Genre:

Instructions, Spoof

Subjects:

Exhibitions, Display, Education, Machinery, Progress

    Includes warnings that the public is not to 'go staring at things merely because they are pretty, or celebrated', but to 'go regularly and reverentially through the whole building, and is specially to make itself master of every part of the Machinery Exhibition before venturing to examine the products of the machinery'. The rules also stipulate that anybody who 'makes a remark upon the difference between the building of 1851 [the Crystal Palace] and the present one, and does not distinctly declare the latter to be immeasurably the superior', will be removed by the police, who will also enforce the idea that the exhibition is 'a grand success'.