Sentence:  To the statement above we may, of course, add that a far greater number have never had the “luck” of seeing a Continental Fair;— the <WSD>Carnivals</WSD> of Italy, of France,—a Russian Fair,—or the <WSD>Carnivals</WSD> and Jahrmarkts of Germany. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (nodot=yes); "especially in the sense "any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.""