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19.--UPRIGHT VENICE.
"Little to recommend them save the eccentricity of their t.i.tles."
20.--LITTLE VENICE.
"The Little Venice is one of the slightest of the series."--_St.
James's Gazette._
"In the Little Venice and the Little Lagoon Mr. Whistler has attempted to convey impressions by lines far too few for his purposes."--_Daily News._
"Our river is naturally full of effects in _black and white and bistre_. Venetian skies and marbles have colour you cannot suggest with a point and some printer's ink."--_Daily News._
"It is not the Venice of a maiden's fancies."--_'Arry._
21.--LITTLE COURT.
"Merely technical triumphs."--_Standard._
22.--REGENT'S QUADRANT.
"There may be a few who find genius in insanity."
23.--LOBSTER POTS.
"So little in them."[25]--_P. G. Hamerton._
[Note 25: The same Critic holds:
"The Thames is beautiful from Maidenhead to Kew, but not from Battersea to Sheerness."]
24.--RIVA No. 2.
"In all his former Etchings he was careful to give a strong foundation of firm drawing. In these plates, however, he has cast aside this painstaking method."
_St. James's Gazette._
25.--ISLANDS.
"An artist who has never mastered the subtleties of accurate form."[26]--_F. Wedmore._
[Note 26: Elsewhere Mr. Wedmore is inspired to say--
"The true collector must _gradually_ and _painfully_ acquire the eye to judge of the impression."]
[Sidenote: _REFLECTION:_
_This_ is possibly the process through which the preacher is pa.s.sing.
[Ill.u.s.tration]]
26.--THE LITTLE LAGOON.
"Well, little new came of it, in etching; nothing new that was beautiful."--_F. Wedmore._
27.--NOCTURNE s.h.i.+PPING.
[Sidenote: "Amazing!"
[Ill.u.s.tration]]
"This Archimago of the iconographic aoraton, or graphiology of the Hidden."--_Daily Telegraph._
"Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr.
Whistler."--_Oscar Wilde._
28.--TWO DOORWAYS.
"It is trying to any sketch without tone to be hung upon a wall as these have been."--_P. G. Hamerton._
29.--OLD WOMEN.
"He is never literary."--_P. G. Hamerton._
30.--RIVA.
[Sidenote: _REFLECTION:_
Like Eno's Fruit Salt or the "Anti-mal-de-Mer."
[Ill.u.s.tration]]
"He took from London to Venice his happy fas.h.i.+on of suggesting lapping water."--_F. Wedmore._
