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 vague recollection of the enormous wealth exhibited, the wealth of industry and of art and of commerce and of the various activities of the great country of France. But the one thing which stands out in my memory and which, I think, will stand out so long as I live, is the fact that, not alone had the great countries,—France, Germany, Great Britain,— their separate rooms for the exhibition of the products of their art, but that Denmark, Servia, Greece, and countries very much the same as Wales in population and in ordinary material wealth, had each one of them, even distant Finland, separate rooms in that great Exhibition, in order to show, as show they did, the splendid products of the native art of each country. I wondered then, as I often wonder whenever I think of these nationalities now, whether it is possible that in the times to come our own country may claim a place in the galleries which, from time to time, will show the collective activities of the nations of the world.

But, even without this, one is glad and proud that there have been from time to time