aus, die auf
Gesetze der Form und der Farbe gegruendet scheinen, die dem
Uneingeweihten unverstaendlich 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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"All of which gems, I am sincerely thankful to say, I cannot
appreciate."

"As we have hinted, the series does not represent any Venice that we
much care to remember; for who wants to remember the degradation of
what has been noble, the foulness of what has been fair?"

_'Arry[32] in the "Times."_

[Note 32: _REFLECTION:_

The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them
because he knoweth not how to go to the City.

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"Disastrous failures."--_F. Wedmore._

"Failures that are complete and failures that are partial."--_F.
Wedmore._

"A publicity rarely bestowed upon failures at all."

_F. Wedmore, Nineteenth Century._

[Sidenote:

_"Voila ce que l'on dit de moi
Dans la Gazette de Hollande."_]

"Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake
us. We wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we
walk in darkness."

"We grope for the wall like the blind, and