[About half a score lines, or two pages of an ordinary octavo volume like this, are here illegible.]

I wrote forty-eight of the printed octavo pages of the Life of Savage at a sitting; but then I sat up all night.

In Mr. Croker's octavo editions, arts in the fifth stanza is changed into hearts.

In 1842 (seven years from the commencement of the survey) he rendered an octavo report of four hundred and ninety-five pages, in the introduction to which

The book to be printed in thirty octavo sheets, price five shillings.

While the catalogues of the Picture sales of 1830-40 were printed on paper of quarto size, and the subjects described at length, those of "Furniture" are of the old-fashioned small octavo size, resembling the catalogue of a small country auctioneer of the present day, and the printed descriptions rarely exceed a single line.

But even this difference had no other origin than the compiler's carelessness in preparing his octavo book of exercisesthe gender being inserted in the duodecimo.

Such is the language of the Edinburgh Review, in commencing an article on a recently-published translation of Lanzi's History of Painting in Italy, in six octavo volumesand what a delightful relief is this from the party declamations which usually occupy so large a portion of that "critical journal."

"Is not Mr. Murray's octavo grammar more worthy the dignified title of a 'Philosophical Grammar?'"Kirkham's Gram., p. 39.

" [Footnote 1: There is a scarce octavo portrait of him, head and shoulders only, etched by the celebrated painter, Mr. Hoare, of Bath, in 1734, as appears by a manuscript note on the impression of it in Mr. Bindley's possession.