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Title: Life of James McNeill Whistler,
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Pennell, Elizabeth Robins,
Subjects: American Art
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
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n fought if he fought at alcontinued on terms with him. But the New English Art Club 1never forgave. A show of J.s lithographs of Granada and the Alhambra w;arranged at the Fine Art Societys during December 1896, and for tlcatalogue Whistler wrote an introductory note, and another for a shcrof Phil Mays drawings in the same gallery. He designed the cowfor Mr. Charles Whibleys Book of Scoundrels, and also two covers fcnovels by Miss Elizabeth Robins, Below the Salt, for which he dre>a silver ship, and The Open Question, for which he devised shieldsall three books published by Mr. Heinemann. The design for thBook of Scoundrels was a gallows, drawn in thin lines, with rope annoose attached. Henley, to whom it was shown, asked whether thgallows should not have been drawn with a support. Whistlercomment was : Well, you know, thats the usual sort of gallows, buthis one will do. It will hang all of us. Just like Henleys selfishne!to want a strong one ! an allusion to Henleys size.340 (189
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WHISTLER AT HIS PRINTING PRESS IN THE STUDIO,RUE NOTRE-DAME-DES-CHAMPSFrom a photograph by M. Dornac(Seepage 308) Alone During the winter Whistler met Sir Seymour Haden for the lasttime at a dinner given by the Society of Illustrators (of which bothwere Vice-Presidents) to Mr. Alfred Parsons, on his election to theRoyal Academy. It was Whistlers first appearance in public sincehis wifes death, and as we had persuaded him to go, never antici-pating any such meeting, we were annoyed to think that we had exposedhim to the unpleasantness of it, or Haden either, for we had had nopart in their quarrels. However, as soon as Whistler saw Haden hewoke up and began to enjoy himself. His laugh carried far. Hadenheard it, and may have seen the three monocles on the dinner-table.He looked toward the laugh, dropped his spoon in his soup-plate, andleft. Later Whistler was called upon to make a speech and could notget out of it. But it was an anti-climax. The event of the dinnerwas over. At Christmas

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