January 19.
Tr has been a source of wonder to miny people in divers ages that whereas we have academies of science, engineering, art, music, botany, dancing and deportment, there has never been a British Literary Academy. The name of academy is not, it is trae, employed for all the pursuits that we have mentioned. For some there are institutes, for others associations. But for each there exists some presiding body of a more or less official standing which sits agement and dispenses diplomas and considering the great stores of English literature, and especially the wealth and vitality of the English lenguagze, end its continual
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.