An Official Letter
Sir,—I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, officially informing me that the Committee award me a second-class gold medal.
Pray convey my sentiments of tempered and respectable joy to the gentlemen of the Committee, and my complete appreciation of the second-hand compliment paid me.
And I have, Sir,
The honour to be
Your most humble, obedient servant,
J. McNEILL WHISTLER.
To the 1st Secretary,
Central Committee,
International Art Exhibition, Munich.
The Home of Taste
The Ideas of Mr. Blankety Blank on House Decoration
The other day I happened to call on Mr. Blank,—Japanese Blank, you know, whose house is in far Fulham. The garden door flew open at my summons, and my eye was at once confronted with a house, the hue of Pall Mall Gazette, Dec. 1, 1888. whose face reminded me of a Venetian palazzo, for it was of a subdued pink.... If the exterior was Venetian, however, the interior was a compound of Blank and Japan. Attracted by the curiously pretty hall, I begged the artist to explain this—the newest style of house decoration.