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...