686 HONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 



SKETCHES IN GREECE AND CONSTANTINOPLE, will be shortly pub- 

 lished. 



LOBD MILTON'S work on the CORN LAWS, has gone into a Fifth 

 Petition 



A Second Edition of WHIG GOVERNMENT is nearly disposed of. 



LETTERS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, addressed to the Rev. Richard 

 Polwhele, Davies Gilbert, Esq., Francis Douce, Esq., and others. 

 Accompanied by an original Autobiography of Lieut^-Gen. Sir Hussey 

 Vivian, Bart., K.C.B., will shortly appear. 



Another account of the BRISTOL RIOTS will shortly appear, by a 

 Citizen. 



J. D. Parry, M.A., is preparing an account of the COAST OP SUSSEX. 



The CABINET ANNUAL REGISTER, for 1832, will appear in February. 



An Introduction to the Study of ENGLISH BOTANY, by George Bancks, 

 F.L.S., has arrived at a Second Edition. 



The LIFE and TIMES of WM. FENN KNIGHT, Admiral and General of 

 the Fleet during the Interregnum^ illustrating a very interesting period 

 of English history, is in preparation. 



On the 1st of January will appear tbe first vol. of a monthly series of 

 original novels and romances, edited by Leitch Ritchie. This is a path 

 in periodical literature hitherto untrodden, and will, doubtless, abun- 

 dantly repay the adventurers. What has been sold for 30*. will now be 

 purchased for 5,9. The first vol. will be THE GHOST HUNTER, AND 

 HIS FAMILY, by the O'Hara Family. 



Many splendid novelties are preparing in the FINE ARTS. ,T \v3 JBM\W 



Messrs. W. and E. Finden are about to introduce a periodical called 

 FINDEN'S GALLERY of THE GRACES, with poetical illustrations by 

 T. K. Hervey, Esq.9i& ^-jn T .dsD-aiq t>\ 

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MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 



The Art of Singing. Composed by J. P. LE CAMAS. Published in London and 



Paris. 



THE following extract from the preface, wherein the author speaks with no 

 unqualified terms of approbation of his own performance, will give the reader 

 the best insight into the object of the present publication. 



"This method is divided into three parts ; the first treats of the different kinds 

 of male and female voices, with some exercises for obtaining a steady intonation; 

 of the intervals of the score, with accompaniments ; of taking breath, of the 

 manner of beginning, swelling, and diminishing sounds ; of the simple and 

 double appogeatura ; of the use of small notes, both ascending and descending ; 

 of groups, trills, cadences, broken notes, running passages, in battery and ar- 

 peggio, tied, marked, dotted, and divided notes, phrases of two and four bars ; 

 of the change or breaking of the voice and its preservation. Six lessons follow 

 these precepts, and demonstrate their practical utility. 



" The second part i$ composed of twelve vocalisations, which will serve as 

 exercises on all the rules contained in the first. 



"The third part contains four duets, four trios, and four quartets, and termi- 

 nates in an air with variations, comprising all the difficulties of singing." 



From the above it will be evident, that the plan of the present work is on a 

 most extensive scale; indeed, far more so than any one, with the exception of 

 Lanza's, which has ever appeared in this country, or perhaps in any other, being 

 equal to the work on the same subject published by the Conservatoire at Paris. 



