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BUILDING FOR THE EXHIBITION OF INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS, 1851.

THE ATHENÆUM

Of Saturday, August 31st, contains a perspective view of Mr. Paxton's
design for the building as finally approved by Her Majesty's
Commissioners, and now in course of erection in Hyde Park. The Athenæum
of Saturday, the 7th of September, will contain a view of the south
front, a view of the east front, a portion on an enlarged scale, and a
ground plan.

Several journals having published views of a building which it was
supposed would be the building erected, the publisher of The Athenæum
considers it proper to state that the views announced above have never
been seen by the public, and are totally dissimilar to those engraved in