16S Medical Report . [Sept. j, 
which is prefixed to each of the com¬ 
positions, are proportioned in length, 
and adapted in style, to the melodies 
they introduce. As practices for those 
young musicians who hare not made 
any great advancement in the art of 
execution, we think these waltzes will 
prove attractive and useful; in the 
character of exercises, we are justified 
in giving them our recommendation. 
“ Dear, dear ! the thought's enchanting," 
an admired Ballad , written by Mr. F. 
Wyman , Composed , with an Accompa¬ 
niment for the Piano Forte , by George 
Frederic Harris. 1.?. fid. 
This little ballad is written with a 
degree of delicate humour, and is set 
with an appropriate ease and playful¬ 
ness. The accompaniment is simple, 
yet busy and ingenious. Both by the 
writer and the composer, the production 
is evidently meant as a trifle ; but it is 
a pleasing trifle, and gives satisfactory 
evidence of the abilities both of the 
poet and the musician. It will not fail 
to attract the lovers of light and airy 
composition. 
Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Caro¬ 
line's New Waltz , Composed and Ar¬ 
ranged with, variations for the Harp or 
Piano Forte , by J. Monro. 2s. 
The'passages of which this waltz is 
constituted, are of a pleasing cast, and 
Avell linked together. The appended 
variations (five in number) are of pro¬ 
gressive volatility and difficulty, and 
calculated to lead forward the finger 
of the young practitioner. Regarded 
as a divertimento, Mr. Monro’s com¬ 
position is certainly worthy of commen¬ 
dation ; and as an exercise ranks among 
those best calculated to promote the 
power of free and facile, if hot of bril- 
liant execution. 
“ No dearer moments e'er can flowa song 
Composed by John Barnett. Is. fid. 
If this song, the words of which are 
written by Mr. Hippolitus Poignand, 
is not of the first description, in point 
of beauty of melody, neither is it with¬ 
out some claims to our approbation, on 
account of its truth and propriety of 
expression. The passages, perhaps, are 
in some instances, too sombre, but the 
general effect is appropriate and inte¬ 
resting. Of Mr. Poignand’s poetry we 
cannot speak very flatteringly, though 
we would by no means entirely deny 
its possession of merit. 
Le Carnival, a familiar Divertimento 
for the Piano Forte, Composed by J. C. 
Nightingale , Organist of the Foundling 
Hospital. 2s. 
This divertimento consists of three 
movements, the first of which is origi¬ 
nal, the second founded on 44 Fresh and 
strong the breeze is blowing,” from 
Inkle and Yarico, and the" third on 
44 Come let us dance and sing,” from 
the same opera. The variety which 
distinguishes this production, gives it, 
in our opinion, much and forcible at¬ 
traction. The movements are ably 
arranged, and succeed each other with 
an effect that manifests the judgment 
of the composer and compiler. Of the 
merit of the two borrowed 'airs, ive need 
not speak. It is a long while since 
they first spake for themselves. 
The Zodiac , a Series of Favourite Songs , 
written by J. Richards, esq. adapted to 
Airs of the most admired Country 
Dances and Waltzes , Arranged with an 
Accompaniment for the Piano Forte, or 
Harp, by J. Monro. Is. fid. 
This little publication, founded on 
the idea of taking upas subjects, the 
remarkable or characterising day of 
each month, as New Years Day, St. 
Valent hie's Day , St. Patrick's Day , 
&c. &c., is appropriately and happily 
diversified, and marks the taste and 
ingenuity of the selector. We find 
among the assembled melodies some of 
the most justly admired, and if they 
are not all modern, the least new are 
in one sense of the word, too good ever 
to be old. 
MEDICAL REPORT. 
R sport of Diseases and Casualties occurring in public and private Practice 
of the Physician who has the care of the Western District of the City Dispensary • 
CCURRENCES are hourly presenting 
themselves to the writer of these 
pages, which prove the impossibility of 
establishing those universal propositions 
in medicine that are admissable and appli¬ 
cable in other sciences. We are daily 
taught, too, in the school of experience, 
that the naming of a disease, and the point¬ 
ing out its appropriate or specific remedy, 
is the conception of a something in the me¬ 
dical art which equally eludes the grasp of 
ingenuity, and bids defiance to the labour 
of industry. 
Who that reads Dr. Hamilton on purga¬ 
tive 
