156 FINE ARTS. 



1. Six Duets in Canon for two Sopranos. 2. Songs of Remevi- 

 hrance. Both by Miss Mounsey. London : T. E. Purday. 



To each of these publications we feel pleasure in giving unquali- 

 fied approbation. The songs in canon are excellently adapted for 

 preparing the taste, no less than the voice, of the pupil to execute 

 and appreciate the concerted pieces of classical composers. Miss 

 Mounsey has herself drank deep of the pure fountain of classical 

 music, and wishes her pupils to possess the same advantage. This 

 is as it should be, and until it is universally the case we shall in 

 vain look for improvement in the public taste commensurate with 

 the " march of intellect" in other matters. The Songs of Remem- 

 brance have a freshness and originality no less pleasing than rare in 

 these days, when every one, however weak his talents, seems to 

 think that the mantle of inspiration has fallen upon him, and that 

 the public will hear him, if it will listen to no one else. The 

 " Song of the Summer Winds" is a perfect gem, and leaves nothing 

 to desire, either on the score of beauty or originality. The " Will- 

 o'-the-Wisp" is our next favourite, and in its manner rather reminds 

 us of Purcell, with whose works Miss M. is doubtless familiar. 

 But we have not space to enumerate the beauties of these songs, 

 and must, therefore, conclude by recommending this publication to 

 our musical readers, as a proof that the musical ability of the fair 

 sex is not confined to the production of such trash as the Treasures 

 of the Deep, or the Greek Exile. 



INSTRUMENTAL. 



1. Deux Rondinos, sur les Themes favoris de I' Opera VElisir 

 d'Amore, pour le piano, par W. Plachy. 2. L'Aurore Boreale ; 

 Premiere Suite de Contredanses brilliantes et varices, par R. 

 Nordmann. — Boosey. 3. Fantasia for the Pia?io, with varia- 

 tions on the favourite glee " Glorious Apollo." By Philip Klitz. 

 Purday. 



No. 1. The admirers of Donizetti and his school will doubtless 

 be pleased with these rondinos, containing, it appears, the cream of 

 his operas, and being at the same time brilliant and playable. We 

 prefer the first. 



No. 2. The northern lights set to music by Herr Nordmann I 

 who certainly does very right to inform us when he means to repre- 

 sent the sky, and when the lightening, &c., for we should other- 

 wise never have discovered which was which ; as it is, we take it 

 all upon trust, though we think none need fear the effects of his 

 lightening. As dance-music I'Aurore Boreale is spirited and pleas- 



No. 3. Though Mr. Klitz be not quite so expert at writing vari- 

 ations to an air as Haydn (who has left us several specimens of this 

 kind which prove him to have been the greatest master of the ait 



