MAKING ENEMIES_

_AS PLEASINGLY EXEMPLIFIED
IN MANY INSTANCES, WHEREIN THE SERIOUS ONES
OF THIS EARTH, CAREFULLY EXASPERATED, HAVE
BEEN PRETTILY SPURRED ON TO UNSEEMLINESS
AND INDISCRETION, WHILE OVERCOME BY AN
UNDUE SENSE OF RIGHT_

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_A NEW EDITION_

_LONDON MDCCCXCII_

_WILLIAM HEINEMANN_

_Rights of Translation and
Reproduction reserved._

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_To
The rare Few, who, early in Life,
have rid Themselves of the Friendship
of the Many, these pathetic Papers
are inscribed_

_"MESSIEURS LES ENNEMIS!"_

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_Prologue_

[Sidenote: Professor John Ruskin in _Fors Clavigera_,
July 2, 1877.]

"For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the
purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into
the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly
approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen, and heard,
much of cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a
coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the
public's face."

JOHN RUSKIN.

_The Action_

[Sidenote: Lawsuit for Libel against Mr. Ruskin Nov. 15,
1878.]

In the Court of Exchequer Division on Monday, before Baron Huddleston
and a special jury, the case of Whistler _v._ Ruskin came on for
hearing. In this action the plaintiff claimed L1000 damages.

Mr. Serjeant Parry and Mr. Petheram appeared for the plaintiff; and
the Attorney-General and Mr. Bowen represented the defendant.

Mr. SERJEANT PARRY, in opening the case on behalf of the plaintiff,
said that Mr. Whistler had followed the profession of an artist for
many years, both in this and other countries. Mr. Ruskin, as would be
probably known to the gentlemen of the jury, held perhaps the highest
position in Europe and America as an art critic, and some of his works
were, he might say, destined to immortality. He was, in fact, a
gentleman of the highest reputation. In the July number of _Fors
Clavigera_ there appeared passages in which Mr. Ruskin criticised what
he called "the modern school," and then followed the paragraph of
which Mr. Whistler now complained, and which was: "For Mr. Whistler's
own sake, no le