I settled the titles yesterday.

The classical landscape is to be called 'The Golden Age,' which is a pretty poetical sort of name; and the figure-subject is to be 'Columbus in Sight of the New World;' which is, I think, simple, affecting, and grand.

Wait a minute! the best of it has yet to come.

I am going to exhibit both the pictures in the studio to my friends, and my friends' friends, as early as Saturday next." "You don't mean it!" exclaimed Zack.

"Why, it's only January now; and you always used to have your private view of your own pictures, in April, just before they were sent into the Academy Exhibition." "Quite right," interposed Valentine, "but I am going to make a change this year.