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LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE

June, 1876.

Vol. XVII, No. 102.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE CENTURY--ITS FRUITS AND ITS FESTIVAL. VI.--THE DISPLAY--INTRODUCTORY. [Illustrated]

DOLORES by EMMA LAZARUS.

GLIMPSES OF CONSTANTINOPLE by SHEILA HALE. CONCLUDING PAPER. [Illustrated]

THEE AND YOU by EDWARD KEARSLEY. A STORY OF OLD PHILADELPHIA. IN TWO PARTS.--I.

MODERN HUGUENOTS by JAMES M. BRUCE.

BLOOMING by MAURICE THOMPSON.

FELIPA by CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON.

AT CHICKAMAUGA by ROBERT LEWIS KIMBERLY.

THE ATONEMENT OF LEAM DUNDAS by MRS. E. LYNN LINTON. CHAPTER XXXVII. UNWORTHY. CHAPTER XXXVIII. BLOTTED OUT. CHAPTER XXXIX. WINDY BROW. CHAPTER XL. LOST AND NOW FOUND.

THE ITALIAN MEDIÆVAL WOOD-SCULPTORS by T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE.

REST by CHARLOTTE F. BATES.

LETTERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA by LADY BARKER.

OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP. THE CABS OF PARIS by L.H.H. A NEW MUSEUM AT ROME by T.A.T. OUR FOREIGN SURNAMES by W.W.C. THE NEW FRENCH ACADEMICIAN by R.W.

LITERATURE OF THE DAY. Books Received.

ILLUSTRATIONS

FAÇADE OF THE SPANISH DIVISION, MAIN BUILDING. FAÇADE OF THE EGYPTIAN DIVISION, MAIN BUILDING. FAÇADE OF THE SWEDISH DIVISION, MAIN BUILDING. FAÇADE OF THE BRAZILIAN DIVISION, MAIN BUILDING. DOM PEDRO, EMPEROR OF BRAZIL. JAPANESE CARPENTERS. FAÇADE OF THE DIVISION OF THE NETHERLANDS, MAIN BUILDING. THE CORLISS ENGINE, FURNISHING MOTIVE-POWER FOR MACHINERY HALL. INTERIOR OF COOK'S WORLD'S TICKET-OFFICE. FRENCH RESTAURANT LA FAYETTE. THE MAMMOTH RODMAN GUN. SCENE AT ONE OF THE ENTRANCES TO THE GROUNDS--THE TURNSTILE. SCENE IN A BURIAL-GROUND. THE SULTAN ABDUL-ASSIZ. TURKISH COW-CARRIAGE. ENTERING A MOSQUE. CASTLE OF EUROPE, ON THE BOSPHORUS. FORTRESS OF RIVA, AND THE BLACK SEA. TURKISH QUARTER--STAMBOUL. OBELISK OF THEODOSIUS. SHEPHERDS.

LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE

OF

_POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE_.

June, 1876.

THE CENTURY--ITS FRUITS AND ITS FESTIVAL.

VI. THE DISPLAY--INTRODUCTORY.

[Illustration: FAÇADE OF THE SPANISH DIVISION, MAIN BUILDING.]

All things being ready for their reception, how were exhibits, exhibitors and visitors to be brought to the grounds? To do this with the extreme of rapidity and cheapness was essential to a full and satisfactory attendance of both objects and persons. In a large majority of cases the first consideration with the possessor of any article deemed worthy of submission to the public eye was the cost and security of transportation. Objects of art, the most valuable and the most attractive portion of the display, are not usually very well adapted to carriage over great distances with frequent transshipments. Porcelain, glass and statuary are fragile, and paintings liable to injury from dampness and rough handling; while an antique mosaic, like the "Carthaginian Lion," a hundred square feet in superficies, might, after resuscitation from its subterranean sleep of twenty centuries with its minutest _tessera_ intact and every tint as fresh as the Phoenician artist left it, suffer irreparable damage from a moment's carelessness on the voyage to its temporary home in the New World. More solid things of a very different character, and far less valuable pecuniarily, though it may be quite as interesting to the promoter of human progress, exact more or less time and attention to collect and prepare, and that will not be bestowed upon them without some guarantee of their being safely and inexpensively transmitted. So to simplify transportation as practically to place the exposition buildings as nearly as possible at the door of each exhibitor, student and sight-seer became, therefore, a controlling problem.

In the solution of it there is no exaggeration in saying that the Centennial stands more than a quarter of a century in advance of even the latest of its fellow expositions. At Vienna a river with a few small steamers below and a tow-path above represented water-carriage. Good railways came in from every quarter of the compass, but none of them brought the locomotive to the neighborhood of the grounds. In the matter of tram-roads for passengers the Viennese distinguished themselves over the Londoners and Parisians by the possession of _one_. In steam-roads they had no advantage and no inferiority. At each and all of these cities the packing-box and