... " ;In the chain of this creative skill, however, a link was wanting. Nobody rose up who could marry the music to the instrument. For years and years the violin, and the music for it, marched ... one bearing a ticket in the handwriting of Stradivarius, in which his name, his age, and the date of the violin were given. He was then ninety-two years old, and the date of the violin was 1736. ... and bathed with ineffable tints in the cool of the evening, when the light lay low uponvinery and hanging garden, or spangled with ruddy gold the eaves, the roofs, and frescoed walls of the houses."Here,...