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THE PARIS EXHIBITION. 100
in wild luxuriance in the plains of Estramadura, and which
are allowed to " waste their sweets on desert air."
The Spanish pictures are few in number, and offer nothing
worthy of the school of Murillo and Velazquez. A full-
length portrait of the Queen of Spain occupies the centre of
the room. There is besides a large picture representing a
conclave of cardinals, in which the artist has mastered a great
difficulty in grouping his scarlet-cloaked personages, so as
to avoid making the whole too loud in colour. Another
painter opposite has been less happy with his "Commu-
nicants," who kneeling, white clad, and in single file, are
painfully suggestive of the paper " ducks and drakes " made
by children.
Portugal, ambitious, like Spain, to show her colonial produce,
has erected in the Park a pavilion devoted to that purpose ;
but what she has remaining of Albuquerque's and Vasco de
Gama's conquests is so insignificant, that the jewel is far
from corresponding to the size of the case. Lacquered boxes
with curious ornaments manufactured at Goa, sundry woods
from the East Indies, textile plants from Cape de Verde,
cassava root and beans from Angola, and liqueurs from
Mozambique form the bulk of this collection.
In lieu of machines, Portugal exhibits her wines, her cereals
and her slates.
Portuguese manufactures are also devoid of interest if we
except a series of potteries, in the Limoges style, indicating
marked progress in the ceramic art, which was for a long
time kept back in that country owing to the prohibition of
all foreign importations.
The restoration of the Belem Church, erected in Lisbon in
in wild luxuriance in the plains of Estramadura, and which
are allowed to " waste their sweets on desert air."
The Spanish pictures are few in number, and offer nothing
worthy of the school of Murillo and Velazquez. A full-
length portrait of the Queen of Spain occupies the centre of
the room. There is besides a large picture representing a
conclave of cardinals, in which the artist has mastered a great
difficulty in grouping his scarlet-cloaked personages, so as
to avoid making the whole too loud in colour. Another
painter opposite has been less happy with his "Commu-
nicants," who kneeling, white clad, and in single file, are
painfully suggestive of the paper " ducks and drakes " made
by children.
Portugal, ambitious, like Spain, to show her colonial produce,
has erected in the Park a pavilion devoted to that purpose ;
but what she has remaining of Albuquerque's and Vasco de
Gama's conquests is so insignificant, that the jewel is far
from corresponding to the size of the case. Lacquered boxes
with curious ornaments manufactured at Goa, sundry woods
from the East Indies, textile plants from Cape de Verde,
cassava root and beans from Angola, and liqueurs from
Mozambique form the bulk of this collection.
In lieu of machines, Portugal exhibits her wines, her cereals
and her slates.
Portuguese manufactures are also devoid of interest if we
except a series of potteries, in the Limoges style, indicating
marked progress in the ceramic art, which was for a long
time kept back in that country owing to the prohibition of
all foreign importations.
The restoration of the Belem Church, erected in Lisbon in