...works a change almost unbelievable. Do you remember Whistler's description of dusk in the city? "When the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry,...sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairyland is laid before us, then the wayfarer hastens home. ....

...of seeing, is, with the mass, alone the one to be gratified, hence the delight in detail! And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry,...hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us^— then the wayfarer hastens home ; the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one of...

...often quoted — than that described by Whistler in his famous lecture " Ten o'clock."* " And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry,...themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanile, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and...

...the proper function of the artist. [105] O'Clock," 8 are illuminating in this connection. "And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry...buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall buildings become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in...

...poetry as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall buildings become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in...city hangs in the heavens, and fairyland is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home; the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one...

...the chatter about him and listens to him writing seriously of the London afterglow he loved: And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry,...city hangs in the heavens, and fairyland is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home ; the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one...

...the chatter about him and listens to him writing seriously of the London afterglow he loved: And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry,...city hangs in the heavens, and fairyland is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home; the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one...

...They discovered that if they painted what they merely saw, they were painting something * "And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry,...the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens — then . . . Nature, who, for once, has sung in tune, sings her exquisite song to the artist alone...

...buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairyland is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home; the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one...

...there to help us.) Whistler accounts for the enchantment experienced in that light by telling us that " the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry,...hangs in the heavens and fairyland is before us." Very charming : though I think that if Whistler had lived to-day, when our poets, composers, and painters...