Jenny Lind the Artist by Henry Scott Holland

After performing seven times in _Norma_, and five in _Das Feldlager in Schlesien_, Mdlle. Lind was announced to appear, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, in _Euryanthe_, on a more than ordinarily interesting occasion.

Carl Maria von Weber had died, in London, at the house of his friend, Sir George Smart, in Great Portland Street, on the night between the 4th and 5th of June, 1826. He had been laid to rest, on the 21st, far away from home and friends, in a vault beneath the floor of S. Mary's Chapel, Moorfields. But, in the autumn of 1844, the surviving members of his family, aided by a few devoted friends and admirers-foremost among whom were his pupil, Mr. (afterwards Sir Julius) Benedict,[46] and the then almost unknown Richard Wagner-made a vigorous effort to treat his memory with the homage which had been denied to him by his ungrateful fellow-citizens during his life-time; and, at their expense, his remains were exhumed, transported to Dresden, and, on the night of Dec. 14, deposited in a vault in the Cemetery of Friedrichstadt in which his son Alexander had been buried only a fortnight before. His widow and surviving children, supported by Madame Schrœder-Devrient and a crowd of sympathising fellow-artists, covered his coffin with laurels and flowers, and it was proposed to erect over it a monument worthy of his fame. Great efforts were made to collect sufficient funds for the execution of this project, and a grand performance of _Euryanthe_ had been promised at the Berlin Opera-House in aid of the pious purpose.