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in quality, and generally in brilliancy, not being 

 cut with facets; but they were set with much 

 profusion and great taste in arms and gold- 

 smith's work, and made a fine appearance. A 

 sword-belt was fastened with a fine oblong 

 diamond. A golden hair-comb, adorned with 

 brilliants, pearls, and Jeypore enamel, has a 

 gorgeous effect. Curious brass-work, vessels, 

 and figures came from Madura, Tanjore, and 

 other places. There were brass objects with 

 tin designs soldered on from Moradabad, and 

 some of the same kind inlaid with black lac. 

 Very rich gold damaskeening or Kooft work 

 was seen on shields, helmets, breastplates, and 

 gun-barrels; the ancient specimens were the 

 best in design. Another kind of damaskeening, 

 called bidri, is done on vases, with silver ham- 

 mered into an alloy of copper, lead, and tin, 

 and turned black by chemicals. There were 

 fine specimens of ckampleve enamel, including 

 a dish which is the largest specimen of Jeypore 

 enameling in existence. A beautiful emerald- 

 green enamel is made at Petabghur in Bengal ; 

 it is very thick and transparent, and into the 

 surface, before it has hardened, little gold fig- 

 ures of animals and birds are inserted. The 

 arms presented to the Prince were very nu- 

 merous and exceedingly interesting. The chain 

 armor was as soft and pliable as cloth, although 

 every minute link was separately riveted. The 

 plate armor, swords, maces, battle-axes, knives, 

 were of every period ; there was a gun with 

 its stock inlaid with carved ivory, and one 

 covered with gilding. A silver chair, a gilt 

 howdah, and an ebony and ivory palanquin 

 were among the gifts. There was sandal-wood 

 inlaid with ebony, ivory, and tin, from Born- 

 bay ; black-wood carved in low relief, from 

 Bombay, Surat, Ahmedabad, and Canara ; wal- 

 nut with brass-wire inlays, from Mynpuri ; 

 white marble with pietra dura inlays, from 

 Agra ; jade beautifully carved, from Cashmere. 

 There were the exquisite miniature paintings 

 of Delhi. An ivory bedstead, turned and 

 carved, came from Travancore. Among the 

 stuffs were rich Icincob gold brocades, from 

 Benares and Ahmedabad. The demoralizing 

 effect of European trade was apparent in the 

 staring patterns introduced into the Cashmere 

 shawls, by the instructions of French traders, 

 and in the vivid aniline colors used in some of 

 the carpets. 



The Art Galleries. The contemporary fine- 

 art exhibits of France and the different na- 

 lons were placed in a row of galleries along 

 the center of the great building; these were 

 ighted with top-lights. Among the French 

 amines, the most remarked were two by 

 Imze, representing the conspirators vow- 

 ing the death of Caesar, and the bringing away 

 ; f his corpse from the Forum ; the well-known 

 Execution" by Regnault; his equestrian por- 

 nm; portraits, including one of 

 rs by Bonnet, others by Goupil, Cabanel, 

 Perraalt; the "Funeral of Moreau," by Lau- 

 rens; the "Source," by Ingres; a nude figure 



painting by Eugene Delacroix ; scenes from the 

 life of St. Louis by Cabanel ; the large canvas 

 exhibited at Philadelphia, by Georges Becker, 

 of "Rizpah Guarding the Sons of Saul "; the 

 "Entry of Mahomet II. into Constantinople," 

 by Constant ; several small Oriental scenes by 

 Gerome ; five of Meissonier's laborious pieces ; 

 a choir of monks by Gustave Dore". 



In the French sculpture gallery the chief 

 works were Gerome's " Gladiators " ; Schcene- 

 werk's " Tamer of Wild Beasts," and his dead 

 female after a poem of Andre Chenier, and 

 nude female figure and bather; Lafranc's In- 

 fant John the Baptist, and his Achilles ; Mo- 

 reau's Susannah; Moulin's Mercury; and Du- 

 bois's groups for the tomb of General Lamori- 

 ciere, representing military courage, charity, 

 meditation, and faith, executed with the vigor, 

 simplicity, and freedom which distinguish the 

 works of that artist. There were also a statue 

 of Eve, a Narcissus, and some portrait busts by 

 the same sculptor. There were in the French 

 gallery 388 numbers in the class of sculpture, 

 including some 360 larger and serious works. 

 Besides these competing pieces which were 

 selected as the best productions in the art for 

 the last ten years, from at least twenty times 

 as many works exhibited in that period there 

 were a large number of sculptures used in the 

 decoration of the buildings and the grounds. 

 The most conspicuous of these were the colos- 

 sal gilded statue of Fame on the Trocade"ro 

 palace, the colossal allegorical figures around 

 the central gallery, and the colossal gilded 

 statues of animals which adorn the cascade 

 an elephant by Freiniet, a rhinoceros by Jac- 

 quemart, a horse by Ruillard, and a bull by 

 Cain. The bust of Bartholdi's Statue of Lib, 

 erty, which is intended for New York harbor, 

 was set up in the garden before the main 

 building. Memo's " Gloria Victis," in bronze, 

 was much extolled by the French, whose pa- 

 triotism it flattered ; Mm e. Bertaux's " Va3 Vic- 

 toribus " was a similar subject, better carried 

 out. 



In the Italian gallery were good genre pieces 

 by Joris, Rotta, Jacovacci, and Juliani, some 

 of them recalling Fortuny ; also a fine piece 

 of sculpture by Sig. Monteverde, representing 

 Jenner vaccinating a child. 



Remarkable paintings in the Austrian ex- 

 hibition were " Milton Dictating to his Daugh- 

 ters," by Mtinkaczy, and the "Entry of Charles 

 V. into Antwerp," by Makart. Cederstrom, 

 the Swedish painter, had a good painting of 

 soldiers carrying the body of Charles XII. In 

 the Dutch gallery were a well-painted group 

 by Van Haanen, and sea-pieces by Mesdag and 

 Israels. 



The German contingent was larger than had 

 been expected, and a special court had been 

 arranged for it. There were two remarkable 

 religious compositions by F. Gebhart, a " Cru- 

 cifixion "and a "Last Supper"; a "Peasant- 

 Funeral," by Knaus; a ** Funeral Procession," 

 by Riefstahl; "Soldiers of the Seventeenth 



