r things, "Spring's Delights are now
returning," and "Where the Bee sucks, there lurk I." The
duchess said, "These glees are peculiarly English." Miss
Greenfield's turn for singing now came, and there was
profound attention. Her voice, with its keen, searching
fire, its penetrating vibrant quality, its _timbre_ as the
French have it, cut its way like a Damascus blade to the
heart. She sang the ballad, "Old Folks at Home," giving one
verse in the soprano, and another in the tenor voice. As she
stood partially concealed by the piano, Chevalier Bunsen
thought that the tenor part was performed by one of the
gentlemen. He was perfectly astonished when he discovered
that it was by her. This was rapturously encored. Between
the parts, Sir George took her to the piano, and tried her
voice by skips, striking notes here and there at random,
without connection, from D in alto to A first space in bass
clef. She followed with unerring precision, striking the
sound nearly at the same instant his finger touched the key.
This brought out a burst of applause.

"'Lord Shaftesbury was there. He came and spoke to us after
the concert. Speaking of Miss Greenfield, he said, "I
consider the use of these halls for the encouragement of an
outcast race a consecration. This is the true use of wealth
and splendor, when they are employed to raise up and
encourage the despised and forgotten."'

"TUESDAY, May 31, 1853.

"Miss Greenfield's first public morning concert took place
at the Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover Square. She came out
under the immediate patronage of her Grace the Duchess of
Sutherland, her Grace the Duchess of Norfolk, and the Earl
and Countess of Shaftesbury. It commenced at three o'clock,
and terminated at five."

"The London Morning Post" says,--

"A large assemblage of fashionable and distinguished
personages assembled by invitation at Stafford House to hear
and decide upon the merits of a phenomenon in the musical
world,--Miss Elizabeth Greenfield, better known in America
as the 'Black Swan;' under which sobriquet she is also about
to be presented to the British public. This lady is said to
possess a voice embracing the extraordinary compass of
nearly three octaves; and her performances on this occasion
elicited the unmis