MUSIC OF THE MONTH. We notice great preparations going forward, under the auspices of Messrs. Small & Paige, in the musical way. Their advertisement promises pianofortes of superior manufacture, warranted as to solidity of workmanship, brilliancy of tone, and tasfefulness of finish-all carefully selected, too, by Mr. Paige, whose reputation, we should imagine, would be a guarantee for the qualities of the instruments. They announce every kind of musical instruments, ending in ums, ons, ines, or as, such harmoniums, melodeons, seraphines, or flutinas, in fact every kind of instrument intended to discourse sweet sounds, with the newest and best German, Italian, French, and English music. These good things, too, are not for Torontonians alone, but are also for parties at a distance, to whom the greatest care and punctuality are offered in the execution of their orders. We have no doubt but that what Mr. Paige promises he will perform, and if his stock of music offers half the attraction that his concerts have done, he will soon find his establishment, which is on King Street, three doors west of Yonge Street, insufficient for his aim,-to supply good instruments and music at the lowest rates. Alboni, Salvi, Marini, and Beneventano continue to delight New York audiences at Niblo's, where some of Mozart's, Rossini's, and Bellini's best operas have been produced. According to our New York contemporary, the Musical Times, Alboni, in La Favorita, "melted upon the susceptibilities of the audience like a snow-flake." Sontag is in Philadelphia, where she has been drawing crowded houses. When shall we hear her? Perhaps, when Jullien arrives, it will be found judicious to leave the field clear, especially as with such a troupe as he brings with him, no counter attraction will be found sufficient. Koenig, the prince of cornetists; Banmaun, the potent bassoonist; Wuille, far-fa-d on the clarionet; Pratten, the popular flaust and Bottesini, great on the double bass-allese accompany him, as well as Anna Zerr, whose triumphs have been too recent to require farther inention. Will Canadians benefit by all this? We hope so. MR. PAIGE'S SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS. MR. PAIGE's last Concert for the season came off on the 21st; the house was full, but not so inconveniently packed as on the last occasion. We think that the public seemed more pleased with this than with either of the two preced ing concerts, and certainly the programme appeared to have been most judiciously made-up, so as to gratify every taste. The piano used was one from Mr. Paige's establishment, and its clear ringing, yet sweet notes in the first bars of the opening "Concertant à quatre mains," were felt in every part of the room. The first piece, a trio, from "Cosi fan tutte, La mia d'orabella," by Messrs. Humphreys, Hecht, and Paige, was brilliantly executed, and encored. The next duo, "Giorno d'orrore," from "Semiramide," by Miss Paige and Miss Emily Paige, was very well sung; as was also the duetto, from Belesario, "Ah! se potessi piangere," by Miss Paige and Mr. Hecht. Both this and the terzetto, from Attila, "Te sol quest anima," were admirably sung, the last especially was decidedly the bonne bouche of the evening, but was not, we think, sufficiently appreciated by the audience. To us it appeared far more deserving of the encores awarded to some other songs during the evening. Mary Astore, a ballad, by Glover, was very sweetly and feelingly given by Mr. Paige, who was in excellent voice, and was rapturously encored. "Savourneen Deelish," by Miss Paige, was sung in a manner that spoke to the heart. Each time that Miss Paige appears before us, she gains more upon our feelings and sympathies. We cannot help liking one, who, with perfect simplicity, and the utmost freedom from affectation of any kind, awakes in our bosoms such pleasurable emotions. If Miss Paige continue in Toronto, we may safely prophecy that she will soon be the most popular person in the city. We cannot particularize all the songs. Suffice it to say, that they were all very creditably sung. We noticed that Mr. Paige very judiciously allowed Mr. Clarke to play the aria from "Lucia," a sa solo on the Cormetto. This was done as the mute used by Mr. Clarke, to produce the effect of distance, rendered his instrument sharper than the piano. It was, however, very prettily played We are glad to observe, that the success of these concerts has been such as will induce Mr. Paige to give another series next season. ORGAN FOR ST. JAMES' CHURCH. THE organ for this Church will be in its place by the 17th May. We have learned from connoisseurs, who have had an opportunity of hearing it, that it deserves all that has been said in its praise. We are glad of this, for really the present choir of St. James' deserves a fine instrument, as there is no other in Toronto except St. Michaels, that can pretend to execute Psalms and Chants so artistically. The singing in this choir is really very fine and it would be well if some other choirs in the city would endeavour to equal them. LITERARY NOTICES FOR THE MONTH. -which book we have read with the deepest interest, and certainly we have never shed as many tears over twice as many pages. The volume enters not on the question of the Dauphin's life and death as a polemical question. İt assumes the fact, and then details at length the sufferings, miseries, privations, insults, barbarity, unspeak able cruelty and inconceivable brutality which the poor young Dauphin suffered in the Temple. The conduct of Simon, the shoemaker, towards the unfortunate child during his wretched mother's life and after her murder, baffles all description. How the human mind could conceive such schemes of brutality, murder, cruelty, and wantonness, we really cannot conceive. This volume we would recommend to every reader. Uncle Tom's Cabin-a romance founded on fact—is a most thrilling story, but not so thrilling as the volume we have thus noticed, not founded on fact, but fact itself. We have, however, already exhausted this work in the Shanty. BOOKS FOR SALE BY T. MACLEAR, 45, YONGE STREET. The Bourbons.-The Bourbon question has made a good deal of noise among the reading circles during the last two months. Many attempts have been made to find out the Dauphin of France; and many have maintained that he is living; many others that he is dead. Without adverting to conjectures, we proceed to the facts which relate more immediately to the question in its present bearing. In the January number of Putnam's New Monthly Magazine an article appeared, entitled "Is there a Bourbon among us?" -which created a very considerable degree of excitement. The article set forth that a Rev. Mr. Williams, a missionary at present labouring among the North American Indians, and a very venerable and respectable old man, was the Dauphin of France, son of the unfortunate Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, and would and ought to have been Louis XVII. The article went on to show that this old gentleman had been among the Indians from youth; that he had been idiotic, but on leaping or falling suddenly into water, he had been restored to the use of his senses; prior to this he remembers nothing. He was thenceforth reared among the Indians, and, becoming a serious man,he gave himself up to the work of the ministry among them. In 1841, when Prince de Joinville visited the United States, it seems he inquired soon after his arrival, for the Indian settlement in which Mr. Williams was laboring, and for Mr. Williams himself,-found his way to the one, and an interview with the other. Further, it seems that a Mr. Bellanger, who died a few years ago at New Orleans, confessed, on his deathbed, that he was employed to bring the Dauphin to Ame-he became a good man. rica; that he did so; that he placed him among the Indians; and that he was supplied with the means of paying his boarding and supervision. These and other facts in the chain of circumstances which run through the article in Putuam, render the case one of very circumstantial evidence. The HARPER'S have also issued an additional instalment in several volumes of Coleridge's works, already noticed at length in preceding numbers. Coleridge is now known to the literary worldhaving been reviewed and re-reviewed by all sorts and sides of critics for twenty years, indeed, for fully one quarter of a century. This work must tell and sell. He was a great man-we care not whether he is viewed as a theologian, a philosopher, or a poet-Coleridge was a great, a truly great man. He was a man of profound capabili ties of thinking, of strong imagination, of mighty capacities of analysing, and in every department of reflection, over which his great mind roamed, he felt perfectly at home. He was a good philosopher, a good theologian, a good poet, above all tory of England, a work allready unparalleled in The Harper's have also issued The Child's Hispoint of popularity in England. This work, the first volume of which has appeared, and will soon be succeeded by others, is calculated to bring the history of England into the nursery, and to make it supply the place which "Jack and the Bean Stalk," or "Raw Head and Bloody Bones," and other flimsy trash used to fill in our domestic and nursery libraries. Uncle Tom's Cabin, third edition,-unprece dented sale in Toronto, 13,000 in a few months. Mr. Maclear will issue in a few days his third edition of this unparalleled work-one which has become the rage of the civilized world, Mrs. Stowe has acquired a fame which no modern authoress has yet attained, and none may be expected to outshine. In Europe and America there seems to be no limit to the circulation of this popular work. Strange to say, about the time when this article appeared in America, a work appeared in Paris, elaborate and well written, by M. Beauchesne, giving a full and extensive account of the sufferings and death of the Dauphin in the temple; the author, of course, assumes the death of the young Capet as a fact, and details his sufferings. On the arrival of the January number of the Put nam periodical in England, Prince de Joinville wrote, through his private secretary, to the editors, contradicting the whole story, and recommending Beauchense's work to the perusal of the transatlantic people. Meanwhile April arrives, and, in the number of Putnam's Magazine for the said month, a second article appears, embodying the Prince de Joinville's letter, with a closely. The Mormons.-Mr. Maclear will issue in a few worked chain of twenty-seven links, so perfect days a work entitled "The Mormons, or Latter and so complete that it seems almost to amount Day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake," to demonstration. The case is strong, circum-by Lieut. J. W. Gunnison, one of the American stances dovetail so very closely and correctly, that no one can read the article without being convinced that, if not true, it is at least amazingly probable. Immediately after the issue of Putnam's Magazine for April, an epitomized edition of Beauchesne's great work, in English, was published by the Harpers, in a small 200 page volume | officers in the Engineering Department. The Westminster Review and other Reviews have lauded it as the most correct and fair exponent of Mormon views. We have read this volume and would commend it to the perusal of every one who wishes to acquire a correct view of the abomi nations of this horrid system. BLACKIE & Son, of Glasgow, have issued Notes subscribers only, at 2s. 6d. sterling each number. on the New Testament, by Albert Barnes, Phila- The design of the book is good, the style exceldelphia. This volume embraces the four gospels.lent, and the execution of the steel engravings Barnes as a commentator, and especially as a perhaps the finest of any of their other works. practical commentator, stands high in Great To Cabinet-makers this work is a sine quâ non. Britain-indeed higher than he does in his own Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, by M. de country. For Sabbath School instruction, the Bovrienne, with continuation till his death at St. Notes of Albert Barnes are not excelled by those Helena, with numerous anecdotes from authentic of any other writer. He is not exactly as orthodox sources. Blackie and Son are issuing this work on some points as we could wish, but he is never-in parts. Bourienne's "Life of the Emperor Natheless a good writer--a noble Theologian-apoleon Bonaparte" is, perhaps, the most correct learned man and a most laborious Student. Few and authentic extant. The reason is that the if any men who have had charge of a leading congregation in a large city for such a length of time have done as much to advance the interests of Bible Literature and of Scripture Knowledge. Cabinet History of England, Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the year 1846. By Charles Macfarlane, in 2 vols. The foregoing volumes are got up in very excellent style, and embrace in a small compass the entire history of England-abridged -yet not omitting anything essential, and written in an easy and racy style. These volumes owe their chief value to the fact that they are better suited for domestic reading, than the common books on the subject of English History, and along with "The Child's History of England" recently issued on both sides of the Atlantic, this book furnishes a useful collection of Historical information. The Whole Works of John Bunyan are issuing in monthly parts, price half-a-dollar, edited by Robert Philip, Author of "The Experimental Guides," &c. The parts of the above work which we have inspected, yield the clearest proof that this edition is one in every way entitled to the high credentials which it has obtained from the most distinguished divines in Europe. author was a school-fellow of Napoleon, grew up with him and retained his kindly feeling towards the Emperor, being an officer in his army, and his confidential friend till near the battle of Waterloo, when a circumstance occurred which created a coolness between them, and thus the knowledge, personal and private, which few if any save Bourienne possessed, is turned to an admirable account. Many things published in this volume might have been suppressed but for the coolness between Napoleon and his friend the authorwhile many things known only to the author respecting the school-boy days of Bonaparte are here detailed, and invested with a great degree of inte rest. We have read no life of Napoleon which seems to us to have given a fair delineation of his real charecter, with so much accuracy and interest as that of Bourienne. DEVONPORT & DE-WITT, of the Tribune Buildings, have recently issued, in pamphlet form, an edition of the Apocrypha of the New Testament, which is indispensable for classical purposes. We have read it with care. The apocryphal works of Scripture are not popular; but yet they may and ought to be read by the student of theology. Every man who undertakes the office of bishop" ought to be familiar with the Epistles of Strange to say, although Bunyan is perhaps the Ignatius, and the Gospel of St. Mary, as well as most popular writer on practical Religion in the the "Protevangelion" and the Gospels of the InEnglish language, yet you scarcely ever meet with fancy of Christ, not to speak of the Epistles of a uniform edition of the work. The society for Clement and Barnabas, and the Gospel according the republication of "The Puritan Divines," to Nicodemus. On this account we recommend which, like most of its kind has become defunct-only as a matter of curiosity the perusal of the issued a few volumes-it might have published them all had it succeeded, but except that of Blackie and Son, in large double columned octavo, we have seen no edition of Bunyan exactly to our mind. We would heartily recommend the edition ju-t noticed to every family. Railway Machinery—a Treatise on the Mechanical Engineering of Railways, embracing the principles and construction of Rolling and fixed Plant, in all departments, illustrated, by a series of plates on a large scale, and by numerous engravings, by Daniel Kinnear Clark, Engineer. The above great work is now being issued in parts, large quarto, with splendid drawings, and beautifully executed engravings on steel. At this stage of Railroad Engineering in Canada, this cannot fail to be a most valuable and popular work; no Engineer's library is perfect without it. A few parts have been placed before us for inspection, and touching the style and structure of the work, we cannot speak too highly. Cabinet-Maker's Assistant, being a series of original designs for modern furniture.-A large quarto, with magnificent steel engravings. Blackie and Son, are sending forth this valuable book, to Apocrypha of the New Testament. The edition before us costs a mere trifle, and till recently the work was scarcely accessible. Harper & Brothers have recently issued a book by Dr. Samuel Hanson Cox of Brooklyn, entitled Interviews, Memorable and Useful, containing interviews with Dr. Chalmers and other great men; and seldom, if ever, have we read such a mass of stuff. The work is obviously written to puff off his own powers, and reminds us of a little nursery rhyme we used to repeat in our boyhood days— Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, He put in his thumb and pulled out a plumb, |