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200 accommodation for thirty-eight newspapers on reading stands, and seats for twenty-eight readers at tables. The magazine-room, 40 feet by 30 feet, adjoins, and has doors communicating with both the news-room and the central corridor; it seats forty-eight persons.

On the opposite side of the building, facing the magazine-room, and occupying a similar area, is a board-room and storerooms. The reference library

is at the end of the building, the corridor giving admittance to a door at its centre. It is 50 feet by 28 feet, and has an open timber roof. The walls are shelved for books, and tables for fifty-five readers are placed in the centre of the room. The usual rooms for caretaker, heating apparatus, messroom for assistants, &c., are provided in the basement.

The Chelsea central library, designed by Mr. J. M. Brydon, has its entrance in the centre of the front. A short wide corridor leads directly to the