The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-12 00:00:00

NEW WEATHER ALMANACK.

the styleeiiurphy,
This is after by Albert
Kenchen. It professes, like the original Weather
Almanack, to foretell the state of the weather for
every day of the year, whether cold or hot, or fair
or rainy, with every possible variety from fair to
thunder, lightning, and rain. The author also re-
sembles Murphy in giving a dissertation on meteo-
rology and climate. Whether he will be a more
successful prognosticator remains to be seen. If his
announcements should prove correct, we may count
upon a very different summer from the past, for in
three months, May, July, and August, there are
marked only four days of rain out of 93, with a
very partial sprinkling of " changeable." We pray
he may turn out a true prophet. There are some
strange blunders in the book, which Mr. Kenchen
should look to, if he is called upon for a second
edition. The list of " her Majesty's Ministers" re-
quires a sweeping change.

MUSICAL REVIEW.

SIX NEW SONGS AND BALLADS.

WRITTEN BY THOS MOORE, RSQ.
Cramer, Addison, and Beale, Regent-street.
" The harp that once through Tara's Hall,
The soul of music shed,"
No longer lies mute. Mr. Moore, we are happy
to see, has again returned to the delightful regions
of poetry and song, after too long a sojourn in the
dreary wastes of polemical theology. These songs
are all " beautiful exceedingly," as what lyrical
effort of our British Catullus is not. Amidst the
ocean of nonsensical verses which have of late passed
current for songs, this set appears like a green
island, gladdening the heart of the weary voyager—
an oasis in the desert. These songs are all fairly
within the compass of a lady's voice, and
easy of execution ; an elegant simplicity is
the peculiar characteristic of each of them. The
first of the series, " They met but once," is adapted
to one of Bellini's most beautiful melodies, which
is set in the key of F. The words, which are of a
sweetly plaintive cast, are admirably adapted to the
air. The next ballad, " Oh, do not look so
bright and blest," in our opinion the gem of the
collection, is a very sweet composition in B flat
from the pen of the poet himself. " The Musical
Box" is an elegant, sprightly trifle, with an accom-
paniment in imitation of a musical box. The music
is by Barnett, B flat, and reminds us strongly of
the Duke of Reichstadt's Waltz. The fourth
ballad, " When to sed music silent you listen,"
is set by Mr. Moore himself in F. The words
and melody are both exceedingly graceful. " The
Balfe in E.
language of flowers" is one of those exquisite gems
of lyric poetry that none but, Moore can write ; he
songs that
has adapted this to Thalberg s Andante in D. The
others.
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that he
will, more frequently than he has done of late, give
utterance to time spirit that is within him. A word
d the title-
; to the publishers : what can be the meaning of
rye pictorial ictToriiiaolrovr
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in a
most
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primitive crlstumei iiP4P4 4§lo/4; 911 a sun-flower,
tickling a guitar—opposilo.k2
! tir4pres of a tree, which it would puzzle Lillio,l4
; —jig' le a hump.
9 k locking these two #gure- are y:,:—..:7l;Pg down on a lack-a-
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daisaical young lady with .it Scytt2e by her side,
who is absorbed in the contemplation of a brace of
rabbits 'who; in their turn, seem puzzling their
brains to make out whether certain vegera.;-_,;,
ex-
ereschices their hie in-
tended for mushrooms, 100-tabs, or stunted yew-
trees. In the name of good taste, we beseech
Messrs. Cramer and Co. to cancel this absurdity,
and substitute a plain wrapper in its place,

I
INPROMPTU (-4'N D'STPtiE') FOR THE
1-44A4-01'0.41.1.4). Performed 4 the Author at his
Farewell 09neerfs. By Starsaravz Tg4aßlttio.
Cramer apc4
An exceedingly brilliant composition in A min-
thimanding considerable povver4 of exec..-•
which is calculated not only t,
please,
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_"tion, but
.0 astonish but to

-...ANCA LA VOCE, by I?ossari, arrapued for
the Pianoforte by SiorsaruND MALMO.
Cramer and Co.
An arrangement in A flat of Rossini's
celebrated quatuor, as performed by the mighty-
handed Thalberg at his concerts at Peters-
burg ; this is, however, accompanied by the
air itself, so that those who possess merely human
fingers may execute the piece—or this latter ar-
rangement might be used as an accompaniment to
those whose Thalbergian extremities enable them
to execute the upper line.

TWELVE LESSONS ON THE MODERN
STYLE OF SINGING, fora Soprano or a Tenor
Voice. G. B. Ruarxr. Cramer and Co.
To all who desire to study vocalization as a
science, these lessons are invaluable. They contain
examples of title different modes of making a ca-
dence, an adagio, and an allegro, with Italian
words. Full directions are given as to that most
important point, taking the breath. These lessons
should be the text book of every singer studying
for the stage—to all such we would stay--
Vos exemplaria ista
Nooturna versate menu, versate churns.