likeness.--W. SHARP.'' The writing engraver
by mistake put the comma after the word
appointed, and omitted it at the latter part
of the sentence, thus giving a ludicrous
effect to the whole inscription. Many
impressions were struck off before the

mistake was discovered and rectified. The
question of an apostrophe was the ground
of a civil action a few years ago in
Switzerland; and although the anecdote refers to
a manuscript, and not to a printed document,
it is inserted here because it illustrates
the subject. A gentleman left a will
which ended thus: ``Et pour tmoigner
mes neveux Charles et Henri de M----
toute mon affection je lgue chacun
_d'eux_ cent mille francs.'' The paper upon
which the will was written was folded up
before the ink was dry, and therefore many
of the letters were blotted. The legatees
asserted that the apostrophe was a blot,
and therefore claimed two instead of one
hundred thousand francs each.

Several misprints are always recurring,
such as the mixture of the words
Topography and Typography, and Biography
with Bibliography. In the prospectus of
an edition of the _Waverley Novels_ we
read: ``The aim of the publishers has