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

A GENERAL TOUR OF THE FOREIGN DEPART
EXHIBITOR OF ARTICLES OF FEMALE TOR
TuRE--swEDEN, TURKEY AND GERMANY.
PHILADELPHIA July %, 1870.
In the Russia department the display OF maachite is
dazzling. There are table tops, mantels scuptured
vases ana otner large pieces of furniture from
single blocks OF this beautiful or matched from
pieces Of unusually fine color Such 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 the barbaric
splendor OF the natural of woven tissues
IN which great part OF tho pattern is worked
in gold silver thread. This material is
perhaps, made principally for ecclesiastical
uses-the robes of priests or other parapher-
nalia OF religious worship; but the popular
taste is also evidently inclined to it, as ornamentaiion
by the precious metals Is seen in every direction
articles clearly OF common Workers in SILVER have
rare skill, and somo Of the pieces made in this
metal of great beauty In the greater part of the
silver and jewery and woven tissues the Byzantine
character prevails Indeed, That original first impulse
given to Russian thought has evidently not been dis
placed by all tho endcavors of modern Emperors
to Introduce German, French and other strictly
European ideas into their country. Byzan-
doubt had their great stronghold in the
Russian church. but they have also found The nature
OF an Eastern people such sympathy to have made
their milation thorough that they ineradca
BILE under so light pressure as that OF fashions In
Western art. The enamels in this department are ex
tremeiy rich IN variety Of pattern and color
THE SPANISH SECTION.
Spain has great deal of rope and other ures
OF hemp, great deal of wearing apparel of tho extrav
agant lash made familiar In Spanish aud many or
dnary anuiacures There are Photographs OF great
deal OF the in the arsenal at Madrid Ladies WILL
perhaps look twice at tho cases which contain
corsets One may, perhaps, be permitted to say on
this delicate subject that the Spanards seem to have
made IN this field oi human ingenuity important i'm
proveiuent There are corsets which, while they
tam The whole system Of whacb0ue that IS inevitable,
unite the various parts OF the whalebone irc not by
continuous wau OF impenetrablc linen, 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 nclghbors 10 90 curiosi-
ties she could have sent from the museum in Madrid
the urmor worn by Christopher Columbus which
would have been OF great interest here Had Spain,
moreover, chosen 10 exhioit here proclamation
ognizng the independence OF CUBA 1t would taken
tho first prize
swEDENs DISPLAY.
Sweden indca, cs that art and arms divide dominion
in the thoughts OF her people In the display OF arl
lery ana improved material generally the
spirit OF the country OF Charles XI, aud in the
art studies purpose 10 DO thorough and radical that
sufficiently explains the success OF this northern
people IN the competition with southern their
own h,ld
WHAT TURKEY SHOWS
All the excellence %! the Turks department may be
summed up one word-carpeis.
AusTRIA's PIPES
Austria has evidently come with the intention of
capturing the great Amer an heart with display Of
schaum pip, Oh, failing IN that, completely
furnish US with Bohemian glass. In these two products
is her strength concentrated She has many other
tlclcs in which she Is about even with many other
countries. she has handsome furniture; has every
one else She has dne musical instruments character
sc fancy articles in leather and metal porcelain,
goods ures But 1t Is in the wo articles named only
that size Flaps over other nations No one boast
that he thoroughly understands tho meerschaum pipe
Till he has visited tnis depari ent; nor must any
fancy that lie Knows the mits OF the beautiful in glass
III he has the display here OF the results OF the
happy accident by which the once rude gassmakers OF
the Bohmerwa,d ound source OF wealth in The min
eral waters OF their mountains
GERMANY HERE
great manuiacl urcr IN great merchant--a man
OF science and pedagoguc. One ol the odd expc
rences OF promenade through the show is to find the
different impressions with which We regard precisely
the same article as II comes from one Or another Of
several uiicrent countries
From outlandlsh people or people of obscure
hisoi, not famous Tor tue possession OF high atri
butes IN ara or scence the Simplest oduct excltes
some admiration Fdeiiy 10 nature IN their products
exciies surprise, and regard II from the aesthetic
point OF view ely; bul tho article from
famous Tor great qualities N every hcld OF activity
longer SURPRISES Tor here exlect succes-. But the
article passes OF the aesthetic neld
temptation Than We seem TO experience sort oil
tempt Tor 1t as mere display OF u shopkceper--the
show Of n merchant at fair.
Germany tue d- play oi organs pianos and other
musical instruments, s ndid jcweiry and goldsmith
generally; clocks guns, cutlery, carpets. lurn
very tine array of the apparatus OF feld
whose products IN general industry of So high
order AS to excite wonder in presence OF the
sideraton that we expect much from civilized nations.
These are England France and the United states.