Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1908 — Reduced Sice. [ARTICLE]

Reduced Sice.

After a concert at Manchester, England, Joachim, the great violinist, whose death occurred recently, the railway; station, waiting for a train. * - " A respectable-looking man, apparently a navvy in his best clothes, paced at his side a while, watching him with close interest. Finally he asked for a llghi, and got It. As he drew at his pipe to get it started, he looked Joachim full lu the face. Then, just as he was about to go on, he tapped the violinist’s chest impressively. “But Paganini was the man,” said he. Joachim used to say, declares the narrator of this story, that he never felt so small in his life. Whole pages of learned musical criticism had never begun to whittle him down so fine.