the rondo, is neat; but it is soon abandoned, for what appears to us the principal subject of this movement, viz. the celebrated air, Non piu andrai far fallone amoroso, in Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro, of which several clever variations are incorporated with the rondo. We are far from objecting to the introduction of such a masterpiece of military composition in Mr. L.’s military concerto; Mozart himself has borrowed it again in his Don Juan: on the contrary, the selection does credit to Mr. L.’s judgment. The whole of the concerto appears to us rather longer than what we know from experience to be a quantum sufficit for the usual impatience of a public audience; some passages, which cause a sensation of sameness, might therefore have been omitted or curtailed, without endangering the texture of the whole.
We trust the motives of this candid statement of our opinion will not be misconceived by the author of the military concerto, which in many respects merits our commendation as a brilliant performance, well adapted for the amusement and improvement of musical students; at the same time, that it entitles us to hope for further efforts of his promising pen.
FASHIONS FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
plate 15.full dress.
White satin dress, with purple body, and long sleeves slashed at the top; bows of purple ribbon down the front. Mantle of purple, lined with white silk, bordered with gold, and edged with swansdown. Gold net cap with white feathers. White shoes, gloves, and fan. Necklace, ear-rings, and other ornaments, of gold.
plate 16.walking dress.
A tunic of lilac silk, clasped down the front with gold ornaments; a cloak of the same colour attached, so as to unite closely behind, but to fall loose over the shoulders; fixed on the shoulders with golden ornaments: the cloak is lined with white or straw-coloured silk, and ornamented with a border of gold. Bonnet and boots of the same colour. Raised spotted muslin under-dress, with loose sleeves, bound at the arms and wrist. Gold necklace, and York tan gloves.
general observations.
Red cloaks are at length completely abandoned, and we congratulate our lovely readers on their emancipation from the most despotic dress that ever was introduced by the whimsical and arbitrary goddess of fashion. The writer of this article predicted, on their first appearance, that a colour so disadvantageous to beauty, could never become prevalent. “Let them,” said he, “enwrap themselves with an immense blaze of red, it will come to nothing at last.” And so it has turned out: our promenades presented us with an assemblage of pallid and ghastly spectres, who, though “forbidden to tell the secrets of their prison-house,” carried about with them the visible signs of torture, and appeared literally robed in flame.
Pea-green is a colour generally introduced in spring, for what reason we know not, except it be intended to harmonize with the ver-
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