“In most, if not all, respects Mr. Dellenbaugh’s book is admirable. The text is a rare combination of history, observation and story telling, and it is beautifully illustrated. The ‘breaking of the wilderness,’ the once savage region west of the Mississippi, by explorer, fighter, trapper and settler is pictured to us as by a vitascope.”
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[*] Denk, Victor Martin Otto (Otto von Schaching, pseud.). Violin maker; trans, by Sara Trainer Smith. 45c. Benziger.
The story of the gentle, pious Matthias Klotz, son of a poor tailor of Mittenwald, of how he herded his father’s goats and how Jacob Strainer found him, discovered his ambition to become a violin maker, and took him away to his own school at Absam. From him Matthias went to other masters in Italy, and after years of faithful work returned to his father and his old home and founded his own celebrated school in Mittenwald.