Since the early Northmen scoured the northern seas, discovered America, and sent their fleets along the shores of Europe and up the Mediterranean, the seamanship of the men of Teutonic race has always been in the ascendant.
The English are inartistic for the same reason that they are unsociable.
They may make good colonists, sailors, and mechanics; but they do not make good singers, dancers, actors, artistes, or modistes.

They neither dress well, act well, speak well, nor write well.

They want style--they want elegance.

What they have to do they do in a straightforward manner, but without grace.

This was strikingly exhibited at an International Cattle Exhibition held at Paris a few years ago.