The second group opened with songs, sung in and original language, but for these the singer gave a charming and original translation, complimenting her audience that they could understand French and German, if not Spanish, or maybe it was Norwegian. The first of these, in the Sultan's Garden, was an entire Oriental scene in itself. All the nice details that go to create atmosphere were there, and all the niceties of singing, too, which keep that atmosphere from being destroyed. Madame Claussen's interpretation of Brahm's Sapphic Ode was characterized by a genuinely classic restraint and purity of expression. Perhaps her greatest success was the Erlkönig with which the second group of Erlkönig Be. t T uni) r. Madame Claussen is an opera singer and such she would appreciate all her dramatic possibilities of the Schubert song. The Sapphic Ode and spring N|. ght may be lieder bilt Kr! konig is a dramatic scene. Everyone three diameters was individual spirit with not so roll of supernatural as might be, strong. 