The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-28

K HERALD, MONDAY, J
the assistance she will render in the promotion
of the enterprise. The foremost city Of the
Union has enough of glory and merit of her
own to let all small i'll feelings that might
cross the day dreams of a village pass her BY
As the grand metropolis. New York can be
proud of her sisters and honestly rejoiced to
see them prospecting and happy.
We are yet nearly three years from the time
when the Exposition must be finished; but
our preparations cannot be commenced day
too soon. We insist on success. There is
time and, if we work earnestly and vigor-
ously, ample time to achieve it. Only, how
ever, by display of what we may
fairly claim as national industrial virtues
energy and judgment, can the result answer
our expectations and desires. That the build
ing should reflect the aesthetic taste of the
nation in its finest mood and at the same
time meet all the requirements of the Exhibi-
ton is what we have q right to expect. We
have the experience Of other Expositions to
guide us in avoiding errors of construction.
The site in Paramount Park, we may say, is
one of the finest that could be obtained in any
city of the Union. Among the most notable
shortcomings of the Expositions in London,
Paris and Vienna has been the failure to have
the arrangements completed on time An
nouncements, falsifed by sluggish prepara-
and worldwide cooperation necessary to bring
about success have been exploited sufficiently
to make future failure objectionable. Let us
have everything ready, SO that when the day
appointed for throwing open the gates of the
Palace of Industry and Art shall have arrived
the world may enter to behold the proofs of
the grandeur and prosperity that illustrate the
present and are gauge of the brilliant future
of the Great Republic.
The Emperor Of Austria, in visit to the
United States section of the Exhibition
at Vienna, handsomely complimented the
thoughtful intelligence and inventive genius
of American workmen. Let him come and
see for himself in 1876 how we'll his words
were deserved. The King of Sweden, re-
Gently conversing with o correspondent Of the
HERALD, dwelt upon the necessity of early
preparations in matter of this nature If he
or his heir should visit our Exposition on the
Fourth Of July, 1876, let it be seen that we
have not been afraid to take King at his
word. We would guard in every way against
the possibility of an embarrassing disappoint-
ment to our hopes when the world and his
wife look in upon us at our invitation. Should
the crowned heads of Europe and the republi-
can leaders from all parts of the world join
our group on the suspicious occasion we hope
to see them return with enlarged ideas of the
strength and glory of republicanism.
Nassr-cd.Din in tho French Capital.
Again we surrender valuable space to a de-
scription of the peregrinations of the Oriental
Prince Nassr- ed-Din, from the pens of such
gifted writers as Mr.. Edmund Yates and Mr..
Archibald Forbes. The reader may well in
quire why it is that the serio-comic meander-
ings of the Shah should engender 80 much
literary effort The answer is simple.
Coupled with the journey of the Shah from
Teheran to London is considerable political and
financial mystery. From one quarter we hear
s.He is Reuters SHAH" from another HE
is England's Shah and. again, ''He
is only the Shah's Shah" The HERALD
has employed the first journalistic talent
in the world to solve this difficult problem.
Mark Twain, in flashes of wit and with strokes
of naive humor, has put the King Of Kings in q
frame of amusing satire and has hung up the
picture as sort Of laughing machine. Mr..
Edmund Yates has considered His Majesty as
five feet eight inches Of pageantry. DR.. Hos
mer, with Arctic but admirable philosophy,
has endured Nassr- ed-Din as an entertaining
but necessary evil. Mr. Granville Murray has
imaginatively exiled himself in Teheran, and
in pellucid English has placed the Diamond
Shah in his domestic setting of mud, while
Free Lance has assailed the blazing armor
of the despot and has grouped the Persian
famine and blameless heads falling into the
executioner's basket with obsequious courts
doing homage to an ostentatious cipher. This
morning another powerful writer describes
the regal tourist surrounded by the Marshals
of France, occupying the imperial chair while
the reorganized French army passes in review.
Mr.. Forbes ignores the picturesque and the
pretty of the scene and seizes upon the occa-
sion to give a valuable and carefully consid-
cred criticism on the actual condition of the
French army. This correspondent was. par
erce1ence, the correspondent of the Franco
Prussian war, and his military letters have
given him an enviable reputation as brilliant
writer and judicious critic. After speaking
of the army that didn't need q button-the
army of LIE Beuf-he pictures the terrible
humiliation that came from loose organization
and lax discipline and then we are reminded
of the calamities that befel the hastily gathered
raw levies and of the final obliteration of the