Her performance was praised by critics of The Athenaeum, but Farren delayed her professional debut to give her further training.

An anonymous review in The Athenaeum in 1859 praised it as a " novel of the highest class ," and The Times called it " a first-rate novel.

Eventually, however, his interest in administrative work led him to the Minneapolis Athenaeum where he served as librarian in 1887, until it merged into the Minneapolis Public Library in 1888.

E. V. Rieu could not longer delay his callup and was drafted in 1917, the management then being under his wife Nellie Rieu, a former editor for the Athenaeum ‘ with the assistance of her two British babies .’ It was too late to have important electrotype and stereotype plates shipped to India from Oxford, and the Oxford printing house itself was overburdened with government printing orders as the empire ’ s propaganda machine got to work.

His last work in Manchester was the Italianate Manchester Athenaeum ( 1837 – 39 ), this is now part of Manchester Art Gallery.

This work was generally recognized as an important addition to philosophical literature and led immediately to Stephen's election at the Athenaeum Club in 1877.

Gilbert Stuart, George Washington, also known as The Athenaeum and The Unfinished Portrait, 1796, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is his most celebrated and famous work.

Together with John Sterling ( with whom he founded the Apostles ' Club ) he migrated to Trinity Hall and obtained a first class degree in civil law in 1827 ; he then came to London and gave himself to literary work, writing a novel, Eustace Conway, or the Brother and Sister, and editing the London Literary Chronicle until 1830 and also, for a short time, the Athenaeum.

He became a member of the staff of the Athenaeum in 1891, and of the Saturday Review in 1894, but his major editorial feat was his work with the short-lived Savoy.

His best known work, the unfinished portrait of George Washington that is sometimes referred to as The Athenaeum, was begun in 1796 and never finished ; Stuart retained the portrait and used it to paint 130 copies which he sold for $ 100 each.

Gilbert Stuart's unfinished 1796 painting of George Washington, also known as The Athenaeum, is his most celebrated and famous work.

His resulting work Patriae Pater, completed in 1824, depicts Washington through an oval window, and is considered by many to be second only to Gilbert Stuart's iconic Athenaeum painting of the first president.

His first ideal work was a group of “ Orpheus and Cerberus ,” executed in 1839, and purchased, some years later, for the Boston Athenaeum, and now displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The latter work received critical acclaim in the Athenaeum, " they are accurate, and they are beautiful ".

Hooker's 1851 work Victoria Regia received critical acclaim in the Athenaeum, " they are accurate, and they are beautiful ".

Cret's work was displayed in the exhibit, From the Bastille to Broad Street: The Influence of France on Philadelphia Architecture, at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia in 2011.

Four days before publication, a review in the authoritative Athenaeum ( by John Leifchild, published anonymously, as was the custom at that time ) was quick to pick out the unstated implications of " men from monkeys " already controversial from Vestiges, saw snubs to theologians, summing up Darwin's " creed " as man " was born yesterday – he will perish tomorrow " and concluded that though " The work deserves attention and will, we have no doubt, meet with it ", theologians would say " Why construct another theory to exclude Deity from renewed acts of creation?

He has been the executive director of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia for 36 years, and recently received the James Biddle lifetime achievement award for his work in historic preservation in Philadelphia.

As recorded in the History of the Boston Athenaeum, an enterprising firm of publishers, " being desirous that the work should be continued, applied to the Rev.

In Italy, he produced his “ Venus ,” “ Moses and Aaron on Mount Horeb ,” “ Infant Bacchus ,” and “ Flight into Egypt .” His work also includes a full-length portrait of Admiral David Farragut at the Battle of Mobile Bay ( purchased by a committee in 1871, and presented to the emperor of Russia ), the “ Holy Family ” ( 1837, now at the Boston Athenaeum ) and “ The Young Merchants ” ( now at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia ).

An Athenaeum Fellowship is a prestigious opportunity, and the students who are selected each year work hard to help make all 100 + events each year a success.

Charles Ammi Cutter ( 1837 – 1903 ), inspired by the decimal classification of his contemporary Melvil Dewey, and with Dewey's initial encouragement, developed his own classification scheme for the Winchester Town Library and then the Boston Athenaeum, at which he served as librarian for twenty-four years.

He was granted sick leave to visit England for a second time in 1864, where he was entertained by Sir Richard Owen of the British Museum and Sir Roderick Murchison of the Royal Geographical Society, and was made an honorary member of the Athenaeum Club.

In the following year he left Franeker for Amsterdam to become professor of history and philology at the Athenaeum.

In February 1835 he was elected to the Athenaeum Club under Rule 11, and he remained for nearly fifty years one of its most conspicuous and most influential members.

He was literary editor of Nation Athenaeum ( 1923 – 1930 ), joint editor of The Political Quarterly ( 1931 – 1959 ), and for a time served as secretary of the Labour Party's advisory committees on international and colonial questions.

In 1837 he returned to Britain, wrote extensively in British periodicals, like The Athenaeum, and in publications of the SDUK, like The Penny Cyclopaedia for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and The Biographical Dictionary.

Ticknor had succeeded his father as a member of the Primary School Board in 1822, and held this position until 1825 ; he was a trustee of the Boston Athenaeum in 1823-1832, and was vice-president in 1833 ; and he was a director ( 1827 – 1835 ) and vice-president ( 1841 – 1862 ) of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, and a trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital ( 1826 – 1830 ) and of the Boston Provident Institution for Savings ( 1838 – 1850 ), the bank that his father had helped to found.

He became the art critic and later the art editor of the Athenaeum while writing freelance for other art-history periodicals including The Art Journal and Portfolio.

In 1873 he started writing series of almost 100 articles on British collecting for the Athenaeum ; these treated major collections and small collectors alike thus encouraging middle-class art patronage and the growing Victorian interest for contemporary art.

When Rossetti died Stephens co-wrote his obituary for the edition of Athenaeum dated April 15, 1882.

In 1938, he earned a Doctor of Canon Law from the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare, and was awarded the Benemerenti medal for his services to the Secretariat of State.

In 1852, prominent citizens established the Brooklyn Athenaeum and Reading Room for the instruction of young men.

In Australia, for example, the first mechanics ' institute appeared in Hobart in 1827, followed by the Sydney Mechanics ' School of Arts in 1833, Newcastle School of Arts in 1835, then the Melbourne Mechanics ' Institute established in 1839 ( renamed The Melbourne Athenaeum in 1873 ).

Meanwhile he was writing for numerous periodicals, and gradually became a contributor to the Monthly Magazine, Blackwood's, the New Monthly, and the Athenaeum.

The quality of the University was furthered by the statute of 1545 and the Pisan Athenaeum became one of the most significant in Europe for teaching and research.

During the ‘ Second Restoration ', in 1851, Leopoldo II united the universities of Pisa and of Siena in a unique Etruscan Athenaeum motivated partly by economic reasons, but primarily for political control.

During the years of fascism the Pisa Athenaeum was an active centre for political debate and antifascist organisation.

Cutter was the librarian at the Boston Athenaeum for twenty-five years.

After he had been at the Athenaeum for a while, a new group of trustees started to emerge.

He was a member of the Alpine Club ( serving as its President, 1943 – 1945 ) and also of the Athenaeum and Carlton clubs.

The school soon outgrew its facilities in Red Man's Hall and moved to a temporary location, later known as the Athenaeum Club, in 1873.

Hill served for a time as vice president of the Minneapolis Athenaeum, and recruited George Putnam as its librarian in 1884.

Charles Dickens gave its inaugural speech, in which he stated that he regarded the Glasgow Athenaeum as "... an educational example and encouragement to the rest of Scotland ".

The Conservatoire has recently fitted part of one of its main performing spaces, the New Athenaeum Theatre, with an automated flying system, meaning the School became the first educational establishment in the UK to offer Stage Automation Training as part of the curriculum.

Activities were originally centred around the Universal and Athenaeum Theatres but in the early 1990s the MICF shifted its epicentre to the newly-refurbished Melbourne Town Hall, which has remained the festival hub.

His most important works at the academy were: A Gleaner and Grecian Archer, 1828 ; Cupid and Hymen ( depicting Cupid blowing on the torch of Hymen to rekindle its flame ) and busts of Thorwaldsen and John Rennie, 1831 ; The Archer ( which he afterwards presented to the Athenaeum Club ) and bust of Wilkie, 1833 ; The Minstrel, 1834 ; a group of four figures in marble, 1837.

The production was favorably reviewed by The Athenaeum ; George Henry Lewes, however, registered disapproval of the play's violence and what he termed its shoddy construction: " Instead of ‘ holding the mirror up to nature ,’ this drama holds the mirror up to Madame Tussauds.

Through acquaintance with its editor, Charles Wentworth Dilke, she began to write for The Athenaeum in 1830.

Melbourne has the Melbourne Club, the Savage Club and the Athenaeum Club ( named after its counterpart in London ).

To recognize specialized professional nature of its programs, in 1944, the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute changed its name to The Rochester Institute of Technology.

To serve its purposes, the Romanian Athenaeum, a building dedicated to art and science, would be erected in Bucharest.

Athenaeum's second major label album Athenaeum ( originally titled " Plurabelle " until weeks before its release ) was released on September 18, 2001.

Aside from the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Athenaeum has a number of the artist's works in its collection, a gift of William Morris Hunt II.

A new preschool and lower school building opened in 2002 and has been recognized by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design for its unique style.

In 1921, with falling circulation, the Athenaeum was incorporated into its younger competitor: the Nation.

The Melbourne Theatre Company has performed in many venues in its history, including the Russell Street Theatre, the Melbourne Athenaeum, St Martins Theatre, the Merlyn and Beckett Theatres at the CUB Malthouse, and the Playhouse and Fairfax Studio of the Victorian Arts Centre.

The most authoritative scientific and literary weekly was the Athenaeum, and its anonymous review of 4 January was by Edwin Lankester.

His works at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia include restoration of the institution's building, and amassing a significant collection of historic architectural drawings and photographs for its library.

Yale ’ s The New Englander while complimenting Emerson's abilities, criticized the book as depicting “ a universe bereft of its God ” and described its author as writing “ with the air of a man who is accustomed to be looked up to with admiring and unquestioning deference .” Littell's Living Age found the book to contain the “ weakest kind of commonplace elaborately thrown into unintelligible shapes ” and claimed it to read in parts like an “ emasculate passage of Walt Whitman .” Others were no less critical, proclaiming that Emerson “ has come to the end of what he had to say, and is repeating himself ” ( Athenaeum ) or even calling him a “ phrasemonger ” and “ second-hand writer ” ( Critic ).

William Emerson ( May 6, 1770 – May 12, 1811 ) was one of Boston's leading citizens, a liberal-minded Unitarian minister, pastor to Boston's First Church and founder of its Philosophical Society, Anthology Club, and Boston Athenaeum, and father to Ralph Waldo Emerson.