Show NEW BRITISH ACADEMY IS CHARTERED BY KING i LONDON Aug 21 21 King Edward has granted a charter dated August Incorporating the New British Academy for tor the Promotion of or Historical Philosophical and Philological Studies The charter names forty nine gentlemen gentlemen gentle gentle- men as original fellows of or the academy They Include Lord Rosebery Prime Minister Balfour DalCour Lord Dillon president of or tho the Society of Antiquaries Lord Reay president of ot the Royal Asiatic society James BI Bryce ce William II H. E E. Leekey Leek Leek- Leckey ey cy John Morley lorley Sir Frederick Pollock Leslie Stephen and other ether well known scholars scholar s. s j 1 The Tile Institution of at tho the new academy together with the creation of ot the recent recent re re- cent order of ot merit is regarded as a striking experiment on the part of or the King ling and has provoked much comment and comparison to the French academy which it Is recalled has failed tailed to enroll many of the greatest names In n French literature Satisfaction is ts expressed that members of or the British academy to be called simply fellows Instead d of the sounding high sounding French title Immortals immortals Im are arc mortals t Both Doth Cambridge and Oxford universities are arc represented among the charter charters members but a notable omission from Crom the list of ot names is 19 s that of oC Herbert Spencer Spence J I |