No. 2 expresses in verse and song the deep sympathy of two highly talented ladies for the brutally oppressed, expatriated Poles. This is a short composition in C minor, air and chorus, which speaks as strongly in favour of the good feeling as of the taste and knowledge of the fair composer.
No. 3 is a series of examples of the most erroneous accentuation, and as such may be recommended as beacons, to all students in composition.
When it is stated that No. 4 is an animated composition—we are sure that the composer must always be correct—as much is said of it as impartial criticism will permit. We do not trace in it any marks of that genius which appear in so many of M. Neükomm’s works.
No. 5 is a lively air, à la militaire, but doubtless owes much of the rapturous applause,—of which the title-page, vulgarly enough, boasts,—to the exertion and popularity of Madame Vestris. The words, however, are set with spirit, and correctly.
There is much gentleness and grace in No. 6, and the words are, in all respects, appropriately and correctly set. The whole, too, is easy.