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again in their images. M. Tifchbein has 
been accufed, but on flight grounds, of 
embellifhing the monuments which he co- 
pied—of idealizing them, and beltowing 
on them an expreffion which they really 
had not. ‘This charge would be a 
high encomium for a modern artift, who 
would thus be prefumed to have more of a 
correct genius than his mafters. But 
thofe who fpeak thus have no idea of the 
infinite care that Tifchbein and his beft 
pupils have exerted in the copying of all 
the monuments, which he gives us with 
the moft ferupulous fidelity, andin the true 
f{pirit of the antique. A defign has been 
often begun again five times over; and 
all poflible means have been ufed to pro- 
cure the moft exact copies. Fortu- 
nately, they have at Paris an opportu- 
nity of afcertaining the rigorous exacti- 
tude of one of thofe defigns, which may 
afiord fuficient proof for the others.— 
‘The head of Menelaiis is in the Mufeum, 
next to the Laocoon, at its right, in the 
embrafure of the window, ‘The fpectator 
has only to compare this monument with 
the defign which Tifchbein has drawn 
from it, and he cannot but be ftruck with 
the fidelity of execution, as well as with 
the character it‘elf of the afpeé&t.—VI. 
The body of Antilochus, placed on his 
car by Neftor, after a bas-relief of white 
marble. This number is further orna- 
mented with feveral vignettes and tail- 
pieces, copied from different antiques, 
fuch, for example, as an engraved corna- 
jine, reprefenting a lyre, above which 
flutters a butterfly, with the antients a 
fymbol of the foul, which is delighted at 
the found cf the chords of that inftru- 
ment. Every plate is accompanied with 
Review of New Mufical Publications: 
[Dee t, 
an explication, by the celebrated M. 
Heyne, to whom literature and the {ci- 
ences are under great obligations, ‘The 
end of thefe explications is not te give ar-. 
cheological details on the monuments re- 
prefented, but to point out and develope 
their {pirit in relation tothe art. Befides 
the explanations annexed to each plate, 
the firft number includes two pieces of 
the higheft intereft, one entitled Homer, 
and the other THe ILiap, on the ideal 
in the arts of defign, on the mode of trans- 
formation which poetical conceptions 
ought to undergo, in order to become 
fufceptible of being reprefented fenfibly, 
and in vifible traits, by the pencil of 
the painter, or by the chizel of the 
{culptor ; and on feveral cther funda- 
mental ideas of the theory of the arts.—- 
Thefe explications are tranflated inte 
French by Citizen Villers, author of the 
Expofition of the Philofophy of Kant. 
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The bookfellers and other perfons con- 
nested with literature, throughout Great 
Britain and Ireland, have entered into a 
weill-compa&ed affociation for the purpofe 
of eftablifhing, in London, a Daity 
Morwninec anda DaitLy EVENING New!f- 
paper. The refpectability and the extent 
of this affociation warrant the expecta- 
tion, that thefe newfpapers will do honour 
to the Englith prefs, and be a means of | 
diffufing the earlieft and moft authentic po- . 
litical intelligence, as well as of exciting a 
more general patronage towards the cur= - 
rent literature. The publication will 
take place early in the next year. - 
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REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
¢ Wy Banks they are furnifpd with Bees,” a 
celebrated Elegy, compofed by the late Mr. 
Fonathan Battifpill. 
HIS elegy, or glee, is compofed for 
three voices, a counter, tenor, and. 
bafs, and forms a finely-harmonized bal- 
fad of four verfes. The parts are con-. 
“-{truéted and combined with that judg- 
ment and cadence by which the produc- 
tions of this real mafter are diftinguifhed ; 
and the melody every where exhibits 
marks of his elegant and cultivated fancy. 
Though the fuperftructure of the compo- 
fition is repeated four times, the bafs, we 
obferve, is every time moft ingenioufly 
varied, by which a conftantly new effect 
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is produced, no Jefs pleafing than judi- 
cious and appropriate. This elegy is 
prefernted to the public by Mr. Page, of 
St. Paul’s Cathedral, who, we are glad 
to learn, is in poffeflion of fome pofthu- 
mous anthems by the fame great compo- 
fer, which he means fhortly to commit to 
the prefs. 
Three Sonatas for the Piano-forte, with or qwith- 
out tbe. additional Keys, with a Violin Ac-. 
companiments ad libitum. Compofed and de- 
dicated to Mifs Carew, by Veronica Cian- 
chettini. 
Thefe fonatas, in which Madame Cian- 
chettini has introduced the old admired 
Scotch tune, * There’s no Luck about the 
Houfe."* 
