We both worship whistler, and various writers we agree about, but I fear we are only in sympathy so far.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
They are both funny and pathetic; we laughed at the absurd jumble of ideas in some, and felt sorry that natives should have to study the thoughts and sayings of a man, who, after all, did not himself understand the very simple beauties of a whistler.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
It was with the greatest regret we missed the fascinating figure from the novel when published in book form, a regret even confessed to by whistler himself, though he had not been able to refrain from dashing into print over its publication.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood