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Anniversary On The Geological Society.

The Anniversary Meeting of this Society was held at its apartments; in Somerset House, on the morning of Friday, the 18th inst., for the purpose of electing officers for the......

Music.

Songs for the Grave and the Gay. The Poetry written and the Melodies selected by T. H. BAYLY. When a volume of music is presented to us, with a smart and enticing exterior, and......

Fraseirs New Plan Of London.

Tuis is a most complete and. compact plan of London, and very elegant in its appearance, being surrounded with eighteen well-executed views of public buildilgs. Its size is only......

"o'er Billows Borne '-" A Song. By J. J. Haite.

"The Knight of the Silver Shield." By S. NELSON. "Thou hast a white Arabian Steed." By A. BETTS. The merit which attaches to these songs is of a negative kind: they are not......

Geological Society.

Wednesday, February IG. Professor SEDGWICK, President, in the chair. The following gentlemen—Dr. James C. Somerville, Jun., John IFI'Donnell, Esq., John Evans, Esq., and John......

"to The Spirit Of My Mother ;" A Canzonet. By

J. M. HARRIS. We have seldom met with an air in which the spirit of the poetry is more completely transfused into the music, than the present. The filial reverence of the son......

"or Che Niuno ;" Duetto For Soprano And Tenor. By

W. 11., HoLmEs. There is not much originality in this duet ; but the passages are vocal and pleasing, and the arrangement is creditable to so young a composer as Mr. HOLMES.......

Fashionable Costumes.

THE French are oracles of dress, and therefore a work illustrative of the costumes of the fashionable world comes with proper grace, and bearing the stamp of authority, from a......

Waverley Novels.

THE Illustrations to the first volume of Kenilworth, forming Volume XXII. of the new edition of the Waverley Novels, are by Mr. LESLIE; and we are glad that they afford us the......

New Portraits. •

MR. COUZENS has just finished two new mezzotint portraits from LAWRENCE, of Miss Macdonald and Mrs. Wolff. The former is, with- - .out exception, the most brilliant specimen of......

"the March Through The Town ;"' A Song. Composed By's.

NELSON. We place this song by itself, in order to notice the very cool effrontery with which certain soi-disant composers appropriate the property o -others. This composition of......

Royal Society.

February 24, 1831. DAVIES GILBERT, Esq., V.P., in the Chair.. William Wilkins, Esq., R.A. F.S.A., of Weymouth Street, was pro. posed as candidate for election. The following......