Good Reader, we will have a chat once in a while, on this subject of Music. We will talk together of Concerts, sometimes, both professional and amateur—and we will give some good-natured hints to our amateur prima donnas, about the difference between stage-singing and chamber singing. But you must join with us in all we say, and though we play spokesman and you listener, you must agree with us, and while we talk, you stand behind us, and make the gestures—then we shall succeed in interesting others as well as ourselves.
Spohr has completed his ninth orchestral symphony, which he has entitled “The Seasons.”
Madame Frezzolini, after an absence of eight years from London, has returned to her Majesty’s Theatre, which she opened with great success as Lucrezia.
“The Philosopher’s Stone” is the title of a new burletta, produced in London, having for its subject of ridicule the gold and California mania.
REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS.
Latter-Day Pamphlets. Edited by Thomas Carlyle. No. 6. Parliaments. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co.