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The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

by James McNeill Whistler

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“Jeux Innocents” in Tite Street

Mr. Whistler’s final breakfast of the year was given on Sunday last. The hospitable master has fresh wonders The World, Dec. 26, 1883. in store for his friends in the new year; for, not content with treating his next-door critic after the manner that Portuguese sailors treat the Apostle Judas at Easter-tide, he is said to have perfected a new instrument of torture. This invention is of the nature of a camera obscura, whereby, by a crafty “arrangement” of reflectors, he promises to display in his own studio, to his friends, “’Arry at the White House,” under all the appropriate circumstances that might be expected of a “Celebrity at Home.”

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