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large pieces, not equal to the Japanese in the 

 evenness of the tiring and baking ; one end of 

 the art gallery was faced with a front of painted 

 faience, a vast landscape in natural colors, from 

 the factory of Deck. The Sevres exhibition 

 showed the finest products of the art, vases 

 bleu de roi enameled in pdte sur pdte, Celadon- 

 gray vases, and handsome Oriental designs. 

 Timepieces were shown in one court in the 

 greatest variety, from church-tower clocks to 

 the tiniest watches; an astronomical clock 

 marked the movement of the earth, and the 

 changes of the seasons. The jewelry exhibit 

 was exceedingly large and fine ; there were 

 many imitations of Castellani's revived Etrus- 

 can work ; diamond flower- work from Massin ; 

 fine gems from Rouvenat, Dumoret, and Le- 

 moine; sapphires, emeralds polished without 

 facets, diamonds, and fine black pearls ; a 

 church monstrance by Demachy in gold, en- 

 amel, and precious stones. There was also a 

 great variety of cheap jewelry, real and gilt or 

 paste, and in an outer gallery the materials of 

 goldsmith's work. Fourdinois, Grohe\ and 

 other furniture and cabinet makers exhibited 

 the finest work in buhl, marquetry, carved 

 paneling, metal mountings cast and chiseled, 

 inlaying, and upholstery. Clothing was exhib- 

 ited in a succession of courts, leading up from 

 the raw skins, silk, wool, and cotton, to the 

 finished textiles, leather, etc. ; and then to 

 made-up garments for both sexes, of the finest 

 make and fashion. The chief centers of textile 

 manufacture exhibited in separate courts, as 

 the Lyons silk-weavers did at Philadelphia. 

 Toys and dolls were shown in great variety. 

 The government exhibit of Gobelin and Beau- 

 vais tapestries showed the finest productions 

 of this art. The displays of musical instru- 

 ments, scientific and surgical instruments, and 

 artists' and photographers' appliances, were 

 large. The Ministry of Instruction exhibited 

 all the means and methods of education, pri- 

 mary, secondary, and superior. 



In the gallery of the Grand Opera was a col- 

 lection of theatrical properties and scenery, 

 which illustrated the history of the scenic art 

 from the times of ancient Greece and Rome 

 down to the present day. The progress of 

 stage mechanics was strikingly presented by 

 specimens of the methods used in scene-shifting 

 in the old theatres of Orange and the Hotel 

 de Bourgogne, and of the elaborate mechanism 

 employed to-day in the Grand Opera at Paris. 



The exhibition of agriculture and horticul- 

 ture was not less systematic. The agricultural 

 machines were inferior to the American, and 

 many of the English. The stable, dairy, and 

 poultry fittings and arrangements were better. 

 All the varieties of cereals and tubers were 

 exhibited. In another place all the details 

 of garden-culture, hot-beds, greenhouses, for- 

 cing-houses, the training of trees on espaliers, 

 and flower-culture, were completely exhibited. 

 There were collections of the marbles and build- 

 ing stones of the country, of the mineral ores, 



the kinds of coal, the materials of fuel and light- 

 ing, and the details of gas manufacture. The 

 iron works at Creusot had in their exhibit a 

 huge forge-hammer. The annex containing the 

 machinery not in action was a vast building 

 filled with every variety of French machinery. 

 The machinery gallery proper contained run- 

 ning steam machinery. A gallery was filled 

 with the numberless food preparations and 

 delicacies of France ; an annex contained those 

 of the colonies; another annex was for the ex- 

 hibition of French wines, and another for min- 

 eral waters. The carriages and harness were 

 less sumptuous than the styles formerly used 

 in France. Lighthouse lenses and lanterns were 

 exhibited in the machinery hall. An annex 

 contained an ambulance train with surgery, 

 medical store?, kitchen, larder, spring-beds, and 

 all the newest improvements. In one place 

 various mechanical trades were practically illus- 

 trated, among them that of diamond-cutting. 

 Boats and rigging, including a new life-boat 

 with wheeled carriage and launching-bed, and 

 models of the French ships of war, were placed 

 in a shed along the quay. 



The Indian Collection. This subdivision of 

 the British section included the treasures pre- 

 sented to the Prince of Wales or collected by 

 him during his Indian journey, and formed the 

 most attractive and interesting portion of the 

 artistic part of the exhibition. It was contained 

 in the Prince of Wales's pavilion. These ob- 

 jects were arranged by Purdon Clarke, and 

 catalogued, with elaborate annotations, by Dr. 

 George Birdwood. In the exhibition of car- 

 pets and stuffs, several London importers and 

 the Maharajah of Cashmere took part. Em- 

 broidery and curtains were shown off in divans 

 and oriel windows. There were rich pile car- 

 pets from Cashmere, Afghanistan, the Punjaub, 

 Beloochistan, and from Sinde, Agra, Mirza- 

 pore, and various other districts in British In- 

 dia ; velvet carpets from Benares and Moorshe- 

 dabad ; and the rarely seen silk pile carpets of 

 Tanjore and Salem. A cast of the Indian statue 

 of the Prince of Wales, by Boehm, occupied the 

 center of the space. A model of a Hindoo 

 palace was shown in a case ; and in others, the 

 gold, silver, and gilt plate presented to the 

 Prince by the rulers through whose towns he 

 passed ; these were mostly vases and tea ser- 

 vices, the most elegant being the chased vases 

 from Cashmere, with delicate shawl-pattern 

 tracery, some of them gold, some silver, some 

 gilt. A massive gold tea service was from Ma- 

 dras, whence came also a fine dessert service. 

 There was silver hammered work, from Cutch 

 and Lucknow, and fine repousse work in silver 

 from Burmah. There were massive decorated 

 bands worn on the legs, nose-rings, ear-rings, 

 chains, and other native jewelry. The delicate 

 filigree and soldered work, some of which from 

 Ceylon and Hindostan was exhibited by Signer 

 Castellani, rivals the ancient Etruscan work- 

 manship. The Prince's precious stones, though 

 many of them very large, were often inferior 



