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De fidiculis bibliographia: being an attempt towards a bibliography of the violin and all other instruments played with a bow in ancient and modern times, 1890
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1Part IV.
2BELLES LETTRES.
4In this part I have made an endeavour to collect the titles of the principal works of fiction, both in poetry and prose, having violinists or the violin as their central motif. When I commenced this bibliography, fifteen years ago, this portion of my task seemed the easiest, for the number of such works was circumscribed,—to-day it is without limit, for during the last fifteen years the study of the violin has entered more and more intimately into our daily life, and the number of lady violinists, amateur and professional, has passed beyond the possibility of computation. As a natural result, a novel or story in which one of the principal characters is not a violinist is now the exception, so I have been compelled, except in a few of the earliest instances, to banish from my Bibliography any works in which the violinist is not the central figure. To do more than cite the titles would be to encroach upon the domain of the reviewer, and this is a rôle which I consider myself incompetent to assume when works of fiction, and consequently matters of taste, are in question.
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