Punch (90.1886)

Apml 17, 1886.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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THE TWO GRAND OLD MEN, WHO DIVIDED THE HONOURS OF LAST WEEK BETWEEN THEM.

OUR VISITING LISZT.

Within one fortnight to have seen Cardinal Newman, aged
eighty-six, officiating, to have shaken the won-
derful hands, and talked with the Abbe Liszt,
aged seventy-six, and to have heard Mr. Glad-
stone's great oratorical effort, at seventy-seven,
\ is indeed something to he remembered in a life-
I time. And I may note that .those who heard
| Mr. Gladstone finish at eight o'clock, could
j have heard Mr. Teevelyan commence his manly-
explanation at ten, and could have also heard
Heading the LisTt Canon Liszt play at Mr. Walter Bache's
Reception, at the Grrosvenor Gallery—another
memorable event—at eleven o'olock the same night. If I contrived
to be in two places at once, depend on it I shall keep the secret of my

mysterious power to myself; so let us return to St. James's Hall on
Tuesday the 6th.

Now for the Santley—I should say the Saintly—Elizabeth, whose
beautiful story Dr. Feanz Liszt has set to music. I am not going
to descant onmotif, thematic materials, minor sixths, Major Sevenths,
—this last is not a military title, and Major Sevenths is no relation
to Major Getitiths, Author of that most interesting History of
the Garrick Pictures,—nor will I do more than merely touch lightly
upon, or hint at, sequences, agitatos, crescendos, innuendos, big-and-
little-endos and neverendos, which go to make up the classic form of
all Oratorios.

If I myself do not quite agree with the Composer on every score,
yet, on the score of his venerable age and character, I would, willingly
yield to him in everything where first principles are not absolutely
concerned; and if I personally admit, that, had I been writing
St. Elizabeth, I should not have used certain passages,—specially