MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE. l5 



Cruse'8 original Cathedral Services; Parti. Goulding and D'Al- 



maine, Soho Square. 

 Cruse's One Hundred Double and Single Cathedral Chants. 



Goulding and D'Almaine. 

 Lament on the Death of Amy Claude. By EDWARD CRUSE. 



Goulding and D'Almaine. 



THE talent displayed by Mr. Cruse in his former publication, which we no 

 ticed in a previous number, the " New Arrangement of the Psalms," namely, 

 induced us to augur favourably of the productions whose titles appear at the 

 head of our notice. Nor were our expectations disappointed. Mr. Cruise is 

 imbued with the genuine spirit of the old English church music, and we trust 

 that his works will contribute to spread among amateurs a taste for the clas- 

 sical compositions of our cathedral writers of former days. The first part 

 of the Cathedral Services contains a To Deum and Jubilate, arranged for four 

 voices, forming a complete morning service. The melody is flowing and 

 agreeable, the harmonies admirably suited to the subject, and the whole well 

 adapted either for private performance or for the use of such churches as are 

 provided with a moderately efficient choir. And here we cannot refrain from 

 expressing our earnest wish that the so-called singing of the children of the 

 parochial schools in our churches may soon be utterly abolished. It can ex- 

 cite no devotional feelings, and, if only meant to afford the lungs of the offici- 

 ating minister a little necessary relief, that object would be obtained by the 

 substitution of a proper service, sc.ch as those of Mr. Cruse, without torturing 

 the ears and vexing the minds of all that part of the congregation whom na- 

 ture has furnished with a musical ear. The Chants have the same charac- 

 teristics, and deserve the same praise as the service. The Lament is not de- 

 ficient in pathos ; but such mournful strains are not likely to become popular 

 among amateurs for private use, nor are they adapted for public performance. 

 We must not omit to notice Mr. Cruse's meritorious non-observance of the 

 rule, so prevalent in these days, of transposing the tenor and counter-tenor 

 clefs to the treble, a practice which can only be excused by the necessity of 

 catering for the tastes of those who are too indolent to spend a few hours in 

 learning to read their notes properly written. 



Memoirs of JONATHAN JEFFERSON WHITLAW, by MRS. TROLLOPE. 

 London : Bentley. 



WHENEVER the defence of a political junta shall take the place of national 

 history, and coarse caricature be considered as the true portraiture of human 

 life, then shall we willingly concede to Mrs. Trollope the credit of having 

 made her countrymen acquainted with the American republic. So long how- 

 ever as candour, and liberality, and freedom from narrow fireside prejudice 

 are regarded as the indispensable requisites of an intelligent traveller and 

 observer of foreign manners, that lady will continue to be generally regarded 

 as a weak and prejudiced thinker, who wishes to set up her own clique as the 

 standard for manners and opinions, by which every people under heaven is to 

 be tried and condemned for discordance of sentiment and action. With re- 

 spect to America we know not in what class of society Mrs. Trollope moved 

 to find the originals of her portraits : but we are well aware, and we state it 

 with the greatest confidence, that she seldom or never found her way into the 

 highest circles of American society, and consequently cannot have painted 

 the manners of that class which the generality of her readers would think 

 that she had represented ; and if what we say is the case, if she has taken 

 her portraits from the bourgeoiserie, we need scarcely observe that she might 

 have picked out of her own country, and that too in a class not below her 

 own, instances of national ignorance and of national habits quite as gross 



