portion of the northwesterly side, are two rooms, each 16 feet by 30 feet, one of which was designed for a library; the other is a recitation room. In the northerly corner is a class room 30 feet by 45 feet; at the southeasterly side of the class room is a recitation room 16 feet by 32 feet, between the inner end of which and the central hall is a large, brick, foul air shaft and chimney, and a passage leading to the class room, recitation room, and cloak room in this quarter of the building. At the right of the entrance on the Pembroke street side is a dressing room 14 feet by 24 feet, for female teachers, at the inner end of which, and occupying the remainder of the space in this quarter, is a cloak room 14 feet by 25 feet. At the left of the Pembroke street entrance is a recitation room 16 feet by 28 feet, in the easterly corner a class room 44 feet by 45 feet, adjoining which, on the southerly side, and at the end of the central hall, is another recitation room 17 feet by 30 feet. The remainder of this quarter is occupied by a cloak room 16 feet by 21 feet, occupying the space between the side of the central hall and inner end of recitation room at the left of entrance, and a space about 7 feet by 14 feet, lying between the class room and hall, and the cloak room and recitation room at the end of the hall.. The ends of this space are occupied by the ventiducts for this quarter of the building; through the middle is a passage leading from the hall to the class room. The southerly quarter of this floor has the same amount of accommodations, and is arranged precisely like the easterly quarter last described; and further, the same arrangement is carried through the three stories above the basement in the southeasterly half of the building and the westerly quarter of the second story; that is to say, a class room, two recitation rooms and a cloak room in each quarter, as above described. The northerly quarter of the second story contains a class room 30 feet by 45 feet, with two recitation rooms, a cloak room, teachers' dressing room, &c., as in the northerly quarter of the first story.

The westerly quarter of the third story is devoted to an assembly hall, about 62 feet wide by 74 feet 6 inches long.

In the northerly quarter of the third story is a room for drawing, 30 feet by 45 feet; a cabinet for apparatus, 16 feet by 32 feet; a teachers' dressing room, cloak room, &c., as in the same quarter in the stories below. In the westerly corner of the basement story is the chemical lecture room, 44 feet by 45 feet; around three sides of this room are tables placed about 5 feet away from the walls, and fitted up with all of the requisite apparatus and appliances, at which and with which pupils may perform experiments. On the fourth side of the room is the lecturer's platform and table; in the middle of the room are settees for seating the class. On the northerly side of, and adjoining the lecture room, is the laboratory, 16 feet by 30 feet. On the easterly side of the lecture room is a cabinet for minerals, 16 feet by 30 feet. Adjoining the inner end of the cabinet is a passage and staircase leading to the story above. In the northerly corner is the boiler room, 30 feet by 45 feet, in which are three boilers, each 3 feet 6 inches in diameter by 16 feet long, which supply the steam for heating the building. The room for coals occupies the space between the outside of the building and the line of the street, of the width of the boiler room, and out to the curbstone under the sidewalk on the Pembroke street side. At the southerly end of the boiler-room is a room for the janitors, 16 feet by 24 feet. On the easterly side of the boiler-room are the water-closets, twenty-two in number, for the High and Normal departments, occupying a space between the side of the boiler-room and side of corridor, about 30 feet wide, by 50 feet long. The remainder of the space in the northwesterly half of the building is occupied by the central hall, and a staircase at the Pembroke street end of the corridor.

The whole of the southeasterly half of the basement is devoted to a Model school, with accommodations for about 150

primary and the same number of grammar school pupils. The entrance, cloak rooms, water-closets and all other accommodations for this department are separate and distinct from those of the other departments. The accommodations consist of a large class room in each of the two corners of the building, each 30 feet by 45 feet; connected with each class room are two smaller rooms, each about 16 feet by 25 feet. The remainder of the space is devoted to cloak rooms, water-closets, hall and passages.

This completes the description of the internal arrangement of the building. The number of pupils it will accommodate in the High and Normal departments is measured by the seating capacity of the seven large class-rooms, with 100 desks each, and the three smaller class-rooms with 75 desks each, making a total of 925 in the High and Normal departments, which, with the 300 in the Model school, makes a grand total of 1,225 pupils as the capacity of the house. The whole number of rooms in the building, exclusive of halls, passages and corridors, is 66. In several of the recitation rooms it is designed to arrange cabinets for botanical, ornithological, and other collections illustrating natural history and science, and in the halls and corridors for zoological specimens. All of the arrangements were carefully studied and planned with reference to the greatest convenience and comfort of both pupils and teachers. All of the rooms, corridors and halls are well lighted and cheerful, and in easy communication one with another. The entire building has been constructed in a strong and substantial manner, upon a secure and well-laid foundation. The external walls of the basement are 22 inches thick, above the basement 16 inches thick, and nearly all of the partitions are brick walls, 12 inches thick

The floor over the boiler room is laid on brick arches, supported by 12-inch iron beams. The finishing throughout the interior is of pine, painted, grained and varnished. The floors are of Southern pine. The trimmings of the staircases are of

black walnut. The large hall in the upper story has received the only embellishments of a purely ornamental nature, and these are mostly owing to the expressed desire and offer on the part of a number of ladies and gentlemen, under the auspices of the Social Science Association, to contribute and place therein various casts from antique sculpture and statuary, provided the city would be at the expense of fitting the hall to receive the same. The offer having been accepted by the proper authorities on the part of the city, the designs for finishing the hall were modified to receive the works, a portion of which now form a part of the decorative finish. The fixed portion consists of what is generally known as the Panathenaic frieze, the original of which once embellished the external walls of the Parthenon, or Greek temple of Minerva at Athens, and which is considered one of the most splendid of the ancient works of art, a considerable portion of which is now in the British Museum, and forms a part of the collection called the Elgin marbles. The casts which now embellish the walls of this hall are from the above-named collection.

The plates or slabs are 3 feet, 4 inches high, and occupy the space directly under the cornice at the intersection of the walls and ceiling, and extend entirely around the hall, a length of 275 feet. An architrave, supported by pilasters with enriched capitals, is built out from the face of the walls to receive and support the frieze. The frieze represents a procession in the greatest of the Athenian festivals, the Panathenæa, which was celebrated in honor of Minerva as the guardian deity of the city. Among the principal subjects, which are represented in bas relief, are the Olympian deities, the bearer of the "Peplus," or sacred veil, horsemen and chariots, oxen for the sacrifice, maidens with baskets on their heads, old men with olive branches, young men with arms in their hands, etc. The larger part of the work is in a fair state of preservation; but the corroding action of the elements through all the lapse of

time since the work came fresh from the hands of Phidias and his pupils, together with the ravages of war, and the vandalism which has despoiled the Parthenon of many of its richest art treasures, have so mutilated a portion of the work that it is now scarce intelligible; but although the subtle impress of the great artist's hand is gone, and what we now have to look upon are but fragmentary casts of the original, yet enough still remains to excite admiration and imagination, and carry us back to the glorious days of old Greece, when the deeds and actions of her gallant and venerated sons were perpetuated in enduring marble. And aside from educational and æsthetic considerations, the casts tell a story of a long-gone age and time; they are a truthful record of a past act; of an ever-recurring event, which formed a part of the life of a people of whom only history now can inform us.

The other portion of the works alluded to, consists of various casts of statuary from the antique, comprising a full length statue of Demosthenes, also of Diana, Polyhymnia, one of the muses, Pudicitia, a fcmale figure representing Chastity, one of the Caryatides from the Erechtheum of the Acropolis, Amazon, the Venus of Milo, and a colossal statue of Minerva, which, being imperfect, was rejected by the purchasers; but another will be procured to supply its place.

Of busts, there are two Apollos, a colossal bust of Juno, the same of Jupiter, a bust of Palos, one of Homer, Pericles, Æsculapius, Zeus, Bacchus, and Augustus. A half-length figure of the Genius of the Vatican, the same of Psyche, and a piece of statuary called the Bone-player. The statuary is arranged around the hall on pedestals and brackets. The walls and ceilings are colored in a manner to best relieve and form a background for the statuary. The decorative parts of the architecture in connection with the frieze, are an adaptation from the original as far as practicable,

The most ample means have been provided for the ventilation