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��NOTES BY THE WAY.

��His poems in

The Atfienceiim.

��1902, Aug. 30.

The British Academy.

��The first Fellows.

��" 0, never fear though rain be falling." The hymn for peace is included in ' The Congregational Church Hymnal.' ' The Hymnal Companion ' also contains four of the six verses.

Many of Chorley's poems appeared first in The Athenceum ; a list of these is given in ' John Francis, Publisher of The Athenceum ; (Macmillan & Co.). Two of them are quoted ; one, a ' Hymn of the Old Discoverers,' is full of beauty.

THE BRITISH ACADEMY: CHARTER GRANTED BY THE KING.

On the 14th of January, 1902, The London Gazette announced that the petition presented to the King for the incorporation of the British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical, and Philological Studies had been referred to a committee of the Privy Council. It is now announced that His Majesty has been pleased to accede to the petition and to grant to the British Academy a Royal Charter. The Charter states that the Academy aims at the promotion of the study of moral and political sciences, including history, philosophy, law, politics and economics, archaeology, and philology. Of the original fifty-one petitioners, who, according to the draft charter, were to be the first Fellows of the Academy and to elect a president and council from among their own number, three have died Lord Acton, Mr. S. R. Gardiner, and the Rev. A. B. Davidson. Lord Rosebery has been added to the list, and the following forty-nine now become the first Fellows of the British Academy :

��Sir William Anson.

Mr. Arthur Balfour.

Mr. James Bryce.

Prof. J. B. Bury.

Prof. S. H. Butcher

Prof. Ingram Bywater.

Dr. Edward Caird.

Prof. E. B. Cowell.

Rev. William Cunningham, D.D.

Prof. Rhys Davids.

Prof. Albert Dicey.

Viscount Dillon.

Rev. Canon S. R. Driver, D.D.

Prof. Robinson Ellis.

Mr. Arthur John Evans.

Principal Fairbairn, Oxford.

Rev. Robert Flint, D.D.

Mr. J. G. Frazer.

Mr. Israel Gollancz.

Mr. Thomas Hodgkin.

Mr. S. H. Hodgson.

Prof. T. E. Holland.

Sir Courtenay Ilbert.

Sir Richard Jebb.

Mr. W. E. H. Lecky.

��Prof. F. W. Maitland.

Prof. Alfred Marshall.

Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell-Lyte.

Rev. J. E. B. Mayor.

Dr. D. B. Monro.

Mr. John Morley.

Dr. J. A. H. Murray.

Dr. H. F. Pelham.

Sir Frederick Pollock.

Prof. W. M. Ramsay.

Lord Reay.

Dr. John Rhys.

The Earl of Rosebery.

Rev. George Salmon, D.D.

Rev. Canon William Sanday, D.D.

Rev. W. W. Skeat.

Sir Leslie Stephen, K.C.B.

Mr. Whitley Stokes.

Rev. H. B. Swete, D.D.

Sir Edward Maunde Thompson,

K.C.B.

Rev. H. F. Tozer. Prof. Robert Yelverton Tyrrell. Dr. A. W. Ward. Prof. James Ward.

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