THE EMINENT AUTHOR AND ARRANGER,
AND PERFORMER ON THE GUITAR, FLUTE, AND PIANO-FORTE.
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"Gayly the troubadour Touched his guitar." Old Song. |
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"Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." Milton. |
No life can be called a truly great one that has not been a truly good one: a very simple saying, and one which, however trite, yet requires frequent repeating, since its importance is but too seldom considered. And the noble fame that sooner or later surely attaches to the author of such a life belongs chiefly, but not entirely, to him; it being in part, in a certain sense, the property of all who would follow in his footsteps, becoming for them an inspiring example; its history, with all its experiences of hope and fear, its occasional failures but frequent successes, its struggles when environed by poverty or other untoward circumstances, and its final triumph over all obstacles, serving as a guide, a beacon indeed, to illumine their pathway as they climb the same difficult but glorious hills of honor.
JUSTIN HOLLAND.
But such renown comes oftenest to those who seek it not,—to those who perform the right for the sake of right. These are they who