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NOTES OF THE MONTH.
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Statue of George the Third . —We highly approve of the erection of this statue . It is one of those things which will perpetuate the character and deeds of a man whose example we cannot have too often before our eyes ; and it should receive the subscription or applause of all lovers of their country . There will eventually be an eloquent and no less appropriate inscription underneath , setting forth his great talents as a farmer and cattle-broker ; the loss of America , and the " enormous bliss "
of the national debt . The head of a horse has been sent about as a specimen of the statue . We do not see the resemblance to his late Majesty . His head and face bore a much more striking affinity to two other animals we could name . As a recipe for the concoction of an historical memorialof course not meaning the gentleman in question—we should say , take the heads of an ox and an ass—pound them in a wooden mortar , and cast the mixture in the skull of a cavib , to be finished on the outside by fifty years' exposure to the weather . We must be permitted , however , to
express our deep regret that the back of the horse was not longer . It might not have been so beautiful , but the age is decidedly utilitarian , and it would be a great saving of expense if the next statue which " the loyal " g ^ et up for George IV were seated on a pillion behind . Nay , by making the back longer still , and adding according to the demand , it might become a family-horse , thereby saving the nation some thousands of pounds , and manifesting at the same time the degree of taste in the Fine Arts which characterises our crowned heads .
The English Opera House . —We are happy to see the reproduction of a work of native genius at this theatre , and to find that it still holds its deservedly high place in the public feeling . The sterling merit of the composition is the occasion of this , and not the style in which it is brought out . Miss Shirreff undoubtedly sings the music very charmingly ,
though she does not " look or act" the Mountain Sylph so well as Miss Romer . Of the tenor we may speak in praise ; but of the bass—the part of Hela being as much " a principal' * as either of the other voices , and perhaps yet more important as an acting part , we cannot but remark that Mr J . Bland ' s nightly attempts constitute a series of the most impudent and offensive failures we ever witnessed . The constant hisses with
which he is received throughout , would have opened the eyes of any management possessing common sense , to the propriety and decency towards their public patrons , of getting a competent singer . They well know where to find one besides Mr H . Phillips ; but so long as the public do not " tear up the benches" as of yore , they e ' en let Mr Bland proceed with his abortives . That Mr Barnett ' s opera continues attractive , in spite of
this gross insult to all lovers of his music , can only be attributed to the merits of a composition , which has placed him at the head of English composers , and for which—while successive managements have filled their pockets—he has received little or no remuneTation . It is said that the mountebank Bunn has " got" the English Opera , as well as Drury Lane , and that he has engaged a German company for the aforesaid National
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Notes Of The Month.
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1836, page 584, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2661/page/60/
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