tions has been acquired, the pupil may proceed to the use of words, in the utterance of which he will frequently find it necessary to deviate from the pronunciation which good speaking would dictate in or der to preserve a suitable breadth of tone.

As consonants have a tendency to shut up the mouth, they should have no more stress laid on them than is necessary to an intelligible and clear articulation, taking care never to introduce them, till the time of the note which they finish is expired. In singing, the management of the breath should

In the plan of Dr. Channing's Church, there is an affectation of being thought old, the wit of which we girls cannot understand. A new Gothic Church in modern times is like one of our beaux exhibiting a Vandal dress in a fashionable ball room.

The Octagon church, at Church Green, is too full of angles for me. I like nothing angular. The building looks as if it was intended merely to ballast the steeple.

Never

breath you afford to any given note or notes. begin a passage with your lungs empty, but always fill the chest moderately full of wind at the commencment of a passage, and whenever an opportunity occurs, imbibe as much breath as possible, and keep the throat expanded. Standing erect to sing is always to be preferred, the head rather high, with your shoulders back and the chest open, this position keeps the passage of the voice free and unobstructed

from its seat.

Singing in the throat is occasioned by making a kind of tone which conveys to the hearer, an impression that there exists a swelling there; the Italians sing with a smiling mouth, and hold guttural singing in utter abhorrence. They who sing tremulously, fail egregiously as to the true Porlamento, or sustaining power, without which even a good voice, and a good ear, will not lead to excellence.

The different quality of tones in the human voice, arise from various causes, as the fibres &c. which vibrate and produce sound,are more delicate or strong; a difference in the formation of the mouth, or larynx or any other parts of the vocal organs. Some voices are clear and shril!, others have more the nature of reeds, hence is the reason of the different power of voices, in regard to strength, compass, pitch, or quality of tone. All persons feel equally the energy of speaking sounds, in proportion to their sensibility; but there are many 'persons of excellent qualifications in other respects, who cannot be made to understand, so as to give true utterance to musical sounds; this perhaps may arise from some inequality in the fibres of the ear, which, in that case must convey disproportionate sensations to the mind. We have only to add, that music taken in an enlarged view, is a noble and useful science, and leads to an enquiry into the nature of the passions, and in what manner they may be affected by sounds.

The aforegoing remarks are not intended to have a personal application, but are the result of considerations upon the inequalities to be met with in the tructure of the human voice.

NEW IMPROVEMENT FOR THE PIANO FORTE.

An invention has recently been perfected for turning over the leaves of music by the foot instead of the hand. The machine for this purpose consists of five distinct movements. The first of them turns the leaf; the second turns it back, when a Da Capo is required; the third secures the second leaf while the first is turned; the fourth shifts the second leaf in the place of the first-and the fifth action is its return of itself to take the second leaf over. The whole apparatus is found within the piano forte, and is only seen when it is used.

write. Yet as I am bound to please you whenever I can, I shall send you a few notices.

I should like to take up the North Church, bells and all, and place them near the State House. I ad

There is nothing remarkable about the Catholic Church, but the Nunnery attached to it. Much When I take a birds-eye view of the whole town, alarm and some ill nature were excited when the I can compare it to nothing but a Camel sprawling, nuns arrived and took possession; but when it was with a long neck, not the straightest, and bumps here discovered that proselytism was not intended, and and there all along its back bone,not omitting Copps- that the establishment of a harmless school for Cathhill at the rump, or Fort-hill at the left hip. These olic children was the object, all prejudice vanished. hills are not quite so celebrated as the famous hills of I cannot notice all the places of public worship, Rome, though Mount Vernon may claim some affin- some of which are very plain; nor shall I particularity to the Capitoline-Hill, if not to the Mons Sacer.ize the private houses. There is great variety of ar. Patriot speculators have left half their western work chitecture, a vast majority of which is in bad taste. undone. Within a few years some very splendid mansions have been erected, and the town seems to be in a progress of rebuilding, as many old edifices are annually taken down and replaced by superior ones. shops and stores, and wharves,no city of equal pop

Both the public and private edifices, like Kennilworth Castle, show the architecture of all ages.

In

Faneuil Hall, the celebrated "cradle of liberty since the young Hercules strangled the British Snakes who sought to kill him there, has been much enlargedulation can vie with Boston. Cornhill-street, though

and therefore lost much of its local associations.

nothing elegant would be conjectured from such a rustic name; and Market-street, also a vulgar name, contain many beautiful shops, filled with all possible

The Alms House domiciles its tenants in a better edifice than half the inhabitants live in. The State House has been so often described, I variety of rich merchandize. must refer you to the printed accounts.

The Court House is said to be a convenient building, but its sunken exterior gives no pleasure to my eye, and as they never convict men there of murder for killing women, its appearance excites no veneration in my mind.

The Theatre is dull outside, but elegant within. The Churches deserve more detail; and I hope it may not be thought irreverent to find fault with the outside of the buildings.

The Park-street Church should not have touched

the adjacent dwelling houses. It should have been set apart" for religious purposes. It would be an odd occurrence to have a gay ball on one side of the partition wall, and a grave and serious lecture on the other, both going on at the same time. You might easily imagine its exterior to be the head of a brick rope walk, with a steeple for the flag-staff, to display the star-spangled banner on St. Catharine's

day.

The inside of the Chapel pleases me much. This building has remained the same while its proprietors have changed every thing else but its tenanted cemetry. If I were not ashamed of a pun, I should say its modern doctrine and discipline differ as much from its ancient, as an independent FREE-MAN does from a religious Royalist. The Chappelites have also changed their KINGLY title to a STONE one. St. Paul's is remarkable for resembling a Heathen Temple outside, for having the most elegant interior, for having the richest pastor in town, (a most excellent, learned and pious one too) and for having no

poor.

There are many delightful promenades in Boston particularly the mall, and the desire of health and pleasure has made most of the ladies pedestrians. A large sum has been subscribed for a new Circus, and Mr. Roulstone intends to convert as many of this elegant Infantry as he can into equestrians. What with horse and foot, the ladies expect to do the next cam paign, I cannot tell; but I think the beaux will not be able to withstand the onset, and many bachelors will be made captive before the season is over.

With all the irregularity of the streets and architecture in Boston, I love the place still, and I shall leave it next week with regret. The hospitality of its inhabitants, the good sense which regulates their intercourse, the moral and religious habits which distinguish them, the good feelings and benevolence which seem to be indigenous here, and the many friends who have made my visit agreeable and happy, will live in grateful remembrance as long as my

memory exists.

I have ten thousand particulars for your ear when HELEN. we meet. Until then, adieu. May 10.

A MOTHER'S ADVICE.

"O, my curly headed boy! remember your poor mother's last words: let others fear their foes, you, my sweet innocent, beware only of your friends :~~ Then in convulsive agony, she clasped me to ber breast, laid down her head, and died.”

PATIENCE.

The showiest caterpiller must become a chrysalis ere it can soar a butterfly.

PLEASUES OF A MARRIED STATE.
Fourth bliss of Matrimony.

It is the only money making state! At this you see a smile brightening on the face of the Bachelor. "Egad" quoth he, “prove but that, and I'm your man. Many a good day ago should I have been married, but was afraid I was able to maintain a wife. Maintain a wife! Citizen Bachelor, you mistake the matter quite. The Creator did not send the ladies here to be your pensioners but your help mates. And many a family do I know, now in easy circumstances, that would long e'er this, have been on the parish, had it not been for the virtues of the petticoats. And as for you, young sparks, who are pleased to think of a wife as an elegant play thing, intended only to dress and dance, visit and spend mony, please to look at the following picture of a good wife, drawn by the pencil of Solomon, (with a touch or two of an American brush,) Prov. xxxi.

Verse 10. Behold a virtuous woman for her price is above rubies.

12. She riseth with the day and prepareth breakfast for her household; yea before the sun is risen she hath her maidens at work.

13. She seeketh wool and flax, and layeth her hand willingly to the spindle, while her right hand merrily turneth the wheel.

eateth not the bread of idleness.

Communicated

LADY. LETTER 3.

16. By her much industry her cheeks are made ruddy like the rose of Sharon; yea, her nerves are strengthened, so that when she heareth talk of the hysterics, she marveleth thereat.

17. Her house is the habitation of neatness, so that the heart of her husband is refreshed when he entereth into her chamber.

18. She maketh fine linen and selleth it, and delivereth much cloth to the merchants.

19. Her husband is known in the gates by the fineness of his apparel, for she maketh him cloathing of silk and purple.

20. Her turkey cometh in plenteously in his season, and the fat duck, yea also the green goose is oft times seen self-basted at her spit.

21. Her poultry multiplieth exceedingly in the land, even as the black birds in the cornfleld for multitude, so that she feedeth her household daintily on chicken pies.

22. Her kine is fat, and well favoured, they know not the hollow horn, for while the winter is yet afar off she provideth them an house; their rack is filled with hay, and their manger lacketh no food, hence her dairy is stored with milk, and her firkins with choice butter.

23. Her children rise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.

24. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

Now citizen Bachelor, will you any longer talk about maintaining such a wife as this! And such a wife every good girl in America will make, if married WEEMS. the lad of her heart.

"Hope, of all passions, most befriends us here,
Passions of prouder name befriends us less,
Joy has her tears, and transports has her death.
Hope, like a cordial, innocent though strong
Man's heart at once inspirits and serenes,
Nor makes him pay his wisdom for his joys;
'Tis all our present state can safely be 1,
Health to the frame, and vigour to the mind,
A joy attempered, a chastised delight;
Like the fair summer evening, mild and sweet,
Tis man's full cup, his Paradise below."

FOR THE EUTERPEIAD.

Stolen Extracts from brother Jim's journal of his opinions.

My sister, after reading Kenilworth, regretted that she had not lived "in the golden days of good queen Bess," The absurdity of this wish was so manifest, that I could not refrain from ridiculing her folly, and we were by degrees led into a serious discussion upon the comparative happiness of mankind in that age and in the present one. "Olden time," has had many advocates, and the further back we go, the more lavish have the praises of men been, the golden age was the most remote-then the silver-the brass

-and at last came the iron times. There is more of fancy than truth in these descriptions. Life has been burthen some in all ages, and history is a mirror that presents but one half of an object to the view, and that the most flattering. If we look back upon our own experience, the periods of infancy and youth seem delightful; their pleasures are recollected, and their disquietudes and vexations forgotten. Yet there is none of us either ladies or gentlemen, who would live our lives over again in the same scenes with the same emotions, and under the same circum stances. As I think at present, instead of wishing I had lived in queen Elizabeth's time, I should prefer to live in the world at some future period-in the twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth century. A few hunyears have made such astonishing alterations in the world, the march of civil and religious improvement is so firm and progressive, the increase of knowledge the discoveries constantly making in the terra incognita of science, and the amelioration of human sufferings, which the present age has witnessed, give such an earnest of future advantages, that, without resorting to the striking prophesies relating to the ages to come, we may rationally expect the condition of mankind five or six hundred years hereafter will be much better than it ever yet has been.

Mr. Burke was one of the most eloquent panegyrists of past time. "The age of chivalry, said he, is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyality to rank or sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought

Milton thus describes the marriage state. "How happy they, the happiest of their kind Whom gentle stars unite, and in one fate Their heart, hir fortunes, and their beings blend, grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse 'Tis not the coarser tie of human laws Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind That brings their peace, but harmony itself Attuning all their passions into love Where friendship full exerts her softest pow'r Perfect esteem, enlivened by desire Ineffable and sympathy of soul, Thought meeting thought, and will preventing will With boundless confidence, for naught but love, Can answer love, and render bliss secure Till evening comes at last, serene and mild When after the long vernal day of life Enamour'd more, as more remembrance swells With many a proof of recollected love Together down they sink in social sleep Together freed, their gentle spirits fly

To scenes, where love and bliss immortal reign."

of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by loosing all its grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry; but now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmoniz. ed the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimulation.incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and On this scheme of things, a king is but a a woman is but an man, a queen is but a woman ; animal, and an animal not of the highest order.

reason.

Well,"

And from the distant churches' cloud-capt towers, The solemn knell of midnight's dying hour.

Charmed with the scene awhile I silent gazed Round the dear prospect, and its author's praised; And as my soul pursued the lofty theme, Attentive listening to the murmuring stream,

I heard-or fancy formed the simple tale,

A plaintive voice in melancholy wail.

I stopped-I looked, to pity and to save,
The voice proceeded from the parting wave;
The finny mourner softly did complain,

.

And thus he breathed-or seemed to breathe his pain.
"Oh! silvery lamp of Heaven, whose lovely beams
Shed their soft lustre on my native streams,
Withdraw thy radiance from my mournful sight,
For sorrow loves the melancholy night;
In vain to me does nature ope her charms,
For grief has seized me in its icy arms.
Go gentle gales, and softly bear my cries
To her who caused my sorrow and my sighs!
Too near alas! the waters' edge I strayed,
And blind to danger innocently played.
An Angel's form was leaning o'er the brook,
Mischief sure never wore so sweet a look;
In her fair hand she held with matchless grace

A wand most fatal to the finny race.

A silvery cord conveyed a tempting bait

On the barbed hook; 'twas fraught with direful fate;
My loved companion playing by my side,
Whom but few months, had been my blooming bride,
Thoughtless of danger seized the fatal prize-
And Beauty tore her from my longing eyes.
And oh when fate had forced us thus to part,
What pain, what anguish seized my aching heart.
Since that sad hour, to bitter grief a prey,
Through floods and brooks I melancholy stray;
The most unhappy of the finny brood,
Streams from my eyes increase my native flood;
In sorrowing sighs I waste the tedious day,
And wear in useless means my life away.

Oh cruel fair one, author of my woe,
When o'er this bridge your fairy footsteps go,
Should my sad tale,e'er reach your listening ears,
Sweet be your thoughts, and dry your pitying tears.
If you could love as well, you'd mourn my fate,
And hear with pity what I now relate ;

FOR THE EUTERPEIAD.
AIR.

Ye flowers, that deck the smiling year,
With spicy breath and sparkling eye-
Ye vernal beauties, who appear

Array'd in robes of sunny die-
Tho' in your bloom the Graces meet,
Tho' nature's hand your forms refine—
More sweet, a thousand times more sweet,
More lovely fair is Caroline !

M.

Communicated.

TO A ROSE SENT TO MY FRIEND.

Go, beautious rose, to dear M***** prove,
How great my friendship, how sincere my love;
Go, on her breast your finest tint impart,
And shed your balmy sweets around her heart.
Say that thy charms, like nature, ne'er beguile,
Truth undissembled, meets M*****'s smile ;
Then go, sweet fragrant flower, quickly fly,
And boast of tasting bliss, before you die.
Short is thy life, and shorter still thy bloom,
Then haste to seek thy paradise, and tomb.
Brattle-street.

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And those eyes the fish spoke of, were acting their sale by Richardson and Lord, No. 75 Cornhill, Boston.

FOR THE EUTERPEIAD.
PARODY.

Air, The Castilian Maid.

Oh! remember the time on Loch-Innel's wave, When the stranger first breath'd his love tale : Those eyes that have wounded have power to save, In their glance then let pity prevail !

When you taught him to feel all the passions of love,

His breast was untutor'd as yet:

Oh! never, dear maid, through the world should

he rove,

Will the stranger those moments forget!

May 12.

SCHOOL FOR THE FLUTE

gentlemen of Boston, that his Day and Evening THE subscriber respectfully informs the young school continues open for the admission of a few more scholars.

Those who wish to avail themselves of the advantage resulting from a regular system of instruction, founded on experience and a study of the works of eminent instructors in Europe, may now have an opportunity of learning the various beauties of this delightful and pleasing instrument; which is, of all others, the most suitable accompaniment to the Piano Forte and voice.

But the stranger has fears lest some happier youth
May have won you his passion to feel:
With your eyes, he implores you, discover the truth
Which the lips would fain always conceal!
Oh! let not your brow then your anger betray,
Nor with coldness his ardour reprove :
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For further particolars apply at the Franklin Mu-
GEORGE POLLOCK.

Will ne'er prove ungrateful in love!

April 28,