ABSTRACT

With the view of affording information which may serve for guidance to really useful results, the considerations are offered to the attention of those who propose to visit the Exhibition of 1851, as also to those who may entertain doubts of its real utility. In due time, many of them will think more and drink less, as the results of the repeated and lengthened visits to the Exhibition. The Exhibition is, evidently, a thing so constituted, as not to end in mere negations. Men and merchandize, machines and products, are crowding distant shores, pressing on to reach our own. Looking in succession upon the products of distant lands, imagination will travel abroad to their source, and pry into their modes of manufacture and supply.