_This present book, then, is devoted to the best English art. It treats of the foreigner only when he has laboured much in our land, or--I am thinking perhaps of M. Helleu--has at least been much associated with it. It includes necessarily a great American--Mr. Whistler--who was amongst us for more than thirty years--and a man of French birth who has been half his life with us--M. Legros. The art of Etching is not, it may be, like the art of Water-Colour, essentially English; but I suppose that nowhere more than here has it been practised with excellence and with legitimate variety. And this I say with the full knowledge that the achievements of Rembrandt have made Holland classic ground for ever for the lover of Etching, and that the history of that art in France includes two names, at least, which are inevitably illustrious--Méryo name and Jacquemar._ RIGHT _F. W._ _LONDON: October, 1895._ CONTENTS. PAGE I. TWO CLASSES OF ETCHING 1 II. TURNER 3 III. GIRTON 6 IV. WILKIE 10 V. GEDDES 14 VI. CROME 20 VII. COTMAN 22 VIII. SAMUEL PALMER 26 IX. JAMES MCNEIL WHISTLER 30 X. SIR SEYMOUR HADEN 45 XI. ALPHONSE LEGROS 62 XII. WILLIAM STRANG 71 XIII. CHARLES HOLROYD 87 XIV. FRANK SHORT 95 XV. C. J. WATSON 103 XVI. OLIVER HALL 115 XVII. COLONEL GOFF 119 XVIII. D. Y. CAMERON 137 XIX. JOSEPH PENNELL 140 XX. MORTIMER MENPES 144 XXI. L. RAVEN-HILL 148 XXII. R. W. MACBETH, HUBERT HERKOMER, R.A., AND AXEL HAIG 152 XXIII. SOME OTHER ETCHERS 159 XXIV. HELLEU 172 ILLUSTRATIONS.[1] PAGE 1. TWICKENHAM (_Frontispiece_)....._Turner_ 2. SEINE BRIDGE ....._Girtin_ 7