A Troubled One
The “Season Number” of Vanity Fair contains... The World, July 3, 1878. Mr. Whistler’s etching of “St. James’s Street” is sadly disappointing.
Full Absolution
Dear World—Atlas, overburdened with the world and its sins, may well be relieved from the weight of one wee error—a The World, July 10, 1878. sort of last straw that bothers his back. The impression in Vanity Fair that disappoints him is not an etching at all, but a reproduction for that paper by some transfer process.
Atlas has the wisdom of ages, and need not grieve himself with mere matters of art. “Il n’est pas nécessaire que vous sachiez ces choses-là, mon révérend père!”
Butterfly Chelsea.