Identifier: talksaboutauthor00bloo (find matches)
Title: Talks about authors and their work
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Bloor, Ella Reeve, 1862-1951
Subjects: Authors, American Authors
Publisher: Chicago : A. Flanagan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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lways and ever be Like the seed were planting there. For beautiful thoughts make beautiful lives. And every word and deedLies in the thought that prompted it, As the flower lies in the seed. —Christian at Work: Think truly, and thy thoughtsShall the worlds famine feed;Speak truly, and each word of thineShall be a faithful seed;Live truly, and thy life shall beA great and noble creed. —Bonar. CONTENTS Agassiz, Louis 62 Alcott, Louisa 163 Andersen, Hans Christian. 41 Bjornsen, Bjornstjerne 159 Burnett, Frances Hodgson 182 Burns, Robert 17 Dickens, Charles 126 Eggleston, Edward 132 Field, Eugene 199 Grimm Brothers 37 Hale, Everett Edward 153 ^^^arris, Joel Chandler 190 Howells, WiUiam Dean 141 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 52 Irving, Washington 26 Kingsley, Charles 126 Kipling, Rudyard 220 Longfellow, Henry W 71 Mendelssohn, Felix 13 Mozart, Wolfgang 9 Riley, James Whitcomb 211 Stevenson, Robert Louis 203 Stowe, Harriet Beecher 117 Twain, Mark 173 Whittier, John G 87 Willard, Frances •. 147
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WOLFGANG MOZART. TALKS ABOUT AUTHORS AND THEIR WORK. TWO LITTLE GERMAN BOYS. WOLFGANG MOZART. Born January 27, 1756; Died 1791 • Over a hundred years ago a sickly little boy,named Wolfgang Mozart, lived in the town ofSalzburg, in Germany. His father was a musi-cian, and felt very proud when he discovered thathis boy had a wonderful talent for music. When he was only four years old he began toplay the piano, and everyone was astonished tohear him composing the music as he played. He was a merry, active little fellow. Musicseemed to be his greatest joy in life. His fathergave him a small violin when he was very youngand he soon mastered it. One evening there wasa musical party at his fathers home and theplayers wanted to make up a violin quartette.The man who was expected to play the secondviolin was absent, and little Wolfgang begged (V 10 TALKS ABOUT AUTHORS. them to let him play the part, but his fatherlaughed at him and told him to be quiet. Thechild cried so hard the musicians fi

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