1 S23.] LUerari/ and Critical Protmium. 



we should sliono:lj' apprehend ; but, by 

 the judicious lew, its general gravity 

 will be considered as the necessary 

 feature of its character, not as an ob- 

 jection, or a blemisli. 

 O, Welcome sweet Robin, a Siniff set to 



Music, with an Accotnpaniment for 



the Harp or Piano-Furle, by L, C. 



Nielsou. \s. 



This song, the music of which was, 

 it seems, composed " at the request of 

 a young lady," is not entitled to our 

 most favourable report. The passages 

 have in them nothing of novelty, and 

 that defect is by no means compen- 

 sated by their connexion, or commu- 

 tiial analogy. Wanting a congeniality 

 of style, they fail to produce a uni- 

 formity of cliaractcr; and, by conse- 

 quence, leave no determined image on 

 the mind. 



511 



THE DRAMA. 



Frequenters, as we are, of the 

 drama, we cannot boast that, since 

 our last theatrical report, we have re- 

 ceived, in addition to the general 

 pleasure derived from that highly-ra- 

 tional source of amusement, any of 

 that f;:ratification inseparable from the 

 production of novelly. A large por- 

 tion of the past month has been re- 

 signed to benefit performances ; and, 

 what may be called the managers' 

 iiighls, however tastefully and judi- 

 ciously they may have been occupied, 

 liave only presented us with tiie ex- 

 cellencies wo had already so repeat- 

 edly wilnessed. Among thes(\ the 

 principal have been (at Drury-Lane,) 

 the Othello, Posthiimvs, Richard, and 

 Lear, of Kenn; the Rover and Bel- 

 rour of Illlislon ; the Valentine of 

 Itrahaui ; llie IJinri/ Bertram of Hum; 

 tlie Kathcrine aiid Lneij Bertram of 



Miss Stephens, and the Julia Mannerivg 

 of Miss Povey: (at Covent-Garden,) 

 the Rub Roy Mncijreyor, Macbeth, 

 Pierre, and Virffinius, of Macready; 

 the Benedict, Jaffier, Iciliiis, and 

 Orlando, of Kemble ; the Rosalind of 

 Miss J(mes ; the Clari, Diana Vernon, 

 and Luciana, of Miss Tree ; the 

 Adriana of Miss Paton ; the JSinelta of 

 Miss Hallaude ; and the Celia, Hei-o, 

 and Virginia, of Miss Foofe. But 

 these have been the only salient points 

 from which the public gratification has 

 sprung at the winter houses. Some 

 compensation for the want of new 

 attractions in those quarters has been 

 made by the commencement of the 

 Haymarket season. The re-opening of 

 Mr. Morrice's summer theatre took 

 place on the seventeenth of June with 

 a lively little farce, entitled. Summer 

 Flies, or 77ie Will for the Deed, suc- 

 ceeded by Morton's comedy of A Cure 

 for the Heart-Ache, in which Liston 

 gave to Old Rapid all the originality 

 and richness of colouring conceived by 

 the author, while the Son of the Old 

 Taylor was so correctly and strikingly 

 represented by Mr. Vining, that we 

 could not witness his performance 

 without secretly congratulating the 

 manager in having been able to so well 

 supply the place of our favourite Mr. 

 Jones, at present an absentee from the 

 boards. These pieces have been fol- 

 lowed by the Heir at Law, the Marriage 

 of Figaro, She Stoops to Conquer, the 

 Hypocrite, Twelve Precisely, and other 

 dramas calculated to give scope to the 

 variegated talents of a well-appointed 

 company ; and have drawn hoHses, the 

 fulness and respectability of which, 

 promise the establishment a pros- 

 perous season. 



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^r'llE Ilislunj oflheEuriipeati Languages, 

 J- or Ucai(trchis into Ike AffmilUs if the 

 Teutonic, (ireilc, I'eltic, Scluvunic, and 

 Indian, I\'ati(nn, by the late AlicxandivR 

 MuKKAv, 1)1). is one of I lie muAt recon- 

 dite works (III ttyiiiolo^^y that have ever 

 appeared in lliin coiintiy. It is almost as 

 fanciful and extravagant (we mean, of 

 eoiirsc, in the eyes of oiilinniy men,) as 

 the F.lijmidn'^icon Mannutn of SVhiler, but 

 cxtjibiti inlinitcly more of gdiiiis and 



learning. Dr. Murray was, in a groat 

 degree, self-taiiKlit ; and rose, Crom tlie 

 liundilo situation of a slirpherd-boy, to 

 the hif^h station of Piofissor of Oriental 

 Laimiiapes in the University of Ediu- 

 bingh ; which, however, he hcic! only about 

 one year, having died of a consmiiption hi 

 1813, in the jiitli y^ar of liis aji'e. In his 

 kiiowkdtje of the Eastern lon^'iieH he was 

 almost witliont a rival in this eoiintiy ; but 

 this, perhaps, is sayiuf.'; little, .Miice, as Dr. 

 Murray hiuiselt idls ufi, at the time of the 



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