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THE WORLü’s FAIRS 
This fine building - contained the art de- 
partment of the exhibition, and it now con- 
tinues in the same Service as a inuseum. 
If the United States thus give the place of 
honor at home to art, they do not show 
the same attention for their art depart- 
ment in the European exhibitions. A 
populär French guide book to the Paris 
Exhibition (Gautier &Desprez, Paris 1878, 
vide p. 62; explained the fact, that there 
was little worth seeing in the American 
department, by the assertion “cepeuple 
n’est pas encore arrive au scntiment de 
Part! ” 
Instead of wasting words on a picture, 
which has no originality, and merely imi- 
tates a lower kind of parisian style—a 
vulgär female laughing over the “Journal 
pour rire,”—it would have been more just, 
if American Art was to be judged by the 
pictures exhibited, to draw public attention 
to Dana’s “ Solitude,’’ representing the 
grand majesty of a high-goingsea by moon- 
liglit, or to Bridgman’s very original pic 
ture, “funeral scene in ancient Egypt.” 
If this guide book does not fiatter 
American artists, it is certainly no less 
severe for the architects of the monu 
mental building of the exhibition, theTro- 
cadero Palace. It honestly States, that 
this building of arabesque style resembles