Cambridge which the King will open next Monday, the work of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, is certainly very modern, but unquestionably imposing with its central tower 146 ft. -high. That it suggests a hospital rather than a Ubrary is, perhaps, the fault of our prejudices. One' excellent feature is that all the rooms are low-ceilinged. A lofty library, with books stretching up and up to a cornice crowned with marble urns and busts, is lovely to look at, but nuisance to use. One cannot see what is in the top shelves without {climbing on a ladder, with imminent [risk as one cranes right and left Tu the new Cambridge library all the books are readily seen from floor level.
This great collection _containing over 1,500,000 books, besides "MSS and periodicals, was begun in the year 1400, and. it increases every year like the) population of Japan. For Cambridge,
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