An old-fashioned love story, of a veiled lady who lives in solitude and whose features her neighbors have never seen. There is a mystery at the heart of the book that throws over it the glamour of romance. THE MASTER'S VIOLIN. A love story in a musical atmosphere. A picturesque, old German virtuoso consents to take for his pupil a handsome youth who proves to have an aptitude for technique, but not the soul of an artist. The youth cannot express the love, the passion and the tragedies of life as can the master. But a girl comes into his life, and through his passionate love for her, he learns the lessons that life has to give--and his soul awakes. GROSSET & DUNLAP, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK * * * * * Transcriber's note: Punctuation has been made consistent. Dialect, alternate and obsolete spellings were not changed. Words ending in '-ise' and '-sing' instead of the more usual '-ize' and '-zing' were not changed, e.g. apologise instead of apologize. Changes made for consistency within the text: deleted hyphen in 'offertory-plate' ... copper to the offertory plate.... deleted hyphen in 'parlour-maid' ... Mr. Hamlin's new parlourmaid ... ... from the new parlourmaid ... 'pollygammy' to 'polligammy' ... that pretty pass, polligammy.... added hyphen to ale-house ... seen some nice lil' ale-house ... ... takes a man to the ale-house?... ... drive a man to the ale-house ... added hyphen to back yard ... out o' sight in my back-yard." deleted hyphen in 'country-side' ... William Saint scoured the countryside ... Other changes to text: 'monagenarian' to 'nonagenarian' ... The nonagenarian displayed ... 'omniverously' to 'omnivorously' ... the Parson read omnivorously... 'Nomconformists' to 'Nonconformists' ... the Nonconformists gird ... 'pallour' to 'pallor' ... seeming pallor in the ill-lit room ... 'mind' to 'mine' ... I wouldn't let him black mine.... 'exigesis' to 'exegesis' ... merely Biblical exegesis ... 'fine' to 'time' ...In time, if Alfred donned khaki ... 'sentenously' to 'sententiously' ... remarked sententiously that ... 'immeasureably' to 'immeasurably' ... immeasurably multiplied ... 'telgram' to 'telegram' ... what was in the telegram,... deleted hyphen from 'middle-class' ... for middle class trippers ...