Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . owded mass displayed anastounding power of lungs, and hats andhandkerchiefs waved from all parts. Ieo-ple came prepared to admire, but theyadmired beyond the extent of their jirep-aration. T
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . owded mass displayed anastounding power of lungs, and hats andhandkerchiefs waved from all parts. Ieo-ple came prepared to admire, but theyadmired beyond the extent of their jirep-aration. The delicious quality of the per-formance—the rich, gushing notes, weresomething entirely new ami fresh. The GREAT AND MEMORABLE EVENTS. 543 auditors did not know what to make of had heard singers over and overagain; hut there—that wondrous thing !—a new sensation was actually sustained notes swelling with fullrichness, and fading down to the softestpiano, without losing one iota of theirquality, being delicious when loud, deli-cious when whispered, which dwelt in thepublic ear and reposed in the public heart,—these were the wonder-exciting phenom-ena. The impression made as an actresswas no less profound ; and even in Vienna,the most exacting critics applauded herperformance of The Daughter of the Reg-iment, in Donnizettis renowned opera,as they also did in other On returning to Stockholm, in 1848,she entered into an engagement with theroyal opera, to give a series of the evening of her first performance,the newspapers of the city published anote signed by the renowned cantatrice, inwhich she stated that, in order to give hernative country a souvenir that might lastbeyond her existence as an artist, she haddetermined on devoting the whole profitsof her performance to the establishment ofa school for poor young persons of bothsexes, born with happy dispositions, inwhich they should be gratuitously^ taught music and the dramatic ar
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