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The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

by James McNeill Whistler

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Contents

  1. An Extraordinary Piratical Plot
  2. Seizure of Mr Whistler's Pirated Writings
  3. The Exploded Plot
  4. Mr. Whistler's Paper Hunt
  5. A Great Literary Curiosity
  6. A Last Effort
  7. Prologue
  8. The Action
  9. Professor Ruskin's Group
  10. Whistler v. Ruskin: Art and Art Critics
  11. The Art Critic of the "Times"
  12. The Position
  13. Serious Sarcasm
  14. Final
  15. "Balaam's Ass"
  16. The Point acknowledged
  17. Critic's Analysis
  18. The Critic's Mind Considered
  19. Full Absolution
  20. "Confidences" with an Editor
  21. Critics "Copy"
  22. A Proposal
  23. The Painter-Etcher Papers
  24. Later
  25. La Suite
  26. A Correction
  27. A Warning
  28. Naïf Enfant
  29. A Straight Tip
  30. An Eager Authority
  31. An Admission
  32. 'Arry in the Grosvenor
  33. Encouragement
  34. A Remonstrance
  35. Propositions
  36. An Unanswered Letter
  37. Inconsequences
  38. Uncovered Opinions
  39. The Fate of an Anecdote
  40. In Excelsis
  41. A Suspicion
  42. Conviction
  43. Taking the Bait
  44. An Apology
  45. "Jeux Innocents" in Tite Street
  46. A Line from the Lands End
  47. The Easy Expert
  48. Propositions—No. 2
  49. A Hint
  50. A Distinction
  51. A Document
  52. Sacrilege
  53. The Red Rag
  54. A Rebuke
  55. "Les points sur les i"
  56. Mr. Whistler's Ten O'Clock"
  57. "Rengaines!"
  58. Tenderness in Tite Street
  59. To the Committee of the "National Art Exhibition"
  60. Philanthropy and Art
  61. "Nous avons changé tout cela!"
  62. The Inevitable
  63. "Noblesse oblige"
  64. Early Laurels
  65. A Further Proposition
  66. An Opportunity
  67. The Opportunity Neglected
  68. Nostalgia
  69. An Insinuation
  70. An Imputation
  71. "Autre Temps autre Mœurs"
  72. Talent in a Napkin
  73. The Critic "Catching on"
  74. Ingratitude
  75. The Complacent One
  76. The Critic-flâneur
  77. A Played-out Policy
  78. An Interview with an ex-President
  79. Statistics
  80. A Retrospect
  81. The New Dynasty
  82. An Embroidered Interview
  83. The "Pall Mall" Puzzled
  84. Official Bumbledom
  85. "Aussi que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère?"
  86. The Royal Society of British Artists and their Signboard
  87. An Official Letter
  88. The Home of Taste
  89. Another Poacher in the Chelsea Preserves
  90. A Suggestion
  91. The Habit of Second Natures
  92. In the Market Place
  93. Panic
  94. Just Indignation
  95. An Advanced Critic
  96. The Advantage of Explanation
  97. Testimony
  98. An Apostasy
  99. "Et tu, Brute!"
  100. Freeing a Last Friend
  101. An Editor's Anxiety
  102. Rassurez vous!
  103. Whistler's Grievance
  104. "Whacking Whistler"
  105. "Whistler's Grievance"
  106. The Art-Critic's Friend
  107. A Question
  108. The End of the Piece
  109. Exit the Prompter
  110. L'Envoi
  111. Auto-Biographical
  112. Mr. Whistler "had on his own Toast"
  113. What "Mr. Whistler had on his own Toast"
  114. "The Voice of a People"
  115. A Zealous Inquirer
  116. Final Acknowledgments

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