item: #1 of 12
          id: 14884
      author: Lahee, Henry Charles
       title: Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday
        date: None
       words: 60077
      flesch: 65
     summary: | Baltzar, Thomas | Lubec 1630 | London 1663 | Bannister, John | England 1630 | London 1679 | Lulli, Jean Baptiste de | Florence 1633 | Paris 1687 | Strunck, Nicolas Adam | Germany 1640 | ? | Weigl, Franz J. | Bavaria 1740 | Vienna 1820 | Tomasini, Luigi | Bohemia 1745 | Gotha 1805 | Jarnowick, Giovanni M. | Palermo 1745 | St. | | | Petersburg 1804 | Navoigille, Guillaume J. | Givet 1745 | Paris 1811 | Paisible | Paris 1745 | St. | | | Petersburg 1781 | Salomon, Johann Peter | Bönn 1745 | London 1815 | Cambini, Giovanni G. | Leghorn 1746 | Bicêtre 1825 | Gervais, Pierre Noel | Mannheim 1746 | Bordeaux 1805 | Stamitz, Carl | Mannheim 1746 | Jena 1801 | Ghirett, Gaspar | Naples 1747 | Parma 1827 | Leduc, Simon | Paris 1748 | Paris 1787 | Mestrino, Niccolo | Milan 1748 | Paris 1790 | Guerillot, Henri | Bordeaux 1749 | Paris 1805 | Navoigille, Herbert J. | Givet 1749 | ? ?
    keywords: a. |; age; america; artist; audience; berlin; bull; bériot; c. |; career; composer; compositions; concert; conservatoire; day; england; europe; f. |; father; following; germany; instrument; italy; j. |; joachim; joseph |; king; life; man; master; music; musician; new; ole; orchestra; paganini; performance; place; player; playing; public; pupil; quartet; reputation; school; spohr; study; style; success; teacher; time; tone; tour; vienna; vieuxtemps; violin; violin playing; violinist; viotti; virtuoso; wieniawski; years; | florence; | london; | paris; | turin; | |
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        item: #2 of 12
          id: 17463
      author: Ferris, George T. (George Titus)
       title: Great Violinists and Pianists
        date: None
       words: 77142
      flesch: 58
     summary: Born at Lucca in 1680, he finished his studies under Corelli at Rome, and spent several years with great musical _éclat_ at Naples. and what were my feelings when Dionys Weber finally delivered himself thus: 'Candidly speaking, the boy has talent, but is on the wrong road, for he makes bosh of great works which he does not understand, and to which he is utterly unequal.
    keywords: admiration; afterward; age; art; artist; beethoven; boy; bull; bériot; career; chopin; clementi; composer; compositions; concert; day; distinguished; enthusiasm; europe; father; forte; french; genius; germany; good; gottschalk; great; hand; house; instrument; life; like; liszt; london; love; man; master; mme; moscheles; music; musician; new; ole; orchestra; paganini; paris; performance; pianist; piano; place; player; playing; public; school; schumann; spohr; style; success; thalberg; time; tone; tour; violin; violinist; viotti; virtuoso; way; works; world; years; young
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        item: #3 of 12
          id: 20052
      author: Yechton, Barbara
       title: We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses
        date: None
       words: 84352
      flesch: 86
     summary: for she certainly didn't treat me as she did Nora, and there are only fourteen months between us, if Nora _is_ so tall, and acts so grown up. Oh, Nannie, I said, I do wish Fee _could_ go to college!
    keywords: away; bed; betty; chad; course; day; dear; door; erveng; eyes; face; fee; felix; good; hand; head; help; hilliard; home; house; jack; look; max; mind; miss; mrs; nannie; nora; nurse; papa; people; phil; right; room; things; think; thought; time; voice; way
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        item: #4 of 12
          id: 28462
      author: White, Grace Miller
       title: Rose O'Paradise
        date: None
       words: 92469
      flesch: 93
     summary: Jinnie Grandoken... I'll hurry, then, replied Mr. King, and when he saw Lafe's face in the window, he again addressed her: You'd better try to smile a little, Miss Jinnie, or your uncle'll be frightened.
    keywords: away; bobbie; boy; child; cobbler; day; dear; door; eyes; face; fiddle; girl; going; good; grandoken; hand; head; heart; home; jinnie; jinnie grandoken; jordan; king; lafe; like; little; love; man; maudlin; mind; molly; moment; money; morse; mrs; peggy; theodore; thought; time; virginia; went; woman
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        item: #5 of 12
          id: 29481
      author: Sousa, John Philip
       title: The Fifth String
        date: None
       words: 15558
      flesch: 78
     summary: Men like Angelo Diotti do not fall in love as soldiers fall in line. But you must be prepared to accept the limitations of man and his work, said the philosophical violinist.
    keywords: diotti; eyes; face; father; heart; love; man; mildred; music; night; perkins; play; room; sanders; soul; string; violinist; wallace; woman
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        item: #6 of 12
          id: 31521
      author: Anonymous
       title: Little Frida: A Tale of the Black Forest
        date: None
       words: 40921
      flesch: 85
     summary: Do you not remember the first time when Pastor Langen brought you here a shy, trembling little child, and asked me to see you from time to time? She understood, and answered in her sweet babyish accents, 'Fader come back soon, he told little Frida.
    keywords: child; day; dear; drechsler; elsie; ere; face; father; forest; frida; friends; girl; god; gower; hans; heart; heinz; like; little; man; miss; mother; mrs; reginald; room; time; wilhelm; willoughby; wood; words
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        item: #7 of 12
          id: 33601
      author: Reed, Myrtle
       title: The Master's Violin
        date: None
       words: 58932
      flesch: 90
     summary: XVIII Lynn Comes Into His Own At the post-office there was a letter for Mrs. Irving. Once more Lynn played the adagio, instinct with its world-old story, voicing its world-old law.
    keywords: aunt; brinkerhoff; day; dear; doctor; east; eyes; face; frã¤ulein; good; hand; heart; herr; house; iris; irving; kaufmann; know; lancaster; life; little; love; lynn; margaret; master; miss; mother; night; peace; things; think; thought; time; way; years
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        item: #8 of 12
          id: 36105
      author: Perry, Nora
       title: Hope Benham: A Story for Girls
        date: None
       words: 66702
      flesch: 80
     summary: Miss Hope Benham! and I had met long ago when we were little girls, and that you had said something then that had hurt me that I had never forgotten, but that you had forgotten it and forgotten _me_.
    keywords: armitage; benham; berg; day; dear; dering; dolly; dorothea; face; father; girl; good; hope; jimmy; kate; kind; look; marr; mind; miss; moment; mrs; myra; new; night; party; people; play; room; school; story; tell; things; think; thought; time; van; violin; want; way; year; young
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        item: #9 of 12
          id: 39571
      author: Stratton, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel)
       title: Nicolo Paganini: His Life and Work
        date: None
       words: 56982
      flesch: 70
     summary: all London sure are frantic Sirs, The Prince of Fiddlers has arriv'd, great Paganini has come. It would appear that young Paganini studied with Giacomo Costa for a period of six months only.
    keywords: account; artist; beethoven; berlioz; book; bow; chapter; concert; day; father; flat; genoa; great; guitar; hand; house; instrument; italian; italy; library; life; liszt; little; london; major; man; master; melody; minor; movement; music; musical; new; nicolo paganini; opera; orchestra; paganini; page; paris; performance; pianoforte; piece; place; playing; public; rossini; second; solo; sonata; strad; string; subject; theatre; theme; time; variations; viola; violin; violinist; violoncello; way; work; world; years
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        item: #10 of 12
          id: 440
      author: Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)
       title: Just David
        date: None
       words: 62002
      flesch: 92
     summary: Are you hungry, little boy? David hesitated; he had not forgotten the woman, the milk, and the gold-piece. Little boy, who are you? I'm David.
    keywords: boy; come; course; david; day; eyes; face; father; girl; head; holbrook; holly; house; jack; lady; larson; little; man; miss; mrs; perry; play; roses; simeon; ter; things; think; time; violin; voice; way; world
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        item: #11 of 12
          id: 45842
      author: De Teresa, Ysabel
       title: The Erratic Flame
        date: None
       words: 90297
      flesch: 89
     summary: Will you put it on for me to-night, dear Anne? The flush still upon her cheeks, Anne nodded weakly. Isn't it too pitiful? Yes, it is horrible, Anne whispered, and that is probably what killed her.
    keywords: alexis; anne; arms; bed; boy; child; claire; course; cry; day; days; dear; doctor; door; ellen; elliott; eyes; face; feet; fingers; girl; good; hair; hand; head; heart; house; knew; life; lips; little; look; love; man; marchese; mme; moment; mother; music; new; night; petrovskey; poor; regina; room; rose; smile; thing; thought; time; vittorio; voice; way; white; woman; years
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        item: #12 of 12
          id: 504
      author: Sousa, John Philip
       title: The Fifth String
        date: None
       words: 22434
      flesch: 80
     summary: Men like Angelo Diotti do not fall in love as soldiers fall in line. But you must be prepared to accept the limitations of man and his work, said the philosophical violinist.
    keywords: boat; child; diotti; eyes; father; foley; heart; left; love; man; mildred; music; night; perkins; room; sanders; sandy; soul; string; time; violinist; wallace; way; woman; yer
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