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"But this painter!" cried Walter Ludlow, with animation. "He not only excels in his peculiar art, but possesses vast acquirements in all other learning and science. He talks Hebrew with Dr. Mather and gives lectures in anatomy to Dr. Boylston. In a word, he will meet the best-instructed man among us on his own ground. Moreover, he is a polished gentleman, a citizen of the world--yes, a true cosmopolite; for he will speak like a native of each clime and country on the globe, except our own forests, whither he is now going. Nor is all this what I most admire in him."
[Footnote 1: This story was suggested by an anecdote of Stuart related in Dunlap's _History of the Arts of Designs_--a most entertaining book to the general reader, and a deeply-interesting one, we should think, to the artist.]