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Academy, Exhibition? But the artists are the only part of the coalition who make pictures and exhibit them; here, therefore, the gentlemen in the association would be useless. But there is one use to which the reviewer thinks they could be put;

"They might be useful as mediators, and umpires between contending parties. They would be the defence of the meritorious against any of their brethren, who might otherwise pervert the power and influence of the academy to selfish or party purposes."

That is, they would form a kind of Court before whom the aggrieved artists should plead their causes. there is an objection or two to this. if the artists are such a quarrelsome jealous class os men as many would persuade us, so much so as to need umpires and protectors against each others violence, I fear, that not many gentlemen could spare the time to form their own professions necessary to hear and adjudge all the cases of grievance that must come before them. moreover; as such an experiment has never been made, we should be loth to deviate from a tried model, util we had some grounds for believe that so novel as a measure would produce the good effects intended. But, we will be reasonable, and as there are other professions to whom we think we can with propriety yield precedence in the title of genus irritabile, if the reiewervs method of producing social harmony should prove successful with them in subduing asperities, &c. and then, if we have any disagreements among ourselves which we cannot adjust, we will consider the plan; but even then it is by no means so obvious that this court should be a constituent part for the Academy. these mistakes of the reviewer arise from his having misconceived the nature of the institution, against which he writes; he has deceived himself by a phantom of the imagination, which stands in the place of the reality, an anomalous institution to which he has given the name of an Academy, but which, in truth, has no legitimate claim to the tite. that this is the cause of the mistakes in his subsequent remarks, Ii think will be evident in noticing a few of them. 

"Artists" he says, "cannot establish themselves in defence of that portion of the public best qualified to judge of their works;