Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . 18 GUIDE TO PHOTO GUIVRIOH FED, l8>^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 betwe
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . 18 GUIDE TO PHOTO GUIVRIOH FED, l8>^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 of Bates Hall,except where inter-rupted by the sand-stone piers and themantel s. Thesebookcases containabout nine thousandbooks of reference,not exclusively en-cyclopaedias and dic-tionaries, but
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