The reputation that Miss Currey brought with her to the Far East as a vocalist, confirmed by the recital which she gave last year at the Country Club, had naturally Ted to the highest expectations being formed by those who went to hear her again on the 12th. The circumstances, too, under which she is paying Shanghai another brief visit added to the interest of the evening, and she was greeted by a well-filled theatre. Her audience came primarily, of course, to hear Miss Currey again; but the charm of the evening was, that of the eight numbers of the programme, the four that were contributed by amateurs were in every way of as high a class as the two that opened and the two that closed the two parts. Miss Currey has a very good voice, not particularly strong oF full, but very sweet and sympathetic in its middle' and lower registers. She has not very much dramatic power, and of the eleven songs, in German, Italian, French, and English, which she gave, the most pleasing of all was Saint Saens' setting of Victor Hugo's "Reverie." She sings with the greatest case, the result of high training, she enunciates admirably, and her voice is as fresh at the end of the programme as at the beginning, so that it is an unmixed pleasure to hear her. The two opening songs by J.S. Bach and Hiindel suited her least well; her singing of Chaminade's "Partout on Vamour a passe" was dolicious, and so was her rendering of " My Love has come." Notably good, too, was Schumann's " Waldegesprich." Her companiments were exquisitely played by Mrs. Gerecko and Mrs. Cochrane. Both these ladies are highly accomplished pianists, as their duet for two pianos, given to real perfection, "Lo Révour" and " Vulso" by Areusky, proved once more; but both are artists as well and are above being tempted to draw the attention of the audience from the singer's vocalisation to their playing. Mr. Meyer delighted the audience with three songs, the " Abendstern" from Wagner's *Tannhiiusor," into which he threw plenty of dramatic force, Oluf's romance of "Elverskud," by Niels Gade, an old Dan'sh folk-song, his rendering of which might have been a little more sympathetic; and Bemberg's " A Toi," which was really handsomely sung. Applauded to the echo, he added " Not. long ago in Aleala;* but his voice is HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. Weary of life. Derangement of the liver is one of the most efficient causes of dangerous diseases, and the most prolific of those me-lanchaly forebodings which are worse than death itself. A few doses of these noted and epee age? oan catttie ills act magically in dispelling low spirits
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