or other。 You have no right to say that you are not connected with art。 Everybody is； to a certain extent； the only difference between a professor and an amateur being that the former has the （often disagreeable） necessity of making it his means of earning bread and cheese — and thus often rendering what is a pleasure to other people a “bore” to himself。
About Thackeray， you must read something of his。 He is considered to be the greatest novelist of the day—looking at novel writing of the highest kind as a perfect and truthful representation of actual life—which is no doubt the proper view to take。 Hence； because his novels stand so high as works of Art or Truth； they often have anything but an elevating tendency； and on this account are particularly unfitted for young people—from their very truthfulness。 People say that it is beyond Mr。 Thackeray to paint a perfect man or woman—a great fault if novels are intended to instruct； but just the opposite if they are to be considered merely as Pictures。 Vanity Fair is considered one of his best。
I expect to go home about Tuesday or Wednesday after Christmas and shall then find you there of course—We must have a “bit of a lark”—
Ever affectionately
Tom
亨利八世致安妮·博林
英國國王亨利八世（1491—1547）結婚十三年後，愛上女侍從安妮·博林（1507—1536）。與教皇經過十一年艱辛鬥爭後，亨利八世終於實現自己的願望得以離婚再娶，1533年與安妮·博林成婚。這是亨利八世致安妮·博林的一封情書。
親愛的甜心：
我之所以寫這封信，是想跟你訴說你走之後我所忍受的無邊的寂寞。真的，從你離開到現在已有半個月，我覺得這比往常的任何半個月都要長。我想這種感覺緣於你的善良溫柔和我熾熱的愛情，否則，如此短暫