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NATIONAL LIBRARY, DUBLIN
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will show that the stores are well placed for ease and rapidity of service, for the entrance from the reading-room is at the middle point, not only horizontally but vertically, the second storey of the bookstores, forming the third floor, being on the same
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level as the reading-room floor. Thus there are two stacks of bookcases below the level of the reading-room, one above, and one on the same level. The length of the book-stores is 101 feet, and height 49 feet 3 inches; the average breadth is 33 feet. It may be estimated that 200,000 volumes can be
