People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY.

This magnificent structure has just been completed at a cost ot something like $2,506 00ft Though now second in size, it is still first in rank among the libraries of America It w.>s established in 1852, though projected in *ll. The library now comprises over COO 000 volumes. Over a million books are taken out every year for home circulation, and over 700 000 periodical’ sre read in tho reading rooms. The new library wan begun in 1888. Tho style ot the new cdi'lce is the Roman, and the St. Genevieve, the gr at library of Paris, was taken us the type. The edifice expresses tn its exterior the organic character of the structure as formed by its 'interna) sompositioil and arrangement, as well as its purpose as a great library. The entire building has room for at least 2,000.000 volumes