Genuine Feeling

In the _Times_ of to-day, June 4, 1887, there is an obituary notice of a

Rev. Mr. Knight who wrote about 200 songs, among others “She wore a

wreath of roses.” The _Times_ says that, though these songs have no

artistic merit, they are full of genuine feeling, or words to this

effect; as though a song which was full of genuine feeling could by any

possibility be without artistic merit.

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