Excerpt from Whistler: Butterfly, Wasp, Wit Master of the Arts Enigma So he smiled away the agonies, playing the fop, with flashing eyeglass and long cane and flat brimmed silk hat and the long glove and devil-may-care laugh and, except from a few, hid as best he might the great soul that was in him. All that was great in him he spontin the eager agony of artistic endeavour. The rest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.