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Hydrophobia—antidote To Prussic Acid.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 8th August 1931. Sin—" Hydrophobia" is another name for death in its most appalling form: medicine cannot alleviate its terrors, much less......

Gems A. La Paganini. Book I. And Ii. By I.

MOSCHELES. Mr. MOSCHELES occasionally stoops to the composition of pieces which are intended to meet a temporary demand, and to confer a very epheme- ral reputation. To this......

Music.

"David's Lament for Absalom ;" a Cantata. The Poetry by BARRY CORNWALL, Esq. ; the Music by the Chevalier NEITHOM111. Our best thanks are due to the Chevalier NEUROBIPS for the......

Fine Arts.

POLITICAL CARICATURES. IN nothing has the progress of refinement been more remarkable than in the improved temper and point of the weapons of satire. Those of the old warfare......

Exhibitions.

Via. ADAM LEE, of the Office of Works for Westminster, has recently opened, at the Gallery of the Society of Water Colour Painters, in Pall Wall East, a Cosmoramic Exhibition of......

Singular Laiw-rird:-.-a Lady Of The Russian Court, In The...

of Catherine the Second, kept a slave, who was her perruquier, shut up in a cage in her own chamber. She let him out every day to arrange her bead-dress, and locked him up again......

"sleep On, Sleep On ;" The Mother's Song. By The

Chevalier NE UHOHM. This beautiful air was written for Madame &melt - mums . . We re- commend it to the attention of such lady singers as may be desirous of possessing a......

Oberon's Coronation. Written And Composed By Mrs. W.

MARSHALL. MS is an improvement upon the last ballad of Mrs. MARSHALL Which fell under our notice : the passages are not new, but they are pleasingly arranged.......