Excerpt from The Best Things to Be Seen at the World's Fair I desire to give credit and thanks to T he Chicago Graphic for the use _of the originals of many of the sculptural sketches used in this work. T he Graphic has done as much as any other American publica tion toward presenting to the public the unparalleled artistic features of the Fair. And I am equally indebted to the reporters of Chicago newspapers for valuable information and much matter of a discrip tive character. 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.