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EXHIBITION, CENTENNIAL; 



finest industrial products; yet her latter ex- fine as at Vienna. The German and Austrian 



hibition owing to the questionable commer- exhibitors, and the French in their art exhibit, 



cial advantage of competing with American evidently labored under a false appreciation of 



protected manufactures, was not so large and the taste of the American public, which was 



little indignant at being credited with so little foreign exhibitors frankly declared after see- 

 artistic understanding as was inferred by many ing the American fgg^^^X 

 of the art and ornamental exhibits. Several known what they had to compete with, tney 



