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variations a few cnidc, ciabiicd, and 

 unpiepari'd cliords. Indwd, the ap- 

 pearaiu'C of tli.' whole, rather betrays a 

 ^<tra^^il!£; after eccentricities, than an 

 easy and natural developenient of sci- 

 ence. For the attainment of variety, 

 or for the vain ostentation of theoreti- 

 cal knowledge, the greatest masters 

 \vill sometimes run into extraneous and 

 grotesque combinations; but then they 

 generally have the address to give a 

 seeming occasion for them ; or to min- 

 gle and relieve them with popular and 

 pleasing matter, or to lend them an 

 adventitious sweetness, and impart to 

 them a collateral reconnneudatiou. 

 A Greek Air, with Variations fur the 



Piano Forte, h;/ R. A. Firth. 2s. 



Mr. Firth lias furnished to this air 

 seventeen variations, in each of which, 

 though it exhibits much freedom of 

 fancy, tlie theme is adhered to with 

 tolerable truth and scrupulosity. As 

 an exercise for tiie instrument for which 

 it is designed, this publication will 

 have its usefulness acknowledged by 

 juvenile practitioners ; and as a diver- 

 tisement it will not fail to please the 

 tasteful auditor. 



The second volume of Mr. Gard- . 

 ner's Oratorio of Judah, is far ad- 

 vanced in the hands of the engraver, 

 and will be published in a few weeks. 

 It is as creditable to the genius of this 

 gentleman, as to the good taste of the 

 age, that his work of Sacr.-d Melodies 

 lias passed through eight editions, 

 and the first volume of the Oratorio of 

 Judah is now in its second edition. 



THE DRAMA. 



Notwithstanding the ardent efforts 

 of the managers, the taste and spirit 

 with which they decorate their specta- 



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cles, their liberal and expensive list of 

 performers, and (he new credit and 

 lustre tlirown u])on their esfablisli- 

 ments by the repeated visits of tii<; 

 King, their prosperity has of late been 

 fluctuating. We are sorry to say, that 

 though s >me nights have brought a 

 tolerable reward to their exertions, the 

 receipts of others have not compensated 

 their out-goings: and that but for a 

 few fortunate circumstances, (he gene- 

 ral result of their labours would have 

 been a loss, instead of that remunera- 

 tion which every liberal mind must 

 feel to be due to those whose judgment, 

 care and industry, provide tor the 

 public so rational and noble an enter- 

 tainment as that of a Mell-appointed 

 and judiciously conducted stage. 



At Drury-lane, (lie dull tragedy of 

 Marino Fallero. by Lord Byron, ef- 

 fected nothing for (he manager; but 

 the repetition of the ever, and deserv- 

 edly popular operas of the Duenna 

 and Love in a f'illage, together with 

 the revival of Colley Cibber's Shewou'd 

 and she woiCdnof, underjthe title of the 

 Kimllinpo.itorAi&vii given advantageous 

 employment to the talents of Mr. Bra- 

 bam, Miss Wilson, and the other vocal- 

 ists of that theatre. Ai Covent (iardeu, 

 Miss Dance's Juliet, Belvidera, and 

 Lady Townly, aided by Macready's 

 Henry Quatte, and Rob Roy, Miss 

 Hallaude\s Fioletta, and a diversity 

 of new and splendid scenery, have gra- 

 tified tlie public, and benefitted the 

 treasury. But the obstacles to any 

 brilliant and permanent success, are 

 too various and numerous not in a 

 great measure to resist the most inde- 

 fatigable exertions of managerial zeal 

 and ingenuity. 



MEDICAL REPORT. 



Rp.PORT «/ Diseases and Casualties occurriny in puhiic and private Practice 

 of the Physician who has the care of the Western District of the City Dispensary . 



A LlTTLEpaticnt hasjusl been brought 

 1\. to the reporter with that disease 

 whicli is improperly termed external wa- 

 tery head — improperly, inasmuch as for 

 the most part the effusions in these cases 

 is as well in as upon the brain ; and, in- 

 deed, the exterior appearances are rather 

 the consequences than (he essence of the 

 malady, since the process of ossification is 

 prevented from proceeding with due regu- 

 larity by the pervading debility of the 

 frame— a debility which manifests itself 

 mainly in the lymphatic organization, and 

 the remedies of which, as far as they arc 

 successfnl, prove so by virtue of exciting 

 -Monthly Mao. No. 304. 



that particular part of the system. In 

 the case alluded to, small doses of calomel 

 have been ordered twice a week, and twice 

 daily are taken very small doses likewise 

 of tincture of foxglove ; these doses being 

 gradually augmented. This species of 

 hydrocephalus, being not only constitu- 

 tional but congenital, is for the most jiart 

 considered beyond the reach of the cura- 

 tive art ; but the reporter hiis recently wit- 

 nessed even the spontaneous subduction 

 of a most formidable instance of this 

 most formidable malady, and in the pre- 

 sent case there are already appe;ir;iijces 

 sutlicieiu to ground expectation that the 

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