The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-19 00:00:00

OUR MUSICAL PERIODICALS.

Hanover Square. Extra Christmas Number. Ash

down and Parry.

Virtually this is the third number of the Honorer
Square, and it certainly looks like it, if there be
any truth in the old saying about the third being
the charm ! Nos. I. and IL respectively for No-
vember and December, good as they were, gave no
promise of such an exceptional musical treat as that
which has here been provided for the subscribers
in the form of this delightful extra number, appro-
priately issued in anticipation of Christmas. Ap-
propriately, we say, because consisting, as it does,
of dance music—and dance music as exhilarating as
it ought to be when played under the shadow of
holly-boughs and mistletoe. Waving his baton, as
the conductor of this Magazine of New Copyright
Music, Mr. Lindsay Sloper has, here, summoned to
the fore Arditi with a " Kellogg-Valse" worthy
at once of the leader of the now (for the time being)
scattered orchestra of Her Majesty's, and of the last
new Prima Donna at that ill-fated establishment.
Following in Arditi's wake, comes Gungl, with a
dainty Polka-Mazurka, entitled "Marie." Founded
upon sonic old French airs, and appositely called
because of that " L'Ancion Regime," a Quadrille
full of esprit and melody, is provided for us by the
hand of Henry W. Goodban, a name as unfa-
miliar to us as one or two of the old French airs
here introduced by him into his selection, but
henceforth no less certain to be welcome than those
airs, no matter how formerly unfamiliar. Charles
Godfrey contributes, in his turn, a " Blush Rose
Waltz," as he calls it, in the gyrating melody of
which one almost seems to catch the clink of the
spur and the pattering of the more delicate satin
shoes of the paired dancers. Finally, with_a rush
and "go" in it that are simply irresistible comes
Charles De Alazieres' Galop, dubbed by him the
" Tintamarre." Surely a treat —all this fresh, spark-
ling, dance music, provided in the very nick of time

before the commencement of the Christmas klo
days.

Bond Street. No. 1 (January, 1868). Hopw(Va

and Crew.

Another and a very beautiful monthly innOzine
of Popular Mu4c, New and Copyright, is hers
inaugurated. And. it is inaugurated by the publi-
cation of an initial number so exceptionally good of
kind as an initial number, that it needs no gift
of prophecy at once to augur well for the future
of a periodical so commenced. We knout
not under whose managemint the Baiul Street i 3
conducted, but it has evidently been placed in skilled
hands, in the hands of one knowing well the
charm of variety. Here, for example, ill this
Number One (A No. 1, we are almost tempt°
to call it)—we have a Quadrille " 13°61
,
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Street" by n Ane, composed by Coote, ant
is a quadrille that we shonld uncommonly lice
to hear played by Tinney and Coote's bard
at any hour of the night or morning in 311
ball-room ►hat could be named. Next we bac°
Charles Blamphin's "Diamond Dewdrop," a eharill-
ing, sparkling ballad worthy of its name. Thep 3
waltz, by Montgomery, entitled " The Zoo." Alld
,:
to complete all, as with a broad farce before
fall of the curtain, a comic song, by no less
notable a comic songst than Harry . CVO,
suggestively designated " Awfully Jolly." what
with St. Pcill's and Temple Bar, the Cornhu,i
and the Belgravia, Hanover Square and Bond SireCt
—the leading localities of London are certaiialid
getting to be very conspicuously illustrated an
very charmingly represented in magazine literature.
Not the least excellent addition to which series is this
latest new comer among the musical periodiesisii
the " Bond Street" of the Messrs. Hopwood anu
Crew. If the future numbers be in any 111/
comparable to the first, the success of the Del
venture, we may, here, confidently predict, is a tb'
assured.

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BEI?. MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Dec• 18'6
Her Majesty the Queen, their Royal Highness
Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice!
and Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holsterr/2'
arrived at Osborne yesterday at a quarter-past
o'clock .

Her Majesty crossed over from Gosport 15 the
Royal yacht Alberta, Captain his Seren© Highness
Prince of Leiningen.
The Queen walked iu the grounds this mornid;
accompanied by Princess Beatrice. Prince 6,
Louise rode, attended by the Hon. Flora Diac
donald ; and Prince Leopoli went out, attended h,,
Mr. Sahl.