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The Critic has just published the result of the balloting for an American Academy. We publish it below for the convenience of our readers who may wish to make a comparison. The result of the Harvard ballot is reprinted.

THE CRITIC'S LIST.Oliver Wendell Holmes.

James Russell Lowell.

John Greenleaf Whittier.

George Bancroft.

William Dean Howells.

George William Curtis.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

Francis Bret Harte.

Edmund Clarence Stedman.

Richard Grant White.

Edward Everett Hale.

George W. Cable.

Henry James.

S. L. Clemens, (Mark Twain.)

Charles Dudley Warner.

Henry Ward Beecher.

James Freeman Clarke.

Richard Henry Stoddard.

William Dwight Whitney.

Walt Whitman.

Asa Gray.

Noah Porter.

John Fiske.

Theodore A. Woolsey.

A. Bronson Alcott.

Julian Hawthorne.

John Burroughs.

Mark Hopkins.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

John G. Saxe.

Octavius Brooks Frothingham.

George P. Fisher.

Moses Coit Tyler.

Charles A. Dana.

Donald G. Mitchell.

Alexander Winchell.

Edwin P. Whipple.

George Parsons Lathrop.

W. W. Story.

Francis Parkman.

HARVARD'S LIST.George William Curtis.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

George Bancroft.

Bret Harte.

Oliver Wendell Holmes.

James Russell Lowell.

Charles Dudley Warner.

George W. Cable.

Professor Francis James Child.

Henry James.

John Greenleaf Whittier.

James Freeman Clarke.

Edward Everett Hale.

William Dean Howells.

Edmund Clarence Stedman.

Richard Grant White.

Prof. Asa Gray.

Julian Hawthorne.

William Dwight Whitney.

S. L. Clemens, (Mark Twain.)

William Watson Goodwin.

Walt Whitman.

John Fiske.

President McCosh.

George Parsons Lathrop.

Whitelaw Reid.

Carl Shurz.

Edgar Fawcett.

J. Brander Mathews.

Charles Eliot Norton.

Richard Henry Stoddard.

Charles A. Dana.

William Graham Sumner.

John Burroughs.

Josiah Parsons Cooke.

Richard Watson Gilder.

John T. Morse, Jr.

John Knowles Paine.

Nathaniel Southgate Shaler.

Moses Coit Tyler.

Looking carefully over the two lists we find that 26 of our names were also on the Critic's, and that those where we differ compare favorably with the critic's men. Harvard is well represented, her graduates being many and occupying prominent places.

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