The Aftermath of the Paris Exhibition

THE size and importance of the Paris Exhibition of 1900 is beginning to be appreciated in its true significance. Many who visited the exhibition in a casual way were greatly impressed with its vastness and came away with the feeling that the exhibition was a marvellous illustration of the Frenchman's power of organisation; but that, owing to its very immensity, it lost much of its practical value. The aftermath of the exhibition is still with us, and we begin to see—from the number of special reports upon the different departments—that although not a financial success, the exhibition has left its mark upon commerce and science in a way that bids fair to rival, in its economic results, the immense advantages that accrued to this country from the Great Exhibition of 1851, and justly to warrant the enormous labour put forth in its inception and. organisation.