the demands of his art--without deference to patrons or prejudice
to party. Beyond this, whether the "policy of Mr. Whistler and his
following" be "selfish or no," matters but little; but if the
policy of your correspondent's "following" find itself among the
ruthlessly rejected, his letter is more readily explained.

[Illustration]

_Talent in a Napkin_

[Sidenote: Lecture before the Church Congress, Oct. 7,
1885.]

If those who talk and write so glibly as to the desirability of
artists devoting themselves to the representation of the naked human
form, only knew a tithe of the degradation enacted before the model is
sufficiently hardened to her shameful calling, they would for ever
hold their tongues and pens in supporting the practice. Is not
clothedness a distinct type and feature of our Christian faith? All
art representations of nakedness are out of harmony with it.

J. C. HORSLEY, R.A.

_The Critic "Catching on"_

[Sidenote: _Pall Mall Gaz._ Dec. 8, 1885.]

Mr. Whistler is again, in a sense, the mainstay of the Society
(British Artists), partly through his own individuality and partly
through the innovations he has introduced.... He has several oil and
pastel pictures, very slight in themselves, of the female nude,
dignified and graceful in line and charmingly chaste, entitled
"Harmony," "Caprice," and "Note." Beneath the latter Mr. Whistler has
written, "Horsley _soit qui mal y pense_."

[Sidenote: _REFLECTION:_

Meant "friendly."]

"This is not," said the artist, "what people are sure to call it,
'Whistler's little joke.' On the contrary, it is an indignant protest
against the idea that there is any immorality in the nude."

_Ingratitude_

[Sidenote: _Pall Mall Gazette_, Dec. 10, 1885.]

No, kind sir--_trop de zele_ on the part of your representative--for I
surely never explain, and Art certainly requires no "indignant
protest" against the unseemliness of senility. "Horsley _soit qui mal
y pense_" is meanwhile a sweet sentiment--why more--and why
"morality"?

[Illustration]

_The Complacent One_

[Sidenote: _Magazine of Art_, Dec. 1887.]

Mr. Whistler has issued a brown-paper portfolio of half a dozen
"Notes," reproduced in marvellous facsimile. These "Notes" are
delightful sketches in Indian ink and crayon, masterly so