Continenta Gossip

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 128, 21 April 1891, Page 4

Continenta Gossip

MfTjjia^c Strauss, whY was director 'of 'itW _ orcliestrar , ;> at \ the" -jcourt; . . of Napoleon 111/aiid 'was' the friend of Donizetti, Rossini, and the ? most "eminent composers x of l his day, ■■■ spe'njfc fif ty ;y ears".of _his J life in forming •■■• a collection "of '.'work's' of .Hebrew, art •. beloiag to J the l i r Btli?'\ iith^lStji, 16th, •- and 17th centuries. These' objecis. 12(T3n~ number, are. ali.connected m\h the^bublic of domestic. Worship of the Je*B,°aud include a magnificent Ark of ttfe^Gpyehariti 5 'which is am exact -_ .^fac-sihile '.of the one deposited in Solo- * snoh^8 lc Teoiple:' The whole of this collection has j just .been pre-f-fleu^e^ito .thejC/luny 'Mus'eum',;-in Paris, / by thejßaroness Nathaniel de EothsAn interesting and well ~ authenticated letter, da.ted.the.2l"st of . DecieWber,^ -loS^/^'and'-addfessed by ■B.etf^llV/:-'-of t >^FVanbe y ;'to;;Tristari'o - Marinelli, a famous harlequin attached " to the 'theatre-of •the'-Du'ke of Mantua, ■ - hasijustvbeenibrbug'ht to light in the - ducal archives of that city. It con- " tains' 'an :Cinvitation i "to and '- thejßther_ni6mberß-O^ s company to "visit Pans, beg^ng/hira to lose no time, in, duingnßo, promisingi him a ._ - shedrty v wi&lcoine, _ 'and assuring -him * tha f t r he abd and his comrades shall be ■?■ so liberally treated that they . wffl -' ihav'e no reason to regret the journey. The ; hero oflvry cohbludps hisepistle by praying G6d':to v %aye Harlequin in l <33A&l${ily 'keeping. Trißtano Mannelli, ' "who 1 w l a»' ; the iuaittager of the company "■ of PautomimistSi visited Paris three r . tiinesy the '■•first m response to the fore- .- giiing^iuvita'tibn; the 'second at the -: request of Marie de'Modicis, and the thirdla'tthat of Eouis XIII.- He was ; - such avfavorite at' Court that Marie, " who held one of 'his ; children at the ' baptismal font, suffered him to ad- • • dress her] ; as;--'* gammer" (corrutierie), ■ - while she addTsssed -him as " gaffer" <-c a Teii other 1 letters addres- • * sed to him by Royal- personages were ~ published a few years Tagd byArmand - Brtschet,-r-T Argus..