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LIBRARY ARCHITECTURE
around it to the height of 10 or 12 feet, and above that a gallery or galleries, with similar tiers of shelves. When more accommodation for books was wanted than the wall-shelving gave, it was provided by the addition of bookcases placed at right angles to the walls, and projecting therefrom some 10 or 12 feet into the room. These formed
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alcoves, and generally tables or desks for the readers were placed in them between each bookcase.
No one can deny the fine effect of a library arranged upon this plan. Those who have seen the Guildhall Library, London; the library of Trinity College, Cambridge; or of the Peabody Institute, at Baltimore, know that the result is a
