A Complete Edition of the Vocal Music of C. W.
BANNISTER. No. I.
A notice is appended to the First Number of this work, which disarms criticism of its severity, even had it been necessary to employ it. The respectable author, who, we believe, was very well known as an excellent violoncello-player, died suddenly, while the present Number was going through the press, leaving a bereaved and sorrowing widow and family. Mr. BANNISTER'S compositions, although they have fallen but little in our way, have a pretty large class of admirers. Among certain sects of the Dissenters they are very well known; to whose generally humble choirs, their simple, unpretending style deservedly recommends them. We would suggest to the person by whom the work will be continued, to have the future Numbers purged of some errors which occasionally appear, in the present one.
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