The New York herald., 1876-07-24
THE EXHIBITION.

A GENERAL TOUR OF THE FOREIGN DEPART
MENTs-wHAr RUSSIA sHows-sPAIN AS AN
EXHIBITOR OF ARTICLES OF FEMALE TOR
TURE-swEDEN, TURKEY AND GERMANY.
PHILADELPHIA. July %, 1875
In the Russia department the display of malachte is
dazzling There table tops, manels, sculptured
vases ana otncr large pieces of furniture cut from
single blocks Of this beautiful stone matched from
pieces of unusually fine color. Such a display of a
valuable substance used SO freely Is not often seen
perhaps outside the empire OF Russia. Russia also
makes fine display OF furs. and EXHIBITS tho barbarc
splcndor OF the natural OF tissues
IN which great part Of tho pattern is worked
in gold or silver thread. This material is,
perhaps, made principally for ecclesiastical
uses-the robes of priests or other parapher-
nalia OF religious worshipi but the popular
taste is also evidently inclined to IT, as ornamenlaon
by the precious metals is seen in every direction
articles clearly OF common Workers in SILVER have
skill, and somo of tho pieces made in this
metal OF great beauty. In the greater part of the
silver and jeweIry and tissues the Byzantine
character prevaa Indeed, that original first impulse
given to Russian thought has evidently not been dis
placed by all tho endeavors of modern Empcrors
to introduce German, French and other strictly
European ideas into their country. Byzan-
tine conceptions in decorative art have
doubt had their great stronghold in the
Russian church. but they have also found in the
OF an Eastern people such sympathy as to have made
their assimilation so thorough that they ineradca
bic under light pressure as that OF fashions in
Western art. The enames in this department
tremeiy rich IN variety OF pattern and color
SPANISH SECTION
Spain has great deal Of rope and other manufactures
of hemp, great deaf Of wearing apparel Of tho
agant lash made familiar in Spanish aud many
dnary manufactures There are Photographs OF great
deal OF the arms in the arsenal at Madrid. Ladies WILL
perhaps, look twice at tho which contain
corsets One may, perhaps, be permitted to say on
THIS delicate subject that the Spanards seem to have
made IN this field of human ingenuity an important i'm
provenent There are corsets which, while they con-
the whole system of whaebone that IS usv table,
unite the various Of the whalebone frame not by
q continuous wal OF mpenetrablc lnen, but by sort
OF wicker work OF tapes, aud thus combine at one
grand stroke support ana ventilation. Had spain been
disposed, like some oil her ncghbors 10 so curiosi
ties, sue could have sent from the museum in Madrid
the armor worn by Christopher Columbus, which
would have been OF great interest here Had Spain,
moreover, chosen TO exhIUlt here proclamation
ognzng the independence OF CUBA II would nave taken
tho first prize.
swEDENs DISPLAY.
Sweden ndicat es that art and arms divide dominion
in the thoughts OF her people In the display arl
lcry una improved war material generally the
spirit OF the country men o Charles NIL, and in the
art studies purpose 10 be thorough and radical that
sufficiently explains the success OF this northern
own h,ld
WHAT TURKEY SHOWS
All the excellence oi the Turkish department may be
summed up one word-carpels.
ArsTRIAs PIPES AND GLASS.
Austria has evidently come with the intention of
capturing the great Amer an heart with display Of
meefschaum PIP. s. oi, failing IN that 10 completely
furnish with Bohemian glass n these two products
Is her strength concentrated. She has many her
ticlcs In which she Is about even with many other
countries she has handsome urnture SO has every
on, else She has nne musical Instruments character
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goods, pic But 1t is In the articles named only
that she 'aps over' other nations No one can boast
that he thoroughly UNDERSTANDS the neerscaum Pipe
MI he has visited tns depar ment; nor must any
fancy that lie Knows the ms OF the beautiful In glass
I'll he has the display here OF the results OF the
happy accident by which the rude glassmakers OF
the Bohmerwad found source OF wealth in The min
eral waters OF their MOUNTAINS.
GERMANY IS HERE
q great manuiacl urcr an great merchant-a man
OF science anJ q pedagogue One oil the odi expc-
riences OF promenade through the show is to find the
different impressions with which we regard precisely
the article as II comes from one another Of
several uficrent countries.
From outandsh people people of obscure
history. or not famous for tue possession oil high atr
butes IN arr sc.ence, the simplest oduct cxcles
eXces surprise and we regard II from the ps hetic
point OF view ely but the article from
famous or great qualities n every hcd OF activity
longer surprises. ior here success. But the
article passes out OF the 2shetic neld OF
temptation than We seem TO experience sort oi con-
tempt Tor Il as mere display OF shopkcepcr-the
show OF merchant at q fair.
Germany Tue play OF organs, pianos and other
musical instruments, splendid jcweiry and goldsmith 8
ware generally; clocks. guns, cutlery, carpets iurn-
ture ana very array of the apparatus OF ned
gerry nmbulances, &c. but there are oniy three
whose products in general industry are of high
order 10 excite wonder IN presence OF the con-
sidcruton that we expect much from civilized nations
These are England, France and the United states
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