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THE WORLü’s FAIRS 
The immense Rotunda of Vienna, with a 
doine that equals tliat. of St Peter's atRome 
in size, nowservesfor concerts and populär 
festivals. Düring the exhibition the Ro 
tunda contained a thoroughly interna 
tional selection of the most valuable pro- 
ducts from all the departments. This idea 
had the disadvantage of, as it were, dis- 
countiug in advance the decisions of the 
Jury. To be in the Rotunda gave an ex- 
hibitor at once an advantage over his 
competitors. This can not liave been the 
intention of the organising comnuittee, who 
in thus forming a small universal exhibi 
tion within the large one, were probably 
mainly actuated by the wish to give 
the immense Rotunda some useful besides 
ornamental employment in connection 
with the exhibition. They would pro 
bably have better attained their end by 
making it, the department of plastie art, 
whose subjects would have presented a 
more harmonious aspect, than did the 
heterogenous mass of industrial products. 
In beauty of the grounds the Phila 
delphia exhibition surpassed those of 
Europe; and Memorial Hall, whicb per- 
manently adorns Fairmount Park, can 
rank worthily by the side of the Vienna 
Rotunda and the Trocadero Palace at 
Paris.