Walter Crane, and Mr.
Strudwick."

6.--FISH SHOP.

"Those who feel painfully the absence in these works of any feeling
for the past glories of Venice."

_'Arry in the Spectator._

"Whistler is eminently vulgar."--_Glasgow Herald._

7.--TURKEYS.

"They say very little to the mind."--_F. Wedmore._

"It is the artist's pleasure to have them there, and we can't help
it."--_Edinburgh Courant._

8.--NOCTURNE RIVA.

"The Nocturne is intended to convey an impression of night."--_P. G.
Hamerton._

"The subject did not admit of any drawing."

_P. G. Hamerton._

"We have seen a great many representations of Venetian skies, but
never saw one before consisting of brown smoke with clots of ink in
diagonal lines."

9.--FRUIT STALL.

"The historical or poetical associations of cities have little charm
for Mr. Whistler and no place in his art."

10.--SAN GIORGIO.

"An artist of incomplete performance."

_F. Wedmore._

11.--THE DYER.

"By having as little to do as possible with tone and light and shade,
Mr. Whistler evades great difficulties."--_P. G. Hamerton._

"All those theoretical principles of the art, of which we have heard
so much from Messrs. Haden, Hamerton(?)[23] and Lalauze, are
abandoned."

_St. James's Gazette._

[Note 23: "Calling me 'a Mr. Hamerton' does me no
harm--but it is a breach of ordinary good manners in
speaking of a well-known writer."

Yours obediently, P. G. HAMERTON.

Sept. 29, 1880. To the Editor of the _New York
Tribune_.]

12.--NOCTURNE PALACES.

"Pictures in darkness are contradictions in terms."

_Literary World._

13.--THE DOORWAY.

"There is seldom in his Etchings any large arrangement of light and
shade."--_P. G. Hamerton._

"Short, scratchy lines."--_St. James's Gazette._

"The architectural ornaments and the interlacing bars of the gratings
are suggested rather than drawn."

_St. James's Gazette._

"Amateur prodige."--_Saturday Review._

14.--LONG LAGOON.

"We think that London fogs and the muddy old Thames supply Mr.
Whistler's needle with subjects more congenial than do the Venetian
palaces and la