Excerpt from Goupil's Paris Salon of 1896: One Hundred Plates Photogravures and Etchings and One Water Color Fac-Smile<br><br>At the same time, we find no reason for surprise at its prevalence. The habit of hasty and incomplete work to which the necessity for giving an account of the Exhibitions before their opening has led in the daily papers, makes all serious criticism impossible. At the Champ de Mars, where the number of works is limited, they have some chance; but at the champs-elysees, where paintings, water-colors.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.