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taking, even though they could not be as en¬ 
thusiastic over it as some of their colleagues. 
With commendable courage, the originators 
sent out their decision that “ None but origi¬ 
nal work showing a decided renovation of form 
would be accepted; that every reproduction 
of historic styles would be excluded ; every 
product exhibited of any industrial craft 
should be designed with true art feeling.” 
To escape as much as possible from the 
power of the past, which is so potent every¬ 
where in Italv, Turin was chosen by virtue 
of being the most modern city of that country. 
The broad, tree-bordered streets, laid out at 
right angles with each other, the absence of 
“ swallows ” 
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any great historic buildings, such as one finds 
in Rome, Florence and other places, the busy 
bustling air of the place, with its shops and 
factories, made the city on the Po an ideal 
place for an exhibition of modern art in which 
every trace of the past was to be eliminated 
as far as possible. 
A fine large building, admirably adapted 
for the purpose, was erected in the beautiful 
Valentino Park, bordering the river, but in 
the very heart of Turin. H ere all the ex¬ 
hibiting nations were housed, except Austria 
and Japan, which occupied separate buildings 
near the main one. England, Scotland, the 
United States, Sweden and Norway, France, 
Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Bel¬ 
gium, Japan and Italy all took a part. The 
United States exhibit was a happy combination 
of the useful and the beautiful, and in both 
departments it was equally interesting. In 
the department of fine arts, Tiffany, The Gor¬ 
man Company and The Rookwood Pottery 
Company proved beyond question that the 
United States is developing artistically as well 
as commercially, and the discovery made an 
American proud of his country. The grace¬ 
ful shapes and beautiful colors of the Tiffany 
glass are as fine as anything made in Austria, 
and the blending of hues is more subtle in 
feeling than in the Austrian products. 
“ ROSE AND FUCHSIA” 
S BY DAVID GOW 
The three vases reproduced in the illus¬ 
trations are of the beautiful material known 
as Favril glass; and while these particular 
vases show nothing original or unusual in 
form, the exquisite coloring of the glass 
makes them seem as if carved from chunks 
of opal, so many-hued, so delicate, so evan¬ 
escent are the colors, according as the light 
strikes the surface. A careful comparison of 
the Tiffany vases at the exhibition with the 
product of the famous Venetian furnaces a 
week later strengthened the impression that 
modern glass-making in the hands of an artist 
who has had a scientific training in chemistry 
is quite as beautiful as anything that has ever 
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