The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-09 00:00:00

Popular Dance Music by A. F. Godfrey.

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PUBLISHED BY ROBERT COCKS AND CO., NEW
BURLINGTON-STREET.

Any one who has ever witnessed the Irish Jig in
" Arrah-na-Pogue," who has ever seen Labitzki
leading (as if with an elastic baton) one of his deli-
cious waltzes, who has ever read Tom Hood's won-
derfully exciting and excruciatingly ridiculous de-
scription of the effects of the bite of the Tarantula,
any one, finally, who has ever beheld Charles
Mathews dancing the Tarantula Dan ce,:in " The One
Hour or The Carnival Ball," as Charles Mathews
alone could dance it, to the twinkling of his feet and
the rippling clatter of his castanets—must, upon
the instant, understand in its full force, and
at its full intensity, what is here meant when we
speak of the exhilerating influence of genuine
Dance-Music ! And of the trick, the knack,
the gift of writing genuine dance-music—the
Brothers Godfrey have, beyond a moment's doubt of
it, somehow or another, discovered the secret. One
of them (was it not D. Godfrey ?) is allowed upon
all hands—perhaps we ought to say more cor-
rectly upon all feet (certainly among all true lovers
of the dance here in London)—to have made the
hit of the season, with his universally popular
Guards' Waltz. And now, from the hand of his
brother, A. F. Godfrey, Baud Master of the Cold-
stream Guards, we have these three very notable addi-
tions to the dance-music of the day, or of the night,
worthy of being deposited for use whenever the occa-
sion requires, in the same drawer of the canterbury
in which already lies the well-fingered copy of the
" Guards' Waltz." A Waltz, a Gallop, and a Qua-
drille—all named after the United Service Each
of the three, being very radiantly illustrated with
symbolical coloured embellishments The United
Service Galop giving a droll representation of a
Private Soldier and an A.B. Sailor, back to back
upon a bare-backed steed, enjoying an equestrian
galoppade of their own ! The blue-jacket coolly
having a look out astern through an extended teles-
cope, while the red-jacket is holding the astonished
charger round the neck, by way of maintain-
ing the perpendicular both of himself and his
companion. The United Service Waltz, on the other
hand, gracefully rather than grotesquely, symbolises
the Two Arms (as we may say) of Britannia, thus—on
either side of aVictory, who is distributing wreaths of
Honour to the right and to the left—here a young
Ensign, bearing, sword in hand, the banner of his
regiment—here Jack, aloft among the rig-
ging, with a hammer in his grasp, just at the
moment, we may presume, of his having nailed the
"meteor flag" of England to the mast! Finally, here
is The United Service Quadrille, with a still more
gorgeous emblazonment, having the standards of
Our Empire, the Red Ensign and the Blue, as the
background to the medallion effigies of our Sol-
dier rrince of Wales and our Sailor
Prince Alfred ! Waterloo and St. Vincent---
the Nile, the Alma and Inkerman—Copenhagen
and Trafalgar—shining out, together with the word
Sebastopol, in gilt characters, among the green
leaves of the laurel-garland encircling the picture.
Within each of these three compositions, moreover
—under their three brilliant title-pages—there is
dance-music worthy of all this lavish decoration.
Dance-music certain to tickle the fancy (and the feet)
of all the dancers who may listen to it—whirling
some into the waltz, others into the wilder galop-
pade, others, and these the sedater, into the more
equable mazes of the quadrille—the latter to the
tune, in varied sequence (among other melodies), of
" The Girl I left behind me," of " The Jolly Young

Waterman," of " The Dashing White Sergeant,"
of " The British Grenadiers," of " God Bless the
Prince of Wales," and last, not least of our true
National Anthem, " Rule Britannia." No wonder,
then, that the pieces here noticed—Waltz, Galop,
and Quadrille—are winning for themselves wherever
they are listened to, and danced to, a wide and
enlarging popularity !

The Natural Wines of Greece and Hungary.

A vigorous attempt is now being made to bring about a
reform in wine drinking by the introduction into this
country of the wines of Greece and Hungary. Of course
such an undertaking is beset with difficulty, because &
prejudice, and a very strong ono too, exists in favour of
the productions of Spain and Portugal. Still there Beeline
to bo at the present moment room for improving the
tastes of those who are debarred the privilege of oonsum-
ing the fortified ports and sherries of the great wine
houses, and who quietly put up with the liquid retailed at
many of the grocers' shops, which in many instances i&
quite innocent of the juice of the grape. To those, there-
fore, the advantage of a pure, natural wine will at once be
apparent, and it seems quite extraordinary that since the
alteration of the tariff the light and agreeable wines of
Greece, Hungary, and other European countries should
have been to a great degree overlooked. Not, we should
imagine, that the wines of Greece were unknown to fame,
because the Greeks wore the first in the European continent
to cultivate the vine, to crop the heavy clusters of
blooming grapes, to trample with bare feet in the deep vat,
amid the spouting blood of Bacchus, to leave the wondrous
liquor to ferment, and then to fill the cask and store away
the crimson nectar. It was in Greek wine no doubt that
Cleopatra pledged Anthony. Then, again, James I. had &
classic taste in drink as well as in learning, and he imbibed
a great deal of Greek wine ; and we may be pretty sure
that a good many of his attached henchmen and hangers-
on swore by Cyprus and Chios. Determined that this ab-
sence of pure natural wine in England should continue no
longer, Mr. Denman, of Abchurch-lane and Piccadilly,
a gentleman of enterprise and experience, has in a veil
spirited manner introduced the invigorating and exhilarat-
ing wines from Greece to the notice of the great body of
wino consumers of the metropolis, It is not the object of
Mr. Denman to attempt to extinguish the taste for port
and sherry—that would indeed be a hopeless task; but
what he desires to achieve is to cultivate a taste amongst
the brain-toiling and intellectual portion of the community
for a wine which will satisfy, and make a man feel that
he has taken something which consoles and sustains
his bodily powers without entirely dethroning his reason-
ing faculties. It would be impossible to devote space
sufficient to enlarge upon the different Greek and Hunga-
rian wines now offered to the public by Mr. Denman,
therefore we must content ourselves with just mentioning
those which seem best suited to the tastes of the public.
White Keffesia (20s. a dozen) maybe compared to a genuine
light sherry with a clean, round, and perfect taste. The
Red Keffesia (at the same price) is a fine full-bodied dry
wine, markedly astringent, but not acid, and much to be
preferred to Bordeaux of an equal price. Thera is a fine
white wine, full of body with Madeira character,
and yet it is to be bad at 20s. the dozen. Como
is a peculiarly fine red wine, resembling full bodied and
rich port, and for an unfortified natural wine it is certain'y
extraordinary, it having 30 of alcoholic strength. St. Elie
is a very peculiarly delicate white wine, with 25 of alco-
holic strength, and incomparable at the price (245.) at
which it is offered to the public. We have selected the
above merely from the circumstance that having had the
pleasure of testing the natural winos of Mr. Denman, ife
can honestly recommend them to the attention of that
great body of the public who are looking out for something
palatable and exhilarating, between gouty port, fiery
sherry, and " heavy wet."

The Countess of Leicester and the Ladies Coke
have left Farrance's Hotel, for Holkham-hall, Norfolk.
His Excellency Viscount Monck has arrived at
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Canada.

The Count and Countess Moussine Pouchkin°
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Lord and Lady .Colchester have arrived at their
residence in Berkeley-square, from Tunbridge Wells.
Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald arrived at their
residence on Carlton-house-terrace, on Saturday, from la
visiting tour,