The series of " Thursday Concerts " at Exeter Hall,
interrupted by the Christmas holydays, has been resumed, and is announced to be continued weekly. The second concert, on Thursday, was better than the first, and of a more homogeneous character ; consisting, with slight exceptions, of English vocal music—madrigals, glees, duets, and songs. Some of the last were adapted to a low standard of taste, but most of them were in a good style and well sung ; the performers being Miss Louisa Pyne and her sister, Miss Binckes, Mr. Swift, and Mr. Whitworth. The madrigal- singing forms the great feature of these concerts. Several of the most beautiful compositions of Wilbye, Morley, and Dowland, were sung by a well-trained choir of sixty voices, and with an effect surpassing anything of the kind that we had heard in England before. They were warmly applauded by a large audience ; and the concerts, if successfully con- tinued, will give popularity to a species of music little known as yet to the general public.
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