n these two extremes. He played even his
own music; and played at his concert a composition for
violin and orchestra, very well instrumentated, full of
happy melodies, and where the principal part contained
features of a character as ingenious as piquant. He
possesses an extreme dexterity in the use of the bow, and
makes the staccato with as much audacity as perfection. He
has the tone agreeable, the style elegant, and the
expression just, and not affected. Here he is, then, placed
in the first rank in that glorious phalanx of violinists
which Europe envies us."

After having given a splendid description of this concert (which want
of space forces us not to publish here), the "Patrie" of the 30th of
April, 1861, speaks thus:--

"We have seen Mr. White begin. We have been present at the
concourse at the Conservatoire, where he won successively
all the prizes. Then it was but a scholar who gave brilliant
hopes: it is a master that we congratulate to-day in him."

Some time after, he left for Spain, where he played at Mme. the
Comtesse de Montijo's (mother of the Empress of France), and before
the Queen of Spain. Her Spanish Majesty presented him, the brilliant
virtuoso, with a magnificent set of diamond studs, and created him
chevalier of the order of Isabella the Catholic. We reproduce some
lines from "La France Musicale" of the 22d of November, 1863:--

"White, the violinist, has had the honor to be received on
the 12th of this month by the Queen of Spain. Her Majesty
has accepted the dedication of a piece composed by this
eminent artist, and has told him that she would try and find
an occasion for hearing him play it; and, in fact, our
violinist played at the queen's on the 22d of December."[15]

[Footnote 15: For further accounts of his career in Spain, the reader
is referred to La Correspondencia of 23d December, 1863; La Epoca, La
Discusion, &c., of about the same date.]

After his return to France, he played at the Tuileries before their
Majesties Napoleon the Third and the Empress Eugenie. These sovereigns
congratulated the artist most fully. We reproduce an extract from the
"Constitutionale:"--

"In the concert given at the Palace of the Tuileries on the
1st of March, Mr. White, violinist, and very distinguished,
executed a fantasie on Nabucco by Mr. Alard, in which he
displayed all th