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‘sive matter is all brilliant and good, and 
the two airs ** Nel Silenzio,” and “* Giovi- 
netto Cavalier,” are well adapted to the in- 
strument. Can we say more ? 
Shemes from the Beggar’s Opera. No. 26 
of Airs. J. Mazzxinghi. 3s. Goulding and 
D’ Almaine.—The two airs which Mr. Maz- 
zinghi has chosen, are, “ Let us Take the 
Road,” and ‘‘ How happy could I be 
with either :’’ both of them good subjects 
‘for variations: but the composer is, we 
fear, becoming rather passé—at least, we 
discover a sad paucity of ideas: we cannot 
find one passage, from the beginning to the 
end of this lesson, which is not hackneyed 
and common-place. We are sorry to give 
so disagreeable a character of the works of 
an old favourite ; but though we cannot 
speak favourably of the composition as a 
Varieties. { Nov. I, 
mere practical lesson for schools or young 
pupils, it may be useful. / 
No.1. Air from Tarrare : with Varia- 
tions, for the Piano-Forte, by L. Dussek. 
Goulding and Co.—The theme is the comic 
song and chorus, Ah Povero Calpigee : 
perhaps it would have been impossible to 
have made choice of a more uninteresting 
subject ; but having chosen—the composer 
has certainly exerted her energies, so as to 
produce a pleasing lesson: the variations 
are not very original, but théy are brilliant 
and tolerably effective. : 
No. 2. Air from Tarrare. Ditto. do. do. 
—This lesson is several degrees more in- 
teresting than the preceding: the air is 
pleasing, and the variations of a more ele- 
gant class than the foregoing. They are 
both useful practical lessons. 
VARIETIES, LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS. 
—<z——- 
[TRANSF USION of Blood.—The ex- 
traordinary operation of taking blood 
from the veins of one individual, and eject- 
ing it into those of another, was lately per- 
formed by Dr. Blundell, lecturer on mid- 
wifery at Guy’s Hospital, upon a poor 
woman, aged twenty-five years. She was 
to all appearance dying from loss of blood, 
after a severe labour; when Dr. Blundell 
(seeing the imminent danger of the case) 
laid bare one of the veins of her left arm, 
taking care to prevent the blood flowing 
from the orifice. The husband of the 
woman, who was a robust man, was then 
called in, and two ounces of blood taken 
from his arm into a glass tumbler; this 
blood was then, by means of a syringe, 
slowly thrown into the vein of the woman, 
in the direction of the heart: in about ten 
minutes the woman rallied and gradually 
recovered. The syringe was of brass, and 
well tinned in the inside; a pipe was fixed 
to the mouth, about two inches long, and 
of the size of a crow-quill, shaped like a 
pen at the end, but with a blunt point. 
All air was carefully expelled from the sy- 
ringe when used. 
Mr. Jennings, author of Observations on 
the Dialects of the West of England, &c. 
&c., has nearly ready for publication a poem, 
with copious notes, which he calls Orni- 
thologia. It consists of two parts; in the 
first (the Birds” Revel), the most striking 
features in the natural history of the birds 
of Europe, and particularly of Great Britain, 
are delineated, sometimes by a single epi- 
thet, and sometimes by one or more verses; 
in the second (the Vulture’s Saloon), the 
birds of the other portions of the globe are 
treated in the same way. Itis interspersed 
with songs, supposed to be sung by dif- 
ferent singing-birds, such as the Redbreast, 
Goldfinch, Thrush, Nightingale, Moching- 
bird, &c. We have been favoured with two 
of the songs, which we have presented to our, 
readers. The object of Mr. Jennings is to 
seize the most prominent particulars in the 
natural history of birds, as the theme of his 
verse, and by his nofes to give such eluci- 
dations as may be most likely to attract the 
reader to the science of ornithology.. The 
verse is for the most part what has been 
called the anapestic—a measure which, from 
the kind of familiarity it admits, appears to 
him more adapted to give facility and at- 
traction to a scientific subject than the 
more elaborate mechanism of the heroic. 
Of the Botanic Garden it may be mentioned, 
as a literary anecdote, that Darwin wrote 
only siz lines a-day: this was indeed build- 
ing the lofty rhyme. It is in the contem- 
plation of Mr. Jennings, if countenanced in 
the present essay, to treat in a similar way 
the whole.animal kingdom ; indeed, it is very 
probable, before this notice reaches the pub- 
lic, that he will have made some progress 
in the extensive work.— See Poetry of M. 
M. for Oct. 
Mrs. Belxoni.—A subscription has been 
set on foot for the widow of the celebrated 
Belzoni, who perished at Benin, in Africa, 
on his way to Timbuctoo ; and we trust the 
sympathy of a generous public will effec- 
tually interfere, if the justice of the country 
should fail, to snatch her from desolation ; 
for, notwithstanding all her exertions, the 
greater part of her little property, we un- 
derstand, has been torn from her, and re- 
moved from the premises. The papyrics, 
the two statues, for the fellow of one of 
which Mr. Hope gave £300, will probably 
have followed; and every necessary in the 
house is menaced, even to the fittings of 
the gas-pipes, and the very coals in the 
cellar. The Egyptian Antiquities, rescued 
by her husband from the concealment of 
thirty centuries, to which Mrs, B. has hi- 
therto clung with affectionate respect for 
his memory, have hardly paid the bare ex- 
pense of exhibition. The liberality of go- 
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