GIULIO REGONDI.
WE have had an opportunity, during the last week, of seeing and hearing the extraordinary child, GIULIO REGONDI, whose musi. cal talent, as a performer on the guitar, has excited so much admi- ration in Paris. We say seeing as well as hearing, because we look upon his appearance to be no small part of the gratification either to the admirer of mere beauty, or to the eye which seeks (and seldom fails to find) in the outward organization traces of the spirit within. The performance of this little creature is astonishing enough in a merely mechanical point of view. He brings out of a somewhat barren and thankless instrument, 'tones which, for force, dis- tinctness, and sweetness, we have never heard surpassed, nor indeed, we might say, equalled. His execution is remarkably per- fect and articulate; and when seen to proceed from a hand so small that the little finger is obliged to be lengthened by a silver cap, truly wonderful. '-This is, however, the mechanical, and there- fore the least important and least interesting view of the little Giueio's p&rforrnance. It is well known how much unwearied tuition of the best kind can do with a docile and well-organized child. But no one who watches this engaging little creature—who sees the entire change his countenance undergoes, when, leaving some game which he enjoys with infantine simplicity and relish, he seats himself with his guitar, can fail to see that Nature has given him much more than a docile temper and a strong hand. While playing, his beautiful face assumes the intentness, thought, and sensibility, of a man ; and it is impossible not to see as well as to hear that he feels what he plays.
Though we are no great phrenologists, we could not help being
struck with a remarkable coincidence in the peculiarity which marks the forehead of this child and that of PAGANINI. In both, the upper part of the forehead projects to a most singular degree over the under. In PAGANINI, seen from the stalls with the full glare of the stage-lamps below him, the part immediately above the eyebrows appears a perfect cavity, over which project on each side large prominences. In little REGONDI, allowing for "the fair cheeks and full eyes of aildhood" (as JEREMY TAYLOR says), the smooth and rounded forms, and the white and even skin, pre- cisely the same organic structure of this part of the skull is visible.
GI new REGONDI played before the Queen' and won lice Ma- jesty's attention, both by his performance and by his elegant bear- ing as a boy only eight years old. Emboldened by the Queen's peculiarly gracious manner, he made it his own spontaneous re- quest that her Majesty. would be pleased to patronize the concert which he is about to give. It seems superfluous to add, that the reply of Queen ADELAIDE was most kind and encouraging. GIULIO has been no less successful in captivating all the musical artistes now in London; PASTA, LABLACHE, RUBINI—all have volunteered their aid—all, we believe, but PAGANINI, who inva- riably refuses to apply the smallest portion of his powers to the service or assistance of any one.
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