1802.] 
expeditious method of propagating this 
{pice, for among the nutmegs which have 
been fown and thrive very well, there are 
many more male than female individuals. 
He likewife propofes to engraft thefe 
laft on the males, and to try, for this 
purpofe, the different proceffes which may 
Jead to a fatisfa€tory refult. As to the 
bread-fruit-trees, they profper wonder- 
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fully. Citizen Martin announces, that 
he fhall foon have twelve new fprigs 
to feparate from their ftocks. Some 
have fuckers already, and the others will 
ere long. He has obferved, that the 
fprigs, in general, if the branches are of 
any {trength when they provine, (that is, 
Jay them in the ground to propagate) pro- 
duce fruit the fame year. 
REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS, 
The Poor Blind Boy, a favourite Canzonet, 
with an Accompaniment for the Harp or Piano- 
forte, (never before publifoed) compofed by 
Mr, Hook. 
\ /[ R. HOOK appears to have beftowed 
confiderable care on this little com- 
pofition. The melody is fmooth and 
natural, and the ftile true to the fenti-, 
ment. The paflage given to * Pity 
the poor Blind Boy,” is particularly ju- 
dicious, and a fweetly-pathetic effect is 
produced by the femi-tonic intervals in 
the concluding femphony. The rhyme, 
we are obliged to fay, is. not regularly 
preferved; but ‘that muft be charged to‘ 
the broken meafure of the words: it is 
not always poffible, in mufical expreffion, to 
give due linfit to a pentameter line. For 
the convenience of thofe who fing in parts, 
Mr. Hook has adapted this air, on the 
back page, as a duetto: and we venture 
to fay, that, if correctly performed, its 
effect, in this form, will be found highly 
agreeable and interefting.. 
Two Chearful and Two Serious Glees, compofed 
by F. Marfh, Eq. 
The firft of thefe glees, called <* The Old 
Maid and her Parrot,’’ is a production of 
fome humour: the parts are well ad- 
jufted, and the words given with confi- 
derable point. 
dow and Child,’’ is pathetic. The me- 
lody pofleffes fome pathos, and expref- 
fiom is obvioufly aimed at throughout ; 
but the accent is not always juitly con- 
ceived; and without a correct accent the 
expreffion muft fail. The fucceeding glee 
is of a truly comic character ; “and the 
laft, (a ferious compofition, called « The 
Patriot’s Prayer’) is charatteriftically 
folemn in its ftyle. The meafure of the 
words has, however, led Mr. Marth into 
a falfity of the rhythm, which we wonder 
his own ear did not dete&. 
Periodical Sonata for the Piano-forte. Compofed 
and dedicated to Mifs Plowdcn, by F.Relfe. 
This fonata, in which Mr, Relfe has 
MoNTrHLY Mae. No, 86, 
The fecond, ** The Wi. 
introduced his own juftly-admired air of 
«<’TheMoon had climbed the higheft Hill,” 
is written with much tafe and fancy, 
The introductory movement is elegant. 
the fecond movement free and playful, 
and the fourth and la& engaging and ori-’ 
ginal. We muft, neverthele(s, notice, 
that two confecutive oétaves, between the 
bafs and the upper part, have efcaped 
Mr. Relfe, in paffing from the thirteenth 
‘to the fourteenth bar of the feventh page, 
which we truft he will be carcful to cor- 
reft in the future impreffions. 
<¢ Now at Moonlight’s Fairy Hour.” A Duett 
for Two Voces, with aa Accompaniment for 
the. Harp or Piano-forte. , Compofed by Te 
Thompfon, of Newcafile upon- Tyne. 
This. duett is comprized in 
ments, calculated to relieve each other 
with much felicity and effect. The firtt . 
movement, in 6-8 ficiliano, is novel, and . 
highly paftoral in its ftyle, and the fecond 
is pretty and animated, We mui, how- 
ever, object to Mr. Thompfon’s.cuftom of» 
making his fecond, col baffo, as atthe 
words ‘* Faintly gleams each dewy Steep.” 
The effet of fuch a manwuvre will al- 
ways be baid and- flimfy, and certainly 
two move-~ 
betrays an embarraflment which the 
compofer fhould endeavour to fur- 
mount. We cbferve in this compofition, 
that the engraver has uniformly tied to- 
gether notes meant to be fung to- dif- 
ferent fy!lables ; a practice very perplex- 
ing to young performers, and which 
we hope no compofer will in future en- 
courage. . : 
‘< The Days of Delight.” A Colleétiow of Cane 
wonetts, for One and Two Voices, with an 
Accompaniment for the Harp and Piano-forte, 
confifiing of Infancy, Youth, Love, and Mar- 
riage. The Poetry and Mufic entirely news 
Compofed by Mr, Fook. 
The melodies of thefe canzonetts are 
written with an eafe and characteriftic 
freedom which at’ once befpeak the com- 
pofer’s judgment and ductility of ima. | 
3C gination, 
