BLUE AND SILVER--BATTERSEA REACH.

_Lent by W. G. Rawlinson, Esq._

"J. M. Whistler is here again with his nocturnes."

_Scotsman._

18.--NOCTURNE.

BLUE AND SILVER--CHELSEA.

_Lent by W. C. Alexander, Esq._

"Mr. Whistler confines himself to two small canvases of the nocturne
kind. One is covered with smudgy blue and the other with dirty black."

_Saturday Review._

"A reputation, for a time, imperilled by original absurdity"--_F.
Wedmore, "Academy."_

"I think Mr. Wedmore takes the Nocturnes and Arrangements too
seriously. They are merely first beginnings of pictures, differing
from ordinary first beginnings in having no composition. The great
originality was in venturing to exhibit them."

_P. G. Hamerton, "Academy."_

19.--NOCTURNE.

GREY AND GOLD--WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.

_Lent by the Hon. Mrs. Percy Wyndham._

"Two of Mr. Whistler's 'colour symphonies'--a 'Nocturne in Blue and
Gold' and a 'Nocturne in Black and Gold.' If he did not exhibit these
as pictures under peculiar and, what seems to most people, pretentious
titles, they would be entitled to their due meed of admiration
[_sic!_]. But they only come one step nearer pictures than delicately
graduated tints on a wall-paper do.

"He must not attempt, with that happy, half-humorous audacity which
all his dealings with his own works suggests, to palm off his
deficiencies upon us as manifestations of power."--_Daily Telegraph._

20.--NOCTURNE.

BLUE AND GOLD--SOUTHAMPTON WATER.

_Lent by Alfred Chapman, Esq._

"There is always danger that efforts of this class may degenerate into
the merely tricky and meretricious; and already a suspicion arises
that the artist's eccentricity is somewhat too premeditated and
self-conscious."--_Graphic._

21.--BLUE AND SILVER.

BLUE WAVE--BIARRITZ.

_Lent by Gerald Potter, Esq._

"Mr. Whistler is possessed of much audacity and eccentricity, and
these are useful qualities in an artist who desires to be talked
about. When he comes out into the open, and deals with daylight, we
find these studies to be only the first washes of pictures. He leaves
off where other artists begin. He shirks all the difficulties ahead,
and asks the spectator to complete the picture himself."--_Daily
Teleg