Word: octavo
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This is a book of something over 400 pages, of octavo size, not too thick, or too, heavy or too expensive for every wise traveller who is interested in casties to take with him to Scotland. The information given is just about what one wants-a brief architectural and historical account of a hundred of the most significant Scotch castles. The interest and value of the book are, moreover, greatly enhanced by the fifty-one illustrations, mostly pleasant, brown halftones, but comprising also four colored plates and seventeen plans. There is a short introduction, which outlines none too convincingly...
...publication of The American Nation, -- a monumental work in twenty seven stout octavo volumes, --under the general editorship of Professor Hart, marks the first very serious attempt to apply the principle of the division of labor to a narrative of the annals of the American people. Despite the elaborate scale on which the undertaking was projected, the whole series has been issued from the press within the comparatively short space of less than four years, an unusual achievement for an enterprise of its kind. Upon the general editor has devolved the task of delimiting the scope of the various numbers...
...other two plays which deal with the continuation of the story, a revised text, and a translation which has been made as literal as possible with a view to its use at the presentation of the play in June. The pamphlet is made up of 151 pages of octavo size and costs 50 cents in paper covers, 75 cents in cloth...
...will remain on the Island until February 4, when he will return to Cambridge, arriving on Sunday, February 8. Professor Lanman has just completed the final revision of the great critical commentary, the Atharva Veda, of the late Professor W. D. Whitney of Yale. The work constitutes two royal octavo volumes of about eleven hundred pages and is being published by Ginn and Company...
...operative Society has secured for sale a few copies of the history of Harvard College written by Samuel A. Eliot of the class of 1817, and published in 1848. The book is a small octavo of 190 pages and is entitled "A Sketch of the History of Harvard College and of its Present State." The value of the book is due chiefly to its appendix, which contains chronological lists, down to 1848, of legislative grants, donations from individuals and societies, and gifts of real estate from individuals and the town of Cambridge; and a map of the Yard, showing...