John Lamb's poems were printed in a thin quarto under the title Poetical Pieces on Several Occasions.

" OUTLOOK."Many of Mr. Stevenson's admirers the world over have long desired that such a classic poem should be faithfully and adequately illustrated, and they will give a hearty welcome to this most handsome quarto.

A Parable of the Spider and Fly, London 1556, in a pretty thick quarto, all in old English verse.

All this and much more is accomplished within two hundred octavo pages, which a less economical and therefore less praiseworthy editor would have expanded into a costly quarto.

It may be that, save by a few elderly people and certain lovers of old Gentleman's Magazines, the broad anonymous quarto known as The Diary of a Lover of Literature is no longer much admired or even recollected.

The poem was originally published in a luxurious quarto at thirty-one and a-half shillings.

Drifting about only a few days ago, I came by accident upon a magic quarto, shabby enough in its exterior, with one of the covers hanging by the eyelids, and otherwise sadly battered, to the great disfigurement of its external aspect.

In the fourth volume there will be a reprint of the Arden of Feversham, from the excessively rare quarto of 1592.

For some days past our table has been glittering with these caskets of song and tale in their gay attire of silken sheen and burnished goldtill their splendour has fairly put out the light of our sinumbra, and the drabs, blues, and yellows of sober, business-like quartos and octavos.

"I have often wondered what stout old quartos you were reading.

In the spring of 1721 appeared, in four sumptuous quartos, the collected edition of Addison's works.

The value of this tiny quarto with the enormous title depends entirely, so far as the collector is concerned, on whether or no it possesses the frontispiece.

Lord Jeffrey at the close of a once-famous review quaintly laments: "The tuneful quartos of Southey are already little better than lumber, and the rich melodies of Keats and Shelley, and the fantastical emphasis of Wordsworth, and the plebeian pathos of Crabbe, are melting fast from the field of our vision.

Each of these gentlemen has written a book, and that of McClellan, originally published as a Report to the Secretary of War,in unmanageable quarto, and at a more unmanageable price,is now issued, in the volume before us, with the very appropriate title, "The Armies of Europe," and in a convenient form for the eye and the purse.

What would you think of an edition of the "Old English Froissart," say 500 in the small antique quarto, a beautiful size of book; the spelling must be brought to an uniformity, the work copied (as I could not promise my beautiful copy to go to press), notes added and illustrations, etc., and inaccuracies corrected.

It may be that, save by a few elderly people and certain lovers of old Gentleman's Magazines, the broad anonymous quarto known as The Diary of a Lover of Literature is no longer much admired or even recollected.

[Note 9: Dixi ante sacros pedes prostratus lacrymosum vale quarto calendi Septembris 1487.

So he took down his Virgil,it was the smooth-leafed, open-lettered quarto of Baskerville,and began reading the loves and mishaps of Dido.