When the child saw him he shrank back afraid, and hid his face in his mother’s dress ([Page 17])

Life Stories for Young People

LUDWIG VAN
BEETHOVEN

Translated from the German of
Franz Hoffmann

BY
GEORGE P. UPTON
Translator of “Memories,” etc.

THIRD PRINTING

CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1910

LUDWIG VANBEETHOVEN