Society considers that singers and actresses ought not to be
good. It is an impertinence in them. If, like Jenny Lind, their -goodness is undeniable, then the men they marry must be bad, to give society some small consolation. Either they gamble, or they 'beat their wives, or they neglect them for other women, and so -execute vicariously the vengeance that society is pining to inflict .upon all who make money by amusing it. Just now the run is -on Mr. Otto Goldschmidt, a quiet man of artistic tastes, who 'married Jenny Lind, and lives like any other English gentleman ; but who is falsely accused of gambling, spending his wife's property, and a great deal besides. Teased to death, he, on Thursday, attacked three journals which had reprinted the libellous paragraph 'from an American paper, and recovered from two of them £750 -each, and from the other £500. He is quite right, but why 4society would have liked to see him lose his cause is the intel- 4ectual puzzle. It is rather pleased to see a composer prosper, and .exults in Mendelsohn's grand character, but that an actor or a .singer should succeed and be respectable besides, afflicts it to the .heart.
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