THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5251, 22 January 1878, Page 3

THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

It has just been discovered that, notwithstanding the vigorous exertions and clever initiative of M. Krautz, the commissionergeneral of the Paris Exhibition, and in spite of all the projects and sngges ions that have been put forward with a view of adding to the attractions of the undertaking, a grievous void has been so far allowed to exist in the programme. Animals and machines, raw and manufactured products, objects of every possible nature —indigenous or exotic —had been duly counted on ; but in the immense and seemingly boundless catalogue “lovely woman” had been forgotten ! Happily, before it was too late, the country of Don Quixotte, Christopher Columbus, and the Cid, that legendary land which served as a cradle to chivalry, has discovered the mistake we were on the point of committing, and is taking measures to avert it. We are to have a “Beautiful Woman Show” at the Exhibition of 1878 ! A Spanish journal, El Norte de Castilla, announces the gladful tidings, pointing out at the same time the morality and utility of the scheme, and recommending it to the attention of- the fair sex all over the globe as being under the patronage of the 'Minister of Public Works at Madrid, to whom all the portraits of the competitors should be sent. There will be 61 prizes, 100 accessits, and 200 honorable mentions. The jury is to be composed of two members for each nation a gentleman and a lady—and they will found their awards on the inspection of two photographs, one a full face and the other a profile likeness of the subject. The portraits of the sixty-one prize winners are to be exposed for twelve days in a hall reserved for that purpose, after which they will be united with the accessits and honorable mentions in an album. Copies of this rare volume, produced in the richest style of art, will be offered to the sovereigns of the various countries represented at the contest, and others less expensive in their get up will he placed at the disposal of the public. This will be “ A Book of Beauty ” indeed.