1823. 
“ Thou rob'st my Days of’ Business and 
Delight,” a Song, composed (with an 
Accampaniment for the Piano- Forte, ) by 
W,. Gutteridge. | > 
Mr. Gutteridge, who-is a member of 
the king’s private band, has produced, 
in the present little production, a pleas- 
ing, if not a first-rate specimen of his 
talent for vocal composition. If_ the 
style of his passages is a little quaint 
and antique, that of the words he has 
selected are not very modern, for they 
are from Cowley. The principal merits 
of his melody are, that it suits the 
poetry, and is so cousistent with itself as 
to form a regular and agreeable aggre- 
gate. 
ein THE DRAMA. 
‘Drury-Lane.—The proprietor of 
Drury-Lane continues those. unparal- 
leled exertions which have raised this 
theatre to the acmé of popularity. 
‘Towards the end of last month he pro- 
duzed, under the name of “ the Gata- 
ract of the Ganges,” the most splendid 
and perfect spectacle ever seen in an 
English theatre. It combines the 
gorgeous magnificence of Easteru courts 
with a story which, throughout, keeps 
alive” tle ‘attention of the audience. 
The processions are assisted in effect by 
numerous equestrians, and by every art 
which is calculated to heighten the plea- 
sure of beholding them. Of course, the 
house is constantly crowded in every 
part; and, great as may have been the 
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449 
cost, this showy exhibition must prove 
highly productive. Another attraction 
is a new tragedy, from classic story, 
and, in classic language, called ‘* Caius. 
Gracchus,” in which Mr. Macready dis- 
plays his astonishing powers with trans- 
cendent effect, while other parts are 
filled by performers of the first order of 
merit. In truth, the talents of the dra- 
matic corps of this theatre, assembled 
at vast expense, and by happy discri-. 
Mination, combined with the judicious 
casting of the parts, render all the per- 
formatices night after night a continued 
series of gratification to all discriminat- 
ing lovers of the drama. 
At Covent-GARDEN, the new and 
splendid musical pageant, brought for- 
ward under the title of “Cortez, or the; 
Conquest of Mexico,” aided by the suc-; 
cessful representation of ‘ Macbeth,” 
so favourable to the display of Young’s 
tragic talents; “As you like it,” in 
which Kemble’s Orlando must ever 
please ; “The Gamester,” the principal 
character in which is again so well cal-’ 
culated for Young ; and “ The Cabinet,” 
than ths Prince Orlando in. which 
nothing could. offer a better scope for- 
the exercise of Mr. Sinclair’s vocal, 
powers; relieved by these, the new 
piece, so weil received at its first repre-. 
sentation, has continued to draw tolera- 
bly full houses, and to gratify the taste of ° 
the town. : 
VARIETIES, LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS; 
“Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign, ’ 
=a 
ROFESSOR BuckLAND is printing a 
Description of an Antediluvian 
Den of Hyenas,discovercd at Kirkdale, 
Yorkshire, in 1821, and containing the 
remains of the hyena, tiger, bear, ele- 
phant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and 
sixteen other animals, all formerly na- 
tives in this country; with a compa- 
rative view of many similar caverns 
and dens in England and Germany. 
JR RicHARD Puitis will ina few 
days publish a small cheap tract, un- 
der the, title of Illustratious of the 
Interrogative System of Education, , tts 
objcot, is to disseminate a knowledge 
of the principles and practice of that 
system to the most distant parts of the . 
empire, so as to procure its introduc- 
tion, into country schools, to which it 
is as well adapted as to the finishing 
academies near London, wherein the 
system is so generally used. Besides 
Montaty Mac, No, 389, 
the facility which this system affords in 
teaching every desirable subject, it so 
much simplifies the acquisition: of 
popular branches. of knowledge.as to - 
make it easy to render them objects 
of universal education ;:and, with this 
view, a popular account for general 
distribution has beenprepared. 
A new edition of Mr, B, P. Cap- 
PeR’s Topographical Dictionary of the 
United Kingdom being in: the press, 
ihe author inyites corrections and 
communications, It will of course in- 
clude the new population returns. 
The three kingdoms will bein sepa- 
rate alphabets, and not confused in 
one alphabet, as in the former edition. 
An Institution, for teaching mecha- 
nics the scientific principlés of their, 
several trades, has, been established in 
London, under the fostering guidance 
of the public-spirited Dr, Birkseck, 
3M founder 
