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When age began to dull his fingers, he kept it from dulling his wits by teaching art and writing. He wrote Whistler's biography (Whistler had asked him to); and his own memoirs (The Adventure of an Illustrator) (TIME, Dec. 28). He took a great interest in students; would arrange exhibitions of their work at well-known galleries and then privately buy in half the exhibits. He toured the country giving lectures, and he talked a great deal, often tediously, about beauty and ugliness. But beyond doubt he well deserved the many honors that fell to him; beyond doubt it was fitting that death, when it came, found him looking westward, through a high window, at the city he had drawn as no man had been able to draw it before him.