6 ON MUSEUMS, &c., 



the Danubian Principalities, Turkey, Egypt, China, Japan, Siam, 

 Persia, Tunis and Morocco. 



The place of Canada in the great industrial, scientific and artistic 

 Cosmos was discoverable, but not immediately obvious. Australia, I 

 remember, asserted itself much more decidedly, and showed greater 

 individuality. And herein a fact is symbolized. Australia, as a great 

 region of the Greater Britain, is much more accurately realized, I 

 think, in the common mind of the mother-country, and of Europe 

 perhaps, than is Canada. Canada lies in the shadow cast by the great 

 pyramid thrown up, or being thrown up, on its southern side, and is 

 but dimly seen. It is still, to a great extent, thought of, not as a vast 

 region filled or filling with millions of English-speaking workers, 

 emigrants from the British Islands, but as a French colony in the 

 military occupation of Britain. Even at the Exhibition in Paris, 

 prominent objects to be seen in the Canadian slip, as well as the names 

 of several of the Canadian commissioners, served to perpetuate the 

 impression in regard to Canada to which I have alluded. 



But again to proceed : The temple or pavilion in the midst of the 

 central garden contained specimens of the coins, weights and measures 

 used in the countries enumerated, those of each country respectively 

 being placed in the apes of the section occupied in the elliptical area 

 by that country. 



The first circuit of the Palace by the passage next to the central 

 garden was made through what was entitled the Gallery of the History 

 of Labour. This was a classified museum of the archseology of each 

 country. A means of judging of the progress made in the successive 

 centuries by each country, in industry and art, was thus afforded. To 

 this collection the choicest and most curious objects were sent from the 

 public repositories in each country ; and it is supposed there had never 

 before been presented at one view such an assemblage of the relics of 

 past ages. 



It will give an idea of this remarkable gallery if I set down the sub- 

 divisions in the French portion of it, an analogous classification being 

 adopted, so far as was practicable in the space occupied by the other 

 nations. French archaeological objects were arranged under the heads 

 of — Gaul before the use of metals; Independent Gaul; Gaul under 

 the Romans; The Franks to the Coronation of Charlemagne (A.D. 800) ; 

 The Carlovingians, from the beginning of the 9th to the end of the 11th 

 century ; The Middle Ages, from the beginning of the 12th century to 



