. Review of reviews and world's work. ors will find the most significant partof the exhibition in the buildings devoted toFrench and foreign colonies, nearly all of whichare located in the Trocadero part of the Exposi-tion grounds. The vast majority of the fre-quenters of the Exposition will, of course, beFrenchmen ; and tlie Government has seized theopportunity to exploit, to the best possible ad-vantage, its colonial policy. It is desired thatFrenchmen should believe that the colonies are tohave commercial importance to France, and tliatthey are places of great picturesque interest andcharm.

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. Review of reviews and world's work. ors will find the most significant partof the exhibition in the buildings devoted toFrench and foreign colonies, nearly all of whichare located in the Trocadero part of the Exposi-tion grounds. The vast majority of the fre-quenters of the Exposition will, of course, beFrenchmen ; and tlie Government has seized theopportunity to exploit, to the best possible ad-vantage, its colonial policy. It is desired thatFrenchmen should believe that the colonies are tohave commercial importance to France, and tliatthey are places of great picturesque interest andcharm. Thus Madagascar has a great pavilion toitself, as have also Algeria, Tunis, the FrenchSoudan, Tonkin, and numerous other islands orregionsunder French control. The development of Russias Asiatic policy isalso most skillfully exploited ; and hardly any-thing in the Exposition is more interesting thanthe building especially devoted by the RussianGovernment to Siberia, the Transcaspian orTurkestan regions, and the other oriental domin-. BCILDINQ OF ASIATIC RUSSIA. 688 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^IEIV OF REI^/EIVS.

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