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    and affords excellent facilities , both for a compendious view of mathematical science ( especially in its various practical relations ) and for the attainment of so much acquaintance with its abstractions as may be needed for any particular depart * merit .

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    Mueic Madness . The individuals who take upon themselves the office of caterers for public amusement , appear anxious to find out two things ; first , to what extent John Bull , good easy soul , is to be hoaxed ; and secondly , who shall be the first to trench upon the utmost bounds of his endurance . According to this high-minded speculation , Bochsa ' s recent hodge-podge Concert may be considered almost a chef-d ' oeuvre .

    It would have been quite perfect , as such , only that it was something over-done as well as under-done . It commenced at half-past one o ' clock ; the doors having been opened at twelve ; and did not terminate till a quarter past seven , by which time little more than a third portionof the stuff announced in the programme had been endured . At the summit of all the absurdities , we think we may safely place those emanations of Mr . Bochsa ' s ornate fancy—the illustrations of Collins ' s Ode on the

    Passions ; and the Voyage Musicale , with scenic accompaniments . With how many hundreds of trumpeters , drummers and fiddlers , entering and kneeling with their crape-covered instruments in one hand , and white cambric handkerchiefs in the other , he would have illustrated the Homage to Bellini , —it is not easy to conjecture , for the outrageous

    length of previous pieces saved us . The Voyage Musicale was only fit to have been introduced in a pantomime at Astley ' s , where the Punch and Judy , and real horse and real post-boy , ( actually introduced by Mr . Bochsa on ( he stage ) would have been rather more appropriate . The performance of Collins ' s Ode was both ludicrous and painful . Mr . Knowles was so good natured , and so weak , as to suffer himself to be prevailed upon to take the most prominent part in the scene .

    It was Mr . Bochsa ' s intention to describe , by the means of instrumental music , the effect and workings of the various passions in the Ode ; and his failure was as palpable as could have been expected . But it was so managed as to have become continuously and irresistibly laughable , had not its prodigious length produced a counterbalancing load of ennui and fatigue . First , a long , meaningless introduction was played by the band ; at the conclusion of which Bochsa kindly nodded to Mr . Knowles , who then politely stepped forward , in full dress , to tl \ e

    foot-lights , and pronounced some half-doeen lines , when he retired a few paces—folded his arms and remained humorously silent and uncon * ceraed , while Bochsa and his coadjutors , illustrated by about a quarter of an hour ' s playing , his six lines recitation . Again the music was silent ; aeain Bochsa nodded ; and again forth marched Mr . Knowles to the foot-lights , and repeated some four or six lines more—when he again retired—refolded his arms—and again the descriptive music struck up ! This dull furce was repeated some six or seven times , until , from its extreme length , weariness completely superseded all feeling * of the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 459, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/67/