Joseph Joachim (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Joseph Joachim

Far more vivid picture from the man who admires his subject, even if it be with only the foolish admiration of a Boswell, than through the atmosphere of hardly concealed invective in which some modern biographers have chosen to shroud the figure they present. The system of panegyric has one drawback, though it may be considered an indirect one if superlatives are spread too thick, like the butter in the moving ballad of The Walrus and the Carpenter, over individua...