THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED 393
_Whistler authorises J. and E. R. Pennell to write his Life
and Mr. Heinemann to publish it--Whistler gives his
Reminiscences--Photographing began in Studio--Paris Universal
Exhibition--Interest in the Boer War--The "Island" and the
"Islanders"--The Pekin Massacre and Blue Pots--Domberg--Visit
to Ireland--Sir Walter Armstrong's Reminiscences of Whistler
in Dublin--Irritation with Critics of his Pictures in Paris--
Increasing Ill-health in the Autumn--Serious Illness--Starts
for the South_