CONTENTS. 
CHAP. 
III. 
I. The course of instruction adopted by Provost Smith. 
The 
Artist 
led 
to 
the discovery Qf the Camera. 
Ill. 
His Father 
becomes anxious to place him in business. 
IV. Extraordinary 
roceedinvs 0 the uakers in conse uence. 
P :1 
The Speech 
of 
Williamson 
the 
Preacher 
in 
of 
defer: ce 
the 
Fine 
Arts. 
VI. Magnanimous Resolution of the Quakers. VII. Reflec- 
tions on this singular transaction               .      44 
CHAP. 
Rqlections on the Ecceniricit-ies of Young Men of Genius lwith 
respect to pecuniary matters. II. The Death of the Artist's 
Mother. III. The Embodying! of the Pennsylvanian Militia; 
an Anecdote General Wayne. IV. The Artist elected'C0m- 
mandant of a corps of Volunteer boys. 
The circumstances 
which occasioned the Search for the Bones qf Bradock's army. 
VI. The Search. VII. The Discovery of the Bones of the 
Father and Brother of Sir Peter Halket. VIII. The Artist 
proposed afterwards ta paint a Picture of the Discovery of the 
Bones of the Halkets. IX. He commences regularly as a 
Painter. X. He copies a St. Ignatius. XI. He is induced 
to attempt Historical Portraiture. XII. His Picture qf the 
Trial of Susannah. XIII. Of the merits of that Picture.  .  ._58 
CHAP. 
I. Motives which induced him to visit New York. II. State of 
 Society in New York. III. Rejections on the sterility of