Litchfield enquirer., 1876-10-12
TnE GREAT SHOW.

TnE GREAT SHOW.
 We wish specially to avoid any hackney ed treatment of the great exhibition. and the difficulty is to write anything about itso late as October that will not seem hackueyed. Crowds of our readers have given more time than we could do to it's examination; and able journalists, thoroughly acquainted with the sub' iects on which they write, have given di' rection to the public judgment. But, without hoping to instruct any one, we may perhaps add what may be called in Exhibition parlance an ''Annex," to such main descriptions as the Tribune Extra No. 35. furnishes fortunate public.
 TRAVEL. BOARD AND LODGING.
 Starting from the East ,oneis necessarily annoyed by the transfer through New York. a nuisance to which this great city ought not to compel the through traveller to submit. Nearing Philadelphia we be- gan to meet those crowds which are al most as remarkable as the Exhibition it. self It was Pennsylvania Day. and the return trains were multiplied and crowd cd to an extent exceeding belief. Reach; ing Philadelphia we went for one night to that remarkable temporary contrlvance known as the Grand Exposition Hotel There is nothing that illustrates the diff ference between thetgrand" and the'big . better. This concern shelters rather than accommodates thousands daily. Our rooms were down an interminable plank lane having row of newly built houses on one side, designated as s"cottages," with, we believe, four rooms each. The front doors of the houses were all closed, and the rear entrance through the covered lane diverged from the main hotel. Al the right was restaurant, where ws prise was made. There is an air of damp ness and discomfort about the whole af fair that makes the visitor anxious for 6 speedy change to lodgings, with which the city abounds, with fair accommoda tions and at reasonable prices.
 THE EXHIBITION
 Entering the exhibition from Belmont Avenue, we come in between the Mair and Machinery buildings and gel our first view of the beautiful grounds. Paying nasty visit to the Main Building, we begin to realize the magnifcence of the enterprise. Alad dln's palace comes to mind at once and we seem translated at breath from the solid Nineteenth Century and the pro saic United States of America. into lani of fancies and fairies. To keep the il fusion fresh one needs only to take th' right and wander down into the exhibi of Japan and China.
 China comes first and the Chinese ivorl carvings seem an absolute miracle ; while everything Japanese is instinct with 6 life and vivacity often running into cari cature, yet always most brilliant in de sign. The Japanese paintings are the most comical of their productions. Their notions of perspective are..in the crudesi state;a yet there is something very nove and interesting even in these wonderful crudities. The Japanese representation of q rising" moon is one of the funnies things we ever saw. There is a very in structive picture treating of the rice cul ture. Somebody is ploughing with al animal that is perhaps hog or might b. COW, but looks more like young hip popotamus. High Japs struggle about doing high life. each with his eyes ierket up at the outside and having the dainty toy-like appearance characteristic of the Japanese gentleman and lady. "Genrt pictures they are, no doubt, but, they represent nothing one born out of the far East can recognize as anything but the most fanciful of fancies. Among the Japanese works of art is row of portraitl --Japanese beauties. probably--as ugl. as transverse eyes and blackened lips ant teeth could make them. Yet these are no doubt. the faces that would go righ to the Japanese heart, in contemplation of whose loveliness young gentlemen il that strange country sigh, and lose flesh and become useless for all practical pur. poses. just as happens. now and then. fo, very different reasons. to the Aryan of ten der manhood. Aside. however, from it strangs grotesqueness, there is yivacit, about Japanese art that is an actual reve lAtion. We see nothing else at all equal ing it. A few dashes of the Japanes pencil. for instance. gives us cockhght Tn the English department there is sim liar subject treated in our way. The Japanese sketch IS so light and sugges tive. yet so slight. that the English pic ture seems coarse in comparison. though admirably done. So unreal does ever thing Japanese seem that if anyone shoult return to the entrance after first view of that wonderful department and hea from the polite policeman in attendance that the wrong man had got hold of th, Aladdin lamp and had suddenly set th. Main Bnilding down in Central Africa, i would hardly be surprise.
 s SYSTEMATIC SURVEYS.
 We shall make no attempt to furnish guide hook to the exhibition. The best