The Pianist's Handbook. By Carl Engel. Every New Book Of
instruction should have some specific object not accom- plished by those already extant ; otherwise it is but a useless repetition of what has been said before. The book before......
Songs And .duets In Mr. Buckstone's Opera, "love's...
posed by Edward Francis Fitzwilliam. This opera was lately produced at the Haymarket, with small success. Mr. Buckstone is not acting with his usual judgmentthis season, in......
Musical Works.
The Universal School of Music. By Dr. Adolph Bernhard Marx, Pro- fessor of Music at the University of Berlin. Translated by A. H. Wehran. Dr. Marx of Berlin stands at the head......
Publications Received.
Booxs. Life in Abyssinia; being Notes collected during Three Years' Residence and Travels in that Country. By Mansfield Parkyns. In two vo- lumes. With Map and Illustrations.......
The Creation ; An Oratorio. By Joseph Haydn. A New
edition, by John Bishop of Cheltenham. This is the most elegant edition of Haydn's greatest work that ever has appeared in England, setting entirely aside its marvellous......
A Treatise On The Science Of Music. By Daniel M.
G. S. Reeves. This intelligent and able little work will also be of value to the musical student. Not a mere digest of the rules of the art, it deduces them from scien- tific......
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