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Gaudens ; and Piivis de Chavannes, James McNei) 

 Whistler, Edwin A. Abbey and John S. Sargent are 

 amon<x the celebrated artists who have contributed to 

 the mural decorations, friezes and ceiling frescoes. 



Six hundred and fifty thousand volumes at present 

 constitute the stock of the library — a vast treasure- 

 house of information, instruction and pleasure to 

 which any citizen of Boston can have access by simj)ly 

 registering his name, and which among other valuable 

 special collections includes the Brown musical library 

 of 12,000 volumes and rare autograph manuscripts; 

 the Barton Shaksperian library, one of the finest col- 

 lections of Shakes periana extant, valued at $250,000; 

 the Bowditch mathematical library and the splendid 

 Chamberlain collection of autographs, which is \vorth 

 $60,000 and represents a lifetime of work on the part 

 of the donor. The wonderful pneumatic and electric 

 system of tubes and railways which connects thedelivery 

 and stackrooms and keeps this vast collection of books, 

 pamphlets and magazines in circulation, smacks almost 

 of the conjurer's craft. Whatever else must be 

 crowded out of a visit to Boston, the Public Library 

 assuredly should not be passed by. 



Trinity Church stands within hailing distance of 

 the Public Library, on Boylston and Clarendon streets 

 — an imposing and beautiful edifice of granite and 

 freestone, built in French Romanesque style, with a 

 tower 211 feet high. Far outside of Boston has the 

 fame of Trinity Church penetrated, owing not to the 

 fact that it is one of the most splendid, costly and 

 fashionable churches in the country, but to its ever- 

 revered and ever-mourned rector, the late Phillips 

 Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, whose massive figure 



