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Excerpt from The Architectural Review, Vol. 4: January December, 1916 Atrium ceiling andthe Reading-room on the main oor. Bronze has been utilized where metal was required, for the stacks, the Temple Room column bases and capitals, doors, grilles, ornamental brackets, and fittings. Ex cept the canopies over the thrones, woven materials have generally been set aside for others more per manent - leather, for in stance, being frequently substituted; and the walls are generally cased with limestone, Caen 'stone, or marble, touched with color or embellished with bronze. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."