The regular season or " subscription " of Her Majesty's
Theatre closed about a fortnight since; but an after season of " extra " nights has been going on brilliantly, with a round of Jenny Lind's most favourite charac- ters. The houses are as crowded as ever; and even those characters which have been constantly repeated for these two seasons have lost nothing of their power over the audience. One among other sources of this perennial freshness seems to be the "infinite variety" of the "Swedish night- ingale." Most dramatic performers, even of the highest class, when they have fixed their own " reading " of a part, adhere closely to it, even to the minutest details of movement and gesture. The Tragic Muse, Siddons herself, was remarkable for her strict adherence to the settled forms of her representations. But in Jenny Lind's performance there is an abandon almost unique. She gives way to the changeful impulses of the mo- ment; thus imparting singular truth and warmth, as well as variety, to her dramatic pictures.
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