30 MAY 1903, Page 24

A single-volume edition of the Encyclopaedia Biblica (A. and C.

Black, 80s.) is certainly a triumph of the typographical art as regards both paper and print. The volume is of great but not intolerable weight, and it contains two thousand seven hundred and seventy-two pages, all double-columned. The whole contents may be estimated at about five million words, condensed into something less than three hundred cubic inches. The figures suggest an interesting contrast between ancient and modern book forms. How much space would this bulk of matter occupy in an Uncial manuscript ?