A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
"THE success of the Exhibition becomes daily more pronounced, and on this Saturday, when nascent autumn assumed a coquetry quite vernal, the record of admissions was beaten easily. Actually 417,400 admissions were registered, which exceeds by 48,331 the record last established by Sunday, September i9th, with 369,069 visitors." Thus, a little lyrically, and with an insistence on anonymity that seems rather excessive, did the Petit Parisien record my visit, and that of some others, to the Paris Exhibi- tion a few days ago. This column will for once, more through stress of circumstances than of set purpose, harp overmuch on a single theme ; but that may not be altogether a bad thing, for the Paris Exhibition prompts several questions that deserve attention. The Exhibition itself is of course stupen- dous, whether you think of it in terms of crowds, or of the torrid miles you tread under a sun whose vernal coquetry, it seems, is more than befits September, or of the coup d'oeil you get of the whole marvellous and magic scene at night from as far up the Eiffel Tower as they will take you at that hour. But all that has been described long ago and needs no further words here.
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