The following extracts give us an insight into our author's feelings about the appearance and make-up of his book. Speaking of its form, he says: "He [Murray] wants to have it in a quarto, which is a cursed unsaleable size; but it is pestilent long, and one must obey one's publisher." And to Murray himself he writes in answer to a very natural question: "... The printer may place the notes in his _own way_, or any _way_, so that they are not in _my way_. I care nothing about types or margins." The use of the poet's name on the title-page caused some discussion, as we see from a letter to Dallas already quoted: "I don't think my name will answer the purpose, and you must be aware that my plaguey Satire will bring the north and south Grub Street down upon the _Pilgrimage_;--but, nevertheless, if Murray makes a point of it, and you coincide with him, I will do it daringly; so let it be entitled 'By the author of _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_...." There was another reason why he did not want his name to appear: "Has Murray shown the work to any one? He may--but I will have no traps for applause ... I much wish to avoid identifying _Childe Harold's_ character with mine, and that, in sooth, is my second objection to my name appearing in the title-page." Later, however, as we see, he gave way on this point. We are indebted to Smiles, in his memoirs of John Murray, for a vivid picture of Byron as a book-maker. "He afterwards looked in [at 32, Fleet Street] from time to time, while the sheets [of _Childe Harold_] were passing through the press, fresh from the fencing rooms of Angelo and Jackson. He used to amuse himself by renewing his practice of _Carte et Tierce_, with his walking-cane directed against the book-shelves, while Murray was reading passages from the poem with occasional ejaculations of admiration, on which Byron would say, 'You think that a good idea, do you, Murray?' Then he would fence and lunge with his walking stick at some special book which he had picked out on the shelves before him. As Murray afterwards said, 'I was often very glad to get rid of him!'"