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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. THE MUSICAL TIMES. THE MUSICAL TIMES. contains three pieces, composed respectively by G. Reichardt, G. A. Macfarren, and the Editor. The proprietors " have determined to appropriate one hundred pounds per annum to be expended in musicalpremiums" for the best specimens of part-song writing, and the pieces published in this number, we presume, are to be considered as patterns in their general features for the candidates to follow. They are certainly most favourable examples of bold and clear writing, and if learnt by memory, as they ought to be, will add much to the enjoyment of a social holiday, and serve, with other compositions of the kind, to substitute a taste for vocal harmony in the room of certain miscalled enjoyments which have but a brutalising effect upon the popular mind of this country. The style in which this " Part-song Book" is brought out merits warm eulogium. contains three pieces, composed respectively by G. Reichardt, G. A. Macfarren, and the Editor. The proprietors " have determined to appropriate one hundred pounds per annum to be expended in musicalpremiums" for the best specimens of part-song writing, and the pieces published in this number, we presume, are to be considered as patterns in their general features for the candidates to follow. They are certainly most favourable examples of bold and clear writing, and if learnt by memory, as they ought to be, will add much to the enjoyment of a social holiday, and serve, with other compositions of the kind, to substitute a taste for vocal harmony in the room of certain miscalled enjoyments which have but a brutalising effect upon the popular mind of this country.