Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Exhibitions, Lecturing, Geology

    Discusses the complaint of a wooden-legged correspondent who proposes to solve the problem of walking through the vast lengths of the Great Exhibition by having a 'Moving Panorama of the Crystal Palace', whose attractions include a 'Professor of all the Arts and Sciences' lecturing on the 'history and rise of the various products of the earth as they respectively appear on the canvas'.