Excerpt from Musical Studies at Home Hese studies were originally published, in serial form, in the Ladies' Home 'journal, of Philadelphia. They were intended to reach persons remote from centres of musical culture, those whose early education had been neglected, those who had become dis couraged by wrong methods of teaching, and those whose time and means for self-improve ment were limited. Others had popularized art and science, through familiar lectures, but, so far as I knew, no one had done the same work for music, bringing It down to the comprehension of the masses. The success of the series has far sur passed my most sanguine expectations. In the hope that the studies may live a life of renewed usefulness, I venture to present them to the pub lic, in a permanent shape. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.