d "_Care luci inamorati_"--the style is truly
Italian; being simple, natural, and of course pleasing.

_Sweet Ellen, Sorrows Child_, a ballad set to music by Rauzzini also, is
spoken of with great applause. The ballad itself is censured as being
too long, it consisting of four verses, which produces a slight
monotony, notwithstanding that the composer has displayed vast ingenuity
in varying the accompaniment to each verse. The most beautiful melody is
generally found to become tiresome after a third repetition. The present
is sweetly plaintive and well adapted to the words.

_The Sigh and the Tear_, a duet--the words by Cumberland, the music by
Hawes, is very particularly recommended by the reviewers of music. The
words are excellent, the music well adapted and finely impressive. The
melody, particularly of the first movement, elegant, pathetic and
graceful--the harmonies scientific, and the accompaniments varied and
appropriate. "We recommend it," say the reviewers, "to our fair readers
as one of the most pleasing duets we have met with for a long time."

Of "_A grand Sonata_" for the piano-forte, composed by J. B. Cramer,
fame speaks largely. An eminent connoisseur and reviewer speaks of it in
these words: "We here recognise the genuine style of J. B. Cramer--this
is really a _grand_ sonata. It consists of three different movements,
each so excellent in its kind, that it is difficult to decide which is
best!

"The first is expressive and majestic, in which are introduced several
novel and ingenious ideas. One hand takes the chord of the 6-4, and the
other the chord of the 7th, and by a very quick alternation an effect is
produced similar to a triple shake.

"The passage at the beginning of page 5 is exceedingly beautiful--the
whole movement will require considerable practice from the most expert
performers.

"The second movement is an _adagio_, which for beauty and originality we
think equal to any thing of the kind that Mr. Cramer has written. The
change of time to triple, at the part marked _scherzando_ is unexpected
and strikingly original. This idea is carried on till near the
conclusion, when the movement again resumes the majestic character with
which it commences.

"Upon the whole we think this sonata superior to any Mr. Cramer has
published since those he dedicated to Haydn."

Irish music is quite the ton now in England. Corri the composer has
published "The Feast of Erin, a fantasy for the pi