Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MUSICAL BE VIEW EXTRAORDINARY. Sax Diego, July I0th, IS54. As your valuable work is not supposed to be so entirely, identified with San Franciscan interests, as to be careless what takes place in other portions of this great kedntry, and as it is received and read in San Diego with great interest (I have loaned my copy to over four different literary gentlemen, most of whom have read some of it), I have' thought it not improbable that a few critical notices of the musical performances and the drama of this place might be acceptable to you, and interest your readers. I have been, moreover, encouraged to this task by the perusal of your interesting musical and theatrical critiques on San Francisco performers and performances; as I feel convinced that, if you devote so much space to them, you will not allow any little feeling of rivalry between the two great cities to prevent your noticing ours, which, without the slightest feeling of prejudice, I must consider as infinitely superior. I propose this month to call your attention to the two great events in our theatrical andmusical world—the appearance of the talented Miss Pelican, and the production of Tarbox's celebrated " Ode Symphonic " of "The Plains." The critiques on the former are from the columns of The VaUecetos Sentinel, to which they were originally contributed by me, appearing on the respective dates of June 1st and June 31st. Fom the Tallecetoe Sentinel, June 1st. Mtss Pelican.—Never during our dramatic experience, has a more' exciting event occurred than the sudden bursting upon our theatrical firmament, full, blazing, unparalleled, of the bright, resplendent and particular star, whose honored name shines refulgent at the head of this article. Coming among us unheralded, almost unknown, without claptrap, i...