CHAPTER XLV. THE BEGINNING OF THE END.

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_