The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Name: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Author: James McNeill Whistler

by James McNeill Whistler

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THE GENTLE ART OF MAKING ENEMIES
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
AN EXTRAORDINARY PIRATICAL PLOT
SEIZURE OF MR WHISTLER'S PIRATED WRITINGS
THE EXPLODED PLOT
MR. WHISTLER'S PAPER HUNT
A GREAT LITERARY CURIOSITY
A LAST EFFORT
"Messieurs les Ennemis!"
Prologue
The Action
Professor Ruskin's Group
Whistler v. Ruskin: Art and Art Critics
The Art Critic of the "Times"
The Position
Serious Sarcasm
Final
"Balaam's Ass"
The Point acknowledged
Critic's Analysis
The Critic's Mind Considered
A Troubled One
Full Absolution
"Confidences" with an Editor
Critics "Copy"
A Proposal
The Painter-Etcher Papers
Later
La Suite
A Correction
A Warning
Naïf Enfant
A Straight Tip
An Eager Authority
An Admission
'Arry in the Grosvenor
Encouragement
A Remonstrance
Propositions
An Unanswered Letter
Inconsequences
Uncovered Opinions
The Fate of an Anecdote
In Excelsis
A Suspicion
Conviction
Taking the Bait
An Apology
"Jeux Innocents" in Tite Street
A Line from the Lands End
The Easy Expert
Propositions—No. 2
A Hint
A Distinction
A Document
Sacrilege
The Red Rag
A Rebuke
"Les points sur les i"
MR. WHISTLER'S TEN O'CLOCK"
"Rengaines!"
Tenderness in Tite Street
To the Committee of the "National Art Exhibition"
Quand même!
Philanthropy and Art
"Nous avons changé tout cela!"
The Inevitable
"Noblesse oblige"
Early Laurels
A Further Proposition
An Opportunity
The Opportunity Neglected
Nostalgia
An Insinuation
An Imputation
"Autre Temps autre Mœurs"
Talent in a Napkin
The Critic "Catching on"
Ingratitude
The Complacent One
The Critic-flâneur
A Played-out Policy
An Interview with an ex-President
Statistics
A Retrospect
The New Dynasty
An Embroidered Interview
The "Pall Mall" Puzzled
Official Bumbledom
"Aussi que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère?"
The Royal Society of British Artists and their Signboard
An Official Letter
The Home of Taste
Another Poacher in the Chelsea Preserves
A Suggestion
The Habit of Second Natures
In the Market Place
Panic
Just Indignation
An Advanced Critic
The Advantage of Explanation
Testimony
An Apostasy
"Et tu, Brute!"
Freeing a Last Friend
An Editor's Anxiety
Rassurez vous!
Whistler's Grievance
"Whacking Whistler"
"Whistler's Grievance"
The Art-Critic's Friend
A Question
The End of the Piece
Exit the Prompter
L'Envoi
Auto-Biographical
Mr. Whistler "had on his own Toast"
What "Mr. Whistler had on his own Toast"
"THE VOICE OF A PEOPLE"
A Zealous Inquirer
Final Acknowledgments
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