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contact with the air or the hand; others benefit from being left uncovered." Exposition
llniverselle de 1867, a Paris: Album des installations Ies plus re1narquables
de l'Exposition de .1862, a Londres. publie par" Ia commission imperiale pour
servir de renseignement aux exposants des diverses nations (Paris, 1866) .
Album of plates in large folio, with very interesting illustrations, some in color,
showing-in cross-section or longitudinal section, as the case may be-the pavilions
of the world exhibition of 1862. Bibliothcque Nationale, V.644. [GI3,!]
Paris in the year 2855: " Our many visitors from Saturn and Mars have entirely
forgotten, since arriving here, the horizons of their mother planet! Paris is henceforward
the capital of creation! . . . Where are you, Champs-Elysees, favored
theme of newswriters in 1855? ... Buzzing along this thoroughfare that is paved
with hollow iron and roofed with crystal are the bees and hornets of finance! The
capitalists of Ursa Major are conferring with the stockbrokers of Mercury! And
coming on the market this very day are shares in the debris of Venus half consumed
by its own flames!" Arsene Houssaye, "Le Paris futur," in Paris et les
Parisiens au XIX" siecle (Paris, 1856), pp. 458-459. [GI3,2]
At the time of the establishment, in London, of the General Council of the Workers
International,24 the following remark circulated: ·'The child born in the workshops
of Paris was nursed in London." See Charles Benoist, "Le 'My the' de la
classe ouvriere," Revue des deux mondes (March 1, 1914), p. 104. [G13,3]
"Seeing that the gala ball is the sole occasion on which men contain themselves, let
us get used to modeling all our institutions on gatherings such as these, where the
woman is queen." A. Toussenel, Le Monde des oiseallx, vol. I (Paris, 1853),
p. 134. And: " Many men are courteous and gallant at a ball, doubting not that
gallantry is a commandment of God" (ibid., p. 98). [GI3,4]
On Gabriel Engelmann: "When he published his Essais lithographiques in 1816,
great care was taken to reproduce this medallion as the frontispiece to his book
with the inscription: Awarded to M. G. Engelmann of Mulhouse (Upper Rhine).
Large-scale execution, and refinement, of the art of lithography. Encouragement.
1816. '" Henri Bouchot, La Lithographie (Paris