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to ask him home to luncheon or dinner when my Mother devoted herself to his entertainment, as my Father was not very encouraging to my writer friends. Large panoramic paintings of scenery were frequently put on exhibition in the city by hiring a Hall ingeniously arranging the lighting and showing the picture from rows of chairs in front, charging 25 cents admission. It was in this form that I saw with Mother Frederic E. Church. "Heart of the Andes," a very scholarly painted and composed landscape. Perhaps the human element which dominates the landscapes of Corot, Danbigney, Inness and may of the later producers of the French school and its very close follower, our own product of the U.S. undoubtedly has strong and sympathetic claim, it is nevertheless [[strikethrough]] strongly [[/strikethrough]] firmly my conviction