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The violin : solo playing, soloists and solos, 1905
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1CHAPTER I.
3CHARACTER.
5THE whole of this chapter, with a few slight modifications, is taken from a work of a celebrated writer. The ideas are so fine as to merit its inclusion in this book:—
7"In reading the history of violin-playing, the pride of an Englishman cannot fail to be mortified while he observes that the encouragement of the art has, until recent years, been almost confined to the Continent; that we have heard practically nothing of British schools, artists or patrons; that all writers on the subject seem to consider the hyperborean fogs of England are completely inimical and impervious to the rays of taste; and that, however justly we may boast our superiority in some points, the country has hitherto been forced to allow its deficiency in the most refined branch of art, and content itself with a very subordinate rank among those who aspired to the study of music.
9"Considering the energy of the British character, and the distinguished importance of the nation in the scale of Europe, can we wonder that this extreme deficiency, in points so essential to national honour, should have given rise to many contemptuous remarks and much vain speculation respecting the causes of it? But whatever the causes may be (and doubtless they cannot be derived from any creditable source), the assertions of Germans, Italians, Frenchmen and others, that the nation which has produced a Bacon, a Milton, and a Shakespeare, is
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