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According to Wikipedia: "Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 October 7, 1894) was an American physician and professor who also achieved fame as a writer. During his lifetime, he was one of the best regarded poets of the 19th century and is considered a member of the Fireside Poets."

Chapters cover: Wagner, Paganini, Chopin, Schumann, Bach, medelssohn, Liszt, Beethoven, Handel, Verdi, Mozart, and Brahms. According to Wikipedia: "Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He was an influential exponent of the Arts...

"Let me hasten to negative the report that I was ever a pupil of Old Fogy. To be sure, I did play for him once a paraphrase of _The Maiden's Prayer_ (in double tenths by Dogowsky), but he laughed so heartily that I feared apoplexy, and soon stopped. The man really existed. There are a score of persons...

According to Wikipedia: "Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 August 25, 1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying...

According to Wikipedia: "John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic, stage writer, and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras."

"Every age has had its ways of dancing; every people has expressed itself in some form of rhythmic motion. The dance originally was the natural expression of the simple emotions of a primitive people. Triumph, defeat, war, love, hate, desire, propitiation of the gods of nature, all were danced by the hero or the tribe to the rhythm of beaten drums."

According to Wikipedia: "Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915… Rolland's most famous novel is the 10-volume roman-fleuve Jean-Christophe (19031912), which brings...

The second edition, first published in 1896, with 95 black and white illustrations. The London Times said of the first edition, "The Art of Illustration’ is a brightly written account, by a man who has had large experience of the ways in which books and newspapers are illustrated nowadays.... As a...

According to Wikipedia: "Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area,[6] and shares land borders with the United...

Popular novel, first published in 1918.

"'The supreme business of the school is to develop a sense of justice, the power of initiative, independence of character, correct social and civic habits, and the ability to cooperate toward the common good.'--Dr. Frank Crane. How do you develop correct social habits, the habits of a gentleman or a lady?"

First published before 1923, this volume contains dozens of tales of adventure on the high seas. Chapters include: Adventures of Captain Woodward and Five Seamen in the Island of Celebes; An Accoutnof the Loss of His Majesty's Ship Phoenix; The Narwal or Sea Unicorn; Loss of the Brig Tyrrel; Wreck...

This rather long book is definitely an historical novel. The main action takes place in the years around 1780. There are some rather strange aspects to the narration. For example, the hero's name is Hurry, except that on two occasions in Chapter 8 and one in Chapter 9, his name is mysteriously change...

According to Wikipedia: "Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 October 31, 1879) was an American writer of children's books. Abbott was born at Hallowell, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1820; studied at Andover Theological Seminary in 1821, 1822, and 1824; was...