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the absence of the starchness so characteristic of the state of art in that age?) than the portrait of Queen Anne Bullen? Nor is the likeness of the unfortunate Earl of Stafford, after Vandyke, the least interesting in the three parts now before us. The head, above all, is remarkable for its expression of life and powerful character. The other portraits are the Countess of Sunderland, after a splendid Vandyke; Wolsey, and Cranmer, the former after Holbein, the latter after Gerbicus Flicciis. The Lord Burghley, by Mark Gerard; and Sir Walter Raleigh, by Zucchero are, both mannered portraits, but are both excellently engraved. The former is especially brilliant. There is no false pretension nor charlatanism, in fact, in this publication: it is worthy of the country and of the great names it illustrates; and it is a work in short which, as it well deserves to have done, has already become classical.

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On Thursday she appeared in the character of Zerlina, in Don Giovanni, Mademoiselle Blasis being her substitute in that of Donna Anna, and Mademoiselle Monticelli having reached the rank of Donna Elvira. These changes, we regret to say, have been rendered necessary by the continued indisposition of Madame Malibran, a circumstance, for which we cannot be consoled by those novelties to which it has thus given rise. For the most part, the opera has lost much of its effect by the transposition of the personaggi. Mademoiselle Blasis sank rather below the average of her merit, and failed to throw either brilliancy or interest into the character now assigned to her. And witnessing this failure, we could not help recollecting the great comparative beauty of the performance, both last year, (when Mademoiselle Sontag supported Mad. Malibran in the principal part,) and in the foriner representations of our present season. Neither does Mademoiselle Monticelli at all improve upor acquaintance. Indeed, it surprises us that upon her first debût in England, there ever could have existed that lenient, and almost favourable impression of her qualifications which tempted an audience to sit out the opera of La Donna dei Lago,' with so lamentable a representative of the heroine. Her gait and action are the most ungainly we know; her voice is feebler than ever; and she has not even the skill to disguise its incapacity, or omit the passages which are beyond its power. Though not so good a singer, Grazziani is a far more lively and judicious actor than Porto; and his figure, costume, and general bearing through his part of Masetto, had an appropriateness that was certainly an improvement upon former times. Signor Donzelli, the hero of the play, perhaps fails to give his character the prominence which, in most cases, is sure to attend him; but if this be so, he at the same time avoids many of the ble mishes which disfigure his execution of Rossini's music; lus terrible fondness for andantes, his invariable sostenuto, which operates like a clog in the wheel of the music, while the fulness of his voice extinguishes those of his neighbours. There was much curiosity to see Mademoiselle Sontag in her new character. The rustic simplicity and gaiety of Zerlina seemed well adapted to her powers of personation, and a feeling of retributive justice was pleased to have an opportunity of compensating to her in this part, for the want of interest which seems incidental to that of Donna Anna. Accordingly, she encountered a welcome more hearty than ever greeted her before. From first to

last she was the object of all applause. No one could contest it with her; for the feeling of the house was evidently borne along in one direction, and would not deviate for the sake of any but herself. Upon her entrata, the duet with Masetto, 'Giovinette che fate all' amore,' was encored, of course, and deservedly, for her animation was beyond herself, and the liquid flow of her singing had never been surpassed. The next duet, that with Don Giovanni, La, ci darem la mano,' was also encored; perhaps from habit, or the furore of the night, for the performance of it was vitiated by some misplaced embellishments, and a cadence that had no fellowship with Mozart. Then came the beautiful air, Batti, batti, o bell Masetto,' the first movement of which was executed with as much tenderness as the concluding allegro displayed playfulness and spirit. This was also encored. Lastly, the cavatina, 'Vedrai Carino,' as beautiful as any, and as sweetly executed; did not this also receive the same compliment? Never, certainly, was there a stronger body of votaries to the lady's cause, more zealous to show their adoration, and more uniform in their method of proof: The immense theatre, not more fully crammed in the height of the season, had scarcely one dissentient or callous auditor in all its crowd. Had their idol selected this for her last performance, we believe that the extent of their sympathy and enthusiasm would have been shown by acts of absolute puerility. As it was, the part of Desdemona did not so strongly awaken their sensibilities, or, as we suspect, the audience on the latter occasion was one of a different and more phlegmatic temperament. Strange to say, the house on Saturday evening was not crammed to suffocation. Perhaps the town had thinned in the intermediate time, or had grown philosophical and loved analogies, so that it was led to believe there would be another last night of Mademoiselle Sontag's performance, because such had been the case in the year 1828. But this was not all. The temper of the audience was cold, and never betrayed into one burst of admiration throughout the evening, if we except that at the close of the opera itselt. Perhaps the very character of Desdemona prohibits the casual and isolated expressions of applause, which are too frequently taken as the tests of a performer's merits. The music, as well as the dramatic interest of the part, is too continuous and unbroken, to leave room for halting places where one may stop and gaze around, and say, this is good: or, though we deny the fact, it may be, that Mademoiselle Sontag's representation of the character is not a favorite with the public. Another possible cause of the absence of much fervor, on the part of the audience, may have been their discontent at the compression of the opera for the sake of brevity, by which means some of the most beautiful portions, especially the first appearance of Desdemona, and the air Oh! quante lagrine,' were squeezed out. The conclusion of the opera suffered terribly by the same process. Every thing after the murder of Desde inona is lopped off, and this amputation both deprives us of some beautiful music, and serves to terminate the drama at a point of too intense interest, when the emotions require some restorative, some sequel, to recal them to their ordinary degree of calmness. De mortuis nil, &c. But for this impulse, we should be tempted to quarrel with Mademoiselle Sontag for one or two peculiarities in the course of the performance. But she is no more to come under our animadversionwhether to praise or to censure. She has left us for this season, and it is understood that before the opening of another operatic year, she will have deserted the stage for ever. It can serve no end, therefore, whether preventive or remedial, now to note down the inaccuracies and imperfections, which, to the feeble and ignorant judgment of such as we are, have appeared hitherto worthy of notoriety, more perhaps from captiousness or ostentation, or mere error, than with much justice or necessity. Surely, too, it is well to preserve, as

pleasing as possible a remembrance of these sources of our enjoyment, undefiled by the tiny blots and blemishes which it might be in our power to recal. And therefore, we will say no more of this final display of Mademoiselle Sontag's talents, except inasmuch as it gives us an opportunity and excuse for adding our good wishes to those of the thousands who, on that occasion, testified them upon her departure with acclamations which affect ed her to tears. The history of this most gifted lady will form a singular fragment in the annals of music. Her personal character and situation, the suddenness and universality, and, sorry are we to add, the short life of her public renown, will separate her from the crowd of her predecessors, not one of whom had excited such individual sympathy, or had raised herself to the highest pinnacle of fame, with such modesty of deportment; or had retired from it, in the midst of popular favour, with a spirit so uncorrupted, a memory so respected. A bright brief ineteor,-her radiance will long live after her. We did not think to be seduced into these expressions of our feeling with respect to Mademoiselle Sontag, and our loss for the future; but they are written, and so let them go. We must add to them our conviction that the stage is flow deprived of one who was its most signal benefactress; for she not only threw around it the lustre of her professional attractions, but also carried with her a purity and delicacy, and gentleness, which went far to disperse the grossness that every where walks upon it. We do not think it equivocal or invaluable praise, when we allege that Mademoiselle Sontag was the most lady-like of all the artistes we have known. It will be well if the influence of her amiable disposition shall last as long as the recollection of her accomplishments. Most sincerely do we wish her, in her retirement from a professional life, all the happiness and prosperity she deserves, if for no other cause than as a return for the pleasure she has so abundantly promoted of half the civilized world.

COLLECTION OF MINERALS AT THE WESTERN EXCHANGE.

An invitation to the view of a model of York Minster has made us acquainted with the interesting collection of natural history, minerals, and fossils of Mr. Walker, in the Western Exchange. This we deem well worthy of a visit by all, but especially by those who have a turn for the study and observation of the curiosities of nature, and who delight in contemplating those, her grand movements, which mark the revolutions of the globe. Mr. Walker's collection is extensive and curious, and comprisés several very rare and valuable specimens, which it would be going beyond our province to enumerate; from among them, however, we may be excused for selecting for notice a few articles which seem most calculated to attract popular attention. Such are, of the animal kind, a Guana stuffed, and a large Diodon or Sea-Orb; of the mineral class of curiosities is an immense jaspar from the island of Antigua; of the fossil kind, and in these the prin cipal value and interest of the collection consist, are the forehead of an elk or deer, a horn of a similar animal, a fossil palm and root of an aloe, also from Antigua; and several other very curious fossils, formerly in the possession of the late Mr. Parkinson, and collected from the mines and quarries of Great Britain. Besides these, the specimens of amber from Mosambique, containing insects. well preserved under very singular circumstances, also form very interesting objects of observation.

The rare work of illustrations of antediluvian phytology by Mr. Tyrrell Artis, from the fossil remains of plants peculiar to the coal-formations of Great Britain, which Mr. Walker possesses, and in which descriptions are to be found of several of his own specimens, gives an additional interest to this exhibition.

As to the model of the York Minster, and the bass

relief in silk of the needle-work illustrative of the Revelations, and which is said, with every appearance of probability, to be of the age of Queen Elizabeth, we shall content ourselves with indi

MISCELLANIES.

HANOVERIAN AND DANISH SYSTEM OF QUAR-
TERING CAVALRY. A recent German work gives

cating their existence, and with adding that the the following account of the curious primitive mode

former has been much commended, Times' and Literary Gazette.'

NEW MUSIC.

• Mélange; or Favourite Airs from Gluck's Operas, arranged for the Piano forte, and dedicated to

Miss Tatton, of Wittenshaw, Cheshire, by J. B.

Cramer. Cramer, Addison, and Beale.

A CLEVER, well arranged sonata in C, exhibiting Gluck's most favourite motivos to advantage, in Sramer's peculiar, chaste, and sensible style. A short Introductory Vivace Spiritoso, is followed by an Allegro and Cadenza, prelusive to the favourite minuet in Iphigenie, so well known by the auditors of the ancient concerts. This movement is well amplified and varied into three pages. After which, an Allegretto (in F 3-8 time) from Armide; a Marcia (in B flat) from Orfeo, modulates again into the key of C, for the Allegretto Scherzando, con legerezza, forming a Rondo finale of four pages, the thema of which is selected from Iphigenie. The melodies are well chosen and adapted, and the whole piece does not require a very practised performer to execute it; thus will it be found of general utility.

Sweet Evening Star,' in Answer to Barnet's celebrated Song, g, Rise Gentle Moon, sung by Miss Love, composed by Joseph Hart. Mahew and Lee. So positive a parody, as to leave originality out of the question An easy, pleasing, and trifling bagatelle, requiring a voice of only nine notes, including the E on the first, and F on the fifth lines.

Select Melodies of various Nations, arranged with Embellishments far the Flute, with Accompaniments (ad. lib.) for the Piano Forte, by Raphael Dressler.

No. I. Cocks and Co.

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ALTHOUGH we have had opportunities of reviewing a large number of Dressler's publications for the flute, in the Athenæum,' we have not before met with a more useful and pleasing work for the amateur flautist than that before us. Twelve interesting scraps, each occupying a page, form the work, of which the following is a brief catalogue, viz. 1. A French Air, (formed upon the melody known as O no we never mention her,'). 2. Rode's celebrated Air,-sung by Catalani and Sontag. 3, A familiar Swiss melody. 4. Mayseder's popular Air, op. 40, as performed by De Beriot. 5. La Suis6. We're a' noddin.' 7.

sesse au bord du lac

Mozart's menuet, in Don Giovanni. 8. Buona
notte,' a Venetian Air. 9. The hermit's Song, in
Weber's Der Freyschutz. 10. Come Dolce, from
Rossini's Tancredi. 11. For tenderness formed.'
And 12. The Andante movement, from Haydn's
No. I. of his twelve grand Symphonies.

The whole is neatly and correctly engraved, and stitched in a wrapper, for 3s.!

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The celebrated Bohemian Melody, ' Day Break' as sung with the greatest success at the Argyll Rooms, by the Bohemian Brothers: arranged as a Rondo for the Piano Forte, and dedicated to Miss M. Blake (of Athboy), by T. A. Rawlings. Published by T. Welsh, at the Harmonic Institution.

THIS is the old German tune, to which Kalkbrenner put very ingenious and pleasing variations, and which F. Griesbach used to play as the theme of a rondo to one of his Oboe Concertos, but now revived by Mr. Welsh, for his Bohemian Brothers. Rawlings has offered a spirited Introduction to it (in B flat 3-4 time) and adapted three lively variations after it. Thus the title is a misnomer, the publication being an Air varied, and not a Rondo. It presents a gay, playful, and rather easy piece, well adapted for the Piano Forte, and those who teach upon it.

of quartering the cavalry which prevails

in his Ma

jesty's Hanoverian dominions. In time of peace
the actual service falls lightly, some regiments having
five months, others three months' service in the year,
leaving them, in the one case, seven, in the other
nine months' furlough. During the season of exer-
cise, the horsemen assemble first in thirds of compa-

nies, then by squadrons, and lastly, by regiments;
during the rest of the year there is no assembling,
except in extraordinary cases, and the only service
performed is that of the guard to the staff. During
this time they are cantoned so widely that generally
there are not two cavalry men in the same village;
while the half, or two-thirds, of the men are at
their homes. on leave, with their horses. A single
regiment in cantonment will thus occupy a space of
one hundred square miles. The men in the villages
right to demand of his landlord, first, an airy bed-
are billeted on the householders, and each has a
room, furnished with a bed, table, two chairs, and a
his host; a stall for his horse, and a place to hang
shelf; and a seat by the fire, land near the candle of
his accoutrements; for his food he may enter into an
agreement with his landlord, and this arrangement
is the more easily made since the soldier may serve
the landlord in all that does not interfere with the
public service. If the two parties cannot agree to
terms, the soldier is obliged to provide for himself;

but,

withstanding this, at the end of seven months he could not move without crutches. Immediately after his fall, he felt a remarkable aversion for several

kinds of food, of which he had before been fond, the contrary, which had been disagreeable to him especially sugar, milk, and wine; other things on before, as beer, &c. became palatable. The author attributed these effects to a concussion of the spinal marrow, occasioned by the fall.

ROYAL PRESENTS TO GERMAN AUTHORS.Herr von Schlegel, the author of the Ecclesiastical History of Northern Germany and the Hanoverian

States, has been honoured with a gold snuff-box from the King of England and Hanover, in token of his Majesty's approbation of that work: and Herr Döring of Frankfort has been presented with a beautifully worked gold cup, from the Duchess of Clarence, as an acknowledgment of the pleasure received by her Royal Highness from his last novel 'Sonnenberg.'

History of England has been translated into German GERMAN TRANSLATION OF LINGARD.-Lingard's by the Baron von Salis, and published in ten volumes at Frankfort.

THE FRENCH ARMY. - Proportions of various callings in every one hundred of the contingent for 4; in leather 3; in stone, including miners 4; agricul1827:-Men employed in works in wood 7; in iron boatmen and sailors 2; other callings 23; persons tural labourers 48; writers or shopmen 2; tailors 2; without profession living on their means 5. The proportions of the three preceding years offer nearly the same results. The average of the various stature ed as follows:-between 570 and 651 millimètres * 1828, prov37; between 652 and 678, 19; between 679 and 705, 17; between 706 and 733, 12; between 734 and 787, 12; 788 and above, 3.

in every hundred, in the examinations of in that case, the host is required to furnish him

with salt, pepper, and vinegar, and the use of the
his cooking at the same time as his host, and to
ordinary utensils. The soldier is required to do
provide his own beverage; he is to be allowed
dry forage, consisting of ten pounds of hay, and
five pounds of straw for litter, the landlord to have
the dung. The inconveniences of this disper-
sion of the cavalry in Hanover are less felt than they
might be elsewhere, from the peculiar circumstances
of the country, in which the education of the horses
is carried to great perfection, and where the esteem
in which the animals are held, and the knowledge
necessary in the care of them, is very great and
widely diffused. The cavalry service is, in fact,
very popular, and the sons of rich peasants engage
in it voluntarily, in the fear that the conscription
might send them to the infantry.
conceived also, that the cavalry man, with his horse,
is not the most insignificant person in the village,
and if he will consent to work for his host, he is well
paid. The cavalry man on furlough, on returning
with his horse in good condition, is allowed a sum
per month adequate to
animal. The service of the Hanoverian cavalry men
is generally of ten years' duration. A similar ar-
rangement is adopted in the distribution of the
Danish cavalry, and in the Swedish also; but in the
latter, the dispersion is still wider, in consequence of
the greater distance between inhabited places.

It may easily sily be

the payment for grass for the

SCIENTIFIC JOURNEY TO MOUNT ARARAT.Dr. Frederick Parrot, of the University of Dorpat, is about to undertake, and by this time probably has commenced a scientific journey to the Ararat, accompanied by an astronomer, a mir.eralogist, a zoologist, and a botanist, and by several students of the university, who pay their own expenses. The Em-peror of Russia, when made acquainted with this intention, gave orders to despatch a chasseur, to be in constant attendance on the travellers during the expedition: and he moreover ordered a proper pocket chronometer, from the Imperial Institute of St. Petersburg, to be sent after them.

REMARKABLE CONSEQUENCES OF A FALL.-Doctor Stegman, in a work entitled 'Medical Observations,' mentions the following curious effects produced by a fall, a case in which he was himself the sufferer. He fell from an inconsiderable height on the floor. The force of the blow affected principally the major trochanter of the right thigh, but there was neither fracture nor dislocation; not

* Millimètre 0.03937 in.

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England, France, Germany, and Italy, is to be pub. THE Golden Lyre; or, Specimens of the Poets of lished again this year, by Mr. Hans.

ex.

A volume of Autobiography, by Sir James Turner,
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preparing by the Bannatyne Club. The
Insurrection in Scotland in 1666. A few copies will be
tend from 1633 to 1670, comprising a full narration of the
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which numerals and letters are substituted for the names
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RIGINAL LETTERS illustrative of ENGLISH HISTORY, including numerous ROY AL LETTERS from AUTOGRAPHS in the British Museum and one or two other Collections, with Notes and Illustrations. By HENRY ELLIS, F. R. S. Sec. S. A. Keeper of the Manuscripts in the British Museum.

If antiquaries in the fortunate situation of Mr. Ellis, intrusted with the keeping of Literary and Historical treasures, would, like him, give up to the humbler but important duties of Editors, a portion of the time which they are too fond of devoting entirely to abstruse speculations upon points connected with their favourite pursuits, the world of letters would gain incalculably by their la. bours. Instead of one man of learning, or a few such men, exhausting their ingenuity upon the materials within their reach, while the rest of the world were excluded from the inquiry, the whole force of the literary community would be brought to bear upon the whole fund of disquisition, and the rich treasures now in a great measure hid from the public eye, would become both accessible to all competent workmen, and, through them, available to the use of mankind at large. The gratitude of the republic of letters is therefore, as it appears to us, eminently due to Mr. Ellis for setting so good an example; and we trust, he will be encouraged by the pub. li in such a manner as may both make him persevere in the same course, and induce others to follow him.' Edinburgh Review.

We have now but to say, that we are delighted with these volumes, and to recommend them altogether as deserving of the utmost public favour; for entertaining narrative for curious illustration_for the correc.ness of long received historical theories for the development of famous characters for the discovery of new and important facts-and, in short, for every thing that renders such a Collection interesting in a country that is keenly alive to the value of such researches. 'Lit. Gaz.

• We take leave of Mr. Ellis, with many thanks for his valuable publication.'-British Critic.

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To the Athenæum and Literary Chronicle,

Revolutions in Europe, (Crichton) 135

State of Van Diemen's Land, (Widowson) 8
Vindication of Niebuhr against the Quarterly Review, (J. C.

Hare) 183

MEMOIRS.

Ellis Correspondence, the, 2

History of Napoleon, (Lockhart) 279

Life of Alexander the Great, (Williams) 370

Selkirk, (Howell) 6

Archbishop Cranmer, (Sargant) 260

Archbishop Laud, (Lawson) 40, 51

-, &c. of Geiler Von Kaisersberg, (Von Ammon) 131

and Works of Sir P. Sidney, (Gray) 226

Louis XVIII. his Court and Reign, (Mde. Du Cayla) 358

Memoirs of the Countess Dubarri, 150

Empress Josephine, 4

General Miller, 243

Vidocq, 38

Public Characters, 38

Twelve Years' Military Adventure, 18

A Heart for Sale, 168

MUSIC.

'A Wanderer I,' (Sinclair) 332

'Ah che Forse,' (Kiallmark) 334

Alice Gray, 104

Canst thou forget me?" (Barnett) 334
Come live with me and be my love,' 72
'Deck not with gems,' (Turnbull) 334
Echo Trio, (Parry) 40

Echoes of the Alps (Moscheles) 120

Flow gentle Deva,' (Parry) 279

'I'd be a Dove,' 40

'I'm an arch little black-eyed daughter,' (Sinclair) 270

'I see them on their winding way,' 72

'If words of love offend thee, Duett, (F. F. Mott) 312

Jenny Gray, (Welsh,) 365

La Petite Capricieuse, 279

La Villanella, (Danza Campestre) 104

Lassie, let us stray together,' 8

Les Bagatelles, (Cramer) 232

Lodge's Canzonets, 344

My Fatherland, (Barnett) 232

'My heart is with thee,' (Gibbon) 279

'Oh! come, dear Louisa!' 104

'Oh, come with me! I'll row thee o'er,' 120

Overture to 'Monsieur Mallet,' (Barnett) 120

'Qui me neglige me perd,' (Barnett) 168

Rise, gentle Moon,' (Barnett) 279

Rond's Polacca, (Chalieu) 168

Songs of the Minstrels, (Barnett) 312

The Alpine Herdsman, (F. Stockhausen) 376

The Blue Harebell, 40

'The bright, the golden Sunbeam,' (Von Winter) 365

The Christmas Box, (Challoner) 168

The Evening Primrose, (Lacy) 365

'The red rose is queen of the garden bower,' (Barnett) 271

They tell me thou hast gone from me,' 40

When morning light is gently breaking,' (Auber) 365

'Why does my mother say, Beware? 270

'Wilt thou meet me there, love?' (Hime) 334
Zuleika's Rose, 8

MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL PHILOSOPHY, &c.
Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind, (Mill) 373
Conversations on Intellectual Philosophy, 135

Imaginary Conversations, 2nd Series, (Landor) 325, 341, 354

FROM JANUARY TO JULY, 1829.

ORIGINAL ARTICLES.

NARRATIVES AND DESCRIPTIONS.

CONFESSIONS of a Trifler, 43

Danube, Summer Excursion on the, 154
Day at the University of Cambridge, 17
Delaborde's Travels in the Levant, 10, 59
Extracts from my Nephew's Diary, 281

Fire in Holborn, a, 29

Formhater, the, 105

French Characters-the Journalist, 209; the Commercial Tra-
veller, 301; the Advocate of the 19th Century, 377

Giraffe, the, 109

Gold Mines of the Ural, 106

Governesses, 91

Herrnhut, 108

Human Life, Sketch of, 73

Hungerfords, the, a Family Sketch, 298

Jesuits, the, 139

Last Three Days of a Suicide, 348

Leo XII., 123

Lisbon, Notes on, 9, 74

Memoir of a Popular Author lately Deceased, 393
Modern English Wit-Diners-out, 97; the Bar, 129
Roman Fragments-the Amphitheatre, 41

Rome and the Popedom, Notes on, (1829,) 265

Tripoli, Present State of, 267

Ural Cossacks and Kirgishes, Visit to the, 203

TALES AND APOLOGUES.

Arachne, a Meditation, 297

Freemason, the, 155

Ghaist, the, an auld Scots Tale, 25

Herbert a Tale, 233

Lycian Painter, the, 193

Melita, a Fragment of Greek Romance, 398

Miner's Bride, the, 383, 399

Story without a Name-the Country Clergyman, 121; Educa-

tion, 137; Visits to the Parsonage, 170, 190; A Village Cha-
racter, 219, 250, 266; Odd Chapter, 313

Atlantis, 207

An Italian Story, 284

POETRY.

A man of blanched and fearful eld,' 122

Boat, the, 281

Curate, the, a Tale, 330, 350, 394

Clouds, 157

Discontent and Correction, 252

Dream of the West Wind, 346

Epistle to a Friend, 235

Evening, 316

Fallen Leaves, 104

Flower-girl, the, 378

Hampstead Heath, 394

Introductory Canto to & Poem about Something, 56

Invitation, the, 298

'It is a weary hill,' 218

Last Song, the, 219

Letter to

-, 265

Lines, 185

Love tenacious of Life, 248

Oh! would I were a bird!' 316

On a Musical Snuff-box, 268

Society of British Artists, Exhibition of the, 206, 221, 237
Painters in Water-colours, Exhibition of the, 282

Spanish Bazaar, the, 352

Thom's Tam O'Shanter and Souter Johnny, 268
Turner's Drawings, Exhibition of, 347, 363
Universities of Italy, 44

University of Louvain, 186

Wilkinson's (Miss) Concert, 302

MISCELLANEOUS.

An After-dinner Conversation, 385

Another Mysterious Dialogue, 305

Athenian Scene, 333

Autographs, 225

Brougham's Education Bill, 369

Duke of Orleans and Sir Oliver Kynaston, Dialogue between

the, 353

Fashionable Novelists, Use of the Cold Season to, 49

Foreign Reviews, the, 1

Horæ Hispanicæ Pablo de Aspedes, 106

Hum Chi Bung, or Practical Considerations on Roads, 92

Italian Mode of Instruction, 122

King's College, Seceders from the, 236

Ladies of England, Conduct to be adopted by the, in the pre-

sent awful Crisis, 126

Literary Market in England, 33

Literature in Holland, Rise and Progress of, 57

May-Time, a Word in Season, 332

Modern Oratory, 161, 184, 203

Monti and the Italian Writers of the 18th Century, 58
Passing of the Bill, the, a new Tragedy, by Mr. Shiel, 249
Philosophical Discussion, a, 28

Political Economy, Conversations on, 257

Post in France, Origin and Establishment of the, 26
Primary Parents of the Human Race, 366

Proposal for the Consideration of Mr. Peel, 11

Querist, the, 234

Reformation and Revolution in England, 81
Reigning Princes of Asia, (1828) 222

Russian Literature, 44

State Papers, 107

Senate of Cambridge, Letter to the, on the Election, 345

Shakspeare's Songs, 145

Sir Walter Scott and Goethe, 329

Spanish Refugees, Education of the, 41

Sporting Reminiscences: My First Grouse, 27,89; Maxims, 153

Swan River, Literature of the, 361

Waverley and Anne of Geierstein, 337

Novels, new Edition of the, 113

REVIEWS.

ANATOMY, MEDICINE, AND SURGERY.

Deformity of the Spine in Females, (Duffin) 200
Essay on the Connection between the Action of the Heart and

Arteries, &c., (Swan) 360

Fractures, (Amesbury) 31

Manual for Invalids, 152

Origin of Life, Cause of Diseases, &c. (James Morrison,
Hygeist) 8

EDUCATION.

Art of Writing, (Carstairs) 104

Etablissemens pour l'Education Publique en Bavarie, dans le
Wurtemberg, et dans le Pays de Bade, &c. (M. Loudon) 245

On Visiting the Protestant Burial-ground at Rome, by Moon- Female Education, Madame Niederer on, 858
light, 186

Sonnets, 8, 72, 104, 111, 186, 207, 281

To a Lady, (in Italian) 186

Scene from a Drama, 185

Statues, the, 362

'To Cliff and Peak the Falcon flies,' 219

To Julian, 207

Two Visits to a Grave, 138

Wind, the, 207

PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, LECTURES, CONCERTS,

EXHIBITIONS, &c.

Biber's (Dr.) Lectures on Education, 248

Bochsa's (Mr.) Concert, 396

British Institution, the, 75, 93, 205, 363, 396

Carew's Groups of Sculpture, 265

Burford's (Mr.) Pandemonium. 253

Colosseum, the, 45

Diorama, the, 351

History of the Hamiltonian System, (Hamilton) 273, 295, 308
Italian Pronunciation, (F. C. Albites) 118

Infant Schools, Letters on, 104, 164

Investigation of Professor Hurwitz's Introductory Lecture at
the London University, (Bennett) 40

Letter to Sir Alexander Malet, Bart., on Fagging, 7

Nature Displayed, &c., (Dufief) 248

Universities and Public Schools, 23

FINE ARTS.

Catalogue Raisonné of Dutch, Flemish and French Painters,
&c., (Smith, Picture-dealer) 291

Draught Horses (Giller after Cooper) 335

Duke of Clarence, (Hill after Wivell) 397

Elizabeth Duchess of Devonshire, (Lewis after Lawrence) 335

George the Fourth, (Finden) 152

Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery, (Batty) 335

Historical Painting, (Haydon) 40

Lectures on Sculpture, (Flaxman) 357, 375

London Characters, (Cruickshank) 397

Girard's Picture of the Coronation at Rheims, 364
Guildhall Concert for the Spanish and Italian Refugees, 220, Passage of the Red Sea, (Phillips after Danby) 152
239; for the Spitalfields Weavers, 286

Haydon's Picture of Eucles, 253; of the Passover, 268

Hosking's Lectures on Architecture, 42, 157

King's College, 13

King's Concert Room, 317, 351

Kruseman's Picture of the Holy Family, 398

Law Institution, 365

Lodge's Portraits, 284

Medico-Botanical Society, the, 62, 143

Montgomery Gallery, the, 222

Muhlenfels' (Prof. L. U.) Lectures on German, 90

New Hall at Christ's Hospital, 347

Philharmonic Society, the, 76, 140, 172, 206, 238, 286, 318, 364,379
Pictures, Sale of, by Mr. Forster, 397

Royal Academy, Exhibition at the, 233, 299, 315, 331, 362-Lec-
tures at the; Westmacott on Sculpture, 108; on the Elgin
Marbles, 138; the Armour of Pyrrhus, 172; Phillips on
Painting, 124, 204.

Royal Institution, Lectures at the Farraday on Brunel's
Block-Machinery, 300; Mason on Wood-Engraving, 316;
Farraday on the Effects of Vibration on Elastic Bodies, 332;
Singer on Etruscan Vases, 350; Dr. Clarke on the Ascent
of Mont Blanc, 362; Farraday on Optical Glass, 379

Pope Pius VII., (Cousins after Lawrence) 397

Princess Victoria, (Woolnoth) 152

Scaramouch's Last Pinch, (Allen after Stothard) 335
Selection of Architectural and other Ornaments, &c., (Jenkins
and Hosking) 392

Views of Gentlemen's and Noblemen's Seats, (Neale) 89
William Kennedy, Esq., (Franklin after Henderson) 397
York Minster, (Harwood) 152

HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, ANTIQUITIES, AND LAW.
Antiquities of North America, (Assall and Mone) 86
Atlas of Grecian History, (Green) 215

Children's History of England, 72
Conspiration de Babeuf, 5

Contreprojet to the Humphreysian Code, (Parke) 66
Cours d'Histoire Moderne, (Guizot) 37

Hermes Britannicus, (Bowles) 8

Historical Game of England, 119
History of Russia, (Segur) 194

Holy Writ illustrated from Egyptian Monuments, (Lanci) 102

Law of Literary Property, (Maugham) 19

Le Livre Noir, or Alphabetical Repertory of French Police, 180
Lingard's History of England, 69

PERIODICALS.

American Annual Register, 84

Annual Register of Useful Arts, 99
Cambrian Quarterly Magazine, 72

Censor, the, 72

Foreign Quarterly Review, 136, 334
Law Magazine, 136

London Review, 117, 360

Weekly Register of the London Mechanics' Institution, 216

POETRY AND POETICS,

Age, the, a Poem, 259

All for Love, &c., (Southey) 274

Bernays' German Anthology, 136

Belgic Pastorals, (Glasse) 40

Caswallon, (Walker) 82

Dews of Castalie, (Johns) 8

Drama of Spain, 146

Flowers of Fancy, (Schultes) 167

Harp of Innisfail, 114

Historical Survey of German Poetry, Vol. II,. (Taylor, Nor-
wich) 261

Legendary Cabinet, Ballads, Ancient and Modern, (Parry) 177
Montmorency, a Drama, (H. W. Montagu) 52

Opening of the Sixth Seal, 85

Poems-Indian Reminiscences of Sir Toby Rendrag, 247

Poesias de J. F. Madrid, 120

Repentance and other Poems, (M. A. Browne) 213

Scenes of War, (Malcolm) 5

Tragedies of Æschylus in English Prose, 104

Vision of Noureddin, 292

POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.

Blake on the Catholic Question, 72

Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, (Southey)

289, 321

French Chambers of Legislature, 71
Lectures on Population, (Senior) 248

Letters to Lord Colchester on the Catholic Question, (Lord
Redesdale) 130

Parks and Palaces, 72

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY AND PHI-

LOSOPHY.

Analytic Phisiology, (S. Hood, M.D.) 55

Anecdotes of Dogs, (Brown) 312

Chemical Catechism, (Graham, M.D.) 246

Chemical Tests, (Maugham) 36

Distribution Primitive du Genre Humain, (Bory de St. Vin- Marten, the, 271

cent) 262

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Library of Religious Knowledge, 102

Popular Premises Examined, &c. (Dillon) 72

Portrait of a Christian Gentleman, (Roberts) 199

Sermons-E. Irving, 184; Bishop Heber, 213

What is the one true Faith? 53

TRAVELS, TOURS, VOYAGES, &c.

Clapperton's Second Expedition to Africa, 100

Constantinople in 1828 (M'Farlane) 386

Journal of an Embassy to Ava, (Crawfurd) 306

Journey from Calcutta. viâ Egypt, &c. (Mrs. Lushington) 342

Letters from an Eastern Colony, 70

Letters from the Egean, (Emmerson) 50
Narrative of a Journey through Norway, &c., (Derwent Con-
way) 227

Portugal Illustrated, (Kinsey) 132

Travels in Arabia, (Burckhardt) 98, 115

USEFUL ARTS AND STATISTICS.

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POLITICAL, HISTORICAL, AND BIOGRAPHICAL.

Ancient Ireland, 63

Ballad Influence, 14

Cruden's Batchelor's Reasons, 15

Honorius, Emperor, 63

Husbandmen Soldiers, 111

Impaling, 15

Ireland, formerly called Scotia, 111
Irish Cannibals, 15

Newton and Stillingfieet, 15

Mahomet's Politics, 14

Picts in Ireland, 14

Poor Laws in Switzerland, 63

Welsh Traditions of Noah, 111

St. Patrick Non-existent, 111

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL.

Cole's Manuscripts, 15

MYTHOLOGICAL AND MAGICAL.

Magicians' Feats, 111

Marine Incantations, 14

Origin of Demi-Gods, 14

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Beaux' Stratagem, the, at Covent Garden, 13

Reggar's Opera Reversed, at Covent Garden, 380

Black-eyed Susan, at the Surrey, 381

Blasis' (Madile.) Appearance at the King's Theatre, 158

Caswallon, at Drury Lane, 45, 62

Close of the French Performances at the Lyceum, 395

Devil's Elixir, at Covent Garden, 254

Elliston, (Mr.) as Rover, in 'Wild Oats,' at the Surrey, 62

First and Last Representation of 'The Casket,' at Drury Lane,

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MAZOLOGY.

Apes irrational, 78
Baboon, 141

Food of Bats, 46
Giraffe, the, 46

Hedge-hog, the, 175

Toed Horses, 46

SAURIOLOGY.

English Crocodiles, 78

Water-newt, the, 174

ANTHROPOLOGY.

Colour of the Eyes, 78

Hypochondria, 46

Singular Glutton, 78

Great Dragon of Antiquity, 223

Insensibility to Pain, 271

Singular Woman at Marseilles, 46

VEGETABLE MECHANICS, GEOGRAPHY, AND

Forests, 78

CHEMISTRY.

Green Colour of Vegetables, 141

Mosses, 141

Perception in Plants, 78

Plants of the Polar and Temperate Regions, 46

Sensitive Plant of Australia, 46

BOTANY.

Alpine Flowers, 79

Flora Virgiliana, 47

Love of Flowers, 271

OROLOGY.

Mount Sorata. 47; Illemain, 79

GEOLOGY.

Extinct Animals, 271

Fuel of Volcanoes, 79

Submergence of the Continents, 46

MINERALOGY.

American Coal, 79

Gold-washing, 46

NEPHEOLOGY.

Arched Clouds, 47

METEOROLOGY.

Change in Climate, 47

AGRICULTURE.

Scots Farmer's Weed-fine, 79

To render Meat Tender, 47

MISCELLANEOUS.

CULINARY CHEMISTRY.

Cedars of Lebanon in England, 382

Colour of Hydrophytes, 381

Rivers in Floods, 79

Eggs of the Snake, 174

Fancy Woods, 382

Insect-Eaters in France, 140

Shower of Snails near Bristol, 174

Travelling of Muscle-shells, 141,

Vegetation at different Epochs of the Globe's Crust, 382

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POPULAR LITERATURE.

A Poet's Feelings, 13

POETICAL.

Ben Jonson inspired by Wine, 62

Cowley's Confession, 110; his Ode to Brutus, 255

Dawn of Spring, 110

Elysium, 110

Home, 255

Plagiarism, 13

Sir Walter Scott and Gall, 13

SENTIMENTAL, ORATORICAL, RHETORICAL,

ROMANTIC, PICTURESQUE, &c.

A Night Storm, 255

Alpine Scenery, 14

Ambition, 63

Chasm River, 159

Contempt of Death, 14

Dovedale, 110

Father Gregory, 14
Freedom, 13

Heath-beds, 14

Light Sentiments, 63

Love, 13, 63

of Danger, 63

Parental Love, 255

Reasonable Melancholy, 110

Remorse, 255

Scene in the Blue Mountains, 858

Separation, 158

Simple and Florid Style, 14

Vale of Urseren, 63

Verbiage, 110

Vice and Virtue, 13

Words, 63

Youth, 110

CRITICAL AND SCHOLASTIC.

Anah's Mules, 63

Asses' Ears of Cræsus, 110

Bray a Fool in a Mortar, 14

Carthaginian and Irish, 14

Lot's Drunkenness, 110

St. Jerome's Translation of the Scriptures, 255

MUSICAL.

Baltzar and Prof. Wilson, 63

Early Opera in London, 14

Mrs. Salmon, 14

Musical Impressment, 63, 110

Devil's Dinner, 14

Divinity of Agnes, 14

LUDICROUS.

Ranz des Vaches, or Home, sweet Home, at Covent Gar-

den, 191

Ricciardo e Zoraide, at the King's Theatre, 222
Shakspeare's Heroines, 94

Smithson's (Miss) appearance at Covent Garden, as Jane

Shore, 303

Sontag's (Madlle.) appearance at the King's Theatre, as Cene-
rentola, 302; as Semiramide, 317; as Amenaide, 395

Tate's Improvements in Lear, 207

Thierna na-Oge, and Les deux Alcides, at Drury Lane, 253
Vaque Moulin's (Mad.) Obtuse-angled Pirouettes, 270
Zucchelli's Benefit at the King's Theatre, 364

VARIETIES.

These will be found in the following pages:-8, 12, 15, 30, 37
47, 60, 61, 76, 79, 93, 94, 111, 120, 126, 127, 138, 139, 143, 15te
173, 232, 239, 248, 254, 268, 269, 270, 272, 287, 303, 318, 3
365, 366, 367, 382, 398, 400,

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