Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Violin, How to Choose One
This book is not infallible, nor do I profess to know more about Violins than some one else who may chance to read these pages. Many will disagree with some of my assertions and cling to their pet notion in violins as stoutly as every fond Iover believes his chosen mate to be the Wingless angel of. The world. Their opposition will only excite my admiration, for it springs from love of the grandest musical instrument which ever cheered the heart of man, and so carries with it its own palliation. Let them extend the same feeling to me.
Simple though the work may appear, it has cost me more labour than a six-month story, but no tale from my pen has attracted more attention or drawn forth more unqualified expressions of gratitude and loving approval. During the last six months, while these papers have been appearing, I have received from six to twelve letters daily, all of which were couched in terms of praise and delight except two. One of these was only carping and scornful, the other was so horribly abusive that I had not strength to read more than six lines before dropping it into the waste basket. The majority, therefore, have carried the day, and the papers now appear as a book.
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