THE WORLD'S FAIR

Or, Children's Prize Gift Book of the Great Exhibition of 1851

Describing the Beautiful Inventions and Manufactures Exhibited Therein;
with Pretty Stories about the People Who Have Made and Sent Them; and
How They Live When at Home

London: Thomas Dean and Son 35, Threadneedle-Street, and
Ackermann and Co. 96, Strand.







What a pretty picture we have in the first title page, of the Great
Exhibition in Hyde Park! This gigantic structure is built of iron,
glass, and wood; but as, at a distance, it seems to be made entirely
of glass, it is called the "Crystal Palace." Does it not look like one
of those magnificent palaces we read about in fairy tales?

The Great Exhibition is intended to receive and exhibit the most
beautiful and most ingenious things from every country in the world,
in order that everybody may become better known to each other than
they have been, and be joined together in love and trade, like one
great family; so that we may have no more wicked, terrible battles,
such as there used to be long ago, when nobody cared who else was
miserable, so that they themselves were comfortable. Only look at the