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The Jewel City by Ben Macomber
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been exaggerated; everything is "real." Even art critics who visit the
pavilion will not be disappointed, for on the walls they will find many
paintings of merit by Australian artists, including loan collections
from the National Gallery of New South Wales and the Victorian Art
Society.

The Australian exhibits, unlike those of most other countries, have been
grouped in this building, instead of being shown in the various
Exposition palaces.

Bolivia.--Bolivia has erected one of the most essentially national
pavilions at the Exposition, an admirable building that expresses
equally the two elements of its population, the Spanish and the Indian.
The building is Spanish in its solid rectangular plan; its entrance is
copied from the portal of the Church of San Lorenzo, and its central
patio fashioned after that of the old mint at Potosi. It is Indian in
the curious carved work of the facade and the monoliths flanking the
entrance, both being exact copies of ceremonial temple stones from the
lake region of Bolivia. The building was designed by Dr. Calderon of the
Bolivian Commission and Albert Farr of San Francisco.

Tropical plants and fruits are shown in the brick-paved patio. The rooms
in the interior include a moving-picture theater, an art gallery and
museum, with pictures by Bolivian artists, and relics of the
civilization of the Incas. The national exhibits are shown in the
Exposition palaces.

Canada.--The Canadian Pavilion is the largest of the foreign buildings,
and the best example at the Exposition of businesslike advertising by a
government. (p. 148.) Planned by a permanent commission which has had
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