Preliminary remarks--'Cello Difficult to Master--Choice of a Teacher--Choice of an Instrument and Bow. How to Hold the Instrument--Attitude of the Player--Use of a Sliding Pin Recommended--Correct Way of Holding the Bow--Some Incorrect Sketches of Same. General Knowledge--Eccentricity not Necessarily a Mark of Genius--Musical Notation--Common Errors with Respect to the Actual Position of the Various Clefs--Tenor Clef Indispensable to the 'Cellist. Early Attempts at 'Cello Playing--Firmness in Fingering--The Left Hand--Correct Method of Placing the Left Hand Fingers. General Remarks on Bowing--Useful Method of Combining Scale Practice with Study of Various Bowings--Smooth Bowings--Crescendo--Diminuendo--The Slur. Bowing Continued--Martelé--Detached Stroke--Mixed Bowings--The Various Divisions of the Bow. On "Staccato" Bowing-Spiccato--Slurred Springing-Bow--Varieties of Phrasing Occasioned by the Portion of Bow Used--Sautillé--Dotted Notes. On the Positions--The Individual Requirements of the Orchestral Player and Soloist--The Necessity of "Stretching" for the Intervals--Locality of the Neck Positions--The Enharmonic Difference of Sharp and Flat Keys--Absolute Pitch--How to Leap any Awkward Interval--The Positions not Determined by Mathematical Rules, but by the "Ear"--Shifting--"Economy of Motion" _v._ "Effect"--Choice of Positions. Portamento--The Various Uses of Gilding--Some Exaggerations Exposed--How to Leap Great Intervals without "Howling"--Combination of Glissando and Sforzando. Double-Stopping--Useful in Developing the Hand--How to Determine the Fingering of Various Intervals--Gliding in Double Stops--Chords--A Correct Manner of Playing Chords. Arpeggios--Their Evolution from Various Chords--The Bowing of Arpeggios. Graces and Embellishments--The Use of the Thumb--Extensions--Octaves. Scientific Basis of Harmonics--Some Peculiar Laws which Govern a Vibrating String--"Natural" and "Artificial" Harmonics--Manner of Bowing Harmonics--Special Effects--"Trick Staccato"--Various Methods of Producing Chromatic Scale Passages--"Sul Ponticello" Bowing and "Bowed" Harmonics--Flautando--Pizzicato Glide and Grace Notes! Delivery--Style--"Form" _v._ "Feeling"--Conception--Essentials of a "Fine" Delivery--Orchestral Playing. LONDON: "STRAD" OFFICE, 3. Green Terrace, Rosebery Avenue, E.C. TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_. Passages in bold are indicated by =bold=. Inconsistencies in spelling and hypenation have been retained from the original. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected as follows: Page 3: "occured" changed to "occurred" Page 22: "be" changed to "he" Page 31: "connoissiers" changed to "connoisseurs" Page 39: "ignominous" changed to "ignominious" Page 60: "Guadaguini" changed to "Guadagnini"