Pages from "The Whistler Journal." JOSEPH AND ELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELL 643 Pen-and-ink sketches by WHISTLER THE CENTURY MAGAZINE; Published monthly; 50 cents a copy, $5.00 a year in the United States, $5.60 in Canada, and $6.00 in all other countries (postage included). Publication and circulation office, Concord, N. H. Editorial and advertising offices, 353 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Subscriptions may be forwarded to either of the above offices. Pacific Coast office, 327 Van Nuys Building, Los Angeles, California. W. Morgan Shuster, President; Don M. Parker, Secretary; George L. Wheelock, Treasurer; James Abbott, Assistant Treasurer. Board of Trustees: George H. Hazen, Chairman; George Inness, Jr.; W. Morgan Shuster. The Century Co. and its editors receive manuscripts and art material, submitted for publication, only on the understanding that they shall not be responsible for loss or injury thereto while in their possession or in transit. All material herein published under copyright, 1921, by The Century Co. Title registered in the United States Patent Office. Entered as second-class matter August 18, 1920, at the United States post-office, Concord, N. H., under the act of March 3, 1879; entered also at the Post Office Department, Ottawa, Canada. In the OCTOBER CENTURY WHO WILL SUCCEED Lloyd GeoRGE? by A. G. Gardiner A paper of political portraits and prophecy by the former editor of "The London Daily News." THE BLACK HAND by M. L. C. Pickthal A memorable story of the psychology of fear, illustrated with three drawings by THE BALANCE-SHEET OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION by Moissaye J. Olgin A careful estimate of what the Soviet Government has and has not accomplished, with reproductions of striking posters used in the Bolsheviki's domestic propaganda. THE DECOY by Bonnie Ginger A short story as distinctly American as corn on the cob. "WHERE THERE AIN'T NO TEN COMMANDMENTS" by E. Alexander Powell A sensationally interesting report of conditions in North Borneo under the government of a trading company. BIRTHRIGHT by T. S. Stribling The story of Peter Siner, a colored graduate of Harvard, and his quest for the elusive birthright of opportunity. The first instalment of a novel that, without a line of preachment or prejudice, dramatically interprets the facts of racial relations in the United States. Illustrated by F. Luis Mora. THE MOVIES versus MOTION PICTURES by Ralph Block A paper of speculations on the artistic future of motion pictures. MR. POTTLE AND THE SOUTH-SEA CANNIBALS by Richard Connell A delightful burlesque of the now popular South Sea literature. We could not resist passing this on to the readers who first met Frederick O'Brien in our pages. CECCO REMAINS A very human story of love at fifty. MESSER MARCO POLO by Adriana Spadoni by Donn Byrne The final part of the historical romance that has attracted wide attention and Other impor ant contributions by Herbert Adams Gibbons, P By JOSEPH and ELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELL ERHAPS the most important let- at last got Whistler to consent that you shall write, if you will (and I know you will only too gladly), a book on him, illustrated with his pictures, his etchings, and his drawings. Here is a magnificent opportunity. Yours very sincerely, WILLIAM HEINEMANN. The answer is our "Life of Whistler," which he agreed we should write. It was arranged that he would talk to us, and tell us all he could of the past and the present, and that we should make notes of the conversations. The "Life" in the making is now in our collection of Whistleriana in the Library of Congress. Talks with Whistler were no new thing. For several years we had been seeing him whenever we were in Paris, where he then lived, and he had been coming to us whenever he was in London. He was the most brilliant talker, the most charming companion, the most sympathetic friend, we have ever known, and our love for him, as well as our admiration, was unbounded, and we know it was reciprocated. Sometimes he would dine with us five nights a week out of the seven, sometimes every night, and he would drop in on his way to or from the studio to tell us the latest of the "droll little things" of life which he loved, or to consult us about graver matters. His evenings with us were a never-ceasing delight. Always, if we were alone or if we had people he liked to meet him, there was talk and talk, and more talk, until all hours. And wonderful talk it was no rushing away from the dinner-table when the last hurried mouthful was swallowed, as in these dry, dreary days in our dry, dreary country, when there is no inducement to linger. Whistler was abstemious. He ate little, he drank little, but he liked his glass of wine-liked the look of it, knowing it was needed with dinHe liked his cognac with his coffee. Dinner was as much a work of art in his eyes as a painting or a print. He never talked so well as at dinner. Once in a while, for one rea ner. 1 The "Journal" is to be published by the J. B. Lippincott Co. Copyright, 1921, by THE CENTURY CO. All rights reserved. 643 |