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THE WORLD’s FAIRS 
what might have been hidden, and what is 
hidden ought to have been brought into 
sight.” 
In a former article, we nientioned the 
collective exhibition of a French trade at 
this year’s Exhibition in Paris. In such 
collective exhibitions of particular trades, 
Germany also obtained success at Vienna, 
and thus proved, if such proof was neces- 
sary after her many successful national 
exhibitions, that want of taste in arranging 
is not a national defect, As a \ ienna 
example, wo may eite the exliibition of the 
silk-makers ol Crefeld, which was very 
fine indeed. The collections exhibited by 
the manufacturing chemists of Gennany, 
were also very coraplete, they showed 
prodnets second to none in fineness and 
purity of quality. These collective exhi 
bitions have the advantage ot bringing 
forward simultaneously a wbole series ol 
sitnilar products. They econornise room, 
and assure harmonious display as well 
as methodical arrangement. 
It is the desire of the central autbor- 
ities of the Empire at Berlin to en- 
courage the legitimate independence of 
provincial developement in the domain of 
industrial enterprise. They wish to avoid 
the faults of the French imperial policy, 
which tried, on the contrary, to stifte tbe