earch. It is impossible perhaps to harmonize such an incongruous
set of buildings, adapted for different climates, habits, tastes and
needs. Here on the left is a large white castellated house of Algiers.
It has blank walls and loopholed towers, and no suggestion of a tree
or flower, but gives an idea of the land where the sand of the desert
comes up to the doorstep and beggars and thieves go on horseback. On
the opposite extremity, at the right, is a Chinese house with its
peculiar curved roof, suggested originally, doubtless, by the Tartar
tent, but having more curves and points than were ever shown by canvas
or felt. In a district by themselves the readers of the Koran--or a
set of people passing for such--have their Persian, Tunisian, Morocco
and Turkish kiosques, and the inhabitants seem perhaps one shade
cleaner than they did in Philadelphia. They are supposed, at least,
to be the same, and have an exactly similar lot of rubbish and brass
jewelry for sale, and oil of cassia, which they sell for the attar of
the "gardens of Gul in their bloom." Next is a campanile of Sweden,
and near it are the Swedish and Norwegian houses, armed against
winter. Then the Japanese cottage with sides all open, mats on the
floors and no furniture to speak of. Then comes a Moorish pavilion
of Spain with nondescript ornaments, the bulbous domes and pinnacles
supporting the flags of yellow and red--of barbaric taste, color and
significance.

We have yet to notice the Italian villa, the Oriental mosque, the
Swiss chalet and the log hut; also the modern pavilion with zinc
roof, the thatched houses of Britain and of Normandy, the Elizabethan
cottage and the English farm-house. What they lack in size they make
up in variety, may be said of the greenhouses and conservatories
dotted about the place. In and outside of them the marvellous
skill and patience of the gardener is seen in the rigidly-formal or
abnormally-directed limbs of the fruit trees. The fish-ponds and
fountains are neither numerous nor large, but the aquarium may merit
more extended description when completed.

Standing, sensible-looking and tasteful, in the midst of much that is
trumpery, but good enough for a summer fete, and placed here not as
exhibits of good taste, but of what their owners think good, rises the
wooden building with skylight roof of "The Administration of Forests
and Waters." It is on a beautiful knoll, and has a wooden frame with
tongued and grooved pane