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 Hanover
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 11. 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 Gungll, with a
dainty Polka-Mazurka, entitled " Marie." Founded
upon some old French airs, and appositely called
because of that " L'Ancien 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 Mazieres' Galop, dubbed by him the
" Tintainarre." Surely a treat —all this fresh, spark-
ling, dance music, provided in the very nick of time

before the commencement of the Christmas Holi-
days.

Bond Street, No. 1 (January, 1868). Hopwood

and Crew.

Another and a very beautiful monthly magazine
of Popular Music, New and Copyright, is here
inaugurated. And it is inaugurated by the publi-
cation of an initial number so exceptionally good of
its 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 know'
not under whose managennt the Bond Street is
conducted, but it has evidently been placed in skilled
hands, in the hands of one knowing well the
charm of variety. Here, for example, in this
Number One (A No . 1, we are almost tempted
to call it)—we have a Quadrille Bond
Street " by n me, composed by Coote, and it
is a quadrille that we should uncommonly like
to hear played by Tinney and Coote's band
at any hour of the night or morning in any
ball-room that could be named. Next we have
Charles Blamphin's "Diamond Dewdrop," a charm-
ing, sparkling ballad worthy of its name. Then a
waltz, by Montgomery, entitled " The Zoo." And
to complete all, as with a broad farce before the
fall of the curtain, a comic song, by no less
notable a comic songst than Harry Clifton,
suggestively designated "Awfully Jolly." What
with St. Paul's and Temple Bar, the Cornhill
and the Belgravia, Ilanover Sguare and Bond Street
—the leading localities of London are certainly
getting to be very conspicuously illustrated and
very charmingly represented in magazine literature.
Not the least excellent addition to which series is this
latest new comer among the musical periodicals,
the " Bond Street" of the Messrs. Hopwood and
Crew. If the future numbers be in any way
comparable to the first, the success of the new
venture, we may, here, confidently predict, is a thing
assured.

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BEE MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Dec. 18.

Her Majesty the Queen, their Royal Highnesses
Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice,
and PI ince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein,
arrived at Osborne yesterday at a quarter-past 2
o'clock

Her Majesty crossed over from Gosport in the
Royal yacht Alberta, Captain his Serene Highness
the Prince of Leiniugen.

The Queen walked in the grounds this morning,
accompanied by Princess Beatrice. Princess
Louise rode, attended by the Hon. Flora Mac-
donald ; and Prince Leopoll went out, attended by
Mr. Sahl.