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textures. The Directors have clone wonders to attract 

 P^xhibitors and Visitors to their fair Capital, and everyone 

 thinks that the Exhibition will be a great success. 



All intending- Exhibitors should apply at once for space, 

 to the Chief Director, Exposition Internationale de Lyon, 

 Lvon. Rhône, France. 



INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 



PARIS, igoo. 



During the month of November, the Commission entrusted 

 with the selection of the site for the future ICxhibition of 

 igoo have met under the Presidency of Mr. Picard, the 

 General Director, and decided that it should take place in 

 Paris, making use of the Palais de l'Industrie, Cours la 

 Reine, Quai de la Conférence, Invalides, Trocadero, and 

 Champ de Mars. Additional bridges will be erected on the 

 Seine to facilitate the communications between the two banks 

 of the Seine. Besides manv concourses and feasts will 

 take place at Vincennes, the well-known and beautiful park, 

 unfortunatelv situated on the wrono- side of Paris. 



For my part, although I am quite certain that as a whole, 

 the Exhibition of 1900 will greatly surpass the memorable one 

 of 1889, I regret verv much that the Commission has not 

 decided in favour of the Bois de Boiilo^ne or J'incennes. 

 Anvone of the two would have been much better than the 

 Trocadero, Champ de Mars, etc., of old memorv. What 

 was wanted for such celebration, as the event of the twentieth 

 century (the Century of Peace and Labour, I hope] would 

 have been something quite new, grand, and in a magnificent 

 scale, quite distinct of all what has been done before, and this 

 could only have been properly carried on in the parks 

 mentioned above, where space and fine scenery exist all 

 round. 



This International Exhibition of Paris, which is to take 

 place in 1900, reminds me that in England no such exhibition 

 has been held since 1862, as we cannot call by that name all 

 the partial Exhibitions held in London since. How is it that 

 London has not had its International Exhibition since 1862, 

 • I cannot imagine? It is a well-known fact that International 

 Exhibitions are a great stimulus to COMMERCE, Art and 

 Science, and are the means of reviving Trade and Industry, 

 and I sincerely hope that before long, I shall hear that London 

 is going to prepare one of these great festivals of Labour 

 and Peace. 



