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deseription of - the work mvolved i pro- ducing T'oi Srraxn Macazineg and s fellow publications.

As one makes toward Covent Garden from the Strand, the most noticeable building I Southampton Street 1s seen to be the cstablishment of George Newnes, Limited. [ts fine, broad front, wheremm the architect has with o just hand distributed the red brick and white stone m the parts above the stone ground floor, strecehes through four numbers on the nght-hand side of the street, and the building 1s carned, m depth, through to Iixcter Street, wherem stands a large = back front,” as architeets quaintly term 1t 1tself of good dimension and appear- ance. It oas oat this “bhack front 7 that the heavy work of sale, cartage, cranage. and ceneral m-take and out-go s carried on.

Between these two fronts hes much of interest most of 1t open to mspection by the general public. In South- ampton Street, a handsome, triple entrance stands hetween large plate-glass windows. Through the windows on the right, the curtous mav observe certaim ol the packing opera- tons mmcidental to the issuing forth ol "T'rn s1rraNn Maaa- ZANVL Li-ds, the M illion, and the hound volumes pub- hshed Dy the firme The win- cows on the left admit hghtwo the counung - house. T'he reaches

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the Tett door. It 1s o spi- cltous room, htted and fur- mshed oo handsome but

business-hike fashion, the ceil- mg decorated o various pale tnts, and all the woodwork - counters, partitions, door- frames and so forth of ma-

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hogany. A\ very Targe double-doored safe, many - brass - desk-rails, certain - telephone

htings, and various heavy account books combme to suppress the lighter sugeestions of the clegant clectrie Jights and the few wall pictures. Parts of this large room arc partitioned off, mcluding the sanctum of M. Ao Johnson, the seerctary to the firm, who 1s to be scen inthe illustration talking Lo visitor across the counter.

A door from this room takes once into the ground-floor corridor, leading dircet from the central entrance. Here one chooses between the staircase on the right or the hit on the left. On the first floor, in the lore: part of the building to the right, doors lcad to the rooms in the more immediate occupation of Mr. Newnes. The chief of these, the sanctum sanctorum, is a large, pleasant room, something over thirty feet in length, with windows from which onc looks nto Southampton Street, over rows of flowers which stand upon the sills. The mural cover-

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