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of all the leading civilized countries have been secured and will be assembled and presented for inspection, comparison and scientific study.

An innovation in Exposition methods will be the practical demonstration by the schools established in this country for training defectives, of the methods of instruction which enable their pupils to occupy useful and independent positions in society.

THE WORLD'S RAREST PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE. In the Department of Art there is being organized an exhibit for the Exposition at St. Louis which will surpass in quality the art exhibits of all previous international expositions. With a classification arranged on a broader plane than ever before established, the general scope of the exhibit has been largely increased, the diversity of exhibits will be greater and a larger constituency of Exposition visitors will be appealed to. On the present occasion there will be no discrimination between the different classes of art production. Painting, sculpture, architecture and the various applied arts are regarded from the same standpoint in relation to their importance, the only differences recognized being such as are dependent upon considerations of inspiration and technique.

Almost every country in the civilized world has applied for space in the Department of Art. In the aggregate the applicants ask for space far beyond the capacity of the Art Palace. As a result quality will take precedence over quantity, and this will be distinctly to the advantage of the exhibit as a whole.

In the Art Palace there will be a contemporaneous division, including works produced since the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 (all works in this division will be in competition for awards, which will be made by an international jury): there will also be a retrospective division covering works produced between the date of the Louisiana Purchase and 1893, and a division devoted to loans from American collections, public and private. In this last division will be exhibited many of the important masterpieces owned in this country.

The Contemporaneous Section will exhibit in the best possible manner the various schools of art expression in different portions of the world, showing the best obtainable examples in the direction of the highest achievement, so that visitors may gain a clear idea of the dominant characteristics and the scope of the different schools of art at the present time.

IN THE PALACE OF LIBERAL ARTS.-The treasures of science, art and industry as comprised in the broad classification of the Liberal Arts Department of the Universal Exposition of 1904 will be assembled in the ornate, spacious and majestic Palace of Liberal Arts, which structure, with its sculpture-crowned corner pavilions and arched entrances rising above colonnades of great doric columns, is the most easterly situated of the palaces on the Exposition grounds.

In the section of this great building devoted to Graphic Arts the developments and improvements achieved in printing and typography will be fully demonstrated by operative exhibits. There will be a hospital equipped with every modern appliance used in surgery and hospital work, together with numerous exhibits to illustrate the tremendous strides made in medical science during the last century. In the group comprising instruments of precision will be seen an immense equatorial telescope (12 inches) weighing 4,000 pounds, surrounded by geodetic and astronomical apparatus.

A curious and interesting feature will be an alchemist's laboratory, in proximity to which will be a comprehensive display of chemical and pharmaceutical products and preparations.

Musical exhibits will occupy a prominent position in the Palace of Liberal Arts. The variety of instruments from which melody and harmony are produced will astonish the visitor. The musician will delight in the latest productions of and improvements on every kind of instrument, while the greatest mechanical achievements in the form of self-playing pianos and piano-players will be adequately represented.

Civil and military engineering, models, plans and designs for public works and architectural engineering will constitute an interesting and useful field to which experts may direct their attention.

In this, as in other palaces, the foreign nations of the earth will contribute to the general entertainment and instruction by comprehensive exhibits. Here China will make a special display, the prominence of which will remove the veil which has caused that country to remain a mystery to the western world. Ancient manuscripts, books made thousands of years before Gutenburg saw the light, a strange printing office, work of ancient carvers in wood and jet executed at a period when the tools employed were of the crudest, trophies from her museums and palaces, ancient and fantastic armor with implements and weapons of warfare, costumes of every section of the race, musical instruments of strange shape and weird tone-these will unfold the story of this wonderful people.

The exhibits will be replete with objects, many of them in operation, proclaiming in unmistakable language the progress of man.

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