The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

William Heinemann, 1912, binding a little loose at front inner hinge, has been reinforced a little

This book was in part a response to, and in part a transcript of, Whistler's famous libel suit against critic John Ruskin. Ruskin, in a review of the inaugural showing at the Grosvenor Gallery, had referred to Whistler's painting Nocturne in Black and Gold ? The Falling Rocket as flinging a pot of paint in the public's face . The book contains Whistler's letters to newspapers chronicling his many petty grievances against various acquaintances and friends, and it contains his famous 1885 lecture, Ten O'Clock , explaining the meaning and purpose of art...