CONTENTS. 
Universal Exhibiüons become frequent.— 
The international purpose is made sub- 
servient to national interests.—Injury 
to a country’s ovvn eeonoinieal interests 
by refusal to partieipate.—Faults of the 
German polioy at Vienna, 1873, and at 
Philadelphia, 1876,—Economical neoes- 
sity of Universal Exhibitions at a central 
oity in Germany and at New York . . 7 
11. 
Suooess of the Vienna Exhibition im- 
paired by the Cholera and the Crash.— 
Advantages of the System of arrange- 
ment of the Paris Exhibition of 1867.— 
Charaeteristic features of the last Exhi 
bitions. — Their lastiug architectural 
monuments: Vienna Rotunda, Memorial 
Hall and Trocadero Palaoe.—Progress in 
the soience of exhibiting.— Causes of 
the excellence of French industry . . 15 
III. 
Liberty the necessary condition of all pro- 
gress in the economical world.—The 
means of communication are common 
property of mankind.—Their universal