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342        THE INTERNATIONAL          EXHIBITION, 1876.
who designed Memorial Hall), was a simple one-story building, two hundred
and forty-two by seventy-seven feet in size, situated to the east of Memorial
Hall aforesaid, and north of the Main Building. It consisted of a single
room,
whose wall-space was indefinitely increased by screens projecting from the
sides
and forming alcoves for exhibition purposes.  In these spacious galleries
hung
the photographic achievements of all the world.
As most of the exhibitors whose works we shall mention received the
award of merit, it is hardly necessary to state that fact in the cursory
remarks
we shall make. That the medals were distributed without favoritism, there
is a
pleasing indication: the American exhibitors were rewarded in smaller propor-
tion than those of any of the great nationalities. Thus-
The United States, with 135 exhibitors, got 27 awards;
Great Britain,     I"   26    It     " I II
Germany,           44   24     i     "   7    it
France,            "'   10            "  6
Fine Art Literature of the Exposition. -The illustrated serials, the
art-editions of classical authors, the sumptuous works in which the purpose
of
the description was developed by means of magnificent plates, the travels
recorded with pencil as well as with pen, formed altogether the Fine Art
Literature of the Centennial Exposition. The surprising wealth of this portion
of tie display was a full reward for those who underwent the toil necessary
to
seek it out, distributed as it was through the nooks and corners of the Main
Building, the pavilions set up by special publishers, the buildings erected
in the
Park by different nationalities.  A  review of this diversified literature
would
well be worth the space of a separate volume. Constrained as we are to treat
it as a mere appendix to our general study of the Fine Arts (with which topic,
however, it is so closely and appropriately allied), we must portray it simply
in
outline; happy indeed if so cursory a treatment shall recall to the reader
some
fine work which only slightly imprinted itself on the memory in hurrying
by,
or bring to notice an unknown typographical masterpiece.
Shakspeare, as the greatest genius arisen since the discovery of printing,
first claims our attention. Innumerable are the illustrated Shakspeares.
 Each
of the civilized nations has found him the inspiration of its art. Of the
various