, a neat 16mo M. W. DODD publishes "Marriage as it Is and as volume, relating to the nature and importance of marriage, the duties of husbands, wives, and parents, etc. The author, "encouraged by the favor with which the public have received a previous work on another subject, and with a grateful sense of the kindness of his friends, offers this humble contribution to the religious literature of the day, in the hope and religion, and with a fervent prayer that it may that it may be acceptable to the friends of morality he attended by the blessing of heaven in every family where it may find a kindly reception." D. APPLETON & Co. have reprinted in two neat duodecimo volumes, "The Life of Charlotte Bronté," by Mrs. E. C. Gaskell. The volumes are illustrated with a fac-simile of Miss Bronté's manuscript, a portrait, and a view of Haworth Church and Parsonage. The biography includes sketches of the members of the family of the authoress of “Jane Eyre," and will prove of great interest to all the admirers of the distinguished novelist. TICKNOR & FIELDS have published a neat edition, in blue and gold, of Mrs. Jameson's "Characteristics of Women," reprinted from the last London edition, "containing many corrections, and some additions, which the Author hopes may be deemed improvements." The volume is uniform with the works of Longfellow and Tennyson, recently issued by the same firm. |