Count Balthazar. The Poetry by BARRY CORNWALL; the Music by
the Chevalier NEUKOMM. The Heartbroken. By the same.
The poet and the musician whose names so frequently appear united as above, seem emulous of each other's speed in the career of publication. Neither of them would suffer in that of fame, by a little breathing-time. Count Balthazar is a personage (according to the song) who richly de- serves the gallows,—a highwayman, and a sheepstealer
4,A dwroon e'er watches his blood-red dreams, Whose laughter is deep as the depths of sleep, And scares him to life again."
Such rhymes are unworthy the endeavour to give them poptt- larity by the aid of music. In the composition there is much that de.. serves a better fate than its present union is calculated to obtain for it. The words of the next song are of the twaddle school : thus it
finishes— "Bind thy cypress round my heart,
i Hide me n the mortal pall, Show me, when all hopes depart,
What sad things befall.
I am dead—a statue left Pointing perils out unknown, Shorn of life, and love bereft,
All my youth o'erthrown."
The music contains some happy and masterly transitions, which we re- gret to see so unworthily bestowed.
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