evince a very sincere as well as enlightened all the regions of the body exposed to accident, taker. Willmer's Improved Housekeeper's Account. minister of the Gospel. or likely to become the seat of surgical operations; and points out, in a very able manner, Book for 1829. To be continued annually. Christmas: a Poem. By Edward Moxon. the influence which the anatomical arrange4to. Liverpool, E. Willmer; London, Whit 12mo. pp. 76. London. Hurst, Chance, ment of these parts exercises on the nature and EVERY BODY does, or ought to, make good reand Co. THIS is in time, and, we must add, not out of on the operations consequent thereon. treatment of the principal surgical diseases, and solutions for improving at this season of the tune. We certainly wish our poetical friend, the author, had fulfilled his own declaration in practice, at a distance from the schools, whose tion from Liverpool of an Improved AccountTo the surgeon engaged extensively in year; and though it is rather a reflection upon the Capital, we would recommend this importa page 1, i. e. to touch the chords (of Christ-opportunities (always few) of renewing and Book. It is excellently arranged; and, either mas) right merrily;" which promise he entirely increasing his stock of practical anatomy, have forgets throughout the half of his book, and been lately still further curtailed by the ill-partially or thoroughly used, must be of great does not too distinctly remember in the other judged and mischievous endeavours of the daily It costs a couple of shillings, and, fairly athalf. There are, however, some happy thoughts press to excite a prejudice and raise a popular tended to, may save many pounds before 1830. value to the housewife or head of any family. in Mr. Moxon's Christmas. To schoolboys clamour against the only means of prosecuting breaking up, he says:that study successfully, this little book will prove an invaluable work for constant and easy reference, and it well merits to be on the table of every surgeon so situated. Go, and your fancies realise Go, little prattlers, bless the scene; Which scarce the cheek itself shall know; mas to its season of friends. ARTS AND SCIENCES. SOCIETY OF ARTS, &c. The translator has omitted to mention where seven evenings, during the present session, to THIS Society has determined to appropriate and in what language the original was pub meetings for dissertations on subjects connected lished. This omission may be supplied, by with the arts and manufactures of the country, stating that it is a French work, published at illustrated by ancient and modern specimens. Paris; and that the author, Dr. Edwards, is an Ancient and modern pottery and porcelain are English physician resident there, who has dis- to occupy the first two evenings; and the sub tinguished himself as an experimental physio-jects proposed for illustration on the others logist. The translation is carelessly done; for are, the arts of stereotype founding and prints example, throughout the whole book, the word ing, and of casting in plaster of Paris, and the Christ-"lastly" occurs very frequently near the be- manufactures of glass and of paper. ginning, often twice in the same paragraph, without an antecedent, "firstly," and without anticipate great advantages from the attention These topics are of much utility; and we in the least contributing to render the passage of this Society being thus especially directed more distinct. Another loose mode of expres- towards them. sion pervades the Manual, as in the following instances, not selected, but taken ad aperturam. "It is the trunk of this artery which is gene- OXFORD, Dec. 20.-On Wednesday last, being the last LITERARY AND LEARNED. rally, &c. It is at the middle and posterior day of Michaelmas Term, the following degrees were conpart that this bone, &c. It is from this circumferred: stance that trephining, &c. But it is only a small part that contribute, &c. It is generally in the thick part that, &c. It is almost always between, &c. that they exist." Traité des Principes Généraux du Droit et de la Législation. Par Joseph Rey. Paris, 1828. Alex-Gobelet. 8vo, pp. 395. (With a tabular view of the subject). FRANCE teems with publications of this class, and there is much of mind displayed in many of these productions, We are hardly judges of constitutions, cut and dry; but we are free to say, that M. Rey has taken great pains to develop his theory, from the first forms of society to the minutest branches of legislation. Portugal in 1828. Comprising Sketches of the State of Private Society and of Religion in that Kingdom, under Don Miguel. With a Narrative of the Author's Residence there, and of his Persection and Confinement às á State Prisoner. By William Young, Esq., H. P. British Sevice. 8vo. pp. 350. Lon. don, 1828. Collurn. Excepting such faults of carelessness, the translation is clear and distinct. The Theory and Practice of Arithmetic, in Poole and Edwards. We THIS volume has been out some weeks, and Instructions on French Pronunciation, and on the Genders, in the Form of a French Vocabulary and Reader. By M. J. G. de la Voye, de L. R. 4to. pp. 115. London, 1828. A Manual o Surgical Anatomy, &c. By Parbury, Allen, and Co.; and S. Maunder. H. M. Edwards, D.M.P. Translated, with THIS is a very clever and ingenious work, Notes, by William Coulson, Demonstrator and reflects great credit on the talents and of Anatom at the Medical School, Alders-industry of the author. It is admirably calgate Street 12mo. pp. 427. London, 1828.culated to perfect a learner in the pronunciation Simpkin ad Marshall. THIS is a vry useful Manual: by uniting the study of antomy and of surgery, it supplies a deficiency lag felt by the student and by the general pratitioner. It gives connected or synthetic view of the different tranches or systems of anatomy, as of the bores, muscles, nerves, arteries, &c. in to be regretted that it contains no prefatory Magdalen College; Rev. T. Arnold, late Fellow of Oriel Doctors in Divinity. Rev. W. Wheeler, late Fellow of Bachelor in Civil Law, Rev. J. Buckingham, St. Mary R. N. Gresley, Student, Christ Church; Rev. R. Rees, Bachelors of Arts.-F. K. Leighton, Demy, Magdalen. - LITERARY AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY THE anniversary meeting of the Literary and PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN FRANCE. 6 Hore, London, Mr. Stewart Meuthly, Mr. | the explanation of the plates, consists of a Sup- and pursuits; and also in these circumstances Drummond Hay, Lieutenant Johnson, R.N., plementary Notice to the Biographical Memoir a preservative against any misapprehension of &c. &c. The report read to the meeting re- of Canova published in a former Part, and the scope and meaning of his friend's remarks." lative to the volume of the Transactions of the Thoughts on the Arts, by Canova himself. These Thoughts are sixty in number. They Society, lately noticed in the Literary Gazette, One of the most attractive features of the contain much that is admirable, and much that was rendered peculiarly gratifying by a letter Supplementary Notice is the following letter, is calculated to excite profound reflection. As from Sir Walter Scott to the secretary, in written by Canova to his friend M. Quatremère they are quite unconnected with one another, which the learned baronet not only expressed de Quincy, at Paris, immediately after he had we will quote a few of the most striking. his approbation of the work, but his entire seen the Elgin Marbles in London; having "1. Although an ardent promoter of the fine coincidence in the views of the secretary, re- been previously acquainted with the works of arts, Canova beheld with much concern the lative to the Gowry Conspiracy, and entered Phidias only by a few imperfect fragments and vast number of young people, who devoted minutely into an investigation of some cir- casts, and by the representations of them given themselves to them as a pursuit. These,' he cumstances connected with that mysterious in the Travels of Stuart in Greece. said, cannot fail of being poor and disappointtransaction. After the reading of the Report, "Here am I in London, dear and best friend, ed. Now that Italy and all Europe are full to Mr. Morison gave a brief dissertation on some a wonderful city, handsome streets, handsome repletion with works of art, what can all these facts and traditions connected with the pro- squares, handsome bridges, great neatness, and young students expect? the worst is that they gress of the Roman arms in Scotland; and what is still more striking is, the well-condi- will tend by their numbers to keep up a worthDr. Anderson of the Perth Academy read an tioned state of man, which every where presents less mediocrity—for excellence was never the Essay on the Temperature of the Ocean-itself around. I have seen the marbles arrived heritage of the many and in these times nofrom the facts connected with which inquiry from Greece. Of the bas-reliefs, we had some thing short of excellence should be thought of. the learned doctor controverted the prevailing idea from engravings, casts, and the few frag- Academies, therefore, should indeed afford to notions respecting the heat of the earth in- ments of the marbles themselves with us; but every one an opportunity of proving his talents; creasing towards the centre. of the full colossal figures, in which an artist but in every case of the absence of a decided can display his whole power and science, we aptitude for the arts, the pupil should be inhave known nothing. Whether these marbles duced to relinquish them, and to apply to a THE season of public instruction in Paris has be the works of Phidias himself, executed under pursuit more likely to promote his own and the begun. The return to his post of M. Ville- his guidance, or finished only by his hand, they public benefit; for I fear that this superabundmain, who was compelled, two years ago, to shew clearly that the great masters of antiquity ance will begin to incline to the wrong road, vacate the professor's chair, in consequence of were faithful imitators of select and beautiful and by its overpowering influence carry away the liberality of his opinions, was welcomed nature: they had no affectation, nothing exag-with it those who are capable of better things; with extraordinary enthusiasm. When M.gerated or hard; that is to say, none of those and when once right principles are deviated Villemain's emotion would allow him to speak, parts which may be called conventional, or sa- from, every extravagance will follow (for the he thanked his young friends for their cordial crifices to general rules and proportions. I am arts when in the wrong path are not to be reception of him. "I am happy," he con- led to believe, therefore, that our numerous restrained), and will end in a total depravation tinued, "to experience the same interest which ancient statues which are marked with these you expressed towards me on a very different exaggerations, are, in fact, only copies of the occasion, under circumstances which may per-productions of their great masters, made by haps recur, and which I will never shun." At mediocre Greek artists, in order to be sent to these words the applause was redoubled.-M. Rome. The figures of Phidias are all real and Cousin has re-commenced his course, and has living flesh, that is to say, are beautiful nature taken for his present subject the philosophy of itself; as the other master-pieces of ancient art the eighteenth century. Messrs. Charles Comte also are: the Belvedere Mercury is real flesh and Eugène Lerminier have also entered on the Torso is so too, and the fighting Gladi- sensibility and imagination also be awakened ator; so likewise is the Satyr of Praxiteles, and and exercised; the previous possession, in short, his Cupid, of which fragments are found in all of all the parts necessary in your art is the directions. The Venus also is real flesh; and shortest way to which I alluded. If you take By the liberality of the Emperor Nicholas, the a Venus here, in the British Museum, is true care to do this, the first perception which strikes Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Peters- and perfect flesh. I must confess that, in see-you of any object transcendently beautiful and burgh has been increased, and the objects which ing these beautiful things, I felt my self-love graceful will serve your purpose, all the other it has in view have been extended. At the gratified, for I have always thought that the qualities you possess will be called into play in last anniversary of the foundation of this in-great masters of antiquity must have worked support of, and in accordance with the sublime stitution, the secretary took a retrospective either, that the bas-reliefs of the same temple it, produce a beautiful and perfect whole; but in this style and no other: do not suppose, idea you have formed, and harmonising with view of the labours of the various members of of Minerva are in a different style; they too this, you say, is difficult, and so indeed I know the Academy from its commencement. Among consist of the fine forms of select nature and of it is, and therefore I point out the necessity of other curious papers which were afterwards living flesh; for men have always been made of study and labour if you would become great : read, was an account of the result of the ob- soft elastic flesh, not of bronze. Such authori- when these have' produced their effects, it will servations made by the Baron de Wrangel, ties should surely be enough to determine no longer appear difficult to you. during his last expedition, on the aurora bore- sculptors to give up all rigidity of manner, and alis, and on the polar ices. This hardy navi- to imitate rather the soft and beautiful surfaces gator has endeavoured to explain the formation of those ices, and to prove how long they have existed. He has also inquired why a vast surface of water, surrounded with ice, is itself frequently entirely free from ice. their respective courses; the former on the law of nations, the latter on the history of law. RUSSIA. FINE ARTS. NEW PUBLICATIONS. The Works of Antonio Canova. Engraved in • Of this communication, as of many others, we have to complain that the proper names are so indistinctly written as to be illegible. of nature." of taste. "6. If you would save yourself much future trouble, and proceed always with confidence in your art, I will tell you the shortest way. Make yourself perfect, in the first place, in all the requisites of your art as drawing, anatomy, a sense of the graceful and the dignifiedunderstand and feel the beautiful; let your ture, he used to say, are perfection of design "12. The only important elements of sculpand excellency of forms; a picture without although virtually, and in substance, the invention, freedom of touch and effect; but if Of the Thoughts on the Arts it is said, that these may still be good, in respect to colouring, work of Canova's mind, the result of his genius you take away expression and form from sculpand experience, they were not actually com- ture, what is left ?-a piece of marble. mitted to writing and published by him; but “14. It is, indeed, necessary,' he observed are, in fact, notes of opinions and criticisms on to some young artist, to have a knowledge of the subjects, chiefly of painting and sculpture, uttered by Canova on various occasions in conversation, and taken down, unknown to him, with a view to their future publication, by a friend. This friend was the Abate Missirini, Secretary to the Academy of St. Luke at Rome, whose private and literary character fully guarantee the genuineness and correctness of these interesting fragments: he had also the amplest opportunity for effecting the purpose which his zeal for Canova's memory prompted him to undertake, afforded him by their friendship, | habits of daily intimacy, and similarity of tastes anatomy; but an obvious display of it should be avoided, if it be true that art should imitate nature: let us also follow nature in this respect, which, in order to conceal the harsh, muscular parts of our frame, has admirably covered them with a soft clothing of flesh and of skin; presenting only to the eye a smooth superficies, delicately moulded with rising and indented curves, wholly without harsh inequalities.' "17. How fortunate it is,' he often remarked, 'that but few artists are able to express themselves with propriety and effect with the engraved in outline, with Mr. Moses's wellknown firmness, delicacy, and taste-reg pen; else what long and mighty wars should this is the practice by which he may obtain Rome, and the Chevalier Azara. They are we have between the cultivators of the arts; immortality. and how much time mispent, to the loss of their proper pursuits. Those who were in the habit of writing were always mediocre artists; the pencil, not the pen, is their proper instrument, and working, not writing, their vocation. Literary men, on the other side, are equally out of their element when deciding on questions of mere art; and the fanciful errors which they fall into are an ample revenge for the intended victims of their criticisms.' "24. Being asked why, on the decline of ancient art, architecture had not fallen in so great a degree as the rest, he replied, In painting and sculpture the artist should always proceed with circumspection, and be aware of his liability to err from right principles, for these arts depend on the guidance of taste and genius, and not on that of exact rules, as it is the case in architecture. Taste and genius, however, operate by means that are too subtle and evanescent to be reduced to exact terms; while it is the nature of architecture to admit of fixed and invariable rules and proportions: this is, I think, the chief reason why architecture suffered less than her two sister arts in the general decline of taste. My art has none of these guides and privileges, and is never unaccompanied with a certain fear of erring; so that I am always afraid to take any liberty with it, and stand constantly on my guard; sometimes I almost feel inclined to return to my early studies, and to begin to copy again from the life."" ORIGINAL POETRY.la sv [We have much gratification in filling our poetical department this week with a production appropriate to the season, from the pen of an author whose popularity is so great in writings of this class, that his Omnipre sence of the Deity has come to an eighth edition within nearly as many months.] THE SPIRIT OF TIME. By Robert Montgomery. Horæ quidem cedunt, et dies, et menses, et anni: nec tur, sciri potest.-Cicero. præteritum tempus unquam revertitur: nec, quid sequa "40. One day when he was at work finish. ing the foot of the dancing nymph, which he continued to retouch, as if he never could be satisfied with his work, a friend said to him, 'How is it that you bestow all this pains on so trifling a part; it now appears excellent and perfect in every respect; do you expect that people who are charmed by its beauty will stop to examine so closely ?' It is only by diligence,' he replied, that we can make our works deserving of praise. I am now at work on the part under the nail. Among the things which have commonly been passed over with negligence in our art are the nails of the human hand and feet, though the ancients bestowed great pains to express them accurately. In the Venus de Medici they have been worked with wonderful care.' What!' said his friend, would a statue suffer by a defect in the nails?' Certainly; and the saying of the ancients, perfect even to the nails,' by which they characterised a finished production, was not with- Where, then, the hist❜ry of the fleeted Year, out exact and deep significancy. The ear also, of weal and woe, of glory and of shame ? A although it is often only slightly marked, and ETERNAL! not a minute wings away 32dT not at all given in detail, is a part which con- That doth not waft a record to Thy throne: duces much to the beautiful effect of the coun-Time cannot die; the dim, departed yearsɗ'W tenance, and in the best works of sculpture we Will rise again, and cited ages come visit 10 see them most carefully finished.' Like thoughts, creations of the mindlaisenT oiterigani risdT 42.There is one noble means of avenging ourselves for unjust criticism; it is by doing still better, and silencing it solely by the increasing excellence of our works. This is the only true way of triumphing; but if instead of this you undertake to dispute, to defend, or to criticise by way of reprisal, you involve yourself in endless troubles and disquietudes, disturb that tranquillity which is so "30. Being asked, which are the most necessary to the successful exercise of your essential rules in the imitative arts,' he replied, pursuit, and waste in harassing contests that "I think the code of art may be much abbrevi-precious time which you should consecrate to ated, or rather may be comprised in one single your art.' rule, which is this the artist should be able to Is it certain that Canova, great as he was, would not have been greater had he listened to this last occasional suggestion of his own mind? 6 give an exact account of every thing he does, and why he does it. Sometimes,' he added, ‘a single fold of drapery gives me more trouble than a whole statue, because I cannot make it fall so that I can account for the particular turn and flow it has taken: if, therefore, an artist wishes to be able to justify his work, in the first place to himself, and afterwards to others, he must be able to give good reasons for the invention, the action, the expression, execution, in short for all the parts of his work which are referable to principles and rules of art, for other parts are not reducible to rules, such as grace, sublimity, genius. If he can act on this compendious principle, he will need no other rules; good judgment is the great, and only guide in ANOTHER Year, methought a Spirit cried, shed! A Year hath fled, and in Eternity T His awful burden cast!-what hath he won? Ye Thunders! ministers of cloudy wrath, aiH With herald lightnings to sublime your power, Say, from your caves shall ye be summon'd forth, voice trees air And tell your havoc; in the blaze of noon, And in the night-wing'd tempest darkly made? Or shall I bid th' unbosom'd ocean yield Her dead, or let the unfrequented graves Unlock, and shew their ghastly inmates there? Alas! there is no moral loud enough "47. On the subject of an artist, who, with To hush the laugh of Life above the tomb; a devoted industry had made little progress, Like shadowy dreams; the deepest, dreadest Time, accident, and change,-they pass away and after many years of labour and reiterated attempts had produced nothing at all corre- Of Nature will not rouse the world to think.— sponding in effect, he remarked, Perseverance must, at last, obtain something; but before There was an earthquake in a far-off isle; applying ourselves to a pursuit like the arts, we The heavens were blacken'd, and the dark should ascertain that nature has given us an While Ocean, heaving like a human breast.. waves yelled, aptitude for them-perseverance alone is not enough. When a young artist, who has mas. In agony, groan'd wildly from her depths! tered the rudiments of his art, does not advance All earth seemed fear-struck; on their bowing rapidly and decidedly in the first three or four years, there is, in general, little to be expected The leaves hung shudd'ring, through the heated of him: with practice, indeed, he may obtain The dull ull wind mu more freedom, more practical skill and know. mutter'd with a spirit-tone, ledge, but he will not gain on the score of ori. And fitfully the island-cities rocked! ginality or inventive genius. The figure of At midnight came the Earthquake in his Meekness, on the tomb of Ganganelli, is one of 35. Speaking of some sculptors who bad my earliest productions; and yet now, after And strength, and made the world's foundagrown old in the mere practice of modelling, thirty years of practice, I do not know that I and had executed nothing in marble, he said, have learnt to do better. I am mortified to Temples and domes were shatter'd; shrieks "It is quite necessary, if the young artist ever find my powers so limited, and would fain and prayers aspire to be a sculptor, that he should early raise myself to a higher pitch, but I cannot.""Rang wildly through the skies, and guled familiarise himself with the use of the chisel; The plates in these closing Parts are, various that there is the same difference between the Medals struck in honour of Canova; the Thuncavern'd ground a thousand corses lay modeller and the sculptor that there is between ground-plan and elevation of the magnificent Morn rose again, a sadness cloaked each brow one who merely sketches and designs, and church at Possagno, to the erection of which the Yet none could dream of Judgment in their painter: the power of executing works in mar- artist devoted his entire fortune, the fruit of doom, ble is to the one what the skill to produce all his labours, and which is rendered yet more And in the earthquake. hear the voice of finished paintings is to the other: if the hand interesting by being the depository of his morof the painter has not accustomed itself from tal remains the Monument to Canova placed childhood to this practice, it will always be by the Venetian Academy of the Fine Arts in backward in seconding his wishes to produce the hall of their institution; and the followthat finely blended colouring, well-managed chiaro oscuro, and high finish, in which excellence consists: let then the young artist divide his time between the pencil and the chisel, the arts." a ing works by him; viz. Sepulchral Monument wrath tions reel! within Heaven! A Year hath vanished, and how many eyes The desolation and the curse of Time :- Have perished; hast thou mourned thy mighty dead? Go! weep for one, the wonder of his day, His mind o'er empires, and round captive isles But when the mighty die, the mean begin To live, and thus with thee, departed one! Scarce on the wind thy death-knell ceased to moan, Ere darkly rose the pestilential breath Of Slander's venal lip, to blight thy name, Because a passing shade profanes his brow? But not alone the glorious and the great Hast thou entombed, thou unreturning Year! 'Tis in the noiseless sphere of common life, In humble homes, by happy evening hearths, Where once the social hearts were gather'd round, TAT We trace a fearful havoc in thy flight. gone To graves, with all a mother's treasured hope! And beams, and bless'd the hand that hung them there; Then Life was holy, full of heavenward joy, And all their thoughts, like sunbeams, where they fell, Shed brightness and a beauty round :-oh! ill Exchanged for steaming rooms and crowded halls, For heartless pride, and unromantic hours! Like merry prophets, should have loudly hailed their course! The City-queen of England,-met his gaze Of wonder: round him flowed her streams of life, Fierce in the strength of countless lands and isles! Temples, and Towers familiar with the clouds, But Genius is a martyr to itself; 829 The heavens, and spread his spirit to the stars, know! dreams; Came on him now; 'twas his last hour of No more of sorrow for the fleeted year; Who hear it in the festive chamber, sigh, And send their thoughts sad pilgrims to a tomb! The Aged hear it, and forget the World ! A Year hath vanished, and another Year Is born: what awful changes will arise, What dark events lie hidden in the womb Of Time, Imagination cannot dream : Ye Heavens ! upon whose brow a stillness lies, Deep as the silence of a thinking heart In its most holy hour, the World hath changed, But ye are changeless; and your midnight race Of starry watchers glance our glorious isle Undimm'd, as when amid her forest depths The Savage roamed, and chanted to the moon. O England! beautiful, and brave, and free, With Ocean like a bulwark round thee thrown! Thoughts of thy destiny awake the heart To fearful wonder ;-from the wildest state Of darkness raised, and magnified by Heaven! What though a troubled Spirit walk the Earth, And Fancy hear the distant war-drums roll, Long may thy sea-domes proudly ride the BIOGRAPHY. : DR. WOLLASTON. A PREVIOUS notice in our Gazette must have prepared the scientific world for the loss of this eminent man. He died on Monday last, aged 63, having, to the end of his life, evinced all that calmness, self-possession, devotedness to science, and love of his fellow-creatures, which was to be expected from his character throughout the whole of his career. If we can procure a memoir worthy of him, we shall lay it before our readers. SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. A Sketch of a French Young Lady educated at a Convent. (Addressed to an English Lady.) A FRENCH young lady, at sixteen or seventeen years of age, goes from a convent into the world (you know what a convent is): the nuns, with whom she has lived ever since her childhood, restore her to her parents, who frequently the same day deliver her to a husband,-her only previous acquaintance with whom consisted in some frigid compliments, paid her through a grate. She can say her beads, the angelus, found to have no taste nor talents for music, f On the tables around are mineralogical spathe benedicite, the thanksgiving; she has learned the singing-master must bestow the more pains cimens, organic remains, &c. &c.; the whole a hundred ways of recommending herself to the in teaching her to sol-fa, and she will scream offering an agreeable half hour's lounge, which saint whose name she bears, to her guardian most confidently little opera airs, and play long we the more readily recommend, as the proangel, to the patron saint of the order and of concertos. prietor appears to be a meritorious person, and the convent. She has read more than once Think, madam, how wonderful are the know- nearly as original as the needlework. some extracts of the legend; she knows a ledge and acquirements of a young English lady number of marvellous tricks which demons of rank who has been fashionably educated! A PANORAMA of the Greek War is daily to be and spirits play in this lower world; she is The mother exults in introducing a daughter seen at the Rotunda, near Blackfriars Bridge, ignorant of none of those little pastimes with so well tutored to play her character-affirms The views (some dozen in number) revolve which the imagination and judgment of girls she is all talent, beauty, and elegance com- before the eyes of the spectators, and shew are exercised; she can colour images, and adorn pletely finished-an absolute phoenix. The them the principal scenes and events of this There is music, to prepare with straw and gilt paper an Agnus Dei or young lady, enriched with so many perfections, memorable contest, a holy relic, as elegantly as a professed nun. finds herself the leader of a numerous and flat- the spirits for the moonlight passes and the Perhaps she also knows how to embroider a tering set of acquaintances is presented at desperate fights; and our young friends will flower in gold or silk, and in thread on cloth, Almack's goes to every party devotes her- like it much better, even at first sight, than to work à la marli, to make buckles of ribands, self to fashion-and is advised by her mamma and even to knit stockings. She has received to become the bride of the most eligible man in the great parlour some lessons of the minuet that offers before the close of the season. and country dance; she makes admirably well the most profound courtesies. Lastly, if she is fond of music, the matron grand chantress will take a pleasure in teaching her to sol-fa, and she will sing most devoutly little hymns and long canticles. THE PARISH WAITS. their Greek Lexicons. MUSIC. NEW PUBLICATION, The Elements of Flute Playing. By T. Lindsay. Intended to aid the Pupil and the Preceptor. London, 1828. THE following is a verbatim copy of a printed bill left by a party of these nuisances and sleepbreakers. To the ladies and gentle- WE have examined this work with much at men residing in Brunswick, Tavistock, and tention, and exceedingly regret that our limits See, madam, how far they go-the know- Euston Squares, Burton Crescent, and neigh. (for notices of this class) do not permit us to retia ledge, the talents, the attainments, of a young bourhood. Ladies and Gentlemen,-With sen- der ample justice to the value of so excellent a Frenchwoman of quality, who has been well sible recollection of by-gone patronage, your book of instruction. But we cannot help ess educated. The mother glories in having a 'Wandering Melodists, the Christmas Waits, pressing our concurrence in the author's remarks daughter so well formed for the world; she beg to offer their best compliments on the ap- on the choice of an instrument; the want of pretends to discover that she does not hold up proaching festival. The Band on this occa- caution and judgment in the purchase of which her head, that she has a shoulder too high, or sion, as heretofore, has been numerous and has frequently been pernicious, as well as exan awkward air, to have it thought that she select, and trust to merit that liberal diffusion pensive to the amateur. Mr. L. seems to be may still be improved, so as to become a pro- of your favours which has enlivened our homes perfectly studied in the flute, and has industridigy. The young lady, enriched with such an and cheered our hearts for a series of years. ously availed himself of the abilities of the best ample collection of accomplishments, is placed at We trust our sprightly notes of melody, awak-masters who have preceded him at the same the head of a numerous and splendid household, ing sweet Echo on the dull ear of Night, has time honestly acknowledging the sources from is presented at court, introduced into all compa- stole on your gentle slumbers, and again lulled nies, given up to the great world, and it is you to repose with the soothing candanza of recommended to her to commence mother of a the lullaby. family within the year. [The above has been translated from an old French work, and thus parodied with reference to the march of mind in the education of English females.] (Addressed to a Chinese Lady.) M. Putnam and J. Lawless, Violins, 6, Swinton Place, AN English young lady at sixteen or seventeen Having redeemed our pledge, we shall have SIGHTS OF LONDON. which he has compiled. We admire his diagram shewing the angle of elevation of the instrument across the lips, and also the mode of representing the fingering of the notes, both of which are (to us) ingenious and novel modes of explanation. The rules for applying the various ways of fingering were much wanted, and are well exemplified. Mr. L. is also very sound in his remarks on tone, accentuation, and tonguing; and has given a regular series of well-digested examples for a student's praetice. On the whole, we congratulate him on the merits of his very useful work, and wish him every success with it. His second book will, we trust, soon make its appearance, and must meet with a very favourable-reception. Referring to preceding works of this class, we may remark, (and it will be a sort of retrospective musical review,) that Wragg's old work, (though it has run through eighteen sets to conduct herself at church, repeat her prayers, Ar the Western Exchange Gallery, in Bond of plates!) is so unscientific and monotonous and note down the heads of the sermon. She Street, there is an exhibition, by an ingenious from beginning to end, as now to be despised has a hundred ways of recommending herself individual, of the name of Walker, which con- by all intelligent masters. Gunn's philosophis to the world for her devotion to the religion sists of a remarkable variety of articles. Among cal work (compiled about forty years ago), is she professes her own conscience, and the these is (we should suppose) a unique specimen more theoretical than practical, and, like patroness of the Bible Society to which she of ancient needlework, representing the Mes- Wragg's, is many years too ancient to possess · belongs. She has read, at least once, all the siah assembling the people of all nations, from any of the great advantages which have resulted popular novels; she knows a number of extra- the Apocalypse. It it very large, and consists from the modern improvements of fingering. ordinary tricks which lords and ladies play in of hundreds of figures, celestial and terrestrial. Nicholson's book, (not, however, his excellent the fashionable world; she is ignorant of none Probably the business of some conventual work for advanced pupils, called Preceptive of those little flirtations with which the imagi- society for many years, though it is nothing as Lessons, which is really clever,) is entirely nation and judgment of girls are exercised; a production of art, it is certainly a great unworthy the author's name, having been she can paint flowers, and adorn chimney- curiosity as a work of human invention and written by him when a mere lad, and long pieces with straw and gilt paper, and other industry. In the gallery are several pictures before he had acquired even a small portion of knick-knacks, as elegantly as a supplier to one of considerable merit and interest including his present high reputation. Again, Mon. of the bazars. Perhaps she also knows how a Group of Irish Peasants, which makes us zani's Preceptor, though an excellent work in to embroider a flower on muslin in worsted or acquainted with the name of a painter of that some respects, is so very defective in arrangesatin-stitch, to work en appliquée, make bead-country, Grattan, (who has, we understand, ment as greatly to lessen its utility, and, by a bracelets, and even gentlemen's watch-guards. been dead some years,) and does credit to his strange error in judgment, is filled up with She has been taught in the dancing-room how talents. There are parts of it possessing much cadenzas and preludes, fit only for concerte to walk a quadrille, and in the coach-house beauty, and the whole is clever and charac-players! Dressler's work, lately published, how to step into a carriage; gives admirable teristic. An early picture by Northcote, finely although much too difficult, is perhaps the best stares, and inimitable nods, Lastly, if she is coloured, is also among the number, book of them all. |