The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-04-21
H PACIFIC
GommertialAOOtrtlser
SATURDAY. April 2l-
REVIEW.

the objects Of interest eEs15Hsd an Ne'H' eh'9Foc1"9
also a choice history Of the oTigi" and success q
The Exhibition, and Biographies Of The leading
members Of The Centennial Commission, to tohieh
is addsd a complete description Of the city q
PHILADELPHIA. By james D. McCabe, author Of
the "CsntenniaI History Of The United STATES
"P1thpays Of the Holy land" etc, etc, enoes-
Lshed arih oUer 800 fHe eagraUings Of buildings
and scenes in the great Exhibition. Published BY
the National Publishing Company. Philadelphia.
Pa. Chicago, III, and st. Louis, No.
The foregoing title explains the nature Of the con-
tents of the book. Of which we propose to publish q
brief notice, for the benefit of our readers IN Homo
lulu, and the Hawaiian Islands generally, informing
them at the outset, that for such as desire to peruse
the work itself, it may be obtained of our e~nterpris-
ing Honolulu Booksellers, Messrs. Thrum s Dat, the
Agents for the sale of the Book in this capital
It would be quite impossible for US to do anything
like adequate justice to a volume of this magnitude
consisting of S74 octave pages, within the limits Of a
newspaper notice. We havs decided, then, not to
make sny extracts from the book, in our present
article; reserving to ourselves the option of hereafter
publishing from time to time, some Of the most in
teresting passages of this important publication.
Its author, Jas. D. McCabe, is a writer OF celebrity
in the United States and the literary English world
generally. Although we have stated our intention
not to publish extracts from the work at present, We
nevertheless think it only justice to the author to
ouote here his own words, with reference to this ar
duous literary undertaking. In his " preface" he
says: Believing that such would be the interest
of the American people in the exhibition, the author
began at an early day the preparation of this work.
in which he has sought to present to the reader not
only the history Of the great enterprise, from its in
ception down to its close, but at the same time to
give him a life-like picture of the exhibition, and its
varied sights and attractions. Apart from his other
labors, he visited every portion Of the exhibition IN
person, notebook in hand, and has endeavored to
record faithfully aad accurately the various features
and incidents of the great fair which seem to him
most likely to give the readers a correct idea of it.
He ventures to hope that he has succeeded in his task,
and that the work will be found of use and interest
by those who visited the exhibition and saw for them
selves the beauty and instructive display described
herein, as well as by the thousands who could not
enjoy this privilege. These latter know the exhibi-
ton only by the reports that reach them through
their friends and the newspapers. For their benefit
chiefly the author has written these pages, in which
he has endeavored to enable them to become familiar
with the exhibition without either the expense or
trouble attendant upon a visit to it, ETC." For those
who have not visited the great exhibition this work
of Mr.. McCabe should prove a very great boon. The
800 beautiful engravings. which serve to Illus
trate the book. are a kind of compensation mad
eouate, tt is true, but nevertheless highly valuable,
for such as have not had the advantage of personally
inspecting the objects which they represent. They
were engraved, as Mr.. McCabe tells US in his pre-
face, by { Messrs. Van Ingen and Snyder, Philadel-
phia, Harper s. Bros, New York, and other we'll
known houses
To give some idea of the contents of the book, we
-. - aa-N~1oac
tyentv-nine CHAPTERS. In the first chapter, the
reader finds a notice of the city of Philadelphia,
from its foundation by William Penn, down to the
Centennial, including statistics of its population.
The second and third chapters describe the city, as
: at present it presents itself lin 1870. A descrip-
tion of Paramount Park takes up the fourth chapter
The fifth chapter is devoted to q history of the Gen.
tennial Exhibition. In the following chapter, 9th
is explained the tout ensemble of the management Of
The Exhibition, including a list of the officers of the
Centennial Exhibition, and the Commissioners from
foreign countries. Chapter seventh furnishes par
ticulars of the modes of getting to the Exhibition
and the Accommodations made for visitors thereto
The opening of the Exhibition is described in chaptel
eighth. This chapter includes the famous Centennia
y Hymn of the American Poet Whittier. The immedi
ate localities without the exhibition grounds, and tn
grounds themselves, occupy chapters ninth ant
tenth. The two following chapters, eleventh AM
twelfth, are taken up with the account Of the Mai
Building. 4 separate chapter is devoted to each Q
o. the following Halls, viz Machinery Hall, Agricul
- tural Hall, Horticultural Hall, and Memorial Hal
The United States Government Building is describe
in chapter seventeenth ; the Woman's Building, i
chapter eighteenth, and the Minor Structures OF tn
Exhibition in chapter nineteenth. Biographies
notices are given in chapter twentieth OF Messr'
IL Nauk0- al
Executive of the Centennial Exhibition. The cele
j, bration of the Fourth of July, 1875, at Philadelphia
is the subject of chapter twenty-frst and the Inter
national Regatta that of the following chapter. Ih
: Livestock displays are described in chapter twenty
third, and the next is devoted 10 the description
the Estate Days. set apart for special celebrations
individual States, including ' Growing the Queen
Love and Beauty Miss Perkins. of Buckinghal
County, Virginia, with her four " Maids of Honor,
the Misses Griffith (Maryland), Holland (Florida
TAYLOR, (Delaware), and Baden (Philadelphia). II
three following chapters are respectively devoted
the ssRecord of the Exhibition the " Announc
ment of the Awards and the " Close of the Exhib
ton" Chapter twenty-eight furnishes very int
estiug sc Statistics Of Attendance - and, in fine,
the twenty-ninth and last chapter Of Mr.. McCaoe
highly interesting, important and valuable work, T.
reader meets with that distinguished writer's on
opinions upon what was accomplished by L
great exhibition of Philadelphia, as well as the vie'
On the same subject, of Messrs. Hawley, Goshor
welsh, Sartain, Albert, Landreth. Miller and Wake
all gentlemen officially connected with the Exhit
ton. With these remarks, We think our readers "
find sufficient inducement to invest in a copy OF t
II work itself.
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