The life and professional career of Emma Abbott . quietly and unassumingly bestowed,she acquired the name of being so selfish. But I happen to knowthat such criticisms were unjust, and that she did acts of gener-ous benevolence of which no one ever heard, except a few ofber trusted friends. The last article that appeared about MissAbbott in these columns, was the refutation of a cruel slanderof an afternoon paper accusing her of filial ingratitude. < Everyone will concede that the dead prima donna did muchfor musical art and education in the United States. She dedi-cated more temples of son
The life and professional career of Emma Abbott . quietly and unassumingly bestowed,she acquired the name of being so selfish. But I happen to knowthat such criticisms were unjust, and that she did acts of gener-ous benevolence of which no one ever heard, except a few ofber trusted friends. The last article that appeared about MissAbbott in these columns, was the refutation of a cruel slanderof an afternoon paper accusing her of filial ingratitude. < Everyone will concede that the dead prima donna did muchfor musical art and education in the United States. She dedi-cated more temples of song than any other woman ; her com-panies were always formed with care, and they were generallywell balanced and strong in good material. She strove to getgood ensembles rather than perfection in any one her performances were always symmetrical, and worthyto be ranked above the average. She gave the masses of thepeople all over the great West an insight into operatic worksthat but for her would have remained a sealed book to Abbotl in Ruy Bias. Vindicated by a Friend. 145 She taught them to love music and to give their material aid toart. She sang for the masses of the people in her way. •She served them well, and awakened a new art had high aims, and whatever she did, she did with hermight; a typical woman of the West Her sterling quaof head and heart have triumphed over many adversities ; en-deared her to many. Emma Abbott will have many mournersin every town of consequence all over these United Stat Col. J. X. Taylor, of Chicago, knew Mis^ Abbott from herbabyhood to the year of her death, and who was a Conner busi-ness partner of her father, Seth Abbott, indignanl at thestories told of Emmas shabby attire, her one dress, madeof a coffee sack,etc., volunteered the following out of a spiritof justice to the dead, and esteem for the living. The poet is born, not made—and this axiom may apply togenius and talent in other realms than that of
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