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exposition lias become one of the most attractive spots in the Golden 

 Gate Park. At Nashville the landscape effects were claimed by many 

 to excel in beauty those of the World's Fair in Chicago. " Ever- 

 greens, vines, and shrubs are everywhere, and three lakes break this 

 vista of green," was the opinion of one visitor. Besides the general 

 architectural effect of the buildings, which can not but impress those 

 who are so fortunate as to visit these expositions, there is a special 

 value in the reproductions of historical buildings. At Atlanta the 

 Massachusetts Building was a rej)resentation of the Craigie House, 

 the headquarters of Washington when in Cambridge at the beginning 

 of the Revolution, and later the home of the poet Longfellow. It 

 was a fortunate inspiration of the late Dr. G. Brown Goode that led 

 to its presentation by the State of Massachusetts to the local Society 

 of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The architectural 

 feature of the Nashville Exposition was the replica of the Athenian 

 Parthenon in all its artistic beauty. Every detail was true to the 

 original in design and coloring. It was the chief glory of the cen- 

 tennial, and as it was a permanent structure it will long remain to the 

 " Athens of the South " a memorial of its exposition. Of less con- 

 spicuous interest were the rejDroductions of the Rialto of Venice and 

 the Alamo of San Antonio. 



The only architectural feature of historic character announced for 

 Omaha was that " the Arkansas Building will be a reproduction of the 

 mansion of General Albert Pike in 1843." The long oval waterway 

 around which the buildings were grouped afforded, however, ex- 

 cellent opportunity for studying the architecture of the buildings, 

 which, it was claimed with much justice, approached those of the 

 never-to-be-forgotten " White City " in their beauty of design. 



From the exterior to the interior is a natural method of pro- 

 gression. Let us therefore pass to a brief consideration of the edu- 

 cational features that are to be derived from an examination, no matter 

 how cursory, of the displays that are to be seen within the buildings. 

 First of all, and indeed frequently the most important, is the ex- 

 hibit made by the national Government. In the special building 

 devoted to that purpose are shown the exhibits of the several execu- 

 tive departments, including also that of the Smithsonian Institution 

 and its dependencies, and the Fish Commission. As a result of the 

 years of accumulated experience there has been in each of the exposi- 

 tions previously mentioned, except that in San Francisco, a distinct 

 improvement in the installation of the exhibits in the Government 

 Building, until it was recognized in Atlanta that the display was 

 superior to that in Chicago, and in Nashville " the best exhibit ever 

 made " was the verdict of those who had seen the successive exposi- 

 tions previous to that in Omaha. Therefore the telling of a story by 



