We have received the Nineteenth Annual Report issued by the
Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture; and we are glad to see that the body is flourishing in all its parts, despite its state of warfare with official assailants. The receipts of the last exhibition ex- ceeded those of any previous year. The experiment of cheap evening exhibitions has been profitable in many ways: it has not only returned a good sum to the exchequer, but has procured for the Academy a large amount of popular sympathy, all the better for being intelligent and spe- cific in purpose. On one day of the last exhibition six thousand persons visited the rooms. The contest with the Board of Manufactures and Royal Scottish Institution is mentioned as still unclosed, the memorial to the Treasury as still unanswered; but strong hopes are founded on the know- ledge that many influential persons have turned their attention to the subject.
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