30 MAY 1829, page 12

Skecthes Of Irish Character, By Mrs. S. C. Hall.

Mrs. HALL is an extremely pleasing and ingenious writer. She is a follower, but by no means an imitator, of Miss EDGEWORTH, in a field where, but for the appearance of the two......

Hummel's Instructions For The Pianoforte.*

THERE are few musicians of the present day whom we are inclined to place before HUMMEL. We should be content to risk our proof of his superiority over most of his contemporaries......

Gleanings.

PASTA'S RecErrioN AT VIENNA.—The triumph of Madame Pasta here is com- plete ; it was not imagined that the power of musical sensibility could be carried so far, and this artist......