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still exists in the Champs Elysees, and is known by the name of 

 the Palais de l'lndustrie. After this great international display 

 came the Manchester Fine Art Exhibition in 1857 ; the Dublin 

 Art Exhibition, the Edinburgh Art Treasures Exhibition, and the 

 Italian National Exhibition at Florence, all in the year 1861 ; the 

 second great London Exhibition in 1862 ; and the second Inter- 

 national Exhibition in Dublin in 1865. Since the last London 

 Exhibition of 1862 there have also been International Agricultural 

 Exhibitions held at Aarhaus in Denmark, and at Yienna ; an Inter- 

 national Cheese Exhibition near Paris; Fishery Exhibitions at 

 Christiania, Archangel, and Boulogne, and the grand International 

 Flower Show, which took place last year in the Horticultural Gar- 

 dens at South Kensington ; and finally, the Paris Exhibition of the 

 present year. 



Nothing could well be imagined more unsightly, or devoid of 

 architectural pretensions, than the building erected for the purpose 

 of the present Paris Exhibition ; the Emperor himself has com- 

 pared it to a huge gasometer, and perhaps no better idea of its un- 

 sightliness could well have been suggested. All outward appearance 

 has indeed been sacrificed for the purpose of obtaining convenience 

 of classification, and, at first sight the plan adopted appears to 

 possess some merits, but in practice it has been found that the 

 classification is not only unscientific but unjust. The Duke of 

 Marlborough, in a memorandum read to the British jurors on the 

 20th April last, called their attention to the difficulties arising out 

 of the system adopted whereby, as he stated, " objects are locally 

 placed in one class which possess elements for the consideration of 

 several juries." The very use of juries in international exhibitions 

 has indeed began to be seriously discussed ; and, in the same memo- 

 randum to which we have just referred, it was suggested that " as 

 furnishing materials for a future report it would be desirable, while 

 the subject is fresh, to note down the opinions of the many eminent 

 gentlemen employed as to the working of the international juries 

 generally, the mode of procedure they have found it desirable to 

 adopt in their several cases, the success that has attended it, and 

 the opinion that the jurors have formed from the experience of this 

 Exhibition of the utility of juries at all International Exhibitions." 



In the plate which accompanies this article we have given a 

 front elevation, drawn to scale, of the four great International 

 Exhibitions of London and Paris. The buildings of the three 

 earlier Exhibitions have already been repeatedly described, and we 

 shall, therefore, not further allude to them in the present article, 

 but pass on to give a hasty description of the Paris Exhibition of 

 1867. 



This building, standing in the centre of the Champs de Mars, 

 is in the form of two semicircles connected together by parallel 



