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[Note 22: _REFLECTION:_
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._
