ACADEMY OF MUSIC.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 215, 17 June 1872, Page 3

ACADEMY OF MUSIC.

On Saturday night Miss Aitken had a good house, as we thought she would and a most appreciative audience they were too, evidently intent on enjoying the treat provided for them. “ Mary Queen of Scots ” was the first piece, and acted as a capital intioduction between the audience and the reader. Tennyson’s “ Lord of Burghley” was feelingly rendered, and then Mrs Caudle on shirt buttons put all in good humour. “ The May Queen ” was one of the sweetest things of the evening, the rapt attention of those present testifying that it was felt. “ Come Whoam to thy Childer an’ Me,” Miss Aitken reads beautifully, evidently feeling what she reads, and even though the dialect be peculiar and hard to understand to many, the sense of the poem is never lost throughout. “ The Bells ” we would prefer to hear read by a man, though Miss Aitken’s rendering is faultless, but we consider a man’s voice more adapted to the peculiarities of the piece. The evening’s amusement was considerably enhanced by Songs and recitations, from Mrs Mitchell and Messrs Perrier and Brooks, as was testified in a very marked manner, encores being demanded from Mrs Mitchell both times she sang. Mr Brooks likewise was obliged to come on twice, and gave his comic song of “Sarah Walker” better than we have heard him do at any previous performance. “The Battle of Kilhekrankieby Mr Perrier, was really well delivered, as was also the adventures of “ My Lord Tom Noddie,” during the speaking of which some one in the pit evidently thought that he ought to have something to say, but quickly dropped, when the speaker, to the amusemeut of all, exclaimed, “ One fool at a time if you please.” The man in the pit evidently thought that the speaker was right, and he was heard no more.