Paris herself again in 1878-9 . tion with anyfeelings short of disgust and of dread. The existing saturnaliahave entirely disorganised the social condition of Paris, which, UP AND DOWN IN THE EXHIBITION. 33 populous as it is, is not large enough to bear the continuous pres-sure of such an incubus as an International Exhibition. We felt51 and 62, and Sir Henry Coles successive Exhibition spurts ;but London is too vast for the encumbrance to have been felt inthe remotest of our extremities. Paraphrasing that which Byronwrote about love, it may be said that a Great Exhibition was ofLondon life on
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . tion with anyfeelings short of disgust and of dread. The existing saturnaliahave entirely disorganised the social condition of Paris, which, UP AND DOWN IN THE EXHIBITION. 33 populous as it is, is not large enough to bear the continuous pres-sure of such an incubus as an International Exhibition. We felt51 and 62, and Sir Henry Coles successive Exhibition spurts ;but London is too vast for the encumbrance to have been felt inthe remotest of our extremities. Paraphrasing that which Byronwrote about love, it may be said that a Great Exhibition was ofLondon life only a part; it is Paris whole existence. You camioteat your dinner or stroll along the pavement in peace. The Champde Mars and the Trocadero fling you, so to speak, over a Horse-shoe Fall of excitement into a Niagara River of noise, and yournerves, if not your limbs, are torn to pieces among the is not long enough to be spent in perpetual wranglings withwaiters and altercations with cabdrivers. You may have plenty of. XOT AT A LOSS FOR A REASON (BY CHAM). Six. francs ! how do you make it six francs ? 1 Why, four francs the course and two francs for the oil. money, but save on the knifeboard of an omnibus, or in one of thecold baths by the Pont Neuf, I know no place in Paris where, atthe present moment, you get your moneys-worth for the thingsvol. n. D 34 TARIS HERSELF AGAIN. which you purchase. You are fed on stale fish, tough meat, andbruised fruit at extortionate prices. Cooking has, deterioratednearly everywhere. The rent of furnished apartments is simplymonstrous. I am paying for a garret in an unfashionable boule-vard a price for which I could obtain a whole first floor in Picca-dilly or St. Jamess Street at the height of the season, and friendswho are staying in the fashionable Paris hotels make me standpositively aghast when they tell me of the sums in which they aremulcted. The existing carnival has been putting vast sums of money into the pockets of the hote
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