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    whiqh'Da Beriot , Malibran , and her favourite actress , Mrs-C Jon ^ f , tooip part After making kindly mention of my humble merits , but taJiicJi delicacy forbids me to repeat , the fair vocalist continued , in reference to my tribute to her genius—* Mr Nathan is too kind—it is not true—I never myself feel satisfied with what I do . ' " On her expressing delight at my Hebrew Melodies ? I sent to her

    a copy of them , with the following inscri ' ption : — ' To Madame Malibran , these Melodies are respectfully presented by Mr Nathan , as an humble tribute to those splendid powers of song , the exalted exercise of which has yielded him a gratification which he had hitherto imagined only existed in idea /—She accepted the work , and conveyed her

    acknowledgments to me * in the most handsome manner , with the assurance that she would endeavour to show her thanks more satisfactorily by taking an early opportunity of singing i Jephthah ' s Daughter' in public . Independently of the disappointment to my ambition in this respect , which her sad death has occasioned , I have also to regret being deprived of the high gratification I should have felt in hearing her execute two other i

    songs ^ of my composition . Rejoice , O my people / by Mrs Moodie , late ISfiss Strickland , was one : * Queen of Evening , ' by Mr Maurice Harcourt , the otherJ T ^ elit my only MS . copies of these songs to Madame Malibran , which she took with her to the continent ; and so pleased was she with them , that she intimated an intention of singing them at an early opportunity on her return to this country . So soon as my leisure

    will allow , I shall introduce these compositions to the public , though with a deep regret that they do not appear under those auspicious circumstances which the decease of Madame Malibran has dissipated . But , through the medium of my kind friend Miss Shirreff , I have still reason tp hope that these songs may be heard in a favourable light by the musical world . "—* L N .

    Oh you sad man !—sad Ready Reckoner ! And at the last p ^ tge We have yet again another advertisement of a " Supplement to be published in a few days , containing further interesting anecdotes , &c , price 6 d . " Is this the way in which sincere and excessive grief at a public loss would be naturally expressed ? Resenting , as we did , the indecent marketing of the dead , whose brilliant talents were so suddenly and painfully

    extinguished , and Mr Nathan having different notions and objects in view , —he , of the compilation , has thought it " good and wise " to heap all manner of personally abusive epithets upon our head . His vulgar personality we decline to answer ; and , in return , beg to compliment him with the above insertion of all his choice Advertisements ( duty inclusive ) by way of a little Christinas present .

    Historical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joan D'Arc * & most beautiful little book . Of ail the elaborate volumes ( the y $ ry catalogue of which forms a voluipe ) that have been written < wi this inteieating character , these few pages are the pure epi-

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    6 $ Critical Notices *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 58, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/11/