REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. A Canto, consisting of Ballads, Rounds, Glees, and a Roundelay; Cavatinas, Canzonettas, Duettinos, Terzettos, and a Quartettine. Composed by W. Shield, esq. 12s,' THE variegated contents of this book serve to exhibit Mr. Shield in the two-fold character of melodist and harmonist; and if they do not add to the distinguished figure he has long made as a vocal composer, they are certainly calculated to support his well-earned fame, and will not fail to please those who are partial to the simple English strain, aided by natural and unlaboured harmonization. The poetry, from which Mr. S. has, most laudably, been careful to weed every exceptionable expression, is selected from a variety of authors, ancient and modern; and includes many rare and beautiful efforts of the Lyric Muse. Several of the melodies are peculiarly sweet and highly expressive. The plan upon which the harmony is constructed will, ́ perhaps, be best explained by the composer's own words, as given in his prefatory advertisement. "Some of the ballads, for three and four voices," says he, "I have arranged in such a manner as to give more inelody to the treble and bass than to the inner parts, that they may be occasionally sung as solos or duets. A scientific dispersion of harmony would assuredly have been more acceptable to learned musicians, but would not have been equally useful and agreeable to the generality of amateurs. " commend the work to the generality of practitioners. Many of the passages, though brilliant in their effect, are not difficult of execution, and are calculated to display the juvenile finger to great advantage. The Maid of Sorrow, a Dialogue and Duet. Composed and dedicated to the Misses Harrison, by Dr. Jobn Clarke, Cambridge. 2s. 6d. This composition, the words of which are taken from Cariyle's Arabian Poetry, The melody is happily conceived, and is intended for a soprano and tenor. the effect of the combination bespeaks ful use Dr. Clarke has occasionally made much science and thinking. With the artof the passages in the duet, we are greatly pleased: the parts play into each other very fancifully, and evince much facility in this species of composition. A Duet for Two Performers, on the Piano forte Composed and dedicated to Miss Gordon, by John Ross, esq. of Aberdeen. 43. This duet, in which Mr. Ross has introduced for subjects of the slow and last movements, Scottish airs, is artificially constructed, and displays much in genuity, as well as a respectable portion of science. The parts blend with, and relieve, each other in a superior style, and lend to the author's ideas a power of impression only to be derived from experience and matured judgment. Sei Notturni, a Tre Voci. Composti e dedicati a Sua Maesta La Regina di Baviera, da C, Cannabich. 65. For the most part the terms, indicative of the intended time and expression, are given in plain English: but in inore than a few instances a multiplicity of words, borrowed from the Italian, are introduced; which, however, proper to the occasion, will be new to the general eye, and often send the practitioner for explanation to Dr. Busby's MUSICAL DIC TIONARY. Three New Sonatas for the Piano-forte. Composed and inscribed to Mr. Henry Rowles, by J. B. Cramer, esq. 8s. In these sonatas Mr. Cramer has introduced some favourite airs from the operas of Kais and False Alarms, including Braham's song of " Said a Smile to a Tear," with variations. The familiarity of the style, and the popularity of the adopted melodies, aided by some conspicuous marks of the composer's free and fertile imagination, cannot but res Signor Cannabich has given in these Notturni a pleasing specimen of his taste as a vocal composer. Without affecting to display any extraordinary science, he has thrown together melodies, which combine with grace, and argue more of knowledge and contrivance than meet the ear. In a word, the familiar and attractive style of the work, taken in a general view, will not fail to recommend it to the attention of all vocal performers of taste. "O don't forget me," a Song with an Accompaniment for the Piano-forte. Composed by M. Virtue. The words of this song, said to be written by a soldier on embarking for South America," are tender and affecting; and Mr. Virtue, in his melody, has not swerved from the style of his author, nor neglected the enforcement of his sentiment. "La Rose à ses Piques," a favourite Song. Came posed, with an Accompaniment for the Piarss forte, by J. Grosvenor. 1s. 6d. Though this little ballad is not distinguished by any remarkable feature of originality, the passages are easy, smooth, and natural, and by their com nection form a melody at once pleasing and expressive. Les Quatre Saisons pour l'Harpe, ou Piano-forte. avec l'Accompagnement d'une Flute. Composées es dediées a Mademoiselle Barber, par I. Jag, 5s. Not discovering in this piece any cha racteristic signs of the Four Seasons, we profess ourselves to be too dull to conceive, why Mr. Jay has chosen them for its title. However, waving so trivial a consideration, we have a very favourable account to give of the merits of the composition. It is neither without science nor taste; the passages are pleas ingly imagined, and connected with judgment; and the aggregate effect will, we think, bear us out in saying that, if it exhibits no particular allusions to the Four Seasons, yet its attractions will not at any time be out of season. Exercises and Duets, with the Fingering accmrately marked, composed and expressly arranged for Bainbridge and Wood's Double Flageolet; by John Parry, Teacher of the Single and Double Flageolets, Flute, St. 5s. By those who practice the double fla geolet, this little work will be found as useful as pleasing. The instructions with which the exercises are accompanied, together with the simplicity of the single melodies, and the ease of the combined parts, give a value to the publication, which will ensure its favourable reception. A Collection of original Psalm Tunes for Three and Four Voices, in the usual Measures, by Samuel Webbe, sen. and jun. 5s. The harmonization of these Psalm Tunes is expressed in the tenor and counter cliffs; but we submit to Messrs. Webbe, sen, and jun. whether, since the publication is obviously designed for domestic and familiar use, it would not have been more advisable to have adopt ed the treble cliff for the inner parts. The tunes are characteristically fancied, the evolutions of the chords are easy and natural, and the disposition of the parts bespeaks judgment in harmonical con struction. Highland Rondo for the Piano-forte. Composed and dedicated to Miss Sayer, by J. Gildon, 2s. 6d. The subject of this Rondo possesses much of the true Highland character, and the digressive matter does not lead the ear from the track of nature and con sistency. The whole is Scotch, as it should be, and the general effect unique as striking. Haydn's celebrated Movement, "The Surprize. with Variations for the Harp, or Piano forte Composed and dedicated to Miss Flower, by Thomas Powell. 2s. Mr. Powell has formed of this popular movement an exercise for juvenile practitioners; from the study of which they will derive both pleasure and profit. The variations are ingeniously conceived, and productive of effects which sort with the subject, and set it off to great advantage. NEW PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. ME. EDWARD STEERS'S (INNER TEMPLE,) for a new Method, directed by Machinery, of using the Screw, by which its mechanical Power, or its Motion, is increased. HE method of applying the mechaTnical power of the pore is, in the first place, by the screw and nut being made to revolve together in the same or in a contrary direction. If they turn in the same direction, the one somewhat faster than the other, an increase of power is obtained; if in a contrary di rection, there is an increase of motion produced. In the second place, the new method is, by two screws placed opposite to each other, revolving together in the same circular direction, or in a contrary direction, their nuts being fixed; or, in the third place, by their nuts revolving The together, the screws being fixed. machinery necessary to direct the opera tion of this new method, must be such as will turn them in a contrary direction. There are divers methods of producing these effects, but the one mentioned by the the patentee may be thus described :— There are two wheels of the same diameter fixed on a nut and screw, but one of the wheels has one tooth more than the other, and they are both turned by the same pinion. Suppose one to have 100 teeth and the other 101, then when the latter has made one complete revolution, the other will have made one revolution and the one-hundredth part of another, consequently the screw will have risen one-hundredth part of the distance between two of its threads; and then, according to the principle of the screw, the increase of the power obtained by this method will be in the proportion of 100 to 1. If there be another screw and mut revolving round a pin in the centre of the upper part of the screw, on which the other wheels revolve, and suppose to the nut there be fixed a wheel having 102 teeth, and to the screw a wheel having 101 teeth, then when they are turned round by the same pinion, as soon as the nut has made one revolution, the screw will have made one revolution and the 101st of another, by which operation the nut will be lowered the one hundred and first part of the distance between two threads of the screw. The turning of the two first-mentioned wheels, therefore has the effect of raising the nut the th part, and the turning of the two last-mentioned wheels the effect of low. ering the nut the 1st part, of the distance between two threads of the screw; consequently, when the wheels are turned all together once round by the same pinion, the effect will be that of raising the end X10110101, or the ten thousand one hundredth part of the distance between two threads of the screw, and the increase of power obtained by this method will be in the proportion of 10100 to 1. These wheels, &c. are shewn by drawings attached to the specification, as are likewise two others in a small frame, which is attached to the large one by binges, and which are to be used when it is required to produce an increase of velocity: for this purpose the pinion must be raised upon its axis, so as to be disengaged from the wheel, and the wheels in the small frame must be brought in contact with the pinion and wheel, so that the pinion may turn the upper wheel in the small frame; and the lower wheel in the small frame turn the wheel. The effect will be that of turning the wheels in contrary directions: the screw and nut will move in opposition to each other, and the end will, by this new method, rise with an increased velocity. = Another figare represents two screws, with their nuts placed opposite to each other: now, if the screws be turned by machinery similar to that already described, their nuts heing fixed; then, if they be turned in the sauc circular direction, one screw will advance, and the other recede; or, if the screws be fixed, and the machinery applied to the nuts, then one nut will advance, and the other recede; but as the motion of one will be quicker than that of the other, they will gradually approach, and there will be an increase of power procured. MR. ANTHONY BERROLLAS'S (DENMARK STREET,) for a Method of making infullible Repeating Watches. First. The outside of the watches here referred to resembles that of common watches, except the pendent, which is mounted on a button consisting of two parts; of these the lower one does not move, and the upper one having an endless screw annexed to it, turns round and comes out to the extent of four turns, and is cut in four turns and a half. The upper part of the button being turned to the right, screws off from the lower part, and operating upon the hour rack, can be continued to be unscrewed, until it has struck the hour which the hand indicates, when it cannot be further unscrewed. The same part being afterwards screwed to the left, to bring it back again, to join the lower fixed part, operates upon the quarter rack, and quarters are struck in the same manner as the hours, until the one part is completely joined to the other. Secondly. The movement of this watch is the same as that of a common watch that is not a repeater, The wheel works are of the same height; which is not the ease with common repeaters, in which the operation of striking being occasioned by a work in the movement composed of five wheels, five pinions, and a barrel and main spring, necessarily cause the movement-wheels to be smaller, and this injures the solidity of the work, and aug ments the labour. The sort of escapement may be made according to fancy. The hammer which strikes the hours and quarters is the only additional piece which is in the frame of the movement, and which distinguishes the infallible repeating watch from a common watch not a repeater. Thirdly. The motion is composed of three principal parts: the first contains the hour rack, the second the quarter rack, the third the pendent and endless screw. The latter turning on itself ascends perpendicularly perpendicularly, and is kept in that per- round and feeds the types with ink. It pendicular direction by another piece, is covered with flannel, or any other which performs two objects; for the inte- elastic substance, and then is covered rior of it forms the catch-work of the with parchment or vellum, or other proscrew, whilst the exterior is fixed by two per materials to prevent the ink from screws on the pillar plate. The reader soaking too far in, and likewise to give it must be referred to the specification itself a spring, and afterwards is covered with for a more particular description corre- superfine woollen cloth, for the purpose sponding to the drawings attached to it. of receiving the ink to supply the types. To elucidate the nature and superior uti- There is a large barrel or cylinder, and lity of sus invention, Mr. B. observes, also a smaller one: the former having First, That the old repeaters contain received the ink from the trough noder five wheels inore than the common neath it, the latter rolls on the other and watches, besides five pinions and a barrel distributes or spreads out the ink on the and main spring, which are all necessary face of it; or it may be necessary, with to put the inotion in action; they have the small barrel or cylinder, occasionally also two hamıners to distinguish hours to use a brush to distribute the ink, or froin quarters. But the new repeater is lay the ink on the large barrel. The composed of the common plain move- farge barrel feeds the other with ink, and ment and wheel-work, with the addition that revolves and feeds the types by the only of a hammer, which is placed in an motion of the spindle, which moves the insulated situation, having no communi- bed. Mr. B. is able to apply the barrels cation whatever with the wheel-work. or cylinders, which he reckons his prin Secondly, The old motions being so cipal improvement, to presses now in very complex, are in their nature liable common use, by means of a fly-wheel and to be out of order from the slightest traddle, which give inotion to the two cause, because the chain of the motion barrels or cylinders, and distribute the which winds the main spring of the re- ink over the types, to feed them with ink peating-work is easily broken by means either by the inotion of the hand or flyof the pressure, its very structure, and wheel, or by other methods well known its attendant friction: and lastly, because to every mechanic. the action of it depends upon the main spring and wheel-work, the latter of which is apt to be disordered, and the former FREDERICK BARTHOLOMEW FOLSCH and snaps and breaks of itself. Whereas the WILLIAM HOWARD'S (LONDON,) for e new motion acts in itself, and has no de certain Machine, Instrument, or Pen, pendance on wheel-work, or any other calculated to promote Facility in Writpiece that is subject to be broken; an ing; and also a certain Black Writing endless screw sets the two chief parts Ink or Composition, the Durability in motion, which produces the effect of whereof is not to be affected by Time, striking the hours and the quarters; and or change of Climate. all the other pieces are designed only as The pen is made of glass, enamel, or collateral support to the principal ones. other substance capable of admitting a Hence the simplicity of construction in bore, the point is small and finely pothe new repeater, and a diminution of lished, but the part above the point is expence. large enough to hold as much or more DIR. ANDREW BROWN'S (LONDON,),for Im- ink than a common writing pen. The provements in the Construction of a composition is a mixture of equal parts Press for printing Books and other of Frankfort black and fresh butter, Articles, part of which may be applied which is smeared over paper and rubbed to Presses in common use. off after a certain tiine. The paper thus These improvements are on the press smearest is to be pressed for some hours, itself: on the use of barrels or cylinders taking care to have sheets of blotting paa for feeding the types with ink; and in per between each of the sheets of black the loose frisket and manner of using it. paper. When tit fir use, the paper is The press is suade of cast iron, as is also put between sheets of this blackened pathe bed which must be accurately faced per, and the upper sheet is to be written for the types to lie on. A follower gives on with common ink with the glass or pressure on the types, and is fixed to the enamel pen. By this method not only In using this press the cast-iron the copy is obtained on which you write, bed slides out below the roller or cylin- but also two or more made by means of der, whicha roller or cylinder revolves the blackened paper, REPORT screw. REPORT OF DISEASES, Under the care of the late senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 20th of April, to the 20th of May, 1809. Hooping cough has, amongst children, been a kind of epidemic, not unfrequently connected with violent and 1 alarming convulsions. To relieve either the cough, or the apparently painful spasm, opium and digitalis are in danger of being applied to the exquisitely irritable constitution of infancy, with too little caution and reserve:a circumstance, of which parents and other unprofessional prescribers are not sufficiently aware. 1 symp Fevers, attended with bilious toms have, in consequence of the late extraordinary temperature of the season, been more than usually prevalent. In more than one instance, the disorder was aggravated by the administration of tonics and stimulants, without having previously rinced the stomach, and inLestinal canal; a circumstance which ought never to be omitted in the first instance, especially in fevers connected with any hepatic derangement. For this purpose, and to preserve during the continuance of the disease, a due and regular evacuation from the bowels, calomel is, perhaps, one of the best remedies in the store-house of the pharmacopeia; although this mercurial preparation may have been too extravagantly extolled, and too indiscriminately applied. "The bile" is the fashionable complaint, and against it calomel is the antidote principally in vogue, It has, certainly, in many conditions of the human frame, a most happy and extraordinary effect. But as any agent from which we have derived great and invaluable advantage, we are apt to elevate beyond its intrinsie merit, and almost to deify, so the zeal for this inestimable medicine may, in some instances, have approached the boundaries of an excusable fanaticism. This, like other preparations, of mercury may, when its use is long continued, whilst it apparently cures a particular Scrophula, which has lain dormant, or more properly latent, during the winter months, begins in general to make itself visible upon the opening of the summer. It is then in full blow. This disease sweeps into its comprehensive circle almost every straggling indication of disorder which is not found within the precincts of any other specific difinition; and, under its name of vague and vulgar import, may include nearly all the iniscellaneous affections, which originate from a generally relaxed and debilitated tone of the constitution. Of this malady the essence is not local, although the appearance of it may be so; and, of course, not to be removed by extracting a morbid part, or separating from the trunk a diseased extremity. By lopping the branches, we implant more deeply, or more firmly fix, the ra dical fibres of the evil we would destroy. Without an ultimate necessity, or motives the most urgent and imperious, seldom ought we, in such cases, to seek relief in the desperate resource of a surgical ope ration. J. REID. Grenville-street, Brunswick-square, ABSTRACT |