The New York herald., 1876-07-30
THE EXHIBITION.
A Days Ramble in Several of
the Departments.
What the English, French, Belgians and
Americans Display.
PHILADELPHIA. July %. 1870.

PHrLADELrHIA. July 90, 1875.
To go through the English, Frcnch Belgian and
American departments-whch are the really fine parts
OF the display in the main buldng-is like wandering
amid an endless array of splendid shop windows.
Among the various methods of titillatng the fancy
that Of wandering up and down handsome streets and
looking IN the shop windows is no, by apy means
the worst Those VINO would "walk all day like
the Sultan of old in garden of spice" have
good for shat taste; yet one Of these pas
times very prontahly DO varied with the other,
and perhaps the majority OF tho men and nearly
all the women would prefer the treat OF tho
shop windows Any great city is in this
respect perennial fair and the dazzle
OF tho jcwclry, tho dry goods, the furniture, tho
porcelain, the pictures, to which city people become
indifferent, is the greatest attraction of tho city
country cousins satcd with tho beauties and sim
plictes of nature In tho exposures here
presented all that is finest
from the great s,rects OF all tho great cities; aud
the short rambie takos in the bouevards and tho
Rue de Ia Paix; Regent street. Oxford street and Pic
cadily the Rue Montague dc Ia Cour in Brussels and
the inIuincrablc Broadways OF our American cities.
In some respects the rambe here is better than the
ramble in those streets In European cities
they do not mako great use OF display
windows do. In London even in
Paris one secs an obscure stuly Ill furnished window,
or perhaps % no % window at AL. Tor All establishment
the world with tho beauty and value Of the
fabrics or jewels IL has Tor SALE One might
the shop windows that II was possible for the
London furniture makers to completely ravish tho
eyeo taste as they DO here with the display OF artistic
furniture There is bewilderngly handsome furniture
In France, England and the United States, and In the
first two there Is remarkable individuality and even
nationality IN the character of the designs and in the
work. Our own makers have naturally worked on the
same ideas and reproduced them with hdchy and sue
cess. At least one Now York house Is not behind any
the world its ELECTS
WOMAN AND HER WORK.
In jewelry silverware. musical instruments and In
large range OF manufactured articles the
OF Older people; but In some OF the most beautiful
fabrics We have no standing whatever, which IL, how
are, perhaps the last graces OF ages OF cviliza-
ton. such laces as are exhibited in the sBel-
gan Department ~ may & wen asSa,sly r any LADY
scssng fair share OF them IL Is the only display
that IN tho effect 1t produces, leaves the imagination
lar behind, as If that swift moving faculty were
mounted Oh crippled nag Is IL not somewhat
queer that all our feminine lunatcs who
mission and womans work, and the means by which
woman snail sustain herself in Independence, have not
gwen thought TO the introduction and naturaliza
ton OF an art Indebted so much to the fairy fingers
OF girls and coarse country women IN Europe
Not more than one woman IN fifty thousand
paints picture III to put beside the ordinary pro-
auctions of ordinary In that line OF art and tho
work of tho few ssulptresscs there arc is noticeable
less for It's ntrinsia excellence than for its feminine
authorship hut " oil this beautiful lace there prob
ably not piece but has some womaLs work in II, for
here a where the feminine quantities OF delicacy
to and deftness and dexery in manipulation in
success
PORCELAIN CHINA.
Our display OF porcelain is not only to be put In
comparison with that of foreign countries, but Is SO
poor as be noticeable artistcaly, and yet 1t is
pioce of rapid progress that there is any dis
play ut oil. But few years since wo
mado no china. Now make what compares
iavorably with the of tho European
countries. and the rest Is only question Of time for
we are like the lrshman who had his head and
shoulders out OF purgatory-all we want ia start.
arc among tho most attractive features OF the
Exhibition. In nneness Of quality and manpu.
ation France maintains her superorty but in the
mcut Of effectiveness, in the beauty OF the forms
studied, and in the relations OF color England is
without rival and opinion is consequently divned as
ment