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[Nature and Art, Nuvcmbcr 1, 1866. 
Devon,” states that in the best days of the sport, 
about fifty years ago, eight stags and as many hinds 
was about the annual average of killed. 
The care and outlay expended on the Highland 
Deer Forests, and the far larger extent of pasturage 
they offer, of course enable them to present far 
larger herds. The numbers killed during the season 
(for which see the Scotch provincial papers every 
year) certainly contrast strongly with the small bags 
with which deer-stalkers were wont to be content 
thirty years ago, when the picturesque pages of 
Mr. Scrope’s “ Deer Stalking in the Highlands ” 
(1834) first made the sport familiar to the reading 
public, and when breech-loading rifles were not. 
If, as we are informed on good authority, .£60 be 
the minimum average value of each animal thus 
killed, the cost of a season’s sport in a large forest 
will not form an unworthy comparison with the 
outlay on the “ royal huntings ” of days long gone 
by. Centurion. 
THE PARIS EXHIBITION OF 1867. 
By G. W. Yapp. 
T HE preparations for the Great Exhibition of 
next year are beginning to attract universal 
attention. The dread of war has passed away ; 
people are just beginning to return from the country, 
aud to ask what is to be the subject for the coming- 
year ; the doubts about the completion of the 
immense buildiug are blown into air, and the novel 
features, which are at the same time the popular 
ones, are beginning to exhibit themselves. The shell 
of the building is finished as regards the principal 
parts, the last huge pillars of the outer court were 
raised some time since, and the roofing, glazing, 
painting, and flooring, are all proceeding with great 
rapidity. The masons have done their work, and 
are gone to fresh fields, if not to pastures new; and 
the stalwart engineers and hammer-men will soon 
follow their brethren of the plumb-line and trowel ; 
the great iron verandahs or marquises which sur- 
round the inner garden and the outer wall of the 
building towards the pare are approaching com- 
pletion, and begin to give the whole a finished 
look, trimming off the stone wall within and the 
great iron wall without, as the fringe of a lady’s 
dress trims the corset and the skirt. Considering 
the materials employed, and the size of the pieces 
used, the elegant lightness of the great outer 
verandah is truly surprising. Placed against the 
immense iron wall of the great Machinery Court, 
with its hundred huge pillars, its hundred triple 
windows, and its hundred feet of altitude, this iron 
verandah looks at a short distance like light lace- 
work by comparison. The Fine Art and Retrospec- 
tive galleries are nearly all covered in, and many 
of the divisions are glazed, and the walls prepared 
for painting or colouring ; the intermediate zones, 
which are to contain all the manufactured articles 
(except machinery), as well as raw materials, are 
mostly glazed, and are being painted of a chocolate 
tint ; and the minor works of the great outer zone, 
or Machinery and Processes Court, are proceeding 
admirably. It is in the pare , however, that the 
greatest changes have taken place during the last 
few weeks, and there the principal interest just now 
attaches. The main entrances to the pare and to the 
building face the river, and we will therefore take 
the Seine for the starting-point of our observations. 
The pare is only divided from the river by the quay, 
which, however, is very broad in this part. This 
has been cut through, and a light iron bridge spans 
the opening. This will, when finished, supply an 
entrance and exit to the public arriving or departing 
by water, and an outlet for the small ornamental 
canal which runs through the grounds. This canal, 
which will be supplied by a great water-tower, now 
in course of erection, starts from the further end of 
the park, takes a tortuous course through the 
grounds, disappearing under the footpaths and 
buildings, and being open amid the shrubberies and 
flower-beds, and terminates in a large lake near the 
bridge just referred to. At the head of this lake 
is a solid circular stone structure, upon which is to 
be exhibited the system of electric lighting now to 
be seen in operation at some points of the French 
coast ; a light-house on the old system will furnish 
means of comparison between the new and the old 
lanterns. Around the base of the light-house in 
question, masses of rock-work are being formed, 
over which will fall a sheet of water. 
Hard by, stands a small church, which at first 
puzzled the public sadly, and many a flaneur gave 
it as his opinion that a religious edifice was scarcely 
required in connection with the Exhibition. The 
building, which is Gothic, has a chancel with aisles 
divided off by two rows of pillars, a regular transept, 
apsis, and lateral chapels. Its walls are pierced 
with as many windows as place could possibly be 
found for, and the roof is of a high pitch, and 
presents a very large surface. The object of the 
building is an admirable one : it is to supply a 
suitable frame and foundation for the exhibition 
of every kind of ecclesiastical decoration, internal 
and external, as also of church furniture, fittings, 
utensils, and ornaments. On the walls and roof 
without will be shown ornamental work in stone, 
marble, cement, brick, tile, and metal. The 
windows will be filled with stained glass ; the 
interior will be paved in various styles, and with 
various materials ; the walls will be covered with 
mosaic work, fresco paintings and pictures ; each 
chapel will have its own altar and decorati'ons ; 
lustres, candelabra, and sconces, will hang from the 
roof, shine on the altars, and decorate the columns ; 
