rue collector must _gradually_ and _painfully_
acquire the eye to judge of the impression."]

[Sidenote: _REFLECTION:_

_This_ is possibly the process through which the
preacher is passing.

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26.--THE LITTLE LAGOON.

"Well, little new came of it, in etching; nothing new that was
beautiful."--_F. Wedmore._

27.--NOCTURNE SHIPPING.

[Sidenote: "Amazing!"

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"This Archimago of the iconographic aoraton, or graphiology of the
Hidden."--_Daily Telegraph._

"Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr.
Whistler."--_Oscar Wilde._

28.--TWO DOORWAYS.

"It is trying to any sketch without tone to be hung upon a wall as
these have been."--_P. G. Hamerton._

29.--OLD WOMEN.

"He is never literary."--_P. G. Hamerton._

30.--RIVA.

[Sidenote: _REFLECTION:_

Like Eno's Fruit Salt or the "Anti-mal-de-Mer."

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"He took from London to Venice his happy fashion of suggesting lapping
water."--_F. Wedmore._

"Even such a well-worn subject as the Riva degli Schiavoni is made
original (?) by being taken from a high point of view, and looked at
lengthwise, instead of from the canal."

31.--DRURY LANE.

"In Mr. Whistler's productions one might safely say that there is no
culture."--_Athenaeum._

32.--THE BALCONY.

"His colour is subversive."--_Russian Press._

33.--ALDERNEY STREET.

"The best art may be produced with trouble."

_F. Wedmore._[27]

[Note 27: "I am not a Mede nor a Persian."--F.
WEDMORE.]

34.--THE SMITHY.

"They produce a disappointing impression."

"His Etchings seem weak when framed."[28]

_P. G. Hamerton._

[Note 28: Mr. Hamerton does also say:

"Indifference to beauty is however compatible with
splendid success in etching, as the career of Rembrandt
proved."--_Etching and Etchers._]

35.--STABLES.

"An unpleasing thing, and framed in Mr. Whistler's odd
fashion."--_City Press._

36.--THE MAST.

[Sidenote: _REFLECTION:_

At the service of critics of unequal sizes.

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"The Mast and the Little Mast are dependent for much of the