Whistler, James A. McNeill, 52, 157-169; anecdotes of, 157-160, 162, 163, 164, 166-167; as a neighbour, 164, 165; called "butterfly with a sting", 165-166; champion of art, 164-165; characteristics of, 157, 163, 169; description of, 157, 163; dinner at house of, 160; goes to author's Sunday Smoke Talks, 161-162; homes of, 158, 161; is offered a commission for decoration of Boston Public Library, 168-169; moves to Paris, 169; portrait of Carlyle sold, 166-167; pursuit of Sheridan Ford, 160-161; suggests decoration of author's flat, 104; "The Artist's Mother", portrait, sold to France, 167 White, Henry, American Ambassador, 216-217 White, James, manufacturer of instruments of precision, 100 Whitehall, 11 Whitehouse, 101 Wilson, Woodrow, policy of, 138, 156 Wolseley, Lord, 52 Wood, Mrs. Henry, 17 Wores, Theodore, disciple of Whistler, 162 Writers in London, 16-17