"He that telleth a tale to ... Carlyle's majority speaketh to one in a slumber: when he hath told his tale he will say, What is the matter?"
RÉSUMÉ.
"It is impossible to take Mr. Whistler seriously."
Advertiser.
"A combination of circumstances has, within the last year or two, brought the name and work of Mr. Whistler into special publicity....
"At the Grosvenor Gallery the less desirable of his designs aroused the inconsiderate ire of a man of genius and splendid authority.
"If it be Mr. Whistler's theory that that which all the world of greatest artists (?) has mistaken for mere means has been in very seriousness the end, then the aim of Art is immeasurably lowered!...
"If there be anything to the point, it is to implore us to take a stone for bread, and the grammar of a language in place of its literature.
"Mr. Whistler has assumed that it is only the painter who is occupied with art.... Unless he is a very exceptional man.... If he is not of the school of Fulham, he is of the school of Holland Park, or of the Grove End Road.