nations all over Lansdowne hill. No need of gilded show-cases to set off
the German and Germantown roses, the thirty thousand hyacinths in
another compartment, or the plot of seven hundred and fifty kinds of
trees and shrubs planted by a single American contributor. The Moorish
Kiosque, however, comes in well. The material is genuine Morocco, the
building having been brought over in pieces from the realm of the
Saracens, of "gul in its bloom" and of "Larry O'Rourke"--as Rogers
punned down the poem of his Irish friend.

The nations comfortably installed, we must sketch the tactical system
under which they are drawn up for peaceful contest. The classification
of subjects adopted by the Commission embraces seven departments. Of
these, the Main Building is devoted to I. _Mining and Metallurgy_; II.
_Manufactures_; III. _Education and Science_; Memorial Hall and its
appendages, to IV. _Art_; Machinery Hall, to V. _Machinery_;
Agricultural Hall, to VI. _Agriculture_; and Horticultural Hall and its
parterres, to VII. _Horticulture_. These habitats have, as we have
heretofore seen, proved too contracted for the august and expansive
inmates assigned them. All of the latter have overflowed; mining, for
instance, into the mineral annex of thirty-two thousand square feet and
the great pavilion (a hundred and thirty-five feet square) of Colorado
and Kansas; education into the Swedish and Pennsylvania school-houses
and others already noted; manufactures into breweries, glass-houses,
etc.; and so on with an infinity of irrepressible outgrowths.

[Illustration: FAÇADE OF THE DIVISION OF THE NETHERLANDS, MAIN
BUILDING.]

Department I. is subdivided into classes numbered from 100 to 129, and
embracing the products of mines and the means of extracting and reducing