Excerpt from Phil the Fiddler: The Story of a Young Street-Musician Mr. A. E. Cerqua, superintendent of the Italian school at the Five Points, and, through his introduction, of Mr. G. F. Secchi de Casale, editor 'of the well-known Eco d'ital ia, from whom I obtained full and trust worthy information. A series of articles con tributed by Mr. De Casale to his paper, on the Italian street children, in whom he has long felt a patriotic and sympathetic interest, I have found of great service, and I freely acknowledge that, but for the information thus acquired, I should have been unable to write the present volume. 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.