" We went down to the margin of the lake, and a few rods from the shore lay a little craft like our own, in which were seated two gentlemen, the one with a flute and the other with a violin.

There is something surpassingly sweet in the music of the flute and violin in the hands of skillful performers; and yet, to my thinking, it falls far short of the melody of the human voice.

Soft and sweet came the tones of a violin.

Good-bye for now!" Miss Sterling saw Doodles come up a cross street, violin in hand, and run ahead to join Polly.

"Isn't it lovely that Doodles has his violin!

The boy and the violin were quickly there, and Patricia and the young folks ran after.

The bottom of the box is pierced with two openings, resembling those in a violin (Fig. 2).

Soon he could play the violin and piano, and in his twelfth year he began playing the organ.

And the sight of those cliffs was to me as some chord of music that a master's hand had launched from the violin, and which carries to Heaven of Faëry the tremulous spirits of men.

A violone grunts out a low accompaniment to a vinegar-sharp violin which saws out the air, while a trumpet blares in at intervals to endeavor to unite the two, and a flute does what it can, but not what it would.

The violin, however, weak of voice as it is, always carries the day, and the other instruments steal discontentedly back to their secondary places, the snuffy old violone keeping up a constant growl at its ill luck, and the trombone now and then leaping out like a tiger on its prey.

Far better and more characteristic are the ballad-singers, who generally go in couples,an old man, dim of sight, perhaps blind, who plays the violin, and his wife or daughter, who has a guitar, tamborello, or at times a mandolin.

An ill-dressed, ill-natured man and woman, each carrying a violin, and a thin, squalid girl, with a tamborine, composed the group.

Mrs. M. Another favourite instrument was the violin, a small and curiously shaped apparatus fitted with four strings, which, when rubbed or scraped with horsehair tightly stretched on a narrow wooden frame, were made to produce sounds imitating the cries of various animals, especially the mewing of a cat, to perfection.

"Most of the music played is composed by the conductor, who conducts with the bow of his violin.

Somewhere, hidden in the depths of the orange grove, the soul of a true musician was seeking expression in the tones of a violin.

Sweetly clear and low, through the green wall of the orange-trees, came the music of that hidden violin.

Then, as her ear caught the tones of the violin, she half turnedbut only for a moment.

"The violin that so enchanted you when I came to break the spell?"

CO. Practical violin method.

SEE Hohman, C. H. Practical violin method modernized with new style bowings.

For violin.

SMITH, WILLIAM J. Modern paramount method for violin.

Universal's fundamental method for the violin.

He was a decidedly clever man, especially in an artistic direction, having been a very good musician and performer on the violin, and a draughtsman and caricaturist of considerable talent.