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Title: Camilla: A Tale of a Violin
Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso

Author: Charles Barnard

Release Date: February 10, 2010 [EBook #31247]

Language: English

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CAMILLA:

_A TALE OF A VIOLIN._

BEING THE ARTIST LIFE OF
CAMILLA URSO.

By CHARLES BARNARD.

LORING, Publisher,
COR. WASHINGTON AND BROMFIELD STREETS,
_BOSTON._

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
A. K. LORING,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

Rockwell & Churchill, Printers and Stereotypers,
122 Washington Street, Boston.

PREFATORY NOTE.

The intelligent reader, on opening a new book, asks why it was
written,--what excuse has it for existence. In this particular case the
author has more reasons than it is worth while to repeat. If there is
any one thing that is attracting the general attention of the American
people, it is the art of music. It is a good sign. It shows we are
getting beyond the mere tree-felling and prairie-clearing stages of our
existence, and coming to something better. This true "Tale of a Violin"
has to do with music. It is the story of a real musical life; not wholly
American, and therefore instructive. It has much, also, to do with our
people and country and our own times, and is therefore interesting and
home-like. It has to do with methods of teaching music in foreign
countries; and for the student this artist-life is full of valuable
suggestions. All of this can be properly said, because it is the
artist-life