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the necessary preparations, but also takes 
up more of his personal time and atten 
tion, than he can well afford. It is there- 
fore not surprising, that leading manu- 
facturers, who have an assnred custom, 
often refuse to participate in exhibitions. 
It would be easy for any person acqnainted 
witb the manufacturing interest in diffe 
rent countries, to eite examples from the 
late exhibitions which show, that many 
leading branches of trade were represented 
exclusively by beginners, who have yet 
their reputation to establish, but not by 
houses of note. 
Such was chiefly the cause of the un- 
satisfactory appearance of the German de- 
partment at Philadelphia, but if a severe 
criticism of it was therefore justified. yet, 
the hasty deduction, that all German 
manufactures were inferior, was wholly 
unfounded. 
We are of the opinion that the fault 
lies in such cases much less on the side of 
the manufacturers, than in the nature of 
the administrations connected with the 
exhibition, The problem here is, how to 
unite commercial simplicity and expedi- 
tion with bureaucratical conscientious- 
ness ? It cannot be solved by abandon- 
ing the direction to merchants, who are in 
active business, and who have con-