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America," not of the United States only, but of Canada and Mexico too; yet who objects to its name, or thinks it worth while to write a page to prove, that because it is published in Boston, it should have a more limited title?*

But enough of this. I now proceed to the main points of dispute.

What has the Reviewer advanced against the position that Artists alone should have the management of an Academy of Arts? for he says, "it is unreasonable and mischievous;" and again, "Mr. Morse deprecates the intervention of any but professed artists in the management of Academies. We doubt whether he is right in this." I have cited the example of every principal Academy of Arts in Europe as a precedent in support of my position. Does the reviewer rebut it by a single example to the contrary? No! He does not rely, then, on precedent to support him. Neither does he propose any other definite plan in lieu of that which the National Academy of Design have adopted. We are left to gather, from a few insulated remarks, that he would  have a sort of mixed institution, composed  of Artists and gentlemen from other professions; such a society perhaps might be formed, and useful as an Institution for the general encouragement of the Arts, but it would not be an Academy. As an Academy is for the special purpose of Instruction and Exhibition, what part could the gentlemen associated perform in instruction? Some of them would feel, we imagine, somewhat awkward with the crayon or pencil. But this part of the business would perhaps come under what the reviewer calls "the peculiar province of the artists," with which the "directors would not interfere." Will they then be of service in the other department of an

*Since writing this paragraph I perceive that the same thought, carried out into a more extended parody, has also occurred to a writer in the College Miscellany, (a promising periodical conducted by the students of Columbia College,) it is a happy exemplification of the danger of violating the common proverb concerning 'glass houses.'