_L_. (_Sighs_.) Do you believe they'll have a course like that next year? _I_. I think may be they will. _L_. Dear me! There's the bell to dress for dinner. How I wish I could study those lovely things! _I_. You must ask your father if you can't spend the winter in Boston with me. I'm sure there'll be another course of Parlor Philosophy next winter. But how dreadful that we must stop talking about it now to dress for dinner! You are going to have company, you said; what shall you wear, dear? _L_. Oh, almost anything. What shall you? (_Exeunt arm in arm_.) * * * * * THE PROPOSED DUTCH INTERNATIONAL COLONIAL AND GENERAL EXPORT EXHIBITION. The Amsterdam International Exhibition, the opening of which has been fixed for May 1, 1883, is now in way of realization. This exhibition will present a special interest to all nations, and particularly to their export trade. Holland, which is one of the great colonial powers, proposes by means of this affair to organize a competition between the various colonizing nations, and to contribute thus to a knowledge of the resources of foreign countries whose richness of soil is their fundamental power. The executive committee includes the names of some of the most prominent persons of the Netherlands: M. Cordes, president; M. de Clercq, delegate; M. Kappeyne van di Coppello, secretary; and M. Agostini, commissary general. [Illustration: PLAN OF THE DUTCH INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. 1. Exhibition Palace. 2. Netherlands Colonial Exhibition. 3. Fine Arts. 4. Annexes for Agricultural Machines, etc. 5. Machines, Materials, etc. 6. Concert Theater. 7. Panorama. 8. Jury Pavilion. 9. Royal Pavilion. 10. Committee Pavilion. 11. International Society's Pavilion. 12. Restaurant and Café. 13. Music Kiosque and Electric Pharos. 14. German Restaurant. 15. Dutch Restaurant. 16. English Restaurant. 17. French Restaurant. 18. Aquarium and Rockwork. ] The exhibition will consist of five great divisions, to wit: 1. A Colonial exhibition. 2. A General Export exhibition. 3. A Retrospective exhibition of Fine Arts and of Arts applied to the Industries. 4. Special exhibitions. 5. Lectures and Scientific Reunions. The colonial part forms the base of the exhibition, and will be devoted to a comparative study of the different systems of colonization and colonial agriculture, as well as of the manners and customs of ultramarine peoples. In giving an exact idea of what has been done, it will indicate what remains to be done from the standpoint of a general development of commerce and manufactures. Such is the programme of the first division. The second division will include everything that relates to the export trade. The third division will be reserved for works of art dating back from the most remote ages. The fourth division will be devoted to temporary exhibitions, such as those of horticultural and agricultural products, etc.