Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . 18 GUIDE TO rHOrO COPYRIoHIED, 18^6, BY FOSTER BROS. CHEMISTRY. Painting by Puvis de Chavannes. vaulted ceiling ofthe main room isevenly divided byfour heavy ribs,which rest uponmassive piers ofOhio sandstone. Be-tween are lighterribs, supported bysmaller piers of thesame material. Thir-teen arched win-dows, which com-pose the magnificentarcade on CopleySquare, let in theeast light. At thesouth end are twomore windows. Allare filled with grillesof the conventionalRoman pattern. Anarrow frieze, run-ning clear round theroom between thep
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . 18 GUIDE TO rHOrO COPYRIoHIED, 18^6, BY FOSTER BROS. CHEMISTRY. Painting by Puvis de Chavannes. vaulted ceiling ofthe main room isevenly divided byfour heavy ribs,which rest uponmassive piers ofOhio sandstone. Be-tween are lighterribs, supported bysmaller piers of thesame material. Thir-teen arched win-dows, which com-pose the magnificentarcade on CopleySquare, let in theeast light. At thesouth end are twomore windows. Allare filled with grillesof the conventionalRoman pattern. Anarrow frieze, run-ning clear round theroom between thepiers, is inscribed ingilt letters with thenames of the menmost famous in thehistory of the worldfor their achieve-ments in art, litera-ture and of Eng-lish oak. eight feethigh, entirely linethe east and westwalls and the north THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. 19 end .^f Bates Hall,cxeept where inter-rupted b}^ the sand-stone piers and themantel s. Thesebookcases containabout nine thousandbooks of reference,not exclusively en-cyclopc-edias and dic-tionaries, but
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