"Mr. Whistler's drawing, which is sometimes that of a very slovenly master."

42.--LONG VENICE.

"After all, there are certain accepted canons about what const.i.tutes good drawing, good colour, and good painting; and when an artist deliberately sets himself to ignore or violate all of these, it is desirable that his work should not be cla.s.sed with that of ordinary artists."--_'Arry._

43.--NOCTURNE SALUTE.

"The utter absence, as far as my eye[29] may be trusted, of gradation."--_F. Wedmore._

[Note 29:?

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"There are many things in a painter's art which even a photographer cannot understand."

_Laudatory notice in Provincial Press._

44.--FURNACE NOCTURNE.

"There is no moral element in his chiaroscuro."

_Richmond Eagle._

45.--PIAZETTA.

"Whistler does not take much pains with his work."

_New York Paper._

"A sort of transatlantic impudence in his cleverness."

"His pictures do not claim to be accurate."

46.--THE LITTLE MAST.

"Form and line are of little account to him."

47.--QUIET Ca.n.a.l.

"Herr Whistler stellt ganz wunderbare Productionen aus, die auf Gesetze der Form und der Farbe gegrundet scheinen, die dem Uneingeweihten unverstandlich sind."--_Wiener Presse._

"This new manner of Mr. Whistler's is no improvement upon that which helped him to win his fame in this field of art."

48.--PALACES.

"The absence, seemingly, of any power of drawing the forms of water."[30]--_F. Wedmore._

[Note 30: See No. 30, _The Riva_.]

"He has never, so far as we know, attempted to transfer to copper any of the more ambitious works of the architect."--_Pall Mall Gazette._

"He has been content to show us what his eyes can see, and not what his hand can do."

_St. James's Gazette._

49.--SALUTE DAWN.

"Too sensational."--_Athenaeum._

"Pushing a single artistic principle to the verge of affectation."--_Sidney Colvin._

50.--BEGGARS.

"In the character of humanity he has not time to be interested."--_Standard._

"General absence of tone."--_P. G. Hamerton._

51.--LAGOON: NOON.

"Years ago James Whistler was a person of high promise."--_F. Wedmore._

"What the art of Mr. Whistler yields is a tertium quid."[31]--_Sidney Colvin._

[Note 31: _REFLECTION:_

The quid of sweet and bitter fancy.

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