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disposition and forms of halls may vary from story to story, a bizarrery of effect 

 utterly confusing, expensive, and quite irreconcilable with the usual needs of 

 museums, and only tolerable perhaps when the museum building is regarded 

 itself as a chef d'xuvre of ingenious designing intended to emulate the perplex- 

 ing and sometimes fascinating complexity of old cabinets, where drawers and 

 recesses, cupboards and successional boxes pique the curiosity, and evince the 

 skill of the cabinet maker. 



The dimensions of halls admit naturally of every possible variation, but cer- 

 tain results seem reached by experiment, and may be summarized. Museum 

 halls of the simple pattern should not be less than 30 feet in width, if oblong, if 

 square not less than 50 to 60 feet. In oblong halls the longer dimension should 

 not exceed three times the shorter ; if it does, elongated and narrowing effects 



Fig. Ti-d. 



