of pink specks as their faces appeared from a distance.
The grand stand and sieves of the field weie covered with masses of people, a multitudinous sea. Helen's on Saturday when the population of a good sized town crowded into the enclosure. +-+- Popular absorption in sport was excellently instanced at St. E'jhengr'ji speedily dispose o of Talramond but in the end Elsa dismisses him. She calls to her aid as her champion Lohengrin, "n unknown knight, who arrives in resplendent armour, cVniwn hy a silver swan. Drtrud a.nd Tehaanor.d conspire against Elsa and accuse her of making away with the. The corpse of the heart-broken Elizabeth is borne in, and at that moment the staff bur,"t", forth into flower! The story of "Lohengrin" is even eimpler. Tannhauser tells this, nud at the finale dies. is unpardonable that lie can never 'be pardoned-unlesw his pil- grim's stuff sprouts leaves and flowers, an -obviously impossible demand. In Act 2 we have the pilgrim.-# defiling before the King and ISlizalbeth on their return and at length Taauihauser comes, and in a narrative of in- tense dramatu power relates how the Pope lias told him his fiir. Tannhauser ooafe& os in Ills song hi* acquaintance with Veins, and ia bidden depart to Rome to obtain the Pope's absolution for his sin. In Act 2 is the gre.tt singing competition, with Uie hand of Elizi- kit as the prize. Wagner depicts his awakening from bondage and parting, and depart-ire to tis old associates. in it he first act, living in the Venus berg. the ii&ro, and the old-time lover of Elizabeth, is ensnared by the Circe-like wiles of Ven.is, and with her is. But the one great fault most people had 4o find wa*-they did not understand the Trying 1 o deduce it from the singing a» hopele'ss-you lo«?e the harmonies if 'you try to catch the words, and vi-Jet versa, and the former loss is the more to be apprehend- ed. The chorus cn the etage was just- as good.' In the de~u> rolling strains of the "Pilrrrim March"' in ilie third act the volume of sound might hnve poured I from some organ manipulated by a master. Goosens, pro\ ed itielf coatiiposed of instru- mentalists of calibre equal to that of Wal- tbef and Scibrino vocally. Mi&s Alalia Bas- Sian as Venus had a small part, but vas1 worthy of it and the orchestra, under M. the term "a silver voice," meant, Herr Julius Wa-lther, despite the great strain, was superb to, the Ja.stt, and evetyone commented upon the improvement and mellowness in the voices of the two local inemljers of the cot)),pjny. especially Madame Sobrino as Ellizalbeth, w ho made one TealÙJe what. The «plendid chorus of the pilgrims, the "Star of Eve" solo, are [Ji just variations of the overt jrc- every bit as wonderful and enthralling, "with all its dignity nnd the came: unda.cur- rent of wailing melodious sadnessi eoloai ing and flushing every bar.
music of the evening, caime in late, and that, pl,w., the Tustlmg and 1 ongoing of enti lly different. Unfortu- nately there was some disturbance during the people did not realise that they were mining.