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our older dramatists, particularly in Shakspeare. There is too evidently a constraint, a fastidious care, employed upon the action and characters of the piece, which betray a want of power and firmness in the very situations in which he should give a loose to the feelings and freedom of genius. It is the doubtful consciousness of the possession of real poetic power, which frequently balks the expectation of his readers in the most interesting portion of the poem. There is a promise of events, which is falsified, of some action half commenced-incidents hinted at and given up, which hold the mind in a state of contradictory feeling and indecision no way favourable to the absorbing awe, and individual terror of true tragedy. In some parts it is too strong an imitation of Racine, in others of Milton, and is throughout too little consistent in plot, in character, and sentiment. In its language and poetry, however, it is beautiful and great, containing many passages both sublime and pathetic.

The Rev. T. R. MALTHUS, M.A. F.R.S., the distinguished author of works well known to the controversial world, has recently published his Principles of Political Economy, considered with a View to their Practical Application. Like the former writings of Mr. M. this publication abounds in the same force of thought, strength of investigation, and subtle deduction of consequences which characterise at once the genius of the philosopher and the mathematician. We are of opinion, however, that he frequently carries his new propositions beyond what the former inferences will bear him out. In the prosecution of a favourite doctrine, he is not always sufficiently attentive to support and establish it, by all the arguments, or the best, that it would bear. The grand view which he takes of the subject, so intimately connected as it is, with national prosperity and national laws, appears to us, however, wise and true; grounded upon the real principles of commerce, and the wealth of nations, and strongly militating against the narrow policy of restrictions, either upon the rights or the trade of mankind.

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DRAMA.

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Peter Faultless to his Brother Simon, Tales of Night, and other Poems. 8vo. 6s.

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POLITICS.

Further Observations on the Practicability and Expediency of Liquidating the Public Debt of the United Kingdom, with reference particularly to the Landed Proprietor; by R. G. Heathfield. 8vo. 5s. sewed.

A Narrative of the late Political and Military Events in British India, under the administration of the Marquis of Hastings; by Henry T. Princep, Esq. 4to.21. 10s.

The Speech of the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, on the means of extending and securing the Foreign Trade of the Country; with an Appendix, containing the official Accounts referred to in the Speech. 2s.

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An Inquiry into the Duty of Christians with respect to War. 8vo. 6s. bds.

A Letter to the King on the Situation and Treatment of the Queen. 2s. 6d.

Reflections on the present Difficulties of the Country, and on relieving them by opening new Markets to our Commerce, and removing all injurious restrictions. 3s. A Letter to S. Whitbread. 8vo. 1s.

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A Treatise on Heat, Flame, and Combustion; by T. H. Pasley. 2s. 6d.

Tributes to Truth; by N. Littleton. vol. I. part I. 4to. 7s.

THEOLOGY.

Objections advanced by Scoffers and Infidels against certain parts of the Old Testament, plainly answered; in two Sermons; by the Rev. R. Warner. 8vo. 2s. sewed.

Vindicia Geologica; or, the Connection of Geology with Religion explained; by the Rev. W. Buckland. 4to. 4s. sewed.

Village Sermons; by a Country Clergyman. 12mo. 2s. 6d.

A Course of Lectures, containing a Description and systematic Arrangement of the several Branches of Divinity: accompanied with an Account both of the principal Authors, and of the progress which has been made at different periods in Theological Learning; by Herbert Marsh. Part V. 8vo. 2s. 6d.

A Sermon delivered in St. Enoch's Church, Glasgow, on the Death of George III.; by the Rev. Wm. Taylor, jun. D.D. 1s. 6d.

Hints to the Public and the Legislature on the nature and effect of Evangelical Preaching. 8vo. 11. 3s. bds.

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Supplement to an Historical and Critical inquiry into the Interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures, with Remarks on Mr. Bellamy's New Translation; by the Rev. J. W. Whittaker, M. A.

The Nature and Obligations of Personal and Family Religion; by Dan. Dewar, LL.D. 12mo. 3s. 6d. bds.

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The School Visitor's Assistant, in a Collection of Prayers; particularly designed to convey, in the most simple style to the youthful mind Devotional Feeling and Instruction; by Harriet Corp. 1s.

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Reasons for continuing the Education of the Poor at the present crisis; by the Rev. W. Otter. 4to. 2s.

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Italy and its Inhabitants in the years 1816 and 1817, with a view of the Manners, Customs, &c.; by James A. Galiffe, 2 vols. 8vo.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

No, IV. vol. III. of the Modern Voyages and Travels, contains Graham's Travels through Portugal and Spain, with numerous engravings. 3s. 6d. sewed-4s. bds.

Journal of a Tour in Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land; with excursions to the River Jordan, and along the Banks of the Red Sea to Mount Sinai; by William Turner, many plates. 3 vols. 8vo. 31. 3s.

Sketches, Descriptive of Italy, 1817 and 1818; with a brief Account of Travels in various parts of France and Switzerland. 4 vols. 8vo. 11. 12s.

Travels in various Countries of the East; being a continuation of Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, &c.; by Robert Walpole, M.A. 4to. 31. 3s.

Journal of a Tour in the Levant; by Wm. Turner. 3 vols. 8vo. with 54 coloured plates, maps, &c. 31. 3s.

A Narrative of a Journey into Persia and Residence at Teheran; containing a Descriptive Itinerary from Constantinople to the Persian Capital; from the French of M. Tancoigne. 12s. bds.

A Voyage to Africa: with some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Dahomian People: by John McLeod, M. D. 5s. 6d.

NEW

NEW MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.

Part the First of "JUDAH," a Sacred Oratorio in Score; written, composed, and adapted to the Works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, by William Gardiner. Il. 1s.; or 11. 6s. to Non-subscribers.

Mr. Gardiner's reasoning, it would bear quite as strongly against his selecting what he calls the form of an Oratorio, as a vehicle for the music he has assembled and produced. Where no in

MR. GARDINER, whose musical cidents connect, or action exists, every

qualifications have long been announced to the public, by various vocal publications, but more especially by his ingenious arrangement of the well-known SACRED MELODIES, has, in the volume before us, which comprizes the First Part of a selected Oratorio, or sacred pasticio, displayed considerable taste and judgment; and evinced a respectable portion of that science, without which it were the highest presumption to undertake a task equally delicate and arduous.

The work is in every respect worthy of attention. Independently of its merits as a whole, we have seen no modern production so well engraved, or arranged with so much general taste; and no publication has passed under our ordeal for several years, on which we have felt ourselves warranted in bestowing more unqualified praise.

In his preface, the compiler, and composer (for the recitatives and songs he claims as his own) by way of apology for his undertaking, observes, that a large proportion of the compositions of the great masters, confined to the Romish Church, for the service of which they were produced, and consequently little known in England, seemed to demand to be rescued from our unmerited neglect, and "it became a desideratum with him, to find some mode in which they might be presented to the British public, without injury to their original character.' If Mr. Gardiner here discloses his sense of the danger insepa rable from adaptation, his work, we must admit, demonstrates his assiduity, and his power, to avoid, as far as practicable, the objection, of which his own judgment was so well aware. From his opinion respecting the mere ideal existence of an Oratorial Drama, we beg leave to differ. The very origin of the Oratorio was dramatic, and the splendid deviations from its true character exhibited in Handel's MESSIAH, and his ISRAEL IN EGYPT, afford no argument against the superior claims of the Sacred Drama, or genuine Oratorio. And, were there any force in MONTHLY MAG. No. 341.

single portion of the work is independent of every other; and the Selections from various sacred dramas, too frequently given at our theatres, during the season of Lent, might as properly assume the title of an Oratorio, as Mr. Gardiner's JUDAH. But these reflections neither ought, nor are meant, to detract from the ability and science so creditably conspicuous in the portion of this work now under our eye.

Respecting the merit of the selections presented to us in these pages, we need do little more than remind the reader, that they proceed from the Muse of a Haydn, of a Mozart, and of a Beethoven. Something, however, is due to the judgment with which their present adaptation has been conducted; and the skill generally evident in the compiler's conjunctive additions. Instead of appearing so many patches of linseywoolsey connecting the satin of the original matter, they assume the texture of genius, the polish of art, and the consistency of almost an insensible incorporation.

In the recitatives, we find much just design ably executed. While the passages are melodious and expressive, the accompaniments are conceived with meaning, and scored with an address that declares no superficial acquaintance with the various powers of a band. The violations of the laws of sound composition are very few; while the advantages taken of the established rules are numerous, and, not unfrequently, striking.

Of the airs, "What beauty appears in the flow'r-woven fields."When I think upon thy goodness," and “O, God, thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee," are at once so many specimens of a facile and agreeable fancy, and of that correctness of judgment which forbids the application of passages incongruous with the sentiments of the words. And if of the composition and compilation of "O, sing praises to the Lord," the first eight bars of which are from Haydn, we cannot speak in the language of 4C unqualified

unqualified praise, it is because some passages, or parts of passages, are given to the voice, which should have been reserved for the instruments; and also, that, in a few instances, roulades and flights are allotted to conjunctions and unimportant expressions;-a conspicuous sample of which presents itself at the bottom of page 107. These defects, however, are but spots on the sun upon which we have been gazing with so much gratification-spots visible only by the aid of the lens of criticism, and which are far from sensibly impairing the general effect. On the whole, therefore, considering the pages under review as presenting a fair specimen of the adequacy of Mr. Gardiner's abilities for a task great and trying as that of producing an Oratorio, even by auxiliary means, and under any circumstances, however favourable, we cannot but anticipate, in the second and third parts of his work, similar evidences of taste and skill; and shall expect that the completion of his undertaking will be the establishment of his reputation as a sound and able musician.

THE DRAMA.

At COVENT-GARDEN, nothing new or conspicuous has lately been submitted to the public, except Macready's Macbeth. The truth and animation with which the Thane has been depicted, has extorted universal applause;

but we much doubt whether even the aid of his excellent representative, combined with a variety of other histrionic merit, and a profusion of new and beautiful decorations, have proved as productive to the manager as his taste and spirit have deserved. The general appearance of the Theatre has been far from bespeaking that prosperous state for which every friend of the legitimate drama would wish. Not so, however, at

DRURY-LANE:-To this house the public seem to have shewn themselves almost uniformly partial. Throughout the season, it has not been more ably conducted than respectably attended. Latterly, the revival of King Lear, the new farce of the Lady and the Devil, the splendid spectacle of Don Giovanni, and the new opera of David Rizzio, have produced to the Manager's treasury advantages equalling those of any former period: and we have reason to think, that, on the whole, the labour and anxiety imposed on his active and ingenious mind, by the magnitude of his arduous undertaking, will be adequately, and even handsomely rewarded. Kean's Lear, the acting of Elliston and Miss Kelly in the Lady and the Devil, the magnificent scenery and dresses of Don Giovanni, and Braham's Rizzio, have been so many specimens of superlative excellence.

MEDICAL REPORT.

REPORT 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, the limits of which, commencing at the Fleet-street end of Chancery Lane, pass through Gray's Inn-lane, Portpool-lane, Hatton Wall, Great Saffron-hill, West street, Smithfield-bars, Charterhouse-lane and Square; along Goswell-street to Old street; down Old-street, as far as Bunhill-row ; thence crossing the Old Jewry and extending along Queen-street, terminate at the water-side.

HE preceding month has not been chaMeasles, however, and hooping-cough, still continue to linger among us; but the former has recently assumed a character of greater mildness than it displayed some months since; and the cases of the latter we now see more numerous in their secondary and consequential, than in their primary and violent stages. Against the term spasm, as employed in the last report, the writer has heard objections. It is said by some, that hooping. cough is as decidedly and unequivocally an inflammation as is pleurisy, only that the one implicates a different part of the pulmonary organization from the other, and is

moreover of a specific or peculiar kind. This objection is grounded upon those modern views in pathology, which refuse to admit any deviation from the regular course of things without considering such derangement as necessarily vascular from first to last. That the most formidable measure of irritation has place in hooping-cough, which still continues under the grade of actual inflammation, the reporter conceives is satisfactorily made out by the particular circumstances connected with curative processes in that affection. Every one knows that a change of air will often operate with a remedial force equal almost to the power of a charm-and this not merely in the decline,

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