In Music, a retrogressive step, in which there is much hope, has been
taken. The P. A. B., or Pre-Agincourt Brotherhood has arisen, nobly
devoted to consign to oblivion Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, and every
other such ridiculous reputation, and to fix its Millennium (as its name
implies) before the date of the first regular musical composition known
to have been achieved in England. As this Institution has not yet
commenced active operations, it remains to be seen whether the Royal
Academy of Music will be a worthy sister of the Royal Academy of Art,
and admit this enterprising body to its orchestra. We have it on the
best authority, that its compositions will be quite as rough and
discordant as the real old original—that it will be, in a word, exactly
suited to the pictorial Art we have endeavoured to describe. We have
strong hopes, therefore, that the Royal Academy of Music, not wanting an
example, may not want courage.
The regulation of social matters, as separated from the Fine Arts, has
been undertaken by the Pre-Henry-the-Seventh Brotherhood, who date from
the same period as the Pre-Raphael Brotherhood. This society, as
cancelling all the advances of nearly four hundred years, and reverting
to one of the most disagreeable periods of English History, when the
Nation was yet very slowly emerging from barbarism, and when gentle
female foreigners, come over to be the wives of Scottish Kings, wept
bitterly (as well they might) at being left alone among the savage
Court, must be regarded with peculiar favour. As the time of ugly
religious caricatures (called mysteries), it is thoroughly Pre-Raphael
in its spirit; and may be deemed the twin brother to that great society.
We should be certain of the Plague among many other advantages, if this
Brotherhood were properly encouraged.
All these Brotherhoods, and any other society of the like kind, now in
being or yet to be, have at once a guiding star, and a reduction of
their great ideas to something palpable and obvious to the senses, in
the sign to which we take the liberty of directing their attention. We
understand that it is in the contemplation of each Society to become
possessed, with all convenient speed, of a collection of such pictures;
and that once, every year, to wit upon the first of April, the whole
intend to amalgamate in a high festival, to be called the Convocation of
Eternal Boobies.
SAVINGS’ BANK DEFALCATIONS.
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