Identifier: expositionuniver10walt (find matches)
Title: Exposition universelle, 1900 : the chefs-d'uvre
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Walton, William, 1843-1915 Champier, Victor, b. 1851 Saglio, André, b. 1869 Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France)
Subjects: Art
Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Barrie & Son
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ality and sentiment ofthe parent country has been transferred, also, within the walls of someof the other national buildings, notably of those of Finland and Bosnia-Herzegovina, but in these cases it is much as a complete and well-arranged national museum only, in which the sense of domesticity andbien-etre is quite lacking. The very handsome Austrian pavilion, luxuri-ously furnished, presents, in addition to the furniture, paintings, andsculpture,—the property of the Crown,—a large number of works of artsupplementing the national exhibit in the Grand Palais, but much inferiorin value. The great Italian building, a variation hrillante of Saint Marc,with its domes, its gildings, its carvings, its elaborate paintings on theexterior walls, can be admired from two levels,—the lower one, on whichit is built, and the upper one of the double foot-bridge which spans theBoulevard de la Tour Maubourg; the intelligent visitor generally sighs, as THE SWISS VILLAGE CHAMP DE MARS PHOTOGRAVURE
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ARCHITECTURE 6i he stops to contemplate it, at the approaching destruction of such a pro-digious amount of skilful construction,—probably as skilful an architectural

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