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Except for the addition of these two chapters, little revising of the 1901 edition of the work is apparent. Even minor facts such as Whistler's death are left unrecorded. But certainly the two volumes are more than adequate for reference work; and for general interest, far from nugatory...
...solid, without opacity, and hence, consistently absorbing. The miscellaneous course of empire, comprising shoes as well as ships, and cabbages along with kings; the "crumbling of the old certainties," the decline of traditional society, the rise of sport for sport's sake, and art for Oscar Wilde's and Whistler's sake, the economic disasters and political follies all enter into the composition which Mr. Stratford draws with a painstaking hand. Not only grandmother's world, but her ideas receive pointed analysis. The result is very satisfying to read, not merely as pageantry, but as history, and as a thorough...
...Chicago, Harold Fowler McCormick, able amateur whistler, radio- whistled Mozart's Wiegenlied in a campaign for a temple of music at the Century of Progress...
...plate itself (unless he is making a drypoint). Depth of line for increased blackness is all done by action of the acid. A goose feather is the best possible tool for brushing away microscopic gas bubbles while the plate is in the bath. Much of the effect of Whistler's etchings is due to the fact that he was a superb wiper, had an unerring touch in wiping just the right amount of excess ink from his plates before each printing...
...painting-at Düsseldorf because his cautious parents considered Paris no place for a young man from Detroit. At 29 he won the grand medal of honor in the Paris Salon, an honor only two other U. S. artists have won (John Singer Sargent and James Abbott McNeill Whistler...