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THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



Marine Corps are made from the naval cadets, 

 graduates of the year, at the conclusion of 

 their six years' course, in the order of merit as 

 determined by the Academic Board of the 

 Naval Academy. At least ten appointments 

 from such graduates are made each year. 

 Surplus graduates who do not receive such 

 appointments are given a certificate of gradua- 

 tion, an honorable discharge, and one year's 

 sea pay. 



The Academy was founded in 1845, by the 

 Hon. George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy 

 in the administration of President Polk. It 

 was formally opened October 10th of that 

 year, with Commander Franklin Buchanan as 

 superintendent. During the civil war it was 

 removed from Annapolis, Md., to Newport, 

 R. I., but was returned to the former place in 

 1865. It is under the direct supervision of 

 the Navy Department. 



Royal Academy. 



President Sir Edward John Poynter. Keeper TR. Crofts. Treasurer J. C. Horsley. Secretary Frede- 

 rick A. Eaton. Registrar C. McLean. 



ROYAL ACADEMICIANS. 



1898 Abbey, Edwin Austin. 



1898 Aitehison, George. 



1879 Alma-Tadema, Lawrence. 



1879 Armstead, Henry Haugh. 



1896 Bough ton, George Henry. 



1891 Brock, Thomas. 



1867 Cooper, Thomas Sidney. 



1896 Crofts, Ernest. 



1877 Davis, Henry Wm. Banks. 



1891 Dicksee, Frank. 



1887 Fildes, S. Luke. 



1895 Ford, Edward Onslow. 



189.3 Gilbert, Alfred M. V. O. 



1863 Goodall, Frederick. 



1891 

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 1898 

 1890 

 1860 

 1896 

 1898 

 1876 

 1898 

 1893 

 1877 

 1881 

 1880 

 1876 



Gow, Andrew Carrick. 

 Graham, Peter. 

 Gregory, Edward John. 

 Herkomer, Hubert, 

 Hook, James Clarke. 

 Jackson, Thomas Graham. 

 Leader, Benj. Williams. 

 Leslie, George Dunlop. 

 Lucas, John Seymour. 

 Mac Whirter, John. 

 Orchardson, Wm. Quilter. 

 Ouless, Walter William. 



1894 Prinsep, Valentine C. 



1895 Richmond, Sir William Blake, 



K. C. B. 



1881 Riviere, Briton. 



1869 Sant, James. 



1897 Sargent, John Singer. 



1877 Shaw, Richard Norman. 



1887 Stone, Marcus. 



1888 Thornycroft, Wm. Hamo. 

 1885 Waterhouse, Alfred. 



1895 Waterhouse, John William. 



1870 Wells, Henry Tanworth. 

 1893 Woods, Henry. 



1878 Yeames, Wm. Frederick. 



Pearson, John Lou'bor'ugh. 

 Poynter, Sir Edward John. 



Honorary Retired Academida n.i 1853, William Powell Frith ; 1857, Frederick R. Pickersgill ; 1864, Thomas 

 Faed ; 1867, George F. Watts ; 1864, John Calcott Horsley. 



Bates, Harry '(sculptor). 

 Blomfleld, Sir Arthur William. 

 Bodley, George Frederick. 

 B ram ley, Frank 

 t, John. 



ASSOCIATES. 

 Hacker, Arthur. 

 Henry, Charles N. 

 Hunter, Colin. 

 La Thangue, Henry H. 

 Macbeth, Robert Walker. 

 Morris, Philip Richard. 

 Murray, David. 

 North, John W. 



Parsons, Alfred. 

 Shannon, James* J. 

 Smythe, Lionel P. 

 Solomon, J. Solomon. 

 Storey, George Adolphus. 

 Swan, John MacAllan. 

 Waterlow, Ernest Albert. 

 Wyllie, W. L. 



Brett, 



Clausen, George. 



Crowe, Eyre. 



Forbes, Stanhope A. 



Frampton, George James. 



Honorary Retired Associates Henry Le Jeune, Erskine Nicol, Frederic Stacpoole. 



Presidents of the Royal Academy 1768, Sir Joshua Reynolds; 1792, Benjamin West; 1805, James Wyart; 

 1806, Benjamin West; 1820, Sir Thomas Lawrence ; 1830, Sir Martin A. Shee; 1850, Sir Charles Eastlake; 1866, Sir 

 Edwin Landseer, elected, declined, Sir Francis Grant; 1878, Sir Frederic Leighton (Lord Leighton); 1896, Sir 

 John Everett Millais, Bart ; 1896, Sir Edward John Poynter. 



The Seven Bibles of the World are 



the Koran of the Mohammedans, the Eddas of 

 the Scandinavians, the Try Pitikes of the 

 Buddhists, the Five Kings of the Chinese, the 

 Three Vedas of the Hindoos, the Zendavesta, 

 and the Scriptures of the Christians. The 

 Koran is the most recent of these seven Bibles, 

 and not older than the seventh century of our 

 era. It is a compound of quotations from the 

 Old and New Testaments, the Talmud, and 

 the Gospel of St. Barnabas. The Eddas of 

 the Scandinavians were first published in the 

 fourteenth century. The Pitikes of the Bud- 

 dhists contain sublime morals and pure aspira- 

 tions, and their author lived and died in the 

 sixth century before Christ. There is nothing 

 of excellence in these sacred books not found 

 in the Bible. The sacred writings of the Chi- 

 nese are called the Five Kings, king meaning 

 web of cloth, or the warp that keeps the 

 threads in their place. They contain the best 



sayings of the best sages on the ethico-pulitical 

 duties of life. These sayings cannot be traced 

 to a period higher than the eleventh century 

 before Christ. The Three Vedas are the most 

 ancient books of the Hindoos, and it is the 

 opinion of Max Miiller, Wilson, Johnson, and 

 Whitney that they an- not older than the 

 eleventh century before Christ. The Zenda- 

 vesta of the Persians is the grandest of all the 

 sacred books, next to our Bible. Zoroaster, 

 whose sayings it contains, was born in the 

 twelfth century before Christ. Moses lived 

 and wrote his Pentateuch in the fifteenth cen- 

 tury before Christ, and therefore has a clear 

 margin of three hundred years older than the 

 ! most ancient of the sacred writings. 



Nationality of the Popes. The vari- 

 ous nations of Europe are represented in the 

 list of Popes as follows : English, 1 ; Dutch, 1 ; 

 Swiss, 1 ; Portuguese, 1 ; African, 2 ; Aus- 

 trian, 2 ; Spanish, 5 ; German, 6 ; Syrian, 8 ; 



