Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . IONS 431 trial and art displays in the United Kingdom and colonies and on the Conti-nent, among which should be noted those of New Brunswick and Madras in1853, Munich in 1854, and Edinburgh and Manchester in 1857. The second London exhibition was undertaken by a commission headed,as the first, by
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . IONS 431 trial and art displays in the United Kingdom and colonies and on the Conti-nent, among which should be noted those of New Brunswick and Madras in1853, Munich in 1854, and Edinburgh and Manchester in 1857. The second London exhibition was undertaken by a commission headed,as the first, by the Prince Consort, under a guarantee fund of $2,250, it was in course of preparation the Prince Consort died, and for awhile a heavy pall hung over the scheme. The commission here introducedthe French idea of separate buildings. The site was at South Kensington,and the main structure was built of brick, glass, and iron, was nearly rectan-gular in shape, and covered an area of about seven acres. With the annexesthe total area under roof was about twenty-three acres. This exhibition was opened by the Duke of Cambridge on May 1, 1862,and remained open for 177 days. It was visited by 6,211,103 persons, a dailyaverage of 36,329, its receipts were wholly absorbed by expenses, and a slight. WOMAN S BUILDING. (Worlds Columbian Exposition. 1893.) deficit was left. Foreign exhibitors numbered 17,861, and received more than9000 prizes. In 1863 the French Government announced that an exhibition would beheld in Paris in 1867, that was intended to be more completely universal incharacter and more comprehensive in plan than any that had ever been Champ cle Mars, the great parade-ground on which the Ecole Militairefaced, containing about 111 acres, was placed at the disposal of the commis-sioners by the Government. In the centre of this space was erected theprincipal building, an oval structure mainly of iron, 1607 feet long and 1246feet wide, that cost $2,357,000. In plann
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