We noticed the resignation of Sir JOHN ROGERS as the
Pre- sident of the Madrigal Society; and we have great pleasure in learning that Mr. W. LINLEY has been elected his successor. The name of LINLEY is so associated with English vocal harmony, and especially with the best madrigal of modern times (" Let me careless"), that the representative of its family would seem, inde- pendently of any merits of its own, to have a hereditary claim-to this honour. But the new President's claim need not rest on the merits of his progenitor : his own glees and madrigals are suffi- cient to justify the choice of the Society. It is to the constancy and good taste of such men, that we owe the preservation of this delightful species of composition from neglect and oblivion. When its claims to public attention were disregarded, he and a few others prevented the dissolution of the Madrigal Society, and thus preserved the works,. and kept alive the taste for those masterly compositions which adorned the age of ELIZABETH; and which rank among the finest examples of English vocal writing.
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