12 SEPTEMBER 1829, page 11

Chester Musical Festival.

Twis festival furnishes one of the numerous proofs of the vast supe- riority of many provincial towns over the metropolis in the cultivation and the performance of sacred music.......

Best's Memorials.*

LITERARY SPECTATOR. Mr. BEST is not an everyday author: he is not a bookmaker to order : Is writes because he is full of ideas, and not because he wants a few 1. , sidred pounds......

Modern Small Poets.

CAIN, BY GABRIELLE, BY C. REDDING. ADRA, BY G. P. R. JAMES. IT seems pretty well agreed on all hands that our poetical volcano has for some time been in a state of non-activity.......