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Dear Mother ——
English Art (popular English Art) is most sentimental. The English love songs, poems, and pictures which will cause them to shed (beefy) tears. Today a Dr. Kings mett me on the street saying "Good morning, you should have been with me the other day I saw a grand work of art entitled "Despair," two prostrate figures, lying in a field, why my dear man, it almost made me cry." That's a fair sample of public opinion. King is a good kind man so are most Englishmen but they insist on loving the most morbid sentimental works in art. At many houses after dinner they sing songs like "Don't send my Boy to prison to""The bullet that flew to straight, The