cal, we may pronounce to be highly censurable in this point of view. Congreve had great wit to compensate for his great grossness. A new farce, called "Love-Letters," has also been brought out here, and with quite as much success as the piece merited. It is but justice to the Managers to say, that they appear to have exerted themselves with considerable success to amuse the public. The company of performers is, on the whole, very respectable, and possesses a great deal of comic talent. In one respect, nevertheless, it is deficient excepting Charles Kemble, there is not a man belonging to it, who looks like, walks like, or talks like a gentleman. For many obvious reasons, a gentleman is very rarely met with on any stage. London, July 11th. The Manager and Proprietor of the English Opera House, when it opened, very recently, for the season, announced, that no exertion had been wanting to secure a most efficient company. It is to be regretted he has been so unsuccessful, for, recollecting that the peculiar province of this theatre is music, a list of more inefficient performers, both male and female, has seldom been produced. Mr Wrench, who cannot sing at all, and Miss Kelly, who can sing a very little, are really the most distinguished members of the company. I admit Mr Wrench's excellence in certain departments of comedy, and Miss Kelly's first-rate talents in her particular line; but it is asking a great deal too much of them, that they should appear in almost every piece. The Manager himself will find, nay, he has found it in previous seasons, that the public gets tired of seeing, time after time, the identical actors and actresses, however admirable. Miss Kelly is under peculiar obligations to Mr Arnold, and she willingly exerts herself to the utmost; but she cannot do every thing, and it is very unreasonable to expect that she should go so far as to make the audience tired of her. For myself, it would be very long before I grew tired of her, in any part, however often repeated; but the public in general require more than the Manadisposed to afford. ger seems In the musical department, Miss Carew is a very powerful assistant; but she will need support; and what adequate support can such a singer as Mr Pearman give? The Manager of a place of amusement styling itself par excellence, the English Opera House, thereby setting it in opposition to, and comparison with, the Italian Opera House,-ought to engage all the best English singers upon the boards of our Winter Theatres. What is usually understood by the words English Opera, is commonly a piece of a description that requires very eminent musical talent to render it at all successful; and it has not unfrequently been seen, that the less it resembles the class of the drama to which it professes to belong, the more profitable it has been to the Manager. The best of the serious productions in this kind have been musical comedies; both of them plays, interspersed with singing, the songs generally having little or nothing to do with the subject-matter of the story. The " Beggars' Opera" is almost the only performance on the stage that really merits the name of an English Opera, because there, as in the French Vaudeville, what the actors sing is essentially connected with the progress of the plot: it assists, instead of retarding it. The dialogue of such productions as are too frequently brought out at this theatre, is the most mawkish stuff imaginable. The best thing represented here are what have acquired the title of Musical Farces, and of this kind is a piece acted for the first time a few nights ago. It is called "Love among the Roses, or the Master-key;" and it is a very pleasant piece of playfulness, full of bustle and business, with some pretty songs, and dialogue above the common level. If not witty, it is sprightly, and, what is more, it is adapted to the characters, and the characters to it. It has been announced, in our daily prints, to be from the pen of Mr Beazley, as if he were an author of some reputation. If he be, it may shew great ignorance on my part, but I do not recollect that he has written much before. Let this point be as it may, judging from this After-piece, I think him perhaps the most promising play-wright of the day. It is needless to enter into the detail of the slight plot; it is only necessary to say, that it is easy and natural, and that the incidents, some of them new and effective, are all well accounted for. The audience understands, without difficulty, why the characters are in the situations in which they are found; and there is novelty without any thing forced in the mode in which they are extricated. I must not close this letter without some notice of Miss Clara Fisher, the juvenile performer, who has excited considerable attention, and deserves some praise. How much natural ability the child may have, and how much of what she performs may have been the effect of patient teaching, it is not easy to decide; and I do not take interest enough about these precocious probationers, to give myself much trouble to enquire. "In winter I no more desire a rose, Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shews." Every thing should come at its proper time and season; and though there may be something surprising in this sort of exhibition, the pleasure ends with the surprise-there is no real, lasting enjoyment to be derived from it. That Miss Clara Fisher is quick and docile there is little doubt, and she certainly acts with more spirit than could easily be given by mere instruction. Two new pieces are announced; the one a farce at the Haymarket, under the title of "Peter Fin, or a New Road to Brighton ;" and the other an operatic piece at the English Opera-House, called "All in the Dark, or the Bauks of the Elbe." It is contradicted that Mr H. Twiss is preparing "The Fortunes of Nigel" for the stage. He is writing, it is said, a new tragedy, to be produced next season at Covent-Garden. Stanzas, ON HEARING A HIGHLAND BAGPIPE. HARK! 'tis the bagpipe's breathing sound, Nor trumpet's long-resounding voice, Nor shrill-ton'd fife has power to charm; Nor hollow drum, with deaf'ning noise, The Highland warrior's heart can warm. The bagpipe sounds with swelling breath, The fire-flaught flashes from his eye! He hopes for Victory's laurell'd wreath, Prepar'd in Honour's bed to lie. 'Twas thus on Egypt's thirsty soil, Where Abercromby fought and fell, The brave Black Watch, in battle toil, With victory peal'd his parting knell. Thus on Corunna's hapless shore, Undaunted stood the bold and brave; By Sons of Mist the gallant Moore Was calmly laid in Honour's grave. Nor aught but death could him subdue. Methinks I see them linger still On Naver's banks-in Carrel glen, Which they must never climb again. Lov'd hill in dimly distant blue. With sickening heart and hopeless eye; Nought comes within his vision's bound, But one dark waste of sca and sky. Canadia's hills appear in sight, Her swampy fens and forests deep; And does his bosom feel delight? Ah, no! he turns his head to weep! By day Hope sheds her transient glow, Or hovering light o'er Brora's stream. But Ruin, with gigantic stride, Has sought his happy humble vale, There spread his desolation wide, And wak'd the harmless peasant's wail. Poor minstrel! still thy wild notes flow ! Not pibroch loud, or brisk strathspey;It is the cadence, sad and slow, Of" O'er the hills, and far away !” Thy sunny glens and straths of green A lone and cheerless waste display; For sheep are now where men have been. And Albyn's glory hastes away! WORKS PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. LONDON. A work entitled Public Men of our own Times, will appear in July, in three volumes, of the size of Debrett's Peerage. It will include nearly three thousand biographies of living characters in all civilized nations, and be ornamented with 150 copper-plate portraits. Mr Lowe's volume on the Statistics of England is on the eve of publication: it contains an account of the present state of our agriculture, trade, and finance, with a comparison of the prospects of England and France, in regard to productive industry, and national revenue. Mr Gideon Mantell, F.L.S. member of the Geological Society, &c. author of "the Fossils of the South Downs," is preparing for publication a Description of the Strata and Organic Remains of Tilgate Forest, with observations on the beds of limestone and clay which alternate in the ironsand of Sussex. This work will be embellished with numerous engravings of the extraordinary fossils discovered by the author in those remarkable strata, and will contain an account of the geological relations of the limestone of Winchelsea, Hastings, Battel, Horsham, &c. It is intended as an appendix to the "Il lustrations of the Geology of Sussex." Gems principally from the Antique, with verse illustrations, by the Rev. G. Croly, A.M., drawn and etched by R. Dagley, are preparing for publication. 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A Treatise on the Use of Moxa as a Therapeutical Agent, by Baron Larrey; translated from the French, with notes and an introduction, containing a History of the Substance; is preparing by Robley Dunglison, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and will shortly be published. Bibliotheca Biblica is preparing for publication, consisting of a select descriptive catalogue of the most important Bri. tish and foreign works in the department of biblical criticism and interpretation, with brief notices of their authors, and remarks on their theological and critical merits, by Wm. Orme, author of “Memoirs of the Life, Writings, &c. of Dr John Owen." Prælectiones Academicæ, or Academic Lectures, are preparing for the press, on subjects connected with the history of modern Europe, viz. Christianity, Mahomedanism, the Crusades, literature and the arts, navigation, the Jesuits, the Reformation, civil wars in England, slave trade, commerce, French revolution, civil liberty, and religious toleration; by the Rev. H. C. O'Donnoghue, A.M. This work will be published in four quarterly parts, making, when completed, one handsome volume octavo, of 600 pages. Mr Hopkins, of Manchester, has in the press a work on Principles of Political Economy which regulate Wages, Profits, Rent, and the Value of Money. Mr Pontey's Practical Treatise on Rural Ornament, which deduces the science from well-known fixed principles, will appear in the course of the present month. Shortly will be published, with numerous plates, a Tour through Sweden, Norway, and the coast of Norwegian Lapland to the Northern Cape, in the year 1820, by A. De Capell Brooke. At the same time will appear, in imperial quarto, the Costumes of the different Provinces in Sweden, coloured. A coloured edition of Mr Mantell's Geology of Sussex is preparing as speedily as possible, and will be ready for delivery in the course of a few weeks. A very limited number will be published. A History of a severe Case of Neuralgia, commonly called Tic Douloureux, will speedily be published, occupying the nerves of the Right Thigh, Leg, and Foot, successfully treated; with some observations on that complaint, and on its causes, as they vary in different individuals; by G. D. Yeats. M.D. F.R.S. An Analytical Investigation of the Scriptural Claims of the Devil, and a si milar enquiry into the meaning of the terms Sheol, Hades, and Gehenna, as used by the Scripture writers, by the Rev. Russell Scott, of Portsmouth, which have been unavoidably delayed in passing through the press, will be published in the course of the present month. The Political Life of his Majesty George the Fourth, is preparing for publication, in one volume octavo. In a few days will be published, an English Grammar in verse, with Scripture examples, by the Rev. T. Searle. Mr Hamper is preparing for the press, a second edition of his Tract on Hoarstones. Shortly will be published, in 12mo. the Lady's Manual, by a Physician. The object is to supply the female sex with useful information on a variety of appropriate and interesting subjects, to prevent the necessity of application to professional men. In the press, and speedily will be pubShortly will appear, the Claims of Sir lished, in one volume octavo, price 5s. Philip Francis refuted. Mr Worsdale, sen. of Lincoln, has ready for the press, a work, entitled, Celestial Philosophy, or Genethliacal Astronomy. This manuscript is entirely original, and contains, we are informed, the whole art of calculating nativities, with a great number of genitures; the examples are given in figures, which may be proved by the use of the celestial globe, or spherical trigonometry. It is intended to publish it in twenty-five numbers, making 600 pages, octavo. The Princess Olive of Cumberland announces two volumes of her Poems, to be published by subscription, at two pounds, for the purpose of relieving her from captivity, and to enable her to proceed in her suit in Doctors'-Commons for the recovery of £.15,000 left her by the late King. The Rev. Dr Rudge has in the press, in two octavo volumes, Sermons on the Leading Characters and most Important Events recorded in the Book of Genesis. The Rev. George Holden is printing, in an octavo volume, an Attempt to illustrate the Book of Ecclesiastes. Joseph Swan, Esq. is printing, in an octavo volume, a Treatise on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology of the Nervous System. Mr W. I. Roberts is preparing the Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments. By John Leslie, late Convener of the Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen. In a few days will be published, in one large volume octavo, Remains of the late Alexander Leith Ross, A.M. with a Memoir of his Life, containing A Diary of his Studies; Illustrations of Scripture, from the Persian language, from Ancient traditions, and Eastern customs; An Essay on the Literature of the Arabs, and the influence which it has had on that of Europe; Account of "Ajayeb Al Makhlukat;" or the "Wonders of Crea tion," an interesting Work in Persian. containing a compendium of the Geogra phy and Natural History of the East Poetical Translations; Verbal Resemblances between the Oriental Languages and those of other Nations; Journal of Tour in Holland, Flanders, and France in 1817; and in France, Italy, Switzer land, and Germany, in 1820. 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