DAVID.

[It refers to the account given by Pliny, vii. 21., that the _Iliad_

was copied in so small a hand, that the whole work could lie in a

walnut-shell: "In nuce inclusam Iliada Homeri carmen, in membrana

scriptum tradidit Cicero." Pliny's authority is Cicero _apvd Gellium_,

ix. 421. See M. Huet's account of a similar experiment in _Gentleman's

Magazine_, vol. xxxix. p. 347.]

_Monogram of Parker Society._--What is the meaning of the monogram adopted

by the Parker Society on all their publications?

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