Irish Bards and Ballads

“Mr. C. W. BROOKE will deliver his celebrated lecture on the above subject [Irish bards and ballads]… Mme. JOSEPHINE O’CONNOR [sic] will illustrate the music of the IRISH BARDS.”

“…The beauty of the subject impresses every mind at once. Mr. Brooke as pronounced his address on several occasions in other cities, and always, we understand, with really brilliant success… His incidental recitations of Irish Ballads are especially commended; and we anticipate in his entertainment a source of real gratification to tasteful and cultivated minds.”

Notes that C. W. Brooke is a member of the Philadelphia Bar.

“Miss Josephine Schimpf will furnish the incidental music.”

“…The speaker briefly touched on the early history of Ireland, and showed that during the days of their greatest oppression, the Irish bards gave to the world their sweetest songs, and, though it was unlawful for a minstrel to ask for bread, yet the genius of poesy lived on. Several selections were recited from Lover, Moore, and others. Miss Josephine Schimpf sang ‘The Last Rose of Summer,’ ‘What would you do, love,’ and similar ballads.”

“Miss Josephine Schimpf, a vocalist of considerable reputation in Philadelphia, is to illustrate the music of the Irish bard on the occasion of a lecture to be given by Mr. C. W. Brookes, of the Philadelphia Bar, on the 19th inst.”