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The article focuses on the exhibition on art. The statistics of the Eighth International attendance became increasingly eloquent. It grew to be the best picture mart in Europe, just as the old exhibitions ceased to sell. Where many committees from many nations select the exhibitions, where warring factions practice their pet theories of hanging and decoration side by side, there can at least be no monotony. The long series of international galleries was becoming oppressive; even more so the "regional halls" where the Italian artists were exhibited side by side for no better reason than that they were inscribed in the same tax lists.

This article focuses on prevailing political conditions in the U.S. and around the world, as of April 22, 1897. The protests against the Dingley bill by European countries are based upon the idea that the U.S. is abandoning the policy of non-discrimination in foreign tariff, notwithstanding its treaties, and that the way to meet this action on the part of the U.S. is for the various European Governments to lay their duties so as to keep out American products whenever possible. Another development focuses on the teaching methods of English language in the schools of the U.S. and Great Britain.