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                                    THE PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION.
The "COMPAGNIE DES INDES" produces capital. Under the judicious
direction of M. VIOT, engraved some of its more prominent and imposing
                                    its productions are invariably of a high
Art works; on this page we give examples of those
                                    order; the most eminent sculptors and
de signers of that are made more for general use, but which are
nts oneality; wo s isen t ronyx marble- Paris being employed by the extensive
and pros- not less meritorious as works of Art-CLOcKs and
its speciality; its issues in bronze are
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     al
                            perous establishment.  It ranks second to'no
house in  CANDELABRA; these are gen-eally  ronze-dorbs
among the best 'of the French France, and' is largely appreciated in England.
We have intermixed with the- marble o Algeria.'
        FINE ART AND DECORATIVE BRONZES.                       uncontested,
where the Art-strength of its competitor had been
                                           *                  ~~~~~~really-
put forth. In point of extent and variety, however' the
      BY GEORGE WALUS, DOUTX XENSINGTON MUSEUM.                French Bronze
Courts surpassed anything of the kind ever seen in
                                                                any Exhibition.
THE reputation which France, and especially its capital, the City Nor is
it a matter of wonder that it should be so. France has
of Paris, has achieved during the last twenty-five years in the created for
herself a special industry, which counts its gains- by'-
production of bronzes, from the highest and noblest efforts of the the million
sterling; and with which, from the fQstering care of
sculptor to the smallest and comparatively the most insignificant the state,
the municipality of Paris, and the enlightening course
ornamental detail, was fully sustained by the very remarkable and of action
pursued by the broUzists themselves, whether employers
extensive display made in the' Universal Exhibition of 1867-a  or employed,
all foreign competition is' practically useless. i This
display before which the most successful efforts in the exhibits of success
is based on the special preparation and education of the
other countries sank into comparative insignificance; although in workers,
by a well-orgamsed and widely-recognised system prac-
some special efforts France was not permitted to carry off the palm  tically
unknown in other countries, except, probably, in some of
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