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PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES,
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN.

OXFORD.-Degrees of M. A. have been conferred upon Rev. R. Phelips, Christ Church, S. Jackson, Baliol, and Henry Hoskins, Oriel. Batchelor's Degrees have been conferred upon J. P. L. Fenwick, Esq. Grand Compounder, Corpus Christi, and Messrs. C. S. Stanhope, T. Williams, F. Eedle, Christ Church, J. D. A. Preston, Merton, J. Alington, G. T. Smith, Baliol, H. Middleton, Magdalen, J. Piccop, Lincoln, and Rev.

T. H. Wilkinson, Exeter.

The number of Determiners was 143.

British Public first acquainted with several valuable productions of the great German Masters; such as Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Winter, &c. The Selection from Haydn's Seasons, given on Wednesday, comprised the most interesting pieces of that Oratorio, which we deem inferior to the Creation. It is, like the latter, replete with puerile imitations of Nature: the Orchestra whistles with the winds, murmurs with the brooks, roars with the bull, chirps with the cricket, croaks with the frog, all "ad naturam;" in short, in his Oratorios, Haydn delights in scraping the fiddle with the painter's brush. The melodies, with few exceptions, are also deficient in pathos: they are rather gentle, neat and tender, than sublime. So much for objections, which are counterbalanced by great merits. The subjects of the Airs are frequently of the most fascinating elegance, and the harmonies, above all, are distinguished by an effective and elaborate richness, not to be surpassed. This is particularly the case in the admirable Choruses, where perhaps the great wind-instruments are allowed too free a scope.

The performance of the "Seasons" on Wednesday did great credit to the Director, the Instrumentalists, and the Singers. To render it more perfect, we presume to suggest the following Observations. There appeared to be a want in the number or the exertions of the Violins; in the Choruses, the piano and forte was not sufficiently observed, especially on the part of the Singers, and some of the pieces were taken too slow, such as the air "With joy the impatient Husbandman" (the plagiarism of which from his own Symphony is uncreditable to Haydn): also the Grand Chorus "Endless praise," the Tempo of which, when led by Haydn at Vienna, was much more spirited.

Of the principal singers, Mrs. Salmon shone "velut inter stellas una minores." She sang delightfully; in her ascending passages she generally and improperly, we think, terminates with Keppell we can only say that she exerted herself to do as well Miss Goodall also sang well; of Miss

a few staccato notes.

as she was able. Mr. Pyne gave much satisfaction; as also Mr. Collectors, Messrs. T. L. Hughes, Brazenose, and C. Web-Bellamy; but his manner is so formal, that a deaf person would think him a preacher.

ber, Christ Church.

CAMBRIDGE.-The Degrees of M. A. have been conferred
upon Rev. B. B. Stevens, Jesus, and T. Boys, Trinity.
Batchelor's Degrees have been granted to W. P. Hammond,
St. John's, and J. H. Hughes, Emanuel, Esquires.
Three courses of Lectures have commenced this week; Dr.
Clarke's on Mineralogy; Dr. Haviland's on Anatomy and
Physiology; and Mr. Pryme's on Political Economy.

executed by Miss Tremearn, a young lady eight or nine years The greatest curiosity of the evening was a Violin Concerto, drawback; but with all this, we were so astonished with her of age. The difficulty of the key (four sharps) was a great proficiency, that we almost mistrusted our senses. Not only is her execution truly wonderful for her years, but we perceived indications of feeling and taste, and nerve, which we had before thought utterly incompatible with so tender an age. She is a musical prodigy.

PARIS-It is understood that several large premiums will be given this year to the Artists who produce the two finest picMonsieur Drouet's Flute Concerto and Variations were tures, and the two best statues in the approaching Exhibition. Two of these prizes are to be of 10,000 francs for historical equally a subject of gratifying wonder to the house. He showpictures, and statues of a large size. The two others will be ed, in the short time of his performance, all he could do, and, of 5,000 francs. The Members of the Academy of the Fine as far as execution goes, more, we believe, than ever was done Arts are not permitted to be Candidates, because they will be by any body else. To please, perhaps, the mixed audience of a the judges. It is expected that the prizes will be solemnly dis-Theatre, he was not sparing in the exhibition of tours de force, tributed, by one of the princes, a fortnight before the close of the Exhibition, and in the interior of the Museum itself.

DENMARK. For the future all Monuments (the small ones of wood excepted) as well as their inscriptions, which are erect ed in Church-Yards, Churches, &c. in honour of the deceased, are to be submitted to the judgment of the Academy of the Fine Arts, in order that posterity may not conceive an unfavorable idea of the taste of the present age.

ORATORIOS.

The Oratorios have, as usual, commenced with the Lent Season. Handel's Masterpiece, the Messiah, was last Week performed at Covent-Garden Theatre; and a copious Selection from Haydn's "Seasons" together with a variety of miscellaneous pieces constituted last Wednesday's entertainments at Drury Lane.

(angl. tricks) and his variations leaned more that way, than on the side of good musical taste.

tional stock-piece, concluded the whole. Here too the violins, Beethoven's celebrated Battle Overture, now become a nawhich are particularly essential, proved very ineffective. Our recollection of the score, leads us to suspect, that the difficult evolutions through mazes of accidental sharps and flats, were too appalling to a portion of the violin performers, who probably left them to their betters. The tempi, too, of some of the movements were far too slow, such as the charge of the cavalthe attack, &c. all which went nearly as quick again when this Overture was for the first time performed at Vienna, under Beethoven's direction, for the benefit of the wounded Austrian soldiers.

ry,

THE ITALIAN OPERA.

KING'S THEATRE.

Sir George Smart, the Director of the Oratorios at the latter Since our last, the performances at this theatre consisted of Theatre, may justly claim the merit of having brought the Le Nozze di Figaro, La Penelope, and the new ballet, L'Amour

et La Folie, of all of which; pieces our former reports have treated at some length.

Paesiello's comic Opera, La Molinara, so well known on the Continent, but never performed in this country, is announced for Saturday, and will therefore form the subject of our next article under this head.

THE DRAMA.

One or two we shall hereafter notice: but we do not remember ever to have heard his enunciation so finely varied and so distinct; or his marking of the emphatic points in the prominent passages more chaste and effective. The sonorous flexibility, and if we may use the words, the melancholy sweetness in the lower tones of his voice, enabled him to give the soliloquies their utmost force of illustration. The solemn strain of fine feeling, with which he commenced

"Oh, that this too,-too solid flesh would melt,"WE have in our last communication noticed the skill with was carried through the changing passions of the whole speech. which Shakespeare has thrown the rank of Hamlet, as Prince The gentle transitions of look, gesture, attitude and voice, with of Denmark, out of our view; and by divesting him of power, which he expressed his weariness of life, and gradually rose state, ambition, and followers, brought him down to the level into disgust and anger at his mother's marriage, admit of no of private life. He has thus given him a powerful and constant improvement. Reproach, sorrow and indignation spoke tohold on our sympathies, as an injured son piously seeking together, when he adverted to his father's conjugal tenderness.— avenge his father's murder. He is a creature, altogether made So loving to my Mother, up of the finest sensibilities and most generous passions. His That he might not let e'en the winds of Heaven noble nature is so wholly a stranger to selfishness, that he apVisit her face too roughly!"

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My father's brother, but no more like my father, Than I to Hercules:"

pears to speak, think, and act, as if he neither had, nor wished We may notice his delivery of the following passages, among to have, any claim or possession in this world. There is a staid the most affecting in the first act of Hamlet: temperance and charity in his sorrow and anger, which prevent him, even after the discovery of the murder, from rushing into any rash committal, without further evidence. He his even doubts whether his father's ghost might not have been an evil illusion.

his

horror and astonishment in the exclamation;

"Angels and Ministers of grace defend us.”— earnest adjuration to the ghost,

"King, Father, Royal Dane-Oh-answer me !'

his desperate energy, when breaking from Horatio and Marcellus,

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My fate cries out

And makes each petty artery, in this body,
As hardy as the Nemean Lion's nerve."-

and the broken tones of pity and filial reverence, with which
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Remember thee

Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
In this distracted globe :"-

The spirit that I have seen May be the devil, and the devil hath power T'assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness and my melancholy, (As he is very potent with such spirits) Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King." The various gradations of grief, musing melancholy, and indignation, are so admirably blended in this character, that it has been long considered one of the most pathetic and arduous. As Coriolanus stands at the top of the heroic, and is the grandest Our limits forbid us to notice the true colloquial spirit, with Roman on the British stage, so Hamlet ranks at the head of which he went through the subsequent scene with Horatio and those virtuous and impassioned characters in which grandeur Marcellus; or the many striking varieties of his eccentric disand rank are thrown out of view, and love has no room for course with Polonius, Rosencrants and Guildenstern; and with operation. His warm sentiments and delicate feelings, must the players, in the second act. In the 3d his delivery of the soliloexpire under a tame delivery or pompous declamation. Kem- quy "To be or not to be"-abounded with impressive beauties. ble, in his Hamlet, descended from the elevation of Greece and His pauses are so judiciously introduced; so natural and full of Rome, to that wayward expression of pensive abstraction and meaning; and his eye, his gesture, hands, and action, speak so fervid melancholy, in which he had no competitor for thirty forcibly, when his tongue is still, that, in his best exertions, his years. Kean, in his Hamlet, on Monday the 17th instant, silence conveys more meaning than the studied elocution of surpassed all his former exertions, and exceeded the warmest other actors. We cannot notice in detail the spirit of mingled expectation of his admirers. We fully agree with those jour-reproach, admonition, and moody scorn of the world, which nals, which have noticed his extraordinary and successful marked his impetuous and incoherent interview with Ophelia: efforts within the last fortnight. Those who had only seen his and we pass with regret the excellence of his scene, when the performance of Bajazet and some other bombastic characters, play is performing before the King and Queen. His voice and entertained an opinion that he was poor and inefficient in level gestures, in the apartment with his mother, were alternately dialogue; that he required extraordinary excitements to rouse reproachful, complaining, vehement, mournful and pathetic, him; that his transitions were uniformly abrupt, and his quick or solemn. He kept up the sense and passions of Shakespowers, in tragedy, confined to sudden and tempestuous sallies.peare, with a variety of force and feeling throughout, except in a These erroneous notions were caused by the want of nature and single instance. We conceive that he failed to give the true genius in those frigid dramas. Where the poet had done little meaning of the following speech, after having killed Polonius. or nothing, the actor was obliged to supply his wants in the "A bloody deed, yet not so bad, good mother, best manner he could. But in Shakespeare, wherever the chaAs kill a King and MARRY with his brother." racter is suited to his figure, Kean embodies the spirit of Shake- Mr. Kean delivered these lines "trippingly," in a tone and with speare himself, and exercises an unlimited power over the au- a look, of levity. In particular he pronounced the word dience. In his last Hamlet to which we advert; his Othello," marry," with a familiar and sarcastic fall of his voice, which we with Booth's bold colouring of Iago; and his Richard of last conceive utterly unsuited to the occasion. A jeer was very unMonday night, he was not more powerful in the storms of seasonable and unnatural from a humane and noble man, who rage, than excellent in the level dialogue. We may without had just, by mistake, dipped his hand in the blood of an innomuch presumption say, that these fine performances, like Kem-cent person, and was, at that solemn moment, about to adble's Coriolanus, will never be forgotten by those who wit-monish his mother for having conspired the murder of his nessed them. There were still, some few transitions in his voice father and married his murderer. If Mr. Kean had been playand gesture, which may be questioned: but the fine home strokes of nature, which followed each other in such rapid succession; the masterly discrimination of the passions, and the energetic accord of the whole of each character, render it difficult to record those few doubtful passages or slight failures.

ing the part of a gay young gentleman, who had accidentally broken a china jar in his mother's closet, and made a jesting defence by reminding her that she had, through carelessness, lost a valuable trinket, a tone of levity might have been suitable to so light an occasion. An epigrammatic point in an

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elegy or an epic poem; a flutter of light in the solemn re- On the failure of this, a third was brought forward," Can pose of a night scene; a profane jest from the mouth of a Englishmen condemn unheard?" The effect of this appeal was minister in the pulpit; or, gaiety on a deathbed, could evidently in his favour, if we may judge from the number of not have been more ill-timed, or have had a worse effect, white handkerchiefs waving from the ladies in the boxes, and than this levity in the closet scene. that a just man, standing between the bleeding body of a per- still kept up to deprive him of a hearing. The play was perIf Mr. Kean can suppose the cries of " bravo"-"hear"-but a sufficient opposition was son newly murdered by his hands, and his mother guilty of formed amidst the contention of his opposers, and the body of his father's murder, could, or ought, to adopt a toue of levity the audience. At the close, from the repeated huzzas, it was or sarcasm, in his admonition to her, we, of course, must have supposed that the majority were in his favour, and his name was misinterpreted Nature and Shakspeare. This is one of those given out for Richard this evening. As the Managers have points of contrast, or unexpected transitions, into which, in cha-declared their intention to settle their differences with Mr. racters of cold and turgid Dramas, this admirable performer used Booth in a court of law, it is to be hoped that, for the gratifivery frequently to fall. We do not notice it here as a mere cation of individuals, the public may not be deprived of so vaverbal nicety; but as a misconception, injurious to the illusion fuable an acquisition to the dramatic body, as this young of the whole scene. Mr. Kean gave the same sarcastic tone of actor; and, from the manliness of Englishmen, we confidently lightness to the word "married," in a speech uttered by anticipate an issue in conformity with their candor and justice. Othello, in the very agony and whirlwind of jealous fury, "I cry you mercy, then, On Thursday night, after Mr. Kean's fine repetition of Hamlet, a new musical entertainment, called "Frightened to Death," was performed for the first time, and favorably tion of the audience. received. It was announced for this night with the approba

I took you for that cunning whore of Venice,
That married with Othello."-

of Vironi; or Honesty's the Best Policy," was brought out at On the same night, a new operatic piece, called "the Heir. Covent Garden Theatre; which also met with a favorable reception, and was announced for a second representation this evening. We regret that our limits compel us to postpone our notice of these pieces, until our next.

INTELLIGENCE,

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.

PHENS' GREEK THESAURUS is just ready.
The Second No. of the New and Improved Edition of STE-

In marking this latter injudicious mode of expression, we own that we consider Mr. Kean's Hamlet a dramatic masterpiece; and, after having seen Othello performed by many able actors, we confess that we never saw Shakspeare's Othello in all the generous, unsuspecting frankness, and fiery impetuosity of his noble spirit, until this last representation by Kean. This great actor, whose strength lies in a fine following of nature in his own class of characters, may, again, equal that unequalled performance; but we dare not even venture to hope, that he, or any other, will ever have power to surpass it. We went eagerly again to see his Othello on the night of Booth's unexpected absence; but met him in the inferior character of Iago. His Othello, perhaps with the single exception above mentioned, was all earnestness, truth, and passion; all strong, varied, bold, and burning nature. the grandeur of "the noblest Roman of them all," KEMBLE, or We do not write to sacrifice the brilliant dawn of that promising young actor, BOOTH, as an offering to the fame of Kean. The genius of that admirable actor does not stand in need of such sacrifices: and we are convinced that we shall best serve his permanent name, and the interests of the Drama, by rendering impartial justice to the genius of his contemporaries; but, we believe that the grave, alone, can have power to obliterate his Othello from ou: remem-CLASSICAL, BIBLICAL, and ORIENTAL LITERATURE; with many brance. His expression of the torments of jealousy, and revenge, seized upon, astonished, and harrowed up the feelings of the audience: it had all the effect of an appalling reality. The terrific earnestness of what we saw and heard, became more terrible from the idea which it conveyed of the conflict in his breast. His fury was a devouring fire, issuing from the crater of a volcano, which threatened destruction to all.-Our typographic limits here again interpose, and we regret that we cannot, at present, do more justice to our conception of this extraordinary actor's power. W. C.

MR. BOOTII.

On Tuesday night last, the Theatre at Covent Garden was thronged to an overflow, very early, to see Mr. Booth in King Richard, on his first re-appearance at that house. As a variety of strange rumours had been in circulation for some days, and as a Morning Paper had, on that day, excited the public against Mr. Booth, many went determined to prevent him from performing. The assertion was early in circulation, that he would never be permitted to act upon the London stage again. This being the first attempt to drive an actor off the stage, since the combination against Macklin, numbers attended from motives of humanity alone. On the drawing up of the curtain, those who were against Mr. Booth prevented his repeated efforts to enter into an explanation. Between the acts of the play, a placard was exhibited on the stage, entreating a hearing for Mr. Booth to explain: this being in vain, a second, some time after, was set up, begging a hearing for Mr. Booth to apologize.

by a treaty with Professor SCHEFER of Leipsic, for his valuable MSS. which the Editors have at length procured; but they The present Number has been delayed a considerable time trust that their present arrangements will enable them to publish the future Nos. regularly. The two first numbers will be found to contain about 2,000 words omitted by Stephens. Scarce GREEK, LATIN, and FRENCH Tracts interspersed. CONTHE CLASSICAL JOURNAL, NO. XXVIII. comprises a Variety of TENTS-De Carminibus Aristophanis Commentarius-Biblical Synonyma-Jo. Gagnierii Ecloga in laudem Principis Walliæ Oratio in Inauguratione Emulæ Lat. Soc. Lugdunensis, a P. Rusca-On Ossian's Temora, showing its great resemblance to the Poems of Homer, Virgil, and Milton-On the Clouds of Aristophanes, by Professor Voss-Mots ou omis par H. Etienne, ou inexactement expliqués. Par. J. B. Gail-E. H. Barkeri Epistola Critica ad Th. Gaisfordium de Fragmentis Poetarum Minorum Gr.-J. Stackhousii Emendationes in Ælianum Hist. Anim.-E. H. Barkeri Epistola Sec. ad G. H. Schæferum de quibusdam Lexicographorum Veterum Glossis-On the PhiloWhite Marble in the wall of a Church among the Ruins of sophical Sentiments of Euripides-Inscription on a Block of Cyretiæ-Remarks on the Oriental MSS. in the Royal Library in Munich, by Professor Franck-Ode Latina. Cambridge Prize-Epigrammata. Labor Ineptiarum-Remarks on the Similarity of Worship that prevailed in different parts of the Pagan World-Prologus in Eunuchum Terentii, à Ph. Melanchthon, A. D. 1514.-Greek Jeu d'esprit-Cura Posteriores-On the Sapphic and Alcaic Metres-Notæ et Curæ sequentes in Arati Diosemea, à Th. Forster-Corrections in the common Translation of the New Testament-ADVERSARIA LITERARIA. No. x.-Julii Phædri Fabulæ Nova; Greek Ode, by G. Downes; Words in the Greek Testament formed from the Latin Language; Lines under an unfinished Bust of Brutus; Extempore Verses by Sabinus and Stigelius; Epitaph on Stigelius, written by himselt-Literary Intelligence-Notes to CorrespondentsIndex to Vols. XIII. and XIV.

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By EDWARD BLAQUIERE, Esq. R. N. In 2 large Vols. 8vo. with Maps. Price 28s. Mr. Blaquiere has produced an interesting and considerably important work, which is not merely creditable to his talents, but his integrity, and from which his Majesty's Government may acquire a great deal of useful information.-Eclec. Rev.

Mr. Blaquiere has given a more minute, full, and entertaining picture of these countries than any of his competitors.-Edinb.

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3. TRAVELS in the CAUCASUS and GEORGIA, performed by command of the Prussian Government. By JULIUS VON KLAP. ROTH, Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburgh, &c. 4to. Price 21. 2s. bds.

2. MEDICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, and AGRICULTURAL REPORT of a COMMITTEE appointed by the MADRAS GOVERNMENT to inquire into the Causes of the Epidemic Fever, which prevailed in the Provinces of Coimbatore, Madura, Dindigul, and Tinnivelly, during the years 1809, 1810, and 1811, of which Dr. W. Ainslie was President; Mr. A. Sinith second Member; and Dr. M. Christy third Member. With a coloured Map of the Provinces where the Fever prevailed. 8vo. 6s. 6d. bds. 3. A VIEW of the HISTORY, LITERATURE, and RELIGION of the HINDOOS, including a Minute Description of their Works, by the Rev. W. WARD, one of the Baptist Missionaries at Manners and Customs; and Translations from their principal Serampore, Bengal; third edition, carefully abridged and greatly improved. In two vols. 8vo. 18s. boards. 4. A VIEW of the AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, and

FINANCIAL INTERESTS of CEYLON, with an Appendix Containing some of the Principal Laws and Usages of the Candians. Also, Table of Imports and Exports, Port Regulations, Statements of Public Revenue and Expenditure, &c. &c. &c. By ANTONY M. Klaproth is entitled to the most unqualified praise for his BERTOLACCI, Esq. late Comptroller-General of Customs, and Actexertions, and for the important information which he has collecting Auditor-General of Civil Accounts in that Colony; with a Map ed; and we promise those who may be inclined to peruse this work, of the Island, compiled at Columbo, from the latest Surveys, by that they will be rewarded by much amusement and instruction. Captain SCHNEIDER, Ceylon Engineer. 8vo. 18s. boards. North Brit. Rev. No. 2.

The result of M. Klaproth's labours is a volume containing a very considerable stock of new information.-Monthly Rev. Oct. 4. TRAVELS in the MOREA, ALBANIA, and other parts of the OTTOMAN EMPIRE. By F. C. POUQUEVILLE, M. D. Member of the Commission of Arts and Sciences, and French Consul at Joannina. With Engravings of Scenery and Costume, 21. 2s.

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Dr. Pouqueville's volume on the Morea, being collected by him. self during a long residence in the country, and being the last ac count written on the subject, is deserving of every attention.be had bound in 2 vols. 8vo. price 11. 156. and the succeeding numHobhouse's Travels, p. 218.

Dr. Pouqueville, the French Consul at Joannina, the capital of Albania, has collected much curious information concerning the Morea. His account of the Albanese gives us our first knowledge of a people whom the genius of Ali Pacha has raised to a level with the greatest nations of the Continent.-Douglas on the Modern Greeks.

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We think this second part of Langsdorff's Travels the most enter taining portion of the whole. It abounds in lively pictures and natural scenes and modes of life, of a very wild, striking, and romantic character; some accessions, too, are supplied to natural history. Eclectic Review.

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