Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1911 — London’s Crystal Palace. [ARTICLE]

London’s Crystal Palace.

The Crystal palace was a great producer of superlatives in its early days, says the London Chronicle. When Queen Victoria wrote of May day, 1851. as “the greatest day in our history, the most beautiful and imposing and touching spectacle ever seen,” she was referring to the whole idea and effect of the exhibition, but “the beauty of the building and the vastness of it all" were Important factors in the marvel which she relied upon to astound her uncle Leopold. When the palace moved to the new site Herbert Spencer wrote: “1 have been once at Sydenham. It surpasses even my expectations, though 1 bad seen it in progress. It is a fairyland and a wonder surpassing all others.” Ruskin said that Mr. Dickens has said that there was nothing like it in fairyland and added bitterly that Mr. Dickens was right.