Excerpt from Louisiana and the Fair: An Exposition of the World, Its People and Their Achievements It is gratifying that participation of the artists of this country was so large, and especially so that the character and quality of their offerings compared favorably with that of the best of European talent, thereby demonstrating that we possess an art of our own, with some European trans fusion, no doubt, but nevertheless an art which, in subject and treatment, most strongly reflects native vigor and national independence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.