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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,
Issue 323, July 19, 1828

Author: Various

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VOL. 12, No. 323.] SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1828. [PRICE 2d.

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[Illustration: COLUMBIA COLLEGE]

"It is intended that a large academy be erected, capable of
containing nine thousand seven hundred and forty-three
persons: which, by modest computation, is reckoned to be
pretty near the current number of wits in this island,"
--_Swift's Tale of a Tub._

London is at length destined to become a seat of learning; or
rather, a seminary as well as a focus and mart of literature:

Instruction, manners, mysteries, and trades.

One college is almost completed within her radius, and will be
opened in a few weeks; whilst munificent subscriptions are pouring
in from all quarters of the empire, towards the endowment of a
second. We have hitherto been silent spectators of these grand
strides in the intellectual advancement of our country; but we have
not, on that account, been less sensible of the important benefits
which they are calculated to work in her social scheme, and in

The nurture of her youth, her dearest pledge.

We are not of those who would (even were Newton's theory
practicable) compress the world into a nutshell, or neglect "aught
toward t