Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867
Descending from his airy eminence and plung ing into'the busy world of Paris, a unit in the sum 'of its life, the visitor is yet more astonished at the vitality and variety of its existence. How ceaseless the tide that ebbs and ?ows through its mighty arteries from sunrise till midnight! What wealth and taste in the stores that line the Boulevards and crowd the passages and arcades f Above all what order and neatness everywhere; what courtesy and clv?ity'
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