World's Fair. 



ber next year. Our engraving shows a view of the huge quadrangle of buildings, 

 as it will be when completed ; only a portion is yet finished, but the work is being 

 pushed forward with vigor, under the able supervision of the President, Dr. 

 Harper. There are no bars of sex, color or nation, but the whole course is 

 more in the interests of postgraduates than undergraduates, the design being to 

 turn out scholars of very high attainments in special lines. 



But how can we describe the great exposition to our readers ? Pen and 

 paper seems utterly inadequate even if employed all summer. Imagine 650 

 acres filled with immense buildings of the very finest architectural design ; 

 one of them alone, the Manufacturers and Liberal Arts, covering thirty acres ! 

 Besides the numerous magnificent buildings devoted to exhibits proper, every 

 country and every state has its own respective building, for some prized relics and 

 characteristic displays and for use as State offices ; and intersecting the grounds 

 there are several lagoons, with islands and bridges which give a fine effect to the 

 whole. Standing on the tower of our Canadian building, and viewing the whole, 

 to day, the writer could not help feeling sad at the thought that seven months 

 hence, these buildings will be taken down, and all the grandeur departed. It 

 reminds one of those lines : — 



This world is all a fleeting show, 

 For man's illusion given. 



No one can get any good of a short visit ; there is too much to be seen 

 for a day or a week. Why one can hardly see the outside of the buildings ir. 

 one day ; and a day to each of the principal buildings is very little, besides the 



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