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"Instructions for playing the Piano-forte." By William Reeve.

Well adapted to the capacity of juvenile pupils. We recommend Mr. Reeve's book as a prefatory one to Clementi's The fingering is accurately marked, the rules concise, and easily comprehended.

"His sparkling Eyes." Rondo P. forte. By T. Bennison, Pupil of M. Kelly, Brilliant, à la Mozart. Mr. Bennison is a junior composer of much promise. "The favorite Airs in Blue Beard, &c. by Kelly, arranged as Rondos by Steibelt, Kreitzer, and other Masters of eminence."

Mr. Kelly has adopted a judicious plan, by calling in the aid of established Composers, to render his "Tink a tink," &c. still more popular, by elegant and appropriate variations.

"Six Vocal Duetts." By John Davy.}

A re-published work, worthy of the Elève of Jackson.

"Eliza." Canzonett. The Words by an Officer of the 86th Reg. Music by Moorehead.

The Poet military has written literally con amore. The Latin quotation in the Title-page (Vulnus alit, &c.) is rather unusual for a bagatelle of this description. Both Words and Music seem to be of Hibernian production.

"Three Duetts for Violins." Op. 11. By J. Sanderson.

Mr. S. has displayed a thorough knowledge of the instrument in this little production. If we err not, the popular Ballad "The Cottage on the Moor," is the composition of this gentleman.

Treatises, &c.

We notice a new Edition of Mr. Shield's admirable Treatise of Harmony. It is now rendered more complete, by the correction of Typographical errors, and the addition of a Head of the Author. For a character of this work, see a forn.er M. Mirror.

A Literary Correspondent intimates, that Mr. Professor Porson is engaged in a Translation of Plutarch's work on Music. To those Musicians who do not understand GREEK, this may be an accommodation.

In our next we shall present the Public with an Authentic Memoir of the Life of the famous Irish Bard Carolan.

FOREIGN THEATRICALS.

PARIS.-Seventeen theatres open their doors every evening for the enter tainment of Paris, where the population does not exceed 620,000 souls. It may be calculated that the spectacles of this city occupy, on an average, the leisure of 20,000 individuals, or nearly one thirtieth part of the whole. The following is a list of the theatres.

1. The opera, or the theatre de la Republique et des Arts, situate in la rue de la Loi, formerly la rue Richlieu.

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2. Le theatre Francois de la Republique, rue de la Loi, at the corner of rue St. Honore. This was formerly the theatre Francois de Faubourg St. Germain.

3. L'Opera Comique, rue Feydeau, the entrance in rue de la Loi. This was formerly the Italian theatre of la rue Manconseil.

4. The Italian opera Buffa, rue Favars, the entrance in rue de la Loi.

5. Le theatre Louvois, rue de Louvois, the entrance in rue de la Loi, opposite the opera. This theatre is under the management of Picard, a dramatist of some repute.

6. The theatre called Montansier, formerly the theatre Beaujolois, in the buildings of the Palais Royal, behind rue de la Loi.

7. Le theatre de Vaudeville, in the square of the Palais Royal, almost facing la rue de la Loi.

8. Le theatre de la Cite, opposite the Palace de Justice.

9. Le theatre de la Porte St. Martin, formerly the Opera house, built to supply the place of that which was burnt at the Palais Royal.

10. Les Varietes Nationales Etrangeres, formerly the theatre Moliere, built in la rue St. Martin, at an early part of the Revolution, by an actor named Bourfault, who was afterwards a member of the convention, a drinker of blood, and a worthy collegian of his brother actor-legislator, Collot d'Herbois and Favre d'Eglantine.

11. Lej theatre des Etrangeres, formerly du Marais, established after the commencement of the Revolution by Caron de Beaumarchais, at one of the extremities of Paris, exclusively for the representation of his own pieces. This theatre was much frequented in 1792, when the great attractions were two new pieces, Robert Chef de Brigands, a farce; and the drama of la Mere Coupable.

12. Le theatre du Boulevard.

13. L'Ambigu Comique, formerly Audinot's.

14. Le theatre de la Caire, formerly Nicolet's.

15. Le theatre des jeunes Artists, formerly des Eleves de l'Opera.

16. Le theatre sans Pretension.

17. Le theatre Pittoresque et Mecanique.

Theatre NATIONAL DES ARTS.-The Mysteries of Isis, an opera in four

acts.

The celebrated German opera of the Enchanted Flute, composed so exquisitely by Mozart, was some time back produced at this theatre, under the above title, A French critic thus speaks of it. "Every body knows that in Germany, as well as in Italy, (and he might have added, with strict justice, in England) the constructors of operas pay little attention to plot, style, or even to common sense. The author of the "Mysteries of Isis" had, therefore, some difficulty in putting the materials into a more regular dramatic form, without which, the music, sublime as it is, would not have been listened to with any satisfaction, by a French assembly. But I think he was wrong in applying the subject of the enchanted flute to the Mysteries of Isis. The buffooneries of a cowardly servant, pleasant enough in a work of fancy, are by no means suitable to the notions which have been handed down to us, relative to those sacred mys

teries in which all the ancient philosophers and illustrious ornaments of Greece and Rome were anxious to be initiated, and which had no connection, as one of the journals has stated, with our Freemason mummeries and lodges of illuminists, that are nothing more than a burlesque of these mysteries. A juster idea is given of them in a work that is too little read, called Sethos, or in a book, still more entertaining, called the Travels of Antenor. And yet their description of them does not come up to what may be gathered from some of the ancient writers.

The music produced all the effect which could have been expected. There is no attempt to entrap the applause of the injudicious; no false brilliancies; the accompaniments are always in unison with the character of the melody and of the airs.

HISTORY OF THE STAGE.

FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF GARRICK'S MANAGEMENT. Continued from Page 412, Vol. XIV.

DRURY-LANE.-SEASON 1760-1.

10.-WAY TO KEEP HIM, (a) in five acts, with a new prologue, to be spoken by Mr. Holland. D. Disap.

(a) "The Way to keep Him, enlarged from the piece in three acts into five, by the author (A. Murphy) received with universal applause. Prologue by Mr. Murphy :-heavy." Gross's Diary.

The characters of Sir Bashful and Lady Constant, acted by Mr. Yates and Mrs. Davies, were introduced, for the first time, in this alteration, agreeably to the author's original intention, as he states in his life of Garrick. Several additions were also made to the character of Lovemore.

The ground-work of the character of Sir Bashful Constant, and of several of the incidents, is to be found in M. de la Chaussee's character of D'Urval, in his comedy called Le Prejugé alamode. Sir Bashful is a gentleman, who, though passionately fond of his wife, yet, from a fear of being laughed at by the gay world for uxoriousness, is perpetually assuming the tyrant, and treating her, at least before company, with great unkindness. The manner in which the author has interwoven this character with the rest of the plot, is productive of scenes which certainly add greatly to the Vis comica of the piece. The design of the comedy altogether is to point out to the married part of the female sex, how much unhappiness they frequently create to themselves, by neglecting, after marriage, to make use of the same arts, the same assiduity to please, the same elegance in the decoration of their persons, and the same complacency and blandishments in their temper and behaviour, to preserve the affections of the husband, as they had before it put in practice to awaken the passions of the lover. This doctrine is here enforced by the example of a gentleman of amiable qualities, and a natural liveliness of turn; yet, according to his own declarations, strongly inclinable to domestic happiness, driven, by this mistaken conduct in

IZ.-W. to keep him.-Chaplet.-Damon, Lowe. 13.-Ibid. 14.-E. of Essex. H. Life. 15.-W. to keep him. Chaplet.

16. BY COMMAND] Ibid, with H. Inv. 19.-Minor. P. Hon. 20.-W. to keep him. Guardian. 22.-W. to keep him. P. Hon.

17.-E. of Essex. Enchanter. P. Hon. 21.-E. of Essex.

23.-[BY COMMAND]-Agis. P. Hon. 24.—Minor. (b) Lethe. 26.E. of Essex. P. Hon. 27.-W. to keep him. D. to pay.

28.-M. Bride. Almeria, (1st time) Mrs. YATES. Enchanter. 29.-7. Shore. Enchanter. 31.-T. and Sigis.

[Never acted] EDGAR AND EMMELINE, (c) a Fairy Tale. O'Brien, (Edgar); King, (Florimond);

his wife, from his home, and a valuable woman the mistress of that home, into gallantries with other women, and a total indifference to his wife. The design has great merit, and the execution of it is pleasingly conducted. The principal characters are well drawn; some of the incidents sufficiently surprising and interesting, and the denouement attended with circumstances which render it truly comic.

Besides the obligation above-mentioned, to the French drama, Mr. Murphy is indebted to M. de Moissy's Nouvelle Ecole de Femmes, for some of his materials; and the Widow Belinour has been thought to bear too close a resemblance, in some respects, to Congreve's Millamant. Upon the whole, however, it is certainly one of our best modern comedies, and the representation of it never fails to give satisfaction to the audience. It has lately been revived at Drury-Lane, with very great success,

(b) "Indifferent house." Cross's Diary.

(c) This little piece met with great success in the representation, and indeed deservedly. The exchange of sex in Edgar and Emmeline, by the command of the fairies, to enable them to receive the impressions of love unknown to themselves, through the conveyance of friendship, is a new and pretty thought; the conduct of it sensible, rational, and delicate, and the behaviour of those little imaginary beings, the fairies, consistent with the ideas we have constantly formed of them. In a word, altogether it is a very pleasing entertainment, and is rendered still more so by the addition of the musical interludes, whereby the main action is broken in upon and relieved.

Dr. John Hawkesworth, the author, was born about the year 1719; though his epitaph, as we find it in the Gentleman's Magazine for August, 1781, makes him to have been born in 1715. He was brought up to a mechanical profession; that of a watch-maker, as is supposed. He was of the sect of Presbyterians, and a member of the celebrated Tom Bradbury's meeting, from which he was expelled for some irregularities. He afterwards devoted himself to literature, and became an author of considerable eminence. In the early part of life, his circumstances. were rather confined. He resided some time at Bromley in Kent, where his wife kept a boarding-school, which they relinquished in order to accommodate two women of fortune, who came to reside with them. He afterwards became known to a lady, who had great property and interest in the East-India company; and, through her means, was chosen a director of that body. As an au

Master Kennedy, (Elfina); Miss Rogers, (Grotilla); Miss Wright, [her Ist

thor, his Adventurer is his capital work; the merits of which, as is said, procured him the degree of LL.D. from Herring, archbishop of Canterbury. When the design of compiling a narrative of the discoveries in the South-seas was on foot, he was recommended as a proper person to be employed on the occasion: but, in truth, he was not a proper person, nor did the performance answer expectation.* Works of taste and elegance, where imagination and the passions were to be affected, were his province; not works of dry, cold, accurate narrative. However, he executed his task, and is said to have received for it the enormous sum of £6000. He died in 1773: some say, of high living; others, of chagrin from the ill reception of his "Narrative:" for he was a man of the keenest sensibility, and obnoxious to all the evils of such irritable natures. On a handsome marble monument at Bromley, in Kent, is the following inscription; the latter part of which is taken from the last number of The Adventurer. To the Memory of

JOHN HAWKESWORTH, LL.D.
Who died the 16th of November,
MDCCLXXIII, aged 58 years.

That he lived ornamental and usefu!

To society in an eminent degree,
Was among the boasted felicities
Of the present age;

That he laboured for the benefit of Society,
Let his own pathetic admonitions

Record and realize :

"The hour is hasting, in which whatever praise or censure I have
acquired will be remembered with equal indifference.-Time, who is
impatient to date my last paper, will shortly moulder the hand which
is now writing in the dust, and still the breast that now throbs at the
reflection. But let not this be read as something that relates only to
another for a few years only can divide the eye that is now read-
ing from the hand that has written."

Dr. H. altered Amphytrion and Oroonoko; and is said to be the author of Zimri, an Oratorio, published anonymously. His translation of Telemachus is also much admired.

Sir John Hawkins denies that he was brought up to a mechanical profession, and asserts that " he had been taught no art but that of writing, and was a hired clerk to one Harwood, an attorney, in Grocer's-Alley, in the Poultry." Ac

* «Hawkesworth's Compilation of the Voyages to the South Sea being mentioned; JOHNSON. Sir, if you talk of it as a subject of commerce, it will be gainful; if as a book that is to increase human knowledge, I believe there will not be much of that. Hawkesworth can tell only what the voyagers have told him; and they have found very little; only one new animal, I think.' BosWELL. But many insects, Sir.' JOHNSON, Why, Sir, as to insects, Ray reckons of British insects 20,000 species. They might have staid at home, and discovered enough in that way.' Boswell's Life of Johnson.

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