The Childhood of Maria Garcia.--Her Father's Sternness and Severe Discipline.--Her First Appearance as an Artist on the Operatic Stage.--Her Genius and Power evident from the Beginning.--Anecdotes of her Early Career.--Manuel Garcia's Operatic Enterprise in New York.--Maria Garcia is inveigled into marrying M. Malibran.--Failure of the Garcia Opera, and Maria's Separation from her Husband.--She makes her _Debut_ in Paris with Great Success.--Madame Malibran's Characteristics as a Singer, a Genius, and a Woman.--Anecdotes of her Generosity and Kindness.--She sings in a Great London Engagement.--Her Eccentric and Daring Methods excite Severe Criticism.--Her Reckless Expenditure of Strength in the Pursuit of her Profession or Pleasures.--Madame Malibran's Attachment to De Beriot.--Anecdotes of her Public and Private Career.--Malibran in Italy, where she becomes the Popular Idol.--Her Last London Engagement.--Her Death at Manchester during the Great Musical Festival WILHELMINA SCHROeDER-DEVRIENT. Mme. Schroeder-Devrient the Daughter of a Woman of Genius.--Her Early Appearance on the Dramatic Stage in Connection with her Mother.--She studies Music and devotes herself to the Lyric Stage.--Her Operatic _Debut_ in Mozart's "Zauberflote."--Her Appearance and Voice.--Mlle. Schroeder makes her _Debut_ in her most Celebrated Character, _Fidelio_.--Her own Description of the First Performance.--A Wonderful Dramatic Conception.--Henry Chorley's Judgment of her as a Singer and Actress.--She marries Carl Devrient at Dresden.--Mme. Schroeder-Devrient makes herself celebrated as a Representative of Weber's Romantic Heroines.--Dissolution of her Marriage.--She makes Successful Appearances in Paris and London in both Italian and German Opera.--English Opinions of the German Artist.--Anecdotes of her London Engagement.--An Italian Tour and Reengagements for the Paris and London Stage.--Different Criticisms of her Artistic Style.--Retirement from the Stage, and Second Marriage.--Her Death in 1860, and the Honors paid to the Memory of her Genius GIULIA GRISI.