end-vestibules at the end upon which they
abut.

The French and foreign sides of the Exposition building on the Champ
de Mars have frontages upon the interior court, and the facades of
the foreign sections are made ornamental and are intended to be
characteristic of the countries. There is a great discrepancy in
the space assigned to each: that of Great Britain is the longest,
amounting to five hundred and forty feet in length, while the little
territories of Luxembourg, Andorra, Monaco and San Marino, which are
clubbed together, have unitedly about twenty-five feet of frontage. In
some cases the space assigned to a nation does not run back the full
four hundred feet to the outside of the building, but it is intended
that each shall have some part of the facade in this allee. Much
taste and more expense have been lavished upon the architectural
construction and embellishment of the facades, and the row reminds one
of the scenes in a theatre, where palace, cottage, mosque and jail
stand side by side, giving a particolored effect as various as the
different emotions which the respective buildings might be supposed
to elicit. The English space being so large, no single design was
adopted, as it could have but a monotonous effect, but the frontage
was divided into five portions, each of which illustrates some style
of villa or cottage architecture, and is separated from the adjoining
one by garden-beds. The first, counting from the Salle de la Seine,
is of the style of Queen Anne's reign. It is built of a patented
imitation of red brickwork. Thin slabs of Portland cement concrete are
faced with smaller slabs of red concrete of the size of bricks and
screwed to the wooden frame of the building. The house has tall
casements in a bay with a balcony, and an entablature on top of the
wall. The second house is the pavilion of the prince of Wales, and
is of the Elizabethan style. It is built of rubble-work faced
with colored plaster in imitation of red brickwork and Bath-stone
dressings. The front has niches for statuary, and above the windows
are shield-shaped panels for armorial bearings. The windows are in
square clusters, with small lights in hexagonal leaden cames. The
union jack flies from the staff. The third house is constructed of
red brick and terra-cotta, and is not specially characteristic of any
period. It is, in fact, a jumble of the early Gothic with a Moorish
entablature and a balustrade parapet. The stained-glas