goons."--_Daily News._

15.--TEMPLE.

"The work does not feel much."--_Times._

16.--LITTLE SALUTE.--(DRY-POINT.)

"As for the lucubrations of Mr. Whistler, they come like shadows and
will so depart, _and it is unnecessary to disquiet one's self about
them_."

17.--THE BRIDGE.

"These works have been done with a swiftness and dash that precludes
anything like care and finish."

"These Etchings of Mr. Whistler's are nothing like so satisfactory as
his earlier Chelsea ones; they neither convey the idea of space nor
have they the delicacy of handling and treatment which we see in
those."

"He looked at Venice never in detail."

_F. Wedmore._

18.--WOOL CARDERS.

"They have a merit of their own, and I do not wish to understand
it."[24]--_F. Wedmore._

[Note 24: Mr. Wedmore is the lucky discoverer of the
following:--

"Vigour and exquisiteness are denied--are they
not?--even to a Velasquez"!]

19.--UPRIGHT VENICE.

"Little to recommend them save the eccentricity of their titles."

20.--LITTLE VENICE.

"The Little Venice is one of the slightest of the series."--_St.
James's Gazette._

"In the Little Venice and the Little Lagoon Mr. Whistler has attempted
to convey impressions by lines far too few for his purposes."--_Daily
News._

"Our river is naturally full of effects in _black and white and
bistre_. Venetian skies and marbles have colour you cannot suggest
with a point and some printer's ink."--_Daily News._

"It is not the Venice of a maiden's fancies."--_'Arry._

21.--LITTLE COURT.

"Merely technical triumphs."--_Standard._

22.--REGENT'S QUADRANT.

"There may be a few who find genius in insanity."

23.--LOBSTER POTS.

"So little in them."[25]--_P. G. Hamerton._

[Note 25: The same Critic holds:

"The Thames is beautiful from Maidenhead to Kew, but not
from Battersea to Sheerness."]

24.--RIVA No. 2.

"In all his former Etchings he was careful to give a strong foundation
of firm drawing. In these plates, however, he has cast aside this
painstaking method."

_St. James's Gazette._

25.--ISLANDS.

"An artist who has never mastered the subtleties of accurate
form."[26]--_F. Wedmore._

[Note 26: Elsewhere Mr. Wedmore is inspired to say--

"The t