would probably quadruple or quintuple the
efficiency of our repositories as to contents,
and prevent the population of Great Britain
from being extruded some centuries hence
into the surrounding waters by the exorbitant
dimensions of their own libraries.

- The End -

FOOTNOTES:

1- In Der alte und der neue Glaube

2- xxi, 25.

3- First of all it seems to have referred to the red
capital letters placed at the head of chapters or other
divisions of works.

4- Cic. Pro Archia poeta, vii.

5- Essays Critical and Historical, ii. 228.

6- The Prayer Book recently issued by Mr. Frowde at
the Clarendon Press weighs, bound in morocco, less
than an once and a quarter. I see it stated that unbound
it weighs three-quarters of an ounce. Pickering's
Cattullus, Tibullus, and Propertius in leather binding,
weighs an ounce and a quarter. His Dante weighs less
than a number of the Times.