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Ernst, Joachim and Strauss, with Herr Wilhelmj, and their concerts . . . . . . . . . . . . 375-409
SECTION XV.--ANECDOTES AND MISCELLANEA CONNECTED WITH THE VIOLIN.
Hudibras and the Champion Crowdero--George Herbert's references to Music--Christopher Simpson's Trinity in Unity--Shakespeare's Sonnet VIII.--Violins from a medical point of view--"A Musician"--Origin of Tartini's "Sonato del Diavolo"--Dr. Johnson and the Violin--Dr. Johnson on the Difficulty of Playing the Violin--Dr. Johnson's Epitaph on Phillips, the Welsh Violinist--Dr. Johnson's Knowledge of Music--Dr. Johnson on Fiddling and Freewill--Haydn in London: a "Sweet Stradivari;" Letters of the Rev. Thomas Twining--Gainsborough as a musician--Garrick and Cervetto--The King and the Player--Sir Walter Scott on Music and Fiddles; the Duke of Hamilton's passion for the Violin--A Cinderella Violoncello--A Stolen "Strad"--The Missing Scroll--Another Wandering Scroll--A Montagnana Instrument shot through the body--Fiddle Marks and the Credulous Dabblers--"Guarneri" at a Discount--Dragonetti's Gasparo: Letter thereon by Mr. Samuel Appleby--The Betts Stradivari: Letter by the late Charles Reade--Leigh Hunt on Paganini--Thackeray on Orchestral Music--Spohr and his Guarneri--Spohr and the Collector--The Ettrick Shepherd and the Violin--The Fiddle Trade: "Old Borax" and "Michael Schnapps," the Fiddle-ogre--The Prince and the "Fugal Vortex"--Sale of Cremonese Instruments at Milan in 1790--An Indefatigable Violinist--A Wish--Living Stradivaris--Pleasures of Imagination--A Royal Amateur--Pius IX. and the Musician--Ole Bull and Fiddle Varnish--Letter from Tartini on the Treatment of the Violin . 410-507
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FRONTISPIECE--Paganini's "Giuseppe Guarneri." 1743.
PLATE FACING PAGE I. Stradivari Viola. 1672 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
II. Jacobus Stainer. 1669 Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu Niccolo Amati. Grand Pattern. 1641 . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
III. Violoncello by Antonio Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
IV. Antonio Stradivari. 1734 The Gillott "Strad." 1715 Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu. 1734 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
V. Carlo Bergonzi Violoncello. Grand Pattern . . . . . . . . . 84
VI. J. B. Guadagnini Storioni. 1797 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
VII. Specimens of Scrolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
VIII. Giuseppe Guarneri. 1742 Antonio Stradivari. 1711 Antonio Stradivari. 1703 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
IX. Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu. 1737 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
X. Domenico Montagnana Violoncello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
XI. Antonio Stradivari. Tenor. 1690 Antonio Stradivari. 1734 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
XII. Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu. 1738 The "Dolphin" Strad. 1714 Antonio Stradivari. 1718 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
XIII. Antonio Stradivari. 1702 Antonio Stradivari. 1722 Antonio Stradivari. 1703 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
XIV. Stradivari Violoncello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
XV. Chapel of the Rosary, Cremona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
XVI. Antonio Stradivari. 1708 Antonio Stradivari. 1736 Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu. 1735 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
XVII. The "Betts" Stradivari. 1704 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
XVIII. Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu Antonio Stradivari (Inlaid). 1687 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
XIX. Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu. 1733 Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu. 1741 Antonio Stradivari. 1726 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
XX. Gasparo da Salo Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu. 1735 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
XXI. Antonio Stradivari. 1690 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
"Marriage at Cana," by Paolo Veronese . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Tartini's Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

THE VIOLIN ITS FAMOUS MAKERS AND THEIR IMITATORS

SECTION I The Early History of the Violin
1.
The early