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Queen's evidence.]

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Q. E. D.

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Yours obediently, P. G. HAMERTON.

AUTUN, Sept. 29, 1880.

_MR. WHISTLER AND HIS CRITICS_

_A CATALOGUE_

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"Out of their own mouths shall ye judge them."

"Who breaks a b.u.t.terfly upon a wheel?"

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_Etchings and Dry-points_

"His pictures form a dangerous precedent."

VENICE.

"Another crop of Mr. Whistler's little jokes."

_Truth._

1.--MURANO--GLa.s.s FURNACE.

"Criticism is powerless here."--_Knowledge._

2.--DOORWAY AND VINE.

"He must not attempt to palm off his deficiencies upon us as manifestations of power."

_Daily Telegraph._

3.--WHEELWRIGHT.

"Their charm depends not at all upon the technical qualities so striking in his earlier work."

_St. James's Gazette._

4.--SAN BIAGIO.

"So far removed from any accepted canons of art as to be beyond the understanding of an ordinary mortal."--_Observer._

5.--BEAD STRINGERS.

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"Et voila comme on ecrit l'histoire."

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"'Impressionistes,' _and of these the various schools are represented by_ Mr. Whistler, Mr. Spencer Stanhope, Mr. Walter Crane, and Mr.

Strudwick."

6.--FISH SHOP.

"Those who feel painfully the absence in these works of any feeling for the past glories of Venice."

_'Arry in the Spectator._

"Whistler is eminently vulgar."--_Glasgow Herald._

7.--TURKEYS.

"They say very little to the mind."--_F. Wedmore._

"It is the artist's pleasure to have them there, and we can't help it."--_Edinburgh Courant._