Calve Praises America

Mme. Calve is as loyal to tihe Americans when she is in Paris as they areto her when she is in New York, says Harper's Weekly. She has been talking toa Parisian reporter about L'Amerique, and assures him that it is an enchanted and dreamllke country, to which, if sh were not French, she would wish to belong. She brags handsomely to her ceuntrymen about our villes magnifiques, with avenues as wide as the Champs Elysees, bordered with structures two or three times as high as the buildings in Paris, and brilliant with electrie lights. Even more warmly she praises the remarkable development of our aTtistic instincts, which encourages artists to give f uil swing to their true temperamento and to interpret the ma ters aooording tó their own ideáis. Mei-ba, it seems, has told a Parisian interviewer that after in opera in America she hardly dares risk heraelf on a Parisian stage. Calve says ehe sympathizes with her, and, fond as she la of the Parisian public, looks iörward with trepidation to appearing belore itagain.