[18] "I have fully decided to try being a painter. I shall know in a year or two whether I am made to be one. If not, it will be easy to retreat. There's nothing in the world so despicable as a bad artist." (1860.) [19] For James's use of Touchstone's question, see p. 190 _infra_. [20] _Cf._ Henry James's _Life of W. W. Story_, vol. II, p. 204, where there is a passage which sounds reminiscent of the author's father and brother. [21] The following entries occur among some "notes on his students" which President Eliot made at the time-- "First term, '61-'62, James, W., entered this term, passed examination on qualitative analysis well." "Second term, '61-'62, James, W., studied quantitative analysis. Irregular in attendance at laboratory, passed examination on Fownes's Organic Chemistry, mark 85." "First term, '62-'63, James, W., studied quantitative analysis and was tolerably punctual at recitations till Thanksgiving, when he began an investigation of the effects of different bread-raising materials on the urine. He worked steadily on this until the end of the term, mastering the processes, and studying the effect of yeast on bicarbonate of sodium and bitartrate of potash." The investigation referred to consisted of experiments of which he himself was the subject. There is no record for the second term of 1862-63. President Eliot has generously supplied the Editor with a memorandum on William James's connection with the College, from which these, and several statements below, have been drawn. [22] The expression was undoubtedly recognized in Kay Street as borrowed from the Lincolnshire boor, in Fitzjames Stephen's Essay on Spirit-Rapping, who ended his life with the words, "What with faith, and what with the earth a-turning round the sun, and what with the railroads a-fuzzing and a-whizzing, I'm clean stonied, muddled and beat." [23] A diary of Mr. T. S. Perry's has fixed the date of this visit as Oct. 31-Nov. 4. [24] W. J. could make much better drawings than the ones which he enclosed in this letter. [25] A horse. [26] N. S. Shaler, _Autobiography_, pp. 105 _ff._ [27] _Harvard Advocate_, Oct. 1, 1874. [28] The "great anthropomorphological collection" consisted of photographs of authors, scientists, public characters, and also people whose only claim upon his attention was that their physiognomies were in some way typical or striking. James never arranged the collection or preserved it carefully, but he filled at least one album in early days, and he almost always kept some drawer or box at hand and dropped into it portraits cut from magazines or obtained in other ways. He seemed to crave a visual image of everybody who interested him at all. [29] All theory is gray, dear friend, But the golden tree of life is green. [30] See _Memories and Studies_, pp. 6, 8, and 9; and the address on Agassiz, _passim_.