That Richter called this circle his "erotic academy" is significant.

He has roused in the cultured world an interest in things of art such as a legion of painters and ten royal academies could never have done.

Only at such an establishment as Longmeadowsan old-fashioned commercial 'academy,' recommended to parents by the healthiness of its rural situationcould he have hoped to hold his ground against modern educational tendencies, which aim at obliterating Mr. Ruddiman and all his kind.

Is it conceivable that he would have given his support to a literary academy,a project which began to find advocates during his lifetime?

Money and fashion are well represented at it; and as Zadkiel and the author of Pogmoor Almanac say those powers have to rule for a long time, we may take it for granted that the Parish Church will yet outlive many of the minor raving academies in which they are absent.

Much and deservedly as our COOK and his coadjutors and followers have merited from their country and the world, they are all to be considered as pupils of the truly great archnavigator COLUMBUS; himself a worthy scholar from the nautical academy of the truly illustrious and enlightened father of discoveries, DON HENRY.

Hence many public schools, as well as our national naval and military academies, rigidly prohibit the use of tobacco by their pupils.

You shall have the journals of this notable academy.

There are also numberless dancing academies.

The following year, 1546, saw the appearance in type of two eclogues, Erbusto and Filena, by a certain Giovanni Agostino Cazza or Caccia, the founder of a pastoral academy at Novara, for whose diversion the pieces were presumably composed.

It would be interesting to know something of his system of teaching in what proved to be a peripatetic academy, since he and his aristocratic pupils always followed the Court in its progress from city to city; but nowhere in his correspondence, teeming with facts and commentaries on the most varied subjects, is anything definite to be gleaned.

Yet even in matters of taste they are not much inferior to the then more pretentious academies of other lands.

It already has a prosperous academy in that county and another in an adjoining county, and these, wisely located in congenial communities, are all that is needed for those and for contiguous counties.

The only excuse, beyond that afforded by the title-page, for including it in the present category is that several of the characters, finding it for various reasons inconvenient to appear in their own shapes, take upon themselves a pastoral disguise; but there is no hint of any pastoral background to the action, not even the atmosphere of a rural academy as in Montagu's play.

But a revision of the law is recommended, principally with a view to a more enlarged cultivation and diffusion of the advantages of such institutions, by providing professorships for all the necessary branches of military instruction, and by the establishment of an additional academy at the seat of Government or elsewhere.

There are schools of science, art, agriculture, and mining; technical and military academies; a cathedral and some old churches; zoological and botanical gardens.

Every large town should have an efficient academy or high school; and men of wealth can do no greater service to the public than by liberally encouraging, in their various places of abode, the advanced instruction of the young.

If literature is not the essential requisite of the modern academick, I am yet persuaded, that Cambridge and Oxford, however degenerated, surpass the fashionable academies of our metropolis, and the gymnasia of foreign countries.

An influence there was in the little academy on the Hudson which somehow brought to pass a superior warlike efficiency.