A writer in Wednesday's Times makes a very urgent plea
that the British Government and British people should do their best to make the British exhibits at the coming St. Louis Exhibition as impressive and as attractive as possible. He is alarmed, as so many other students of things American have been, to see how profound is the ignorance
of Britain and her Government entertained by the mass of Americans, and especially by Western Americana,— and this though Americans and Englishmen are all the time so alike in fundamentals. He rightly holds that we should do all in our power to make the Americans understand better what manner of people we are, and he thinks that a great opportunity is to be found in the St. Louis Exhibition, to which the Americans of the Western States will come literally by the million. "Supposing," he says," the British Government act slackly in this matter of the St. Louis Exposition, and leave individual exhibitors to their own devices, the result being that the British exhibit is a poor one, they will not merely be inviting the American public to make invidious comparisons with other nations, but they will be losing a splendid chance of impressing the American mind with the real greatness and potentialities of the British Empire."
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