WILLIAM HEINEMANN
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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!"
Prologue
"For Mr. Whistler's Professor John Ruskin in Fors Clavigera, July 2, 1877. 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.