ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LET

TERS, AMERICAN, an American soclety for the advancement of the Fine Arts and Science, founded ata meeting of the American Social Science A ociation in 1898. The first members of the society were selected by ballot from the National Institute of Arts and Letters from its Own membership and were seven in number. Those elected in 1904 were William Dean Howells, August us Saint~ Gaudens, Edmund Clarence Stedman John La Farge, Samuel L. Clemens, John Hay and Edward McDowell. The qualification for membership as stated by its constitution shall be ‘persons of notable achievement in art, music and literature’. In order to become 2 member one must first have been elected to the National Institute of Arts and Science. The Society is limited to fifty members. Since 1918 the following have been elected to fill vacancies: Paul Shorey, Charles Adams Platt, Maurice Francis Egan, Archer M. Huntington, Taft, Booth Tarkington, Henry Bacon, Pennell. The following are the members in 1923: John Singer Sargent, Daniel Chester French, James Forbes Rhodes, William Milligan Sloane, Robert Underwood, Johnson, George Washington Cable, Henry van Dyke, William Crary Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Twining Hadley, He Cabot Lodge, Edwin How land Blash field, Thomas Hastings, Brander Matthews, George Edward Wood berry, George White field Chadwick, George de Forest Brush, William Rutherford Mead, Bli Perry, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul Way land Bartlett, Owen Wister, Herbert Adams, August us Thomas, Timothy Cole, Ca Gilbert, William Roscoe Thayer, Robert Grant; Fredrick MacMonnies, William Gillette, Paul Elmer More, Gari Méelchers, Elihu Root, Brand Whitlock, Hamlin Garland, Paul Shorey, Charles Adams Platt, Maurice Fran Egan, Archer M. Huntington, do Taft, Booth Tarkington, Henry Bacon Charles Dana Gibson, Joseph Pennell. The Directors of the Academy are Gilbert, Thomas Hastings, A. M. Hunt- | Thomas In 1923 the Academy moved into its new building on 155th Street, New York City, the corner stone of which was laid by Marshal Foch.