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8 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. the ends, 89 feet by 28 feet, which extend between the pavilions at the corners. In the rear, the spaces between the corner pavilions and the central entrance are devoted to studios and small exhibition-rooms, with a communicating corridor. The latter rooms, also those in the corner pavilions, are lighted by side lights; in the remainder of the building skylights are used. Open arcades are happily introduced in the principal fagade, which extend from either side of the main vesti bule to the corner pavilions; these arcades form covered promenades and at the same time serve as ecreens to the blank walls of the gal leries. The intervening spaces between these arcades and the outer wall of the main galleries are laid out in garden-plots. At a certain distance the general effect of the masses is rather satisfactory; but upon a nearer approach the building, constructed of granite in the Renaissance style, loses much, the ornamentation being very common place and meagre in design, and leaves much to be desired in execu tion. Great defects also exist in the interior distribution, among the most flagrant of which is the poor accommodation of the upper stories in the corner pavilions. Greater simplicity in design and breadth of treatment with less ornamentation would undoubtedly have produced a nobler effect and been more in harmony with the material used—perhaps not the most appropriate. A want of scale also pervades the details throughout; this is especially observable in the main central hall, the dome of which rests clumsily on the walls. In view of the fine and varied exhibits made in painting and sculp ture, and of the numerous and interesting displays in the art-indus- tries, it can hardly be said that their sister art of architecture has been fairly represented at the Centennial Exhibition, the designs being few in number and mostly of minor importance. This may be somewhat accounted for by the fact that architectural designs and projects of construction have often necessarily only a local interest; while the technical character of architectural drawings prevents them from being appreciated, or even properly understood, by the general public; and, again, to the great number of architectural publications which have sprung into existence within a few years, containing everything of interest to the profession, may be attributed the meagreness of the exhibits. Owing to these and other causes, geometrical drawings, of such paramount importance, have gradually been superseded by per spective views, while the latter too often have been, as on this occa sion, supplanted by photographic views of the finished structures, so that the handiwork of the architect, so far at least as the design is concerned, is wholly ignored. In consequence, the Exhibition is wanting in much that would