442 New Publications, with Critical Remarks. moved; and thus the interests of literature, as well as of justice, have obtained a complete triumph. It is curious to see what a frivolous ground the Irish lawyers took for their defence; and the specimen here given of their pleadings affords a rare example of legal quibbling. A Digest of the Rules and Practice as to Interrogatories for the Examination of Witnesses in Courts of Equity and Common Law, with Precedents. By John Walpole Willis, of Gray's Inn, esq. 8vo. 10s. 6d. Six Letters on Mr. Preston's Treatise on Conveyancing. By a West Country Attorney. 3s. Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Court of Chancery during the time of Lord Chancellor Eldon, containing Michael. mas and Hilary Terms, 66 Geo. III. 181516. By J. H. Merivale, esq. of Lincoln's Inn, barrister. Vol. I. Part I. 7s. 6d. Speech of Charles Phillips, esq. barrister. as delivered at Galway, April 1, 1816, in the Case of O'Mullin v. M'Korkill, for Defamation. 15. The Doctrine and Practice of Attachment in the Mayor's Court, London. By Robert Woolsey, gent. 7s. 6d. General Index to the Old Law Reports, No. II. 7s. A Free Inquiry into the Insolvent Act, with an Introduction of some New Clauses. By J. Clayton Jennyns, esq. barrister at law. 3s. 6d. The Law of Infancy and Coverture. By Peregrine Bingham. 8vo. 14s. Digest of the Law of Partnership. By Basil Montagu, esq. of Gray's Inn, barrister at law. 2 vols. roy. 8vo. 11. Is. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and other Crimes, from the earliest period to 1783, with Notes and Observations. By T. B. Howell, esq. F.R.S. F.S.A. 21 vols. roy. svo. 331. 1s. 6d. MEDICINE. Additional Reports on the Effects of a Peculiar Regimen in Cases of Cancer, Scrofula, Consumption, Asthma, and other Chronic Diseases. By Wm. Lambe, M.D. 8vo. 12s. METAPHYSICS, An Attempt at a New Mode of Metaphysical Inquiry, illustrated as here employed upon Perception. 1s. 6d. MILITARY. The Principles of War, exhibited in the Practice of the Camp, and as developed in a Series of General Orders of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K.B. &c. &c. &c. in the late Campaigns on the Peninsula, with Parallel Orders of George the Second, the Duke of Cumberland, the Duke of Marlborough, &c. &c. &c. 10s. 6d. A Historical Account of the British Army and the Law Military; with a free Commentary on the Mutiny Act and the Articles of War, illustrated by a variety of Decisions by Courts-Martial. By E. Samuel. 8vo. 11. MISCELLANEOUS. [June 1, A Plan for a County Provident Bank, with Observations upon Provident Institutions already established. By Edward Christian, esq. barrister, Professor of the Laws of England, &c. &c. 8vo. pp. 78. We cordially recommend this valuable pamphlet to all who are animated by the spirit of plulaa. comforts of the poor. The provideut. or savings thropy, and feel a wish to promote the morals and banks as they are called, have been tried and approved in the northern part of the kingdom, to a degree that has induced an adoption of the plan pretty generally in the south. Professor Christian has here suggested an improvement of the system, which we shall give in his own words. "In every county a number of gentlemen, who wish to premote such an establishment for the benefit of the lower classes, shall voluntarily subscribe a sum, as two or three guineas. The subscribers may be called 'The Patrons of the County Provident Bank." These may elect from themselves a president and a certain number of acting or managing trustees, as fifteen or twenty, who will be willing gratultously to take upou themselves more immediately the management or superintendence of the concern. In the names of three of these trustees the stock for the benefit of the proprietors must be bought and sold. The donations by the patrons will be invested in the three per cents; and these, increased by the advantages afterwards described upon the deposits, will constitute a fund which may be called the Surplus Fund; from which ail the necessary expenses and contingent losses must be paid; and the remainder, when it is of sufficient magnitude, may be applied to increase the dividends of the proprietors. Any sums may be received from a depositor or subscriber, not less than 18.; and no interest or dividend to be allowed till it amounts to 12s. 6d.; and then the depositor of that sum shall be considered as the holder of one pound stock in the three per cent. consolidated annuities. It is intended that the whole money deposited should be invested in the funds; it is therefore a simple and reasonable regulation, that as soon as any one has paid so much as will purchase one pound, or any number of pounds of that stock, that he should have a half-yearly dividend upon every 12s. Ad., or every pound of that stock. The same will be true of every pound, whether the number of the pounds of stock be one, ten, one hundred, or one thousand. When the three per cents are at sixty, the price of one pound stock will be one-hundredth part, or exactly 125.; if at sixtyone and a quarter, the price of one pound is exactly 12s. 3d. But I propose that no halfpence shall ever be received or paid in receiving the deposits, or in paying them back; 12s. 6d. will therefore be received at present as the price of every pound of stock. This addition upon the price of each pound of stock will be carried to the surplus fond, for the payment of the necessary expenses; and when it will admit of it, to the increase of the dividends. Whatever may be the price of stock between 60%. and 627. 10.-12s. 6d. must be paid for each pound; and when it is between 62/. 10s. and 652. in like mauner 138. must be paid; so that the surplus fund, upon an average, would gain 3d. upon each pound of stock. The dividend upon each pound, or one-hundredth part of three pounds, is 7d. and one-fifth of another penny; but this fraetion must be disregarded; and then the whole dividend upon every hundred pound stock in the three per cents, to be paid by the provident bank, would 1816.] New Publications, with Critical Remarks. be 21. 18s. 4d., leaving 1s. 8d. in favour of the surplus fund. So that every holder of stock in the County provident bank would upon every pound stock receive half-yearly threepence-halfpenny. This might be paid every January and July, soon after the dividends are paid at the Bank. If the dividends are not called for by the proprietor, as often as they amount to a pound stock they will again be entitled to a dividend. This would be one of the great advantages of such a county bank, that the property invested in it would be augmented by compound, interest or dividends, without any trouble, art, or exertion of the proprietor; and that too, which accelerates the nugsnentation, by half-yearly rests." Such is the sketch of this excellent plan for the accommodation of the poor, and the encouragement of industry and economy; but there are many details and explanatory observations subjoined for which we must refer our readers to the work itself. A Popular Description of St. Paul's Cathedral, including a brief History of the Old and New Cathedral, explanatory of the Monumental Designs and other Interesting Particulars. 8vo. 1s. 6d. This guide to the great ornament of our metro. polis will be found very useful and entertaining, not only to strangers who visit the church out of curiosity, but to those who are well acquainted with that noble structure. A ground plan of the cathedral is prefixed, with a table of references to the monuments, which will enable the reader to discover any that he may wish particularly to see without the trouble of inquiry. The historical account subjoined is neatly and clearly written, though a few more anecdotes would have heightened value of the book. Some notice, for instance, ought to have been taken of the famous cross which contributed powerfully to the reformation, by the sermons there preached in the open air. The Pamphleteer, No. XIV. 6s. 6d. Observations on the Wrongs of the Navy By a Friend to Justice and a Foe to Decep tion. 3s. 6d. The Bazaar, its Origin, Nature, and Object explained and recommended as an important branch of Political Economy, in a Letter to the Rt. Hon. Geo. Rose, M.P. By the Rev. J. Nightingale. Reply to Mr. Giblett's Pamphlet, entitled a Refutation of the Charges of George Harrower. By Capt. Geo. Harrower. 25. Narrative of the Imprisonment and Escape of Peter Gordon; comprising a Journal of his Adventures in his Flight from Cambrai to Rotterdam and England. 78. The New Year, an Essay; reprinted, with Additions and Corrections, from the Liverpool Courier. 35. Considerations on the Rate of Interest and on Redeemable Annuities. By Edward B. Sugden, esq. 15. Oxford University Calendar for1816. 5s. 6d. The Noble Stock-Jobber, or Facts Unveiled; irrefutably to Disprove Lord Cochrane's Affidavits; in the shape of a simple Narrative, minutely detailing every Stage of the Author's Intercourse with the Cochrane Family, and proving that Lord Cochrane was previously acquainted with, and deeply interested in, the Events that on the 21st 443 Feb. 1814, affected the Stock Exchange. By C. R. Baron de Berenger. 8vo. 10s. 6d. Hone's Account of the Royal Marriage. 1s. 6d. Minutes of the Proceedings of the Courtmartial holden on board H. M. S. Albion, in Sheerness Harbour, on the 16th Oct. 1815, on Charges exhibited by Capt. Samuel Butcher, late of H. M. S. Antelope, against the Rt. Hon. Lord Geo, Stuart, late of H. M. S. Newcastle. 5s. A Defence of our National Character and our Fair Countrywomen, from the Aspersions contained in the late French Publication of Mons. le Marechal de Camp Pillet. 2s. 6d. Trial of Major-general Sir R. T. Wilson, M. Bruce, esq. and Capt. J. H. Hutchinson, at the French Assize Court of the Department of the Seine, for aiding in the Escape of Gen. Lavalette. By Mr. Nicholson. Trial of Sir Rob. Wilson, Capt. Hutchinson, and Mr. Bruce; with a Sketch of the Proceedings which led to the Arrest and Condemnation of Lavalette, and a Comparison of the English and French Laws in Criminal Cases. By the Rev. J. Nightingale, Tables of the Weight, Magnitude, and Value of Ancient Coins. By the Rev. Holt Okes, A.M. 25. Metrology; or an Exposition of Weights and Measures, chiefly those of Great Britain and France. By P. Kelly, LL.D. NAVIGATION. 7s. Practical Treatise on Propelling Vessels by Steam. By R. Buchanan. 8vo. 11. NOVELS, TALES, &C. Glenarvon. 3 vols. The characters and incidents in this romantic history are drawn with uncommon spirit, and worked up to such a height of colouring as will beget an instant suspicion that the whole is the result of personal observation and a delineation of living beings. Some of these portraitures, indeed, are marked with every impress of the demoniacal mintage; and the hero of the tale, like the leading personages in certain modern poems, is represented as vicious for the love of vice, and coolly moulding, bending, and directing all his passions to the work of human misery. Detection is with him no shame, suffering begets in him no remorse, and such is the innate depravity of his heart that love has no charm for him unless he can make the object of his attachment, like himself, unprincipled in mind and unfeeling in wickedness. We are aware that it will be said, such an embodied fiend is not to be found in the circles of polished society: and that even if it were otherwise, the picture ought to be shrouded in darkness instead of being exhibited as a warning to mankind. But though moral worth cannot be too frequently or promi. nently brought forward in the way of example as a stimulative to virtue, the lesson of instruction will be greatly strengthened by the force of contrast. Glenarvon, therefore, inay be serviceable as a fearful beacon to warn the young and inexperienced against the danger of talents unsanctified by a sense of duty and directed solely to the gratification of pride or revenge. The wrecks that are scattered around this monstrous combination of iniquity and genius, will also afford much awful matter for serious contemplation and practical 444 New Publications, with Critical Remarks. direction in the progress of life. Experience shews that these planet-stricken times have pro. duced a Glenarvon who has blighted the peace of families and poisoned the principles of numerous individuals. May the history here so ably and vigorously drawn of his crimes and of the sufferings of his victims, prove an effectual antidote to the arts of deception and the blandishments of vice! In Calantha we see the perilous mischief of yield. ing to hasty impressions, and the certain ruin that attends an unrestrained temper where fortune gives the means of excessive indulgence, and parental affection lays no control upon the passions. The Antiquary. By the Author of " Waverley," and "Guy Mannering." 3 vols. 12mo. We are told in the preface to this novel that it completes the author's plan, which was to give three distinct pictures of Scottish manners at dif ferent periods of time. Such, indeed, might have been his original design, but we can see nothing in the execution, with the single exception of “Wavericy." that can make us sensible of this progres. sive representation. The "Antiquary," for any thing it contains, might have preceded "Goy Mannering," and the contrary, without any charge of being out of character. Oldbuck, the laird of Monkbaros, might have found his counterpart above half a century ago, and his irascible neigh bour the speculating baronet who loses all his pro. perty in digging for hidden treasure by the artful persuasions of a German impostor is just such a man as might have been found in the days of King Charles or the reign of Queen Anne. But setting all this aside, we have been uncommonly delighted with the scenes and personages herc delineated. Though the work is not so romantically dramatic as Mannering, it comes much nearer to nature and probability, and even Meg Merriless, in correctness of drawing and intrinsic excellence, must yield to the Gaberlunzie man Edie Occhiltree. Nothing can be more pathetic than the description of the young fisherman's funeral; and there is something peculiarly awful in the resuscitation of his grandmother's mind, at the very verge of mortality and in the depth of imbecility, to reveal the mystery connected with the house of Glenallan. A drawback, however, there is from all this merit, and that lies in the hurried and hackneyed manner in which the whole story is wound up; where we are told as how Neville, who turns out to be the son of Lord Glenallan, is married to his old sweetheart Miss Wandour, and as how all the rest of the gentlemen and ladies, with honest Edie Oc. chiltree, are comfortably settled. Owen Castle, or Which is the Heroine ? By Mary Anne Sullivan. 4 vols. 11. The Spinster's Journal. By a Modern Antique. 3 vols. 12mo. 16s. 6d. Valentine's Eve. By Mrs. Opie. 3 vols. 12mo. Melmoth House. By Mr. J. Jenner. 8 vols. 11. The Flower Basket. A Fairy Tale. 18mo. 2s. 6d. POETRY, Margaret of Anjou. A Poem in Ten Cantos. By Miss Holford. 4to. 21. 2s. Horace Walpole wrote a slight but ingenious tract to prove that Richard Duke of Gloucester, commonly called the "Crook-back," was a very proper personage; uay, more, that he was a gen [June 1, tleman of high honor and passable morals, making all reasonable allowance for the vices and prejudices of his age. The fair author of the present performance has acted in a very different way towards one of her own sex, and in spite of historical verity she has ventured to go beyond even the boundaries of poetical license in representing the intrepid consort of Henry VI. as a dæmon in human form. Margaret was, indeed, a woman of most energetic character, and of a masculine cast of mind; but no Yorkist, in the excess of his bigotry, ever presumed to charge her with want of feeling, and as destitute of principle. We are sorry that Miss Holford should have thought it necessary, in the prosecution of her design, to give so dark a picture of an heroine whose history afforded ample range and materials for the muse of epic song, without rendering the queen odious in the estimation of the reader, This is the great blot which disfigures a poem that is in all other respects, except its undue length, admirable in the plan, harmonious in the language, and rich in description. The leading incident is the well known interview between Margaret and the robber after the battle of Hexham: and the cottage to which the outlaw conducts his royal mistress and ber wounded son affords inany remarkable adventures. The principal of these is the discovery of Geraldine, a lady of illustrious family, by her brother; and her secret marriage with the son of Margaret, which ceremony is performed by a holy hermit, who proves to be no other than Henry, the father of the prince! Setting aside the outrage committed upon probability in this circumstance, there is great beauty in this part of the poem. But the most curious and well imagined point is the visit of Margaret, accompanied by Rudolph the robber, to the habitation of a sorceress for the purpose of ascertaining the fortunes of the Lancastrian house. Here, by a singular coincidence, comes Richard of Gloucester upon a similar errand at the same time; and this improvement of the story of the witch of Endor will give the admirer of the mar vellous no little pleasure. Mador of the Moor: a Poem. By James Hogg. 8vo. 7s. 6d. On an incident recorded of one of the Scottish kings in the fourteenth century, the mountain bard has contrived to form a very pleasing and highly descriptive poem. Mador of the Moor is the mo narch in the disguise of a minstrel, who has an intrigue with a young damsel of exquisite beauty; and her adventures in search of her truant lover are affectingly narrated, but brought to a happy conclusion. The hunting scenes in the first cante are uncommonly animated and picturesque; but even these are exceeded by the solemn and pa thetic representation of Ila and her infant crossing the dreary heath, and taking up an abode for the night in the ruinous retreat of a penitent Palmer. The morning hymn of this religious, after a stormy night, is so exquisite that we cannot forbear extracting it for the pleasure and edification of our readers. Lauded be thy name for ever, Thou canst guard thy creatures sleeping- 1816.] New Publications with Critical Remarks. God of stillness and of motion- All combined they cannot harm them. God of life-that fade shall never:→ Glory to thy name for ever! 445 the Property Tax. If, however, the identity and number of persons assessed in any one district, could be compared with the petitioners of the same district, I should not be surprised if the result proved, that those who signed had no grievance to complain of, excepting that of not being rich enough to be comprehended within the scope of this tax, which, indeed, may justly be called the tythe of the rich given for the support of the industrious." The following argumentum ad hominem will not easily be answered by logic, er confuted by political arithmetic. "I would ask, suppose, as an individual, you had been forced by the fraud, in. justice, or open violence of another, to defend yourself by the laws of your country, and were consequently involved in a heavy expense. Suppose that your appeal to the laws of your country eventually obtained success:-how could you object to pay the costs and charges of your advisers and defenders? Would it be right to leave the heavy debt contracted for your temporary welfare, as a The Mountain Boy; in four cantos. By legacy to your children, to be discharged by them, John Bird, esq. 8vo. 9s. Christabel, a Poem; and Kubla Kan, a Vision. By S. T. Coleridge. 8vo, 4s. 6d. Lord Byron's Farewell to England. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Poems. By Mr. Alfred Bann. 8vo. 4s. The Battle of Waterloo. By Robert Gilmour, esq. 2s. 6d. The Poetical Works of Thos. Little, jun. esq. 3s. Redemption; in twenty books. By Geo. Woodley. 2 vols. 8vo. 16s. Verses for Gravestones in Church-yards. By a Parish Minister. No. II. extending the Epitaphs in number from 80 to 125. An Epithalamium on the union of the Princess Charlotte of Wales and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg. 18. 6d. The Royal Marriage, or Miss Lump and the Grenadier. By Peter Pindar. 2s. An Ode on the Marriage, of H. R. H. the Princess Charlotte of Wales, and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg. By M. Montague. 2s. The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo. By Robert Southey, esq. Poet Laureate. 12mo. 10s. 6d. Farewell for Ever; a poem dedicated to H. R. H. the Princess Mary. By a Lady. 2s. 6d. Jupiter and his Satellites; or a Peep at Brighton. 3s. POLITICS. Three Letters of Paul Silent to his Country Cousins. 8vo. pp. 82. We lately noticed, in terms of commendation, a speech on the income tax, by this facetious gentle. man, which might have been delivered in the senate to the edification of the members, if party spirit and selfishness would have allowed it a candid hearing. The author has followed up his observa. tions on the existing state of the country, in a very sensible appeal to the plain good sense of the peo ple. Speaking of the numerous petitions that were poured in against this financial measure, he says, It would be impossible for any other persons, than those employed in particular official departments, to ascertain with accuracy, the degree of weight to be attached to these petitions against who were not immediately but partially interested in it? Such, then, is the conduct of the nation by its rejection of the Income Tax. It leaves to future ages to make good the expences the present have contracted; and it has therefore committed a breach of faith towards posterity."-Much acute reasoning and practical remark will be found in these letters, on subjects of general importance. The First Annual Report on Mad Houses. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, April 26, 1816. 8vo. 7s. Plan for a General Inclosure Bill for Commons of a limited Extent. By a Country Gentleman. 1s. Proofs and Demonstrations how much the projected Registry of Colonial Negroes is unfounded and uncalled for. By Geo. Chalmers, F. R. S. S. A. 10s. 6d. Remedies proposed as certain and effectual for our present Embarrassments. By J. Symmons, esq. 2s. 6d. On the Policy of throwing Open the Transit Trade in Foreign Linens, and on the importance of that Trade to the Manufactures and General Commerce of the British Empire. 1s. Speech of Henry Brougham, esq. M. P. April 9, 1816, in the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Agricultural Distresses. 2s. 6d. The Inquisition; a Letter addressed to Sir John Cox Hippesley. By a Catholic Christian. Thoughts on the Present Crisis. By Wm. 3s. 6d. Peter, esq. More Thoughts occasioned by two pamphlets on the Bill for the Registration of Slaves. By Joseph Marryat, esq. M. P. The Extraordinary Red Book; containing a detailed List of all Pensions, Places, Sinecures, &c. with the Salaries and Emoluments arising therefrom. Negro Emancipation made Easy; with Reflections on the African Institution and Slave Registry Bill. By a British Planter. 3s. 6d. Ireland not England; a letter to Lon Castlereagh on Irish Affairs. 2s. 6d. REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. A Dictionary of Music. By J. Bottomley. Button and Co. 1s. The author in his preface says, "The object in the publication of this dictionary is, to convey that technical information which is indispensable to every practitioner of music, in as small a compass as possible. Henee this work is not to be consulted merely as a book of reference, but to be diligently read until the substance of it becomes perfectly familiar. It will be found useful to the teacher as a text-book from which he may regularly select a certain portion of the terms for his pupils to study, and then to explain, not altogether in the words which are written, but in language of their own. To an experienced teacher, the utility of this exercise will be sufficiently obvious."--As a specimen of the performance, we shall extract a few articles, taken promiscuously as they occur. "Resolution. That change of harmony which is occasioned by the transition of a discord to a concord; as when the ninth is resolved into the eighth, &c." "Sonata. In the modern acceptation of the word, a composition for the piano-forte (but, query; why not all other instruments?) in which a variety of movements are introduced." "Relative. A term principally made use of to imply the natural connection between the major and the minor keys. To every major key belongs a minor, and the signatures of both are in every respect the same. The relative of C major is the key of A minor. Upon examination, A will be found a (flat) third below C. The relative of every major key is, therefore, the (flat) third below." He might have added, that every note in the diatonic scale, except the 7th in major keys, and the 2d in minor keys, is in various degrees related to the key note. This will be found a very useful little book in schools and seminaries for children. Notturno. Op. 54, for the Piano-forte, composed and dedicated to F. W. Collard, esq. by J. B. Cramer. Clementi and Co. 3s. Notturnos are generally used abroad as serenades, consisting of a band of violins, viola, and bass, or a lute or Spanish guitar as an assistant to the voice. As no man can carry a piano-forte at his back, this title does not appear to be exactly appropriate, Mr. Cramer in this, his fifty-fourth essay, has supported the high character acquired by his former productions. Perhaps it would not be going too far were we to hazard our opinion, that this is one of his very best performances; combining, in its four characteristic movements, every variety and every excellence the piano-forte is capable of. My Life, I love you! written by Lord Byron; set to music, with an accompaniment for the Piano-forte, by Mrs. BMunro. 1s. We have been favored before with some of the productions of this unknown lady. The music is tolerably correct in point of composition; and, in company with the noble poet, she may hope to glide down the stream of time. Amanti Costanti, from the Opera of le Nozze di Figaro. By Mozart; with variations for the Piano-forte, composed by Ferd. Ries, member of the Royal Academy of Music in Sweden. Op. 66. Goulding and Co. 3s. This beautiful air of Mozart is well adapted for variations, and is haudled with all the skill and taste that Mr. Ries is known to possess. The different shades or gradations of time are accurately marked to the air, and through all the variations, by Maelzl's Metronome. The Winds whistle cold. Glee for three Voices, viz. Alto, Tenor, and Bass, in the the musical Play called Guy Mannering, or the Gipsey's Prophecy; the words by D. Terry, esq.; performed at Covent Garden Theatre. Composed by Henry R. Bishop. Goulding and Co. 2s. 6d. Very few good glees have appeared since Dr. Calcot ceased to write. Mr. Bishop is the only man we know of likely to step forward as an effective successor to the doctor. The present glee is an excellent sample of what in future may be ex pected. Fare the Well! Written by Lord Byron ; composed, with an accompaniment for the Piano-forte, by G. Kiallmak. Goulding and Co. 2s. It must be no ordinary composer who would attempt to give musical effect to these pathetie words. The choice of the measure in 3-4 time, like that of "Crazy Jane," is judicious, because it affords scope for a more powerful accent than any other. The change of the time to 6-8 at "When her little hands shall press thee," is a happy thought, and adds greatly to the effect, Rondo, with Original Russian Themes for the Piano-forte; composed and dedicated to Miss Christiana Lane, by Ferd. Ries. Goulding and Co. 3s. This is a collection of Russian airs, dances, &c. woven together in a very judicious manner, and, however uncouth the tunes may have originally been, the magic touch of Mr. Ries, has rendered all smooth and agreeable to the ear, forming, all together, one of the most interesting sonatas we ever heard. Hibernian Air; arranged as a Rondo for the Piano-forte, with an Introduction; composed and dedicated to Miss Dalton, by J. B. Cramer. Goulding and Co. 2s. 6d. This season of the year seems peculiarly prolific in musical productions; we hardly remember so great a variety of new ones, and most of them of the best kind. In the piece befere us Mr. Cramer has honored poor Pat with his notice, and dressed him up so fine that he hardly knows himself: or. to speak more intelligibly, the simplicity of the air forms a powerful contrast to the embellishments of it, and to the brilliancy of the intermediate pas |