I wish that all the children in the world might get together some beautiful June day, and then there certainly could be nothing more charming for them than that they should all be still for a while, and listen to the wonderful violin-playing of Eugenio Mauricio Dengremont, the child-artist.
    Let me tell you what I know of him:  He was born March the 19th, 1866, at Rio Janeiro, Brazil.  His father, having other boys, as well as girls, and being a musician in moderate circumstances, had no idea of making musicians of his children, and did not dream that the son born to him this day was so gifted.  But, at the age of four, Mauricio asked his papa to teach him to play the violin... (St. Nicholas Mag., v.8, 1881)