JENNY LIND AND ENGLAND.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Would you be kind enough to permit me to ask any amongst your readers who heard Jenny Lind sing to be so very good as to write to me here ? During the four years
since I had the honour to be chosen by the largest Swedish organization in America to appear in a crinoline as the " Swedish nightingale " at the centenary celebration of her birth I have sung most of the songs she used to sing. But her repertory was amazingly large, and she did. not have the advantage, which an artist of her greatness would assuredly possess to-day, of having her every note set down upon a gramophone record for all time.
My ambition during my present visit to Great Britain is to collect, as far as possible, any numbers of that repertory with which I am unacquainted. I should: therefore feel most grateful to any English music-lover who would recall for me the songs that the great cantatrice sang in a country to which she devoted herself until her death. Jenny Lind, I may add, was first heard in London in 1847, and although her last public appearance was made twenty-three years later, she must have sung frequently in- private between 1888 and 1886, when she was professor of singing at the Royal College of
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