uartettes and Duets . 408

Spohr and his Guarneri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Spohr and the Collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

"Sports and Pastimes," Strutt's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Stadelmann, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Stadelmann, Johann Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Stainer, Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

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