As Madame PATTI would have said, if she had thought of quoting BACON
last Tuesday week, and as somebody probably will say after reading this,
and then send it, a few months hence, to _Mr. Punch_ as quite new and
original, "When my KUHE comes, call me." And when her KUHE (English
pronunciation) did come, she came up to time and tune, and came up
smiling. Of course with such names as Mmes. PATTI, TREBELLI, Messrs.
LLOYD and SANTLEY with Miss EISSLER on the violin, Mr. LEO STERN ("Leo
the Terrible") on the 'cello (sounds uncomfortable this), Miss KUHE on
the pianoforte (unpleasant position), Mr. GANZ as "accompanyist," (what
an ugly word!) and the Great Panjandrum himself, Mr. W. G. CUSINS
(Sir W. G. CUSINS as is to be,--which was our Jubilee Midsummer Knight's
Dream) as Conductor, what could the result be, but success? Every seat
taken; up gets the Conductor, "Full inside, all right!" and on we goes
again! And after this, off goes Madame PATTI to America to earn any
amount of dollars by singing her well-known _répertoire_, which, with
one or two exceptions, she may leave t'other side of the Atlantic, and
return to tell us of "The songs I left behind me," and to chant with
feeling "_I cannot sing the old Songs_." _Au plaisir!_ ADELINA, and all
good Engels guard thee! I beg to sign myself, re-signing myself to the
absence of the Diva,