The Life of James McNeill Whistler

" Miss Emma W. Palmer writes us. Major Whistler's salary was large, so were his expenses; we have n

bringing in wood and listing draughty doors, though she allowed them to lighten their task by hanging up evergreens and to sweeten it with "Stuart's Candy." After a snowstorm, they had, like other boys, to shovel paths, and all the while they had to study. "Jimmie was still an excitable spirit with little perseverance," she wrote; however, she would not faint but labour, and "I urged them on daily, and could see already their exertions to overcome habits of indolence." The Bible was read and the two boys were made to recite a

f his sketches have been preserved. The late Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton, also one of his schoolmates, describes him as "a man as fascinating as he was great, with a charm

s full of suppressed laughter. The reverend gentleman was very angry, but he could hardly take open notice of an offence of that sort. So he bottled up his wrath, but when Jimmy-as we used to call him in those schooldays-gave him some trifling cause of offence, the Rev. Dr. went for him with a ferrule. The school

"were at once the pride and the envy of all the rest of us-they we

rike us as remarkable. It has its historic importance, but shows no