Is of the nature of a leopard and prettily marked with stripes and oblong spots.
There is a prettily variegated garden form of the first named.
The city, which is a square, is prettily situated on ground rising from the river Wei, and includes within its limits the two district cities of Chang-gan and Hien-ning.
There are also a museum, a theatre, and a prettily arranged municipal park.
Meanwhile the rest of the work (except in the prettily scored " Spinning Song," and other harmless and vigorous tunes) has more affinity with Wagner's mature style than the bulk of its much more ambitious successors, Tannhauser and Lohengrin.