d to have recorded on a doleful canvas the head and figure of
Carlyle...."--_F. Wedmore._

"... The rugged simplicity of Mr. Carlyle ... to have painted these
things alone--however strange their mannerism or incomplete their
technique."

_Nineteenth Century._

"The portentous purchase by the civic authorities of Mr. Whistler's
senile Carlyle renders it necessary for that section of the community
who are not enamoured of Impressionism to watch with some vigilance
the next steps taken by that body towards the formation of the
permanent collection.

"A portrait which omits entirely to bring out the individuality of
the sitter, stands but little chance of recognition even from
immediate posterity."

_Letter to "Glasgow Herald," March 4, 1892._

"We cannot forget his encounter some years ago with Mr. Ruskin, nor
the contemptuous terms in which that foremost of art critics denounced
his work. It has been left to Glasgow to rectify Mr. Ruskin's blunder
in this matter, and it vindicates the merits of the American artist
over whose artistic vagaries--his nocturnes and harmonies in blue and
gold--the _whole press of Britain_ made merry."

_Dundee Advertiser._

"There is, among portraits of great writers, Mr. Whistler's portrait
of Carlyle. It is a picture whose story is complete, whose honours
have been gathered abroad--in Paris, in Brussels, in Munich. Its
destiny has been accomplished; it belongs to the City of Glasgow, and
from the corporation of that city was borrowed for the Victorian
Exhibition. The corporation lent it in good faith; the borrowers have
treated it with all the indignity it is in their power to bestow on
it.

"Could there be a better epitome of the recent history of art in
England? One work of Mr. Whistler's is received with high honour
in the Luxembourg on its way to the Louvre; and at that very moment
another work of his, worthy to rank with the first, is hoist with
equally high disrespect to the ceiling of a gallery in London."--_N.
Y. Tribune, Jan. 17, 1892._

43.--HARMONY IN PINK AND GREY.

PORTRAIT OF LADY MEUX.

_Lent by Sir Henry Meux._

"Portrait of Mrs. Meux, in which it was not so much the face as the
figure and the movement that came to be deftly suggested, if hardly
elaborately expressed."--_F. Wedmore._

"All Mr. Whistler's work is unfinished. It is