Excerpt from Pen-and-Ink Notes at the Glasgow Exhibition: A Series of Illustrations

Was ready and in order. Of course, there is nothing perfect in this world, and people who are nothing if not critical are ever with us, ready to give proof of their sagacity, not only by pointing out faults that really do exist, but by proclaiming their discovery of defects that exist simply in their own imaginations. Such critics, however, have their use, and even Letters to the Editor are sometimes fruitful of beneficial suggestions. In the conduct of an undertaking so great as an International Exhibition mistakes must now and again occur, but it is pleasant to know that lynx-eyed censors have not been able to detect in the Glasgow administration any serious lapses from wisdom's path, and that the executive, whenever a really useful hint has been given, have Shown their appreciation of the criticism by adopting the advice Altogether the Exhibition has stood successfully the fierce white light of public judgment that beats into and through every corner and cranny of such an enterprise. Glasgow is, therefore, justly proud of her great show, and the citizens ought to be well pleased that they hold among their number the men of clear brains and strong wills who organized the work and have carried it to a successful issue. At the outset there were prophets of evil omen in our midst, who shook their heads and looked dismal when the proposed Exhibition was discussed. An Exhibition had succeeded in Edinburgh, but Edinburgh was different from Glasgow; the Jubilee Exhibition at Manchester was quite exceptional; Exhibitions had been overdone; Glasgow was a steady-going place, more given to church meetings than to frivolous amusements - and so on. Such were some of the adverse arguments used. They have all been answered in a way most acceptable to those who refused to believe in them, and had the courage of their opinions. Of course, when I say that the Exhibition is thoroughly successful, I mean successful as an Exhibition, and as an attraction and object of interest to the public. It has in this way justified its existence and fulfilled the purpose for which it was called into being. As to the secondary and less legitimate consideration of its financial success, in the.

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