ICE.

_Lent by Madame Venturi._

"We are not sure but that it would be something like insult to our
readers to say more about these 'things.' They must surely be meant in
jest; but whether the public have chiefly to thank Mr. Whistler or the
Managers of the Grosvenor Gallery for playing off on them this sorry
joke we do not know, nor greatly care. _Meliora canamus!_"--_Knowledge._

4.--NOCTURNE.

BLUE AND GOLD--OLD BATTERSEA BRIDGE.

_Lent by Robert H. C. Harrison, Esq._

"His Nocturne in Blue and Gold, No. 3, might have been called, with a
similar confusion of terms: A Farce in Moonshine, with half-a-dozen
dots."--_Life._

"The picture representing a night scene on Battersea Bridge has no
composition and detail. A day, or a day and a half, seems a reasonable
time within which to paint it. It shows no finish--it is simply
a sketch."

_Mr. Jones, R.A.--Evidence in Court,
Nov. 16, 1878._

5.--THE LANGE LEIZEN--OF THE SIX MARKS.

PURPLE AND ROSE.

_Lent by J. Leathart._

"Mr. Whistler paints subjects sadly below the merit of his
pencil."--_London Review._

"A worse specimen of humanity than could be found on the oldest piece
of china in existence."

_Reader._

"The hideous forms we find in his Chinese vase painteress ... an
ostentatious slovenliness of execution ... objects as much out of
perspective as the great blue vase in the foreground, _&c._ ...
_&c._...

"It is Mr. Whistler's way to choose people and things for painting
which other painters would turn from, and to combine these oddly
chosen materials as no other painter would choose to combine them. He
should learn that eccentricity is not originality, but the caricature
of it."--_Times._

6.--NOCTURNE.

TRAFALGAR SQUARE--SNOW.

_Lent by Albert Moore, Esq._

"The word 'impressionist' has come to have a bad meaning in art.
Visions of Whistler come before you when you hear it. Such visions are
not of the best possible augury, for who loves a nightmare?"

_Oracle._

"Like the landscape art of Japan, they are harmonious decorations, and
a dozen or so of such engaging sketches placed in the upper panels of
a lofty apartment would afford a justifiable and welcome alternative
even