MALIBRAN AND SCHROEDER.
A COMPARISON, NOT AFTER THE MANNER OF PLUTARCH.
IT is curious to remark in how totally different a way the talents of two great singers are employed and developed at the same theatre. The greatest singers (we make no reservation or excep- tion) now in London, are MALIBRAN and SCHROEDER : they ap- pear in the same hemisphere, but they occupy different orbits, and convince you of their superiority by opposite means. MALIBRAN is a creature of strong impulse, acute feeling, and commanding genius. To the advantages which nature has given her, she has added a knowledge of her art perfectly astonishing. She is mis- tress of every style, and of every European language. Like most geniuses, she is flighty and capricious' she delights in the indul- gence of whims and fancies, and one of these is to take up a worth- less piece and make it attractive. Such, as we have said, is La
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