The Royal Commission appointed to consider the best means of
"improving the Royal Academy has presented its. report. It recommends that the forty Academicians should be raised to sixty, ammo-b whom should be eight architects, and ten laymen ; that the Associates should be increased by thirty, and have a vote in the governing body ; that the Pre- sident should be elected by the governing body, and be assisted by a council of eleven ; that an honorary class should: be added of artists from all countries ; and that another should be formed of art workmen of distinguished eminence. The Academicians, moreover, are to exhibit only four pictures instead of eight, and the Academy should either have the whole of the National Gallery or migrate to Burlington House, The proposals are sure to be more than sufficiently discussed, but at a first glance they seem to be both wise and moderate.
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