Tegner, the Swedish poet who wrote the _Children of the last Supper_,
were cast in Munich.

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Since our last number, JENNY LIND has closed the series of her farewell
concerts in New-York, and a week afterward dissolved her business
relations with Mr. Barnum. Her career of nine months in this country has
been a triumph unprecedented in the history of artistic success. She has
appealed everywhere to the great general sympathy of the multitude, and
partly, undoubtedly, owing to the prestige of her European fame, and the
wonder at her remarkable vocalism, she has sung always before an
audience essentially and characteristically American.

But the great service she has rendered, the fact which history would
regard, is her introduction to us of some of the finest music,
presented in a manner entirely adequate, and yet entirely different from
all to which we were accustomed. She has illustrated the fact, that a
noble nature ennobles the position of a public artist, and that the most
appreciative artistic sympathy with the highest and most unpopular
music, has yet something popularly sympathetic. It is the old story of
great genius. It is Burns, again, at once the despair of the most
brilliant and cultivated talent, and the delight of the entirely
illiterate and vulgar sense. From this career of JENNY LIND must date a
new era for us, both in musical taste and musical criticism. Now that
she has shown us what is good music, whether popular or not, and what is
perfect performance of it, whether in any favorite school or not, it
will no longer do to smear mediocrity with superlatives, or to criticise
music upon any grounds other than those of the criticism of all other
arts. The manner in which JENNY LIND took our Penates, our _Sweet Home_,
and _Auld Robin Gray_, and _Comin' thro' the Rye_, and restored them to
us with a more graceful and significant life, was one of the most
beautiful signs of the presence and power of genius. To that, every
thing has been subservient. The large and gracious charities of the
woman, the natural simplicity of her manner, and the personal magnetism
which she every where diffused, were but the ornaments of the pure
artistic nature, the divine priesthood of genius. JENNY LIND continues
her progress through the country. It is understood that, after a month,
she will retire from the public eye, for the rest which she so much
requires, and afterwards, we learn fr