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Excerpt from The Tennessee Centennial Exposition: Mr. Nathaniel Stephenson in the Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune, April 9, 1897 The scenic value of this imaginative undertone, so to speak, which is possessed by the Nashville Exposition, can not be overestimated. N 0 one can stand upon the Rialto, catch both views which it commands, and not receive a peculiar impres sion that will remain with him throughout the fair. As he descends the slope of the Rialto, to lose himself amid the maze of the Exposition, the consciousness of the background of the picture goes with him. For that very reason the bright glitter of what is immediately before his eyes is all the more at tractive. He knows that he has but to turn his head to catch again the distant presence of historic fact; the whole of this unsubstantial pageant, through which he moves and laughs and takes his ease. This world of white and gold, and green and blue, has heightened every gleam of color by the somber con trast of that far-away veil Of smoke, above which towers the Capitol, and within which, for them that have ears to hear, the cannon of the past still sound. 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.