Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1885 — The Late Sir Julius Benedict. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Late Sir Julius Benedict.

Sir Julius Benedict, the famous composer, whose death recently occurred at London, Eng., will be remembered by many Americans as the gentleman who accomgnied Jenny Lind to this country in 1850. e was bom in Stuttgart in November, 1804, where Hummel, the great piano virtuoso of the time, became his tutor. When seventeen years of age he was taken in hand by Weber, who came to regard him as his son. In 1823, on Weber’s recommendation, he was intrusted with the leadership of the Vienna opera. On leaving Weber he went to

Naples and conducted the opera at the Saint Carlo. In 1835 he went to Paris, where he fell in with Rossini, Meyerbeer, Bellini, Donizetti, Auber, and others. The same year he went to England and adopted it as his home. In 1836 he took charge of the London Opera Bouffe at the Lyceum Theater. He led the Drury Lane orchestra at the time of the production of the great Balfe’s operas. When Jenny Lind decided to come to America she invited Sir Julius Benedict to be her pianist and general director. Returning to London, he became manager of Her Majesty’s Theater, and afterward at Drury Lane.

George Moritz Kbera, George Moritz Ebers is chiefly known to American readers as the author of a series of historic romances, among which “The Egyptian Princess” and “Uarda” have thrown a nineteenth century irradiation over that mysterious land of the Sphinx, which has been so long enveloped in truly Egyptian darkness. These romances, however, were but the accidental sequence of previous years of patient investigation, which added his name to the list of distinguished Egyptologists. “The Ebers Papyrus” is the second in extent and the first in preserva-

tion of all the Egyptian hadwritings known to us. It contains a complete manual of Egyptian medicine of the sixteenth century before Christ. Among the curious presciptions herein contained is a recipe for hairdye ascribed to Teta, mother of one of the earliest kings of Egypt. The original of this is now the property of the University Library at Leipsic, a copy of which Mr. Ebers laid before the Congress of Orientalists in London, in 1874. “The Egyptian Princess” appeared in 1863. A severe illness, resulting in lameness, keeping him a prisoner to his own room, proved the golden opportunity of developing his hitherto latent creative powers and crystallizing his science with a romantic form for the edification of general readers. Since that time his work has alternated between scientific researches and works of imagination.