RATIONAL ACADEMY
\ EXHIBITION.
j. This seventy-ninth annual exhibition
bears witness to a marked recovery of vitality on
has at last yielded most gratifying results, both in the
quality of the pictures and in their disposition. The
number of pictures, for whicb academicians and
associates can claim admission as a right, has been
the part of the Academy. The reorganization
which has been effected during the last few years
in its method of selecting and hanging the exhibits
limited to three and one, respectively; and, what
is of still more importance, their pictures are not
ofhcially entitled to a place on the line, though, as
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PORTUGUESE FfSHER BOYS
BY CHARLES W. HAWTHORNE