. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. B OF MASSACHUSETTS. Society is a younger institution occupying a kindred field, — bothhaving valuable reference libraries. The Boston Atheneum, estab-lished in 1849, has a handsomebuilding and a large library. Thelargest collection of books is thatof the Public Library. Ten yearsago the number of volumes in thislibrary was 345,734; the numberof persons employed was 141 ; andthe city appropriation for thecurrent expenses of the year $121,-0(H). There are now 505,410 vol-umes, with twelve branches andthree delivery statio
. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. B OF MASSACHUSETTS. Society is a younger institution occupying a kindred field, — bothhaving valuable reference libraries. The Boston Atheneum, estab-lished in 1849, has a handsomebuilding and a large library. Thelargest collection of books is thatof the Public Library. Ten yearsago the number of volumes in thislibrary was 345,734; the numberof persons employed was 141 ; andthe city appropriation for thecurrent expenses of the year $121,-0(H). There are now 505,410 vol-umes, with twelve branches andthree delivery stations, in as manyremote sections of the city. Thelibrary has outgrown its old build-ing on Boylston Street, a spaciousand elegant structure, and hasmade necessary the new and ca-pacious building on Copley has a frontage of 225 feet oneach of the three streets thatbound it; and its cornice is 70 feetabove the street, while Bates Hall,40 feet deep, and occupying theentire Dartmouth Street front,rises to a height of 80 feet, — re-tire roof. The architecture is. NEW ENGLAND GENEALOGICAL ANDHISTORICAL SOCIETYS BUILDING. ceiving a part of its light fromRoman, with slight modifications. Other sources of entertainment and intelligence are the excellentlectures of all kinds frequently given in the numerous halls and thevestry-rooms of the churches and of the Christian of these are free, though of equal value with those which re-quire an admission fee. The Young Mens and the Young WomensChristian Associations and the Young Mens Christian Union(especially the last) are well known for their liberality in this re-spect. The most valuable free lectures, however, are those given incourses, and from two to four a week, through all the colder third ofthe year, at the expense and under the direction of the Lowell Insti-tute ; this was endowed by John Lowell, junior, by a legacy of$250,000, its opening course of lectures having been given in 1848. The issues of the
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