“In Dr. Hans Singer he has at last found a sympathetic German critic.”
+ Int. Studio. 27: 182. D. ’05. 70w. Int. Studio. 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 230w.
“The little book is distinctly below the standard of the series.”
– Nation. 82: 468. Je. 7, ’06. 100w. Sat. R. 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 200w.
Singer, Hans W. James McNeill Whistler. *$1. Scribner.
“This volume in the “Langham series of art monographs” treats of the absence of reverence in the American painter’s disputes with Ruskin, Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Eden, and others; his ‘Gentle art of making enemies,’ his ‘art,’ his principal paintings, etchings, lithographs, etc.; Whistler’s Thames, Venice, and Dutch sets; his hostility to critics and theory of criticism; ‘Ten o’clock,’ and Whistler’s theory of art. Mr. Singer shows the artist’s ‘unpleasant traits’ in order to enable the reader to better understand Whistler’s work as a painter of pictures.... The half-tone illustrations are sixteen in number and present the most familiar of Whistler’s paintings and sketches.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Is rather an inconsequent little book, for which not a great deal of praise is to be said.”
+ – Nation. 82: 159. F. 22, ’06. 290w. N. Y. Times. 11: 148. Mr. 10, ’06. 280w.
Singleton, Esther, comp. Holland as seen and described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.