Our fat Belgian chauffeur, violinist in times of peace, and posing that day as an American,one of those men who look as if they would bleed water if you pricked them with a bayonet,needed no second warning.

Put a violinist into a room filled with violins, and he will try every one.

He was torn to pieces by frantic women, a fate that seems always to threaten some of our prominent pianists and violinists at the hands of the matinée Bacchantes.

This morning she broke an engagement with Mr. Easterbrook to go auto-riding and went with the violinist to a morning musicale instead; and after she'd gone Aunt Hattie sighed and looked at Grandfather and shrugged her shoulders, and said she was afraid they'd driven her straight into the arms of the one they wanted to avoid, and that Madge always would take the part of the under dog.

With the proceeds he entered the Conservatory of Paris, and in the following year won the first prize as violinist among thirty-nine contestants.

He's a traveling violinist with a show; and he came home once to Andersonville.

The orchestra was brilliant, the first violinist as a recognized artist drowned out the second, and a great bass-viol with three strings was sounded ad libitum by dilettantes, whiskey and coffee flowed in abundance, all the guests were dripping with perspirationin short, it was a glorious affair.

His wife, née Wilhelmine Néruda, a violinist of rare talent, born at Brünn, in Moravia, appeared first in Vienna when only seven years old; in 1864 she married Normann, a Swedish composer, and in 1885 became the wife of Sir Charles; b. 1839.