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In the Year of Jubilee

CHAPTER 7
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They turned into the Strand, and Barmby voiced his opinion of the public decorations.
'There's very little of what can be called Art,--very little indeed.

I'm afraid we haven't made much progress in Art .-- Now what would Ruskin say to this kind of thing?
The popular taste wants educating.

My idea is that we ought to get a few leading men Burne Jones and--and William Morris--and people of that kind, you know, Miss.

Lord,--to give lectures in a big hall on the elements of Art.

A great deal might be done in that way, don't you think so, Miss.


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