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THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
John Everett Millais has been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy ; the vacancy which he fills being, if we ;recollect rightly, that caused by the admission of Mr. Frith to the full Academician honours.
A formal expression of our entire conviction of the propriety of such a choice would be superfluous ; as our opinion of individual works by Mr. Millais has been recorded often and uniformly enough to render unnecessary an estimate of his general position as an artist. We may, however, say that we know not where to point to the previous election of a man who has done so much in so short a time to establish, con- currently with his own fame, the bases of an important and wide re- form in art. We shall congratulate the Academy when—and the " when" may be expected to be soon—Mr. Millais, by being elected to the remain- ing step of "R.A.," shall acquire a voice in the practical deliberations of the body.
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