AMERICA. 
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The specimens having special reference to art-instruction, which 
were exhibited by other countries, were too unimportant and in- 
significant to make it necessary for tke reporter to mention them in 
detail. The badly drawn (French) flowers, and some heads from 
Berlin copies, exhibited by a school in Athens as evidences of 
modern art-instruction in Greece, the landscapes (Calame) from 
Constantinople, the faulty copies of heads (after Julien) -sent by 
the Technical School at Cairo, only served to make evident the 
fact that the education of taste is quite neglected in these parts 
of the world. 
The eye was especially pained by seeing these weakly produe- 
tions in the Greek section, directly alongside of the classical Aug 
ments of the Acropolis. These venerable remnants of art at the 
World’s Fair, surrounded by the modern efforts and struggles, 
which manifest themselves in all departments of Science and of 
art, were a sad illustration of the vanity of earthly glory. But 
their immortal beauty made them capable at the same time of serv- 
ing as noble examples, continually admonishing us to strive for 
THE HIGHEST IN ALL THINGS.