1825.] 
PIANO-FORTE.- 
Grand Concerto, for Piano-forte. Op. 59. 
J. Moschelles. 83. Chappel. —This is truly 
a glorious effort of science ; the futtis are 
highly wrought, and exhibit a thorough 
knowledge of orchestral effect. Theadmix- . 
ture of the accompaniments: (the wind in- 
struments in particular), with the solos, is 
managed with great judgment, and pro- 
duces a most delicious effect. The first 
movement in B flat (somewhat & la Mar- 
cia) is particularly bold and spirited. The 
Adagio in the same key is fine and brilliant, 
but not so strikingly beautiful as some we 
have met with: and the Rondo in E flat, 
a la polacca, is worthy of the preceding 
movements. R 
Eighth Grand Concerto for the Piano- 
forte. Op.70. J.B. Cramer. 8s. Boosey 
and Co.—We cannot, generally speaking, 
tank this Concerto so high, as a scientific 
performance, as the last, though inter- 
spersed with passages of the highest inge- 
nuity and beauty; but they are both of so 
superior a grade, that it is almost presump- 
tuous to estimate theirrelative merits. =~ 
The first and last movements are in D: 
minor, the Larghetto in D major. The 
orehestral introduction is'‘more in the style 
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_ of the old masters, and consequently heavier 
than that of Mr. Moschelles. The solos 
‘are elegant and flowing ; the passages much 
less complex and awkward. The Lar- 
ghetto we consider much more interesting, 
though ofa simpler nature, and decidedly. 
give it the preference. The Rondo al Es- 
pagniola is original, but not particularly 
pleasing. 
Mozart's Concerto in F., performed by 
Cramer this Season. Reprint by Preston. 
5s.— This, as the reprint of an old work, 
does not altogether with propriety come 
under our notice ; but it is curious to com- 
pare it with the last concerto, of the pre- 
sent day. We must have a humble opinion 
of Mozart’s abilities 4s a performer, not- 
withstanding the lofty commendations of 
his biographers, when we.see a production, 
which in the present day would merely 
rank with juvenile sonatinas, designated a 
grand Concerto, and performed as a chef- 
d’ceuvre of execution. - 
Rondeau Mignon, pour le Piano- _forte. 
Pinis. Boosey and Co.—Mignon, as far as 
beauty and delicacy are concerned, but too 
scientific and difficult to bear that title with 
propriety. ‘The subject is tae ele-. 
gant. 
MEDICAL REPORT. 
—a 
ARVELS are not to be met with 
every day, evenin a Medical Report.’ 
It is possible, as the present generation 
experience, eyen in such a variable climate 
as Englishmen dwell in, for extraordinary 
* changes daily to take place in the atmo- 
: spheric temperature, without any perma- 
bi extracted from a pamphlet which has 
nerit inconvenience to health. 
Although, during the .past month, we 
may truly say that we have been subjected 
to extremes of heat and cold, yet the health 
of the body of inhabitants of London has 
_continued good. Ophthalmic and catarrhal 
affections, and also painful inflammations 
of the parotid and sub-maxillary glands 
have principally come. under the notice of 
the Reporter ;—cases. of fever have. been 
few, and those of mild form. 
The following interesting facts are 
_ just been published on Small-pox and 
_ Vaccination, in the town of Cambridge, 
by Mr. J. J. Cribb, Member of the 
Royal College of Surgeons : i 
___ 1. More than 300 have probably died in 
‘ Cambridge, in the course of twenty-five 
i _ preceding the summer of 1824—i.e. 
1 in7 of those who have had the disease. . 
) 2 Ten haye died inthe same period of 
_ small-pox from inoculation—7.e. 1 in 113. 
3. Three haye died of smallpox after: 
vaccination ; or 1 in 1318 vaccinated. 
4. From the joint influence of vaccina- 
Montuty Mac. No. 411. 
tion and small-pox inoculation, it is very 
probable that 713 deaths from natural’ 
small-pox have been prevented. 
5. If all who have been affected, within 
the given period, with either of these dis- 
eases (viz. inoculated small-pox, and natural 
small-pox, or cow-pox) had been inoculated 
with small-pox, 64 only would have died. 
6. Had all undergone vaccination, five’ 
or six only would have died of small-pox. 
7. Where one person has died of small-., 
pox after vaccination, 11 or 12 have died of° 
inoculated small-pox. 
8. In several parishes of Cambridge, in - 
proportion to the diffusion of vaccination . 
has been the prevention of small-pox. 
9. Two hundred and twenty-four cases 
of small-pox have occurred after supposed 
vaccination. 
10. In these cases (see 9) the’ disease | 
was slight in 163; more severe, but not’ 
dangerous, in 33; dangerous i in 9, and fatal - 
in 3. 
11. The supervention of smal]l-pox in 
persons previously vaccinated, has been in- 
comparably more’ frequent of late than in 
former ears. 
12. The lapse of time does not impair, 
the protecting influence of cow-pox, in the 
persons of'those who have once undergone 
the‘disease. 
13. The vaecined virus has lost none of 
its efficaey from the time whieh ‘has’ tran- 
spired, and the’ number of individuals’ 
. through whom it has passed, since it was 
frst taken from its original source. 
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