9 MAY 1829, page 9

Oratorio At Guildhall.

I FIE Oratorio of the Messiah is perhaps the best instance that an be adduced of the just estimate which mankind, sooner or later, Drms of works of real genius. Its first......

The Music Of " Masaniello" At Drury Lane.

An adaptation of Air BEE'S Opera, Masaniello, ou la Muette de Portici, was brought out at ,Drury Lane Theatre on Monday last. T. COOKE, whose extraordinary versatility of talent......

The " Eisteddvod."

WE were rather disappointed in this exhibition. We had taken pains to learn the meaning of the unpronounceable word at the head of this notice, and found it to be "a meeting of......

Rules For Connoisseurship In Painting.

GOLDSMITH makes one of his characters say, that in order to pass for a connoisseur in painting, it was only necessary to observe, on viewing a picture, "that the artist might......

1st. Acquire No Practical Knowledge Whatever Of Painting:...

will become sensible of the difficulty of producing anything like effect ; and that once felt, the free flow of criticism is obstructed for ever after—unless in those cases......