Macaulay, Guizot, | | Pianist. Many pianoforte compositions, Thiers, Rotteck, | | studies, etc. etc. | | | | Painters: Rosa | | Schumann (Robert), born 1810 at Bonheur, | | Zwickau, in Saxony, died 1856. Operas, Cooper, Landseer, | | symphonies, quartetts, etc. Pianoforte Millais, | | compositions, songs. Essays on W. von Kaulbach, | | Music. etc. | | | | Thalberg (Sigismund), born 1812 at Novelists: Chas. | | Geneva, died 1871. Pianist. Dickens, W. | | Compositions for the pianoforte, M. Thackeray, | | mostly on themes of other composers. Lytton Bulwer, | | Also two Operas, etc. George Eliot, | | (Mrs. Lewis), | | Bennett (William Sterndale), born Victor Hugo, | | 1816 at Sheffield, died 1875. Some Alexandre Dumas, | | sacred compositions, overtures, etc. | | pianoforte music, songs, etc. | | Michael Faraday, | | chemist. | | | | Charles Darwin, | | During the first half of the present philosopher | | century great progress in the and naturalist. | | construction of musical instruments, | | especially of wind instruments. Helmholtz, German | | philosopher | | Innumerable celebrated pianists, and writer | | violinists, flutists, etc. on acoustics. | | Important discoveries.| | Celebrated female singers: Catalani, | | Malibran, Grisi, Persiani, Pasta, Alfred Tennyson, | | Pauline Viardot, Henriette Sontag, Poet Laureate. | | Sophie Loewe, etc. | | Livingstone, | | Celebrated male singers: Lablache, African traveller. | | Rubini, Tamburini, Braham, Wild, | | etc. Bismarck, German | | statesman. | | Monster Concerts. | | Moltke, German | | Attempt of a reform of the Opera. General. | | | | Great progress in | | There are among our living musicians sciences relating | | so many celebrated ones that it would to natural | | really be difficult to make a philosophy, and | | satisfactory selection of them for