The Academy of Sciences and Belles-Lettres, established at Brussels by Maria Theresa, was composed of members totally unacquainted with the Flemish.

" Longfellow was some dozen years the elder; and when the time came that he wished to retire from the professorship of belles-lettres in Harvard College, he was very desirous that Lowell should take the place.

BLAIR, HUGH, D. D., F. B. S.; "Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres;" 8vo, pp. 500: London, 1783; New York, 1819.

"Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 133.

"Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 112.

"Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 16.

"Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 118.

What, for instance, would they substitute for the following very inaccurate expression from the critical belles-lettres of Dr. Blair?

"Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 217.

"Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 5.

"Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 166.

Dr. Blair, in his Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres, often uses the phrase "this much;" but it is, I think, more common to say "thus much," even when the term is used substantively.

All poetry, all fiction, all comedy, all belles-lettres, even to the playful caprices of fancy, are but the expression of experiences and emotions; and these expressions are the avenues through which we reach the sacred adytum of humanity, and learn better to understand our fellows and ourselves.

SEE Academie des Inscriptions & Belles-lettres, Paris. FROST, ROBERT.

Dumb belles-lettres.

A tentative bibliography of the belles-lettres of Panama.

A bibliography of the belles-lettres of Venezuela.

Dumb belles-lettres.

A bibliography of the belles-lettres of Venezuela.

"Cannot the work of this chair be divided among the other professors for a time?" asked Professor Ware, the Professor of Belles-Lettres.

If the unfavorable opinion of the character of the Puerto Ricans to which this personage gave expression in one of his official communications was the motive for his proceeding in this case, it would seem that he changed it toward the end of his administration, for he founded a Royal Academy of Belles-Lettres, and a library which was provided with books by occasional gifts from the public.

There is a fair amount of the standard history of the day, a little theology, so ill assorted as to suggest gifts rather than purchases, a miscellany of contemporary politics, and a very little belles-lettres.

BRINK, JAN TEN, a Dutch writer, distinguished as a critic in the department of belles-lettres; b. 1834.

GOTTSCHED, JOHANN CHRISTOPH, a German literary notability, born near Königsberg, professor of philosophy and belles-lettres at Leipzig; was throughout his life the literary dictator of Germany; did much to vindicate the rights and protect the purity of the German tongue, as well as to improve the drama, but he wrote and patronised a style of writing that was cold, stiff, and soulless (1700-1766).

He looked upon our provincial societies for belles-lettres as a shadow of literature which obscures the reality.