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triangle with Spica and y Virginis. As it is now declining 

 rapidly, the search for it should not be postponed. 



10. « 2 and a> Librae. 3' 49". 314-3. 3 and 6. Pale 

 yellow and light grey. A little after lOh. at the commence- 

 ment of June, when Spica is beginning to decline towards the 

 S.W., two considerable stars will be seen near the meridian B. 

 of it; the lowest, which lies most \ to the right, is the star in 

 question ; the upper one being (3. a is a wide but grand object, 

 owning merely an optical connection. The Sun passes very 

 close to this pair, a little beneath them, during the night of 

 Nov. 5. j3 Libree is well worth looking at, on account of its 

 beautiful pale green hue, a very uncommon colour in large 

 stars, though often existing, or induced by contrast, in smaller 

 companions. 



EXHIBITION TACTICS. 



The opening of the first great International Exhibition created 

 a phrenzy of egotism and self-glorification, and the success of 

 England in so novel an undertaking stimulated other countries 

 to follow in her wake. 



The idea was a happy one, and although there may be only 

 two cities in the world in which it could be advantageously 

 carried out on a grand scale, every country which has entered 

 into the industrial stage of development has an interest in 

 securing a periodical repetition of the friendly strife. Stripped 

 of rhetorical exaggerations, the process is a stock-taking of the 

 skill and power which various nations employ in the production of 

 exchangeable goods. Every department is a page of the ledger 

 or balance-sheet, and the objects are so many entries in the 

 complicated account. The whole concern is thus a matter of 

 bookkeeping with things instead of figures, and must be 

 primarily tested by the facility, or difficulty, of aiTiving at re- 

 sults. In the first Exhibition, making allowance for that want 

 of experience under which all parties suffered, there was a 

 marvellous adaptation of means to the desired end. The 

 building was not only beautiful of its kind, but its details were 

 so arranged as to secure individual convenience while present- 

 ing the prospect of a magnificent whole. Moreover, the 

 structure enabled the largest quantity of goods to be examined 

 with an approximation to the smallest quantity of walking about. 

 From such a beginning we ought to have made decided pro- 

 gress in what may be called " Exhibition Tactics," or the art 

 of managing so varied and extensive a display. That we have 

 not done so will be apparent to everybody who remembers the 

 structure in Hyde Park, and pays a visit to the great higgledy- 



