" 0 could to me;" a Ballad. By Jonx TnomscioN, Esq.
"Where art thou ;" a Song. By the same.
The first of these compositions abounds with touches of strong feeling, and is most skilfully accompanied. The secoil is more elabo- rate, but not so successful. The return to the original key is so long delayed, that it produces an abrupt and disappointing effect to the ear. The accompaniment discovers the hand of a master, throughout.
Pastoral Duet, "Fair and fair, and twice so fair."
We can only guess, but there seems to us both external and internal evidence of this duet having proceeded from the same anonymous com- poser whose very beautiful canzonet " 0 memory, torture me no more," we noticed a short time since. As names are not, with us, the sure passports to commendation, or the certain forerunners of abuse, we shall not attempt to withdraw the veil behind which the composer chooses to shroud himself; but, whoever he be, the oftener we see his hand, the better we shall like it. He knows how to select words fit for music, and he also knows bow they ought to be set. Here are no false accents or false quantities, but "voice and verse" flow on in well-assorted union. He knows what characteristics vocal music ought to possess, and these he has imprinted on his work. In short, it is a composition which the musician will study with interest, and the unlearned listen to with delight.
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