Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878

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Various. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878

ALONG THE DANUBE

THE PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1878

I.—BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

SENIORITY

"FOR PERCIVAL."

CHAPTER XXXV. OF THE LANDLADY'S DAUGHTER

CHAPTER XXXVI. WANTED—AN ORGANIST

CHAPTER XXXVII. LYDIA REARRANGES HER CAP

CHAPTER XXXVIII. CONCERNING SISSY

A WELSH WATERING-PLACE

NOCTURNE

THROUGH WINDING WAYS

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

A SEA-SOUND

THE BRITISH SOLDIER

A SAXON GOD

MUSICAL NOTATION

SAMBO: A MAN AND A BROTHER

THE EMPRESS EUGÉNIE

OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP

A LOST COLONY

THE DIFFICULTIES OF BEING AGREEABLE

OUR SUB-GARDENER

A NEW AND INDIGNANT ITALIAN POET

A NEZ PERCÉ FUNERAL

REFORM IN VERSE

LITERATURE OF THE DAY

Bits of Travel at Home. By H. H. Boston: Roberts Brothers

Putnam's Art Handbooks. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons

Adventures of a Consul Abroad. By Luigi Monti. Boston: Lee & Shepard

Books Received

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THE TROCADÉRO AND GROUNDS.

It is customary to speak of things by comparison, and the question is constantly propounded here, as it will be to returned Americans: "How does the Exposition compare with the Centennial of 1876?" This is not to be answered by vague generalities nor by sweeping statements.

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Standing, sensible-looking and tasteful, in the midst of much that is trumpery, but good enough for a summer fête, and placed here not as exhibits of good taste, but of what their owners think good, rises the wooden building with skylight roof of "The Administration of Forests and Waters." It is on a beautiful knoll, and has a wooden frame with tongued and grooved panels, the whole varnished to show the natural grain of the timber. On the panels outside are arranged the tools and implements of arboriculture and forestry.

The flags of the different nations displayed upon these buildings give animation to the scene, and the glance might pass at once from this panorama to the other side of the Seine, where the scene is repeated, but for the intervention of long barnlike sheds with tile roofs which intrude themselves along the banks of the river, and quench the poetry of the fanciful and picturesque as the eye passes from the immediate foreground and seeks the magnificent façade of the Salle d'Iéna, the river front of the main building occupying the Champ de Mars. The flags of all nations are flying from the numerous minor pinnacles, while the six domes on the ends and centres of the east and west façades display the tricolor of France.

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