adulation the scenes in Liverpool just before her departure, and that when she first arrived in England she bore a letter of introduction from the King of Prussia to Queen Victoria, in which His Majesty asked Her Majesty “to show every possible kindness to one of the most modest, exemplary and talented singers which any time has yet produced.” And they also forgot that when Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited the opera when Jenny Lind sang, the glasses were leveled at the stage, and the royal box was almost like any other box; yet when Charles Macready performed in _King Lear_, one of his most famous rôles, while Jenny Lind was present, the stage was ignored in favor of her box. In the English provinces crowds had gathered outside Jenny Lind’s hotels, singing, “Jenny Lind O! Jenny Lind O! Come to the window!” And Jenny seldom would respond. _Gants_ and _mouchoirs à la_ Jenny Lind were started in London and imitated in New York. Carlyle was able to write with justice to his brother: “All people are rushing after a little Swedish woman, an Opera Singer, called Jenny Lind: 40 pounds is the price of a box (four sittings) for one night, in some cases! I saw Jenny, one day, dined with her, and had to speak French to her all dinner,--a nice little innocent, clear, _thin_ ‘bit lassie’; somewhat like a douce minister’s daughter; sense enough, too; but my notion was that I could easily raise fifty women with much _more_ sense (one in Dumfries with twice as much perhaps); and that, as to singing, with such a _shrew_ of a voice,--I would _not_ give 10 pounds or hardly 10 pence, to hear Jenny!” It is a curious phase of the Jenny Lind mania that in cities which had not yet heard her sing, the enthusiasm of other cities was always ridiculed. Boston laughed at New York, and Philadelphia scorned both, until it was forced to hold its tongue and listen to its own raptures. And as soon as she had left a city, and the trance had worn off slightly, people shook their heads over the antics of their neighbors: London ridiculed New York, and New York laughed at Boston.