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THE WORLD’S FAIRS 
hibitions of ethnographical interest, or of 
such products, which are monopolies, and 
consequently have no competitors to be 
compared to. At Vienna the different Cot 
tages, and particularly the Alsatian farm, 
which contained an exhibition of agricul 
tural and alimentary products, attracted 
great attention. At Philadelphia the 
buildings of the foreign commissions were 
much admired. These separate buildings 
ornament the exhibition grounds, they 
vividly impress the imagination, and 
agreeably «vary the unavoidable monotony 
of the general exhibition. 
In trying to improve upon the idea, 
it has been spoilt at the last Paris 
exhibition. There dwelling houses of 
different nations were set up side by 
side in a long unbroken row, the so- 
called Street of nations, which was 
in fact an inner, but uncovered gallery of 
the exhibition. Instead of a series of sep 
arate pictures, each coniplete in itself, 
the visitor here only took away with him 
the remembrance of a contused mixture 
of international faqading. 
It is a fact worth remarking, that 
each of the three last universal ex- 
hibitions has endowed its city with a 
lasting architectural monument, which 
during the exhibition time represented, as 
it were, the characteristic feature.