Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Address, Delivered Before the American Academy of Fine Arts
In attempting to supply his place upon this occasion, I can only speak as an uninstructed lover of the arts; and, in speaking of what I have never practised, and have studied but little, must necessarily confine myself to some gene rs] and probably vague observations.
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