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TUE WORLD’S FA1RS.
I.
The International Exhibition at Paris
has hardly closed, and already we hear of
a project to organise a new one at New
York. Those couutries, which have
as yet not had their own great in
ternational exhibitions, particularly Ger-
many and Italy, are in all probability like-
wise maturing their plans at the present
time. The raoment is therefore well chosen
ibr a retrospective glance at the salient
features of our past exhibition experience.
It is the opinion of inany, that inter
national exhibitions, or as they may be
mure appropriately termed to dietinguish
the in from special exhibitions, Universal
Exhibitions, are becoming too frequent. A
lapse of ten years has been very generally
considereii necessary, in order to allow of
such improveinents and new inventions