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The Cricket, a Ballad, compofed, with an Ac-— 
companiment for the Piano-forte, by Fobn Ban- 
mer, j#n. Is. 
This ballad, the words of which are 
from Cowper’s Poems, forms a promifing 
debut in mufical compofition. Mr. Ban- 
ne’, as we learn, has been a pupil of Dr, 
Bufby’s ;-we are therefore the lefs fur- 
prized at the undffeéted eafe, connection of 
ideas, propriety of combination, and other 
merits rarely found inthe firft effort of fo 
young a man. 
$< Well be Married this Year’ The favo- 
rite Balad ung in the Tale of Terror, by 
Mr. Emery, at the Theatre Royal Covent 
Garden. Written by Mr. H. Siddons. The 
Air compofed by a Lady. Arranged for the 
Piano-forte, by W. Ware. 15. 
We are pleafed with this trifle, though 
we are aware that many hearers will fay 
there is nothing init. The idea on which 
the whole melody turns is fimple and cha- 
racteriftic 3 and the effet of the whole 
does credit to the judgment, if not to the 
PRY and invention, of the fair compo- 
efe 
2, Dune Folie. Compofed for the Piano- 
forte, by F Mazzxinghi, Efq. 25 
The prefent number of this work con- 
fits of a kind of fonata in one movement 
1 f, 
only; but foconftruéted as to produce not 
only an agreeable but a variegated effect ; 
and at the fame time to form an improving 
exercife for the inftrument for which it is 
written. 
‘Proceedings of Learned Societies. 
[July f: 
We are glad to have to announce to the 
lovers of good cathedral mufic, that Dr. - 
‘Clarke, of Cambridge, is about to pub- 
lith, by fubfcription, two volumes of 
church-compofitions ; 
fervices, and the other of anthems. Thefe 
volumes, the Doétor informs us-in his 
printed propofals, are intended as a con- 
tinuation of, and will be executed in the 
fame elegant ftile as, the volume already 
publithed. Judging by the excellence of 
what Dr. Clarke has already produced in 
this fpecies of compofition, we anticipate 
much gratification from the perufal af the 
volumes now forthcoming ; and do not 
doubt but thatthe cathedral and collegiate 
bodies throughout the kingdom will be 
eager to poffefs fo ufeful and claffical an 
addition to their mufical lib: aries. 
Mefirs. Sale and Page, of St. Paul’s, 
are circulating propofals for publifhing by 
fubfcription, in twelve numbers, under the 
title of Festive Harmony, a felection 
of madrigals, motels, elegies, glees, &c. 
fromthe works of the moft eminent com- 
pofers, including {cme choice pieces 
(never yet printed) from the manufcripts 
of the late Mr. Jonathan Battifhill, What- 
ever merit may be found in the compofi- 
tions fele&ted by the ingenious compiler 
from the old mafters, the work will derive 
no fmall additional value from the infer- 
tion of new and original matter from the 
pen of fo great and diflinguifhed a matter 
as the late Mr. Battithill; and whofe 
name wil!, no doubt, infure a refpectable 
fub{cription. Ms 
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PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
‘THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 
FRANCE. . 
NOTICE of the LaBouRsS of the CLass 
of MORAL.anud POLITICAL SCIENCES, 
during the FiRST QUARTERLY SIT- 
TING of YEAR 113, by CITIZEN 
DAUNOU, one of the SECRETARIES. 
‘A MEMOo1R Of CITIZEN BOUCHAUD, oz 
the Morals of Epigtetus. 
HE life of Epiétetus is but very lit- 
tle known, fays Citizen Bouchaud ; 
' the very name of Epictetus commoniy 
given'to him is not his proper name; 
Exityros fignifies a fervant, or flave ; 
and it is well known that Epictetus was 
born in a ftate of flavery. He was of 
Hieropolis, a city of Caria, at a little 
diftance from Laodicea. His mafter, named 
Epaphroditus, had a place in the Guards of 
the empercr Nero. According to the tefti- 
mony of Suidas, Epictetus was always very 
much attached to the fect of the Stoics 5 
he reduced all his philofophy to thefe two 
words: § bear’ and ‘* forbear: ae 
pafled his life in poverty, without ever 
complaining of his hard condition. He 
refided at Rome until the tine that Do- 
mitian expelled all the philofophers from 
that capital. Then Epiftetus took refuge 
in Nicopolis, a city of Epirus, where he 
ended his days, without ever mending his 
fortunes. His life was prolonged to'ex- 
treme old age, and it is very probable 
that he did not die till the time of Nerva, 
or under Trajan, at the age of abvut nine- 
ty years. His life was written at fome 
length, by Arrian, his difciple ; but that 
part of the works of Arrian is lot. We 
may judge of the high reputation of Epic- 
tetusy, 
one confifing of 
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