British Section of the St. Louis International Exhibition. Com- piled
by Sir Isidore Spielmann. (The Royal Commission.)—This stately volume is a not inadequate memorial of a great occasion. First we have the general scene : the Festival Hall "from which radiated eleven vast palaces and thirty-five miles of asphalted and gravelled roadway." The British Pavilion follows, constructed on the model of the Orangery at Kensington Palace. The various rooms and the garden are pictured for us. Then comes the " British Art Section," with views of the picture galleries, and reproductions of paintings, engravings, sculptures, models, &c.,—these occupy something like half the volume. Architecture is well represented by churches, mansions, banks, warehouses, &c. Various manufactures have their places, not the least interesting among them being specimens of typo- graphy.
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