# The Whistler book

Author: Hartmann, Sadakichi, 1867-1944; Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49068

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Whistler+book+Hartmann&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The white chrysanthemum is my favourite flower. There are other flowers, I grant, perhaps more beautiful, which I cannot help admiring, but the white chrysanthemum somehow appeals to me more than any other flower. Why? That is more than I can tell. The unconscious movements of our soul activity cannot be turned into sodden prose. What would be the use of having a favourite flower if one could give any reason for liking it? It merely reveals that part of our personality, not to be logically explained, which rises within us like the reminiscences of some former soul existence. There are colours and certain sounds and odours which effect me similarly. Whenever I gaze at a white chrysanthemum...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-whistler-book-49068/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-whistler-book-49068/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-whistler-book-49068/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-whistler-book-49068/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-whistler-book-49068/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-whistler-book-49068/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-whistler-book-49068/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-whistler-book-49068/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-whistler-book-49068/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-whistler-book-49068/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-whistler-book-49068/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.--INTRODUCTORY](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-whistler-book-49068/chapters/1/index.md)