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LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE

April, 1876.

Vol. XVII, No. 100.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE CENTURY ITS FRUITS AND ITS FESTIVAL. IV.--THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION UNDER ROOF.

SKETCHES OF INDIA. IV.--CONCLUSION.

THE COLLEGE STUDENT by JAMES MORGAN HART.

SONNET by MAURICE THOMPSON.

THE HOUSE THAT SUSAN BUILT by SARAH WINTER KELLOGG.

AFTER A YEAR by KATE HILLARD.

THE BERKSHIRE LADY by THOMAS HUGHES.

THE SABBATH OF THE LOST

THE ATONEMENT OF LEAM DUNDAS by MRS. E. LYNN LINTON. CHAPTER XXIX. THE FRIEND OF THE FUTURE. CHAPTER XXX. MAYA--DELUSION. CHAPTER XXXI. BY THE BROAD. CHAPTER XXXII. PALMAM QUI NON MERUIT.

THE SING-SONG OF MALY COE by CHARLES G. LELAND.

LETTERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA BY LADY BARKER.

DINNER IN A STATE PRISON by MARGARET HOSMER.

FAREWELL by AUBER FORESTIER.

THE INSTRUCTION OF DEAF MUTES by JENNIE EGGLESTON ZIMMERMAN.

OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP. THE CITY OF VIOLETS by ELISE POLKO. LA BEFANA. ERNESTO ROSSI. BISHOP THIRLWALL'S PRECOCITY. FREAKS OF KLEPTOMANIA.

LITERATURE OF THE DAY. BOOKS RECEIVED.

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE BRIDGE ACROSS LANSDOWNE RAVINE, CONNECTING MEMORIAL AND HORTICULTURAL HALLS. GIRARD AVENUE BRIDGE--ONE OF THE APPROACHES TO THE EXHIBITION GROUNDS. MAIN BUILDING. MACHINERY HALL. HON. JOSEPH R. HAWLEY, PRESIDENT OF THE CENTENNIAL COMMISSION. GENERAL ALFRED T. GOSHORN, DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE CENTENNIAL COMMISSION. JOHN WELSH, ESQ., PRESIDENT OF THE CENTENNIAL BOARD OF FINANCE. AGRICULTURAL BUILDING. HORTICULTURAL HALL. MEMORIAL HALL, WITH EXTENSION. INDIGO-FACTORY NEAR ALLAHABAD. MUSSULMAN SCHOOL AT ALLAHABAD. MÂLERS AND SONTALS. GRAIN-AND-FLOUR MERCHANT OF PATNA. A TIGER-HUNT, ELEPHANT-BACK. BENGAL WATER-CARRIERS. BRAHMANS OF BENGAL. BENGALESE OF LOW CASTE. CHARIOT OF THE PROCESSION OF THE RATTJATTRA, AT JAGHERNÂTH. THE PORT OF CALCUTTA.

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_POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE_.

APRIL, 1876. Vol. XVII, No. 100.

THE CENTURY ITS FRUITS AND ITS FESTIVAL.

IV.--THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION UNDER ROOF.

[Illustration: THE BRIDGE ACROSS LANSDOWNE RAVINE, CONNECTING MEMORIAL AND HORTICULTURAL HALLS.]

None of the European exhibitions we have sketched partook of the nature of an anniversary or was designed to commemorate an historical event. Some idea of celebrating the close of the calendar half-century may have helped to determine the choice of 1851 as the year for holding the first London fair; but if so, it was only with reference to the general progress during this period, and not to any notable fact at its commencement. Still less did the later exhibitions owe any portion of their significance and interest to their connection with a date. They afforded occasion for comparison and rivalry, but no shape loomed up out of the past claiming to preside over the festival, to have its toils and achievements remembered, and to be credited with a share in the production of the harvests garnered by its successors.

In our case it is very different. Here was the birth-year of the Union coming apace. It forced itself upon our contemplation. It appealed not merely to the average passion of grown-up boys for hurrahs, gun-firing, bell-ringing, and rockets sulphureous and oratorical. It addressed us in a much more sober tone and assumed a far more didactic aspect. Looking from its throne of clouds o'er half the (New) World--and indeed, as we have shown, constructively over the Old as well--it summoned us to the wholesome moral exercise of pausing a moment in our rapid career to revert to first principles, moral, social and political, and to explore the germs of our marvelous material progress. Nor could we assume this office as exclusively for our own benefit. The rest of Christendom silently assigned it to the youngest born for the common good. Circumstances had placed in our hands the measuring-rod of Humanity's growth, and all stood willing to gather upon our soil for its application, so far as that could be made by the method devised and perfected within the past quarter of a century. It was here, a thousand leagues away from the scene of the first enterprise of the kind, that the culminating experiment was to be tried.

[Illustration: GIRARD AVENUE BRIDGE--ONE OF THE APPROACHES TO THE EXHIBITION GROUNDS.]

To what point on a continent as broad as the