All that is deliberate. One governing idea has been followed,
officially thus described : " In our Pavilion, our sports and games are well illustrated. Our week-end cottage and our love of the sea and of the country- side receive conspicuous treatment ; and, so far as industry is concerned, only those things which relate to our persons and our homes are collected together—our dress, our tableware, pottery, glass, our furniture—and these not in their most ornate or extravagant forms, but in the form in which they may be found over and over again, even in the form in which they are available for all our people. In the selection of these things the English tradition of sound construction and good workmanship has been kept in the forefront, and in design the particularly English quality has been sought."
On that basis the display is as good as it could be. I wish myself that the cricket-bats and the golf-clubs and the tennis and squash rackets and the fishing-rods had not been quite so prominent, so that someone said going into the British pavilion was like going into Gamages, but what is wrong with the British pavilion is not what is there but what is not.
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