Lippincotts Magazine, March 1876

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science

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Title: Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876
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LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE
March, 1876.
Vol. XVII, No. 99.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE CENTURY��ITS FRUITS AND ITS FESTIVAL.
III.--PAST EXPOSITIONS.
SKETCHES OF INDIA. III.
LIFE-SAVING STATIONS by REBECCA HARDING DAVIS.
THE EUTAW FLAG. II. III.
CONVENT LIFE AND WORK by LADY BLANCHE MURPHY.
THE ATONEMENT OF LEAM DUNDAS. BY MRS. E. LYNN LINTON, AUTHOR OF "PATRICIA KEMBALL."

CHAPTER XXV
. SMALL CAUSES.

CHAPTER XXVI
. THE GREEN YULE.

CHAPTER XXVII
. IN THE BALANCE.

CHAPTER XXVIII
. ONLY A DREAM.
LOVE'S SEPULCHRE by KATE HILLARD.
LETTERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA by LADY BARKER.
A SYLVAN SEARCH by MARY B. DODGE.
THE SONGS OF MIRZA-SCHAFFY by AUBER FORESTIER.
TO CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN by SIDNEY LANIER.
CHARLES KINGSLEY: A REMINISCENCE by ELLIS YARNALL.
OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP.
A WOMAN'S OPINION OF PARIS AND THE PARISIANS by L.H.H.
THE COLLEGIO ROMANO by T.A.T.
TRADES UNIONISM IN ITS INFANCY.
MORAL TRAINING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
THE EARLIEST PRINTED BOOKS by M.H.
FLOWERS VS. FLIES.
LITERATURE OF THE DAY.
Books Received.

ILLUSTRATIONS
THE GREAT ANNUAL FAIR AT NIZHNEE-NOVGOROD.
CRYSTAL PALACE--LONDON EXHIBITION BUILDING, 1851.
INTERIOR VIEW OF THE TRANSEPT OF CRYSTAL PALACE.
NEW YORK EXHIBITION BUILDING, 1853.
CORK EXHIBITION BUILDING, 1853.
DUBLIN EXHIBITION BUILDING, 1853.
MUNICH EXHIBITION BUILDING, 1854.
MANCHESTER EXHIBITION BUILDING, 1857.
FLORENCE EXHIBITION BUILDING, 1861
PARIS EXPOSITION BUILDING AND GROUNDS, 1867.
GRAND VESTIBULE OF THE PARIS EXPOSITION BUILDING, 1867.
VIENNA EXPOSITION BUILDING AND GROUNDS, 1873.
ROTUNDA OF THE VIENNA EXPOSITION BUILDING, 1873.
MUSSULMAN WOMAN OF BHOPAL.
A NAUTCH-GIRL (OR BAYAD��RE) OF ULWUR.
A NAUTCHNI (OR BAYAD��RE) OF BARODA.
THE CATHACKS (OR DANCING MEN) OF BHOPAL.
BURIAL PLACE OF THE RAJAHS OF JHANSI.
TOMB OF ALLUM SAYED.
PEASANTS OF THE DOUAB.
HINDU BANKERS OF DELHI.
THE GRAND HALL OF THE DEWANI KHAS IN THE PALACE OF DELHI.
THE JAMMAH MASJID AT DELHI.

LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE
OF
_POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE._
MARCH, 1876.
Vol. XVII, No. 99.

THE CENTURY--ITS FRUITS AND ITS FESTIVAL.
III.--PAST EXPOSITIONS.
[Illustration: THE GREAT ANNUAL FAIR AT NIZHNEE-NOVGOROD.]
We have presented a feeble sketch of a century that stands out from its fellows, not as a mere continuation, or even intensification, of them--a hundred annual circuits of the earth in its orbit as little distinguished by intellectual or material achievement as those repetitions of the old beaten track through space are by astronomical incident--but as an epoch _sui generis_, a century _d'elite_, picked out from the long ranks of time for special service, charged by Fate with an extraordinary duty, and decorated for its successful performance. Those of its historic comrades even partially so honored are few indeed. They will not make a platoon--scarce a corporal's guard. We should seek them, for instance, in the Periclean age, when eternal beauty, and something very like eternal truth, gained a habitation upon earth through the chisel and the pen; in the first years of the Roman empire, when the whole temperate zone west of China found itself politically and socially a unit, at rest but for the labors of peace; and in the sixteenth century, when the area fit for the support of man was suddenly doubled, when the nominal value of his possessions was additionally doubled by the mines of Mexico and Peru, and when his mental implements were in a far greater proportion multiplied by the press.
[Illustration: CRYSTAL PALACE--LONDON EXHIBITION BUILDING, 1851.]
The last of these periods comes nearest to our standard. The first had undying brilliance in certain fields, but the scope of its influence was geographically narrow, and its excessively active thought was not what we are wont to consider practically productive, its conquests in the domain of physical science being but slender. The second was in no sense originative, mankind being occupied, quietly and industriously, in making themselves comfortable in the pleasant hush after the secular rattle of spear and shield. The third was certainly full of results in art, science and the diffusion of intelligence through the upper and middle strata of society. It might well have celebrated the first centennial of the discovery of printing or of the discovery of America by assembling the fresh triumphs of European art, so wonderful to us in their decay, with the still more novel productions of Portuguese India and Spanish America. But the length of sea--voyages prosecuted in small vessels with imperfect knowledge of winds and currents, and the difficulties of land-transportation when roads were almost unknown, would have restricted the display to meagre proportions, particularly had Vienna been the site selected. Few visitors could have