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    aod everybody called forward , betrayed the management , from th * commfnccment . From the overture downwards , this new opera is a common-place an affeir as we ever heard . If Mr . Balfe hud been a man of genius , like Harriett , he would not have been patronized by the lessee of Drury Lane . Most of the newspapers in speaking of the Si

    ege of Rochelle , began by extolling it , and were obliged to retract . Not warned by that " slight' * mistake , mo * t of them have done just il . e same with the Mnid of Artoi 8 . The " perverted taste" has no « ure grounds of judgment . The Morning Herald , however , has stood apart and opened the way for the truth ; the New Weekly Messeng r hint * it pretty plainly , and the Examiner more than half proraiscg to do the rtst . We can scarce afford the space , but the words of this Opera are so rich . They are the effusion of Mr . Bunn ' * tragic muse !

    A Chorus . Behold , ' tis our chief that advances } Who pride of the heroes of France is ! Another . Yet if we roam The world , our home Is , after all on the sea !

    A Couplet . Each beauty about thee So gracefully pearled ! Another . Upon him is the stain Of noble gore !

    A Verse . Behold this dress ! ' twill prove Flis colonel ' s blood he shed ! Lift up his fainting heady Which gently hence remove !

    Concerts . Ole Bull is not a second Paganini , he is Ole Bull . With many points of eajjal excellence and some few of similarity , he is almost as individualized a personage as the great Necromancer . He has none of Paganini ' * wild and wonderful poetry ; he appears rather a logical player in the comparison . We do not mean that he is cold or scholastic in bis style ; but that in place of the ' fiery execution * and sudden

    caprices of vague though passionate desire , manifested by the former , ha has a sustained warmth , a continuous purpose , and a fine manly ta-ste which always carries him in a most satisfactory manner to his intended climax . We could say much more concerning him , but wait for the appearance of a work purporting to be a history of the violin and its chief masters . The next musical phenomenon we have to notice , is M . Thai berg the great pianist , concerning whom it may surprise and vex some people , and fin ( J

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    Notes qf the Month . J 0 f

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/63/