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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.

THE DRAMA.

King's Theatre.

Venit summa dies! Mademoiselle Sontag has enraptured us for the last time! She took her farewell of an English audience on Saturday night, after a representation of the opera of Otello, having added to her laurels by a quick succession of very varied and talented performances, the two final ones of the train being those which we have now to notice.

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 her-
self. Upon her entrata, the duet with Masetto,
'Giovinette che fate all' amore,' was encored, of
course, and deservedly, for her animation was be-
yond 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 labit, or the furore of the
uight, 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, cer-
tainly, 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 sus-
pect, the audience on the latter occasion was one
of a different and more phlegmatic temperament.

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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 Strange to say, the house on Saturday evening of Donna Elvira. These changes, we regret to was not crammed to suffocation. Perhaps the say, have been rendered necessary by the continued town had thinned in the intermediate time, or had indisposition of Madame Malibran, a circumstance, grown philosophical and loved analogies, so that it for which we cannot be consoled by those novelties was led to believe there would be another last to which it has thus given rise. For the most part, night of Matiemoiselle Sontag's performance,' bethe opera has lost much of its effect by the trans- cause such had been the case in the year 1828. position of the personaggi. Mademoiselle Blasis But this was not all. The temper of the audience sank rather below the average of her merit, and was cold, and never betrayed into one burst of adfailed to throw either brilliancy or interest into the miration throughout the evening, if we except that character now assigned to her. And witnessing at the close of the opera itselt. Perhaps the very this failure, we could not help recollecting the great character of Desdemona prohibits the casual and comparative beauty of the performance, both last isolated expressions of applause, which are too year, (when Mademoiselle Sontag supported Mad. frequently taken as the tests of a performer's merits. Malibran in the principal part,) and in the The music, as well as the dramatic interest of the former representations of our present season. Nei- part, is too continuous and unbroken, to leave room ther does Mademoiselle Monticelli at all improve for halting places where one may stop and gaze upon acquaintance. Indeed, it surprises us that around, and say, this is good or, though we upon her first debut in England, there ever could deny the fact, it may be, that Mademoiselle Sonhave existed that lenient, and almost favourable tag's representation of the character is not a favorite impression of her qualifications which tempted an with the public. Another possible cause of the audience to sit out the opera of La Donna dei absence of much fervor, on the part of the audience, Lago,' with so lamentable a representative of the may have been their discontent at the compression heroine. Her gait and action are the most ungainly of the opera for the sake of brevity, by which means we know; her voice is feebler than ever; and she some of the most beautiful portions, especially the has not even the skill to disguise its incapacity, or first appearance of Desdemona, and the air Oh! omit the passages which are beyond its power. quante lagrine,' were squeezed out. The conThough not so good a singer, Grazziani is a far clusion of the opera suffered terribly by the same more lively and judicious actor than Porto; and process. Every thing after the murder of Desdehis figure, costume, and general bearing through inona is lopped off, and this amputation both dehis part of Masetto, had an appropriateness that prives us of some beautiful music, and serves to was certainly an improvement upon former times. terminate the drama at a point of too intense Signor Donzelli, the hero of the play, perhaps fails interest,-when the emotions require some restorato give his character the prominence which, in tive, some sequel, to recal them to their ordinary most cases, is sure to attend him; but if this be degree of calmness. De mortuis nil, &c. But so, he at the same time avoids many of the ble-for this impulse, we should be tempted to quarrel mishes which disfigure his execution of Rossini's music; his 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 Auna. Accordingly, she encountered a welcome more hearty than ever greeted her before. From first to

with Mademoiselle Sontag for one or two pecu-
liarities in the course of the performance. But
she is no more to come under our animadversion-
whether 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 noto-
riety, more perhaps from captiousness or ostenta-
tion, 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 sepa= rate 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 meteor,-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 comprises 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 principal 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 pre served 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 re mains 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 indicating their existence, and with adding that the former has been much commended, both by The Times' and Literary Gazette.'

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Mélanges 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 Cramer'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 au

ditors 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 cele-
brated Song, 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 baga-
telle, requiring a voice of only nine notes, including
the E on the first, and F on the fifth lines.

MISCELLANIES.

HANOVERIAN AND DANISH SYSTEM OF QUARthe following account of the curious primitive mode TERING CAVALRY.-A recent German work gives of quartering the cavalry which prevails in his Majesty'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 cise, the horsemen assemble first in thirds of companine months' furlough. During the season of exernies, 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 are billeted on the householders, and each has a right to demand of his landlord, first, an airy bedroom, furnished with a bed, table, two chairs, and a shelf; and a seat by the fire, land near the candle of his host; a stall for his horse, and a place to hang 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, 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 dispersion 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 ALTHOUGH we have had opportunities of review-in which the animals are held, and the knowledge ing a large number of Dressler's publications for the necessary in the care of them, is very great and flute, in the Athenæum,' we have not before met widely diffused. The cavalry service is, in fact, with a more useful and pleasing work for the amateur very popular, and the sons of rich peasants engage flautist than that before us. Twelve interesting in it voluntarily, in the fear that the conscription scraps, each occupying a page, form the work, might send them to the infantry. It may easily be of which the following is a brief catalogue, viz. 1. conceived also, that the cavalry man, with his horse, A French Air, (formed upon the melody known as O no we never mention her,'). 2. Rode's cele- and if he will consent to work for his host, he is well is not the most insignificant person in the village, brated Air,-sung by Catalani and Sontag. 3, A fa- paid. The cavalry man on furlough, on returning miliar Swiss melody. 4. Mayseder's popular Air, with his horse in good condition, is allowed a sum op. 40, as performed by De Beriot. 5. La Suis- per month adequate to the payment for grass for the sesse au bord du lac 6. 'We're a' noddin.' 7. animal. The service of the Hanoverian cavalry men Mozart's menuet, in Don Giovanni. 8. Buona is generally of ten years' duration. A similar arnotte,' a Venetian Air. 9. The hermit's Song, in rangement is adopted in the distribution of the Weber's Der Freyschutz. 10. Come Dolce,' from Danish cavalry, and in the Swedish also; but in the Rossini's Tancredi. 11. For tenderness formed.' latter, the dispersion is still wider, in consequence of And 12. The Andante movement, from Haydn's the greater distance between inhabited places. No. I. of his twelve grand Symphonies.

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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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 ut 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.

withstanding this, at the end of seven months he could not move without crutches. Immediately after kinds of food, of which he had before been fond, his fall, he felt a remarkable aversion for several 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.History of Northern Germany and the Hanoverian Herr von Schlegel, the author of the Ecclesiastical 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.'

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

ings in every one hundred of the contingent for
THE FRENCH ARMY.-Proportions of various call-
1827:-Men employed in works in wood 7; in iron
4; in leather 3; in stone, including miners 4; agricul-
boatmen and sailors 2; other callings 23; persons
tural labourers 48; writers or shopmen 2; tailors 2;
proportions of the three preceding years offer nearly
without profession living on their means 5. The
in every hundred, in the examinations of 1828, prov-
the same results. The average of the various stature
ed as follows:-between 570 and 651 millimètres*
37; between 652 and 678, 19; between 679 and 705,
787, 12; 788 and above, 3.
17; between 706 and 733, 12; between 734 and

* Millimètre 0.03937 in.

LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.

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.

A volume of Autobiography, by Sir James Turner, the prototype of Sir Walter Scott's Captain Dalgetty, is tend from 1633 to 1670, comprising a full narration of the preparing by the Bannatyne Club. The Memoirs exInsurrection in Scotland in 1666. A few copies will be printed for sale.

A Map of England and Wales, upon a new plan, in which numerals and letters are substituted for the names Explanatory Key. To be published by Messrs. Dymond of places and rivers, the former being used to denote the places, while the latter designate the rivers. With an and Dawson, of Exeter.

The Heraldry of Crests,' 18mo., containing 3500 Crests, from Engravings by the late J. P. Elven; with the bearer's names alphabetically arranged, and remarks, historical and explanatory; forming a companion to 'Clarke's Easy Introduction to the Study of Heraldry.'

The author of The Revolt of the Bees' is about to Coloquies on the Errors and Improvements of Society.' to publish Hambden in the Nineteenth Century, or

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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 mineralogist, a zoologist, and a botanist, and by several students of the university, who pay their own expenses. The Emperor of Russia, when made acquainted with this intention, gave orders to despatch a chasseur, to be in constant attendance on the travellers during the exTHIS is the old German tune, to which Kalkbren-pedition: and he moreover ordered a proper pocket fair. ner put very ingenious and pleasing variations, and chronometer, from the Imperial Institute of St. which F. Griesbach used to play as the theme of a Petersburg, to be sent after them. 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.

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.

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Rain, with much lightning and thunder from 1 till half

Mean temp. 65; Mean atmospheric pressure 29 92. Nights past 3 on Saturday morning.

Highest temperature at noon, 770.

Astronomical Observations.

Sun entered Leo on Thursday at 5 h. 1 m. A.M.
Mercury at his greatest elongation on Sunday.
Venus's geocentric longitude on Sunday, 21° 18' in Leo.
Mars's
Jupiter's
Sun's
Length of day 15 h. 38 m.

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10° 9' in Leo.

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50 28' in Sagitt.

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8° 8'in Leo.

Décreased 55 m. Real night

began on Sunday.
Sun's horary motion on Sunday, 2′23′′. Logarithmic num
of distance, .006792.

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To the Athenæum and Literary Chronicle,

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

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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

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Foreign Reviews, the, 1

Hore Hispanica-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

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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
Female Education, Madame Niederer on, 858

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

Passage of the Red Sea, (Phillips after Danby) 152

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

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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

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'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

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'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
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 Eschylus 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

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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

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Apes irrational, 78
Baboon, 141'
Food of Bats, 46
Giraffe, the, 46

Hedge-hog, the, 175

Marten, the, 271

MAZOLOGY.

Toed Horses, 46

SAURIOLOGY.

English Crocodiles, 79

Great Dragon of Antiquity, 223

Water-newt, the, 174

ANTHROPOLOGY.

Colour of the Eyes, 78

Hypochondria, 46

Insensibility to Pain, 271

Singular Glutton, 78

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

Alpine Flowers, 79

Flora Virgiliana, 47

Love of Flowers, 271

BOTANY.

OROLOGY.

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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' (Madlle.) 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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Nymph of the Grotto, at Covent Garden, 45

Opening of the King's Theatre, 77; of the Haymarket, 381; of
Vauxhall Gardens, 396

Pasta and Malibran compared in Desdemona, 269

Paton, (Miss) as Rebecca, in The Maid of Judah, 159, 173
Pemberton, (Mr.) as Virginius, 42; as Shylock, 58

Perlet's (M.) appearance at the Lyceum, 158; in the Malade
Imaginaire, 174

Peter the Great, at the two Patent Theatres, 127

Phillips, (Miss) as Isabella, in Measure for Measure, 142; as
Lady Townly, 191; as Belvidere, 239

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

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