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This fort to gain the Latians bend their care, 
Point their full ftrength, their whole col- 
le&ted war 
Vat fragments from above the Trojans throw, 
And through the walls their javelins gaul the 
foe. 
A blazing torch the mighty Turnus flung ; 
Clofe to the fices the flaming mifchief hung; 
Then thundering through the planks, in fury 
grew, . 
Swelled inthe wind, and round the ftruGure 
flew. 
With beadiong fpeed the imprifoned troops 
retire, 
Thronged in huge heaps, before the {preading 
fire. 
Review of New Mufical Publications. 
[June 1, 
While on one fide their weight incumbent 
_ day, 
The beams all burft, the crackling walls give 
way, 
The ponderous pile comes tumbling to the 
ground, ' 
And all Olympus trembled at the found. 
The author of Fitzofborne’s Letters 
paffes the following encomium on Pitt’s 
Virgil. ‘ITam_glad of an opportunity of 
quoting from a poet, whofe tranflation of. 
the Aéneid does honour to the Englifh lan« 
guage.’ 
REVIEW OF NEW MUS 
ICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
A Mufical Grammar, in four Parts: Notation, 
Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm, By Dr. 
Callestt. 8s. 
ROM any dida&tic work by Dr. Call- 
cott, we fhould expeé& much pleafure 
and information: we opened the prefent 
volume with a view to both, and were not 
difappointed. In what he fays in his firit 
Part on the flaff, (had he called it fave, 
we fhould not have charged him with laxity 
of language) on the cliffs, the notes, the 
refts, the fharps and flats, and the graces 
and charaéters, heis corre&t and clear; 
and his examples are pointed and judicious, 
In his fecond Part, on melody, the doétor 
goes pretty far into the fubjeét, which he 
elucidates by confiderable number of cu- 
rious and fatisfa€tory remarks, ftrongly 
fupported by marginal notes. His third 
Part, on harmony, commences with con- 
fiderations on the, triad (confonant and 
diffonant) ; after which it proceeds to ob» 
fervations cn the dominant, feventh, dif- 
cords, cadences, fequences and licences, 
that cannot fail to furnifh, the mufical 
ftudent with much ufeful intelligence. 
The fourth and laf part, on rhythm, 
treats of accent, the mufical foot, the cz- 
fure, the phrafe, the fection, the period, 
and the coda, and will be found to explain 
many things little known, or feldom un- 
derftood, and which the mafs of modern 
~ compofers will do well to feduloufly per- 
ufe. Onthe whole, Dr. C. may be faid 
to bave produced in bis Mufical Grammar, 
a work, the general merit and utility of 
which Go honour to his fcience; and for 
which every mufical ftudent muft fee] him- 
felf much indebted beth to his judgment 
and profeffional indufiry, 
“A Duet for the Harp and Piano-forte. Compofed 
and Injcribed to Mifs Fane, by Thomas Powel. 
35. 
This duet, which confifts of three well. 
arranged movements, is tafteful in its ftyle, 
and ingenious in its. conftru€tion. The 
two inftruments blend with, and refpond 
io, each other fo happily as to’evince a 
refpectable degree of {eience, and confider. 
able powers of contrivance. Much ima- 
gination alfo difcovers itfelf in various 
pafflages, and the whole exhibits an order 
of merit that ftrongly claims public atten-. 
tion and encouragement. 
Numbers One and Two of Recreations. 
by Mr. Latour. Each 1s. 6d. 
This work, the two firft numbers of 
which confit of the Maid of Lodi, and 
the Gavot in Achille et Deidame, each 
with variations, is to be comprized in 
twelve monthly numbers. Judging by 
the {amples before us, we do not doubt 
but the undertaking will be both credita- 
ble and profitable to the ingenious author, 
whofe variations to the popular and attrac-: 
tive melodies he has alieady fele&ted, are 
fanciful and animated, and fo well con- 
firuéted for execution on the inftrument 
for which they are intended, that young 
piano-forte performers cannot fail to de- 
rive improvement from thvir practice. 
Compofed 
The celebrated Pantomime called Guy of Warwick, 
now performing at the Royal Amphitheatre, 
Wefiminfier Bridge. Compofed by I. Sander» 
fon. 4s. 
In the overture to Guy of Warwick 
the movements are well-conceived and ju- 
dicioufly contrafted: with the return of 
the 
