INTERNATIONAL 
STUDIO 
VOL. LV. No. 220 
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Copyright, 1915 by John Lane Company 
JUNE, 1915 
T HE SAN DIEGO AND SAN FRAN- 
CISCO EXPOSITIONS 
BY CHRISTIAN BRINTON 
Editor s Note, — It was Dr. Christian Brinton 1 s wish 
to have the two expositions run concurrently in this issue 
but considerations of space have necessitated our reserving 
San Francisco for the month of July. This will enable 
us to illustrate the articles more fully . Other contributions 
py the same writer will follow in due course giving special 
heed to the paintings and statuary. 
I. San Diego 
: It must be confessed that the congenital 
veakness for hyperbole which obtains west of 
he Mississippi leads one to be cautious not 
alone of the Grand Canyon but of the eloquently 
xploited expositions at San Diego and San Fran- 
isco. Superlatives not unwarrantably make for 
juspicion, yet in none of these instances is there 
occasion for undue conservatism. Like the 
thumb-print of God pressed into the surface of the 
earth so that man may forever identify His handi- 
work, the Canyon transcends the possibilities of 
verbal or pictorial expression. Although by no 
means so ambitious as its competitor, or, rather, 
its complement, farther northward along the his- 
toric Camino Real, the Panama-Calif ornia Exposi- 
tion has scant reason to fear comparison with the 
Panama-Pacific. Restricted in area yet rich in 
suggestion the San Diego Exposition is a synthe- 
sis of the spacious Southwest. It seems to have 
sprung spontaneously from the soil and the vivid 
race consciousness of those who inhabit this vast 
and fecund hinterland. Regional in the sense that 
the recent Baltic Exposition at Malmo and the 
Valencian Exposition of 1909 were regional, it is 
at once more concentrated and more characteristic 
t ACROSS THE 
ESPLANADE 
ARCHITECT, FRANK P. ALLEN, JR. 
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