"I am putting up a little shanty in my native town, and I propose to make a rather nice thing of it.

It has been the will of Heaven to plunge me into mourning; but art has consolations! In a tasteful home, surrounded by the memorials of my wanderings, I hope to take more cheerful views.
I ordered in Paris the complete appurtenances of a dining-room.

Do you think you could do something for my library?
It is to be filled with well-selected authors, and I think a pure white image in this style,"-- pointing to one of Roderick's statues,--"standing out against the morocco and gilt, would have a noble effect.

The subject I have already fixed upon.

I desire an allegorical representation of Culture.
Do you think, now," asked Mr.Leavenworth, encouragingly, "you could rise to the conception ?" "A most interesting subject for a truly serious mind," remarked Miss Blanchard.
Roderick looked at her a moment, and then--"The simplest thing I could do," he said, "would be to make a full-length portrait of Miss Blanchard.