John Singer Sargent (1856 1925 American painter most remembered for his murals and as an official World War I war artist his gripping paintings of men in battle Als 4pp 8yo., Boston May 1 [1921] to noted English art connoisseur and statesman Philip Sassoon 1888-1939 In part great rejoicing here over the settling of the coal strike The world rings with praises of Lloyd George and thanks him for a book of Ethyl Smyth: she has a hell of a lot of taste and some of it is good