_Arpeggios._—An extremely useful collection of these technical passages. By Edwin M. Lott.—The arrangement of the arpeggios is founded on the well-known work of Charles Chaulieu, who taught the piano in London 1840-9. _Two Andantes_, for the organ, by Walter Porter, are mild, harmless movements, containing many signs of the youthful amateur about them. Amongst others is the fact that the pedals are used without intermission from beginning to end, augmenting a want of contrast and variety already too apparent in both pieces. PATEY AND WILLIS. _Yellow Roses_ we can recommend as a pretty ballad by Michael Watson. It is published in every necessary key. _Biondina_, a ballad of a rather better order, by Weatherly, has been set to music by F. N. Löhr. _No other Dream._ Song, for mezzo-soprano voice. By Joseph L. Roeckel.—Is also of the modern ballad type, and hardly attains to the usual merit of this composer’s songs. _Clairette._ By Ernst J. Reiter.—A fascinating little dance for piano. The delicacy of subject and treatment suggests a lady’s composition in every page. _Bouquets de Mélodies._ Pour violon, avec accompagnement de piano. Par Gustav Merkel.—We have received No. 1, a gavotte in C, a well-written trifle by this scholarly German organist and composer. ROBERT COCKS AND CO. _While we Dream._ A song of moderate compass, possessing much musical feeling, and the originality that we are now led to expect from Mr. Addison. A curious, not very vocal, effect is produced by the diminished fourth, in the line, “At our feet long shadows lie.” _The Old See-Saw_ is a song of the conventional “Swing, swing” type, but brightly written, and likely to add to Miss Annie Armstrong’s reputation as a popular writer of small things. J. CURWEN AND SONS. A most important addition to the large number of teaching manuals already published is the _Child Pianist_, divided into grades and steps, and combining in a thoughtful and systematic way a little theory and a little practice, never forcing a child, and never letting the head get in front of the hands or _vice versâ_. Accompanying these steps with their capital duets for pupil and teacher, by J. Kinross, written after the manner of Lebert and Stark’s book, we have a _Teacher’s Guide to the Child Pianist_, an assistance to young teachers, and an essential explanation to the exercises and method. We cannot too highly estimate the care and management displayed by Mrs. J. S. Curwen, the authoress of these valuable works. F. PITMAN AND CO. We do not generally notice dance music, but must mention with praise two compositions of this class by Evelyn Hastings, really charming and graceful as piano pieces, for little _entr’actes_ at readings, or between charades; they are the _Onda Waltz_ and the _Postscript Polka_, the latter being especially happy in its construction. AN APPEAL.