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576 Critical Notices .
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interest in the times in which , he '' growling shone . The houses connected with his name are neatly executed , though we care little about them , and the numerous autographs are no
doubt sufficiently accurate . The portrait of Warren Hastings , in No . II , is , however , a highly-finished and interesting engraving . But we prefer the sketch of James Oglethorpe , as being admirable for character , and not altogether unworthy of an exeilent man , whose memory ought to be well preserved . In No . Ill we give the preference by far to the fine engraving from Sir Joshua ' s admirable , truth-like portrait of the good-tempered , honest-hearted P . Warton , of Oxford celebrity . We are informed that he was elected to " the office of Poet Laureate , " and that it was " offered at the express desire of his Majesty "an excellent judge of poetry ! and that "he filled it with credit to himself and to the place . " All this must read very oddly both to reformers and lovers of poetry . H .
A Letter to the Rig / it Hon . Thomas Spring Rice , M . P . To make the British Museum tlie means of as much good as its capacity will allow , is without doubt a great national object . Why it is not so at present will be no matter of wonder to any one who reads Mr Millard ' s pamphlet . The fault , he says , is neither in the want of funds , nor of means of aggrandizement ,
nor in the parsimony of government , nor in the apathy of the people ; but" In the existing constitution of the establishment , composed , as it is , rather of an aristocracy of rank and wealth , than , as it ought to be , of an aristocracy of science and intellect . "—p . 5 . " If I may draw an inference from the practice of 1832 , 1833 , and 1834 , I shall be justified in stating , that the principal management of the establishment is confided to Lord Farnborough , the Bishop of London , Mr George Booth Tyndale , and the Archbishop of Canterbury , who are occasionally assisted in their labours by some distinguished members of the aristocracy , and by the presidents of the learned societies . "—p . 11 .
The plan of management proposed by Mr Millard appears exceedingly judicious . One of the conditions would be" A Council to be appointed by the Government , to consist of twenty persons , all distinguished in the different branches of science and learning . " —p . 18 . This , it must be allowed , would be the proper kind of management . Under the head of " Accommodation to the Public , " he proposes" 1 . The Museum to be opened daily , throughout the year , from ten o ' clock a . m . till half an hour before sunset ; except on Good Friday , Christmas Day , and on Sundays . To be opened on Sundays from two o ' clock p . m . till half an hour before sunset ; proper notice being given of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1836, page 576, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2661/page/52/
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