Excerpt from Biographical Sketches: And Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists
A well-known statesman once said that the violin had done as much for civilisation as the steam-engine; and I am certainly not prepared to contradict this assertion. It naturally follows that a great violinist may exercise as beneficial an influence on mankind as a great engineer or a great philosopher. Of this we shall be better able to judge presently.
It is perhaps well to seize upon this opportunity for a few words on the difference between a violin and a, fiddle.
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