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THK WORLD’S FAIRS 
II. 
The ExhibitionsofPhiladelphia 1876 and 
of Paris 1878 were successful. The French 
anti-republican press, which styled the 
late Exhibition “ le Bazar de Monsieur 
Krantz,” did the undertaking little harm. 
Their weak attacks were less injurious 
than the general dissatisfaction, which 
prevailed among journalists at Vienna in 
1873, and was caused by the establish- 
inent of an official exhibition press 
bureau, which raonopolised exhibition 
news for a single paper. This unfavorable 
feeling of the press, the great commercial 
crash of the Ist of May 1873, and the 
visit of the cholera may well be considered 
the causes, which somewhat marred the 
success of the Vienna Exhibition. 
If we judge the exhibitions by their 
plan of arrangement, the one of Paris 
1-867 has hardly beeil surpassed by the 
later ones. The main building had the 
form of an ellipsis and was divided into a 
nuraber of annular gaileries or zones, each 
of which was devoted to a particular 
group or dass of goods, and thus forrned 
a complete special exhibition in itself.