LONDON: "STRAD" OFFICE, 3. Green Terrace, Rosebery Avenue, E.C. _"THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. I._ _Crown 8vo., Cloth, 2/6, Post Free, 2/9._ _"THE STRAD" LIBRARY EDITION is the only Authorised Edition of_ Technics of Violin Playing ON JOACHIM'S METHOD BY CARL COURVOISIER. With Folding Plates, Containing Fifteen Illustrations. LETTER FROM DR. JOACHIM [COPY]. MY DEAR MR. COURVOISIER: I have read the book on Violin Playing you have sent me, and have to congratulate you sincerely on the manner in which you have performed a most difficult task, _i.e._, to describe the best way of arriving at a correct manner of playing the violin. It cannot but be welcome to thoughtful teachers, who reflect on the method of our art, and I hope that your work will prove useful to many students. Believe me, my dear Mr. Courvoisier, to be most faithfully yours, JOSEPH JOACHIM. Berlin, November 3rd, 1894. The New and Revised Edition of "Technics of Violin Playing" issued by THE STRAD is the only authorised edition of my work. The several English editions which have all appeared without my knowledge are _incomplete_ and _faulty_. CARL COURVOISIER. LONDON: "STRAD" OFFICE, 3. Green Terrace, Rosebery Avenue, E.C. _"THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. II._ _Crown 8vo., Cloth, 2/6, Post Free, 2/9._ HOW TO STUDY THE VIOLIN By J. T. CARRODUS CONTENTS. Strings and Tuning. The Bow and Bowing. Faults and their Correction. Scales and their Importance. Course of Study. Advice on Elementary Matters. Concerning Harmonics, Octaves, etc. Orchestral Playing. Some Experiences as a Soloist. With full page portraits of Carrodus, Molique, Paganini, Spohr, Sivori, De Beriot, Blagrove and Sainton, and a photo-reproduction of Dr. Spohr's testimonial to Carrodus. "An interesting series of articles 'How to Study the Violin,' which Carrodus contributed to THE STRAD, and completed only a week or two before his death, have now been collected in cheap book form. The technical hints to violin students, which are practical, plainly worded, and from such a pen most valuable."--_Daily News._