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LIBRARY ARCHITECTURE

entirely cut off from the front portion of the building by a wall from side to side, the only communication being an iron door at the back of the staircase.

The first floor contains a reading-room, rooms

for the librarian, and a further portion of the book-store. The two top floors are entirely devoted to book storage, and have four tiers of bookcases, each floor containing two. In the

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