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the professor, has had under tuition during the past year, five hundred children and two hundred adults. In Cincinnati, another has been formed which seems to be in active operation. Mr. T. B. Mason, the professor connected with the last named institution, has several hundred children under his instruction, besides a number of adult classes, one of the latter consisting of students connected with the theological seminary in that place. The professor writes that the subject of music is rising in estimation in Cincinnati; and the influence of that city on the western country is, as we all know, very extensive, and it is important among other things that the inhabitants should set a just value upon all branches of education.'

During the past year, an important step has been taken to ensure the success of the Academy, by providing a suitable room for meetings, to practice and for concerts and oratorios. The Federal Street Theatre' has been leased and fitted up as a music saloon; and we understand that Mr. Appleton, of this city, is now building a very large organ, to be placed in it- —an instrument of moderate size being used in the interim. The building was dedicated as a place of worship, and was set apart for the objects of the Academy-which partake in a high degree of a religious character on the fifth of August last; and the address, which we have named at the head of our article, was delivered on the occasion by the President of the association. Before examining this performance, we wish to say a word of the author, in his connexion with the beautiful art of which he appears as the patron. With a fine taste for music, cultivated by long attention to the science, and by hearing the best performers in the old world, Mr. Eliot combines a sincere desire to promote the knowledge of the art at home. His constant and personal efforts, for many years past, to improve the music at the Stone Chapel, where he is himself the leader of the choir, have resulted in great success; and often have we listened, with thrilling pleasure, to their sweet chants, accompanied by the liquid diapason of the delicious old organ. We wish that Mr. Eliot's example might be followed in more instances than it is; that our ladies and gentlemen would not think it a condescension to appear in the singing-galleries of our churches for the sake of praising God.

But enough. If one is found who will render the great service to the community of setting a better example, he has our most hearty thanks. The address before us is written with the elegance of a scholar, the enthusiasm of an artist, and the fervor of a Christian. In discussing the just claims of music upon the attention and interest of the community, the author considers the importance of the art, in its influence upon society, as an auxiliary to education as a means of happiness, and as exciting emotion particularly of a religious character. We forbear making extracts, because if we begin we know not where to stop. We should gladly transfer the whole to our pages. We must only entreat our readers, who feel any interest in the art, to read the address themselves; and we are sure they will be richly rewarded.

We will not, however, deny ourselves the pleasure of making one extract:

'If this be so, is it any thing less than a duty we owe to ourselves and to society to watch well what kind of music is to be cultivated among us, what kinds of passion are to be excited by it, what kinds of feeling are to be stimulated by its sympathetic power? It is for the purpose of attempting our part in the performance of this duty, that we now dedicate this hall to pure and elevating and holy harmony. No corrupting influence shall henceforth be spread from these walls; but here shall the child be early taught the beauty and charm of exquisite art. Its own voice shall aid in the developement and expansion of the best feelings of its heart; and

love to its fellow mortal, and a holy fear of its God shall grow with its knowledge and its stature. Here shall the adult practise on the lessons of youth, and with maturer powers bring a stronger feeling and a more cultivated understanding to the execution of the most expressive music. Here shall the ear be feasted, and the heart warmed, and the soul raised above everything base or impure, by the sublimity, the pathos, the delicate expression which music only can give to language. Here shall be trained those who not only feel, but shall acquire the power of making others feel those emotions of love, gratitude, and reverence to God, and of sympathy and kindness to men which are most suitably expressed in the solemn services of the Sabbath; and here, too, shall be sung those anthems of praise to the Most High, which, if they delight us now, will constitute and express the fullness of our joy in the more visible presence of Him whose name is excellent in all the earth.''

Lectures on the Greek Language and Literature. By N. F. Moore, L. L. D., Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages in Columbia College, New-York. New-York: published by Windt & Conrad. pp. 165.

We are pleased to see a work of this kind — of old-fashioned scholarship and classical taste proceeding from that huge commercial Babel, New-York; and indeed for the sake of our cominon country, we are glad to witness the slightest evidence that there are men among us not wholly given up to speculating and money-making, and who, in this hot and restless age, seek no stronger excitement than can be found in those silent companions that line the shelves of their libraries. We are in such a hurry to get into the ranks of busy life and the odious notion is so gaining ground, that all things, even intellectual acquisitions, are to be valued by the price they will bring in the market - that we are sometimes apprehensive that classical studies will be utterly abandoned, and that a good Latin and Greek scholar will, in another generation, be a matter of faith, not of sight. It is indeed as much as a man's livelihood is worth to be able to construe Sophocles; and a 'little learning,' even, is a dangerous thing' to any one who aspires to be 'a practical man ’— - the highest of all characters among our grave and reverend signors.'

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We do not think that these 'Lectures' will add much to Prof. Moore's reputation, or that they will be of material service to younger scholars. They are highly respectable in every way, but are not remarkable for learning or originality. Very little indeed could be done with so vast a subject in so short a compass; and we think that an undue space is given to the introductory remarks on the value of classical studies, which are not of a nature to convince a skeptic, or add new warmth to the enthusiasm of an admirer. The second and third Lectures contain little that is not familiar to every respectable scholar. The three last lectures are the most valuable portions of the book, and will be found most useful, both on account of the information actually communicated and the sources to which the student is referred, who is desirous of extending his researches. There is enough to convince us that Prof. Moore is an excellent scholar, and we have no doubt that he has at home, in his desk, better things than he has given us here; and we hope in good time to see some of them.

The style in which this book is got up, deserves all praise." The paper and type are beautiful, and are enough to make our Boston publishers look to themselves, if they would retain their well-earned superiority in such matters.

LITERARY ANNOTANDA.

DEARBORN'S EDITIONS.-It can no longer be said that no books fit to place on the shelves of a decent library, are published in New-York. Mr. George Dearborn has taken away the reproach. His editions, from their elegance as well as cheapness, deserve to be adopted as STANDARD in this country. They are printed with remarkable accuracy and taste, on clear and firm paper.

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On our tables lie his editions of THE WORKS OF LORD BYRON, IN VERSE AND PROSE;' of 'ROLLIN'S ANCIENT HISTORY;' and of SHAKSPEARE. Of the last, he has issued two editions; one in six volumes, octavo, comprising the dramatic works, with the corrections and illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens and others, revised by Isaac Reed, Esq.; and the other in two volumes, royal octavo, comprising the dramatic works and poems, with notes, original and selected, and introductory remarks to each play by Samuel Weller Singer, F. S. A., and a life of the poet, by Charles Simmons, D. D. The first of these editions will be most generally preferred, and is best deserving a place in parlor book-cases, as it is published in the most generous style, and does not contain the poems, which, magnificent as they are, had better not be read by young misses who have not yet come out. For ourselves, we prefer the second, not on account of its style of publication, but because it contains the poems, and the highly preferable annotations of SINGER. They are both illustrated with very well executed outline engravings.

The ROLLIN, which, as every scholar knows, is chiefly valuable as a work of reference, appears in a form best suited to that purpose. Its value consists in its containing one third more than any other edition hitherto issued from the American press; to it is also added A History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancients; ' and the prefatory remarks to each history, as originally written by Rollin, are restored. Heretofore, these remarks had been thrown together, in a confused manner, to form a general preface to each work. This is a reprint of the Glasgow edition, which is the only one, entire and unmutilated, that has appeared in England for the last eighty years. It is therefore by far the most valuable.

The complete Works of Lord Byron,' in which his letters and journals are printed separate from Mr. Moore's remarks, is enriched by a memoir from the pen of FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, Esq. It is a very chaste and elegant volume. and so far appreciated as to continue in great demand, though for some years published. A publisher, of the liberal sentiments and broad views of Mr. Dearborn, deserves ample encouragement.

JAMES MUNROE & Co. have in press THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, WITH NOTES, FOR THE USE OF COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES, BY T. D. WOOLSEY, PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN YALE COLLEGE. This is one of a selection of Greek tragedies, intended for the use of colleges and private reading. THE ALCESTES OF EURIPIDES has already appeared, and THE ANTIGONE IS to be followed by THE PROMETHEUS OF SCHYLUS and THE ELECTRA OF SOPHOCLES.

Appendix to
New-England Magazine for
Oct. 1835 (no.52)

Pietro Bachi's "Review of Suralut's Grammatical Dissertation on the Italian Language in Reply to the Appendix to the New-England Magazine for June, 1835"

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