Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876

Transcriber's Note: The Table of Contents and the list of illustrations were added by the transcriber.
THE CENTURY--ITS FRUITS AND ITS FESTIVAL.
GLIMPSES OF CONSTANTINOPLE by SHEILA HALE.
THE ATONEMENT OF LEAM DUNDAS
By MRS. E. LYNN LINTON, AUTHOR OF PATRICIA KEMBALL.
I.--CHILDE HAROLD.
II.--SPRING FESTIVAL.
OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP.


Compress it as you may, this globe of ours remains quite a bulky affair. The world in little is not reducible to a microscopic point. The nations collected to show their riches, crude and wrought, bring with them also their wants. For the display, for its comfort and good order, not only space, but a carefully-planned organization and a multiplicity of appliances are needed. Separate or assembled, men demand a home, a government, workshops, show-rooms and restaurants. For even so paternal and, within its especial domain, autocratic a sway as that of the Centennial Commission to provide all these directly would be impossible. A great deal is, as in the outer world, necessarily left to private effort, combined or individual.
Having in our last paper sketched the provision made by the management for sheltering and properly presenting to the eye the objects on exhibition, we shall now turn from the strictly public buildings to the more numerous ones which surround them, and descend, so to speak, from the Capitol to the capital.