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80 , with a voice of wonderful compass, clearness and flexibility. She renders the compositions of some of the best masters in a style which would be perfectly satisfactory to the authors themselves. Her low or properly bass notes are wonderful, especially for a female voice, and in these she far excels any singing we have ever heard.

The Daily State Register, of Albany, N. Y., speaks as follows:

A New York paper speaks of her thus:

.—We yesterday had the pleasure of hearing the singer who is advertised in our columns as the "Black Swan." She is a person of lady-like manners, elegant form and not unpleasing though decidedly African features. Of her marvelous powers she owes none to any tincture of European blood. Her voice is truly wonderful, both in its compass and truth. A more correct intonation, so far as our ear can decide, there could not be. She strikes every note on the exact center with unhesitating decision. She is a nondescript, an original. We cannot think any common destiny awaits her.