Stainer, Jacob, the greatest of German artists; his popularity; Sir John Hawkins' estimate of his work; originality and peculiarity of his model; variation in style; his "Elector Stainers;" his personal history, by Herr S. Ruf and Counsellor Von Sardagna; Dr. Johann Schuler's novel, "Jacob Stainer;" his marriage; his imprisonment for heresy; his poverty and sad death; his numerous followers and libellists . . . . . . . 271-280 Stainer, Markus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 Statlee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Staugtinger, Mathias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 Steininger, Franz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Steininger, Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Sterne, Laurence, on Hobby-horses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 Stolen "Strad," A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449 Storioni, Lorenzo, follower of Guarneri del Gesu; his freak as to placing the sound-holes; his Violins roughly finished, but valued for acoustical properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Stoss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Stoss, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Stradivari, Antonio, date of birth, 178; Paolo Lombardini's pamphlet on his life, 185; his marriage, and pedigree of his family, 178-179; affinity of his work with that of his master, Niccolo Amati, 182; second epoch, and change of style, 189-190; possessor of the tools and models of N. Amati, 184; his house at Cremona, 187; extracts from Desiderio Arisi, 185; Vincenzo Lancetti on the purchase of Stradivari's models and tools by Count Cozio di Salabue; the letters of Paolo and Antonio Stradivari, junior, in reference thereto, 188; splendid character of his varnish, 198; Cardinal Orsini's and the Duke of Modena's patronage, 190-191; the "Long Strad," 195; his work for the Spanish Court and for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, 193; letter of Marquis Ariberti, 193; a "Concerto of Violins," 194; the "golden period," 197; the "Betts Strad," 466; variations in qualities of wood, 200; the "Dolphin Strad," 200; Prince Eugene and war in Cremona, 203; visit of Philip V. of Spain to Italy, and entry into Cremona, 204; Stradivari's instruments for presentation to Philip 204, and to the Archduke Charles of Austria, 206; letter of Lorenzo Giustiniani to Stradivari, 206; characteristics of the instruments of his later period, 209-211; place of his burial, 212-214; indifference of Stradivari's own townsmen as to his remains, 215; further notice of Count Cozio di Salabue relative to the Stradivari reliques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 Stradivari, Francesco, son and successor of Antonio; excellent character of work, age, and date of death . . . . . . . . . . 217