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Excerpt from Famous Violinists of to-Day and Yesterday IN Famous Violinists the writer has endeavoured to follow the same general plan as in Famous Singers, viz., to give a bird's-eye View of the most celebrated violinists from the earliest times to the pres ent day rather than a detailed account of a very few. Necessarily, those who have been prominently before the public as per formers are selected in preference to those who have been more celebrated as teachers. It was at first intended to arrange the chapters according to schools, but it soon became evident that such a plan would lead to inextricable confusion, and it was found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.