The Delivery Room is a rectangular hall with a high oaken wainscot and ceiling, the latter painted in colors of which the prevailing hues are blue and green relieved by gold. On one side the wainscot is broken by a porphyry fireplace and by two pillared doorways to Bates Hall. All the main doors on this floor are similarly recessed with a combination of polished marbles, those employed here being porphyry and Levantine. Opposite is a long table over which the books are distributed from an inner room communicating with the stacks. At one end is the card-catalogue, with two or three smaller tables where the applicants may refer to its bound volumes; or, waiting for their names to be called, may study to their hearts' content the chief glory of the room—The Quest of the Holy Grail—in a series of pictures filling the wall-space above the wainscot.

The finished half of Abbey's great work has been often described. Speaking in general terms, one need only say now that repeated inspection fully warrants the praise bestowed upon it. The subject was singularly well selected for its place and purpose. This is a story that all may understand; the eyes of young and old alike follow with ever-increasing interest the youthful Galahad to the Seat Perilous, and go forth with him upon his holy mission into the mysterious, enchanted castle of Amfortas. The great hall of the Round Table with its thronged knights and encircling angel-host is a wonder of composition, toward which one turns again and again to admire it as a whole or to consider individual figures. Ihe scene is nobly dramatic, the treatment masterly. A more suggestive and inspiring theme than this for such a waiting-room could scarcely be conceived. We leave it reluctantly, with a feeling of gratitude for the earnest toil and the thoroughness of research by which so much has been accomplished, and with an impatient longing for that half of the story still to be told.