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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/77518-0.txt b/77518-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f6ace25 --- /dev/null +++ b/77518-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6655 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77518 *** + + + + + WHAT IS AN INDEX? + + INDEX SOCIETY. + PUBLICATIONS, 1878. + I. + + + + + WHAT IS AN INDEX? + + A FEW NOTES + ON + INDEXES AND INDEXERS. + + BY + HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F.S.A. + + HON. SEC. OF THE INDEX SOCIETY, AND + TREASURER OF THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY. + + “I for my part venerate the inventor of Indexes; and I know + not to whom to yield the preference, either to Hippocrates, + who was the first great anatomiser of the human body, or to + that unknown labourer in literature who first laid open the + nerves and arteries of a book.”--_Isaac Disraeli, Literary + Miscellanies._ + + “I magnify mine office.” + + [Illustration] + + LONDON: + PUBLISHED FOR THE INDEX SOCIETY + BY LONGMANS, GREEN & Co., 39, PATERNOSTER ROW. + MDCCCLXXIX. + + + + + _SECOND EDITION._ + + HERTFORD: + PRINTED BY STEPHEN AUSTIN AND SONS. + + + + +TABLE OF CONTENTS. + + +HISTORICAL ACCOUNT. + +Meaning of the word ‘Index,’ 7.--Early use of ‘Tables,’ 7.--Use of +the word ‘Index’ by the Romans, 8.--Its introduction into modern +languages, 8.--Naturalisation in English, 10.--Little used in other +languages, 11.--The word ‘pye,’ 11.--Opinions on Indexes, 12.--Of +Joseph Glanville, 11.--Of Thomas Fuller, 12.--Of S. Speed, 13.--Good +Index work, 13.--Prynne a sufferer in the cause of indexing, +13.--Extracts from the index to his Histrio-mastix, 14.--Power in the +indexer’s hands, 15.--Dr. William King’s malicious indexes, 16.--Index +to Bromley’s Travels made by a political enemy, 17.--Index to the +Biglow Papers, 18.--The author to make his own index, 19.--Monthly +Review on indexes, 19.--Opinion of William Oldys, 19.--Scaliger, an +eminent indexer, 20.--Antonio’s indexes, 20.--Baillet’s general index, +21.--Opinion of Bayle, 21.--Of Leigh Hunt, 22.--Specimens of indexes, +22.--Shenstone’s Schoolmistress, 22.--Richardson’s Novels, 23.--Tatler, +24.--Indexes by Maittaire, 24.--By Bowyer, 25.--By John Nichols, +25.--By Maty, 25.--By Ayscough, 25.--By E. H. Barker, 25.--Macaulay +an indexer, 25.--Contempt in which the calling has been held, +26.--Index-advocates: Mr. Thoms and Dr. Allibone, 27.--Baynes’s curse, +27.--Lord Campbell’s theory and practice not in accord, 28.--Early +compilation of concordances, 28.--Sir Henry Thring’s Instructions +for an Index to Statute Law, 29.--Opinion of Sir James Fitzjames +Stephen, 30.--Money voted by Parliament for indexes, 31.--Scientific +bibliography, 31.--Annual records of progress, 32.--Bibliography in +scientific periodicals, 33.--Poole’s Index, 35.--Indexes to catalogues, +36.--Revived interest in index work, 36.--Various proposals for the +formation of an Index Society, 36.--What can an Index Society do? 38. + + +PRACTICE OF INDEX-MAKING. + + +I.--COMPILATION. + +Sir H. Thring’s Instructions, 41.--How the work should be set about, +42.--Specimens of bad headings, 42.--Justice Best’s ‘great mind,’ +44.--Value of conciseness in the headings of an index, 45.--Need +for specification of the cause of reference, 45.--Uselessness of +the general Index to the Gentleman’s Magazine, 46.--Correctness of +reference an essential point, 47.--Is an incomplete index better +than none at all? 47.--Added information in an index, 48.--Blunders, +49.--Two men rolled into one, 50.--Names of men who never lived, +50.--French translations of names, 52.--Filling up of contractions, +53.--Use and abuse of cross references, 54. + + +II.--ARRANGEMENT. + +Advantages of alphabetical order, 56.--One alphabet, not many, +56.--Disadvantages of classification, 57.--Statistics, 58.--Arrangement +by the English alphabet, 58.--What is a surname? 59.--Prepositions +and articles as prefixes, 59.--Compound names, 60.--Mistaken names, +60.--Latinised names, 61.--Christian names _v._ surnames, 61.--Noblemen +arranged under their titles, 62.--Bishops under their family names, +63.--Abuse of initials, 63.--Use of the title Mr., 64.--Oddities of +names, 64.--Lists of errata, 65. + + +III.--PRINTING. + +The indexed word to the front, 66.--Marks of repetition, 67.--Absurd +use of the dash, 67.--Confusion between men of the same name, 68. + +Rules for obtaining uniformity in the indexes of books, 71. + +Preliminary List of English Indexes, 74. + +INDEX 109 + + + + +_WHAT IS AN INDEX?_ + + +Before proceeding to answer the question that forms the title of this +pamphlet, it will be necessary to say somewhat on the history of the +word _Index_. It is now used very generally in English to express a +table of references arranged in alphabetical order and placed either at +the end or sometimes at the beginning of a book, but this is really one +only of its many meanings, and moreover not the earliest one. An index +is an indicator or pointer out of the position of required information, +such as the finger-post on a high road, or the index finger of the +human hand. In this general sense the word is used by Drayton:-- + +“Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt, My lips might prove +the _index_ to my fault.”[1] + +Such is still its meaning, and it is in this sense that the Index +Society would wish their title to be understood. + +There is a group of words, viz. _Index_, _Table_, _Register_, +_Calendar_, _Summary_, and _Syllabus_, all of which were once generally +used with much the same signification; but as soon as _Index_ had been +recognized as a thoroughly English word, it beat its companions in the +race, although it had a long struggle with the word _Table_. + +The need of some general indication of the contents of books was early +felt, and Seneca, in sending certain volumes to his friend Lucilius, +accompanied them with notes of particular passages, so that he, “who +only aimed at the useful might be spared the trouble of examining them +entire.” Thus it is that many of our old MSS. contain these helpful +tables of contents, which are usually headed by the Latin words +_Tabula_, _Calendarium_, etc. In Dan Michel’s _Ayenbite of Inwyt_ +(1340) there is a very full Table with the heading--“Thise byeth the +capiteles of the boc volȝinde.” + +With the invention of printing many time-saving expedients were +introduced, and one of these apparently was the alphabetical or +arranged index. + +In tracing the history of the use of the word _Index_ two distinct +questions have to be considered--(1) the original use of the Latin word +by the Romans; and (2) the introduction of the word into the modern +languages and its naturalization in English. With regard to the first +question, we find that according to classical usage _Index_ denoted a +discoverer, discloser or informer; a catalogue or list (Seneca refers +to an Index of Philosophers); an inscription; the title of a book; and +the fore or index-finger, in reference to which Cicero makes a mild +joke. Writing to Atticus he says that Pollex told him that he would +be back by the 13th of August, and he came to Lanuvium on the 12th, +thus he is rightly called _Pollex_ and not _Index_, because the thumb +comes before the forefinger. Cicero also uses the word to express +the table of contents to a book, for he asks Atticus to send him two +library clerks to repair his books, and they are to bring with them +some parchment to make indexes on. Had he only used the word _Index_ we +might have been in doubt as to what he really meant, but fortunately +he added “which you Greeks call a _Syllabus_,” and the meaning thus +becomes clear.[2] + +As to the second question, we may infer, from the use of _Index_ in +the nominative instead of the accusative case, that the word came into +English through literature and not through speech. The Italian word is +_Indice_, which comes directly from the Latin accusative, and it is +perhaps this form (though it may be the French word _Indice_) that Ben +Jonson uses when he writes “too much talking is ever the _indice_ of a +fool.”[3] + +The most celebrated of Indexes, the _Index librorum prohibitorum_ and +_Index Expurgatorius_ of the Roman Catholic Church, are not indexes in +the modern acceptation of the term, but partake more of the character +of what we should now call Registers. Erasmus gives alphabetical +indexes to many of his books, but arrangement in alphabetical order +was by no means considered indispensable in an Index; thus in a curious +and learned work published at Amsterdam, in 1692, we find an “Index +Generalissimus” (Table of Contents); an “Index Generalis” (Synopsis of +Subjects or Heads of Chapters) at the beginning of the volume, and an +“Index Alphabeticus” at the end. + +It is with the general meaning of a table of contents or preface that +Shakespeare uses the word Index, thus Nestor says-- + + “Our imputation shall be oddly poised + In this wild action; for the success, + Although particular, shall give a scantling + Of good or bad unto the general; + And in such _indexes_,[4] although small pricks + To their _subsequent volumes_, there is seen + The baby figure of the giant mass + Of things to come at large.”--_Troilus and Cressida_, i. 3. + +Buckingham threatens-- + + “I’ll sort occasion + As _index_ to the story we late talk’d of, + To part the queen’s proud kindred from the king.” + --_Richard III._ ii. 2. + +and Iago refers to “an _index_ and obscure prologue to the history of +lust and foul thoughts.”--_Othello_, ii. 1. + +All these passages seem clearly to illustrate the old meaning of the +word, but in the following places something more appears to be meant. +Queen Margaret alludes to “the flattering index of a direful pageant” +(_Rich. III._ iv. 4), probably with some reference to a special setting +out of the contents, like the posters for the newspapers of to-day, +which usually promise far more than the papers themselves fulfil. The +Queen in _Hamlet_ (iii. 4) cries out-- + + “Ay me, what act + That roars so loud and thunders in the _index_?” + +Meaning to say--if this prologue or setting forth of what is to follow +is so fierce, what will the accusation itself be? + +Although we find from these quotations that the word ‘index’ was +commonly used, it was not generally introduced into books as a +thorough English word until a much later period; for instance, +North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives, the book so diligently used +by Shakespeare in the production of his Roman Histories, contains +an alphabetical index at the end, but it is called a _Table_. On +the title-page of Baret’s _Alvearie_ (1573) mention is made of “two +_Tables_ in the ende of this booke,” but the Tables themselves, which +were compiled by Abraham Fleming,[5] being lists of the Latin and +French words, are headed “Index.” Between these two tables, in the +edition of 1580, is “an Abecedarie, _Index_ or Table” of Proverbs. +The word Index is not included in the body of the Dictionary, where, +however, “Table” and “Regester” are inserted. Table is defined as +“a booke or regester for memorie of things,” and “Regester” as “a +reckeninge booke wherein thinges dayly done be written.” By this it is +clear that Baret did not consider Index to be an English word.[6] At +the end of Johnson’s edition of Gerarde’s Herbal (1636) is an “Index +latinus” followed by a “Table of English names,” although a few years +previously Minsheu had given _Index_ a sort of half-hearted welcome +into his Dictionary. Under that word in the _Guide into Tongues_ (1617) +is the entry “vide Table in Booke, in litera T.,” where we read “a +Table in a booke or Index.” Even when acknowledged as an English word, +it was frequently applied to a more severe list than the analytical +table; for instance, Dugdale’s Warwickshire contains an “Index of Towns +and Places” and a “Table of Men’s Names and Matters of most note”; and +Scobell’s Acts and Ordinances of Parliament, 1640-1656 (publ. 1658) +has “An Alphabetical Table of the most material contents of the whole +book,” preceded by “An Index of the general titles comprized in the +ensuing Table.” There are a few exceptions to the rule here set forth; +for instance, Pliny’s _Naturall Historie of the World_, translated +by Philemon Holland (1601), has at the beginning--“The Inventorie +or Index containing the contents of 37 bookes,” and at the end “An +Index pointing to the principal matters.” In Speed’s _History of Great +Britaine_ (1611) there is an “Index or Alphabetical Table containing +the principal matters in this history.” + +About the latter half of the seventeenth century the race for supremacy +between _Index_ and _Table_ was well-nigh closed in favour of the +former, but the word Table was occasionally used up to a much later +period. A very late instance occurs in the _Monthly Review_ commenced +in 1749. At the beginning of each volume is an alphabetical index of +books reviewed called a _Table_, and at the end is an Index of the +remarkable passages in the articles which is styled _Index_. By the +present English usage, according to which the word _table_ is reserved +for the summary of the contents as they occur in the book, and the +word _index_ for the arranged analysis of the contents, we obtain an +advantage not enjoyed in other languages, for the French _Table_ is +used for both kinds, as is _Indice_ in Italian and Spanish. + +The French word _indice_ has a different meaning from the Italian +_indice_, and in fact is not the same word. According to Littré it is +derived from the Latin _indicium_. The word _index_ in French is pretty +well confined to tables of Latin and Greek, as it once was in English, +although it is used by Bossuet in a more general sense. In German +_Index_ is occasionally used, but the regular word is _Register_. + +In concluding this philological inquiry it will only be necessary to +repeat the remark with which we commenced, that although the word +_index_ is used to express a particular kind of arranged list, it +has also the wider meaning of a general indicator. Thus the words +Inventory, Register, Calendar, Catalogue, Summary, and Syllabus will +all find their respective places under the general heading of Index +work.[7] + +As books increased, the need of indexes could not fail to be very +generally felt; but authors, while praising them, often thought +it necessary to warn their readers against the dangers of mere +“index learning.” Thus John Glanville writes in his _Vanity of +Dogmatizing_:--“Methinks ’tis a pitiful piece of knowledge that can be +learnt from an index, and a poor ambition to be rich in the inventory +of another’s treasure.” Dr. Watts alludes to those whose “learning +reaches no farther than the tables of contents,” but he also says, “If +a book has no index or good table of contents, ’tis very useful to make +one as you are reading it.” + +Fuller very wisely argues that the diligent man should not be deprived +of a tool because the idler may misuse it. He says, “An Index is a +necessary implement and no impediment of a book except in the same +sense wherein the carriages [i.e. things carried] of an army are termed +_impedimenta_. Without this a large author is but a labyrinth without +a clue to direct the reader therein. I confess there is a lazy kind +of learning which is only indical, when scholars (like adders, which +only bite the horse’s heels) nibble but at the tables, which are calces +librorum, neglecting the body of the book. But though the idle deserve +no crutches (let not a staff be used by them but on them), pity it +is the weary should be denied the benefit thereof, and industrious +scholars prohibited the accommodation of an index, most used by those +who most pretend to contemn it.” I have heard the same objection urged +to-day, but surely it is a mere delusion. There are many easier means +by which the sciolist may obtain a smattering of knowledge without +consulting an Index. No useful information can thus be gained unless +the books to which the Index refers are searched, and he who honestly +searches ceases to be a smatterer. + +Fuller was a true Index-connoisseur, and in his “Pisgah-sight of +Palestine” (1650) he gives necessary directions for the use of the +Index, where he says, “An Index is the bag and baggage of a book, of +more use then honour; even such who seemingly slight it, secretly +using it, if not for need, for speed of what they desire to finde.” +Whatever Fuller touched he made sparkle, and no one but he could have +written such lively sentences as the following on a subject usually +thought to be so dry:--“And thus by God’s assistance we have finished +our table. Miraculous almost was the execution done by David on the +Amalekites who saved neither man nor woman alive to bring tidings to +Gath. I cannot promise such exactness in our Index, that no name hath +escaped our enquiry: some few, perchance, hardly slipping by, may +tell tales against us. This I profess, I have not, in the language of +some modern quartermasters, wilfully burnt any towns, and purposely +omitted them; and hope that such as have escaped our discovering, will +upon examination appear either not generally agreed on, by authors, +for proper names, or else by proportion falling without the bounds of +Palestine. Soli Deo gloria.” Of the same mind with Fuller that the +Index is a most important part of a work was the Italian physician +mentioned by Mdlle. de Scudery, who dedicated each book of his +Commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates to one of his friends, and +the Index to another. Those who hold the contrary opinion are either +jealous that others will obtain their knowledge too easily, or they do +not relish the trouble of preparing an Index. The publisher of Howell’s +“Discourse concerning the Precedency of Kings” (1664) was one of the +latter class, although he puts forward a more plausible reason for his +neglect in this letter from “The Bookseller to the Reader.” “The reason +why there is no Table or Index added hereunto is, that every page in +this work is so full of signal remarks that were they couch’d in an +Index it wold make a volume as big as the book, and so make the Postern +Gate to bear no proportion to the Building. S. Speed.” + +Each generation must do its own work, and although benefit is gained +from all that has gone before, it often forgets the obligation +it is under to preceding ages. An Index therefore is a standing +warning against forgetfulness, and accurate reference to forgotten +work is almost equal to a new discovery. The value of indexes was +recognized in the earliest times, and many old books have full +and admirably-constructed indexes; for instance, Juan de Pineda’s +“Monarchia Ecclesiastica o historia Universal del Mundo,” (_Salamanca_, +1588,) has a very curious and valuable table which forms the fifth +volume of the whole set; and the three folio volumes of Indexes in one +alphabet to the _Annales Ecclesiastici_ of Baronius form a noble work. + +Indexes need not necessarily be dry, and in some cases they form +the most interesting portion of a book. The Index to Prynne’s +_Histrio-mastix_ (1633), unlike the text, is very readable, and from +it may be obtained a sufficient idea of the author’s argument. Prynne +deserves especial mention here, as he may be considered as a martyr +to his conscientiousness in producing this useful key to the contents +of his ponderous volume. No one could read through the book, with its +notes overflowing into the margin, so the licenser got confused and +passed it in despair. Carlyle refers to the _Histrio-mastix_ as “a book +still extant but never more to be read by mortal.” The vituperation +however was easily understood when boiled down in an alphabetical form, +and Attorney-General Noy found that the author himself had forged the +weapons that the prosecutor could use in the attack. This is proved +by a passage in Noy’s speech at Prynne’s trial, where he points out +that the accused “says Christ was a Puritan in his Index.”[8] It has +been observed that the author scarcely ventures on the most trivial +opinion without calling to his aid “squadrons of authorities” from the +writers of all nations, and in a book which contains this passage--“the +profession of a Play-poet or the composing of comedies, tragedies or +such like Playes for publike players or play-houses is altogether +infamous and unlawfull,” he is more ready to mention the Greek and +Latin dramatists than those of our own country. A few of the entries +in the Index are worth particular notice. In this one the indexer does +not commit himself, but he infers much--“Æschylus one of the first +inventors of tragedies. His strange and sudden death.” Here are some +heavy charges against theatres-- + + “Idleness, a dangerous mischevous sin occasioned and fomented + by stage plays. + + Impudency, a dangerous sin occasioned by stage plays. + + Lyes condemned, frequent in plays. + + Sedition occasioned by stage plays.” + +The index is full of the judgments which are supposed to follow the +acting of plays, of which the following are specimens:-- + + “Herod Agrippa smitten in the theater by an angel and so died. + + Herod the great, the first erecter of a theater among the Jews, + who thereupon conspire his death. + + Plagues occasioned by stage plays. All the Roman actors + consumed by a plague. + + Theatres overturned by tempests.” + +The author appears to have been very conversant with the doings of the +unseen worlds, for he writes-- + + “Crossing of the face when men go to plays shuts in the Devil. + + Devils, inventors and fomentors of stage plays and dancing. + Have stage plays in hell every Lord’s day night. + + Heaven--no stage plays there.” + +In the following entry the word _and_ probably seemed most natural to +Prynne:-- + + “Players, many of them Papists _and_ most desperate wicked + wretches.” + +But it was the strong terms in which women actors are denounced, and +such entries as the following, that gave the greatest offence to the +Court:[9]-- + + “Acting of popular or private enterludes for gain or pleasure + infamous, unlawfull, and that as well for Princes, Nobles, + Gentlemen, Schollars, Divines as common actors. + + Kings--infamous for them to act or frequent Playes or favour + Players.” + +The Indexer has a considerable power in his hand if he chooses to use +it, for he can state in a few words what the author may have hidden in +verbiage, and he can so arrange his materials as to force the reader +to draw an inference. Macaulay knew how an author’s own words might +be turned against himself, and therefore he wrote to his publishers, +“Let no d---- Tory make the Index to my History.” In the Index to the +eighth volume of the _Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and +the Arts_, 1820, is the following entry:-- + + “Watts (Mr.), illiberal remarks of, on Captain Kater’s + experiments.” + +Mr. Watts was displeased at the use of the uncomplimentary adjective +and complained to the Editor. In the Notices to Correspondents at the +beginning of the tenth volume we read:--“The Editor begs to apologize +to Mr. Watts for the term ‘illiberal’ used in the index of vol. 8 of +this Journal. It escaped his observation till Mr. Watts pointed it +out.” Mr. Hill Burton, in his _Book Hunter_, very justly observes of a +controversialist that after almost exhausting his weapons of attack in +the preface, and in the body of the book, “if he be very skilful he may +let fly a few Parthian arrows from the Index.” The witty Dr. William +King, Judge of the Irish Court of Admiralty, was one of the first to +see how formidable a weapon of attack the Index might be made, and +Disraeli calls him the inventor of satirical and humorous indexes. His +earliest essay in this field was the index added to the second edition +of that clever but shallow work written by the Christ Church wits in +the name of the Hon. Charles Boyle--“Dr. Bentley’s Dissertation on the +Epistles of Phalaris and the Fables of Æsop examin’d,” 1698. The first +entry is + + “Dr. Bentley’s true story of the MS. prov’d false by the + testimonies of + + Mr. Bennet p. 6 + Mr. Gibson p. 7 + Dr. King p. 8 + Dr. Bentley p. 19;” + +then comes “his modesty and decency in contradicting great men,” +followed by the names of Plato, Selden, Grotius, Erasmus, Scaliger, +and ending with _everybody_. The last entry is--“his profound skill in +criticism; _from beginning to end_.” After the publication of this book +there was silence for a time which caused some to suppose that Bentley +was beaten, but at last appeared the ‘immortal’ _Dissertation_, as +Porson calls it, which not only defeated his enemies, but positively +annihilated them. In the same year that King assisted Boyle he turned +his attention to a less formidable antagonist than the great Bentley. +His _Journey to London_, 1698, is a very ingenious parody of Dr. +Martin Lister’s _Journey to Paris_, and the pages of the original +being referred to, it forms an Index to that book. Sir Hans Sloane +was another of Dr. King’s butts, and the _Transactioneer_ (1700) +and _Useful Transactions in Philosophy_ (1708-9) were very galling +to the distinguished naturalist, and annoyed the Royal Society, +whose _Philosophical Transactions_ were unmercifully laughed at. +To both these tracts were prefixed satirical contents, and what +made them the more annoying was that the author’s own words were +very ingeniously used and turned against him. King writes, “The +bulls and blunders which Sloane and his friends so naturally pour +forth cannot be misrepresented, so careful I am in producing them.” +Such an effective mode of annoyance, when once discovered, was not +likely to be overlooked, and we find it used soon afterwards with a +political object. William Bromley, a Tory Member of Parliament and +high churchman, had made the grand tour in early life, and published +“Remarks made in his Travels in 1693.” In 1705 he was a candidate for +the Speakership, and his opponents took the opportunity of reprinting +his Travels with a satirical Index as an electioneering squib. This +Index is very amusing, and in some instances the text bears it out, +but in others there is a malicious perversion. The following are a +selection from the entries:-- + + “Chatham, where and how situated, viz. on the other side of + Rochester bridge, though commonly reported to be on this side, + p. 1. + + Boulogne, the first city on the French shore, lies on the + coast, p. 2. + + Crosses and crucifixes on the roads in France prove it not + England, p. 3. + + Eight pictures take up less room than sixteen of the same size, + p. 14. + + February an ill season to see a garden in, p. 53. + + Three several sorts of wine drank by the author out of one + vessel, p. 101. + + The English Jesuites Colledge at Rome may be made larger than + ’tis by uniting other Buildings to it, p. 132. + + The Duchess dowager of Savoy who was grandmother to the present + Duke was mother to his father, p. 243. + + An university in which degrees are taken, p. 249.” + +In the Bodleian copy of this book there is a MS. note by Dr. Rawlinson +to the effect that this index was drawn up by Robert Harley Earl of +Oxford, but this was probably only a party rumour. Dr. Parr possessed +Bromley’s own copy of the reprint with a MS. note--“This edition of +these travels is a specimen of the good nature and good manners of +the Whigs, and I have reason to believe of one of the Ministry very +conversant in this sort of calumny.... This printing my book was a very +malicious proceeding; my words and meaning being very plainly perverted +in several places.... But the performances of others ... may be in like +manner exposed as appears by the like tables published for the travels +of Bishop Burnet and Mr. Addison.” Bromley was elected Speaker in 1710. + +That the love for a humorous index has not quite died out is proved by +the admirable one which Mr. Lowell has added to his _Biglow Papers_. +Where all is good it is not easy to select, and I feel forced to make a +long extract:-- + + “Adam, eldest son of, respected. + + Babel, probably the first congress. + + Birch, virtue of, in instilling certain of the dead languages. + + Cæsar, a tribute to, 99, his _veni, vidi, vici_ censured for + undue prolixity, 116. + + Castles, Spanish, comfortable accommodations in. + + Eating words, habit of, convenient in time of famine. + + Longinus recommends swearing (Fuseli did same thing). + + No, a monosyllable, 51, hard to utter, _ib._ + + Noah inclosed letter in bottle, probably. + + Ulysses, husband of Penelope, 58, borrows money, 135. (For full + particulars see Homer and Dante). + + Wrong, abstract, safe to oppose.”[10] + +The occupation of the indexer has been allowed to fall into disrepute +during the present century, and some have supposed that any ignorant +hack can produce this indispensable portion of a book. Such was not +always the case, for most old books of any mark have indexes of a high +character, which clearly show that both author and publisher took a +proper pride in this part of their work. This spirit found whimsical +expression in the speech of a once celebrated Spaniard quoted by the +great bibliographer Antonio--that the index of a book should be made by +the author, even if the book itself were written by some one else.[11] +An ideal indexer needs many high qualifications; but, unlike the poet, +he is not born but made. He must be a good analyser and know how to +reduce the author’s many words into a terse form. He must also be +continually thinking of the wants of the consulter of his index, so +as to place his references under the heading that the reader is most +likely to seek. If he does his work well he will have many appreciative +readers; for, as Henry Rogers has observed, “no writer is so much read +as the maker of a good index--or so much cited.” Dr. Allibone prints +in his valuable Dictionary of Authors (vol. i. p. 85), an extract from +a number of the Monthly Review, which is well worthy of quotation +here:--“The compilation of an index is one of those useful labours for +which the public, commonly better pleased with entertainment than with +real service, are rarely so forward to express their gratitude as we +think they ought to be. It has been considered as a task fit only for +the plodding and the dull: but with more truth it may be said that this +is the judgment of the idle and the shallow. The value of anything, it +has been observed, is best known by the want of it. Agreeably to this +idea, we, who have often experienced great inconveniences from the want +of indices, entertain the highest sense of their worth and importance. +We know that in the construction of a good index, there is far more +scope for the exercise of judgment and abilities, than is commonly +supposed. We feel the merits of the compiler of such an index, and we +are ever ready to testify our thankfulness for his exertions.” + +The eminent bibliographer William Oldys expressed a very similar +sentiment in words which have been printed by Mr. Thoms in _Notes and +Queries_ (2nd series, vol. xi. p. 309): “The labour and patience, +the judgment and the penetration which are required to make a good +index, is only known to those who have gone through this most painful, +but least praised part of a publication. But as laborious as it is, +I think it indispensably necessary to manifest the treasures of any +multifarious collection, facilitate the knowledge to those who seek it +and invite them to make application thereof.” + +We can point to a goodly roll of eminent men who have not feared +this labour and who have not been ashamed to appear before the world +as indexers. In the first rank we must place the younger Scaliger, +who devoted ten months to the compilation of an elaborate index to +Gruter’s magnificent _Thesaurus Inscriptionum_. Bibliographers have +been unanimous in praise of the energy exhibited by the great critic +in undertaking so vast a labour. Antonio describes the index as an +herculean work, and Le Clerc observes that if we think it surprising +that so great a man should undertake so laborious a task, we must +remember that such indexes can only be made by a very able man. +Nicolas Antonio, the compiler of one of the fullest and most accurate +bibliographies ever planned, whose name has already been mentioned in +these pages, was a connoisseur in indexes and wrote a short essay on +the makers of them. His _Bibliotheca Hispana_ is not known so well as +it deserves to be on account of the little general interest that is +taken in Spanish literature, but having some years ago used it almost +daily, I can speak of it with gratitude as one of the most trustworthy +of works. The system upon which the authors’ names are arranged is one +that at first sight might seem to give cause for ridicule; for they +appear in an alphabet of Christian names, but when we consider that +the Spaniards and Portuguese stand alone among European nations in +respect to the importance they pay to the Christian name, and remember +further that authors and others are often alluded to by their Christian +names alone, we shall see a valid reason for the plan. Another point +that should not be forgotten is the number of Spanish authors who have +belonged to religious orders, and are never known by their surnames. +This arrangement, however, necessitates a full index of surnames, and +Antonio has given one which was highly praised by both Baillet and +Bayle, two men who were well able to form an opinion. + +When Baillet, the learned author of the _Jugemens des Savans_, was +appointed by M. de Lamoignon, keeper of the exquisite library collected +by that nobleman, he set to work to compile an index of the contents of +all the books contained in it, and this he is said to have completed in +August, 1682. After this date, however, the Index continued to grow, +and it extended to thirty-two folio volumes, all written by Baillet’s +own hand. It is clear from this that that eminent bibliographer lived +two hundred years before his time. How highly would his labours be +appreciated now were he Director of the Index Society. + +The great Bayle, as might be expected from his omnivorous literary +appetite, held the vocation of the Index-maker in high esteem. He +quotes with approval Antonio’s remark respecting the author of a book +being the proper person to index it, but he adds with justice that +it is not every author who is capable of making an index, a doctrine +also preached by Le Clerc. Bayle adds, “Authors refer to others the +pains of making alphabetical Indexes; and it must be owned, that those +gentlemen who are not patient of labour, and whose talent consists only +in the fire and vivacity of imagination, had much better let others +make the Index to their works.” To show the need of judgment in this +department of literary labour, Bayle refers to the drawer-up of the +Index to Dalechamp’s Athenæus, “who says that Euripides lost in one day +his wife, two sons, and a daughter, and refers us to page 60, where +nothing like this is found; but we find in page 61 that Euripides, +going to Icaria, wrote an epigram on a disaster that happened at a +peasant’s house, where a woman, with her two sons and a daughter, died +by eating of mushrooms.” In order to guard against such blunders, Bayle +proposed that certain directions should be drawn up for the guidance +of the compilers of indexes, which have justly been called the soul of +books.[12] + +If we examine the indexes to old books, we shall certainly find ample +reason for the belief that in former centuries authors more frequently +had a hand in the production of the indexes to their books than they +have in the present day. Leigh Hunt, in a pleasant paper written +for the _Indicator_, says: “Index making has been held to be the +driest as well as lowest species of writing. We shall not dispute the +humbleness of it; but since we have had to make an index ourselves we +have discovered that the task need not be so very dry. Calling to mind +indexes in general, we found them presenting us a variety of pleasant +memories and contrasts.” He then praises the Indexes to the Tatler and +Spectator, and adds: “Our index seemed the poorest and most second-hand +thing in the world after theirs: but let any one read theirs and then +call an index a dry thing if he can. As there ‘is a soul of goodness in +things evil,’ so there is a soul of humour in things dry, and in things +dry by profession.” He then quotes from Cotton’s Montaigne and Sandys’s +Ovid. From the latter he gives the following specimens: + + “Dwarfes, an Italian dwarfe carried about in a parrot’s cage, + p. 113. + + Eccho at Twilleries in Paris, heard to repeat a verse without + failing in one syllable, p. 58. + + Ship of the Tyrrhenians miraculously stuck fast in the sea, p. + 63. + + A Historie of a British ship stuck fast in the deepe sea by + witchcraft: for which twentie five witches were executed, + _ibid._” + +The index to Cotton’s translation of Montaigne’s Essays (which was +added to the book after Cotton’s death) is full of quaint entries; for +instance, these four will give some idea of the others: + + “Books, immortal children. + + Children abandon’d to the care and government of their fathers! + + Ears, dangerous instruments. + + Glosses upon books augment doubts.” + +Swift prefixed an amusing analytical Table to his ‘Tale of a Tub,’ and +the first edition of Shenstone’s burlesque poem, the _Schoolmistress_, +contains a ludicrous index or table of contents, which the poet added +“purely to show fools that I am in jest.” In subsequent editions this +table was suppressed, but Disraeli reprinted it in his _Curiosities of +Literature_. It is too long to quote entire here, and a specimen will +be sufficient to show its scope: + + “A circumstance in the situation of mansion of early + discipline, discovering the surprising influence of the + connection of ideas. + + Some peculiarities indicative of a country school, with a short + sketch of the sovereign presiding over it. + + Some account of her night-cap, apron and a tremendous + description of her birchen sceptre. + + The secret connection between whipping and rising in the world, + with a view as it were, through a perspective, of the same + little folk in the higher posts and reputation.” + +This ‘ludicrous index’ very probably gave Southey a hint which he +worked out in the headings for chapters to his _Doctor_. + +This seems to be the proper place to mention the practice that arose in +the last century of drawing up indexes of sentiments and opinions as +opposed to facts. Such indexes required a special skill in the indexer, +who was usually the original author. There is a curious poetical index +to the Iliad in Pope’s Homer, referring to all the places in which +similes are used. Dr. Johnson was very anxious that Richardson should +produce such an index to his novels. In the _Correspondence of Samuel +Richardson_ (vol. v. p. 282), is a letter from the lexicographer +to the novelist to the following effect: “I wish you would add an +_index rerum_, that when the reader recollects any incident, he may +easily find it, which at present he cannot do, unless he knows in +which volume it is told; for Clarissa is not a performance to be read +with eagerness, and laid aside for ever; but will be occasionally +consulted by the busy, the aged and the studious; and therefore I beg +that this edition, by which I suppose posterity is to abide, may want +nothing that can facilitate its use.” At the end of each volume of +“Clarissa” Richardson added a sort of table of all the passages best +worth remembering, and as he was the judge, it naturally extended to +a considerable length. In September, 1753, Johnson again wrote to +Richardson, suggesting the propriety of making an index to his three +works, but he added: “While I am writing an objection arises; such an +index to the three would look like the preclusion of a fourth, to which +I will never contribute; for if I cannot benefit mankind I hope never +to injure them.” Richardson took the hint of his distinguished friend, +and in 1755 appeared a volume of 410 pages, entitled “A Collection of +the moral and instructive Sentiments, Maxims, Cautions and Reflexions +contained in the Histories of Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles +Grandison, digested under proper heads.” The production of this book +was a labour of love to its author, who, moreover, was skilled in the +mechanical work of indexing, and in the early part of his career had +filled up his leisure hours by compiling indexes for the booksellers +and writing prefaces and dedications. + +The high praise given by Leigh Hunt to Steele’s indexes has already +been noted, and a casual reference to the index of the _Tatler_ will +show the justice of the remark: “As grapes ready to burst with wine +issue out of the most stony places, like jolly fellows bringing +burgundy out of a cellar, so an Index like the Tatler’s often gives us +a taste of the quintessence of his humour.” The very title gives good +promise of what is to follow: “A faithful Index of the dull as well as +the ingenious passages in the Tatler.” Here are a few entries chosen at +random: + + Vol. 1. Bachelor’s scheme to govern a wife. + Knaves proved fools. + Vol. 2. Dead men, who. + Dead persons heard, judged and censured. + ---- ---- allegations laid against them, their pleas. + Love letters before and after marriage, found in a grave. + Mathematical sieve to sift impertinences in writing and + discourse. + Vol. 4. Blockheads apt to admire one another. + +In 1757 “A General Index to the Spectators, Tatlers and Guardians” +was published, and in 1760 the same work was reissued with a new +title-page. Certain blots in the original indexes were here corrected, +and the following explanation made in the preface: “Notwithstanding +the learning and care of the compilers of the first Indexes to these +volumes, some slight inaccuracies have passed, and where observed +they are altered. Few readers who desire to know Mr. Bickerstaff’s +opinion of the Comedy called the Country Wife, or the character of +Mrs. Bickerstaff as an actress, would consult the Index under the word +_Acts_.” + +Michael Maittaire, the bibliographer, prided himself on his talent for +index-making, which he exhibited in his editions of the classics, and +in his ‘Annales Typographici.’ William Bowyer, the learned printer, +made the excellent Index to William Clarke’s “Connexion of the Roman, +Saxon and English Coins” (1767), which greatly pleased the author, +who wrote to Bowyer, “Of all your talents you are a most amazing man +at Indexes. What a flag, too, do you hang out at the stern! You must +certainly persuade people that the book overflows with matter, which +(to speak the truth) is but thinly spread. But I know all this is +fair in trade, and you have a right to expect that the publick should +purchase freely when you reduce the whole book into an epitome for +their benefit; I shall read the Index with pleasure.”[13] Bowyer’s +biographer, John Nichols, to whom we owe the _Literary Anecdotes of +the Eighteenth Century_, and the _Illustrations of Literary History_, +two books treasured by all lovers of bibliography, was an Indexer of +merit, and his son and grandson followed in his footsteps. The memory +of Dr. Maty has often been blessed by consulters of the _Philosophical +Transactions_, who find great help in his copious Index to the first +seventy volumes of that work. + +Samuel Ayscough was another industrious index-maker who deserves +especial mention. He compiled indexes for the Monthly Review, the +British Critic, and the Gentleman’s Magazine. His Index to Shakespeare +(1790) was a work of great labour and high utility, followed, in +1804, by Francis Twiss’s _Verbal Index_, and quite superseded by Mrs. +Cowden Clarke’s complete Concordance (1844). It is under the heading +of Ayscough, in his Dictionary of Authors, that Allibone has gathered +together an interesting collection of quotations on the subject of +indexes. + +The industrious E. H. Barker took the greatest pleasure in making the +Index to his edition of Stephens’s Thesaurus (which was so mauled in +the ‘Quarterly’ by Bishop Blomfield), and when a friend condoled with +him on the bore of making the index, which had occupied three years +in the composing and printing, Mr. Barker observed that they were the +happiest years of his life, for he had thus read again and again the +_Thesaurus_, which he should not otherwise have done. + +The name of the great historian Macaulay will appropriately close +this list of eminent indexers. At the age of fifteen he wrote a +letter to Hannah More, which ends with these words: “To add to the +list, my dear madam, you will soon see a work of mine in print. Do +not be frightened; it is only the Index to the thirteenth volume of +the _Christian Observer_, which I have had the honour of composing. +Index-making, though the lowest, is not the most useless round in the +ladder of literature; and I pride myself upon being able to say that +there are many readers of the _Christian Observer_ who could do without +Walter Scott’s works, but not without those of, my dear madam, your +affectionate friend, THOMAS B. MACAULAY.” Macaulay in after-life used +a contemptuous expression when he was describing the appearance of +the lowest grade in the literary profession. My friend Mr. Campkin, +a veteran Indexer, quotes this description in the preface to one of +his valuable Indexes--that to the twenty-five volumes of the _Sussex +Archæological Collections_--“The compilation of Indexes will always, +and naturally so, be regarded as a humble art: ‘index-makers in ragged +coats of frieze’ are classed by Lord Macaulay as the very lowest of +the frequenters of the coffee-houses of the Dryden and Swift era. +Yet ‘’tis my vocation, Hal,’ and into very pleasant companionship +it has sometimes brought me, and if in this probably the last of my +twenty-five years’ labours in this direction, I have succeeded in +furnishing a fairly practicable key to a valuable set of volumes, my +frieze coat, how tattered soever signifieth not, will continue to hang +upon my shoulders not uncomfortably.” Mr. Campkin is quite right as to +the estimation in which the indexer is held, but I think he should not +allow that such estimation is natural. The art that requires thought +and some power of analysis should in justice be rated higher than this, +and if the Index-makers did such good work as we frequently find in +the books of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the discredit +of the ragged coats would rightly belong to their employers and not to +themselves. Macaulay probably had Swift’s _Account of the Condition +of Edmund Curll_ in his mind when he alluded to the low estate of the +Index-maker. In this satire there are certain “Instructions to a Porter +how to find Mr. Curll’s authors,” few of whom are in sufficiently easy +circumstances to allow of the renting a garret each for himself--“At +the laundress’s at the Hole in the Wall in Cursitor’s Alley up three +pair of stairs, the author of my Church history--you may also speak to +the gentleman who lies by him in the flock bed, my index-maker.” + +No account of the history of indexing would be complete without special +and honourable mention of two literary men who have persistently +pointed out on all occasions the urgent need of Indexes. One of these +is an Englishman and the other an American. Mr. Thoms, as editor of +the “_Notes and Queries_,” must constantly have felt the want of these +helps to research, and he seldom allowed a volume of his journal to +pass without inserting something regarding them. He did more however, +for he issued a General Index to each series as it was completed. Dr. +Allibone, throughout his _Dictionary of English and American Authors_, +has lost no opportunity of saying something to the purpose on his +favourite subject. As already remarked, he printed at the beginning +of the first volume of his great work a most interesting series of +quotations relating to Indexes and on the very last page of his third +and last volume he returned to the subject in bidding farewell to his +readers. + +Mr. Markland is the authority for the declaration by the Roxburghe Club +that “the omission of an Index when essential should be an indictable +offence.”[14] Carlyle denounces the putters forth of indexless books; +and Baynes, the author of the _Archæological Epistle to Dean Milles_ +(which is usually attributed to Mason), concocted a terrible curse +against such evil-doers. The reporter was the learned Francis Douce, +who said to Mr. Thoms, “Sir, my friend John Baynes used to say that the +man who published a book without an index ought to be damned ten miles +beyond Hell, where the Devil could not get for stinging nettles.”[15] + +Lord Campbell proposed that any author who published a book without +an Index should be deprived of the benefits of the Copyright Act, and +the Hon. Horace Binney, LL.D., a distinguished American lawyer, held +the same views, and would have condemned the culprit to the same +punishment. Those, however, who hold the justest theories sometimes +fail in practice; thus Lord Campbell had to acknowledge that he had +himself sinned before the year 1857; and the deficiencies of the forty +Indexes to Allibone’s Dictionary are pointed out in a paper read before +the Conference of Librarians in October, 1877.[16] These are the words +written by Lord Campbell in the preface to the first volume of his +_Lives of the Chief Justices_ (1857)--“I have only further to express +my satisfaction in thinking that a heavy weight is now to be removed +from my conscience. So essential did I consider an Index to be to +every book, that I proposed to bring a Bill into Parliament to deprive +an author who publishes a book without an Index of the privilege of +copyright; and moreover to subject him for his offence to a pecuniary +penalty. Yet from difficulties started by my printers, my own books +have hitherto been without an Index. But I am happy to announce that +a learned friend at the bar, on whose accuracy I can place entire +reliance, has kindly prepared a copious Index which will be appended to +this work, and another for the new stereotyped edition of the Lives of +the Chancellors.” + +In tracing the history of Index-making we have seen that the value of +a full Index was early realized; but when authors ceased to make their +own indexes, neglect was the consequence, and during the early part +of the present century this period of neglect was probably the most +complete. Towards the formation of general Indexes little had been +done until late years, although we have seen that Baillet set himself +to such work. Of special Indexes we should naturally expect that one +to the Bible would be the first attempted, and such was the case. The +first Concordance was compiled by Hugo de St. Caro, in 1247, and five +hundred monks are said to have been employed upon it. The first English +concordance to any part of the Scriptures was of the New Testament, +and printed by Thomas Gybson in 1536. That to the entire Bible was +made by John Marbeck, and published at London by Grafton in 1550.[17] +Previously to the publication of this valuable work Marbeck was shut +up in the Marshalsea, but when Henry VIII. pardoned him he told the +Bishops that Marbeck had employed his time much better than they had +theirs. Nearly two centuries later Alexander Cruden published his great +work, which still continues to be the standard Concordance. + +In 1545 an alphabetical Collection of the most elegant words and +phrases used by Boccaccio was compiled by Francis Alunno, and published +in _Le Ricchezze della Lingua volgare_. Verbal Indexes to the ancient +classics afterwards became common, and in 1662 the celebrated _Gradus +ad Parnassum_ first appeared under the title of “Epithetorum et +Synonymorum Thesaurus” (Paris). It is attributed to Chatillon, and was +reprinted by Paul Aler, a German Jesuit, as the _Gradus_.[18] + +The lawyers can claim the honour of being the first class to realize +the absolute need of Indexes, and the Digests produced by them are +admirable works, but the greatest lawyers still point out how much +there is to be done. Sir Henry Thring has drawn up some masterly +instructions for an Index to the Statute Law, which is to be considered +as a step towards a code. These instructions conclude with the +following weighty words--“Let no man imagine that the construction of +an index to the Statute Law is a mere piece of mechanical drudgery, +unworthy of the energy and ability of an accomplished lawyer. Next to +codification the most difficult task that can be accomplished is to +prepare a detailed plan for a code, as distinct from the easy task of +devising a theoretical system of codification. Now the preparation of +an index, such as has been suggested in the above instructions, is the +preparation of a detailed plan for a code. Each effective title is, in +effect, a plan for the codification of the legal subject matter grouped +under that title, and the whole index, if completed, would be a summary +of a code arranged in alphabetical order.”[19] + +That this question of digesting the law is to be considered as one that +should interest all classes of Englishmen, and not the lawyer only, may +be seen from an article in the _Nineteenth Century_ (September, 1877), +on the “Improvement of the Law by private enterprise,” by Sir James +Fitzjames Stephen, who has done so much towards a complete digest of +the law. He writes: “I have long believed that the law might by proper +means be relieved of this extreme obscurity and intricacy, and might +be displayed in its true light as a subject of study of the deepest +possible interest, not only to every one who takes an interest in +politics or ethics, or in the application of logic and metaphysics to +those subjects. In short, I think that nothing but the rearrangement +and condensation of the vast masses of matter contained in our law +libraries is required, in order to add to human knowledge what would +be practically a new department of the highest and most permanent +interest. Law holds in suspension both the logic and the ethics, which +are, in fact, recognized by men of business and men of the world +as the standards by which the practice of common life ought to be +regulated, and by which men ought to form their opinions in all their +most important temporal affairs. It would be a far greater service to +mankind than many people would suppose to have these standards clearly +defined and brought within the reach of every one who cared to study +them.” The following remarks will apply with equal force to a more +general and universal index than that of the law: “The preparation of +a digest either of the whole or of any branch of the law is work of a +very peculiar kind. It is one of the very few literary undertakings in +which a number of persons can really and effectively work together. Any +given subject may, it is true, be dealt with in a variety of different +ways; but when the general scheme, according to which it is to be +treated, has been determined on, when the skeleton of the book has been +drawn out, plenty of persons might be found to do the work of filling +up the details, _though that work is very far from being easy or a +matter of routine_.” + +The value of analytical or index work is set in a very strong light by +an observation of Sir James Stephen, respecting the early digesters of +the law. The origin of English law is to be found in the Year Books and +other series of old Reports, which, from the language used in them, and +the black-letter printing, with its contractions, etc., are practically +inaccessible. Coke and others who reduced these books into form are, +in consequence, treated as ultimate authorities, although the almost +worshipped Coke is said by Sir James to be “one of the most confused, +pedantic and inaccurate of men.” + +Parliament has long recognized the fact that the preparation of indexes +to their journals is a department of work upon which large sums of +money may be advantageously spent. In 1778 a total of £12,900 was voted +for Indexes to the Journals of the House of Commons. The items were +as follows: To Mr. Edward Moore, £6400 as a final compensation for +thirteen years’ labour; Rev. Mr. Forster, £3000 for nine years’ labour; +Rev. Dr. Roger Flaxman, £3000 for nine years’ labour; and £500 to Mr. +Cunningham. + +But one of the grandest and most useful applications of index-making is +to be found in the series of Calendars of State Papers, issued under +the sanction of the Master of the Rolls, which have made available to +all a mass of historical material previously hardly appreciated by the +few. + +Scientific men have found by bitter experience that, unless they +have the assistance of indexes, they must spend years in studying +the bibliography of their subject, if they would avoid doing again +what has already been done. It has so long been the popular belief +that the work of indexing may properly be deputed to the harmless +drudge, whose industry is his chief merit, that it is no ordinary +gratification to be able to point to the great physiologist Haller as +one who, knowing that genius must have its toils, and finding that no +such works had been produced, stepped aside from his grander labours +to compile bibliographies of the science his talents adorned. In the +words of Johnson, index-making has been supposed to be “a task that +requires neither the light of learning nor the activity of genius, but +may be successfully performed without any higher quality than that +of bearing burthens with dull patience, and beating the track of the +alphabet with sluggish resolution.”[20] That Albert von Haller did +not hold this disgraceful doctrine his _Bibliotheca Botanica_ (1771), +his _Bibliotheca Anatomica_ (1774-77), his _Bibliotheca Chirurgica_ +(1774-75) and his _Bibliotheca Medicinæ practicæ_ (1776-78) amply prove. + +We find in these bibliographies a large proportion of University +Theses and Inaugural Dissertations, a form of publication which was +in considerable favour before the more general issue of journals +and transactions of Societies. When these latter became numerous, +the need of some key to their hidden contents was greatly felt, and +a large unoccupied field for indexing was here discovered. In 1800 +Reuss commenced at Göttingen the publication of his _Repertorium +Commentationum a Societatibus Literariis editarum_, which was continued +for twenty years, and completed in sixteen quarto volumes. The +contents are arranged and classified according to the chief divisions +of knowledge. The well-known publisher Engelmann, of Leipzig, is +deserving of the greatest credit for his extensive series of special +Bibliographies. That of Zoology, by Dr. Carus (1861), is one of the +most important of these publications, and to a great extent superseded +the _Bibliographia Zoologiæ_ of Agassiz, which was published by the +Ray Society (1848-54). These works helped to make apparent to all the +want which they did not completely supply. In 1857 the Royal Society +undertook the preparation of a Catalogue of Scientific Papers in +British and Foreign Journals and Transactions, from the commencement +of the present century. This was a vast work, and necessarily occupied +a considerable time in preparation. When it was thought advisable to +commence printing, the limit of date for the papers was fixed at 1863. +In 1867 the first volume was published, and each succeeding year a +double-columned quarto volume, of about 1000 pages, appeared until +1872, when the Alphabet of Authors was completed in the sixth volume. +A supplement for the years 1864-73 is in course of publication. The +value of the Catalogue is gratefully acknowledged on all hands, and +it has now become so indispensable that every consulter must marvel +how scientific men managed to get on without it. Medical men, however, +complain that medical and surgical papers have been passed over, and +Dr. J. S. Billings, Librarian of the U.S. National Medical Library, +is attempting to do for these departments what has already been done +for general science. In 1876 was printed a _Specimen Fasciculus of a +Catalogue of the National Medical Library under the direction of the +Surgeon General of the U.S. Army at Washington_, and in the May number +(1878) of the _Library Journal_ is an article by Dr. Billings on the +_National Catalogue of Medical Literature_ to contain references to +papers in all the Medical Journals. It is estimated that the Subject +Catalogue would occupy about seven volumes of one thousand pages each, +and the Authors’ Catalogue about three volumes extra. The question of +printing this great work is now before Congress, and Dr. Billings puts +the following query to be answered by Librarians and others: “What +is the value of such an index to the people of the United States as +compared with an expedition to the North Pole, five miles of subsidized +railway, one company of cavalry, or a small post office building?” + +There cannot be two opinions as to the importance of such a +publication, not only to the United States but to the world. At +present the Indexes to the Catalogues of the Libraries of the College +of Surgeons and the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society serve the +purpose of a special bibliography of medical literature, but they only +refer to books and not to the contents of those books. + +Every year new societies and new journals are started in various parts +of the world, so that it becomes daily more difficult for workers to +keep themselves _au courant_ with the work of others. To obviate this +difficulty the Zoologists started in 1864 an annual Record of their +science, and the Geologists followed suit in 1874. The Chemists, in +1871, adopted the still more useful plan of a monthly _résumé_ of +chemical papers, and with each number of the _Journal of the Chemical +Society_ is published a series of abstracts of papers in foreign +journals. The year’s numbers, completed with a full index, form +an annual Record. Several foreign journals are also published with +the main object of giving abstracts of books and papers published +on their respective subjects, such for instance as the various +German “Centralblatt.” A monthly part of the _Polybiblon: Revue +Bibliographique Universelle_, is specially devoted to summaries of +the contents of various French and Foreign periodicals. In America +the contents of current periodicals are recorded in “The Library +Table” and in “The American Bookseller.” A classified Index of the +Proceedings of the Learned Societies and the contents of the principal +magazines and reviews is announced as a feature of the newly-started +English Journal--“The Book-Analyst and Library Guide.” On all sides +there is evidence of the rapid growth of a taste for bibliographical +research. Scientific journals and transactions now contain papers +full of bibliographical details, which a few years ago would not +have been considered suitable for publication in immediate proximity +to original scientific papers; and this is not to be wondered at, +for the many questions of priority that constantly arise can only +be settled by the correct statement of the date of publication. The +British Association publish reports on the history of science, which +are made up of accurate lists of books and papers. The _Philosophical +Magazine_[21] contains an account of early Books on Logarithms, by +Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher, F.R.S.; the _Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical +Society_[22] has a Chronology of Star Catalogues, by Mr. E. B. +Knobel; the _Transactions of the Connecticut Academy_,[23] a list of +writings relating to the method of least squares, with historical and +critical notes by Mansfield Merriman; and the _Annals of the Lyceum +of Natural History of New York_, “Outlines of a Bibliography of the +History of Chemistry,”[24] and Index to the Literature of Manganese, +1596-1874,[25] both by H. Carrington Bolton, Ph.D. + +Prof. J. Plateau, the distinguished physicist, is publishing by +sections, a “Bibliographie Analytique des principaux phénomènes +subjectifs de la Vision,” in the Memoirs of the Brussels Academy. Mr. +Edward S. Holden, of the Washington Naval Observatory, has prepared a +valuable “Index Catalogue of Books and Memoirs relating to Nebulæ and +Clusters,” which was published in 1871 by the Smithsonian Institution, +to whom we owe so much good work in this direction; and in 1878 the +same gentleman’s “Index Catalogue of Books and Memoirs on the Transits +of Mercury” was issued as No. 1 of the “Bibliographical Contributions +(Library of Harvard University),” edited by Justin Winsor. Monographs +are now seldom published without some index of the bibliography of the +subject. Dr. Copland was one of the first to make the notice of the +literature of all topics treated a special feature in his _Dictionary +of Practical Medicine_. Many scientific books on special subjects are +in fact indexes; thus Morris’s _Catalogue of British Fossils_ (2nd ed. +1854); Bigsby’s _Thesaurus Siluricus_ (1868); and the same veteran +geologist’s _Thesaurus Devonico-Carboniferus_ (1878), are tables of +fossils with references to places where descriptions will be found. +This is the index work which is acknowledged on all hands to be of the +greatest value in the saving of the student’s time. + +In passing from the consideration of Indexes of science to those of +general literature, the place of honour must be given to Mr. Poole’s +_Index of Periodical Literature_. The author gave an interesting +account of the origin of his work at the Conference of Librarians held +in London (October, 1877). When Librarian at Yale College, Mr. Poole +made a list of the articles in the journals in the Library for his own +private use. The assistance he was thus able to give to readers was +highly appreciated, and he was asked to allow the list to be printed +for the benefit of others. This first edition appeared in 1848, and a +greatly enlarged edition followed in 1853. The second edition is out of +print, and a new one is in preparation, under the superintendence of +the compiler, but with the co-operation of librarians both in America +and Great Britain. Mr. Poole said that he had not seen a copy of his +first edition for twenty years until he saw it on the shelves of the +Reading Room of the British Museum. The nearest approach to a general +Index in existence is the useful Catalogue of Subjects which forms the +third and fourth volumes of Watt’s _Bibliotheca Britannica_. The Index +attached to Darling’s _Cyclopædia_ has several useful features, but +the work was never finished. One of the completest Catalogues ever +published is that of the Library of the London Institution. It is +classified and has an Index of Authors. It was not usual to attach an +Index of Subjects to a Catalogue of Authors until late years, and that +to the Athenæum Library (1852) is an early specimen. The New York State +Library Catalogue, 1856, has an Index, as have those of the Medical +and Chirurgical Library (1860) and the London Library (1865 and 1875). +That appended to the Catalogue of the Manchester Free Library (1864) is +more a short list of titles than an Index. In any notice of this kind +the valuable Indexes to the various collections of MSS. in the British +Museum must not be omitted, nor Mr. Sampson Low’s Index to the British +Catalogue of Books (1858), which was compiled by Dr. Crestadoro, +Librarian of the Manchester Free Library. Indexes to series of Journals +have naturally been frequent, but it was a novelty when the Parker +Society published a general Index to their separate publications--a +work of the greatest utility which the Camden Society propose to +emulate. + +That the interest felt in Index work is pretty generally spread abroad, +may be guessed by a paragraph that went the round of the papers a +few months ago, to the effect that an Index or ‘Repertorium’ of the +contents of all the German military magazines and periodicals, which +have been published during the last sixteen years, has been lately +printed at Berlin, which it is supposed will be of great value to every +student of military art, and even to the more general reader. + +The various matters treated of in the previous pages, go to prove the +existence of a revived interest in the value of Indexes, and seem +naturally to lead up to a notice of the formation of the Index Society. +The founders lay no claim to originality of conception; but they think +that the widespread feeling of the need of some such organization, +which has been frequently expressed, will insure the success of the +Society. + +In 1854 an announcement was made in the “Notes and Queries”[26] of +the projected formation of a “Society for the Formation of a General +Literary Index.” In the second series (vol. i. p. 486), the late Mr. +Thomas Jones, who signed himself Bibliothecar. Chetham., commenced +a series of articles, which he continued for several years, as a +contribution to this General Index; but nothing more was heard of +the Society. Inquiries were made in various numbers of the _Notes +and Queries_ respecting its formation, but no response was made. In +1870 a contributor to the same periodical, signing himself A. H., +proposed the formation of a staff of Index compilers. In 1874 Prof. +Stanley Jevons published his _Principles of Science_. In the chapter +on Classification, he enlarges on the value of Indexes, and adds: +“The time will perhaps come when our views upon this subject will be +extended, and either Government or some public society will undertake +the systematic cataloguing and indexing of masses of historical and +scientific information, which are now almost closed against inquiry” +(1st ed. vol. ii. p. 405; 2nd. ed. p. 718). + +In the following year Mr. Edward Solly and the writer of these pages, +without having seen this passage, consulted as to the possibility of +starting an Index Society, but postponed the actual carrying out of +their scheme for a time. In July, 1875, Mr. J. Ashton Cross argued in +a pamphlet, that a Universal Index might be formed by co-operation +through a clearing-house, and would pay if published in separate +parts. In September, 1877, some letters were printed in the _Pall Mall +Gazette_ by one who signed himself ‘A Lover of Indexes,’ in which the +foundation of an Index Society was strongly urged. In October, 1877, +Mr. Cross read a paper before the Conference of Librarians, which was +a revival of the scheme previously suggested. All these movements in +different quarters proved that the train was widely spread, and only +needed the lighting spark to make itself apparent; or, to use another +metaphor, the volunteers were ready for their work, and only waited +for the bugle call, and this was given in the _Athenæum_ for October +13, 1877, in a report of the Conference of Librarians written by Mr. +Robert Harrison. There we read: “Could not a permanent Index Society be +founded with the support of voluntary contributions of money as well as +of subject matter? In this way a regular staff could be set to work, +under competent direction, and could be kept steadily at work until +its performances became so generally known and so useful as to enable +it to stand alone and be self-supporting. Many readers would readily +jot down the name of any new subject they meet with in the book before +them, and the page on which it occurs, and forward their notes to be +sorted and arranged by any Society that would undertake the work.” + +The following number of the _Athenæum_ contained letters in approval +of the suggestion from Mr. G. Laurence Gomme and from Professor Justin +Winsor, of Harvard, who wrote: “We have been in America striving for +years to get some organized body to undertake this very work.” In the +number for October 27, it was announced that steps were being taken for +the formation of the Society, and the editor complained that he had +been overwhelmed with letters on the subject for which he could not +find space. + +In closing this general notice of Index work, and before passing on to +the consideration of the various modes of indexing, it will perhaps be +well to offer some answer to the question--What can such a Society do? +We have seen how highly a good Index is appreciated by workers, but it +does not need much argument to prove how few such there are, and how +many more are wanted. It has been said that a big book is a great evil, +and so it is until it receives an Index, and then it becomes a great +good. Prof. De Morgan, who treated Bibliography in a more interesting +manner than many authors treat lighter subjects, says, when referring +to Samuel Jeake’s “Arithmetick surveighed and reviewed,” (1696) in his +_Arithmetical Books_--“Those who know the value of a large book with a +good index will pick this one up when they can.” Mr. Jeake published +his work in a folio volume, the size and weight of which made De +Morgan suggest the possibility that the author thought arithmetic was +a branch of controversial divinity. In spite of this he singles it out +for praise on account of the value of the information it contains and +the fullness of the references to this information. I think we see in +various directions evidence of an awakening of interest in Index work, +but this interest wants fostering, and if book-buyers will agree to +give the preference to well-indexed books, the publishers will soon be +eager to supply the want so generally recognized. We may then hope to +see the time when it will be as rare to find a book without an Index +as without a title-page. The Library Association of the United Kingdom +have set a good example by issuing the Report of the Conference of +Librarians, 1877, with an elaborate Index to its varied contents, which +has been much appreciated, and does great credit to Mr. Tedder who +compiled it. + +To direct public attention to a neglected subject is one of the main +objects of the Index Society; but although Indexes to new books may +be demanded from publishers, it is hardly to be expected that these +merchants in literature will index books of the past. There are a large +number of standard works to which students must frequently refer, which +are a source of constant irritation from the difficulty of finding what +is required in their voluminous pages. The county and local histories, +in the possession of which England is so rich, rank high in the list +of these--a list which would also contain the Standard Historical +Collections, such as those of Rushworth, and Nalson, the Harleian +Miscellany, Somers’ Tracts, Ellis’s Original Letters, and many other +books that it is needless to enumerate here.[27] To this department the +Society will devote special attention. In all cases a book that may +be considered as _the_ authority upon a given subject will have the +preference, so that the Indexes may serve as complete guides to the +various topics. In many instances the works of standard authors will +be indexed as a whole, and in this way Indexes to particular books or +authors will often be Subject Indexes as well. With these and Subject +Indexes referring to Books and Papers in British and Foreign Journals +and Transactions, it is hoped that in a few years the Society will +have accumulated and published a series of books that will be of real +service to all classes of readers. + +Much that would otherwise be neglected may be done by a public society, +but to attack with effect the mass of work waiting to be undertaken, +it is necessary that we should receive a hearty support. It is to the +interest of subscribers to make the objects of the Society widely +known, and otherwise to help it, because the more numerous the +subscribers the larger will be the return that each subscriber will +get for his subscription, and the larger the plot of the great field +that can be put under cultivation. It is expected that the work of the +Society will be largely extended when they acquire funds that will +enable them to open an office which shall contain a library of indexes, +and in which can be placed the General Reference Index. + +I have heard two objections brought against the scheme of the Society: + +1. That it is needless to urge the compilation of indexes, because +every worker worthy of the name makes his own. This, however, is just +the loss of power that the Society wish to prevent. Now the same work +is often done over and over again, and the MSS. are only saved from +the waste-paper basket by the merest chance, to be again lost among a +heap of other papers. There are, doubtless, many valuable indexes lying +hidden and unknown, and it will be our object to draw them if possible +to the light. + +2. That the General Index is an impossibility, and that to attempt its +preparation is a waste of time. Those who hold this opinion have not +sufficient faith in the simplicity and usefulness of the alphabet. +Every one has notes and references of some kind, which are useless if +kept unarranged, but if sorted into alphabetical order become valuable. +The object of the General Index is just this, that anything, however +disconnected, can be placed there, and much that would otherwise +be lost will there find a resting place. Always growing and never +pretending to be complete, the Index will be useful to all, and its +consulters will be sure to find something worth their trouble if not +all they may require. + +The objects of the Society are national in their importance, and as +such they have been acknowledged by one who has given one hundred +guineas to help in their attainment. With more such gifts how much +might be done by the Society. + +Having dwelt in the previous pages upon some of the chief points in +the history of Indexing, we will now pass on to the consideration of +the practical part of the subject. The unwise seem to be of opinion +that any fool can index, but we have already seen that the wise think +differently. The remarks with which Dr. Johnson opens the preface to +his English Dictionary may well be applied to the Indexer: “It is the +fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life to be rather +driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good; +to be exposed to censure, without hope of praise; to be disgraced by +miscarriage, or punished for neglect, where success would have been +without applause, and diligence without reward. Among these unhappy +mortals is the writer of dictionaries; whom mankind have considered, +not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, +doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths +through which Learning and Genius press forward to conquest and glory, +without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their +progress. Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer +can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompence has +been yet granted to very few.” This dishonouring estimate has received +many rude shocks, and it should be our aim to crush it entirely out of +existence. + +In order to give some appearance of system to what might otherwise +be considered as mere desultory remarks, I propose to arrange +the following notes under the three heads of I. Compilation; II. +Arrangement; III. Printing. + + +I. + +In the Instructions for an Index to the Statute Law, by Sir Henry +Thring,[28] already referred to, we find the following clear +definitions which will serve to open this portion of our case:-- + + “The basis of an index to a book of the ordinary kind is a + series of titles or catchwords arranged in alphabetical order + and indicative of the main topics treated of in the book.” + + “The object of an index is to indicate the place in a book or + collection of books in which particular information is to be + found. Such an index is perfect in proportion as it is concise + in expression, whilst exhaustive in its indication of every + important topic of the subject to which it is an index.” + +The question naturally arises--how is the work to be set about? In +the Special Report on the Public Libraries of the United States of +America, Part I, 1876 (pp. 727-732), is an article on “Book Indexes” by +F. B. Perkins, which contains some rather elementary instruction as to +writing, cutting up, and pasting, but in these matters of detail the +best way of proceeding will always be the way that the indexer feels +that he can work best. Some choose to write their Index straight on in +the order of the book itself, on sheets of paper which are afterwards +cut up, sorted, and pasted; others prefer to use slips of paper and to +write one entry on each slip; a third class will make their entries +at once into an alphabetical book, or better still on loose sheets +of paper placed in a portfolio lettered in alphabetical order. By +this means the indexer sees his work grow under his hands. Whatever +system however is adopted, it is well to bear in mind that the indexer +should obtain some knowledge of the book he is about to Index before +he commences his work. The following remarks by Sir H. Thring may be +applied more generally than to the law--“A complete knowledge of the +whole _law_ is required before he begins to make the index, for until +he can look down on the entire field of law before him, he cannot +possibly judge of the proper arrangement of the headings, or of the +relative importance of the various provisions.” + +During his work the Indexer must constantly ask himself what it is +for which the consulter is likely to seek. The author frequently uses +periphrases to escape from the repetition of the same fact in the same +form, but these periphrases will give little information when inserted +as headings in an Index, and it is in this point of selecting the +best catchword that the good Indexer will show his superiority over +the commonplace worker. There are a large number of Indexes in which +not only is the _best_ heading _not_ chosen but the very _worst is_. +Thus in the Indexes to the _Canadian Journal_, a high-class magazine, +we find such entries as the following, arranged under the word here +printed in italics:-- + + _A_ Monograph of the British Spongiadæ. + _On_ the Iodide of Barium. + _Sir_ Charles Barry, a Biography. + _The_ late Professor Boole. + _The_ Mohawk Language. + +The same arrangement may be found in the Index to the Journal of the +Society of Telegraph Engineers, thus-- + + _A_ Strange Story. + _Professor_ Wheatstone, original proposals, &c. + +The handsome edition of Jewel’s _Apology_ by Isaacson (1825) contains +an index which is worthy of special remark. It is divided into four +alphabets, referring respectively to 1. Life; 2. Apology; 3. Notes to +Life; 4. Notes to Apology; and this complicated machinery is attached +to a book of only 286 pages. I think I may say that there is hardly an +entry in the Index that would be of any use to the consulter, and to +show that this censure is not too sweeping, I will add a few specimens: + + _Belief_ of a Resurrection. + + _Caution_, Reformers proceeded with caution. + + _If_ Protestants are Heretics let the Papists prove them so + from Scripture. + + _In_ withdrawing themselves from the Church of Rome, + Protestants have not erred from Christ and his Apostles. + + _King_ John. + + _The_ Pope assumes Regal power and habit. + + Ditto employs spies. + +In the “General Index to the Spectators, Tatlers and Guardians,” +referred to on a previous page, such words as Difference, Digression, +Directions, Discourse, Dissertation and Instance, are specially noticed +as bad headings in the original Indexes, which have been changed in the +new one; and yet these are the very words that are chosen by rule for +headings in the British Museum Catalogue. Could any plan be adopted by +which the following books would more thoroughly be hidden out of sight +than by the present arrangement: + + _Kind._ A Kind of a Dialogue in Hudibrasticks; designed for the + use of the Unthinking and Unlearned (1739). + + _Kinds._ How to make several kinds of miniature pumps and a + fire engine; a book for boys (1860). + +Some bibliographers always prefer substantives to adjectives as +headings, but the whole point of a sentence is often contained in a +substantival adjective. When adjective and substantive are joined to +represent one idea, as Alimentary Canal, English History, they should +be treated as compound nouns, and arranged under the letters _A_ and +_E_ respectively.[29] The most marked example of an opposite rule +that I have ever seen is to be found in the Index to Hare’s _Walks in +London_ (1878). Here all the Alleys, Bridges, Buildings, Churches, +Courts, Houses, Streets, etc., are arranged under those headings, and +not under the proper name of each. There may be a certain advantage +in some of these headings, but few would look for Lisson Grove under +Grove, and the climax of absurdity is reached when Chalk Farm is +placed under _Farm_. The adopted rule is not rigidly carried out, for +Grey Friars will be found under G, and Austin Friars under F. Another +peculiarity of this index is that a copy of it is added to each volume. + +Books of facts are much easier indexed than books of opinion; but it +is most important that the contents of the latter should be properly +registered. Some indexers seem to be of opinion that proper names are +the most important items in an index, and while carefully including +all these, they omit facts and opinions of much greater importance. +As a rule it is objectionable when the consulter finds no additional +information in the book to what is already given in the index; for +instance, should the observation be made respecting a certain state of +mind that “the Duke of Wellington probably felt the same at the Battle +of Waterloo,” it will be well for the indexer to pass the remark by +unnoticed, as should he make the following entries, the consulter is +not likely to be in a very genial mood when he looks up the references: + + Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington’s supposed feelings at the + battle of. + + Wellington (Duke of), his supposed feelings at Waterloo. + +The hackneyed quotation of + + Best, Mr. Justice, his great mind, + +cannot be omitted here, although I am unable to give any satisfactory +account of its origin. It forms an excellent example of the useless +references to which we have just referred, and contains as well a +ludicrous misapprehension of the passage indexed, which is said to +have been: “Mr. Justice Best said that he had a great mind to commit +the man for trial.” There can be no doubt that the entry, whether it +ever occurred in an Index or not, was intended as a personal fling +against Sir William Draper Best, puisne judge of the King’s Bench from +1819 to 1824, and Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1824 to +1829, in which latter year he resigned, and was created Lord Wynford. +The story was told to Mr. Solly by Sir W. Domville, in 1825, and with +reference to the index to one of Chitty’s Law Books. Another friend +tells me that he has a faint recollection that Chitty had a grudge +against Best, and took an opportunity of expending his bile in this +entry; but the late Dr. Doran insisted that the author of the joke was +Leigh Hunt, who first published it in the _Examiner_. In this unsettled +state we must leave the question, for it is not worth while to search +the files of a newspaper in order to find the truth of so insignificant +a matter. + +The form in which the various entries in an index are to be drawn up +is worthy of much attention, and particular care should be taken to +expunge all redundant words. For instance, it will be better to write + + Smith (John), his character; his execution. + +than + + Smith (John), character of; execution of. + +or + + Brown (Robert) saves money. + +than + + Brown (Robert), saving of money by. + +Sometimes a characteristic adjective or adverb will help to give life +and interest to the Index. + +The indexer must aim at conciseness, but he should always specify the +cause of reference, more especially in the case of proper names.[30] +Few things are more annoying than to find a block list of references +after a name, so that the consulter has to search through many pages +before he can find what he seeks.[31] Mr. Markland draws particular +attention to this point in a communication to the _Notes and Queries_ +(2nd series, vol. vii. p. 469) on the subject of Indexes. He complains +bitterly of the Indexes to the collected edition of Walpole’s Letters +and to Scott’s Swift. In the latter book there are 638 references to +Harley, Earl of Oxford, without any indication of the reason why his +name is entered in the Index. This case also affords a good instance +of careless indexing in another particular, for these references are +separated under different headings, instead of being gathered under +one, as follows-- + + Harley (Robert) 227 references. + Oxford (Lord) 111 ” + Treasurer, Lord Oxford 300 ” + +Mr. Markland takes the opportunity of pointing out that good specimens +of the right way to set out the references to an individual are to +be found in Nichols’s _Literary Anecdotes_; Hallam’s _Constitutional +History_; and Campbell’s _Lives of the Lord Chancellors_. Probably the +most colossal instance of the fault above alluded to is to be found in +Ayscough’s elaborate Index to the _Gentleman’s Magazine_, where all +the references under one surname are placed together without even the +distinction of the Christian name. Mr. Solly made a curious calculation +as to the time that would be employed in looking up these references. +For instance, under the name _Smith_, there are 2411 entries, all “en +masse,” and with no initial letters. If there were these divisions, +one would find “Zachary Smith” in a few minutes, but now one must +look to each reference to find what is wanted. With taking down the +volumes, and hunting through long lists of names, Mr. Solly found that +each reference cost him two minutes of time, a by no means extravagant +estimate; hence it would take the consulter eight days (working +steadily ten hours a day) to find out if there be any note about +Zachary Smith in the Magazine, a task so awful to think of that it may +be presumed that no one will ever attempt it. + +In some books a man will merely be referred to as holding an acre of +land, or as having been seen by the author on a certain day. In these +instances a specific cause of reference can hardly be given, but the +difficulty may be got over by setting out the various entries in which +some fact or opinion is mentioned, and then gathering together the +remainder under the heading of _Alluded to_. + +One would imagine that correctness of reference was the _sine qua +non_ of an index, and yet careless compilers, to save themselves +trouble, have sometimes neglected this great essential. Books have been +published with indexes that contained no reference at all, and until +late years glossaries have usually been compiled without references to +the places where the different words are used. + +Mr. Peacock has drawn my attention to the reprint of Whitelock’s +_Memorials_, published by the University of Oxford in 1853. The +original edition is in one volume folio (1682, reprinted 1732), and +the new edition is in four volumes octavo, but, to save expense, the +_old_ index was printed to the _new_ book. The difficulty was in part +got over by giving the pages of the 1732 edition in the margin; but, as +may be imagined, it is a most troublesome business to find anything by +it. If the old index were a good one, there might be some excuse for +its retention; but it is thoroughly bad, and all the mere misprints are +retained in the new one. As a specimen of the extreme inaccuracy of the +compilation, it may be mentioned that under one heading of 34 entries +Mr. Peacock detected seven blunders, and, moreover, he does not think +that this is at all an unfavourable specimen. Although Mr. Peacock has +no statistics of the other entries, his experience leads him to believe +that if any heading were taken at random, about one in four of the +entries would be found to be misprinted. + +An extreme case of misleading references is given in the Index of +Authors appended to the old Classified Catalogue of the Library of +Congress (Washington, 1840). The references here are not to pages +but to chapters, and as some of the chapters extend over one hundred +pages it may be guessed that a very tedious search has to be made; for +instance, to find the reference _Abdy_, it is necessary to look over as +many as seventy pages. + +It has been said that a bad index is better than no index at all, +but this is open to question, as the incomplete index deceives the +consulter. We have fair warning of this incompleteness in _The Register +of Corpus Christi Guild, York_, published by the Surtees Society in +1872, where we read on p. 321--“This Index contains the names of all +persons mentioned in the Appendix and foot-notes, but a selection only +is given of those who were admitted into the Guild or enrolled in the +Obituary.” The plan here adopted is not to be commended, for it is +clear that so important a name-list as this is should be thoroughly +indexed. However learned and judicious an editor may be, we do not +choose to submit to his judgment in the offhand decision of what is, +and what is not--unimportant. + +Many of the best indexes are indexes and something more; that is, +information is added which may not be in the book itself, such as +the date of birth and death of the persons mentioned, in order to +distinguish between those bearing the same proper names. Mr. Ralph +Thomas has added to his interesting notice of Quérard[32] (a pamphlet +of 48 pages), an Index of eight pages. This index contains several such +entries as the following:-- + + “Athenæum, The, no general index to, great literary want (and + the Athenæum reproached the Edinburgh Review for remissness in + not keeping up its indexes!).” + +The Index of Authors appended to De Morgan’s Arithmetical Books, 1847, +includes a list of reported Authors of works on Arithmetic which are +not noticed in the book, but these of course have no mark of reference. +By this means the Index shows the deficiencies of the book as well as +its riches. It is needful, however, that the information added should +be correct. An important example of the effect of wrong indexing is +given in Merewether and Stephens’s “History of Boroughs and Municipal +Corporations.” The word “Incorporation” is introduced into the index of +the Patent Rolls without authority from the text, and long before there +were incorporations in this country. The first actual use of the term +is in the Charter of Incorporation of Hull (18. Henr. VI.), but upon +the error in this index many other blunders have been founded. + +The Indexer needs knowledge so as to be able to correct his author when +necessary, for the most careful author will make slips occasionally, +and it is highly satisfactory when the Indexer can set him right. He +needs to be specially upon his guard in the case of misprints. Probably +the most fruitful source of blundering is the confusion of the letters +_u_ and _n_. These are identical in old MSS., and consequently the +copyist sometimes finds it difficult to decide which he shall use. In +Capgrave’s Chronicle of England is a reference to the “londe of Iude” +[Judæa], but this is mis-spelt _Inde_ in the edition published in the +Master of the Rolls’ series in 1858. Here we have a simple misprint +which can easily be set right, but the Indexer has enlarged it into a +wonderful blunder. Under the letter I is the following curious piece of +information:-- + + “India ... conquered by Judas Maccabeus and his brethren, 56.”!! + +Many more instances of this confusion of the letters _u_ and _n_ might +be given here, but two will suffice. George Lo_n_don was a very eminent +horticulturist in his day, who, at the Revolution, was appointed +Superintendent of the Royal Gardens, but he can seldom get his name +properly spelt, because a later horticulturist has made the name +Lo_u_don more familiar. The reverse mistake was one made by the Duke +of Wellington. C. J. Loudon (whose handwriting was not very legible) +wrote to the Duke a request that he might see the Waterloo beeches at +Stratfieldsaye. The letter puzzled the Duke, who knew nothing of the +horticulturist, and read C. J. Lo_u_don as C. J. Lo_n_don and beeches +as breeches; so he wrote off to Bishop Blomfield that his Waterloo +breeches disappeared long ago. + +The worst blunders are not made by the ignorant, but by those who +think themselves clever and jump to unwarranted conclusions; for +instance, the compiler of a history of Norwich attributed a work +on the Differential Calculus by a Fellow of St. John’s College, +Cambridge, to a medical practitioner of the town; but in order to make +the subject more appropriate, he inserted the information in the +following form--“to our respected fellow-townsman Mr. Arthur Brown we +are indebted for a valuable treatise on _different calculi_”! There +are few mistakes easier fallen into by Cataloguers and Indexers than +that of rolling two men into one, and few blunders are less easily +forgiven by the objects of the confusion; thus Bishop Jebb is said +to have been in dismay when he found himself identified in Watt’s +_Bibliotheca Britannica_ with his uncle the Unitarian writer. In +Dircks’s _Worcesteriana_ (1866) there is a curious muddle of this kind. +The first reprint of the Marquis of Worcester’s _Century of Inventions_ +was issued by Thomas Payne, the highly respected bookseller of the Mews +Gate, in 1746, but Mr. Dircks positively asserts that the “notorious +Tom Paine” was the publisher of it, thus ignoring the different +spelling of the two names. + +A curious instance of uniting two men into one will be found in the +_Athenæum_ for May 13, 1871, where we read that “William Haidinger +von Franz Ritter v. Hauer, the geologist and mineralogist, has died +recently.” What is here supposed to be one name is really the title of +a biography of Haidinger by von Hauer. + +There are a considerable number of names which have been created +through the misreading of difficult words, and names of persons who +never existed have by this means found their way into Biographical +Dictionaries. In the Zoological Bibliography of Agassiz, there is an +imaginary author, by name J. K. Broch, whose work, “Entomologische +Briefe,” was published in 1823. This pamphlet is anonymous, and written +by one who signed himself J. K. _Broch._ is merely an explanation in +the catalogue from which the entry was taken, that it was a brochure. +Moreri created an author whom he styled “Dorus Basilicus” out of +the title of James the First’s Δωρον βασιλικον, and Bishop Walton +supposed the title of the great Arabic Dictionary, the _Kamoos_, or +Ocean, to be the name of an author whom he quotes as “Camus.” In the +_Biographie Universelle_ there is a life of one “Nicholas Donis” by +Baron Walckenaer, that name being a mere blundering alteration of +“Dominus Nicholas,” this Benedictine monk’s true appellation. Thevenot, +in his Travels, refers to the fables of “Damné et Calilve,” meaning +the Hitopadesa or Pilpay’s Fables. His translator calls them the fables +of the damned Calilve. This is on a par with De Quincey’s specimen of +a French Abbé’s Greek. Having to paraphrase the words “Ἡροδοτος και +ιαζων,” (Herodotus even while Ionicizing), the Frenchman rendered them +“Herodote et aussi Jazon,” thus creating a new author, one Jazon.[33] +In the _Present State of Peru_, a compilation from the _Mercurio +Peruano_, P. Geronymo Roman de la Higuera is transformed into “Father +Geronymo, a Romance of La Higuera”! Well may we say to the worthy +priest what Peter Quince said to Bottom, “Bless thee, bless thee, thou +art translated.” + +The scissors-and-paste compilers are peculiarly liable to such errors +as these, and Wilson Croker proved in the Quarterly Review that the +_Mémoires de Louis XVIII._ (published in 1832) was a mendacious +compilation from the _Mémoires de Bachaumont_ by giving examples of the +compiler’s blundering. One of these muddles is well worth quoting, and +it occurs in the following passage: “Seven bishops--of _Puy_, Gallard +de Terraube; of _Langres_, La Luzerne; of _Rhodez_, Seignelay-Colbert; +of _Gast_, Le Tria; of _Blois_, Laussiere Themines; of _Nancy_, +Fontanges; of _Alais_, Beausset; of _Nevers_, Seguiran.” Had the +compiler taken the trouble to count his own list, he would have seen +that he had given eight names instead of seven, and so have suspected +that something was wrong; but he was not paid to think. The fact is +that there is no such place as Gast, and was no such person as Le Tria. +The Bishop of Rhodez was Seignelay-Colbert de Castle Hill, a descendant +of the Scotch family of Cuthbert of Castle Hill, in Inverness-shire, +and Bachaumont misled his successor by writing Gast Le Hill for Castle +Hill. The introduction of a stop and a little misspelling originated +the blunder as we now find it. + +An author is sometimes turned into a place, as in the article on +_Stenography_ in Rees’s Cyclopædia. John Nicolai published a Treatise +on the Signs of the Ancients at the beginning of the last century, and +the writer of the article having seen it stated that a certain fact was +to be found in Nicolai, jumped to the conclusion that it was the name +of a place and wrote: “It was at Nicolai that this method of writing +was first introduced to the Greeks by Xenophon himself.” + +D’Israeli gives a few curious instances of supposed authors in his +_Curiosities of Literature_--“A book was written in praise of Ciampini +by Ferdinand Fabiani, who quoting a French narrative of travels in +Italy, took for the name of the author the following words, found at +the end of the title-page, _Enrichi de deux Listes_; that is, ‘Enriched +with two Lists:’ on this he observes ‘that Mr. Enriched with two Lists +has not failed to do that justice to Ciampini which he merited.’ The +abridgers of Gesner’s Bibliotheca ascribe the romance of _Amadis_ to +one _Acuerdo Olvido_: Remembrance, Oblivion. Not knowing that these two +words on the title-page of the French version of that book formed the +translator’s Spanish motto. D’Aquin, the French King’s physician, in +his memoir on the preparation of Bark, takes _Mantissa_, which is the +title of the Appendix to the History of Plants by Johnstone, for the +name of an author, and who he says is so extremely rare, that he only +knows him by name.” To these may be added _S. Viar_, whose existence +was supposed to be proved by an inscription until an antiquary showed +that the complete reading of the mutilated stone was + + [PRÆFECTU]S . VIAR[UM.] + +Also the _August Oriuna_, supposed to be the wife of Carausius, of whom +Dr. Stukeley wrote some theoretical memoirs. This blunder originated in +the credulous Doctor’s misreading of the inscription on a battered coin +of Carausius:-- + + ORIVNA AVG . _for_ FORTVNA AVG. + +The French often fall into this class of blunders from their constant +practice of translating or explaining whatever it is supposed can be +translated or explained, thus G. Brunet of Bordeaux, having occasion in +his “La France Littéraire au XVe Siècle,” to mention “White Knights,” +the seat of the Duke of Marlborough, translates it “Le Chevalier +Blanc.”[34] When Dr. Buckland, the distinguished geologist, died, a +certain French paper published a biography of him, in which it was +explained that the deceased had been a very versatile writer, for +besides his works on Geology, he had produced one, “Sur les ponts et +chaussées.” This was a puzzle at first, but it was soon found that +the Bridgewater Treatise was here alluded to. The French love of +translation and explanation is amusingly illustrated in the _Annuaire +des Sociétés Savantes, par le Cte. Achmet d’Hericourt_, 1863, where +the author, in his notice of the Geological and Polytechnic Society +of the West Riding of Yorkshire, says that as it is known that the +English word _Ride_ means a “voyage à cheval ou en voiture,” it might +be thought that this was a “Société hippique,” but he obligingly adds +that it is not so. + +We have already seen in several cases how dangerous it is to jump to +conclusions, but we have still to point out the particular danger of +filling out contractions without sufficient knowledge. Pope, in a note +on _Measure for Measure_, informs us that the story was taken from +Giraldi Cinthio’s novel Dec. 8, Nov. 5, thus contracting the words +Decade and Novel. Warburton, in his edition of Shakespeare, was misled +by these contractions, and filled them out as December 8, and November +5. An error of the same kind is made by Dr. Allibone in his Dictionary +of English Literature, under the heading of Isaac Disraeli. He notices +new editions of that author’s works revised by the Right Hon. the +Chancellor of the Exchequer, of course Isaac’s son Benjamin (now Earl +of Beaconsfield and Prime Minister); but unfortunately there were two +Chancellors in 1858, and Allibone chooses the wrong one, printing as +information to the reader that the reviser was Sir George Cornewall +Lewis. But still worse was the following emendation of an ‘intelligent’ +printer. A writer in one of the reviews sent his copy to press with the +contraction “J. C. first invaded Britain,” and the compositor, who made +it his business to fill up all such abbreviations, instead of Julius +Cæsar, set up _Jesus Christ_.[35] + +Next in importance to the selection of appropriate headings in an +Index is the careful use of cross references. Great judgment is here +required, as the consulters are naturally irritated by being referred +backwards and forwards, particularly in a large Index. At the same +time, if judiciously inserted, such references are a great help. +When the entries are short and few, it is better to repeat them than +to refer from one to the other. In the case of long entries cross +references are very advantageous, and it is always well to refer to +cognate headings.[36] This, however, must not be carried too far; for, +as Mr. Poole says in an article on his own index,[37] “If every subject +shall have cross references to its allies, the work will be mainly a +book of cross references rather than an index of subjects.” He adds, +“One correspondent gives fifty-eight cross references under Mental +Philosophy, and fifty-eight more might be added just as appropriate.” + +At all events let the cross references be real. In Eadie’s Dictionary +of the Bible (1850), there is a reference “Dorcas _see_ Tabitha,” but +there is no entry under Tabitha at all. + +No reference to the contents of a general heading which is without +subdivision should be allowed.[38] There are too many of these vague +cross references in the Penny Cyclopædia, where you are referred +from the known to the unknown. If a general heading be divided into +sections, and each of these be clearly defined, they should be cross +referenced, but not otherwise. At present you may look for Pesth and +be referred to Hungary, where probably there is much about Pesth, but +you do not know where to look for it in the long article without clue. +Sometimes cross references are mere expedients, particularly in the +case of a cyclopædia published in volumes or numbers. Thus a writer +agrees to contribute an article early in the alphabet, but is not +ready in time for the publication of the part, so a cross reference is +inserted which sends the reader to a synonym later on in the alphabet. +In certain cases this has been done two or three times. In Cobbett’s +_Woodlands_ there is a good specimen of backwards and forwards cross +referencing. The author writes: “Many years ago I wished to know +whether I could raise birch trees from the _seed_.... I then looked +into the great book of knowledge, the Encyclopædia Britannica; there I +found in the general dictionary-- + + BIRCH TREE.--See _Betula_ (Botany Index). + +I hastened to BETULA with great eagerness and there I found-- + + BETULA.--See _Birch_ Tree. + +That was all, and this was pretty encouragement.” + +Cross referencing has its curiosities as well as other branches of our +subject. Perhaps the most odd collection of cross references are to +be found in Hawkins’s _Pleas of the Crown_, of which it was said in +the _Monthly Magazine_ for June, 1801 (p. 419) “A plain unlettered man +is led to suspect that the writer of the volume and the writer of the +index are playing at cross purposes.” The following are some of the +most amusing entries, but there are many more as good: + + Assault, _see_ Son. + Cards, _see_ Dice. + Cattle, _see_ Clergy. + Chastity, _see_ Homicide. + Coin, _see_ High Treason. + Convicts, _see_ Clergy. + Death, _see_ Appeal. + Election, _see_ Bribery. + Farthing, _see_ Halfpenny. + Fear, _see_ Robbery. + Footway, _see_ Nuisance. + Honour, _see_ Constable. + King, _see_ Treason. + London, _see_ Outlawry. + Shop, _see_ Burglary. + Sickness, _see_ Bail. + +The Index to Ford’s Handbook of Spain contains an amusing reference-- + + Wellington, _see_ Duke. + +But perhaps the strangest place to find a cross reference is on a +tombstone. In Barnes churchyard the following inscription was put up to +a once famous actor:-- + + Mr. J. Moody + A native of the Parish of Saint Clement Danes + and an old Member of Drury Lane Theatre. + For his Memoirs see the European Magazine; for his professional + abilities see Churchill’s Rosciad. + Obiit Dec. 26 1812, + Anno Ætatis 85. + + +II. + +Intimately connected with compilation is arrangement, for however well +the contents of a book may be analysed, the result will not form a good +Index unless it is well arranged. + +An Index should be one and indivisible, and not broken up into several +alphabets, thus every work ought to have its complete Index whether +it is one volume or many.[39] This important rule has frequently +been neglected in English books, and is almost universally rejected +in Foreign ones, to the great inconvenience of readers. An Index may +be arranged either chronologically, alphabetically, or according to +classes, but great confusion will be caused by uniting the three. The +alphabetical arrangement is so simple, so convenient, and so easily +understood by all, that it has naturally superseded the other forms, +but some still cling to the rags of classification, in the belief +that that is a more scientific arrangement. The evil of this is that +the consulter is never sure whether the reference he requires may +not be lurking in some place that he has missed, but in the case of +a single alphabet an answer to the question “Does the Index contain +what I require?” is obtained at once. Classification is the reverse +of this, for, as Mr. Poole says in his observations on the proposal +of one of his helpers to place Wealth, Finance, and Population under +the head of Political Economy--“the fatal defect of every classified +arrangement is that nobody understands it except the person who made it +and he is often in doubt.” The general principle here enunciated will +perhaps be better understood by reference to a few examples. Brayley’s +_Surrey_, in five volumes, has a separate Index to each volume, and +it is a pretty general experience that whatever is wanted is sure to +be found in the last volume consulted. The new edition of Hutchins’s +_Dorset_, 1874, has at the end eight separate Indexes, 1. Places; 2. +Pedigrees; 3. Persons; 4. Arms; 5. Blazons; 6. Glossarial; 7. Domesday; +8. Inquisitions. How much thought is here required which would not +be needed were all united into one alphabet. The general Index to +the Reports of the British Association is a most inconvenient one +to use, as it is split up into six alphabets; but the evil of these +subdivisions is most marked in Indexes to the various volumes of the +_Athenæum_, which are so subdivided that they are practically useless. +Who would rack his brain to find under which of the many headings the +subject he requires is likely to be hidden? These divided Indexes are +the exception in English books, but abroad almost every Index is in two +parts: 1. Persons; 2. Things. The Index to Arago’s complete works has +the threefold division: 1. Auteurs; 2. Cosmique; 3. Matières. If this +division be made, it ought surely to be carried out correctly, and yet +in the _Autoren Register_ to Carus’ and Engelmann’s Bibliography of +Zoology may be found the following entries: _Schreiben_; _Schriften_; +_Zu_ Humboldts Cosmos; _Zur_ Fauna. + +The inconveniences of classification in an index are so palpable +that it is needless to add more, but a list of titles of books that +have given trouble to bibliographers, and at sundry times have been +misarranged, will perhaps be amusing. Edgeworth’s Essay on Irish Bulls +and a Treatise on the Great Seal have been placed under the heading +of _Zoology_; Napier’s Bones under _Anatomy_; Swinburne’s Under the +Microscope under _Optical Instruments_; a volume of Poems, entitled +the Viol and Lute, under _Musical Instruments_; Ruskin’s Notes on +the Construction of Sheepfolds under _Agriculture_; McEwen on the +Types under _Printing_; and most famous of all, Link, de Stellis +Marinis, under _Astronomy_. Disraeli reports an amusing anecdote of +“an honest friar who compiled a church history and placed in the class +of ecclesiastical writers Guarini, the Italian poet; this arose from +a most risible blunder: on the faith of the title of his celebrated +amorous pastoral _Il Pastor Fido_, ‘The Faithful Shepherd,’ our good +father imagined that the character of a curate, vicar, or bishop, was +represented in this work.” + +Such incongruities as these had a charm for the author of the +_Curiosities of Literature_, and he therefore devotes a chapter to the +“Titles of Books.” The foregoing are tempting subjects for the jumpers +to conclusions, but some titles are impenetrable--what, for instance, +can be made of _Labia Dormientum_? It turns out to be a Catalogue of +rabbinical writers, and was so called in reference to a passage in +_Solomon’s Song_, “Like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down +sweetly, causing _the lips of those that are asleep to speak_” (vii. +19). + +In order to help the makers of Indexes in judging of the relative +extent of the various letters of the Alphabet certain calculations have +been made,[40] but the statistics must vary greatly according to the +character of the Index. Thus _B_ is the largest in an Index of English +names, but loses its preeminence in an Index of subjects, and _S_ takes +high rank in both classes. + +Mr. Curtis advocates in his paper the arrangement under each initial +letter according to the next following vowel, a plan often adopted in +Locke’s and other Common Place Books, but which is highly inconvenient, +especially when words without a second vowel as _Ash_ and _Epps_ are +placed at the head of each letter, as _Ash_ before _Adam_ and _Abel_; +and _Epps_ before _Ebenezer_. + +In arranging entries in alphabetical order it is necessary to sort +them up to the most minute difference of spelling. In order to save +themselves trouble some workers think they may leave off sorting at the +third letter, and their idleness gives others much annoyance. I have +often been troubled in this way when consulting the Index to a large +map of England in which the names of places are not arranged further +than the third letter. + +The Alphabetical arrangement has its difficulties which must be +overcome; for instance, it looks awkward when the plural comes before +the singular, and the adjective before the substantive from which it is +formed, as _naval_ and _navies_ before _navy_. + +Another difficulty arises when names and words from a foreign language +are introduced into an English Index. The only safe rule in these cases +is to use the English alphabet.[41] One of the Rules of the American +Library Association is, “The German _ae_, _oe_, _ue_ are always to be +written ä, ö, ü, and arranged as a, o, u”; by this Goethe would have +to be written Göthe, which is now an unusual form, and I think it would +be better to insist that where both forms are used, one or other should +be chosen and all instances spelt alike. It is a very common practice +to arrange ä, ö, ü, as if they were written ae, oe, ue, but this leads +to the greatest confusion, and no notice should be taken of letters +that are merely to be understood. Those who have stumbled over the +arrangement that treats the vowel I and consonant J, and the vowel U +and consonant V, as identical, will be glad to have a rule that keeps +them distinct. + +Although it has been previously said that words and names must be +arranged in alphabet up to their last letters, it is necessary to bear +in mind that each word is to stand by itself; for instance, first +will come the various persons bearing the surname _Grave_, arranged +according to the order of their Christian names, + + Grave, George, + + Grave, John, + +then the substantive and adjective _grave_, arranged according to the +alphabet of the words that follow, + + Grave at Kherson, + + Grave of Hope, + + Grave Thoughts, + +and last, + + Gravelot, + + Gravesend.[42] + +We now come to the consideration of a matter of some perplexity. It is +more of a difficulty for the Cataloguer than for the Indexer, still +it is one with which the latter must grapple. There cannot be two +opinions about the simple rule that a man should be set down under +his surname, but our trouble commences when we ask the question--What +is a surname? The answer to it must necessarily be complicated on +account of the varieties of form which proper names take in different +languages. The greatest difficulty arises from the prefixes, some of +which can easily be dispensed with, while others are integral portions +of the name.[43] If the prefix be a preposition, it must be rejected, +and the name arranged in alphabet under the following letter; thus, +_D’_, _De_, in French, _Da_ in Italian,[44] _Von_ in German, and _Van_ +in Dutch, are no real portion of foreign names, which can stand very +well without them. If, however, the prefix be an article, such as the +French _La_, it must be retained; for instance, the full name of the +great astronomer La Place is De La Place, but it is under _L_ that +it could alone be placed with propriety. If no other reason could be +given, a very sufficient one might be found in the fact that were not +_De_ and _Von_ rejected, a large proportion of French and German names +would appear respectively under those prefixes. Although this rule +is generally accepted as the only true one, it is seldom carried out +consistently; thus in the South Kensington Universal Catalogue of Books +on Art, we find D’Ayzac under _Ayzac_, D’Azara under _D_, D’Azeglio +under _A_, De La Blanchère under _D_, De La Borde under _L_, De La Fons +under both _D_ and _L_, with a cross reference from Fons. A logical +difficulty arises when the preposition is joined to the article, as in +_Du_ and _Des_, and here, in order to retain the article, we are forced +to retain the preposition as well. These rules only apply to Foreign +names, and such English names as De Quincey, Delabeche, Van Mildert, +must be arranged under _D_ and _V_ respectively, because the prefixes +are here meaningless. + +The rule for the arrangement of compound names differs accordingly as +these names are either English or Foreign.[45] The frequent practice +in England of using surnames as baptismal names gives the united names +the appearance of compound names, which they really are not. The first +name in a foreign compound is almost invariably the true name, and +frequently the second name is that of the owner’s wife or mother. +The French cannot understand our sur-christian-names, and with few +exceptions treat them as true surnames. There is a most amusing blunder +consequent on this misapprehension in the well-known _Biographie +Moderne_, edited by the late Dr. Hoefer, and published by Firmin Didot. +In this valuable Biographical Dictionary there is a long account of +Brigham Young, extending over many columns, but, instead of appearing +under _Y_, it has a place found for it in letter _B_, and the heading +runs as follows: “Brigham le jeune ou Brigham Young”! Although such +an instance as this could not well be paralleled in any English book +of the same high character, we are not as a nation incapable of making +blunders of a like kind. De Morgan remarks, in his Arithmetical Books, +“I have had in one or two instances to throw away German _Authors_ +for a very obvious reason. The reader will not find the works of +_Anleitung_ or _Grundriss_ or _Rechenbuch_ in my list, which is more +than can be said of every one that has preceded it.” _Derselbe_ might +have been added, as it sometimes has a very surname-like look. Blunders +are of no particular nationality, and it is needful to use special +vigilance in transferring proper names from the books of one language +to those of another. The most trustful, however, would be on his guard +when dealing with a writer who introduced the Duke of Newcastle to his +readers as “Gul. de Cavendy dux de Xeucathle.” + +Sometimes we have to deal with the latinised names of celebrated +men, and it is a very frequent practice to turn these back into the +vernacular, but it may be questioned whether it is right to do so. De +Morgan writes, “I have not attempted to translate the names of those +who wrote in Latin at a time when that language was the universal +medium of communication.... It is well to know that Copernicus, +Dasypodius, Xylander, Regiomontanus, and Clavius were Zepernik, +Rauchfuss, Holtzmann, Müller and Schlüssel. But as the butcher’s bills +of these eminent men are lost, and their writings only remain, it is +best to designate them by the name which they bear on the latter rather +than on the former.” + +The question however has pertinently been asked, how are we to act +if the butchers’ bills were by chance to be forthcoming and required +registration in a Catalogue of Manuscripts. Probably in this case also +it would be well to arrange the names under their best known forms. +The Hungarians, and sometimes the Italians, place the surname before +the Christian name, which is very confusing to those unacquainted with +the practice. Sometimes the same difficulty occurs in English from +the manner in which the names are printed; thus we learn from the +_Gentleman’s Magazine_ that + + Owen Gallager } died in 1769. + Fleetwood Hesketh } + +The Index-maker indexed these as _Gallager_ and _Fleetwood_! so that +the death of Mr. Gallager may easily be found, but the date of Mr. +Hesketh’s death cannot be found at all. The change of family name +is a source of confusion to those unacquainted with the niceties of +genealogy. Mr. Solly draws my attention to a case of this kind in +which the Heskeths changed their name in 1806 to Bamford by Act of +Parliament, and then subsequently obtained another Act to change it +back to Hesketh. Now the name is Lloyd-Hesketh-Bamford-Hesketh, which +is almost as complicated a series as Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer +Lytton, Lord Lytton.[46] This leads us to the rule by which peers are +to be arranged under their titles instead of their family names.[47] +The most usual and certainly most natural practice is so to arrange +them, but the British Museum rule is the reverse, and Mr. Cutter +followed the Museum rule in his full rules, although he did not approve +of it. In the short rules drawn up by Mr. Cutter and a Committee of +the American Library Association[48] this is judiciously altered and +some sound reasons are given for the later decision. The definition of +a name as “that by which a person or thing is known” would naturally +lead to the choice of Chesterfield as the name of the author of +Chesterfield’s Letters, because Stanhope is the name by which he is not +known. It is further added-- + + “In regard to one objection urged against entry under the + title, that it brings together members of different families + who at various times have had the same title, and that it + separates members of the same family who have held different + titles, the Committee cannot see what this has to do with + the question. The works of the various Smiths are put side + by side in the Catalogue, not because their authors belong + to the same family, which may or may not be the case, but + because their names are spelled alike and must be put + together if they are ever to be found in a Catalogue which is + arranged alphabetically. If the son of James Smith chooses + to uniformly spell his name Smythe he will be put not with + the ancestral Smiths, but among the Smy’s, because he will + be looked for there; and if he is Duke of Abercorn he should + be put under Abercorn for the same reason. A Catalogue is + not a biographical dictionary or a genealogical table, and + its efficiency is in danger of being lessened if its makers + confound the two purposes.”[49] + +In some instances, such as Horace Walpole, the name by which the great +letter writer is always known, the rule must be broken, but double +references should be adopted in all doubtful cases; thus Bulwer’s +novels cannot be ignored, although their author’s name must be treated +as Lytton. Apropos of the sound rule that all theories as to the +separation of different members of the same family must be disregarded, +we may mention the case of a great composer. It would be impossible to +arrange the name of Meyerbeer under any other letter than _M_, although +by doing so we place him under his Christian name, and separate him +from his scientific brother Beer. There can hardly be a greater +absurdity than to ferret out a man’s earliest name, and place him under +that. In the British Museum Catalogue the works of Sir Francis Palgrave +are entered under _Cohen_, a name which 999 persons out of every +thousand never heard of in connexion with him. + +Bishops, deans and others, holding official titles, must always be +arranged under their family names. It has been objected that reasons +which apply to peers apply also to them; but this is not really the +case, for a bishop is frequently referred to by his surname during his +lifetime, and always so after his death. He has but a life interest in +the name of his see. To illustrate this I would mention two eminent +contemporaries--John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Gilbert +Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury. We know the one as Duke of Marlborough and +the other as Bishop Burnet, and we should naturally turn to M. and B. +respectively for their names. + +There are a few minor matters worthy of mention in this department of +name headings. The initials which stand for Christian names often give +much trouble, particularly among foreigners. Most Frenchmen consider +themselves too important and well known to need the use of Christian +names, and therefore _M._ usually stands for _Monsieur_; this cannot, +however, be taken for granted without inquiry, for it sometimes means +_Michel_ or other Christian name commencing with _M_. I have noticed +in a German periodical[50] some extreme cases of the careless use of +initials; and the three following will afford good specimens of this: +1. H. D. Gerling; 2. H. W. Brandes; 3. D. W. Olbers. Here all three +cases look alike, but in the first H. D. represent two titles--Herr +Doctor; in the second H. W. represent two Christian names--Heinrich +Wilhelm; and in the third, one title and one Christian name are +intended--Dr. W. Olbers. To some these points will appear trivial, +but they are not so to those who have undergone endless trouble in +unravelling the enigmas. The indexer should insert the names of +persons in all simplicity, and ruthlessly omit the Mr. so frequently +used by his author.[51] It was the neglect of this rule which angered +Dr. Johnson. Boswell records how, “happening to mention Mr. Flaxman, +a dissenting minister, with some compliment to his exact memory in +chronological matters, the Dr. replied, ‘Let me hear no more of him, +Sir. That is the fellow who made the Index to my Ramblers, and set down +the name of Milton thus: Milton, _Mr._ John.’” + +It is amusing to find that in spite of this ebullition no means were +taken to remedy the evil. Johnson died in 1784, and yet in the twelfth +edition of the _Rambler_, dated 1791, which is now before me, I find +the same dishonouring title still retained. Besides _Mr._ Milton, +notices of _Mr._ Richard Baxter, _Mr._ Abraham Cowley, _Mr._ John +Dryden, _Mr._ Alexander Pope, and _Mr._ Edmund Spenser will be found in +the Index. + +Oddities in names give trouble, and are frequently the cause of +blunders; for instance, there are living at the same time grandfather, +father and grandson, who all bear the same names. To distinguish +himself, the grandson adds the word _Tertius_ to his name, and his card +is printed as _John Smith Ter._ Now ‘Ter’ is so unusual an affix that a +hurried cataloguer or indexer might almost be excused for treating it +as Mr. Smith’s surname. + +The signatures of Peers and Bishops are a source of trouble to many, +thus a certain eminent bookseller is said to have once received a +letter signed ‘George Winton,’ proposing the publication of a life of +Pitt, but, as he did not know the name, he paid no attention to the +letter, and was much astonished when he afterwards learnt that his +correspondent was no less a person than Pitt’s friend and former tutor, +George Pretyman Tomline Bishop of Winchester. This is akin to the +mistake of the Scotch doctor attending on the Princess Charlotte during +her illness, who said that ‘ane Jean Saroom’ had been continually +making inquiries, but not knowing the fellow he had taken no notice +of him. Thus the Bishop of Salisbury was treated with contempt by one +totally ignorant of his dignity. There is a reverse case of a catalogue +made by a worthy bookseller of the name of _William London_, which was +long supposed to be the work of Dr. William Juxon, the Bishop of London +at the time of publication. + +A very amusing blunder of this class is said to have occurred lately. +A certain person received a document signed “Richmond & Gordon,” and +being imperfectly acquainted with the refinements of the peerage, he +directed his answer for the Duke to “Messrs. Richmond and Gordon.” + +It has been suggested that all lists of errata in books should be +indexed, and there is no doubt that the chief items in these lists +should be referred to, as they are otherwise likely to be overlooked. +It is worse than useless to refer to a mis-statement in the text +without reference to the place where it is set right. This hint is the +more important, in that these mistakes are frequently repeated without +any notice being taken of the overlooked _errata_. The errata pointed +out in Sir Thomas Browne’s _Religio Medici_ (1643) were not corrected +in subsequent editions, and many other books have remained in similar +case. The first book with a printed errata is the Venice Juvenal of +1478, previously the mistakes had been corrected by the pen. One of the +longest lists of errata on record is in the edition of the works of +Picus of Mirandula, printed by Knoblauch of Strasburg in 1507, which +occupies fifteen folio pages. An English printer, however, has managed +to distance the foreigner in the race of carelessness, for a little +book of only 172 pages, entitled the “Anatomy of the Mass,” 1561, +has also a list of errata of fifteen pages. Dr. Johnson, referring +in his _Life of Lord Lyttelton_ to his subject’s _History of Henry +II._ (1773), speaks of the 19 pages of errata as something which “the +world had hardly seen before.” Disraeli gives, in his _Curiosities of +Literature_, some amusing instances of misreadings purposely inserted +in the text, with the sole object of being corrected in the errata. +Wherever the Inquisition had any power, particularly at Rome, the +use of the word fatum or fata in any book was strictly prohibited. +An author desirous of using the latter word, adroitly invented this +scheme: he had printed in his book _facta_, and in the errata he +put, for _facta_ read _fata_. Scarron did the same thing on another +occasion. He had composed some verses, at the head of which he placed +this dedication: _A Guillemette, chienne de ma Sœur_; but, having a +quarrel with his sister, he maliciously put in the _errata_, instead of +_Chienne de ma Sœur_ read _ma chienne de Sœur_. + + +III. + +Some Indexers suppose that their work is complete when they have made +their Index, but they need to prepare their copy for the press, and +also to see that their instructions are carried out by the printer. +Much of the value of an Index depends upon the mode in which it +is printed, and every endeavour should be made to set it out with +clearness. It was not the practice in old Indexes to bring the Indexed +word to the front, but to leave it in its place in the sentence, so +that the alphabetical order was not made perceptible to the eye. This +is now changed, but the evil still exists in the newspaper lists of +Births, Deaths and Marriages, more especially in those of the _Times_. +When the penny papers were started they introduced the improvement +of setting the name at the beginning of the entry as a heading. The +_Times_ took the hint from its less august contemporaries, but would +not condescend to copy them completely, so that the extent of the +change was the printing of the names in small capitals. It is to be +hoped that at some future day this pride may be overcome and the +public be allowed to enjoy the convenience of reading the name first. +The inconvenience of the present system is greatest in the marriage +advertisements, where the officiating clergy, about whom the reader +cares nothing, take precedence, and crowd out of sight the hero and +heroine. _Punch_ had a good skit on this nuisance once, and said that +when a poor man was thus hidden under a pile of parsons it became +impossible to know what really had happened to him; whether he was in +fact born, married, dead, or bankrupt! + +Where the reduction of space is not an object, the titles of each +article should be made to occupy a separate line, by which means the +headings are brought more prominently before the eye. There are few +points in which the printer is more likely to go wrong (if not watched) +than in the use of marks of repetition, and many otherwise good Indexes +are full of the most perplexing instances of their misapplication. The +dash is a far better mark of repetition than mere indentation, but +it must be kept for entries exactly similar.[52] The neglect of this +rule leads to the perpetration of the greatest absurdities, thus the +oft-quoted instance-- + + “Mill on Liberty + ---- on the Floss.” + +is not an invention, but actually occurred in a catalogue. The +following are good examples of what to avoid. + + +From the Index of the _Companion to the Almanac_ (Lond. 1843) + + New Albion + ---- Annuities + ---- Bread + ---- Brentford + Bartholomew Massacre + ---- Lane + Brimstone, duty on + ---- butterfly + Cotton, Sir Willoughby + ----, price of, + Old Stratford Bridge + ---- Style + ---- Swinford + +From the Index of _Pepys’s Diary_ (various editions) + + Child, Mr. + ---- of Hales, the, a giant + Court ladies, masculine attire of the + ---- of Arches + Fish, method of preserving + ----, Mrs. + Ireland, state of affairs in, &c. + ----, a cooper + Katherine Hall, Cambridge + ---- Pear + ---- of Valois + ---- the Man of War + ---- Yacht + Kentish Knock, the, a Shoal + ---- Town + Lamb’s Conduit + ---- Wool + Old age + ---- Artillery Yard + ---- Bailey + Orange Moll + ----, old Prince of + Scotland, state of + ---- Yard + +The opposite evil of repeating the heading, even when identical, is +rarer, but almost as confusing. + +It is so easy to confuse two men of the same name together that every +help towards keeping them distinct which the printer can give should be +adopted. We have already drawn attention to this point, but it is so +important a matter that the reader will perhaps excuse the insertion +here of two more anecdotes to close the subject with. An Englishman on +a visit to the United States carried with him a letter of introduction +to Dr. Channing, but through inadvertence he called upon the great +man’s brother, who was a physician. The doctor soon found out that the +visit was not intended for him, so he said to the Englishman: “You have +made a mistake, it is the Dr. Channing who preaches that you want, I am +the Dr. Channing who practises.” + +Very sore feelings are apt to be engendered between men who are +constantly being confused together, and in the following case one of +the parties did not adopt the means best suited to heal differences, +but laid himself open to a well-merited rebuke. Two men bearing the +same names lived in the same country town. One was a clergyman of +the Church of England, and the other was a Dissenting minister. On +a certain occasion the clergyman received a letter intended for the +minister, which he forwarded with a note to this effect--“Had you +not taken a title (Rev.) to which you have no claim, this mistake +would not have occurred.” Shortly afterwards a parcel containing some +lithographed sermons intended for the clergyman were delivered by +mistake to the minister, who sent them on with this note--“Had you not +undertaken an office for which you appear to be unfitted, this mistake +would not have occurred.” + +In the previous pages a few of the chief difficulties of the +Index-maker have been commented upon: stumbling-blocks with which he is +too well acquainted, but which are very generally ignored by others. +He must endeavour to attain perfection, but he will always have the +unpleasant feeling that something may have been missed, and so strong +was this feeling with a contributor to the _Notes and Queries_ that he +sent the following acrostic as a motto for an Index:--[53] + + I I + N never + D did + E ensure + X exactness + +The Index-maker of modern days must needs depend upon himself, for he +has not the help that the young man mentioned by Giraldus had when +he could discern the false passages in a book by the crowd of devils +which they attracted. Such _devils_ as these would be invaluable in a +printing office! + +If, however, the Indexer, in common with the Bibliographer, has +his troubles, he has his reward, for we have already seen that the +claims of a big book to notice have been grounded upon its possession +of a good index, and De Morgan, when entering his own Elements of +Arithmetic in the account of _Arithmetical Books_, writes:--“Books of +Bibliography last longer than elementary works, so that I have a chance +of standing in a list to be made two centuries hence, which the book +itself would certainly not procure me.” + +There is, therefore, hope for us that when our other works are +forgotten, we may still live as the compilers of an index. + + * * * * * + +[Since the previous pages have been printed off, I have been told by +Dr. Greenhill of Hastings that our late learned friend Thomas Watts of +the British Museum spoke to him about the formation of an Index Society +as early as the year 1842. + +I am also able, through the kindness of Mr. Macray, to illustrate the +printer’s blunder on page 53 from a work by one of the most careful and +trustworthy of editors, viz., “Historie of ... Edward IV. 1471,” edited +by John Bruce 1838 (Camden Society). At p. 7 we read: “Wherefore the +Kynge may say as Julius Cæsar sayde, he that is nat agaynst me is with +me.”] + + * * * * * + +The following rules have been drawn up by the Committee, in order to +obtain uniformity in the compilation of their Indexes. They are not +considered as final, and can be added to as occasion may require. + +In some few points the respective rules for Cataloguing and for +Indexing are identical, but in the majority of instances the rules made +for the former will not apply to the latter. + +Those who require rules for Cataloguing should obtain the British +Museum Rules, Mr. Cutter’s full Rules, forming the second part of the +Special Report on American Libraries, and the short Rules drawn up by +a Committee of the American Library Association, and printed in the +Library Journal. + + + + +RULES FOR OBTAINING UNIFORMITY IN THE INDEXES OF BOOKS. + + +1.--Every work should have one Index for the whole set and not an Index +to each volume. + +2.--Indexes to be arranged in Alphabetical Order:--proper names and +subjects being united in _one_ alphabet. An Introduction, containing +some indication of the classification of the contents of the book +indexed, to be prefixed. + +3.--The entries to be arranged according to the order of the English +Alphabet. I and J, and U and V, to be kept distinct. + +4.--Headings consisting of two or more distinct words are not to be +treated as integral portions of one word, thus the arrangement should +be:-- + + _Grave_, John, } {Grave at Kherson. + _Grave_ at Kherson} {Grave, John. + _Grave_ of Hope } not {Gravelot. + _Grave_ Thoughts } {Grave of Hope. + _Gravelot_ } {Gravesend. + _Gravesend_ } {Grave Thoughts. + +5.--Proper Names of foreigners to be alphabetically arranged under the +prefixes:-- + + _Dal_ } {_Dal Sie_. + _Del_ } {_Del Rio_. + _Della_} as {_Della Casa_. + _Des_ } {_Des Cloiseaux_. + _Du_ } {_Du Bois_. + _La_ } {_La Condamine_. + _Le_ } {_Le Sage_. + +but _not_ under the prefixes:-- + + _D’_ as _Abbadie_ not _D’Abbadie_. + _Da_ ” _Silva_ ” _Da Silva_. + _De_ ” _La Place_ ” _De La Place_. + _Von_ ” _Humboldt_ ” _Von Humboldt_. + _Van_ ” _Beneden_ ” _Van Beneden_. + +It is an acknowledged principle that when the prefix is a preposition +it is to be rejected, but when an article it is to be retained. When, +however, as in the case of the French _Du_, _Des_, the two are joined, +it is necessary to retain the preposition. This also applies to the +case of the Italian _Della_, which is often rejected by cataloguers. +English Names are, however, to be arranged under the prefixes + + _De_ } {_De Quincey_. + _Dela_} as {_Delabeche_. + _Van_ } {_Van Mildert_. + +because these prefixes are meaningless in English and form an integral +part of the name. + +6.--Proper Names, with the prefix St., as _St. Albans_, _St. John_, to +be arranged in the alphabet as if written in full _Saint_. When the +word _Saint_ represents a ceremonial title as in the case of St. Alban, +St. Giles, and St. Augustine, these names to be arranged under the +letters A and G respectively; but the places St. Albans, St. Giles’s, +and St. Augustines will be found under the prefix _Saint_. The prefixes +M‘ and Mc to be arranged as if written in full _Mac_. + +7.--Peers to be arranged under their titles, by which alone in most +cases they are known, and not under their family names, except in such +a case as Horace Walpole, who is almost unknown by his title of Earl +of Orford, which came to him late in life. Bishops, Deans, etc., to be +always under their family names. + +8.--Foreign compound names to be arranged under the first name, as +_Lacaze Duthiers_, English compound names under the last, except in +such cases as _Royston-Pigott_, where the first name is a true surname. +The first name in a foreign compound is, as a rule, the surname, but +the first name in an English compound is usually a mere Christian name. + +9.--An Adjective frequently to be preferred to a substantive as a +catchword, for instance, when it contains the point of the compounds, +as _Alimentary_ Canal, _English_ History. Also when the compound forms +a distinctive name, as _Soane_ Museum. + +10.--The entries to be as short as is consistent with intelligibility, +but the insertion of names without _specification of the cause of +reference_ to be avoided, except in particular cases. The extent of the +references, when more than one page, to be marked by giving the first +and last pages. + +11.--Short entries to be repeated under such headings as are likely to +be required, in place of a too frequent use of cross references. These +references, however, to be made from cognate headings, as _Cerebral_ to +_Brain_ and _vice versa_, where the subject matter is different. + +12.--In the case of Journals and Transactions brief abstracts of the +contents of the several articles or papers to be drawn up and arranged +in the alphabetical index under the heading of the article. + +13.--Authorities quoted or referred to in a book to be indexed under +each author’s name, the titles of his works being separately set out, +and the word ‘quoted’ added in italics. + +14.--When the indexed page is large, or contains long lists of names, +it is to be divided into four sections, referred to respectively as +_a_, _b_, _c_, _d_; thus if a page contains 64 lines, 1-16 will be _a_, +17-32 _b_, 33-48 _c_, 49-64 _d_. If in double columns, the page is +still to be divided into four: _a_ and _b_ forming the upper and lower +halves of the first column, and _c_ and _d_ the upper and lower halves +of the second column. + +15.--When a work is in more than one volume, the number of the volume +is to be specified by small Roman numerals. In the case of long sets, +such as the _Gentleman’s Magazine_, a special Arabic numeral for +indicating the volume distinct from the page numeral may be employed +with advantage. + +16.--Entries which refer to complete chapters or distinct papers, to be +printed in small capitals. + +17.--Headings to be printed in a marked type. A dash, instead of +indentation, to be used as a mark of repetition. The dash to be +kept for entries exactly similar, and the word to be repeated when +the second differs in any way from the first. The proper name to be +repeated when that of a different person. In the case of joint authors, +the Christian names or initials of the first, whose surname is arranged +in the alphabet, to be in parentheses, but the Christian names of the +second to be in the natural order, as _Smith_ (John) and Alexander +_Brown_, not _Smith_ (John) and _Brown_ (Alexander). + + * * * * * + +The above rules do not apply to Subject Indexes, and in certain cases +may need modification in accordance with the special character of the +work to be indexed. In all cases specimens of the index must be seen by +the Committee before it is finally put in hand. + + + + +PRELIMINARY LIST OF ENGLISH INDEXES. + + +Immediately on the formation of the Index Society, Mr. Peacock +suggested the publication of a List of such Indexes as have been +published in separate volumes, and his suggestion was accepted as +one that ought to be carried out. The difficulty then arose as to +what constituted an Index; for instance, many actual Indexes are +not so called, and such books as the _Index Expurgatorius_ are not +really Indexes at all. It was also found that the list would be very +extensive and would take up considerable time in compilation. Under +these circumstances I proposed to add to my account of Index work a +preliminary list of such Indexes as came in my way, and indulgence +is asked for the following catalogue, as it is a mere skeleton of +one division of the subject. I shall be greatly obliged if readers +will send me notice of Foreign Indexes as well as of English ones not +mentioned here, so that materials for a full catalogue to be prepared +hereafter may be gathered together. + +I have been greatly assisted in the compilation of this list by +Messrs. Gomme, Peacock, and Solly. Since the first publication I have +received much highly appreciated aid from Messrs. Ashbee, Brightwell, +and Clements, and from Drs. Crompton, J. B. Hamilton, and Francis H. +Brown of Boston, U.S., and from several other kind friends, who sent +me titles of Indexes that had escaped my notice. Prof. Justin Winsor +was good enough to send me a delightful little volume of 134 pages, +entitled, A Handbook for Readers (for the Boston Public Library), which +contains a list of Indexes. I have taken out a few of the titles of +those which I have been unable to see, and have prefixed a star (*) to +them. + + + + +SCHEME OF ARRANGEMENT. + + + Concordances, etc. 75 + + Indexes of Particular Books 78 + + ---- of Atlases 82 + + ---- of Publications of Societies 83 + + ---- of Periodicals 89 + + ---- of the Statutes 96 + + ---- of Journals of the Houses of Lords and Commons 98 + + ---- of Parliamentary Papers 99 + + ---- to the Proceedings of Public Bodies 101 + + Miscellaneous Indexes 102 + + Indexes to Catalogues 107 + + + + +CONCORDANCES, &c. + + + _Bible._--A Concordance, that is to saie, a worke wherein by the + ordre of the letters of the A B C ye maie redely finde + any words conteigned in the whole Bible, so often as it + is there expressed or mencioned ... anno 1550. [at end] + Richardus Grafton, typographus Regius excudebat, Mense + Iulii. A. M.D.L. folio. + + Dedicated to Edward VI. by the author, John + Marbeck. Title, 4 preliminary leaves, ff. 1-35, + after which the leaves are not numbered. (Sign. a. + 1 to vvv. 6 in sixes. Woodcut of Henry VIII. in + council, 1 leaf.) + + ---- A briefe and Compendiouse table, in a maner of a + Concordaunce openyng the waye to the principall + histories of the whole Bible, and the most com̃on + articles grounded and comprehended in the newe + Testament and olde, in maner as amply as doeth the + great Concordaūce of the Bible. Gathered and set furth + by Henry Bullynger, Leo Jude, Conrade Pellicane, and + by the other Ministers of the Churche of Tygurie. And + nowe first imprinted in Englyshe. D M L ... London for + Gwalter Lynne 1550. Sm. 8vo. A to T 2 in eights. + +R. F. Hervey published a Concordance in 1579, which went through +several editions; C. Cotton published one in 1622 also frequently +reprinted; J. Downame one in 1632 of which there are later editions; +and Robert Wickens one at Oxford in 1655. The “Cambridge” Concordance +of Samuel Newman (1650), of which a third improved edition was issued +in 1682, long held its own, but it and all others were superseded on +the publication of Cruden’s Concordance. + + ---- A complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the + Old and New Testaments. By Alexander Cruden, M.A. + London, 1737. 4to. + + Second edition 1761, third edition 1769; this is + the last corrected by the author. + + Most of the Concordances published since are + founded upon Cruden. + + ---- A Concordance to the Psalms of David according to the + version in the Book of Common Prayer. By the Rev. + Charles Girdlestone. London (Rivingtons), 1834. 12mo. + title, preface 1 leaf, pp. 179. + + Proper names are in a separate alphabet. + + ---- A Concordance to the Psalter contained in the Book of + Common Prayer. From the Concordance to the Canonical + Books of the Old and New Testament. London, Society for + Promoting Christian Knowledge. Royal 8vo. title, pp. 75. + + ---- A Metrical Index to the Bible, or Alphabetical Tables + of the Holy Scriptures in Metre. By Josiah Chorley. + Norwich, 1711. 8vo. pp. 55. + + ---- Index to The Bible, in which the various subjects which + occur in the Scriptures are alphabetically arranged; + with accurate references to all the books of the Old + and New Testaments. Stereotype edition. London, 1812. + Roy. 4to. pp. 33. + + ---- An Index to subjects not noticed, or imperfectly + referred to in the Index to the principal matters + contained in the Notes to the Family Bible lately + published under the direction of the Society for + Promoting Christian Knowledge.... By the Rev. H. B. + Wilson, D.D. London, 1818. 4to. pp. 8, sign. B to 2 E 3 + in fours. + + ---- A Concordance of Parallels collected from Bibles and + Commentaries, which have been published in Hebrew, + Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, English and other + languages, with the authorities of each. By the Rev. C. + Cruttwell. Printed for the Author. 1790. 4to. title, + pp. 397, 135. + + _Homer._--A Complete Concordance to the Iliad of Homer. By Guy + Lushington Prendergast. London, 1875. 4to. pp. 416, in + double cols. + + _Keble._--A Concordance to “The Christian Year.” Oxford and London, + 1871. 12mo. pp. 524. + + _Liturgy._--A Concordance to the Liturgy or Book of Common Prayer, + etc., according to the use of the United Church of + England and Ireland. By the Rev. J. Green, D.D., Vicar + of St. Neot’s, Hunts. London, 1851. 12mo. pp. x, 431. + + _Milton._--A Verbal Index to Milton’s Paradise Lost, adapted to + every edition but the first, which was published in ten + books only. London, 1741. 12mo. + + ---- A Complete Concordance to the Poetical Works of Milton. + By Guy Lushington Prendergast, Madras Civil Service. + Madras (Pharaoh & Co.), 1857. 4to. title, 1 preliminary + leaf, pp. 416. + + Originally published in 12 parts. + + ---- A Complete Concordance to the Poetical Works of John + Milton. By Charles Dexter Cleveland, LL.D. London + (Sampson Low, Son & Marston), 1867. Sm. 8vo. pp. viii, + 308. + +The Rev. H. J. Todd compiled a verbal Index to the whole of Milton’s +Poetry which was appended to the second edition of his life of the Poet +(1809). + + _Pope._--A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Pope. By Edwin + Abbott, with an Introduction by Edwin A. Abbott, D.D. + London (Chapman & Hall), 1875. Royal 8vo. pp. xviii, + 366. + + _Shakespeare._--An Index to the remarkable passages and words made + use of by Shakespeare, calculated to point out the + different meanings to which the words are applied. By + Samuel Ayscough. London, 1790. Royal 8vo. + + Reprinted Dublin 1791 and London 1827 in demy 8vo. + + ---- A Complete Verbal Index to the Plays of Shakspeare, + adapted to all the editions, comprehending every + substantive, adjective, verb, participle, and adverb + used by Shakespeare; with a distinct reference to + every individual passage in which each word occurs. By + Francis Twiss. London, 1805. 2 vols. 8vo. + + ---- The Complete Concordance to Shakspere: being a verbal + Index to all the passages in the dramatic works of the + Poet. By Mrs. Cowden Clarke. London (C. Knight & Co.), + 1845. Royal 8vo. pp. viii, 860. + + ---- Shakespeare-Lexicon: a Complete Dictionary of all the + English words, phrases and constructions in the works + of the poet. By Dr. Alexander Schmidt. (Berlin and + London), 1874. 2 vols. royal 8vo. + + ---- A Concordance to Shakespeare’s Poems: an Index to every + word therein contained. By Mrs. Horace Howard Furness. + + “To your audit comes + Their distract parcels in combined sums.” + + Philadelphia (J. B. Lippincott & Co.), 1874. Pp. iv, + 422. + + ---- A Hand-Book Index to the Works of Shakespeare, + including references to the phrases, manners, customs, + proverbs, songs, particles, etc., which are used or + alluded to by the great Dramatist. By J. O. Halliwell, + Esq., F.R.S. London (J. E. Adlard), 1866. 8vo. pp. vi; + contents 1 leaf, pp. 551. Only fifty copies printed. + + _Tennyson._--A Concordance of the entire works of Alfred Tennyson, + P.L., D.C.L., F.R.S. By D. Barron Brightwell. London + (Moxon), 1869. 8vo. p. xiv, 477. + + ---- Concordance to the works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet + Laureate. London (Strahan & Co.), 1870. Pp. 542. + + “The Holy Grail,” etc., is indexed separately. + + ---- An Index to “In Memoriam.” London (E. Moxon & Co.), + 1862. 12mo. pp. iv, 40. + + _Watts._--A Complete Index to Dr. Watts’ Psalms. By D. Guy, of Rye + in Sussex. 1774. 12mo. + + Sigs. B to Y 4. + + + + +INDEXES OF PARTICULAR BOOKS. + + + _Alison’s Europe._--History of Europe from 1815 to 1852, by Sir + Archibald Alison, Bart. Index. Edinburgh (Blackwood), + 1859. 8vo. title, pp. 319. In one alphabet. + + _Blomefield’s Norfolk._--Index Nominum; being an Index of Christian + and Surnames (with arms), mentioned in Blomefield’s + History of Norfolk, arranged in alphabetical order. By + John Nurse Chadwick. King’s Lynn (published for the + author), 1862. Royal 8vo. pp. 348. + + This Index refers to the octavo edition. + + _Buffon’s Natural History_--Index to Buffon’s Planches + enluminées. By Thomas Pennant. 1786. 4to. + + _Burke’s Landed Gentry._--Index of family names in Burke’s + Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed + Gentry--fourth edition 1863, in Bridger’s _Index to + Pedigrees 1867_, pp. 178-258. + + _Burton’s Scotland._--The History of Scotland from + Agricola’s Invasion to the Extinction of the + last Jacobite Insurrection. By John Hill Burton, + Historiographer-Royal for Scotland. Second edition. + Index volume. London and Edinburgh (William Blackwood & + Sons), 1873. 8vo. pp. 100, in double columns. + + _Carlyle._--A General Index to the People’s edition of Thomas + Carlyle’s Works. London (Chapman & Hall), 1874. 12mo. + pp. 201. + + Mr. Carlyle’s vehement denunciation of books + without indexes is well known, and his sincerity is + proved by this careful compilation. + + _Dugdale’s York._--Index to the Visitation of the County of Yorke + begun A.D. 1665 and finished A.D. 1666 by William + Dugdale, Esq. Norroy King of Armes. Compiled by George + J. Armytage. Printed by private subscription. London, + 1872. 8vo. title, preface 1 leaf, pp. 40. + + In one alphabet, with a list of pedigrees in order + of pages appended. Dugdale’s Visitation was printed + by the Surtees Society in 1859 (vol. 36, their + publications). + + _Encyclopædias._--The Encyclopædia Britannica, or Dictionary of + Arts, Sciences and General Literature. Eighth edition. + Index. [By James Duncan.] Edinburgh, 1860. Pp. vii, + 232. In one alphabet. + + ---- Encyclopædia Metropolitana, or Universal Dictionary of + Knowledge ... Index. London, 1845. 4to. pp. iv, 370. In + one alphabet. + + ---- The English Cyclopædia. Synoptical Index to the four + divisions of Geography, Biography, Natural History, + Arts and Sciences. London, 1862. 4to. pp. iv, 166. + + Arranged in four columns. + + ---- General and Analytical Index to the American + Encyclopædia. By T. J. Conant, D.D., assisted by his + daughter Blandina. New York (Appleton & Co.), 1878. Pp. + viii, 810. 4to. Highly praised in _Library Journal_, + vol. iii. No. 8, p. 303. + + *---- Index to Appleton’s Annual Cyclopædia, vol. 1-10. + + Criticised adversely in _Library Journal_, vol. ii. + p. 296. + + _Essayists._--A General Index to the Spectators, Tatlers and + Guardians. 1757. Second edition. London (W. Owen), + 1760. 12mo. unpaged. In one alphabet. + + ---- The British Essayists; with prefaces, historical and + biographical, by A. Chalmers, F.S.A. Vol. 38. General + Index. London, 1823. 12mo. title, pp. 277. In one + alphabet. + + _Gmelin’s Chemistry._--Index to Gmelin’s Handbook of Chemistry. + By Henry Watts. London, 1872. 8vo. title, pp. 331. + + In one alphabet. + + _Holme’s Armory._--Index of the Names of Persons contained in + the Academy of Armory and Blazon, by Randle Holme; + printed at Chester in one volume folio, 1688. London + (R. Triphook), 1821. Folio, title, pp. 46. + + Only 50 copies printed. In one alphabet, and + contains names of places as well as of persons. + + _Howell’s State Trials._--General Index to the Collection of + State Trials, compiled by T. B. Howell and T. J. + Howell. By David Jardine. London, 1828. 8vo. title, + advertisement 1 leaf, pp. 345. + + Part 1, Names; Part 2, Miscellaneous Contents. + Appended is “A Table of Parallel References from + Howell’s State Trials to the folio edition by + Hargrave.” The references are given as 15 _vol._ + instead of _vol._ 15. + + _Hume’s England._--Biographical Index to the History of + England; consisting of an Alphabetical Arrangement + of all the titles and proper names of persons in + Hume’s History of England, with Biographical Articles + attached. By the Rev. S. Y. McMasters, LL.D. Alton + (printed at the Courier Office), 1854. Pp. 672. + + _Madox’s Exchequer._--A compleat Index to Mr. Madox’s History + of the Exchequer, serving as a Glossary to explain + uncommon words, to illustrate the original of families + and customs, and the antiquities of the several + counties in England. London, Printed for Francis + Gosling at the Crown and Mitre against Fetter Lane, + Fleet Street, 1741. Folio, unpaged, sheets A to Hhh 1, + in twos. + + This Index was made by the editor of Madox’s + _Baronia Anglica_, 1741, and was issued with that + work. It was reprinted in the second edition of the + History of the Exchequer. 2 vols. 4to. 1769. In one + alphabet. + + _Oke & Stone._--A Pocket Index to Oke and Stone. By an Essex + Justice [Andrew Johnston]. Gloucester (John Bellows), + 1877. 12mo. pp. vii, 56. + + This is an Index to “Oke’s Magisterial Synopsis: + a Practical Guide for Magistrates, their Clerks, + Solicitors and Constables. Twelfth edition by T. W. + Saunders. London, 1876.” 2 vols. 8vo. And to “The + Justice’s Manual or Guide to the ordinary duties of + a Justice of the Peace, by the late Samuel Stone, + the eighteenth edition edited by George B. Kennett. + London, 1876.” 8vo. + + There is no clue in this Index to the titles of the + books indexed. + + _Parliamentary History._--A General Index to the twenty-three + volumes of the Parliamentary or Constitutional History + of England. London (W. Sandby), 1761. 8vo. pp. 712. + + _Pennant’s London._--Copious Index to Pennant’s Account of London. + By T. Downes. 1814. 4to. pp. 52, in double columns. + + _Pictorial History._--Index to the Pictorial History of England, + forming a complete chronological key to the civil and + military events, the lives of remarkable persons and + the progress of the country in religion, government, + industry, arts and sciences, literature, manners, and + social economy. By H. C. Hamilton. London (Orr & Co.), + 1850. Roy. 8vo. pp. iv, 280. + + In one alphabet. Dates are largely introduced into + the references. + + _Richardson’s Novels._--A Collection of the moral and instructive + sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions contained + in the Histories of Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles + Grandison, digested under proper heads, with references + to the volume and page, both in octavo and twelves, in + the respective histories. London (S. Richardson), 1755. + 12mo. pp. x, 410. + + There is a separate alphabet for each novel. + + _Southcott’s Writings._--A General Index to the Writings of Joanna + Southcott, the Prophetess. London, no date. 8vo. pp. 88. + + ---- Index to the Divine and Spiritual Writings of Joanna + Southcott. By Philip Pullen. London, 1815. 8vo. pp. 240. + + _Strype’s Works._--A General Index to the Historical and + Biographical Works of John Strype, A.M. [By the Rev. + R. French Lawrence.] Oxford (Clarendon Press), 1828. 2 + vols. 8vo. Vol. 1, pp. iv, 406; Vol. 2, title, pp. 404. + + In one alphabet. + + _Tytler’s Scotland._--History of Scotland. By Patrick Fraser + Tytler. Third edition. Index. Edinburgh (Black), 1850. + 8vo. title, pp. 128. In one alphabet. + + _Warton’s English Poetry._--An Index to the History of English + Poetry. By Thomas Warton, B.D. London, 1806. 4to. + + In double cols. Six separate Indexes, viz. vol. 1, + pp. 21. Dissertation prefixed to vol. 1, 10 pp. + vol. 2, pp. 20. vol. 3, pp. 27. Gesta Romanorum + (prefixed to vol. 3), pp. 6. Fragment of the fourth + vol. pp. 6. + + _Wellington Despatches._--The Index to the Despatches of F. M. the + Duke of Wellington. By Lieut.-Colonel Gurwood. London, + 1839. 8vo. pp. 235, in double cols. + + _Wesley’s Journals._--A complete and classified Index (to suit + all editions) of the Journals of the Rev. John Wesley, + M.A. By the Rev. Henry Skewes, M.A. London (Elliott + Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, E.C.), 1872. 8vo. + + Contents, one page; Index of Places, pp. 1-38; + Index of Persons, pp. 39-43; Index of Books, pp. + 44-48; Miscellaneous Index, pp. 49-64. + + + + +INDEXES OF ATLASES. + + + _Adam._--A Geographical Index, being a Supplement to the Summary + of Ancient and Modern Geography. By Alexander Adam, + LL.D. Edinburgh, 1795. 8vo. + + Sigs. A to S 3 in double cols. + + _Arrowsmith._--Index to the Eton Comparative Atlas of Ancient and + Modern Geography. New and improved edition. London, + 1831. Large 8vo. pt. 1, pp. 90, pt. 2, pp. 86. + + _Cary._--Cary’s English Atlas. An Index ... London. Folio, pp. 40. + No title-page. + + _Hall._--An Alphabetical Index to all the names contained in a + new General Atlas of fifty-three Maps. Constructed + from new drawings and engraved by Sidney Hall. London + (Longmans), 1831. Roy. 8vo. title, pp. 360. + + _Johnston._--Index Geographicus, being a List alphabetically + arranged of the principal places on the Globe, with the + countries and subdivisions of the countries in which + they are situated and their latitudes and longitudes. + Compiled specially with reference to Keith Johnston’s + Royal Atlas, but applicable to all modern atlases and + maps. Edinburgh (Blackwood), 1864. Roy. 8vo. pp. iv, + 676. + + _Ordnance Survey._--Index to the Ordnance Survey of England, + Scotland and Ireland. Folio. + + _Useful Knowledge Society._--Index to the Maps of the Society + for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge. 1844. + + + + +INDEXES TO PUBLICATIONS OF SOCIETIES. + + + *_American Pharmaceutical Association._--Proceedings. Index, vol. + 1-8, 1852-59, with the Proceedings for 1862. Index, + vol. 9-17, 1860-69, with the Proceedings for 1872. + + _Asiatic Society of Bengal._--Index to the first eighteen + volumes of the Asiatic Researches, or Transactions of + the Society, instituted in Bengal for inquiring into + the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences and + Literature of Asia. Calcutta, 1835. 4to. pp. vi, 228. + + ---- Index to volumes 19 and 20 of the Asiatic Researches + and to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. + Calcutta, 1856. 8vo. pp. iv, 274. In one alphabet, with + 4 Appendixes--A. Index to Numismatic Papers, etc. By G. + H. Freeling. B. Sykes’s List of Ancient Inscriptions. + C. Index to Geological Papers. By H. Piddington. D. + Table of Indian Coal. By J. Prinsep; and Supplementary + Index. + + _British Archæological Association._--The Journal of the British + Archæological Association. General Index to Volumes 1 + to 30. By Walter De Gray Birch. London, 1875. 8vo. pp. + 225. + + In one alphabet. A Table of the Contents of each + volume is appended. + + _British Association._--Index to Reports and Transactions of the + British Association for the Advancement of Science, + from 1831 to 1860 inclusive. London, 1864. 8vo. pp. iv, + 363. + + In six separate alphabets, viz.--_Reports_: Index + of Authors, of Subjects, and of Places; _Sections_: + Index of Authors, of Subjects, and of Places. + + _Chemical Society._--Index to the first twenty-five volumes of + the Journal of the Chemical Society, 1848-1872; and to + the Memoirs and Proceedings, 1841-1847. Compiled by + Henry Watts, Editor of the Journal. London, 1874. 8vo. + pp. 268. + + In two parts. 1, Index of Names; 2, Index of + Subjects. + + _Chetham Society._--General Index to the Remains, Historical and + Literary, published by the Chetham Society, Vols. 1-30. + By C. S. Simms. Manchester, 1863. 4to. pp. viii, 168, + 11 leaves of Indexes to separate volumes. + + _Geological Society._--A Classified Index to the Transactions, + Proceedings and Quarterly Journal of the Geological + Society of London, including all the memoirs and + notices to the end of 1855. By George Wareing Ormerod. + London (Taylor & Francis), 1858. 8vo. pp. vii, 149. + + New edition to the end of 1868, with Supplement to + the end of 1875. 8vo. + + _Geological Survey of India._--Contents and Index of the first ten + volumes of the Records of the Geological Survey of + India, 1868 to 1877. Calcutta, 1878. Roy. 8vo. pp. 23. + + _Guy’s Hospital._--General Index to the first and second + series of the Guy’s Hospital Reports. London (J. + Churchill), 1856. 8vo. pp. xlii, 106, 58. In one + alphabet. + + General Index to the third series ... including + the first ten volumes (1854-1864). 8vo. pp. 26. + General Index ... for Vols. 11 to 20 (1865-1875), + pp. 591-624 of Vol. 20. + + _Horticultural Society._--General Index to the first and second + series of the Transactions of the Horticultural Society + of London. 4to. pp. cxxxviii. No title-page. + + In one alphabet. + + _Institution of Civil Engineers._--Minutes of Proceedings of the + Institution of Civil Engineers. General Index, Volumes + 1 to 20. Sessions 1837 to 1860-61. London, 1865. 8vo. + pp. iv, 367. + + In one alphabet. + + ---- General Index, Volumes 21 to 30. Sessions 1861-62 to + 1869-70. London, 1871. 8vo. pp. iv, 206. + + In one alphabet. + + _Institution of Mechanical Engineers._--General Index to + Proceedings, 1847-1873. Birmingham. 8vo. title, pp. + 220. + + In one alphabet. + + _Lancashire & Cheshire._--Historic Society of Lancashire and + Cheshire. Index to the first and second series of + the Society’s Transactions, comprising Vols. 1-24 + inclusive, prepared by the Rev. A. Hume. Liverpool (T. + Brakell), 1874. 8vo. pp. iv, 47. + + In three parts. 1, Tables of the Contents of + each volume; 2, Alphabetical List of Authors; 3, + Alphabetical List of Subjects. + + _Linnean Society._--General Index to the Transactions of the + Linnean Society of London. Vols. 1 to 25. London, 1867. + 4to. pp. iv, 107. In two parts. 1, Index to Papers; + 2, Index of Genera and Species. A continuation of the + Index, from Vol. 26 to 30, has since been published. + + _Liverpool Lit. & Phil. Soc._--Index to Papers contained in the + Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society + of Liverpool. Vols. 1-25. 1844-71. Compiled by Alfred + Morgan, Honorary Librarian. Liverpool (D. Marples), + 1871. 8vo. pp. 28. + + _Manchester Statistical Society._--Index to the Transactions of the + Manchester Statistical Society from 1853-4 to 1874-5. + By Thomas Read Wilkinson, President of the Society, + 1875-6. Manchester, 1876. 8vo. pp. 82. + + Contains 1, Table of Contents; 2, List of Tables; + 3, Alphabetical Index; 4, Alphabetical List of + Writers. + + In two parts. 1, Index of Subjects; 2, Index of + Authors. + + _New Zealand Institute._--Transactions and Proceedings of + the New Zealand Institute. Index, vols. 1 to 8. Edited + by James Hector. Wellington, 1877. 8vo. title, pp. 44. + + Divided into--1, Index of Authors; 2, Index of + Subjects; 3, Appendix. + + _North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical + Engineers._--General Index to the Transactions. Roy. + 8vo. + + _Parker Society._--A General Index to the Publications of the + Parker Society. Compiled for the Parker Society, + by Henry Gough, of the Middle Temple. Cambridge + (University Press), 1855. 8vo. pp. viii, 811. In one + alphabet. + + _Pathological Society._--A General Index to the first fifteen + volumes of the Transactions of the Pathological Society + of London; with a List of Authors and a Classified List + of Subjects. Compiled by T. Holmes. London, 1864. 8vo. + pp. vii, 147. + + In two parts. 1, Index of Subjects; 2, Index of + Authors. + + ---- General Index to the Transactions of the Pathological + Society of London, from Vols. 16 to 25, 1865-74. [By + B. R. Wheatley.] London, 1875. 8vo. pp. v, 134. + + In one alphabet. + + _Royal Agricultural Society._--General Index to the first + series of the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society + of England, Volumes 1 to 25 London, 1865. 8vo. pp. 214. + + In one alphabet. + + ---- General Index to the second series of the Journal of + the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Volumes 1 to + 10. London, 1875. 8vo. pp. 134. + + In one alphabet. + + _Royal Astronomical Society._--A General Index to the first + thirty-eight volumes of the Memoirs of the Royal + Astronomical Society. London, 1871. 8vo. title, pp. 54. + + In one alphabet. + + ---- A General Index to the first twenty-nine volumes of the + Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, + comprising the Proceedings of the Society from February + 9, 1827, to the end of the session 1868-69. London, + 1870. 8vo. title, pp. 212. In one alphabet. + + _Royal Geographical Society._--General Index to the Contents + of the first ten volumes of the London Geographical + Journal. Compiled by J. R. Jackson. London, 1844. 8vo. + pp. iv, 216. + + In one alphabet. Prefixed are Lists of the Papers + and Maps arranged geographically. + + ---- General Index to the second ten volumes of the Journal + of the Royal Geographical Society. Compiled by George + Smith Brent; edited by Dr. Norton Shaw. London, 1853. + 8vo. pp. 116. Compiled on the same plan as the first + Index. + + _Royal Irish Academy._--An Index to the Transactions of the + Royal Irish Academy from its incorporation in 1786 to + the present time [Vols. 1 to 11]. By Nicholas Carlisle. + London, 1813. 4to. pp. viii, 316. + + In two parts. 1, Index of the Names of Persons; 2, Index of the Names + of Places and of Subjects. + + _Royal Medical & Chir. Soc._--General Index to the first + thirty-three volumes of the Medico-Chirurgical + Transactions, published by the Royal Medical and + Chirurgical Society of London. [By Dr. John Hennen.] + London, 1851. 8vo. pp. lxxx, 236. + + In one alphabet. Prefixed is a list of the contents + of each volume, and a list of engravings. + + ---- General Index to the first fifty-three volumes of the + Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, published by the Royal + Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. [By B. R. + Wheatley.] London, 1871. 8vo. pp. viii, 355. In one + alphabet. + + _Royal Society._--A General Index to the Philosophical + Transactions, from the first to the end of the + seventieth volume. By Paul Henry Maty, M.A., F.R.S., + Under Librarian to the British Museum. London, 1787. + 4to. pp. iv, 801. + + In two alphabets--1, of the Matter; 2, of the + Writers. + + ---- A continuation to the Alphabetical Index of the Matter + contained in the Philosophical Transactions of the + Royal Society of London, from vol. 71 (1781) to 110 + (1820) inclusive [including a continuation of the Index + of Writers]. London, 1821. 4to. pp. iv, 225. + + ---- A continuation to the Alphabetical Index ... from vol. + 111 (1821) to 120 (1830). London, 1833. 4to. pp. 101. + + ---- An Index to the Anatomical, Medical, Chirurgical and + Physiological Papers contained in the Transactions of + the Royal Society of London, from the commencement of + that work to the end of the year 1813, chronologically + and alphabetically arranged. Westminster (M. Stace), + 1814. 4to. pp. iv, 101. In two divisions. + + ---- Table des Mémoires imprimés dans les Transactions + Philosophiques de la Société Royale de Londres; depuis + 1665 jusques en 1735, rangées par ordre chronologique, + par ordre des matières, et par noms d’auteurs; par M. + de Bremond. Paris, 1739. 4to. title, 3 preliminary + leaves, pp. v, 297, 461, lxxvi. + + _Royal United Service Institution._--Index of the Lectures and + Papers contained in vols. 1-10 of the Journal of the + Royal United Service Institution, and also the names of + their Authors. London, 1868. 8vo. pp. 47. Index, vols. + 11-20. London, 1878. 8vo. pp. 75. In two alphabets. + + _Society of Antiquaries._--An Index to the first fifteen volumes + of Archæologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts relating + to Antiquity; printed by order of the Society of + Antiquaries of London. [By Nicholas Carlisle.] London, + 1809. 4to. pp. iv, 290. + + In two parts--1, Index of Names of Persons; 2, + Index of Names of Places and of Subjects. + + ---- An Index to Archæologia, from volume 16 to volume 30 + inclusive; published by the Society of Antiquaries of + London. [By Nicholas Carlisle.] London, 1844. 4to. pp. + iv, 309. In one alphabet. + + A new and complete Index to the whole set of the + _Archæologia_, from volume 1 to 40, is now being + prepared. + + _Society of Arts._--An Analytical Index to the first twenty-five + volumes of the Transactions of the Society instituted + at London for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, + and Commerce, London, 1807. 8vo. pp. 142. + + ---- Vol. 26 to 40. 1823. 8vo. pp. 47. + + ---- Vol. 41 to 50. 1836. 8vo. pp. xxxvi. + + ---- The Journal of the Society of Arts and of the + Institutions in Union. Index to Vols. 1-10. London, + 1863. Roy. 8vo. pp. lvii. In one alphabet. + + ---- Vols. 11-20. 1873. Roy. 8vo. + + _Statistical Society._--Journal of the Statistical Society of + London. General Index to the first fifteen volumes. [By + B. R. Wheatley.] London, 1854. 8vo. pp. vii, 198. + + In one alphabet. + + ---- General Index to Volumes 16-25 (1853-1862), in + continuation of the General Index to the first fifteen + volumes. London, 1863. 8vo. pp. iv, 135. + + In one alphabet. + + ---- General Index to Volumes 26-35 (1863-72) in + continuation of the General Indexes to Volumes 1-15 + (1834-52) and 16-25 (1853-62). London, 1874. 8vo. pp. + vii, 152. + + In one alphabet. + + _Sussex Arch. Society._--Sussex Archæological Collections, + relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, + published by the Sussex Archæological Society. General + Index to Vols. 1 to 25. By Henry Campkin, F.S.A. Lewes, + 1874. 8vo. pp. viii, 423. In one alphabet. + + _Yorkshire, &c._--An Index to the first eight volumes of Reports + and Papers read at the Meetings of the Architectural + Societies of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Northampton, + Bedfordshire, Worcestershire and Leicestershire during + the years 1850-66, containing an Analysis of each + Paper, with an Introduction by the Rev. George Rowe, + M.A. Lincoln (Brookes and Viber), n.d. 8vo. + + _Zoological Society._--Proceedings of the Zoological Society of + London. Index, 1830-1847. London, 1866. 8vo. pp. iv, + 190. + + In two parts. 1, List of Contributors; 2, Index of + Species. + + ---- Index, 1848-1860. London, 1863. 8vo. pp. iv, 304. + + In three parts. 1, List of Contributors; 2, List of + Illustrations; 3, Index of Species. + + ---- Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the + Zoological Society of London. Index, 1861-1870. + London, 1872. 8vo. pp. iv., 481. + + In two parts. 1, List of Contributors; 2, Index of + Species. + + + + +INDEXES OF PERIODICALS. + + + _All the Year Round._--General Index to the first twenty + volumes of All the Year Round. 1868. Pp. 32, in three + columns. + + Under the headings of Miscellaneous Articles, + Poetry, Tales. + + *_American Almanac._--Indexes, ten years each, in vols. 1839, + 1849, 1859. + + _American Journal._--The American Journal of Science and Arts. + Conducted by Prof. Silliman and Benj. Silliman, jun. + Volume 50. General Index to forty-nine volumes. New + Haven, 1847. 8vo. pp. xviii, 348. + + In one general alphabet, with a Supplement of + omitted references and a Register of Plates, Maps + and other Illustrations. + + ---- Second Series. Vol. 10 (1850) contains Index for Vols. + 1-10; Vol. 20 (1855) for Vols. 11-20; Vol. 30 (1860) + for Vols. 21-30; Vol. 40 (1865) for Vols. 31-40; Vol. + 50 (1870) for Vols. 41-50. + + ---- Third Series. Vol. 10 (1875) contains Index for Vols. + 1-10. + + *_American Journal of Pharmacy._--General Index, 1825-1870. + + *_American Jurist and Law Magazine._--In vols. 10 and 20. + + _Annual Register._--A General Index to the Annual Register; or, + A Summary View of the History of Europe, Domestic + Occurrences ... from 1758 to 1780, both inclusive. + (The second edition, 1784.) The third edition. London + (Rivington), 1799. 8vo. unpaged. Half-title, “Index + to Dodsley’s Annual Register, Vol. 1, 1758 to 1780.” + Arranged in fourteen alphabets. + + ---- from 1781 to 1792, both inclusive. London (Rivington), + 1799. 8vo. unpaged. Half-title, “Index to Dodsley and + Rivington’s Annual Register, Vol. 2, 1781 to 1792.” + + Arranged like the former volume in fourteen + alphabets. + + There is also a General Index under seven heads, + from 1758 to 1819. 1826. 8vo. pp. 938. + + _Assurance Magazine_, and Journal of the Institute of Actuaries. + General Index to vols. 1-10. By John Nicholson, + Assistant Librarian of Lincoln’s Inn. London, 1864. + 8vo. + + _Atlantic Monthly._--Index to the Atlantic Monthly, Volumes + i-xxxviii. (1857-1876). By Horace E. Scudder. 1. + Index of Articles (a) General Articles, (b) Editorial + Departments. 2. Index of Authors. Boston (H. O. + Houghton & Co.), 1877. 8vo. pp. 106. + + In double columns and interleaved. + + _Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review._--Index volume from + 1825 to 1868. Philadelphia (Peter Walker), 1871. + + This contains also a Retrospect of the history of + the Princeton Review, and an Index to Authors, with + Biographical Notices. + + _Bibliotheca Sacra._--Index to the Bibliotheca Sacra, and American + Biblical Repertory. Volumes 1 to 13, containing an + Index of Subjects and Authors, a Topical Index, and + a List of Scripture Texts. By W. F. Draper. Andover + (Mass.), 1857. + + ---- Index to the Bibliotheca Sacra, volumes 1 to 30. An + Index of Scripture Texts and Texts of Greek and Hebrew + Words. By W. F. Draper. Andover, 1874. + + _Blackwood’s Magazine._--General Index to Blackwood’s Edinburgh + Magazine, Vols. 1 to 50. Edinburgh (Blackwood and + Sons), 1855. 8vo. title, pp. 588. + + In one alphabet. + + _Botanical Magazine._--General Indexes to the Plants contained in + the first twenty volumes of the Botanical Magazine. + London, 1805. 8vo. pp. 53. Partly in double cols. + + ---- General Indexes to the Plants in the first fifty-three + volumes of the Botanical Magazine. By Samuel Curtis. + 1828. 8vo. + + _British & For. Med. Rev._--The British and Foreign Medical + Review.... Edited by John Forbes, M.D. Vol. 25, being + a General Index to the preceding twenty-four volumes. + London (J. Churchill), 1848. 8vo. pp. xi, 303. By Dr. + Robert Bower. + + In one alphabet. + + _British Critic._--A General Index to the first twenty volumes + of the British Critic, in two parts. Part 1 contains a + List of all the Books Reviewed. Part 2 an Index to the + Extracts, Criticisms, etc. London, 1804. 8vo. pp. iii, + 386. + + ---- A General Index to the British Critic, commencing with + the twenty-first and ending with the forty-second or + concluding volume of the first series, in two parts. + Part 1 contains a List of all the Books Reviewed. Part + 2 an Index to the Extracts, Criticisms, etc. London, + 1815. 8vo. pp. iv, 343. + + _Calcutta Review._--Index to the first Fifty Volumes of the + Calcutta Review, in two parts. Calcutta (Thos. J. + Smith), 1873. 8vo. + + Part 1. Index to Articles and Books, pp. 196, in + double columns. Part 2. Index to Subjects noticed + incidentally in the Articles contained in Part 1. + Pp. 47, in double columns. + + _Companion to the Almanac._--A complete Index to the Companion to + the Almanac, from its commencement in 1828 to 1843 + inclusive. London (C. Knight & Co.), 1843. 12mo. title, + pp. 561. + + In one alphabet, with a Supplementary Index. + + *_Congregational Quarterly_, vol. 1-10. + + _Dublin Medical Journal._--A General Index to the Dublin + Medical Journal, from volume 1 to 28, concluding the + first series, from 1832 to 1845 inclusive. 8vo. pp. + 127. + + In one alphabet. + + _Edinburgh Review._--General Index to the Edinburgh Review, from + its commencement in October, 1802, to the end of + the twentieth volume, published in November, 1812. + Edinburgh, 1813. 8vo. pp. v, 515. In one alphabet. + Prefixed is an Index of Authors reviewed. + + ----, from the twenty-first to the fiftieth volumes inclusive + (1813-1830). Edinburgh, 1832. 8vo. pp. xxi, 513. + + In one alphabet, with an Index of the Titles of the + Articles prefixed. + + ----, from the fifty-first to the eightieth volumes inclusive + (1830-1844). London, 1850. 8vo. pp. 511. + + In one alphabet. Prefixed is an Index of the Titles + of the Articles according to the running heads of + each. + + ----, from the eighty-first to the hundred and tenth volumes + inclusive (1845-1859). London, 1862. 8vo. pp. 474. Same + as previous Index. + + ----, from the hundred and eleventh to the hundred and + fortieth volumes inclusive (1860-1874). London, 1876. + 8vo. title, pp. 431. Same as previous Index. + + _Edinburgh Med. and Surg. Journal._--The Edinburgh Medical and + Surgical Journal ... volume twentieth, Index [to the + first nineteen volumes]. Edinburgh (A. Constable & + Co.), 1824. 8vo. pp. vii, 395. + + In one alphabet, to which are added Index of _works + reviewed_; and catalogue of Edinburgh Theses, from + 1726 to 1823. + + _Gentleman’s Magazine._--A General Index to the first fifty-six + volumes of the Gentleman’s Magazine, from 1731 to + the end of 1786. Compiled by Samuel Ayscough, Clerk, + Assistant Librarian of the British Museum. In two + volumes. Vol. 1 containing an Index to the Essays, + Dissertations, and Historical Passages. London (J. + Nichols), 1789. 8vo. pp. iv, 494. + + ---- Vol. 2, in four parts, containing Indexes to the + Poetical Articles, the Names of Persons and Plates, and + to the Books and Pamphlets. London (J. Nichols), 1789. + 8vo. title, pp. 368. + + ---- from 1787 to 1818, both inclusive. Vol. 3, in two + parts, containing Indexes to the Essays, Dissertations, + Transactions and Historical Passages, and to the + Poetical Articles. With a prefatory Introduction + descriptive of the rise and progress of the Magazine by + John Nichols. London (J. Nichols & Son), 1821. 8vo. pp. + lxxx, 543. + + ---- Vol. 4, in five parts, containing Indexes to Books + reviewed and Books announced; to the Musical + publications; to the Plates; and to the Names of + Persons. London (J. Nichols & Son), 1821. 8vo. title, + pp. 656. + + ---- A List of Plates, Maps, etc., in the Gentleman’s + Magazine from 1731 to 1813 inclusive. London (Machell + Stace), 1814. 8vo. pp. iv, 58. + + ---- A complete List of the Plates and Woodcuts in the + Gentleman’s Magazine, from 1731 to 1818 inclusive, and + an Alphabetical Index thereto. London (J. Nichols & + Son), 1821. 8vo. pp. viii, 226. + + _Hansard’s Debates._--General Index to the first and second series + of Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, forming a Digest + of the recorded Proceedings of Parliament from 1803 to + 1830. Edited by Sir John Philippart. London, 1834. Roy. + 8vo. pp. v, viii, 743. In several divisions. + + _Harper’s Magazine._--An Index to Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, + volumes 1 to 50; from June, 1850, to May, 1875. New + York (Harper & Brothers), 1875. 8vo. + + Arranged in one alphabet. Each alternate page has + been left blank, so that the Index can be continued + by any person for a large number of volumes to + come, pp. viii, 580 (including the blank pages), in + double columns. + + A previous Index of vols. 1 to 40 was published in + 1870. + + _Leisure Hour._--Index to the Leisure Hour, vol. 1-25, 1852-76. + royal 8vo. pp. 48 in four-columned pages. + + _London Magazine._--The General Index to twenty-seven volumes + of the London Magazine, viz., from 1732 to 1758 + inclusive. London, 1760. 8vo. unpaged. + + 1, Index to the Essays; 2, to the Poetry; 3, of + Names; 4, to the Books. + + _London Med. & Phys. Journal._--A General Index to the London + Medical and Physical Journal from Volume 1 to 40 + inclusive, containing an analytical Table of their + Contents, arranged in alphabetical order, with + references to the whole of the cited authorities, under + their nominal characters, etc. London (J. Souter), + 1820. 8vo. pp. iv, 358. + + In one alphabet, with a supplement. + + _Medico-Chirurgical Review._--General Index to the new series of + the Medico-Chirurgical Review, volume 1 to volume 20 + inclusive (from June 1, 1824, to June 1, 1834). With + an appendix comprising an Index to the series of four + annual volumes, from June, 1820, to April, 1824. London + (S. Highley), 1834. 8vo. title, pp. 110. + + _Merchants’ Magazine._--A Compendious Index to the Merchants’ + Magazine and Commercial Review, embracing the first two + volumes, from its commencement in July, 1839, to June, + 1844, inclusive. New York, 1846. + + _Monthly Review._--A General Index to the Monthly Review, from + its commencement to the end of the seventieth volume. + By the Rev. S. Ayscough. In two volumes; Vol. 1 + containing a [classified] Catalogue of the books and + pamphlets characterized, with the size and price of + each article, to which is added a complete Index of the + names mentioned in the Catalogue; Vol. 2 containing an + Alphabetical Index to all the memorable passages ... + contained in the Monthly Review. London, 1786. 8vo. + Vol. 1, pp. xi, 714; Vol. 2, title, pp. 571. + + ---- A continuation of the General Index to the Monthly + Review, commencing at the seventy-first and ending with + the eighty-first volume, completing the first series + of that work, in two parts. Compiled by the Rev. S. + Ayscough. London, 1796. 8vo. pp. iv, 288. + + Arranged upon the same plan as the previous Index. + + ---- A General Index to the Monthly Review, from the + commencement of the new series in January, 1790, to the + end of the eighty-first volume, completed in December, + 1816. In two volumes; Vol. 1 containing a Catalogue + of the books and pamphlets.... Vol. 2 containing an + Alphabetical Index. London (J. Porter), 1818. Vol. 1, + pp. ix, 958; Vol. 2, title, table 1 leaf, pp. 624. + + _Naturalist’s Miscellany._--General Indexes, in Latin and English, + to the subjects contained in the twenty-four volumes of + the Naturalist’s Miscellany. By the late George Shaw, + M.D., and Rich. P. Nodder. London, 1813. 8vo. pp. 26, + in double cols. + + *_New England Historical and Genealogical Register_, vol. + 1-15. + + _New Englander._--Index to the New Englander, vols. 1-19 + (1843 to 1861), containing an Index of Authors, a + topical index, an index of books noticed and reviewed, + and a list of engravings. Vol. 20. New Haven, Conn. + (William L. Kingsley, Editor and Proprietor), 1862. + + _New York Daily Tribune._--Index for 1876. The Tribune + Association, New York. + + _New York Medical Journal._--General Index to the New York + Medical Journal, from April, 1865, to June, 1876. By + James B. Hunter, M.D. New York (Appleton & Co.), 1877. + + _New York Times._--Index to the New York Times for 1865. + Including the Second Inauguration of President Lincoln, + and his Assassination; the Accession of President + Johnson; the close of the 38th and the opening of the + 39th Congress, and the close of the War of Secession. + New York (Henry J. Raymond & Co.), 1866. + + *_Niles’s Weekly Register_, vol. 1-12, 1811-18. + + _North American Review._--General Index to the North American + Review, from its commencement in 1815 to the end of the + 25th volume, 1827. Boston (Gray & Bowen), 1829. + + ---- New and Complete Index, vol. 1-125, 1815-77. By W. + Cushing. Cambridge, Mass., 1878. 8vo. in two parts. 1. + Subjects; 2. Writers. + + Reviewed in _Library Journal_, vol. iii. No. 9, p. + 343. + + _Notes and Queries._--Notes and Queries. General Index to + Series the First, Vols. 1 to 12. [By James Yeowell.] + London (Bell and Daldy), 1856. 4to. pp. iv, 146. + + ---- General Index to Series the Second, Vols. 1 to 12. [By + J. Yeowell.] London (Bell & Daldy), 1862. 4to. pp. vi, + 160. + + ---- General Index to Series the Third (1862-1867), Vols. 1 + to 12. [By J. Yeowell.] London (Office, 43, Wellington + Street), 1868. 4to. pp. iv, 156. + + ---- General Index to Series the Fourth (1868-1873), Vols. 1 + to 12. London (J. Francis), 1874. 4to. title, preface, + 1 leaf, pp. 166. + + _Pharmaceutical Journal._--Index to fifteen volumes of the + Pharmaceutical Journal. London (J. Churchill), 1857. + 8vo. half-title, title, pp. 202, double columns. + + In one alphabet. + + ---- Index to twelve volumes of the Pharmaceutical Journal, + vol. xvi, Old Series (1856) to vol. ix, Second Series + (1868). London, 1869. 8vo. pp. 155, in double cols. + + _Philosophical Magazine._--General Index to the Philosophical + Magazine, or Annals of Chemistry, Mathematics, + Astronomy, Natural History and General Science, Volumes + 1 to 11 (1827-1832). London (R. Taylor), 1835. 8vo. pp. + 50. In one alphabet. + + ---- General Index to the London and Edinburgh Philosophical + Magazine and Journal of Science ... for Volumes 1 to 12 + (1832-1838). London (R. & J. E. Taylor), 1839. 8vo. pp. + 58. In one alphabet. + + _Practitioner._--General Index to volumes i-xii. London, 1876. 8vo. + pp. 62 in double cols. + + _Quarterly Journal of Science._--Index to the first twenty volumes + of the Quarterly Journal of Science and the Arts. + London (J. Murray), 1826. 8vo. title, pp. 218. In one + alphabet. + + _Quarterly Review._--The Quarterly Review, Vol. 20. General Index + to the first nineteen volumes. London, 1820. 8vo. pp. + xxiv, 514. + + In three parts. 1, Personal Names; 2, Subjects; 3, + New Publications. Prefixed are Lists of Books and + of Authors reviewed. + + ---- Vol. 40. General Index to Volumes 21 to 39. London, + 1831. 8vo. pp. xxxi, 366. + + Arranged on the same system as the first Index. + + ---- Vol. 60. General Index to Volumes 41 to 59. London, + 1839. 8vo. title, pp. 612. In one alphabet. + + ---- Vol. 80. General Index to Volumes 61 to 79. London, + 1850. 8vo. pp. 326. In one alphabet. + + ---- Vol. 100. General Index to Volumes from 81 to 99 + inclusive. London, 1858. 8vo. title, pp. 310. In one + alphabet. + + ---- Vol. 121. General Index to Volumes from 101 to 120 + inclusive. London, 1867. 8vo. title, pp. 298. In one + alphabet. + + _Repertory of Arts._--An Analytical Index to the sixteen volumes + of the first series of the Repertory of Arts and + Manufactures, being a condensed epitome of that work, + accompanied by Alphabetical Lists of the Authors and + Patentees whose Memoirs and Patents are inserted + therein, and of all Patents granted for Inventions + from the year 1795 to April, 1802. To which is added a + General Index to the first eight volumes of the second + series. London, 1806. 8vo. pp. iv, 232, 43. + + The first Index is in two alphabets, the second is + in one. + + *_Scribner’s Monthly_, vol. 1-10. + + _Times (The)._--An Index to “The Times,” and to the topics and + events of the year 1862. [By J. Giddings.] London (W. + Freeman), 1863. 8vo. pp. vi, 87. + + ---- An Index to “The Times,” and to the topics and events + of the year 1863. By J. Giddings. London (S. Palmer), + 1864. 8vo. pp. xxvii, 201. + + ---- Index to “The Times” Newspaper, April, 1865, to June, + 1878. London (S. Palmer). 4to. 52 vols. + + Commenced in 1865 and continued in quarterly + volumes. + + _Westminster Review._--A General Index to the Westminster Review, + from the first to the thirteenth volume inclusive, to + which is added an Index of Names. London (R. Heward), + 1832. 8vo. half-title, title, pp. 216. + + + + +INDEXES TO THE STATUTES. + + + 1215-1714.--The Alphabetical Index to the Statutes of the Realm + from Magna Charta to the end of the reign of Queen + Anne. London, 1824. Folio. + + The Chronological Index to the Statutes of the + Realm, from Magna Charta to the end of the reign of + Queen Anne. London, 1828. Folio. + + 1215-1761.--The Statutes at Large, from Magna Charta to 1761, Vol. + 24 being the Index, by Danby Pickering. Cambridge, + 1769. 8vo. 2 titles, pp. vii, 633. In one alphabet. + + 1215-1769.--A Complete Index to the Statutes at Large, from Magna + Charta to the tenth year of George III. inclusive, by + Owen Ruffhead and another gentleman. London, 1772. 8vo. + unpaged. In one alphabet. + + 1215-1808.--An Index to the Statutes at Large, from Magna Charta to + the forty-ninth year of George III. inclusive. By John + Raithby, of Lincoln’s Inn. In three volumes. London + (Eyre & Strahan), 1814. 8vo. unpaged. + + In one alphabet. + + 1224-1847.--An Index to the Public Statutes from 9 Hen. III. to + 10 & 11 Vict. inclusive (excepting those relating + exclusively to Scotland, Ireland, the Colonies and + Dependencies). Analytically arranged and affording a + synoptical view of the Statute Book. In two parts. Part + 1 by Henry Riddell and John Warrington Rogers, of the + Middle Temple. London (Benning & Co.), 1848. 8vo. pp. + xiv, half-title, pp. 406. + + 1727-1834.--An Analytical Table of the Private Statutes, passed + between 1 Geo. II. 1727, and 52 Geo. III. 1812, both + inclusive.... By George Bramwell, of Lincoln’s Inn + Fields. London (T. Davison), 1813. 8vo. unpaged. + + ---- ---- An Analytical Table of the Private Statutes passed + between 53 Geo. III. 1813, and 4, 5 Will. IV. 1834.... + Vol. 2. London, 1835. 8vo. unpaged. + + 1798-1839.--Index to the Local and Personal and Private Acts, + 1798-1839, 38 Geo. III.--2 & 3 Vict. By Thomas Vardon. + London (Hansard’s), 1840. 8vo. title, preface 1 leaf, + pp. 485. In one alphabet. + + 1801-1828.--Index to the Public General Statutes of the United + Kingdom from January, 1801, to July, 1828. By + B. Spiller, Librarian, House of Commons. London + (Hansard’s), 1829. 4to. pp. xxi, ff. 306. + + Printed on one side only, the verso of each leaf + being left blank for additions. In one alphabet. + + 1801-1865.--An Index to the Statutes, Public and Private, passed in + the several years from the Union with Ireland to the + termination of the eighteenth Parliament of the United + Kingdom, 41 Geo. III. (1801) to 28 & 29 Vict. (1865). + In two parts. Part 1, The Public General Acts, with a + chronological list of Acts repealed. Compiled by order + of the Select Committee on the Library of the House of + Lords, 1867. Folio. Prefatory observations, pp. vii, + pp. 703, clxxi. + + Part II. The Local and Personal Acts, Local Acts + and Private Acts in classes. 1867. Pp. vi, 1033. + + An Index to the Statute Law of England, by George Stamp; + the third edition brought down to the close of the + Session 24 & 25 Vict. (1861) by James Edward Davis. + London, 1862. 8vo. pp. xcv, 468. + + In one alphabet, with a Table of Titles prefixed. + + Chronological Table and Index of the Statutes to 1869. + 8vo. 1870. Fourth edition, to the end of the Session + of 1877, 40 & 41 Victoria. London, 1878. Roy. 8vo. pp. + xi, 842. Containing Table of Variances; Chronological + Table; Alphabetical Index and Appendices. + + _India._--Chronological Table of, and Index to, the Indian Statute + Book from the year 1834, with a General Introduction to + the Statute Law of India. By C. D. Field, M.A., LL.D. + London (Butterworths), 1870. 4to. pp. vi, 1 leaf, pp. + 277. + + _Ireland._--Index to the Irish Statutes. By Andrew Newton Oulton. 2 + vols. with Supplements. + + _Year Books, etc._--Repertorium Juridicum. An Index to all + the cases in the year books, entries, reports and + abridgments in Law and Equity; beginning with Edward I. + and continued down to this time. [By Kennett Freeman.] + London, 1742. 2 parts, folio. + + + + +INDEXES TO THE JOURNALS OF THE HOUSES OF LORDS AND COMMONS. + + + _House of Lords._--Calendar of the Journals of the House of + Lords, from the beginning of the reign of Henry VIII. + to 30 Aug., 1642, and from 1660 to 21 Jan., 1808. + [London, 1810.] Folio, pp. xxiii, 779. + + ---- ---- from 21st Jan., 1808, to 14th Nov., 1826. + [London]. Folio, pp. vii, 288. + + General Index to the Journals of the House of + Lords. Vol. 1-10. 1509-1649. [London], 1836. Folio, + title, pp. 679. + + Vol. 11-19. 1660-1714. [London], 1834. Folio, + title, pp. 380. + + Vol. 20-35. 1714-1779. Compiled by Thomas Brodie. + [London], 1817. Folio, title, pp. 905. + + Vol. 36-52. 1780-1819. [London], 1832. Folio, + title, pp. 1027. + + Vol. 53-64. 1820-1833. [London], 1855. Folio, + title, pp. 775. + + 1833-1863. London, 1865. 2 vols. folio. + + _House of Commons._--A General Index to the first seven + volumes of the Journals of the House of Commons. + Compiled by Timothy Cunningham. [London], 1785. Folio, + pp. vii, 24 prelim. leaves, pp. 1100. (Vol. 8-11 by + Flaxman, vol. 12-17 by Forster, superseded by the next + article.) + + ---- General Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, + Vol. 1-17, 1547-1714. By Thomas Vardon and Thomas + Erskine May. [London], 1852. Folio, pp. vii, 1149. + + ---- A General Index to, or Digest of, seventeen volumes of + the Journals of the House of Commons-- + + Vol. 18-34, 1714-1774. [By E. Moore.] [London], + 1778. Folio, unpaged. + + Vol. 35-45, 1774-1790. [By S. Dunn.] [London], + 1796. Folio, unpaged. + + Vol. 46-55, 1790-1800. [By S. Dunn.] [London], + 1803. Folio, unpaged. + + Vol. 56-75, 1801-1820. By Martin Charles Burney. + [London], 1825. Folio. + + Vol. 75-92, 1820-1837. By Thomas Vardon. [London], + 1839. Folio, pp. xx, 1072. + + Vol. 93-107, 1837-1852. By Thomas Vardon. [London], + 1857. Folio, pp. viii, 1 leaf, pp. 999. + + _Ireland._--Index to the Commons’ Journals of Ireland. + + + + +INDEXES OF PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. + + + _House of Lords._--A General Index to the Sessional Papers + printed by order of the House of Lords or presented + by Special Command, 1801-1837. [London], 1839. Folio, + title, pp. 370. + + ---- A General Index to the Sessional Papers printed by + order of the House of Lords or presented by Special + Command, from the Union with Ireland to the termination + of the seventeenth Parliament of the United Kingdom, + 41 Geo. III. to 22 Vict. (1801-1859). Compiled by order + of the Select Committee on the Library of the House of + Lords. 1860. Folio, pp. 992. + + ---- A General Index to the Sessional Papers, printed by + order of the House of Lords or presented by Special + Command, from 22 Vict. (1859) to 33 & 34 Vict. (1870). + 1872. Folio, pp. xv, 368. + + Indexes are published annually in continuation of + this. + + _House of Commons._--Indexes to the Reports of the House of + Commons, 1801-1834. 10th July, 1837. Folio, pp. 88. + Divided into the following sections--“Ecclesiastical,” + “Education,” “Finance and Public Accounts,” “Municipal + Reform,” “Debtor and Creditor.” + + ---- A General Index to the Reports from Committees of the + House of Commons, 1715-1801, forming the series of + fifteen volumes of Reports. [London], 1803. Folio, + title, 1 leaf, pp. 380. + + ---- General Index to the Reports of Select Committees, + printed by order of the House of Commons, 1801-1852. + [London], 1853. Folio, pp. xxxii, 412. + + ---- General Index to the Reports on Public Petitions, + 1833-1852. [London], 1855. Folio, pp. xxxvi, 984. + + ---- General Index to the Divisions of the House of Commons, + 1852-53-1857. [London], 1857. Folio, pp. x, 202. + + ---- General Index to the Bills, Reports, Accounts, and + other Papers, printed by order of the House of Commons, + 1801-1826. [London], 1829. Folio, pp. iv, 352. + + In one alphabet. + + ---- General Index to the Bills, Reports, Accounts, and + other Papers, printed by order of the House of Commons, + 1832-1838. [London], 1840. Folio, title, 1 leaf, pp. + 338. + + ---- General Index to the Accounts and Papers, Reports of + Commissioners, Estimates, &c. &c., printed by order + of the House of Commons, or presented by command, + 1801-1852 [London], 1853. Folio, pp. 1, 1080. + + ---- General Index to the Bills printed by order of the + House of Commons, 1801-1852 [London], 1853. Folio, pp. + xlii, 468. + + ---- General Index to the Bills, Reports, Accounts, and + other Papers printed by order of the House of Commons + or presented by command, 1852-53-1861. 8 April, 1862. + Folio, Pp. lxii, 1019. + + ---- General Index to the Bills, Reports, Estimates, + Accounts and Papers printed by order of the House + of Commons, and to the Papers presented by command, + 1852-53-1868-69 [London], 1870. Folio, title, pp. 775. + + _Charities._--Index to the Reports of the Commissioners for + inquiring Concerning Charities in England and Wales. + London, 1840. Folio, title, pp. 443. + + _Historical MSS._--Fourth Report of the Royal Commission on + Historical Manuscripts. Part ii, Index, 1874. Folio, + pp. 615-985. + + ---- Fifth Report. Part ii, Index, 1876. Folio, pp. 659-985. + + ---- Sixth Report. Part ii, Index, 1878. Folio, pp. 783-958. + + References are made in this index to the columns as + well as to the pages, the columns being designated + by the letters _a_, _b_. + + _London Corporation._--An analytical index of the minutes of + Evidence taken before the Commissioners appointed to + Enquire into the state of the Corporation of the City + of London, etc., etc., etc., 1854. Pp. 879-1058. + + _Standards._--General Index to the Reports of the Standards + Commission (Reports I. to V.). London, 1878. Folio, pp. + viii, 101. In one alphabet, with a preliminary list of + the entries. + + + + +INDEXES TO PROCEEDINGS OF PUBLIC BODIES. + + + _Boston [Mass.] (City of)._--Index to the City Documents, from + 1834 to 1865. Boston, 1866. Pp. 39. + + ---- from 1834 to 1874. Boston, 1875. + + _Canada._--General Index to the Journals of the Legislative + Assembly of Canada, in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd + Parliaments, 1841-1851. By Alfred Todd. Montreal, 1855. + Fol. pp. 575. + + _Courts of Equity, etc._--An Index to all the reported Cases + decided in the several Courts of Equity in England and + Ireland, the Privy Council, and the House of Lords; + and to the Statutes on or relating to the Principles, + Pleading and Practice of Equity and Bankruptcy; from + the earliest period. By Edward Chitty. In four volumes. + London, 1853. 8vo. + + In double columns. + + _Rotuli Parliamentorum._--Index to the Rolls of Parliament, + comprising the Petitions, Pleas and Proceedings of + Parliament, from Ann. 6 Edw. I. to Ann. 19 Hen. VI. + (A.D. 1278-A.D. 1503). Prepared and edited by order of + a Committee of the House of Lords, in part by the Rev. + John Strachey and the Rev. John Pridden, and completed + by Edward Upham. London, 1832. Folio, title, preface 1 + leaf, pp. 1036. + + In one alphabet. + + _Scotland, Free Church._--Handbook and Index to the principal acts + of assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1868. + Edinburgh, 1869. 12mo. pp. 63. + + _---- Parliaments._--General Index to the Acts of the + Parliaments of Scotland, to which is prefixed a + supplement to the Acts printed by authority of the + Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury. H. M. + General Register House, Edinburgh, M.DCCC.LXXV. large + folio, preface, etc., x. Chronological Table of the + supplement to the Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, + xi. pp. xxiii, 1255. + + In double columns. + + + + +MISCELLANEOUS INDEXES. + + + _Augmentation Office._--Index to Particulars for Grants in the + Augmentation Office, temp. Edward VI. folio, n.d. or + place, pp. 28. + + Privately printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps. + + _Cartularies._--Index to Cartularies, since the Dissolution of + Monasteries. Typis Medio-Montanis, impressit G. + Gilmour, 1839. 12mo. + + Privately printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps. + + _County Visitations._--Indexes to the County Visitations in the + Library at Middle Hill, 1840, and to a few others in + the Harl. MSS., British Museum, the Bodleian Library + and Queen’s College, Oxford. Typis Medio-Montanis, + impressit C. Gilmour, 1841. Folio, pp. 56. + + By Sir Thomas Phillipps, privately printed. + + _English Language._--A Glossarial Index to the Printed English + Literature of the Thirteenth Century. By Herbert + Coleridge. London (Trübner & Co), 1859. 8vo. pp. viii, + 103. + + _Heirs-at-Law._--Index to Heirs-at-Law, Next-of-Kin, Legatees, + Missing Friends, Encumbrances, and Creditors, or + their representatives in Chancery suits, who have + been advertised for during the last 150 years, + containing upwards of 50,000 names relating to vast + sums of unclaimed money. Collected, compiled, and + alphabetically arranged by Robert Chambers. Third + edition. London (Reeves & Turner), 1872. 8vo. + + The advertisements are only referred to by numbers, + and further information must be obtained from the + compiler. It is therefore not a true Index, but + only a means for the obtaining of money by the + compiler. + + ---- De Bernardy’s Index-Register for Next-of-Kin, + Heirs-at-Law, Prize Captors, and of Unclaimed Property. + 1754-1856. + + _India._--Index to Books and Papers on the Physical Geography, + Antiquities, and Statistics of India. By George Buist, + LL.D. Bombay, 1852. 8vo. pp. 103. + + In one alphabet. Chiefly consisting of references + to Indian periodicals. + + _Irish Law._--A Digest and Index of all the Irish Reported + Cases in Law and Equity, from the earliest period to + the present time, and also of the Reported Cases in + Ecclesiastical and Criminal Law.... By John Finlay, + LL.D. Dublin (J. Cumming), 1830. 8vo. pp. xix, 600. + + _Leases._--Index of Leases of Manors and Lands in England granted + since the Reformation, Annis 4 & 5 Edw. VI. [Edited by + Sir Thomas Phillipps.] 1832. + + _Manuscripts._--Guide to the Historian, the Biographer, the + Antiquary, the man of literary curiosity, and the + collector of autographs towards the verification of + Manuscripts, by reference to engraved facsimiles of + handwriting. [By Dawson Turner.] Yarmouth (C. Sloman), + 1848. Roy. 8vo. pp. xii, 96. + + A most valuable alphabetical Index of the names of + celebrated men, with references to the books where + specimens of their writing can be found. + + _Pedigrees._--Index to the Heralds’ Visitations in the British + Museum. 1823. 12mo. pp. 52. + + ---- An Index to the Pedigrees and Arms contained in the + Heralds’ Visitations and other Genealogical Manuscripts + in the British Museum, by R. Sims. London (J. Russell + Smith), 1849. Pp. vi, 330. + + The names are arranged in alphabet under each + county. + + ---- An Index to the Pedigrees contained in the Printed + Heralds’ Visitations, etc., etc. By George W. Marshall, + LL.M., of the Middle Temple. London (B. Hardwicke), + 1866. 8vo. pp. 164. + + An Index of the Pedigrees in Berry’s County + Genealogies is incorporated with this Index. + + ---- Coleman’s General Index to Printed Pedigrees, which are + to be found in all the principal County and Local + Histories and in many privately printed Genealogies, + under alphabetical arrangement, with an Appendix + commencing at page 106. London (J. Coleman), 1866. Pp. + vii, 155. + + This Index is said in the preface to contain + references to nearly 10,000 pedigrees. + + ---- An Index to Printed Pedigrees contained in County and + Local Histories, the Heralds’ Visitations, and in the + more important Genealogical Collections. By Charles + Bridger. London (J. Russell Smith), 1867. 8vo. pp. vi, + 384. + + Contains separate Indexes to family names in 287 + books, and a general Index referring back to these. + + _Periodicals._--An Alphabetical Index to Subjects treated in the + Reviews and other Periodicals, to which no indexes + have been published. Prepared for the Library of the + Brothers in Unity, Yale College. [By Wm. Fred. Poole.] + New York, 1848. Pp. 155. In one alphabet. + + ---- An Index to Periodical Literature. By Wm. Fred. Poole. + New York, 1853. Roy. 8vo. pp. xi, 521. + + In one alphabet of subjects. + + ---- Catalogue of Scientific Papers (1800-1863). Compiled + and published by the Royal Society of London. London, + 1867-72. 6 vols., 4to. (1864-1873.) Vol. 7, 1877. + + Vol. 1, A-Clu, pp. lxxix, 960; Vol. 2, Coa-Gra, + pp. iv, 1012; Vol. 3, Gre-Lez, pp. v, 1002; Vol. + 4, Lhe-Poz, pp. iv, 1006; Vol. 5, Pra-Tiz, pp. iv, + 1000; Vol. 6, Tka-Zyl, pp. xi, 763; Vol. 7, A-Hyr, + pp. xxxi, 1047. + +The celebrated Dr. Thomas Young published in the second volume of his +_Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts_ +(1807) a most valuable Catalogue of books and papers relating to the +subject of his Lectures, which is classified minutely, and occupies +514 quarto pages in double columns. In Kelland’s new edition (1845) +the references are abridged and inserted after the several lectures to +which they refer. + + _Places._--Index Villaris, or an Exact Register, alphabetically + digested, of all the cities, market-towns, parishes, + villages ... [in England and Wales. By J. Adams.] + London, 1690. Folio, title, 3 preliminary leaves, pp. + 419. + + In one alphabet, with appendix. + + ---- Index to the Population Tables of England and Wales and + Islands in the British Seas [of the Census of 1871]. + Folio, pp. 570-772. + + ---- Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of + Ireland, showing the number of the sheet of the + Ordnance Survey Maps on which they appear; also the + area of the Townlands, the County, the Barony, Parish, + Poor Law Union, and Poor Law Electoral Division in + which they are situated; and the volume and page of the + Census of 1871, part 1, which contain the population + and number of houses in 1841, 1851, 1861, and 1871, + and the Poor Law Valuation in 1871; with separate + Indices of the Parishes, Baronies, Poor Law Unions + (or Superintendent Registrars’ Districts), Poor Law + Electoral Divisions, Dispensary (or Registrars’) + Districts, Petty Sessions Districts, and Parliamentary + Boroughs of Ireland. Presented to both Houses of + Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Dublin, 1877. + Folio, pp. 799. + + _Records._--An Index to the Records, with Directions to the + several Places where they are to be found, and + short explanations of the different kinds of Rolls, + Writs, etc.; to which is added A List of the Latin + Sir-Names, and Names of Places, as they are written + in the old Records, explained by the Modern Names. + Also A Chronological Table, shewing at one View the + Year of our Lord, answering to the particular year of + each King’s Reign, the several Parliaments, and the + different Titles by which our Kings are styled in the + Records. London (G. Hawkins), 1739. 8vo. pp. viii, 182. + + ---- Index to Records called the Originalia and Memoranda on + the Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer’s Side of the + Exchequer, extracted from the Records, and from the + MSS. of Mr. Tayleure, Mr. Madox and Mr. Chapman.... By + Edward Jones, Inner Temple. London, Printed for the + Editor, 1793, vol. 1. 1795, vol. 2. Folio. + + ---- An Index drawn up about 1629 of many Records of + Charters granted by the different sovereigns of + Scotland between the years 1309 and 1413, most + of which Records have been long missing. With an + Introduction ... by William Robertson. Edinburgh + (Murray & Cochrane), 1798. 4to. pp. liii, 196. + + ---- Index to the Printed Reports of Sir Francis Palgrave, + K.H., the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, + 1840-1861. London (Eyre & Spottiswoode), 1865. Pp. + 371. By John Edwards and Edward James Tabrum. In one + alphabet. + + _Religious Houses._--Fasti Monastici Aevi Saxonici: or an + Alphabetical List of the Heads of Religious Houses in + England previous to the Norman Conquest; to which is + prefixed a Chronological Catalogue of Contemporary + Foundations. By Walter De Gray Birch. London (Taylor & + Co.), 1873. 8vo. + + _Sermons._--An Index to the Sermons published since the + Restoration, pointing out the texts in the order they + lie in the Bible; showing the occasion on which they + were preached, and directing to the volume and page + where they occur. London (J. Newbery, etc.), 1751. 8vo. + pp. iv, 212. + + Arranged according to the order of the Books of the + Bible. + + ---- The Preacher’s Assistant. In two parts. Part 1, A + Series of the Texts of all the Sermons and Discourses + preached upon, and published since the Restoration to + the present time. Part 2, An Historical Register of all + the Authors in the Series, containing a succinct view + of their several works. To which are added two Lists of + the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Ireland from + 1660 to 1753, with an appendix to each part. By Sampson + Letsome, M.A., Vicar of Thame, in Oxfordshire. London, + 1753. 8vo. pp. xii, 288; part 2, title, pp. 238. + + ---- The Preacher’s Assistant (after the manner of Mr. + Letsome).... By John Cooke, M.A. ... Rector of Wentnor, + Salop. Vol. 1. Oxford (Clarendon Press), 1783. Pp. xii, + 487. + + An Historical Register of all the Authors in the + Series, alphabetically disposed. Vol. 2, pp. 425. + + ---- The Churchman’s Guide: a copious Index to Sermons and + other Works. By John Forster, M.A. London, 1840. 8vo. + + List of Authors of Miscellaneous Sermons, pp. 6. + Index of Subjects, pp. 210. + + ---- Cyclopædia Bibliographica.... By James Darling. + Subjects: Holy Scriptures. London (Darling), 1859. Roy. + 8vo. + + Contains an Index of Sermons arranged under the + texts. + + _Theology._--Theological Index. References to the Principal Works + in every department of Religious Literature, embracing + nearly 70,000 citations, alphabetically arranged under + 2000 heads. By Howard Malcom, D.D., LL.D. Boston (Gould + & Lincoln). 8vo. pp. 488. + + A second edition has been published. + + ---- Index to Systematic Theology. By Charles Hodge, D.D. + London and Edinburgh, 1873. 8vo. pp. 79 in double cols. + + _Wills._--An Index to Wills proved in the Court of the Chancellor + of the University of Oxford, and to such of the records + and other instruments and papers of that Court as + relate to matters or causes testamentary. By the Rev. + John Griffiths, M.A., Keeper of the Archives. Oxford + (University Press), 1862. Roy. 8vo. pp. xiv, 88. In one + alphabet, with a chronological list appended. + + + + +INDEXES TO CATALOGUES. + + + _British Catalogue._--Index to the British Catalogue of Books + published during the years 1837 to 1857 inclusive. By + Sampson Low. 1858. 8vo. + + pp. 292, xxx, and xlviii, in double columns, really + compiled by Dr. Crestadoro, Librarian of the + Manchester Free Library. + + ---- An Index to Current Literature, comprising a Reference + to Author and Subject of Every Book in the English + Language, and to Articles in Literature, Science and + Art in Serial Publications, 1859, 1860, 1861. London + (Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 47 Ludgate Hill), 1862. + + This most valuable Index was published quarterly; + its failure is a loss to literature, for it was + very carefully compiled. + + _London Catalogue of Books._--Classified Index, 1814 to 1846. + London (Hodgson), 1848. 8vo. + + ---- 1816 to 1851. London (Hodgson), 1853. 8vo. + + _College of Surgeons._--Classified Index to the Catalogue of the + Library of the Royal College of Surgeons. London, 1853. + 8vo. + + _Lambeth Library._--An Index of such English Books printed + before the year 1600 as are now in the Archiepiscopal + Library at Lambeth. Published by ... the Rev. S. R. + Maitland, Librarian. London (F. & J. Rivington), 1845. + 8vo. pp. xii, 120. + + _Med. and Chir. Soc._--Index to the Catalogue of the Library + of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, + containing an alphabetical List of Subjects, with the + names of the authors. [By B. R. Wheatley.] London (J. + E. Adlard), 1860. 8vo. pp. vii, 293. + + A new Catalogue and a new Index are now in the + press. + + _New York State Library._--Subject-Index of the General + Library. Albany, 1872. 8vo. pp. xviii, 651. + + _Trin. Coll. Camb._--An Index to such English Books printed + before the year 1600 as are now in the Library of + Trinity College, Cambridge. By Edward Cranwell, Under + Librarian. Cambridge, 1847. 8vo. pp. 68. + + +MANUSCRIPTS. + + _Baker MSS._--Index to the Baker MSS., by Four Members of the + Cambridge Antiquarian Society. 1848. 8vo. + + _Bodleian Library._--Index to the Catalogue of the Manuscripts of + Elias Ashmole preserved in the Ashmolean Museum, and + now deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. By the + Rev. W. D. Macray. Oxford, 1866. 4to. pp. 188 in triple + cols. + + In one alphabet. + + ---- Index to the Catalogue (vols. 1 and 2) of the Rawlinson + MSS. in the Bodleian Library. By the Rev. W. D. Macray. + Oxford, 1878. 4to. pp. 565-992. + + _British Museum._--Index to the Additional MSS. with those of + the Egerton Collection, 1783-1835. London, 1849. Fol. + pp. iv, 514. + + ---- Indexes to the Additional MSS, 1836-1845. London, folio. + + ---- Preface and Index to the Catalogue of the Harleian MSS. + London, 1763. Fol. + + + + +INDEX. + + + Abbott (E.), Concordance to Pope, 77 + + Abecedarie, as a synonym of Index, 10 + + Acrostic, as a motto for an Index, 69 + + “Acuerdo Olvido,” a supposed author, 52 + + Adam (A.), Geographical Index, 82 + + Adams (J.), Index Villaris, 105 + + Adjectives, when to be used as catchwords, 72 + + ---- (Substantival), as headings, 44 + + Agassiz, Bibliographia Zoologiæ, 32 + + ---- ---- blunder in, 50 + + Agricultural (Royal) Society, Index to Journal, 86 + + Aler (Paul), editor of the “Gradus ad Parnassum”, 29 + + Alison’s History of Europe, Index, 78 + + All the Year Round, Index, 89 + + Allibone’s Dictionary of Authors, _alluded to_, 19, 25, 27, 53 + + ---- ---- the forty Indexes, 28 + + Almanac, Index to the Companion to the, 91 + + ---- ---- marks of repetition in, 67 + + Almanac (American), Indexes, 89 + + Alphabet (_one_) for Indexes, 71 + + Alphabetical Arrangement, difficulties of, 58 + + Alunno (F.), Index to Boccaccio, 29 + + American Almanac, Indexes, 89 + + “American Bookseller”, 34 + + American Journal, Indexes, 89 + + American Journal of Pharmacy, Index, 89 + + American Jurist and Law Magazine, Index, 89 + + American Pharmaceutical Association, Index to Proceedings, 83 + + ‘Anleitung’ as an author, 61 + + Annual Register, Index, 89 + + Anonymous Books, arrangement of, in the British Museum Catalogue, 29 + (note) + + Antonio (N.), value of his “Bibliotheca Hispana”, 20 + + ---- arrangement of the Index, 20 + + ---- his quotation of the remark that an Index should be made by the + author of the book, 19, 21 + + Aquin (D’) quotes ‘Mantissa’ as an author, 52 + + Arago’s Works, divided Index to, 57 + + Architectural Societies of Yorkshire, etc., Index, 88 + + Archæologia, Indexes, 87 + + Archæological (British) Association, Index to the Journal, 83 + + Archæological Epistle to Dean Milles, not by Mason, but by Baynes, 27 + + Armytage (G. J.), Index to Dugdale’s Visitation of York, 79 + + Arrowsmith’s Atlas, Index, 82 + + Ashmole MSS., Index, 108 + + Asiatic Society of Bengal, Index to Asiatic Researches and Journal, 83 + + Assurance Magazine, Index, 89 + + Astronomical (Royal) Society’s Memoirs, 34 + + ---- Indexes to Memoirs and Monthly Notices, 86 + + “Athenæum” (The), 50 + + ---- uselessness of the Indexes from their subdivisions, 57 + + ---- want of a general Index, 48 + + ---- suggestion of an Index Society in 1877, 37 + + Athenæum Library Catalogue, Index of Subjects, 36 + + Athenæus, blunder in the Index to Dalechamp’s edition, 21 + + Atlantic Monthly, Index, 90 + + Atlases, Indexes of, 82 + + Augmentation Office, Index to Grants, 102 + + Authorities to be Indexed, 73 + + “Ayenbite of Inwyt,” Table of Contents to the book, 7 + + Ayscough’s (Rev. S.) Indexes, 25, 46 + + ---- Index to the Gentleman’s Magazine, 92 + + ---- Index to the Monthly Review, 93 + + ---- Index to Shakespeare, 77 + + + Bachaumont, Mémoires de, 51 + + Baillet, his General Index in thirty-two folio volumes, 21 + + Baker MSS., Index, 108 + + Baret’s Alvearie, use of the words Index and Table in the book, 10 + + Barker (E. H.), Index to his edition of Stephens’s Thesaurus, 25 + + Baronius, noble Index to his “Annales Ecclesiastici”, 14 + + Bayle, his opinion on the need of judgment in the compilation of an + Index, 21 + + Baynes (John), his terrible curse, 27 + + Beaconsfield (Earl of), editor of Isaac Disraeli’s Works, 53 + + Bentley attacked in an Index by Dr. King, 16 + + Best (Mr. Justice), reference to his “great mind”, 44 + + Bible, Concordances to the, 28, 75-76 + + ----, Indexes to the, 76 + + Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, Index, 90 + + Bibliographical Research, rapid growth of the taste for, 34 + + Bibliotheca Sacra, Index, 90 + + “Bibliothecar. Chetham.,” his contribution to a General Index, 37 + + “Biglow Papers,” humorous Index to it, 18 + + Bigsby’s Thesaurus Siluricus, 35 + + ---- Thesaurus Devonico-Carboniferus, 35 + + Billings (Dr. J. S.), his proposed National Catalogue of Medical + Literature, 33 + + Binney (Hon. Horace), proposed punishment for the publisher of an + indexless book, 27 + + Biographie Moderne, blunder in, 60 + + Biographie Universelle, life of an imaginary person, 50 + + Birch (W. De Gray), Fasti Monastici Aevi Saxonici, 106 + + ---- Index to the Journal of the British Archæological Association, 83 + + Births, Deaths and Marriages, arrangement of newspaper lists of, 66 + + Bishops, their signatures a source of trouble to some, 64 + + ---- to be arranged under their family names, 63, 72 + + Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Index, 90 + + Blomefield’s History of Norfolk, Index Nominum, 78 + + Blomfield’s (Bishop) review of Barker’s edition of Stephens’s + Thesaurus, 25 + + Boccaccio, Index to his words and phrases, 29 + + Bochart (M.), called an Index the soul of big books, 21 (note 12) + + Bodleian Library, Indexes to Catalogues of MSS., 108 + + Bolton (H. C.), Bibliography of the History of Chemistry, 34 + + ---- Index to the Literature of Manganese, 34 + + Book-Analyst and Library Guide, 34 + + Bookseller’s ‘reason’ for not giving an Index, 13 + + Boston (Mass.), Indexes to City Documents, 101 + + Botanical Magazine, Indexes, 90 + + Bowyer (William), praise of one of his Indexes, 25 + + “Boyle upon Bentley”, 16 + + Bramwell (G.), Table of the Private Statutes, 97 + + Brayley’s Surrey, Indexes to, 56 + + Bremond (-- de), Table des Mémoires dans les Transactions + Philosophiques, 87 + + Brent (G. S.), Index to the Journal of the Geographical Society, 86 + + Bridger’s Index to Pedigrees, 79, 104 + + Brigham le jeune _for_ Brigham Young, 61 + + Brightwell (D. B.), Concordance to Tennyson, 78 + + British and Foreign Medical Review, Index, 90 + + British Archæological Association, Index to the Journal, 83 + + British Association Reports, 34 + + ---- ---- General Index in six Alphabets, 57, 83 + + British Catalogue of Books, Index, 36, 107 + + British Critic, Indexes, 25, 90 + + British Museum Catalogue, 63 + + ---- ---- arrangement of Anonymous Books, 29 (note), 43 + + ---- Rules for Cataloguing, 70 + + ---- Indexes to Catalogues of MSS., 36, 108 + + Broch (J. K.), an imaginary author, 50 + + Brodie (Thomas), Index to the Journals of the House of Lords, 99 + + Bromley’s (William) Travels, ill-natured Index made to them by his + enemies, 17 + + Brown (Arthur), Treatise on different calculi, attributed to him, 50 + + Browne’s (Sir Thomas) “Religio Medici,” the errata uncorrected in + several editions, 65 + + Brunet (G.) translates ‘White Knights’ as _Le Chevalier Blanc_, 52 + + Brussels Academy’s Memoirs, 34 + + Buckland (Dr.), said to be the author of a work “sur les ponts et + chaussées”, 53 + + Buffon’s Natural History, Index to the Plates, 78 + + Buist, Index to Books and Papers on India, 103 + + Bulwer Lytton (Sir Edward), Lord Lytton, his numerous names, 62, 63 + + Burke’s Landed Gentry, Index to, 78 + + Burney (M. C.), Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, 99 + + Burton (Hill), “Book Hunter,” allusion to the power in the hands of + an Indexer, 16 + + ---- History of Scotland, Index, 79 + + + Calcutta Review, Index, 91 + + Calendar, as a synonym of Index, 7, 11 + + Calendars of State Papers, 31 + + Calendarium, use of the word in English books, 7 + + Cambridge Concordance, 75 + + Cambridge, Trinity College, Index of Books printed before 1600, 108 + + Camden Society Publications, projected Index to, 36 + + Campbell (Lord), proposed punishment for the publisher of an + indexless book, 27 + + ---- his confession, 28 + + ---- good index to Lives of the Lord Chancellors, 46 + + Campkin (H.), his Index to the Sussex Archæological Collections, 26, + 88 + + Camus, an imaginary author, 50 + + Canada, Index to the Journals of the Legislative Assembly, 101 + + Canadian Journal, bad Indexes to, 42-43 + + Capgrave’s Chronicle of England, blunder in the Index, 49 + + Carlisle (Nicholas) Index to Archæologia, 87 + + ---- Index to the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 86 + + Carlyle (Thomas), Index to his Works, 79 + + ---- his reference to Prynne’s “Histrio-Mastix”, 14 + + ---- he denounces the putters forth of indexless books, 27 + + ---- his remarks on the want of Indexes to the standard Historical + Collections, 39 + + Cartularies, Index to, 102 + + Carus (J. V.), Bibliotheca Zoologica, 32 + + ---- ---- blunders in the Index, 57 + + Cary’s English Atlas, Index, 82 + + Catalogue, as a synonym of Index, 11 + + Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 32, 104 + + Catalogues, Indexes to, 107-108 + + Cataloguing, Rules for, 70 + + Census of 1871, Index, 105 + + “Centralblatt,” various German, 34 + + Chadwick (J. N.), Index Nominum to Blomefield’s Norfolk, 78 + + Chambers (R.), Index to Heirs-at-Law, 102 + + Channing, two Doctors of the name, how to be distinguished, 68 + + Charities, Index to the Commissioners’ Reports, 101 + + Chatillon, compiler of the “Gradus ad Parnassum”, 29 + + Chemical Society’s Journal, 33 + + ---- ---- Index, 83 + + Chemistry, Bibliography of the History of, 34 + + Chetham Society’s Index, 84 + + Chitty (E.), Index to Cases in Courts of Equity, 101 + + ---- his grudge against Justice Best, 45 + + Chorley (Josiah), Metrical Index to the Bible, 76 + + Christian Observer, Index to, by Macaulay, 26 + + Cicero, his joke about Pollex and Index, 8 + + ---- his use of the word Index, 8 + + Cinthio’s Novel turned into _November_ by Warburton, 53 + + Clarke (Mrs. Cowden), Concordance to Shakspere, 25, 77 + + Clarke’s (Wm.) Roman, Saxon, and English Coins, Index to it, 25 + + Classification _v._ the Alphabetical Arrangement, 56 + + Clergyman and Dissenting Minister of the same Name, 69 + + Cleveland (C. D.), Concordance to Milton, 77 + + Cobbett’s _Woodlands_ quoted, 55 + + Cohen, the former name of Sir Francis Palgrave, 63 + + Coke (Lord Chief Justice), an inaccurate man, 31 + + Coleman (J.), Index to Printed Pedigrees, 104 + + Coleridge (H.), Glossarial Index, 102 + + College of Surgeons, Index to the Catalogue, 107 + + Commons (House of), Indexes to Reports, Bills, Papers, etc., 100, 101 + + ---- Indexes to Journals, 99 + + Companion to the Almanac, Index, 91 + + Conant (T. J.), Index to the American Encyclopædia, 79 + + Concordances to the Bible, 28; first, in 1247, 28; first English, by + Marbeck, 28; first English to New Testament, 28 + + ---- list of, 75-78 + + Congregational Quarterly, Index, 91 + + Congress Library, U.S., Index to old Catalogue, 47 + + Connecticut Academy, 34 + + Contractions, dangers in filling them out, 53 + + Cooke (J.), The Preacher’s Assistant, 106 + + Copland’s Dictionary of Practical Medicine, 35 + + Corpus Christi Guild, York, incomplete Index to the Register of, 48 + + Cotton’s (C.) Concordance, 75 + + County and Local Histories, need of Indexes to them, 39 + + County Visitations, Indexes to, 102 + + Courts of Equity, etc., Index to Cases, 101 + + Cranwell (E.), Index to Books printed before 1600 in the Library of + Trinity College, Cambridge, 108 + + Crestadoro (Dr.), his Index to the British Catalogue of Books, 36, 107 + + Croker’s (Wilson) discovery of the blunders in the Mémoires de Louis + XVIII., 51 + + Cross (J. Ashton), his pamphlet on a Universal Index, 37 + + ---- paper before the Conference of Librarians, 37 + + Cross references in an epitaph, 55 + + ---- need of care in the use of, 54 + + ---- use and abuse of, 72 + + Cruden’s (Alex.) Concordance, 29, 76 + + Cruttwell (Rev. C.), Concordance of Parallels collected from Bibles + and Commentaries, 76 + + Cunningham (T.), Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, 31, 99 + + Curtis (F. A.), on the best method of constructing an Index, 58 + + Curtis (S.), Indexes to the Botanical Magazine, 90 + + Cushing (W.), Index to the North American Review, 94 + + Cutter’s Rules for Cataloguing, 62, 70 + + Cyclopædia (Appleton’s Annual), Index, 79 + + ---- (English), Index, 79 + + + “Da,” surnames not to be arranged under this prefix, 60, 71 + + “Dal,” surnames to be arranged under this prefix, 71 + + Darling’s Cyclopædia Bibliographica, 36, 106 + + “De,” French surnames not to be arranged under this prefix, 60, 71 + + De Bernardy’s Index-Register for next-of-kin, 103 + + Dedication of an Index, 13 + + “Del,” “Della,” surnames to be arranged under these prefixes, 71 + + De Morgan (Prof.) on the Index to Jeake’s “Arithmetick”, 38 + + ---- on the length of life of bibliographies, 62 + + ---- Index of authors to his Arithmetical Books, 48 + + De Quincey’s specimen of a French Abbé’s Greek, 51 + + ‘Derselbe’ as an author, 61 + + “Des,” surnames to be arranged under this prefix, 71 + + Devils of use in a printing office, 69 + + Differential Calculus misread as different calculi, 49 + + Dircks’s Worcesteriana, blunder in, 50 + + Disraeli’s (Isaac), Works edited by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, + 53 + + ---- Curiosities of Literature, quoted, 22, 54, 57, 66 + + Donis (Nicholas), an imaginary author, 50 + + Doran (Dr.) on “Best’s great mind”, 45 + + Dorus Basilicus, an imaginary author, 50 + + Douce (Francis), 27 + + Downame’s (J.) Concordance, 75 + + Downes’ (T.) Index to Pennant’s London, 81 + + Draper (W. F.), Index to the Bibliotheca Sacra, 90 + + Drayton, his use of the word Index, 7 + + Dublin Medical Journal, Index, 91 + + “Du,” surnames to be arranged under this prefix, 71 + + Dugdale’s (Sir W.) Visitation of York, Index, 79 + + ---- Antiquities of Warwickshire, use of the words Index and Table in + that book, 10 + + Duncan (J.), Index to the Encyclopædia Britannica, 79 + + Dunn (S.), Indexes to the Journals of the House of Commons, 99 + + + Eadie’s Dictionary of the Bible, cross reference in, 54 + + Edgeworth’s Essay on Irish Bulls, arranged under the head of Zoology, + 57 + + Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Index, 91 + + Edinburgh Review, Indexes, 91 + + Edwards (J.), Index to Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Records, + 106 + + Egerton MSS., Index to, 108 + + Encyclopædia (American), Index, 79 + + Encyclopædia Britannica, useless cross reference in, 55 + + ---- ---- Index, 79 + + ---- Metropolitana, Index, 79 + + Engelmann’s praiseworthy Bibliographies, 32 + + Engineers, see _Institution_; _North of England_. + + England, Parliamentary History of, Index, 81 + + ---- Pictorial History of, Index, 81 + + “Enriched with two lists,” a supposed author, 52 + + Erasmus, his use of Alphabetical Indexes, 8 + + Errata, should they be Indexed?, 65 + + ----, instances of malicious, 66 + + Essayists, Indexes to the, 79 + + Exchequer Records, Index to, 105 + + + Fabiani (Ferdinand), his blunder in a name, 52 + + Fasti Monastici Aevi Saxonici, 106 + + Field (C. D.), Index to the Indian Statute Book, 98 + + Finlay (J.), Index of Irish Cases in Law and Equity, 103 + + Flaxman (Dr. Roger), payment for Parliamentary Indexes, 31 + + ---- Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, 99 + + ---- Johnson angry with him on account of the entry _Mr._ John Milton + in the Index to the Ramblers, 64 + + Fleming (Abraham), the index-maker of Shakespeare’s day, 10 + + Ford’s Handbook of Spain, amusing reference in, 55 + + Forster (J.), The Churchman’s Guide, 106 + + Forster (Rev. Mr.), Parliamentary Indexer, 31 + + ---- Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, 99 + + Freeling (G. H.), Index to Numismatic Papers, 83 + + Freeman (K.), Repertorium Juridicum, 98 + + Fuller (Thomas), his praise of Indexes, 12 + + ---- his Index to the ‘Pisgah-sight of Palestine’, 12-13 + + Furness (Mrs. H. H.), A Concordance to Shakespeare’s Poems, 78 + + + Gallager (Owen), 61 + + Gentleman’s Magazine, Indexes, 25, 92 + + ---- badness of the Index of names, 46 + + Geographical (Royal) Society, Indexes to the Journal, 86 + + Geological Society, Index to Transactions, Proceedings, and Journal, + 84 + + Geological Survey of India, Index to the Records, 84 + + Gerarde’s Herbal, by Johnson, use of the words Index and Table in + that book, 10 + + Giddings (J.), Indexes to _The Times_, 96 + + Giraldus, his story of the crowd of devils attracted by false + passages in a book, 69 + + Girdlestone’s (Rev. C.) Concordance to the Psalms, 76 + + Glaisher (J. W. L.), account of early books on Logarithms, 34 + + Glanville’s ‘Vanity of Dogmatizing,’ quotation from, 12 + + Glossarial Index to English Literature of thirteenth century, 102 + + Gmelin’s Handbook of Chemistry, Index, 80 + + Gomme (G. Laurence), Letter to the “Athenæum” on an Index Society, 38 + + Gough (H.), Index to Parker Society’s Publications, 85 + + Gradus ad Parnassum, 29 + + ---- in the British Museum Catalogue, 29 (note 18) + + Green (Rev. J.), Concordance to the Liturgy, 77 + + Greenhill (Dr.), on the formation of an Index Society, 70 + + Griffiths (Rev. J.), Index to Wills in the Court of the Chancellor of + the University of Oxford, 107 + + ‘Grundriss’ as an author, 61 + + Gruteri Thesaurus Inscriptionum, Index to the book by Scaliger, 20 + + Guarini placed among Ecclesiastical writers on account of his _Il + Pastor Fido_, 57 + + Gurwood’s Despatches of the Duke of Wellington, Index, 82 + + Guy (D.), Index to Dr. Watts’s Psalms, 78 + + Guy’s Hospital Reports, Index, 84 + + + Haidinger and Hauer, their names mixed up, 50 + + Hall’s (Sidney) General Atlas, Index, 82 + + Hallam’s Constitutional History, good Index to, 46 + + Haller, as great a bibliographer as he was a physiologist, 31 + + Halliwell (J. O.), Hand-Book Index to Shakespeare, 78 + + Hamilton (H. C.), Index to the Pictorial History of England, 81 + + Hamst (Olphar), pseud. for Ralph Thomas, 48, 52 + + Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Index, 92 + + Hardy (Sir T. Duffus), remarks on the “Pye-Book”, 11 (note 7) + + Hare’s Walks in London, Index, 44 + + Harleian MSS., Index to, 108 + + Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Index, 92 + + Harrison (Robert), he proposes the formation of an Index Society in + the “Athenæum”, 37 + + Harvard University, 35 + + Hawkins’s Pleas of the Crown, absurd cross references in, 55 + + Headings, instances of bad, 43 + + ---- arrangement of, 71 + + ---- printing of, 73 + + Hector (J.), Index to Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand + Institute, 85 + + Hennen (J.), Index to the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, 86 + + Henrietta Maria, not alluded to in Prynne’s Index, 15 (note 9) + + Heralds’ Visitations, Indexes to, 102, 103 + + Hericourt (Achmet d’), Annuaire des Sociétés Savantes, 53 + + Heirs-at-Law, Indexes to, 102-103 + + Hervey’s (R. F.) Concordance, 75 + + Hesketh (Fleetwood), 61 + + Heskeths, their change of name, 62 + + Hippocrates, dedication of the Index to his Aphorisms, 13 + + Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Index to Transactions, 84 + + Historical Collections, need of Indexes to those standard works, 39 + + Historical MSS. Commission, Indexes to Reports, 101 + + Hitopadesa quoted as the fables of the damned Calilve, 51 + + Hodge (C.), Index to Systematic Theology, 107 + + Holden (Edward S.), Index of Books and Memoirs relating to Nebulæ, 35 + + ---- Index of Books and Memoirs on the Transits of Mercury, 35 + + Holland (Philemon), the translator-general, 10 + + Holme’s Academy of Armory, Index, 80 + + Holmes (T.), Index to Transactions of the Pathological Society, 85 + + Homer, Poetical Index to Pope’s translation of the Iliad, 23 + + ---- Concordance to the Iliad, 76 + + Horticultural Society, Index to Transactions, 84 + + House of Commons Journals, sums paid for the Indexes, 31 + + Howell’s “Discourse concerning the Precedency of Kings”, 13 + + Howell’s State Trials, Index, 80 + + Hume (Rev. A.), Index to Transactions of Historic Society of + Lancashire and Cheshire, 84 + + Hume’s History of England, Biographical Index to, 80 + + Hungarians place the Surname before the Christian name, 61 + + Hunt (Leigh), his opinion on Index-making, 22, 24 + + ---- supposed author of the joke on Best’s great mind, 45 + + Hunter (J. B.), Index to the New York Medical Journal, 94 + + Hutchins’s Dorset, separate Indexes to, 56 + + + I and J to be kept distinct, 59, 71 + + “Incorporation,” first use of the term, 48 + + Index, history of the word, 7-11 + + ---- use by the Romans, 8 + + ---- naturalization of the word in English, 8 + + ---- introduced in the nominative case, 8 + + ---- the French word, 11 + + ---- the German word, 11 + + ---- alphabetical order not at first considered essential in one, 9 + + ---- long struggle with the word Table, 10-11 + + ---- said to be the soul of a book, 21 + + ---- not to be subdivided, 56 + + ---- answers to objections to a General Reference Index, 40 + + ---- various opinions on the value of Indexes, 12-13, 27 + + ---- Indexes not necessarily dry, 14, 22 + + ---- satirical and humorous Indexes, 16-18 + + ---- Indexes of sentiments and opinions, 23 + + ---- special and subject Indexes, 28-36, 39 + + ---- Preliminary List of English Indexes, 74-108 + + Index Expurgatorius not a true Index, 8, 74 + + Index learning, authors continually warning readers against it, 12 + + Index Society, sense in which its title should be understood, 7 + + ---- account of the various attempts to found one, 36-38, 70 + + ---- answer to the question, what can such a Society do?, 38-40 + + Indexers, power in their hands, 15 + + ---- no writers more read, 19 + + ---- celebrated, 20-21, 24-26 + + ---- proposed formation of a staff of, 37 + + Indexing--compilation, 41-55 + + ---- arrangement, 56-66 + + ---- printing, 66-70 + + ---- Rules, 71-73 + + India, Index to Books and Papers on, 103 + + ---- said to be conquered by Judas Maccabeus, in Capgrave’s + Chronicle, 49 + + Indian Statute Book, Index, 98 + + Indical, word used by Fuller, 12 + + Indice, the word used by Ben Jonson, 8 + + ---- the French word, 8, 11 + + ---- the Italian word, 8, 11 + + ---- the Spanish word, 11 + + Indices, objection taken to the use of this plural in English, 9 + (note 4) + + Indicium, the original of the French Indice, 11 + + Initials, careless use of, 64 + + Inquisition (The), ingenious mode of outwitting, 66 + + Institute of Actuaries, Index of Journal, 89 + + Institution of Civil Engineers, Index to Proceedings, 84 + + Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Index to Proceedings, 84 + + Inventory, as a synonym of Index, 11 + + Ireland, Index to the Commons’ Journal of, 99 + + ---- Index to the Townlands and Towns of, 105 + + Irish (Royal) Academy, Index to the Transactions, 86 + + Irish Cases in Law and Equity, Index, 103 + + Irish Statutes, Index, 98 + + Italians sometimes place the surname before the Christian name, 61 + + + J. C., ludicrous filling out of these initials, 53, 70 + + Jackson (J. R.), Index to the London Geographical Journal, 86 + + Jardine (D.), Index to Howell’s State Trials, 80 + + Jazon, an imaginary author, 51 + + Jeake’s “Arithmetick surveighed and reviewed,” Index to, 38 + + Jebb (Bishop) confused with his uncle, the Unitarian writer, 50 + + Jevons (Prof. Stanley), his suggestion of an Index Society, 37 + + Jewel’s Apology, by Isaacson, bad Index to, 43 + + Johnson (Dr.) advises Richardson to add an Index to his novels, 23 + + ---- preface to his Dictionary quoted, 41 + + ---- his anger at Milton being styled _Mr._ John Milton, 64 + + Johnston (Andrew), Pocket Index to Oke and Stone, 80 + + Johnston’s (Keith) Index Geographicus, 82 + + Jones (Edward), Index to Records, 105 + + Jones (Thomas), his contributions to a General Index, 36 + + Jonson (Ben), his use of the word Indice, 8 + + Journals and Transactions, indexing of, 72 + + Juvenal, the Venice edition of 1478, the first book with a printed + errata, 65 + + + Keble’s Christian Year, Concordance to, 77 + + King (Dr. William), the inventor of satirical Indexes, 16 + + ---- his attack upon Bentley in the Index to “Boyle upon Bentley”, 16 + + ---- his parody of Lister’s “Journey to Paris”, 17 + + ---- his attack upon Sir Hans Sloane, and the “Philosophical + Transactions”, 17 + + Knobel (E. B.), Chronology of Star Catalogues, 34 + + + “La,” surnames to be arranged under this prefix, 60, 71 + + ‘Labia Dormientum,’ title of a book, 57 + + Lambeth Library, Index of Books printed before 1600, 107 + + Lamoignon (M. de), his library, 21 + + Lancashire and Cheshire, Historic Society of, Index, 84 + + Latinised names of celebrated men, 61 + + Lawrence (Rev. R. French), Index to Strype’s Works, 81 + + Lawyers good indexers, 29 + + “Le,” surnames to be arranged under this prefix, 71 + + Leases of Manors and Lands, Index of, 103 + + Le Clerc, his appreciation of the work of the indexer, 20, 21 + + Leisure Hour, Index, 93 + + Letsome (S.), the Preacher’s Assistant, 106 + + Lewis (Sir George Cornewall), the supposed editor of Isaac Disraeli’s + Works, 53 + + Libraries (Public) in the United States, Special Report, 42 + + Library Association of United Kingdom, Index to the Report of the + Conference of Librarians, 39 + + Library Association (American), Rules for Cataloguing, 62, 70 + + “Library Table”, 34 + + Link, de Stellis Marinis, arranged under the head of Astronomy, 57 + + Linnean Society, Index to the Transactions, 85 + + Lister’s “Journey to Paris,” parodied by Dr. King, 17 + + Littré, his derivation of Indice, 11 + + Liturgy, Concordance to the, 77 + + Liverpool, Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Index, 84 + + Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, Index to Proceedings, 85 + + Logarithms, Account of early books on, 34 + + London (George), his name often spelt Loudon, 49 + + London (William), the bookseller, mistaken for Bishop Juxon, 65 + + London Catalogue, Index, 107 + + London Corporation, Index to Minutes of evidence taken before the + Commissioners, 101 + + London Institution Catalogue, 36 + + London Library Catalogue, Index, 36 + + London Magazine, Index, 93 + + London Medical and Physical Journal, Index, 93 + + Lords (House of), Indexes to Sessional Papers, 99-100 + + ---- Indexes to Journals, 98-99 + + Loudon (C. J.), the Duke of Wellington mistakes his signature for + that of the Bishop of London, 49 + + Louis XVIII., Memoirs of, a mendacious compilation, 51 + + Low (Sampson), Index to the British Catalogue, 36, 107 + + ---- Index to Current Literature, 107 + + Lowell’s “Biglow Papers,” humorous Index to the book, 12 + + Lyttelton’s (Lord) History of Henry II. has a long list of errata, 66 + + Lytton (Lord), his numerous names, 62 + + + M‘ and Mc to be arranged as if written Mac, 72 + + Macaulay an Indexer at the age of fifteen, 25 + + ---- Indexers treated with contempt by him, 26 + + ---- his objection to the indexing of his History by a Tory, 15 + + McEwen on the Types, arranged under the head of Printing, 57 + + McMasters (Rev. S. Y.), Index to Hume’s History of England, 80 + + Macray (Rev. W. D.), Index to the Catalogue of Ashmole MSS., 108 + + ---- Index to the Catalogue of Rawlinson MSS., 108 + + Madox’s History of the Exchequer, Index to, 80 + + Maitland (Rev. S. R.), Index of Books printed before 1600 in the + Lambeth Library, 107 + + Maittaire (M.) prides himself on his talent for Index-making, 24 + + Malcom (H.), Theological Index, 107 + + Manchester Free Library Catalogue, Index, 36 + + Manchester Statistical Society, Index to Transactions, 85 + + Manganese, Index to the Literature of, 34 + + Mantissa, a supposed author, 52 + + Manuscripts, Guide to the verification of, 103 + + ---- Indexes of, 108 + + Marbeck (J.), Concordance to the Bible, 28, 75 + + Markland (J. H.), remarks on Indexing, 27, 45, 46 + + Marshall (G. W.), Index to Pedigrees, 104 + + “Mass, Anatomy of the,” has a long list of errata, 65 + + Maty (P. H.), Index to the Philosophical Transactions, 25, 87 + + May (T. Erskine), Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, 99 + + Medical and Chirurgical Library, Index to Catalogue, 36, 108 + + ---- ---- Indexes to the Transactions, 86 + + Medical Literature, Bibliography of, 33 + + Medico-Chirurgical Review, Index, 93 + + “Menagiana,” quotation from, 21 (note 12) + + Merchants’ Magazine, Index, 93 + + Merewether and Stephens’s History of Boroughs alluded to, 48 + + Meyerbeer, his name a union of Christian- and Sur-names, 63 + + Michel’s (Dan) ‘Ayenbite of Inwyt,’ Table of Contents to the book, 7 + + Military Magazines (German), Index to, 36 + + Milton, Concordance to, 77 + + Minsheu, his use of the word Index, 10 + + Misprints, the Indexer must be on his guard against them, 49 + + Mr., use of this word in an Index, 64 + + Montaigne’s Essays, Index to Cotton’s Translation, 22 + + Monthly Magazine quoted, 55 + + Monthly Review, Indexes, 25, 93-94 + + ---- late use of the word Table in that work, 11 + + ---- quotation from, 19 + + Moody (J.), epitaph on, 55 + + Moore (Edward), Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, 31, 99 + + More (Hannah), Macaulay’s letter to her, 26 + + Morgan (A.), Index to Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical + Society of Liverpool, 85 + + Moreri, makes an author named Dorus Basilicus, 50 + + Morris’s Catalogue of British Fossils, 35 + + + Name is that by which a person is known, 62 + + ---- one, divided into two, 51 + + ---- two of the same, often confused together, 68 + + ---- surname placed before the Christian name, 61 + + Names, rules for the arrangement of foreign and English, + respectively, 60, 71 + + ---- two rolled into one, 50 + + ---- authors arranged under their Christian names, 20 + + ---- rule for the arrangement of compound names, 60, 72 + + ---- Latinised names of celebrated men, 61 + + Napier’s Bones, works on, arranged under the head of Anatomy, 57 + + Naturalists’ Miscellany, Indexes, 94 + + Nebulæ, Index of Books and Memoirs relating to, 35 + + New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Index, 94 + + New Englander, Index, 94 + + New York Lyceum of Natural History, Annals of, 34 + + New York Medical Journal, Index, 94 + + New York State Library, Index to the Catalogue, 36, 108 + + New York Times, Index, 94 + + New York Daily Tribune, Index, 94 + + New Zealand Institute, Index to Transactions and Proceedings, 85 + + Newman’s (Samuel) Concordance, 75 + + Next-of-Kin, Indexes to, 102-103 + + Nichols (John), Indexes to his “Literary Anecdotes” and + “Illustrations”, 25, 46 + + Nicholson (J.), Index to Assurance Magazine, 89 + + Nicolai (John), turned into a place, 51 + + Niles’s Weekly Register, Index, 94 + + North American Review, Indexes, 94 + + North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Index + to Transactions, 85 + + “Notes and Queries”, 46, 69 + + ---- announcement in its pages of the projected formation of an Index + Society in 1854, 36 + + ---- Indexes, 95 + + Noy’s (Attorney-General) reference to Prynne’s Index, 14 + + Numerals to be used for number of volumes, 73 + + + Oke and Stone, Pocket Index to, 80 + + Oldys (William) on the need of Indexes, 19-20 + + Ordnance Survey, Index, 83 + + Oriuna, the supposed wife of Carausius, 52 + + Ormerod (G. W.), Classified Index to the Geological Society, 84 + + Oulton (A. N.), Index to the Irish Statutes, 98 + + Ovid, Index to Sandys’s translation, 22 + + Oxford, Bodleian Library, Indexes of Ashmole and Rawlinson MSS., 107 + + ---- Index of the Wills in the Court of the Chancellor of the + University, 107 + + Oxford (Robert Harley Earl of), reported to be the author of the + Index to Bromley’s Travels, 18 + + + Page, division of the Indexed, 73 + + Palgrave (Sir Francis), his former name Cohen, 63 + + ---- Index to his Reports as Deputy Keeper of the Records, 106 + + Pall Mall Gazette, letters in, by “A Lover of Indexes”, 37 + + Parker Society Publications, Index to, 36, 85 + + Parliament, Indexes to the Journals of the Houses of Lords and + Commons, 98-99 + + ---- Index to the Rolls of, 102 + + Parliamentary Debates, Index, 92 + + Parliamentary History of England, Index, 81 + + Parliamentary Papers, Indexes of, 99-101 + + Pathological Society, Indexes to Transactions, 85 + + Payne (Thomas) mistaken for Tom Paine, 50 + + Peacock (Edw.), remarks on the badness of the Index to Whitelock’s + Memorials, 47 + + ---- suggests a List of Indexes, 74 + + Pedigrees, Indexes to, 103 + + Peers to be arranged under their titles, 62, 72 + + ---- their signatures a source of trouble to some, 64 + + Pennant (T.), Index to Buffon, 78 + + ---- Index to his Account of London, 81 + + Penny Cyclopædia, vague cross references in the, 54 + + Pepys’s Diary, marks of repetition in the Index, 68 + + Periodicals, Indexes of, 89-96, 104 + + Perkins, (F. B.), on Book Indexes, 42 + + Peru, Present State of, 51 + + Pharmaceutical Journal, Indexes, 95 + + Pharmaceutical (American) Association, Index to Proceedings, 83 + + Philippart (Sir John), Index to Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 92 + + Phillipps (Sir Thomas), Indexes, 102-103 + + Philosophical Magazine, 34 + + ---- Indexes, 95 + + Philosophical Transactions, Indexes, 87 + + ---- laughed at by Dr. King, 17 + + Pickering (Danby), Index to the Statutes at Large, 97 + + Picus of Mirandula, an edition of his works, published in 1507, has a + long list of errata, 65 + + Piddington (H.), Index to Geological Papers, 83 + + Pilpay’s Fables quoted as the fables of the damned Calilve, 51 + + Pineda (Juan de), Index to his “Monarchia Ecclesiastica”, 13 + + Places, Indexes of, 105 + + Plateau (J.), Bibliographie Analytique des principaux phénomènes + subjectifs de la Vision, 34 + + Plays, Prynne’s attack upon, 14 + + Pliny’s Naturall Historie of the World, use of the words Index and + Table in that book, 10 + + Plutarch’s Lives, by North, the Index called a Table, 10 + + ‘Pollex’ contrasted with ‘Index’, 8 + + Polybiblon: Revue Bibliographique Universelle, 34 + + Poole’s (W. F.) Index of Periodical Literature, 35, 104 + + ---- the projected third edition, 35 + + ---- his remarks on the abuse of cross references, 54 + + ---- on the defects of classification, 56 + + Pope (A.), Concordance to the Works of, 77 + + Population Tables, 1871, Index, 105 + + Practitioner, Index, 95 + + Prefixes in surnames, rules regarding them, 60, 71 + + Prendergast (G. L.), Concordance to the Iliad, 76 + + ---- Concordance to Milton, 77 + + Pridden (Rev. J.), Index to the Rolls of Parliament, 102 + + Prinsep (J.), Table of Indian Coal, 83 + + Printing of an Index, 66 + + ---- of the headings, 73 + + Prynne’s “Histrio-Mastix,” specimens from the Index, 14-15 + + Prynne, a martyr to his conscientiousness in making an Index, 14 + + Psalms, Concordances to the, 76 + + Pullen (P.), Index to Joanna Southcott’s Writings, 81 + + “Pye” as a synonym of Index, 11 (note 7) + + “Pye-Book,” derivation of the word, 11 (note 7) + + + “Quarterly Journal of Science,” Index, 16, 95 + + Quarterly Review, Indexes, 95-96 + + Quérard (J. M.), Thomas’s notice of his life, 48, 52 + + Quotations to be Indexed, 73 + + + Raithby (J.), Index to the Statutes at Large, 97 + + Rambler, Index to, 64 + + Rawlinson MSS., Index, 108 + + Rawlinson’s (Dr.) note on the Index to Bromley’s Travels, 17 + + ‘Rechenbuch’ as an author, 61 + + Records, Index to the, 105 + + Register, as a synonym of Index, 7, 10, 11 + + ---- the German word for Index, 11 + + Religious Houses, Alphabetical List of the Heads of, 106 + + Repertory of the Acts, Index, 96 + + Repetition, marks of, in an Index, 67 + + Reuss, Repertorium commentationum, 32 + + Richardson (S.), Tables to Clarissa, 23 + + ---- Index to his three novels, 23, 81 + + ---- a practised Indexer, 24 + + Richmond and Gordon (Duke of), his signature mistaken for that of a + firm, 65 + + Riddell (H.) and J. W. Rogers, Index to the Public Statutes, 97 + + Riding (West) of Yorkshire, attempted derivation by a Frenchman, 53 + + Robertson (W.), Index to the Charters granted by Sovereigns of + Scotland, 105 + + Rogers (H.), his appreciation of the work of the Indexer, 19 + + Rolls of Parliament, Index, 102 + + Roman de la Higuera (Geronymo) transformed into ‘Father Geronymo, a + Romance of La Higuera’, 51 + + Rowe (Rev. George), Index to Reports of the Architectural Societies + of Yorkshire, etc., 88 + + Royal Society attacked by Dr. King, 17 + + ---- Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 32, 104 + + ---- Indexes to the Philosophical Transactions, 87 + + Ruffhead (Owen), Index to the Statutes at Large, 97 + + Rules for obtaining Uniformity in the Indexes of Books, 71-73 + + Ruskin’s Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds arranged under the + head of Agriculture, 57 + + + St. to be arranged in the alphabet as Saint, 72 + + Saints to be arranged under their proper names, 72 + + Salisbury (Bishop of), mistaken for a Mr. John Sarum, 65 + + Scaliger, his Index to Grater’s “Thesaurus Inscriptionum”, 20 + + Scarron, his malicious erratum, 66 + + Schmidt (A.), Shakespeare-Lexicon, 77 + + Scientific Papers, Catalogue of, 104 + + Scobell’s ‘Acts and Ordinances,’ use of the words Index and Table in + that Book, 10 + + Scotland, Index to the Acts of Parliament, 102 + + ---- Index to the Acts of the Free Church, 102 + + ---- Index to Charters granted by Sovereigns of, 105 + + Scribner’s Monthly, Index, 96 + + Scudder (H. E.), Index to the Atlantic Monthly, 90 + + Scudery (Mdlle. de), her notice of a dedicated Index, 13 + + Seal (Great), Treatise on, arranged under the head of Zoology, 57 + + Seignelay-Colbert de Castle Hill, Bishop of Rhodez, 51 + + Seneca, his indication of the contents of his books, 7 + + ---- his use of the word Index, 8 + + Sermons, Indexes to, 106 + + Shaftesbury (Earl of), misprint in his letter to “The Times”, 53 + (note 35) + + Shakespeare, his use of the word Index, 9 + + ---- Concordances to, 25, 77-78 + + Shaw (G.) and R. P. Nodder, Indexes to Naturalists’ Miscellany, 94 + + Shenstone’s “Schoolmistress,” ludicrous table of contents, 22-23 + + Silliman’s American Journal, Indexes, 89 + + Simms (C. S.), Index to the “Remains” published by the Chetham + Society, 84 + + Sims (R.), Index to Pedigrees and Arms, 103 + + Skewes (Rev. H.), Index to Wesley’s Journals, 82 + + Sloane (Sir Hans) laughed at by Dr. King, 17 + + Societies, Indexes to Publications of, 83 + + Society of Antiquaries, Indexes to Archæologia, 87 + + Society of Arts, Indexes to Transactions and Journals, 88 + + Solly (Edward), he proposes the formation of an Index Society, 37 + + ---- on “Best’s great mind”, 45, 46 + + Southcott’s (Joanna) Writings, Indexes, 81 + + Southey’s “Doctor,” headings to the chapters, 23 + + Spectators, Tatlers and Guardians, General Index, 24, 43, 79 + + Speed’s History of Great Britaine, use of the words Index and Table + in that book, 11 + + Speed (S.) reason for not adding an Index to one of Howell’s works, 13 + + Spiller (B.), Index to Public Statutes, 97 + + Stamp (G.), Index to the Statute Law, 98 + + Standards Commission, Index to Reports, 101 + + Star Catalogues, Chronology of, 34 + + Statistical Society, Indexes to the Journal, 88 + + ---- (Manchester), Index to Transactions, 85 + + Statutes, Indexes to the, 96-98 + + Steele’s (Sir Richard) Indexes, 24 + + Stenography, article on, in Rees’s Cyclopædia, 51 + + Stephen (Sir J. Fitzjames), on a complete digest of the Law, 30 + + ---- on the early digesters of the Law, 31 + + Stone’s Justice’s Manual, Index, 80 + + Strachey (Rev. J.), Index to the Rolls of Parliament, 102 + + Strype’s (J.) Works, Index, 81 + + Summary, as a synonym of Index, 7, 11 + + Surname, What is a?, 59 + + Sussex Archæological Collections, Index, 26, 88 + + Swift’s analytical table to his ‘Tale of a Tub’, 22 + + ---- account of the condition of Edmund Curll, 26 + + ---- bad index to his Works, edited by Scott, 46 + + Swinburne’s “Under the Microscope” arranged under the head of Optical + Instruments, 57 + + Sykes (B.), List of Ancient Inscriptions, 83 + + Syllabus, as a synonym of Index, 7, 8, 11 + + + Table, as a synonym of Index, 7, 10, 11, 14 + + ---- present use of the word to describe a summary of the contents of + a book, 11 + + ---- late use of the word in the sense of an Index, 11 + + ---- the French word, 11 + + Tabrum (E. J.), Index to Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Records, + 106 + + Tabula, use of the word in English books, 7 + + Tatler, Index to the, 22, 24 + + Tedder (H. R.), his full Index to the Report of the Conference of + Librarians, 39 + + Telegraph Engineers’ Society, Index to the Journal, 43 + + Tennyson, Concordances to, 78 + + Ter _for_ tertius, as an affix to a name, 64 + + Theology, Indexes to, 107 + + Theses and Inaugural Dissertations, 32 + + Thevenot’s Travels, 50 + + Thomas (Ralph), Notice of Quérard, full index to it, 48 + + Thoms (W. J.), his references to indexing, 19, 27 + + Thring (Sir Henry), his Instructions for an Index to the Statute Law, + 29, 41, 42 + + “Times (The),” arrangement of the names in the lists of Births, + Deaths, and Marriages, 66 + + ---- Indexes, 96 + + Titles (misleading) of books, 57 + + Todd (A.), Index to the Journals of the Legislative Assembly of + Canada, 101 + + Todd (Rev. H. J.), Verbal Index to Milton, 77 + + Topographical works, need of indexes to the chief, 39 + + Transactions, indexing of, 72 + + Transits of Mercury, Index of Books and Memoirs on the, 35 + + Trials (State), Index to, 80 + + Trinity College, Cambridge, Index to Books printed before 1600, 108 + + Turner (Dawson), Guide to the verification of Manuscripts, 103 + + Twiss (Francis), Verbal Index to Shakspeare, 25, 77 + + Tytler’s (P. F.) History of Scotland, Index, 81 + + + U and V to be kept distinct, 59, 71 + + United Service (Royal) Institution, Index of Lectures and Papers, 87 + + Upham (E.), Index to the Rolls of Parliament, 102 + + Useful Knowledge Society, Index to the Maps, 83 + + + “Van,” surnames not to be arranged under this prefix, 60, 71 + + Vardon (T.), Index to Local and Personal and Private Acts, 97 + + ---- Indexes to the Journals of the House of Commons, 99 + + Viar (S), an imaginary saint, 52 + + ‘Viol and Lute,’ a collection of Poems, arranged under the head of + Musical Instruments, 57 + + “Von,” surnames not to be arranged under this prefix, 60, 71 + + + Walpole’s Letters, bad index to, 46 + + Walton (Bp.) imagines an author named Camus, 50 + + Warburton’s (Bishop) blunder in filling out contractions, 53 + + Warton’s History of English Poetry, Index, 82 + + Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica, 50 + + ---- ---- Index, 35 + + Watts (Dr.), his warning against index learning, 12 + + ---- Index to his Psalms, 78 + + Watts (H.), Index to Gmelin’s Handbook of Chemistry, 80 + + ---- Index to the Journal of the Chemical Society, 83 + + Watts (Mr.), his objection to the use of an uncomplimentary adjective + in an Index, 16 + + Watts (Thomas), on the formation of an Index Society, 70 + + Wellington (Duke of), Index to his Despatches, 82 + + ---- amusing misreading of Loudon’s letter, 49 + + Wesley’s Journals, Index, 82 + + Westminster Review, Index, 96 + + Wheatley (B. R.), paper on an ‘evitandum’ in Index-making alluded to, + 28, 45, 54 + + ---- Index to the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, 86 + + ---- Index to the Catalogue of the Library of the Medical and + Chirurgical Society, 108 + + ---- Index to Transactions of the Pathological Society, 85 + + ---- Index to the Journal of the Statistical Society, 88 + + ‘White Knights’ translated as ‘Le Chevalier Blanc’, 52 + + Whitelock’s Memorial, Index to one volume folio edition made to do + duty for four volume octavo edition, 47 + + Wickens (Robert), Concordance, 75 + + Wilkinson (T. R.), Index to Transactions of Manchester Statistical + Society, 85 + + Wills in the Court of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, + Index, 107 + + Wilson (Rev. H. B.), Index to the Family Bible, 76 + + Winsor (Justin), Bibliographical Contributions, 35 + + ---- letter to the “Athenæum” on an Index Society, 38 + + ---- his “Handbook for Readers”, 74 + + Winton (George), the signature of Bishop Tomline, 65 + + Worcester’s (Marquis of) Century of Inventions, 50 + + Wrong (Abstract), a crime never committed, 18 (note 10) + + Wynford (Lord), previously Sir W. D. Best, 45 + + + Xeucathle, a disguised form of Newcastle, 61 + + + Year Books, etc., Index to, 98 + + Yeowell (J.), Indexes to the Notes and Queries, 95 + + Young (Brigham), called Brigham le jeune in the _Biographie Moderne_, + 61 + + Young (T.), Lectures on Natural Philosophy, 104 + + + Zoological Record, 33 + + Zoological Society, Indexes to Proceedings, 88 + + + STEPHEN AUSTIN AND SONS, PRINTERS, HERTFORD. + + +FOOTNOTES: + +[1] _Rosamond’s Epistle_, lines 103-4. + +[2] “Etiam vellem mihi mittas de tuis librariolis duos aliquos, quibus +Tyrannio utatur glutinatoribus, ad cetera administres: iisque imperes +ut sumant membranulam, ex qua _indices_ fiant, quos vos Græci (ut +opinor) συλλάβους appellatis.”--Ad. Atticum lib. iv. ep. 4. + +[3] _Discoveries_, ed. 1640, p. 93. + +[4] I would here, under cover of our great poet’s name, protest against +the use of the plural _indices_. As long as a word continues to take +the plural form of the language from which it is borrowed, we cannot +look upon it as thoroughly naturalized. Surely Index may be considered +an English word when it was treated as such by Shakespeare. + +[5] My friend Mr. Furnivall draws my attention to the fact that Fleming +was the index-maker of Shakespeare’s day as Philemon Holland was the +translator. + +[6] Some in the present day seem to be of the same opinion as Baret, +for we occasionally hear of an _Index Rerum_ instead of an _Index of +Subjects_. + +[7] Another word occasionally used in the sense of an Index is _Pye_, +which has been supposed to be derived from the Greek Πίναξ. The late +Sir T. Duffus Hardy, in some observations on the derivation of the word +“Pye-Book,” remarks that the earliest use he had noted of _pye_ in this +sense is dated 1547--“A Pye of all the names of such Balives as been to +accompte pro anno regni regis Edwardi Sexti primo.”--Appendix to the +35th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, p. 195. + +[8] Noy calls it an Index, but Prynne, in conformity with the usual +practice, writes _Table_. + +[9] The book was published six weeks before Henrietta Maria acted in a +pastoral at Somerset House, so that the passage “women actors notorious +whores” could not have been intended to allude to the Queen. See +Cobbett’s “State Trials,” vol. 3, coll. 561-586. + +[10] This is the last entry but one in the index, and I cannot resist +the pleasure of adding in a note the passage here indexed:-- + +“I’m willin a man should go tollable strong Agin wrong in the abstract, +for that kind o’ wrong Is ollers unpop’lar an’ never gits pit’ed, +Because it’s a crime no one never committed.” + +[11] “Idcirco celebris quidam scriptor nostræ gentis, quò significaret +eam curam ejus esse debere, cujus cura opus ipsum constitit, urbane, +salseque ajebat, Indicem libri ab authore, librum ipsum à quovis alio +conficiendum esse.”--Nicolaus Antonius, Bibliotheca Hispana, 1672, tom. +2, p. 371. + +[12] “M. Bochart ... me prioit surtout d’y faire [i.e. his +Diogenes Laertius] un _Index_, étant, disoit-il, l’âme des gros +livres.”--_Menagiana_, Paris, 1729, tome i. p. 75. + +[13] Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes, vol. iii. p. 46. + +[14] Notes and Queries, 2nd series, vol. vii. p. 469. + +[15] Notes and Queries, 5th series, vol. viii. p. 87. + +[16] See Transactions of the Conference, p. 88. + +[17] For full title see p. 75. + +[18] I searched in vain for the date of the first edition of the +_Gradus_, until I was so fortunate as to find it in the valuable +article on “Dictionaries” in the new edition of the _Encyclopædia +Britannica_. Little information was to be obtained from the British +Museum Catalogue, owing to the complicated arrangement of the anonymous +books. I looked into the new General Catalogue under the heading +_Parnassus_, where the book should have been entered according to the +rules, and there was only one edition of the present century. I then +turned to _Gradus_, and there was a reference to an edition by Valpy. +I knew that there must be some earlier edition, so I went to the old +General Catalogue and there I at once found among others an “editio +novissima” (Coloniæ Agrippinæ, 1687). When the book was in my hands +I noticed that it was marked to be catalogued under the heading of +“Dictionaries,” where I venture to think few would look for it. This +experience is related here as a good illustration of the inconvenience +of classification in an Alphabetical Catalogue. + +[19] These instructions, with specimens of the proposed Index, are +printed in the _Law Magazine_ for August, 1877, 4th series, vol. 8, p. +491. + +[20] _Plan of an English Dictionary._ + +[21] Fourth series, vol. 44. + +[22] Vol. 43, p. 1. + +[23] Vol. 4, p. 151. + +[24] Vol. 10. + +[25] Vol. 11. + +[26] Vol. x. p. 356. + +[27] “The Rushworths, Whitlockes, Nalsons, Thurloes; enormous folios, +these and many others have been printed, and some of them again +printed, but never yet edited,--edited as you edit wagon-loads of +broken bricks and dry mortar simply by tumbling up the wagon! Not one +of those monstrous old volumes has so much as an available Index. It is +the general rule of editing on this matter. If your editor correct the +press, it is an honourable distinction.”--_Carlyle’s Introduction to +Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches._ + +[28] Law Magazine, August, 1877. + +[29] See Rule 9, on page 72. + +[30] See Rule 10 on page 72. + +[31] This evil is enlarged upon in a paper “On an ‘Evitandum’ in +Index-making, principally met with in French and German Periodical +Scientific Literature, by B. R. Wheatley.”--Transactions and +Proceedings of the Conference of Librarians, 1877, pp. 88-92. + +[32] A Martyr to Bibliography: a Notice of the Life and Works of +Joseph-Marie Quérard, Bibliographer ... By Olphar Hamst, Esq. London +(J. Russell Smith), 1867. + +[33] De Quincey’s Works, ed. 1862, vol. 8, p. 180. + +[34] Notice of Quérard, by Olphar Hamst, 1867. + +[35] A friend asks me to give chapter and verse for this blunder, +but it will be seen that nothing is more difficult than to find an +authority for misprints which are corrected as soon as they are found +out, perhaps even in the proof. A curious misprint occurred in _The +Times_ in a letter from Lord Shaftesbury (August, 1878), who wrote of +the Bulgarians that “they panted for liberty,” but was made by the +printer to say “they prated of liberty.” + +[36] See Rule 11, p. 72. + +[37] Library Journal. + +[38] My brother (Mr. B. R. Wheatley) writes as follows of Allibone’s +forty Indexes: “What however shall we say of the sub-indexes which +really have no existence whatever, except in the list of their titles +at the commencement? Take, for instance, the first--Alchemy--which +refers you to Class or Index 8, which is Chemistry. How much nearer +are you to Alchemy?--it is a more secret science in the Index than +it was in the middle ages--you have 500 names under Chemistry, and +you must look out the whole of them before you find the philosopher’s +stone which lies hid in this five-century crucible of mixed +ingredients.”--Trans. Conference of Librarians, 1877. + +[39] See Rules 1 and 2, p. 71. + +[40] “On the best method of constructing an Index, by F. A. Curtis, +of the Eagle Insurance Office,” in the _Assurance Magazine_, vol. 8 +(1858), pp. 54-57. See also _Notes and Queries_, 2nd S. vi. 496, 3rd S. +iv. 371. + +[41] See Rule 3. + +[42] Rule 4. + +[43] See Rule 5. + +[44] _Da_ in Portuguese is a compound of preposition and article. + +[45] See Rule 8. + +[46] + + “When I asked his name, said, in a thick, gobbling kind of + voice: + + ‘Sawedwadgeorgeearllittnbulwig.’ + + ‘Sir what?’ says I quite agast at the same. + + ‘Sawedwad--no, I mean Mistawedwad Lyttn Bulwig.’” + + --Thackeray’s _Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush_. + +[47] See Rule 7. + +[48] Library Journal, vol. iii. No. 1. + +[49] American Library Association Report (Library Journal, vol. iii. +No. 1, March, 1878, p. 15, col. 1). + +[50] Lindenau, Zeitschrift für Astronomie, 1816. + +[51] In the case of little known men, whose Christian names are not +given, it may sometimes be necessary to use the Mr.; for instance, in +Pepys’s Diary, if this word were not added to certain of the persons +mentioned, there would often be confusion between the names of persons +and of places. + +[52] See Rule 17. + +[53] 2nd Series, vol. i. p. 481. + + +Transcriber’s Notes. + +Italic text is indicated with _underscores_, bold text with =equals=. +Small/mixed capitals have been replaced with ALL CAPITALS. + +The “missing” text in the inscription [PRÆFECTU]S . VIAR[UM] on page 52 +has been enclosed in square brackets, in place of the small capitals +used by the author. + +Evident typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected +silently. Inconsistent spelling/hyphenation has been normalised. + +Plinie’s (page 10 and Index) has been corrected to Pliny’s. + +Inconsistent capitalisation of Index -es, -ed, -er, -ing is retained. + +The possessive form Nichols’s, Sandys’s, Stephens’s etc. is the +author’s. + +End of page footnotes have been sequentially numbered and relocated to +the end of the book. + +Index references to “note” have been modified to include the relevant +note number. + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77518 *** diff --git a/77518-h/77518-h.htm b/77518-h/77518-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b53de1b --- /dev/null +++ b/77518-h/77518-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,7679 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> +<head> + <meta charset="UTF-8"> + <title> + What Is an Index? | Project Gutenberg + </title> + <link rel="icon" href="images/cover.jpg" type="image/x-cover"> + <style> + +body { + margin-left: 10%; + margin-right: 10%; +} + +a {text-decoration: none} /* no lines under links */ + + + h1,h2,h3,h4 { + text-align: center; /* all headings centered */ + clear: both; +} + + + + + +p { + margin-top: .51em; + text-align: justify; + margin-bottom: .49em; +} +.p1 {margin-top: 1em;} +.p2 {margin-top: 2em;} +.p4 {margin-top: 4em;} + + +.pq {margin-top:.4em; margin-bottom:.4em;} + +.nw {white-space: nowrap;} + +.cl {clear:both;} + +hr { + width: 33%; + margin-top: 2em; + margin-bottom: 2em; + margin-left: 33.5%; + margin-right: 33.5%; + clear: both; +} + +hr.tb {width: 45%; margin-left: 27.5%; margin-right: 27.5%;} +hr.chap {width: 65%; margin-left: 17.5%; margin-right: 17.5%;} +@media print { hr.chap {display: none; visibility: hidden;} } + + + +div.chapter {page-break-before: always;} +h2.nobreak {page-break-before: avoid;} + +ul.index { list-style-type: none; } +li.ifrst { + margin-top: 1em; + text-indent: -2em; + padding-left: 1em; +} +li.indx { + margin-top: .5em; + text-indent: -2em; + padding-left: 1em; +} +li.isub1 { + text-indent: -2em; + padding-left: 2em; +} + + +table { + margin-left: auto; + margin-right: auto; +} +table.autotable { border-collapse: collapse; } +/* +table.autotable td { padding: 0.25em; } +*/ +.tdl {text-align: left;} +.tdr {text-align: right;} +.tdc {text-align: center;} +.vt {vertical-align:top} + +.pagenum { /* uncomment the next line for invisible page numbers */ + /* visibility: hidden; */ + position: absolute; + left: 92%; + font-size: small; + text-align: right; + font-style: normal; + font-weight: normal; + font-variant: normal; + text-indent: 0; + color: gray; +} /* page numbers */ + + + +.blockquot { + margin-left: 5%; + margin-right: 10%; + +} + +.blockquotsm { + margin-left: 5%; + margin-right: 10%; + font-size:smaller; +} + +.bqctr {display: flex; justify-content: center;} +/*.bqctr {text-align: center;}*/ +.bq4emhang {text-indent:-4em;} +.bq4em {margin-left:4em;} +.bq4hang {text-indent:-4%;} + + +.sm {font-size:smaller} + +.center {text-align: center;} + +.right {text-align: right;} + +.smcap {font-variant: small-caps;} + +.allsmcap {font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;} + + + +/* Images */ + +img { + max-width: 100%; + height: auto; +} + + + +.figcenter { + margin: auto; + text-align: center; + page-break-inside: avoid; + max-width: 100%; +} + + + + + +/* Footnotes */ +.footnotes {border: 1px dashed;} + +.footnote {margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; font-size: 0.9em;} + +.footnote .label {position: absolute; right: 84%; text-align: right;} + +.fnanchor { + vertical-align: super; + font-size: .8em; + text-decoration: + none; +} + +/* Poetry */ +/* uncomment the next line for centered poetry */ +.poetry-container {display: flex; justify-content: center;} +.poetry-container {text-align: center;} +.poetry {text-align: left; margin-left: 5%; margin-right: 5%;} +.poetry .stanza {margin: 1em auto;} +.poetry .verse {text-indent: -3em; padding-left: 3em;} + +/* Transcriber’s notes */ +.transnote {background-color: #E6E6FA; + color: black; + font-size:small; + padding:0.5em; + margin-bottom:5em; + font-family:sans-serif, serif; +} + +/* Poetry indents */ +.poetry .indent0 {text-indent: -3em;} + +.fs120 {font-size:120%;} +.fs80 {font-size:80%;} +.sm {font-size:smaller;} +.titmarg {margin-left:20%; margin-right:20%;} +.poetry .indent10 {text-indent: .5em;} +.poetry .indent14 {text-indent: 5em;} + + + </style> +</head> +<body> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77518 ***</div> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">[1]</span></p> + +<p class="center">WHAT IS AN INDEX?</p> + +<p class="center">INDEX SOCIETY.<br> +PUBLICATIONS, 1878.<br> +I. +</p> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[3]</span></p> + +<h1 class="nobreak">WHAT IS AN INDEX?</h1> +</div> + +<div class="center titmarg"> +<p class="center">A FEW NOTES +ON +INDEXES AND INDEXERS.</p> + +<p class="p2 center">BY<br> +HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F.S.A.</p> + +<p class="fs80 center">HON. SEC. OF THE INDEX SOCIETY, AND +TREASURER OF THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY.</p> + +<p class="p4 fs80">“I for my part venerate the inventor of Indexes; and I know not +to whom to yield the preference, either to Hippocrates, who was +the first great anatomiser of the human body, or to that unknown +labourer in literature who first laid open the nerves and arteries +of a book.”—<i>Isaac Disraeli, Literary Miscellanies.</i></p> + +<p class="fs80">“I magnify mine office.”</p> + +<figure class="figcenter" id="decoration" style="width: 150px;"> + <img src="images/decoration.jpg" width="150" height="156" alt=""> +</figure> + +<p class="fs80 center">LONDON:<br> +PUBLISHED FOR THE INDEX SOCIETY<br> +BY LONGMANS, GREEN & Co., 39, PATERNOSTER ROW.<br> +MDCCCLXXIX. +</p> +</div> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[4]</span></p> + + + + +<p class="p4 center"><i>SECOND EDITION.</i></p> + +<p class="fs80 center">HERTFORD:<br> +PRINTED BY STEPHEN AUSTIN AND SONS. +</p> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[5]</span></p> + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="TABLE_OF_CONTENTS">TABLE OF CONTENTS.</h2> +</div> + +<p class="center fs120">HISTORICAL ACCOUNT.</p> + +<p>Meaning of the word ‘Index,’ <a href="#Page_7">7</a>.—Early use of ‘Tables,’ <a href="#Page_7">7</a>.—Use of the word +‘Index’ by the Romans, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>.—Its introduction into modern languages, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>.—Naturalisation +in English, <a href="#Page_10">10</a>.—Little used in other languages, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>.—The word +‘pye,’ <a href="#Page_11">11</a>.—Opinions on Indexes, <a href="#Page_12">12</a>.—Of Joseph Glanville, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>.—Of Thomas +Fuller, <a href="#Page_12">12</a>.—Of S. Speed, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>.—Good Index work, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>.—Prynne a sufferer in the +cause of indexing, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>.—Extracts from the index to his Histrio-mastix, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>.—Power +in the indexer’s hands, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.—Dr. William King’s malicious indexes, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>.—Index +to Bromley’s Travels made by a political enemy, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>.—Index to the Biglow Papers, +<a href="#Page_18">18</a>.—The author to make his own index, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>.—Monthly Review on indexes, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>.—Opinion +of William Oldys, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>.—Scaliger, an eminent indexer, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>.—Antonio’s indexes, +<a href="#Page_20">20</a>.—Baillet’s general index, <a href="#Page_21">21</a>.—Opinion of Bayle, <a href="#Page_21">21</a>.—Of Leigh Hunt, +<a href="#Page_22">22</a>.—Specimens of indexes, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>.—Shenstone’s Schoolmistress, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>.—Richardson’s +Novels, <a href="#Page_23">23</a>.—Tatler, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>.—Indexes by Maittaire, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>.—By Bowyer, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>.—By +John Nichols, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>.—By Maty, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>.—By Ayscough, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>.—By E. H. Barker, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>.—Macaulay +an indexer, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>.—Contempt in which the calling has been held, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>.—Index-advocates: +Mr. Thoms and Dr. Allibone, <a href="#Page_27">27</a>.—Baynes’s curse, <a href="#Page_27">27</a>.—Lord +Campbell’s theory and practice not in accord, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>.—Early compilation of concordances, +<a href="#Page_28">28</a>.—Sir Henry Thring’s Instructions for an Index to Statute Law, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>.—Opinion +of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, <a href="#Page_30">30</a>.—Money voted by Parliament for +indexes, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>.—Scientific bibliography, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>.—Annual records of progress, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>.—Bibliography +in scientific periodicals, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>.—Poole’s Index, <a href="#Page_35">35</a>.—Indexes to catalogues, +<a href="#Page_36">36</a>.—Revived interest in index work, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.—Various proposals for the +formation of an Index Society, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.—What can an Index Society do? <a href="#Page_38">38</a>.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[6]</span></p> + + +<p class="center fs120">PRACTICE OF INDEX-MAKING.</p> + + +<p class="center">I.—<span class="smcap">Compilation.</span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>Sir H. Thring’s Instructions, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>.—How the work should be set about, <a href="#Page_42">42</a>.—Specimens +of bad headings, <a href="#Page_42">42</a>.—Justice Best’s ‘great mind,’ <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.—Value +of conciseness in the headings of an index, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>.—Need for specification of +the cause of reference, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>.—Uselessness of the general Index to the Gentleman’s +Magazine, <a href="#Page_46">46</a>.—Correctness of reference an essential point, <a href="#Page_47">47</a>.—Is an +incomplete index better than none at all? <a href="#Page_47">47</a>.—Added information in an index, +<a href="#Page_48">48</a>.—Blunders, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>.—Two men rolled into one, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>.—Names of men who never +lived, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>.—French translations of names, <a href="#Page_52">52</a>.—Filling up of contractions, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>.—Use +and abuse of cross references, <a href="#Page_54">54</a>.</p> +</div> + + +<p class="center">II.—<span class="smcap">Arrangement.</span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>Advantages of alphabetical order, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>.—One alphabet, not many, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>.—Disadvantages +of classification, <a href="#Page_57">57</a>.—Statistics, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>.—Arrangement by the English +alphabet, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>.—What is a surname? <a href="#Page_59">59</a>.—Prepositions and articles as prefixes, +<a href="#Page_59">59</a>.—Compound names, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>.—Mistaken names, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>.—Latinised names, <a href="#Page_61">61</a>.—Christian +names <i>v.</i> surnames, <a href="#Page_61">61</a>.—Noblemen arranged under their titles, <a href="#Page_62">62</a>.—Bishops +under their family names, <a href="#Page_63">63</a>.—Abuse of initials, <a href="#Page_63">63</a>.—Use of the +title Mr., <a href="#Page_64">64</a>.—Oddities of names, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>.—Lists of errata, <a href="#Page_65">65</a>.</p> +</div> + + +<p class="center">III.—<span class="smcap">Printing.</span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>The indexed word to the front, <a href="#Page_66">66</a>.—Marks of repetition, <a href="#Page_67">67</a>.—Absurd use of the +dash, <a href="#Page_67">67</a>.—Confusion between men of the same name, <a href="#Page_68">68</a>.</p> +</div> + +<p>Rules for obtaining uniformity in the indexes of books, <a href="#Page_71">71</a>.</p> + +<p>Preliminary List of English Indexes, <a href="#Page_74">74</a>.</p> + + + +<p class="p2"><span class="smcap">Index </span><span style="float:right;"><a href="#Page_109">109</a></span></p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[7]</span></p> + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="WHAT_IS_AN_INDEX"><i>WHAT IS AN INDEX?</i></h2> +</div> + + +<p>Before proceeding to answer the question that forms the +title of this pamphlet, it will be necessary to say somewhat +on the history of the word <i>Index</i>. It is now used very +generally in English to express a table of references arranged +in alphabetical order and placed either at the end or sometimes +at the beginning of a book, but this is really one only +of its many meanings, and moreover not the earliest one. +An index is an indicator or pointer out of the position of +required information, such as the finger-post on a high road, +or the index finger of the human hand. In this general sense +the word is used by Drayton:—</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> +<div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">My lips might prove the <i>index</i> to my fault.”<a id="FNanchor_1" href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></div> + </div> +</div> +</div> + +<p>Such is still its meaning, and it is in this sense that the Index +Society would wish their title to be understood.</p> + +<p>There is a group of words, viz. <i>Index</i>, <i>Table</i>, <i>Register</i>, +<i>Calendar</i>, <i>Summary</i>, and <i>Syllabus</i>, all of which were once +generally used with much the same signification; but as soon +as <i>Index</i> had been recognized as a thoroughly English word, +it beat its companions in the race, although it had a long +struggle with the word <i>Table</i>.</p> + +<p>The need of some general indication of the contents of +books was early felt, and Seneca, in sending certain volumes +to his friend Lucilius, accompanied them with notes of particular +passages, so that he, “who only aimed at the useful +might be spared the trouble of examining them entire.” Thus +it is that many of our old MSS. contain these helpful tables +of contents, which are usually headed by the Latin words +<i>Tabula</i>, <i>Calendarium</i>, etc. In Dan Michel’s <i>Ayenbite of Inwyt</i> +(1340) there is a very full Table with the heading—“Thise +byeth the capiteles of the boc volȝinde.”</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[8]</span></p> + +<p>With the invention of printing many time-saving expedients +were introduced, and one of these apparently was the alphabetical +or arranged index.</p> + +<p>In tracing the history of the use of the word <i>Index</i> two +distinct questions have to be considered—(1) the original use +of the Latin word by the Romans; and (2) the introduction +of the word into the modern languages and its naturalization +in English. With regard to the first question, we find that +according to classical usage <i>Index</i> denoted a discoverer, discloser +or informer; a catalogue or list (Seneca refers to an +Index of Philosophers); an inscription; the title of a book; +and the fore or index-finger, in reference to which Cicero +makes a mild joke. Writing to Atticus he says that Pollex +told him that he would be back by the 13th of August, and +he came to Lanuvium on the 12th, thus he is rightly called +<i>Pollex</i> and not <i>Index</i>, because the thumb comes before the forefinger. +Cicero also uses the word to express the table of +contents to a book, for he asks Atticus to send him two library +clerks to repair his books, and they are to bring with them +some parchment to make indexes on. Had he only used +the word <i>Index</i> we might have been in doubt as to what he +really meant, but fortunately he added “which you Greeks +call a <i>Syllabus</i>,” and the meaning thus becomes clear.<a id="FNanchor_2" href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> + +<p>As to the second question, we may infer, from the use of +<i>Index</i> in the nominative instead of the accusative case, that +the word came into English through literature and not through +speech. The Italian word is <i>Indice</i>, which comes directly from +the Latin accusative, and it is perhaps this form (though it +may be the French word <i>Indice</i>) that Ben Jonson uses when he +writes “too much talking is ever the <i>indice</i> of a fool.”<a id="FNanchor_3" href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a></p> + +<p>The most celebrated of Indexes, the <i>Index librorum prohibitorum</i> +and <i>Index Expurgatorius</i> of the Roman Catholic +Church, are not indexes in the modern acceptation of the term, +but partake more of the character of what we should now call +Registers. Erasmus gives alphabetical indexes to many of his<span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[9]</span> +books, but arrangement in alphabetical order was by no means +considered indispensable in an Index; thus in a curious and +learned work published at Amsterdam, in 1692, we find an +“Index Generalissimus” (Table of Contents); an “Index +Generalis” (Synopsis of Subjects or Heads of Chapters) at the +beginning of the volume, and an “Index Alphabeticus” at +the end.</p> + +<p>It is with the general meaning of a table of contents or preface +that Shakespeare uses the word Index, thus Nestor says—</p> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> +<div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“Our imputation shall be oddly poised<br></div> + <div class="verse indent0">In this wild action; for the success,<br></div> + <div class="verse indent0">Although particular, shall give a scantling<br></div> + <div class="verse indent0">Of good or bad unto the general;<br></div> + <div class="verse indent0">And in such <i>indexes</i>,<a id="FNanchor_4" href="#Footnote_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> although small pricks<br></div> + <div class="verse indent0">To their <i>subsequent volumes</i>, there is seen<br></div> + <div class="verse indent0">The baby figure of the giant mass<br></div> + <div class="verse indent0">Of things to come at large.”—<i>Troilus and Cressida</i>, i. 3.<br></div> + </div> +</div> +</div> + + +<p>Buckingham threatens—</p> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> +<div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent10">“I’ll sort occasion</div> + <div class="verse indent0">As <i>index</i> to the story we late talk’d of,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">To part the queen’s proud kindred from the king.”—<i>Richard III.</i> ii. 2.</div> + </div> +</div> +</div> + +<p>and Iago refers to “an <i>index</i> and obscure prologue to the +history of lust and foul thoughts.”—<i>Othello</i>, ii. 1.</p> + +<p>All these passages seem clearly to illustrate the old meaning +of the word, but in the following places something more +appears to be meant. Queen Margaret alludes to “the flattering +index of a direful pageant” (<i>Rich. III.</i> iv. 4), probably with +some reference to a special setting out of the contents, like the +posters for the newspapers of to-day, which usually promise +far more than the papers themselves fulfil. The Queen in +<i>Hamlet</i> (iii. 4) cries out—</p> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> +<div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent14">“Ay me, what act</div> + <div class="verse indent0">That roars so loud and thunders in the <i>index</i>?”</div> + </div> +</div> +</div> + + +<p>Meaning to say—if this prologue or setting forth of what is +to follow is so fierce, what will the accusation itself be?</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[10]</span></p> + +<p>Although we find from these quotations that the word +‘index’ was commonly used, it was not generally introduced +into books as a thorough English word until a much later +period; for instance, North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives, +the book so diligently used by Shakespeare in the production +of his Roman Histories, contains an alphabetical index at the +end, but it is called a <i>Table</i>. On the title-page of Baret’s +<i>Alvearie</i> (1573) mention is made of “two <i>Tables</i> in the ende of +this booke,” but the Tables themselves, which were compiled by +Abraham Fleming,<a id="FNanchor_5" href="#Footnote_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> being lists of the Latin and French words, +are headed “Index.” Between these two tables, in the edition +of 1580, is “an Abecedarie, <i>Index</i> or Table” of Proverbs. The +word Index is not included in the body of the Dictionary, +where, however, “Table” and “Regester” are inserted. Table +is defined as “a booke or regester for memorie of things,” and +“Regester” as “a reckeninge booke wherein thinges dayly done +be written.” By this it is clear that Baret did not consider +Index to be an English word.<a id="FNanchor_6" href="#Footnote_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a> At the end of Johnson’s +edition of Gerarde’s Herbal (1636) is an “Index latinus” +followed by a “Table of English names,” although a few +years previously Minsheu had given <i>Index</i> a sort of half-hearted +welcome into his Dictionary. Under that word in +the <i>Guide into Tongues</i> (1617) is the entry “vide Table in +Booke, in litera T.,” where we read “a Table in a booke or +Index.” Even when acknowledged as an English word, it +was frequently applied to a more severe list than the analytical +table; for instance, Dugdale’s Warwickshire contains an “Index +of Towns and Places” and a “Table of Men’s Names and +Matters of most note”; and Scobell’s Acts and Ordinances +of Parliament, 1640-1656 (publ. 1658) has “An Alphabetical +Table of the most material contents of the whole book,” preceded +by “An Index of the general titles comprized in the +ensuing Table.” There are a few exceptions to the rule here +set forth; for instance, Pliny’s <i>Naturall Historie of the World</i>, +translated by Philemon Holland (1601), has at the beginning—“The<span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[11]</span> +Inventorie or Index containing the contents of 37 +bookes,” and at the end “An Index pointing to the principal +matters.” In Speed’s <i>History of Great Britaine</i> (1611) there +is an “Index or Alphabetical Table containing the principal +matters in this history.”</p> + +<p>About the latter half of the seventeenth century the race +for supremacy between <i>Index</i> and <i>Table</i> was well-nigh closed +in favour of the former, but the word Table was occasionally +used up to a much later period. A very late instance occurs in +the <i>Monthly Review</i> commenced in 1749. At the beginning of +each volume is an alphabetical index of books reviewed called +a <i>Table</i>, and at the end is an Index of the remarkable passages +in the articles which is styled <i>Index</i>. By the present English +usage, according to which the word <i>table</i> is reserved for the +summary of the contents as they occur in the book, and the +word <i>index</i> for the arranged analysis of the contents, we +obtain an advantage not enjoyed in other languages, for the +French <i>Table</i> is used for both kinds, as is <i>Indice</i> in Italian +and Spanish.</p> + +<p>The French word <i>indice</i> has a different meaning from the +Italian <i>indice</i>, and in fact is not the same word. According +to Littré it is derived from the Latin <i>indicium</i>. The word +<i>index</i> in French is pretty well confined to tables of Latin and +Greek, as it once was in English, although it is used by +Bossuet in a more general sense. In German <i>Index</i> is occasionally +used, but the regular word is <i>Register</i>.</p> + +<p>In concluding this philological inquiry it will only be necessary +to repeat the remark with which we commenced, that +although the word <i>index</i> is used to express a particular kind +of arranged list, it has also the wider meaning of a general +indicator. Thus the words Inventory, Register, Calendar, +Catalogue, Summary, and Syllabus will all find their respective +places under the general heading of Index work.<a id="FNanchor_7" href="#Footnote_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[12]</span></p> + +<p>As books increased, the need of indexes could not fail to +be very generally felt; but authors, while praising them, often +thought it necessary to warn their readers against the dangers +of mere “index learning.” Thus John Glanville writes in his +<i>Vanity of Dogmatizing</i>:—“Methinks ’tis a pitiful piece of +knowledge that can be learnt from an index, and a poor +ambition to be rich in the inventory of another’s treasure.” +Dr. Watts alludes to those whose “learning reaches no farther +than the tables of contents,” but he also says, “If a book has +no index or good table of contents, ’tis very useful to make +one as you are reading it.”</p> + +<p>Fuller very wisely argues that the diligent man should not +be deprived of a tool because the idler may misuse it. He +says, “An Index is a necessary implement and no impediment +of a book except in the same sense wherein the carriages [i.e. +things carried] of an army are termed <i>impedimenta</i>. Without +this a large author is but a labyrinth without a clue to direct +the reader therein. I confess there is a lazy kind of learning +which is only indical, when scholars (like adders, which only +bite the horse’s heels) nibble but at the tables, which are calces +librorum, neglecting the body of the book. But though the +idle deserve no crutches (let not a staff be used by them but +on them), pity it is the weary should be denied the benefit +thereof, and industrious scholars prohibited the accommodation +of an index, most used by those who most pretend to contemn +it.” I have heard the same objection urged to-day, but surely +it is a mere delusion. There are many easier means by which +the sciolist may obtain a smattering of knowledge without +consulting an Index. No useful information can thus be +gained unless the books to which the Index refers are searched, +and he who honestly searches ceases to be a smatterer.</p> + +<p>Fuller was a true Index-connoisseur, and in his “Pisgah-sight +of Palestine” (1650) he gives necessary directions for +the use of the Index, where he says, “An Index is the bag +and baggage of a book, of more use then honour; even such +who seemingly slight it, secretly using it, if not for need, +for speed of what they desire to finde.” Whatever Fuller +touched he made sparkle, and no one but he could have +written such lively sentences as the following on a subject<span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[13]</span> +usually thought to be so dry:—“And thus by God’s assistance +we have finished our table. Miraculous almost was the +execution done by David on the Amalekites who saved neither +man nor woman alive to bring tidings to Gath. I cannot +promise such exactness in our Index, that no name hath +escaped our enquiry: some few, perchance, hardly slipping +by, may tell tales against us. This I profess, I have +not, in the language of some modern quartermasters, wilfully +burnt any towns, and purposely omitted them; and +hope that such as have escaped our discovering, will upon +examination appear either not generally agreed on, by authors, +for proper names, or else by proportion falling without the +bounds of Palestine. Soli Deo gloria.” Of the same mind +with Fuller that the Index is a most important part of a +work was the Italian physician mentioned by Mdlle. de +Scudery, who dedicated each book of his Commentary on +the Aphorisms of Hippocrates to one of his friends, and +the Index to another. Those who hold the contrary opinion +are either jealous that others will obtain their knowledge +too easily, or they do not relish the trouble of preparing +an Index. The publisher of Howell’s “Discourse concerning +the Precedency of Kings” (1664) was one of the latter class, +although he puts forward a more plausible reason for his +neglect in this letter from “The Bookseller to the Reader.” +“The reason why there is no Table or Index added hereunto +is, that every page in this work is so full of signal remarks +that were they couch’d in an Index it wold make a volume +as big as the book, and so make the Postern Gate to bear no +proportion to the Building. S. Speed.”</p> + +<p>Each generation must do its own work, and although benefit +is gained from all that has gone before, it often forgets the +obligation it is under to preceding ages. An Index therefore +is a standing warning against forgetfulness, and accurate +reference to forgotten work is almost equal to a new discovery. +The value of indexes was recognized in the earliest +times, and many old books have full and admirably-constructed +indexes; for instance, Juan de Pineda’s “Monarchia +Ecclesiastica o historia Universal del Mundo,” (<i>Salamanca</i>, +1588,) has a very curious and valuable table which forms the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[14]</span> +fifth volume of the whole set; and the three folio volumes +of Indexes in one alphabet to the <i>Annales Ecclesiastici</i> of +Baronius form a noble work.</p> + +<p>Indexes need not necessarily be dry, and in some cases they +form the most interesting portion of a book. The Index to +Prynne’s <i>Histrio-mastix</i> (1633), unlike the text, is very readable, +and from it may be obtained a sufficient idea of the +author’s argument. Prynne deserves especial mention here, as +he may be considered as a martyr to his conscientiousness +in producing this useful key to the contents of his ponderous +volume. No one could read through the book, with its notes +overflowing into the margin, so the licenser got confused and +passed it in despair. Carlyle refers to the <i>Histrio-mastix</i> as +“a book still extant but never more to be read by mortal.” +The vituperation however was easily understood when boiled +down in an alphabetical form, and Attorney-General Noy found +that the author himself had forged the weapons that the prosecutor +could use in the attack. This is proved by a passage +in Noy’s speech at Prynne’s trial, where he points out that +the accused “says Christ was a Puritan in his Index.”<a id="FNanchor_8" href="#Footnote_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a> +It has been observed that the author scarcely ventures on +the most trivial opinion without calling to his aid “squadrons +of authorities” from the writers of all nations, and in a book +which contains this passage—“the profession of a Play-poet +or the composing of comedies, tragedies or such like Playes +for publike players or play-houses is altogether infamous and +unlawfull,” he is more ready to mention the Greek and Latin +dramatists than those of our own country. A few of the entries +in the Index are worth particular notice. In this one the +indexer does not commit himself, but he infers much—“Æschylus +one of the first inventors of tragedies. His strange +and sudden death.” Here are some heavy charges against +theatres—</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p class="pq">“Idleness, a dangerous mischevous sin occasioned and fomented by +stage plays.</p> + +<p class="pq">Impudency, a dangerous sin occasioned by stage plays.</p> + +<p class="pq">Lyes condemned, frequent in plays.</p> + +<p class="pq">Sedition occasioned by stage plays.”</p> +</div> + +<p class="pq"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[15]</span></p> + +<p>The index is full of the judgments which are supposed to +follow the acting of plays, of which the following are specimens:—</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p class="pq">“Herod Agrippa smitten in the theater by an angel and so died.</p> + +<p class="pq">Herod the great, the first erecter of a theater among the Jews, who +thereupon conspire his death.</p> + +<p class="pq">Plagues occasioned by stage plays. All the Roman actors consumed +by a plague.</p> + +<p class="pq">Theatres overturned by tempests.”</p> +</div> + +<p>The author appears to have been very conversant with the +doings of the unseen worlds, for he writes—</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p class="pq">“Crossing of the face when men go to plays shuts in the Devil.</p> + +<p class="pq">Devils, inventors and fomentors of stage plays and dancing. Have +stage plays in hell every Lord’s day night.</p> + +<p class="pq">Heaven—no stage plays there.”</p> +</div> + +<p>In the following entry the word <i>and</i> probably seemed most +natural to Prynne:—</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p class="pq">“Players, many of them Papists <i>and</i> most desperate wicked wretches.”</p> +</div> + +<p>But it was the strong terms in which women actors are denounced, +and such entries as the following, that gave the +greatest offence to the Court:<a id="FNanchor_9" href="#Footnote_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a>—</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p class="pq">“Acting of popular or private enterludes for gain or pleasure infamous, +unlawfull, and that as well for Princes, Nobles, Gentlemen, Schollars, +Divines as common actors.</p> + +<p class="pq">Kings—infamous for them to act or frequent Playes or favour Players.”</p> +</div> + +<p>The Indexer has a considerable power in his hand if +he chooses to use it, for he can state in a few words what +the author may have hidden in verbiage, and he can so +arrange his materials as to force the reader to draw an inference. +Macaulay knew how an author’s own words might +be turned against himself, and therefore he wrote to his +publishers, “Let no d—— Tory make the Index to my +History.” In the Index to the eighth volume of the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[16]</span> +<i>Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts</i>, 1820, is +the following entry:—</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p>“Watts (Mr.), illiberal remarks of, on Captain Kater’s experiments.”</p> +</div> + +<p>Mr. Watts was displeased at the use of the uncomplimentary +adjective and complained to the Editor. In the Notices to +Correspondents at the beginning of the tenth volume we read:—“The +Editor begs to apologize to Mr. Watts for the term +‘illiberal’ used in the index of vol. 8 of this Journal. It +escaped his observation till Mr. Watts pointed it out.” Mr. +Hill Burton, in his <i>Book Hunter</i>, very justly observes of a +controversialist that after almost exhausting his weapons of +attack in the preface, and in the body of the book, “if he be +very skilful he may let fly a few Parthian arrows from the +Index.” The witty Dr. William King, Judge of the Irish +Court of Admiralty, was one of the first to see how formidable +a weapon of attack the Index might be made, and Disraeli +calls him the inventor of satirical and humorous indexes. +His earliest essay in this field was the index added to the +second edition of that clever but shallow work written by +the Christ Church wits in the name of the Hon. Charles +Boyle—“Dr. Bentley’s Dissertation on the Epistles of +Phalaris and the Fables of Æsop examin’d,” 1698. The +first entry is</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p>“Dr. Bentley’s true story of the MS. prov’d false by the testimonies of</p> + +<div class="bqctr"><p> +Mr. Bennet p. 6<br> +Mr. Gibson p. 7<br> +Dr. King p. 8<br> +Dr. Bentley p. 19;”<br> +</p></div> +</div> + +<p>then comes “his modesty and decency in contradicting great +men,” followed by the names of Plato, Selden, Grotius, +Erasmus, Scaliger, and ending with <i>everybody</i>. The last +entry is—“his profound skill in criticism; <i>from beginning to +end</i>.” After the publication of this book there was silence +for a time which caused some to suppose that Bentley was +beaten, but at last appeared the ‘immortal’ <i>Dissertation</i>, as +Porson calls it, which not only defeated his enemies, but positively +annihilated them. In the same year that King assisted +Boyle he turned his attention to a less formidable antagonist<span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[17]</span> +than the great Bentley. His <i>Journey to London</i>, 1698, is a +very ingenious parody of Dr. Martin Lister’s <i>Journey to Paris</i>, +and the pages of the original being referred to, it forms an +Index to that book. Sir Hans Sloane was another of Dr. King’s +butts, and the <i>Transactioneer</i> (1700) and <i>Useful Transactions +in Philosophy</i> (1708-9) were very galling to the distinguished +naturalist, and annoyed the Royal Society, whose <i>Philosophical +Transactions</i> were unmercifully laughed at. To both these +tracts were prefixed satirical contents, and what made them +the more annoying was that the author’s own words were +very ingeniously used and turned against him. King writes, +“The bulls and blunders which Sloane and his friends so +naturally pour forth cannot be misrepresented, so careful I +am in producing them.” Such an effective mode of annoyance, +when once discovered, was not likely to be overlooked, +and we find it used soon afterwards with a political object. +William Bromley, a Tory Member of Parliament and high +churchman, had made the grand tour in early life, and published +“Remarks made in his Travels in 1693.” In 1705 he +was a candidate for the Speakership, and his opponents took +the opportunity of reprinting his Travels with a satirical +Index as an electioneering squib. This Index is very amusing, +and in some instances the text bears it out, but in others +there is a malicious perversion. The following are a selection +from the entries:—</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p class="pq">“Chatham, where and how situated, viz. on the other side of Rochester +bridge, though commonly reported to be on this side, p. 1.</p> + +<p class="pq">Boulogne, the first city on the French shore, lies on the coast, p. 2.</p> + +<p class="pq">Crosses and crucifixes on the roads in France prove it not England, p. 3.</p> + +<p class="pq">Eight pictures take up less room than sixteen of the same size, p. 14.</p> + +<p class="pq">February an ill season to see a garden in, p. 53.</p> + +<p class="pq">Three several sorts of wine drank by the author out of one vessel, +p. 101.</p> + +<p class="pq">The English Jesuites Colledge at Rome may be made larger than ’tis +by uniting other Buildings to it, p. 132.</p> + +<p class="pq">The Duchess dowager of Savoy who was grandmother to the present +Duke was mother to his father, p. 243.</p> + +<p class="pq">An university in which degrees are taken, p. 249.”</p> +</div> + +<p>In the Bodleian copy of this book there is a MS. note by Dr. +Rawlinson to the effect that this index was drawn up by<span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[18]</span> +Robert Harley Earl of Oxford, but this was probably only +a party rumour. Dr. Parr possessed Bromley’s own copy of +the reprint with a MS. note—“This edition of these travels +is a specimen of the good nature and good manners of the +Whigs, and I have reason to believe of one of the Ministry +very conversant in this sort of calumny.... This printing +my book was a very malicious proceeding; my words and +meaning being very plainly perverted in several places.... +But the performances of others ... may be in like manner +exposed as appears by the like tables published for the travels +of Bishop Burnet and Mr. Addison.” Bromley was elected +Speaker in 1710.</p> + +<p>That the love for a humorous index has not quite died out +is proved by the admirable one which Mr. Lowell has added +to his <i>Biglow Papers</i>. Where all is good it is not easy to +select, and I feel forced to make a long extract:—</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p class="pq">“Adam, eldest son of, respected.</p> + +<p class="pq">Babel, probably the first congress.</p> + +<p class="pq">Birch, virtue of, in instilling certain of the dead languages.</p> + +<p class="pq">Cæsar, a tribute to, 99, his <i>veni, vidi, vici</i> censured for undue prolixity, +116.</p> + +<p class="pq">Castles, Spanish, comfortable accommodations in.</p> + +<p class="pq">Eating words, habit of, convenient in time of famine.</p> + +<p class="pq">Longinus recommends swearing (Fuseli did same thing).</p> + +<p class="pq">No, a monosyllable, 51, hard to utter, <i>ib.</i></p> + +<p class="pq">Noah inclosed letter in bottle, probably.</p> + +<p class="pq">Ulysses, husband of Penelope, 58, borrows money, 135. (For full +particulars see Homer and Dante).</p> + +<p class="pq">Wrong, abstract, safe to oppose.”<a id="FNanchor_10" href="#Footnote_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a></p> +</div> + +<p>The occupation of the indexer has been allowed to fall into +disrepute during the present century, and some have supposed +that any ignorant hack can produce this indispensable +portion of a book. Such was not always the case, for most +old books of any mark have indexes of a high character, which +clearly show that both author and publisher took a proper<span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[19]</span> +pride in this part of their work. This spirit found whimsical +expression in the speech of a once celebrated Spaniard +quoted by the great bibliographer Antonio—that the index +of a book should be made by the author, even if the book +itself were written by some one else.<a id="FNanchor_11" href="#Footnote_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a> An ideal indexer needs +many high qualifications; but, unlike the poet, he is not born +but made. He must be a good analyser and know how to +reduce the author’s many words into a terse form. He must +also be continually thinking of the wants of the consulter of +his index, so as to place his references under the heading +that the reader is most likely to seek. If he does his work +well he will have many appreciative readers; for, as Henry +Rogers has observed, “no writer is so much read as the +maker of a good index—or so much cited.” Dr. Allibone +prints in his valuable Dictionary of Authors (vol. i. p. 85), an +extract from a number of the Monthly Review, which is well +worthy of quotation here:—“The compilation of an index +is one of those useful labours for which the public, commonly +better pleased with entertainment than with real service, are +rarely so forward to express their gratitude as we think they +ought to be. It has been considered as a task fit only for +the plodding and the dull: but with more truth it may be said +that this is the judgment of the idle and the shallow. The +value of anything, it has been observed, is best known by +the want of it. Agreeably to this idea, we, who have often +experienced great inconveniences from the want of indices, +entertain the highest sense of their worth and importance. +We know that in the construction of a good index, there is +far more scope for the exercise of judgment and abilities, than +is commonly supposed. We feel the merits of the compiler +of such an index, and we are ever ready to testify our thankfulness +for his exertions.”</p> + +<p>The eminent bibliographer William Oldys expressed a very +similar sentiment in words which have been printed by Mr. +Thoms in <i>Notes and Queries</i> (2nd series, vol. xi. p. 309):<span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[20]</span> +“The labour and patience, the judgment and the penetration +which are required to make a good index, is only known to +those who have gone through this most painful, but least +praised part of a publication. But as laborious as it is, I +think it indispensably necessary to manifest the treasures of +any multifarious collection, facilitate the knowledge to those +who seek it and invite them to make application thereof.”</p> + +<p>We can point to a goodly roll of eminent men who have not +feared this labour and who have not been ashamed to appear +before the world as indexers. In the first rank we must +place the younger Scaliger, who devoted ten months to the +compilation of an elaborate index to Gruter’s magnificent +<i>Thesaurus Inscriptionum</i>. Bibliographers have been unanimous +in praise of the energy exhibited by the great critic +in undertaking so vast a labour. Antonio describes the index +as an herculean work, and Le Clerc observes that if we think +it surprising that so great a man should undertake so laborious +a task, we must remember that such indexes can only be made +by a very able man. Nicolas Antonio, the compiler of one +of the fullest and most accurate bibliographies ever planned, +whose name has already been mentioned in these pages, was a +connoisseur in indexes and wrote a short essay on the makers +of them. His <i>Bibliotheca Hispana</i> is not known so well as +it deserves to be on account of the little general interest that +is taken in Spanish literature, but having some years ago used +it almost daily, I can speak of it with gratitude as one of +the most trustworthy of works. The system upon which +the authors’ names are arranged is one that at first sight +might seem to give cause for ridicule; for they appear in +an alphabet of Christian names, but when we consider that +the Spaniards and Portuguese stand alone among European +nations in respect to the importance they pay to the Christian +name, and remember further that authors and others are +often alluded to by their Christian names alone, we shall see +a valid reason for the plan. Another point that should not +be forgotten is the number of Spanish authors who have +belonged to religious orders, and are never known by their +surnames. This arrangement, however, necessitates a full +index of surnames, and Antonio has given one which was<span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[21]</span> +highly praised by both Baillet and Bayle, two men who were +well able to form an opinion.</p> + +<p>When Baillet, the learned author of the <i>Jugemens des Savans</i>, +was appointed by M. de Lamoignon, keeper of the exquisite +library collected by that nobleman, he set to work to compile +an index of the contents of all the books contained in it, and +this he is said to have completed in August, 1682. After this +date, however, the Index continued to grow, and it extended +to thirty-two folio volumes, all written by Baillet’s own hand. +It is clear from this that that eminent bibliographer lived two +hundred years before his time. How highly would his labours +be appreciated now were he Director of the Index Society.</p> + +<p>The great Bayle, as might be expected from his omnivorous +literary appetite, held the vocation of the Index-maker in high +esteem. He quotes with approval Antonio’s remark respecting +the author of a book being the proper person to index it, but +he adds with justice that it is not every author who is capable +of making an index, a doctrine also preached by Le Clerc. +Bayle adds, “Authors refer to others the pains of making +alphabetical Indexes; and it must be owned, that those gentlemen +who are not patient of labour, and whose talent consists +only in the fire and vivacity of imagination, had much better +let others make the Index to their works.” To show the need +of judgment in this department of literary labour, Bayle refers +to the drawer-up of the Index to Dalechamp’s Athenæus, “who +says that Euripides lost in one day his wife, two sons, and a +daughter, and refers us to page 60, where nothing like this is +found; but we find in page 61 that Euripides, going to Icaria, +wrote an epigram on a disaster that happened at a peasant’s +house, where a woman, with her two sons and a daughter, died +by eating of mushrooms.” In order to guard against such +blunders, Bayle proposed that certain directions should be +drawn up for the guidance of the compilers of indexes, which +have justly been called the soul of books.<a id="FNanchor_12" href="#Footnote_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a></p> + +<p>If we examine the indexes to old books, we shall certainly +find ample reason for the belief that in former centuries authors<span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[22]</span> +more frequently had a hand in the production of the indexes to +their books than they have in the present day. Leigh Hunt, +in a pleasant paper written for the <i>Indicator</i>, says: “Index +making has been held to be the driest as well as lowest species +of writing. We shall not dispute the humbleness of it; but +since we have had to make an index ourselves we have discovered +that the task need not be so very dry. Calling to mind indexes +in general, we found them presenting us a variety of pleasant +memories and contrasts.” He then praises the Indexes to the +Tatler and Spectator, and adds: “Our index seemed the poorest +and most second-hand thing in the world after theirs: but let +any one read theirs and then call an index a dry thing if he can. +As there ‘is a soul of goodness in things evil,’ so there is a soul +of humour in things dry, and in things dry by profession.” +He then quotes from Cotton’s Montaigne and Sandys’s Ovid. +From the latter he gives the following specimens:</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p class="pq">“Dwarfes, an Italian dwarfe carried about in a parrot’s cage, p. 113.</p> + +<p class="pq">Eccho at Twilleries in Paris, heard to repeat a verse without failing in +one syllable, p. 58.</p> + +<p class="pq">Ship of the Tyrrhenians miraculously stuck fast in the sea, p. 63.</p> + +<p class="pq">A Historie of a British ship stuck fast in the deepe sea by witchcraft: +for which twentie five witches were executed, <i>ibid.</i>”</p> +</div> + +<p>The index to Cotton’s translation of Montaigne’s Essays +(which was added to the book after Cotton’s death) is full of +quaint entries; for instance, these four will give some idea of +the others:</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p class="pq">“Books, immortal children.</p> + +<p class="pq">Children abandon’d to the care and government of their fathers!</p> + +<p class="pq">Ears, dangerous instruments.</p> + +<p class="pq">Glosses upon books augment doubts.”</p> +</div> + +<p>Swift prefixed an amusing analytical Table to his ‘Tale of a +Tub,’ and the first edition of Shenstone’s burlesque poem, the +<i>Schoolmistress</i>, contains a ludicrous index or table of contents, +which the poet added “purely to show fools that I am in jest.” +In subsequent editions this table was suppressed, but Disraeli +reprinted it in his <i>Curiosities of Literature</i>. It is too long to +quote entire here, and a specimen will be sufficient to show its +scope:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[23]</span></p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p class="pq">“A circumstance in the situation of mansion of early discipline, discovering +the surprising influence of the connection of ideas.</p> + +<p class="pq">Some peculiarities indicative of a country school, with a short sketch +of the sovereign presiding over it.</p> + +<p class="pq">Some account of her night-cap, apron and a tremendous description of +her birchen sceptre.</p> + +<p class="pq">The secret connection between whipping and rising in the world, with a +view as it were, through a perspective, of the same little folk in the higher +posts and reputation.”</p> +</div> + +<p>This ‘ludicrous index’ very probably gave Southey a hint +which he worked out in the headings for chapters to his <i>Doctor</i>.</p> + +<p>This seems to be the proper place to mention the practice +that arose in the last century of drawing up indexes of sentiments +and opinions as opposed to facts. Such indexes required +a special skill in the indexer, who was usually the original +author. There is a curious poetical index to the Iliad in Pope’s +Homer, referring to all the places in which similes are used. +Dr. Johnson was very anxious that Richardson should produce +such an index to his novels. In the <i>Correspondence of Samuel +Richardson</i> (vol. v. p. 282), is a letter from the lexicographer +to the novelist to the following effect: “I wish you would add +an <i>index rerum</i>, that when the reader recollects any incident, +he may easily find it, which at present he cannot do, unless he +knows in which volume it is told; for Clarissa is not a performance +to be read with eagerness, and laid aside for ever; +but will be occasionally consulted by the busy, the aged and the +studious; and therefore I beg that this edition, by which I suppose +posterity is to abide, may want nothing that can facilitate its use.” +At the end of each volume of “Clarissa” Richardson added a sort +of table of all the passages best worth remembering, and as he +was the judge, it naturally extended to a considerable length. +In September, 1753, Johnson again wrote to Richardson, suggesting +the propriety of making an index to his three works, +but he added: “While I am writing an objection arises; such +an index to the three would look like the preclusion of a fourth, +to which I will never contribute; for if I cannot benefit mankind +I hope never to injure them.” Richardson took the hint +of his distinguished friend, and in 1755 appeared a volume of +410 pages, entitled “A Collection of the moral and instructive +Sentiments, Maxims, Cautions and Reflexions contained in the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[24]</span> +Histories of Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison, digested +under proper heads.” The production of this book was +a labour of love to its author, who, moreover, was skilled in +the mechanical work of indexing, and in the early part of his +career had filled up his leisure hours by compiling indexes for +the booksellers and writing prefaces and dedications.</p> + +<p>The high praise given by Leigh Hunt to Steele’s indexes has +already been noted, and a casual reference to the index of the +<i>Tatler</i> will show the justice of the remark: “As grapes ready +to burst with wine issue out of the most stony places, like jolly +fellows bringing burgundy out of a cellar, so an Index like the +Tatler’s often gives us a taste of the quintessence of his +humour.” The very title gives good promise of what is to +follow: “A faithful Index of the dull as well as the ingenious +passages in the Tatler.” Here are a few entries chosen at +random:</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl nw">Vol. 1.</td> +<td class="tdl">Bachelor’s scheme to govern a wife.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl">Knaves proved fools.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl nw">Vol. 2.</td> +<td class="tdl">Dead men, who.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl">Dead persons heard, judged and censured.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl">—— —— allegations laid against them, their pleas.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl">Love letters before and after marriage, found in a grave.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl">Mathematical sieve to sift impertinences in writing and discourse.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl nw">Vol. 4.</td> +<td class="tdl">Blockheads apt to admire one another.</td> +</tr> +</table> + +</div> + +<p>In 1757 “A General Index to the Spectators, Tatlers and +Guardians” was published, and in 1760 the same work was reissued +with a new title-page. Certain blots in the original +indexes were here corrected, and the following explanation +made in the preface: “Notwithstanding the learning and care +of the compilers of the first Indexes to these volumes, some +slight inaccuracies have passed, and where observed they are +altered. Few readers who desire to know Mr. Bickerstaff’s +opinion of the Comedy called the Country Wife, or the character +of Mrs. Bickerstaff as an actress, would consult the Index +under the word <i>Acts</i>.”</p> + +<p>Michael Maittaire, the bibliographer, prided himself on his +talent for index-making, which he exhibited in his editions of +the classics, and in his ‘Annales Typographici.’ William<span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[25]</span> +Bowyer, the learned printer, made the excellent Index to +William Clarke’s “Connexion of the Roman, Saxon and English +Coins” (1767), which greatly pleased the author, who +wrote to Bowyer, “Of all your talents you are a most amazing +man at Indexes. What a flag, too, do you hang out at the +stern! You must certainly persuade people that the book overflows +with matter, which (to speak the truth) is but thinly +spread. But I know all this is fair in trade, and you have a +right to expect that the publick should purchase freely when +you reduce the whole book into an epitome for their benefit; I +shall read the Index with pleasure.”<a id="FNanchor_13" href="#Footnote_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a> Bowyer’s biographer, +John Nichols, to whom we owe the <i>Literary Anecdotes of the +Eighteenth Century</i>, and the <i>Illustrations of Literary History</i>, two +books treasured by all lovers of bibliography, was an Indexer +of merit, and his son and grandson followed in his footsteps. +The memory of Dr. Maty has often been blessed by consulters +of the <i>Philosophical Transactions</i>, who find great help +in his copious Index to the first seventy volumes of that work.</p> + +<p>Samuel Ayscough was another industrious index-maker +who deserves especial mention. He compiled indexes for +the Monthly Review, the British Critic, and the Gentleman’s +Magazine. His Index to Shakespeare (1790) was a work of +great labour and high utility, followed, in 1804, by Francis +Twiss’s <i>Verbal Index</i>, and quite superseded by Mrs. Cowden +Clarke’s complete Concordance (1844). It is under the heading +of Ayscough, in his Dictionary of Authors, that Allibone +has gathered together an interesting collection of quotations +on the subject of indexes.</p> + +<p>The industrious E. H. Barker took the greatest pleasure in +making the Index to his edition of Stephens’s Thesaurus (which +was so mauled in the ‘Quarterly’ by Bishop Blomfield), and +when a friend condoled with him on the bore of making the +index, which had occupied three years in the composing and +printing, Mr. Barker observed that they were the happiest +years of his life, for he had thus read again and again the +<i>Thesaurus</i>, which he should not otherwise have done.</p> + +<p>The name of the great historian Macaulay will appropriately<span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[26]</span> +close this list of eminent indexers. At the age of fifteen he +wrote a letter to Hannah More, which ends with these words: +“To add to the list, my dear madam, you will soon see a work +of mine in print. Do not be frightened; it is only the Index +to the thirteenth volume of the <i>Christian Observer</i>, which I +have had the honour of composing. Index-making, though +the lowest, is not the most useless round in the ladder of literature; +and I pride myself upon being able to say that there +are many readers of the <i>Christian Observer</i> who could do without +Walter Scott’s works, but not without those of, my dear +madam, your affectionate friend, <span class="smcap">Thomas B. Macaulay</span>.” +Macaulay in after-life used a contemptuous expression when +he was describing the appearance of the lowest grade in the +literary profession. My friend Mr. Campkin, a veteran +Indexer, quotes this description in the preface to one of his +valuable Indexes—that to the twenty-five volumes of the +<i>Sussex Archæological Collections</i>—“The compilation of Indexes +will always, and naturally so, be regarded as a humble art: +‘index-makers in ragged coats of frieze’ are classed by Lord +Macaulay as the very lowest of the frequenters of the coffee-houses +of the Dryden and Swift era. Yet ‘’tis my vocation, +Hal,’ and into very pleasant companionship it has sometimes +brought me, and if in this probably the last of my twenty-five +years’ labours in this direction, I have succeeded in furnishing +a fairly practicable key to a valuable set of volumes, my +frieze coat, how tattered soever signifieth not, will continue +to hang upon my shoulders not uncomfortably.” Mr. +Campkin is quite right as to the estimation in which the +indexer is held, but I think he should not allow that such +estimation is natural. The art that requires thought and +some power of analysis should in justice be rated higher +than this, and if the Index-makers did such good work as +we frequently find in the books of the seventeenth and eighteenth +centuries, the discredit of the ragged coats would rightly +belong to their employers and not to themselves. Macaulay +probably had Swift’s <i>Account of the Condition of Edmund Curll</i> +in his mind when he alluded to the low estate of the Index-maker. +In this satire there are certain “Instructions to +a Porter how to find Mr. Curll’s authors,” few of whom are<span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[27]</span> +in sufficiently easy circumstances to allow of the renting a +garret each for himself—“At the laundress’s at the Hole in +the Wall in Cursitor’s Alley up three pair of stairs, the author +of my Church history—you may also speak to the gentleman +who lies by him in the flock bed, my index-maker.”</p> + +<p>No account of the history of indexing would be complete +without special and honourable mention of two literary men +who have persistently pointed out on all occasions the urgent +need of Indexes. One of these is an Englishman and the +other an American. Mr. Thoms, as editor of the “<i>Notes +and Queries</i>,” must constantly have felt the want of these +helps to research, and he seldom allowed a volume of his +journal to pass without inserting something regarding them. +He did more however, for he issued a General Index to each +series as it was completed. Dr. Allibone, throughout his +<i>Dictionary of English and American Authors</i>, has lost no +opportunity of saying something to the purpose on his +favourite subject. As already remarked, he printed at the +beginning of the first volume of his great work a most interesting +series of quotations relating to Indexes and on the very +last page of his third and last volume he returned to the subject +in bidding farewell to his readers.</p> + +<p>Mr. Markland is the authority for the declaration by the +Roxburghe Club that “the omission of an Index when essential +should be an indictable offence.”<a id="FNanchor_14" href="#Footnote_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a> Carlyle denounces the +putters forth of indexless books; and Baynes, the author of +the <i>Archæological Epistle to Dean Milles</i> (which is usually +attributed to Mason), concocted a terrible curse against such +evil-doers. The reporter was the learned Francis Douce, +who said to Mr. Thoms, “Sir, my friend John Baynes used +to say that the man who published a book without an index +ought to be damned ten miles beyond Hell, where the Devil +could not get for stinging nettles.”<a id="FNanchor_15" href="#Footnote_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a></p> + +<p>Lord Campbell proposed that any author who published a +book without an Index should be deprived of the benefits +of the Copyright Act, and the Hon. Horace Binney, LL.D., +a distinguished American lawyer, held the same views, and<span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[28]</span> +would have condemned the culprit to the same punishment. +Those, however, who hold the justest theories sometimes fail +in practice; thus Lord Campbell had to acknowledge that he +had himself sinned before the year 1857; and the deficiencies +of the forty Indexes to Allibone’s Dictionary are pointed out +in a paper read before the Conference of Librarians in +October, 1877.<a id="FNanchor_16" href="#Footnote_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a> These are the words written by Lord +Campbell in the preface to the first volume of his <i>Lives of +the Chief Justices</i> (1857)—“I have only further to express +my satisfaction in thinking that a heavy weight is now to +be removed from my conscience. So essential did I consider +an Index to be to every book, that I proposed to bring a +Bill into Parliament to deprive an author who publishes a +book without an Index of the privilege of copyright; and +moreover to subject him for his offence to a pecuniary penalty. +Yet from difficulties started by my printers, my own books +have hitherto been without an Index. But I am happy to +announce that a learned friend at the bar, on whose accuracy +I can place entire reliance, has kindly prepared a copious +Index which will be appended to this work, and another for +the new stereotyped edition of the Lives of the Chancellors.”</p> + +<p>In tracing the history of Index-making we have seen that +the value of a full Index was early realized; but when authors +ceased to make their own indexes, neglect was the consequence, +and during the early part of the present century this period +of neglect was probably the most complete. Towards the +formation of general Indexes little had been done until late +years, although we have seen that Baillet set himself to such +work. Of special Indexes we should naturally expect that +one to the Bible would be the first attempted, and such was +the case. The first Concordance was compiled by Hugo de +St. Caro, in 1247, and five hundred monks are said to have +been employed upon it. The first English concordance to any +part of the Scriptures was of the New Testament, and printed +by Thomas Gybson in 1536. That to the entire Bible was +made by John Marbeck, and published at London by Grafton +in 1550.<a id="FNanchor_17" href="#Footnote_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a> Previously to the publication of this valuable work<span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[29]</span> +Marbeck was shut up in the Marshalsea, but when Henry +VIII. pardoned him he told the Bishops that Marbeck had +employed his time much better than they had theirs. Nearly +two centuries later Alexander Cruden published his great +work, which still continues to be the standard Concordance.</p> + +<p>In 1545 an alphabetical Collection of the most elegant +words and phrases used by Boccaccio was compiled by Francis +Alunno, and published in <i>Le Ricchezze della Lingua volgare</i>. +Verbal Indexes to the ancient classics afterwards became +common, and in 1662 the celebrated <i>Gradus ad Parnassum</i> +first appeared under the title of “Epithetorum et Synonymorum +Thesaurus” (Paris). It is attributed to Chatillon, +and was reprinted by Paul Aler, a German Jesuit, as the +<i>Gradus</i>.<a id="FNanchor_18" href="#Footnote_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a></p> + +<p>The lawyers can claim the honour of being the first class +to realize the absolute need of Indexes, and the Digests produced +by them are admirable works, but the greatest lawyers +still point out how much there is to be done. Sir Henry +Thring has drawn up some masterly instructions for an Index +to the Statute Law, which is to be considered as a step towards +a code. These instructions conclude with the following +weighty words—“Let no man imagine that the construction +of an index to the Statute Law is a mere piece of mechanical +drudgery, unworthy of the energy and ability of an accomplished +lawyer. Next to codification the most difficult +task that can be accomplished is to prepare a detailed plan +for a code, as distinct from the easy task of devising a theoretical +system of codification. Now the preparation of an +index, such as has been suggested in the above instructions, +is the preparation of a detailed plan for a code. Each effective<span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[30]</span> +title is, in effect, a plan for the codification of the legal +subject matter grouped under that title, and the whole index, +if completed, would be a summary of a code arranged in +alphabetical order.”<a id="FNanchor_19" href="#Footnote_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a></p> + +<p>That this question of digesting the law is to be considered +as one that should interest all classes of Englishmen, and not +the lawyer only, may be seen from an article in the <i>Nineteenth +Century</i> (September, 1877), on the “Improvement of the Law by +private enterprise,” by Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, who has +done so much towards a complete digest of the law. He writes: +“I have long believed that the law might by proper means be +relieved of this extreme obscurity and intricacy, and might be +displayed in its true light as a subject of study of the deepest +possible interest, not only to every one who takes an interest in +politics or ethics, or in the application of logic and metaphysics +to those subjects. In short, I think that nothing but the rearrangement +and condensation of the vast masses of matter +contained in our law libraries is required, in order to add to +human knowledge what would be practically a new department +of the highest and most permanent interest. Law holds in +suspension both the logic and the ethics, which are, in fact, +recognized by men of business and men of the world as the +standards by which the practice of common life ought to be +regulated, and by which men ought to form their opinions in +all their most important temporal affairs. It would be a far +greater service to mankind than many people would suppose to +have these standards clearly defined and brought within the +reach of every one who cared to study them.” The following +remarks will apply with equal force to a more general and +universal index than that of the law: “The preparation of a +digest either of the whole or of any branch of the law is work +of a very peculiar kind. It is one of the very few literary +undertakings in which a number of persons can really and +effectively work together. Any given subject may, it is true, +be dealt with in a variety of different ways; but when the +general scheme, according to which it is to be treated, has been +determined on, when the skeleton of the book has been drawn<span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[31]</span> +out, plenty of persons might be found to do the work of filling +up the details, <i>though that work is very far from being easy or a +matter of routine</i>.”</p> + +<p>The value of analytical or index work is set in a very strong +light by an observation of Sir James Stephen, respecting the +early digesters of the law. The origin of English law is to be +found in the Year Books and other series of old Reports, which, +from the language used in them, and the black-letter printing, +with its contractions, etc., are practically inaccessible. Coke +and others who reduced these books into form are, in consequence, +treated as ultimate authorities, although the almost +worshipped Coke is said by Sir James to be “one of the most +confused, pedantic and inaccurate of men.”</p> + +<p>Parliament has long recognized the fact that the preparation +of indexes to their journals is a department of work upon +which large sums of money may be advantageously spent. In +1778 a total of £12,900 was voted for Indexes to the Journals +of the House of Commons. The items were as follows: To +Mr. Edward Moore, £6400 as a final compensation for thirteen +years’ labour; Rev. Mr. Forster, £3000 for nine years’ labour; +Rev. Dr. Roger Flaxman, £3000 for nine years’ labour; and +£500 to Mr. Cunningham.</p> + +<p>But one of the grandest and most useful applications of +index-making is to be found in the series of Calendars of State +Papers, issued under the sanction of the Master of the Rolls, +which have made available to all a mass of historical material +previously hardly appreciated by the few.</p> + +<p>Scientific men have found by bitter experience that, unless +they have the assistance of indexes, they must spend years in +studying the bibliography of their subject, if they would avoid +doing again what has already been done. It has so long been +the popular belief that the work of indexing may properly be +deputed to the harmless drudge, whose industry is his chief +merit, that it is no ordinary gratification to be able to point to +the great physiologist Haller as one who, knowing that genius +must have its toils, and finding that no such works had been +produced, stepped aside from his grander labours to compile +bibliographies of the science his talents adorned. In the words +of Johnson, index-making has been supposed to be “a task<span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[32]</span> +that requires neither the light of learning nor the activity of +genius, but may be successfully performed without any higher +quality than that of bearing burthens with dull patience, and +beating the track of the alphabet with sluggish resolution.”<a id="FNanchor_20" href="#Footnote_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a> +That Albert von Haller did not hold this disgraceful doctrine +his <i>Bibliotheca Botanica</i> (1771), his <i>Bibliotheca Anatomica</i> +(1774-77), his <i>Bibliotheca Chirurgica</i> (1774-75) and his <i>Bibliotheca +Medicinæ practicæ</i> (1776-78) amply prove.</p> + +<p>We find in these bibliographies a large proportion of University +Theses and Inaugural Dissertations, a form of publication +which was in considerable favour before the more general issue +of journals and transactions of Societies. When these latter +became numerous, the need of some key to their hidden +contents was greatly felt, and a large unoccupied field for indexing +was here discovered. In 1800 Reuss commenced at +Göttingen the publication of his <i>Repertorium Commentationum +a Societatibus Literariis editarum</i>, which was continued +for twenty years, and completed in sixteen quarto volumes. +The contents are arranged and classified according to the chief +divisions of knowledge. The well-known publisher Engelmann, +of Leipzig, is deserving of the greatest credit for his extensive +series of special Bibliographies. That of Zoology, by Dr. Carus +(1861), is one of the most important of these publications, and +to a great extent superseded the <i>Bibliographia Zoologiæ</i> of +Agassiz, which was published by the Ray Society (1848-54). +These works helped to make apparent to all the want which +they did not completely supply. In 1857 the Royal Society +undertook the preparation of a Catalogue of Scientific Papers +in British and Foreign Journals and Transactions, from the +commencement of the present century. This was a vast work, +and necessarily occupied a considerable time in preparation. +When it was thought advisable to commence printing, the limit +of date for the papers was fixed at 1863. In 1867 the first +volume was published, and each succeeding year a double-columned +quarto volume, of about 1000 pages, appeared until +1872, when the Alphabet of Authors was completed in the +sixth volume. A supplement for the years 1864-73 is in<span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[33]</span> +course of publication. The value of the Catalogue is gratefully +acknowledged on all hands, and it has now become so +indispensable that every consulter must marvel how scientific +men managed to get on without it. Medical men, however, +complain that medical and surgical papers have been passed +over, and Dr. J. S. Billings, Librarian of the U.S. National +Medical Library, is attempting to do for these departments +what has already been done for general science. In 1876 was +printed a <i>Specimen Fasciculus of a Catalogue of the National +Medical Library under the direction of the Surgeon General of the +U.S. Army at Washington</i>, and in the May number (1878) of +the <i>Library Journal</i> is an article by Dr. Billings on the <i>National +Catalogue of Medical Literature</i> to contain references to papers +in all the Medical Journals. It is estimated that the Subject +Catalogue would occupy about seven volumes of one thousand +pages each, and the Authors’ Catalogue about three volumes +extra. The question of printing this great work is now before +Congress, and Dr. Billings puts the following query to be +answered by Librarians and others: “What is the value of +such an index to the people of the United States as compared +with an expedition to the North Pole, five miles of subsidized +railway, one company of cavalry, or a small post office building?”</p> + +<p>There cannot be two opinions as to the importance of such a +publication, not only to the United States but to the world. +At present the Indexes to the Catalogues of the Libraries of +the College of Surgeons and the Royal Medical and Chirurgical +Society serve the purpose of a special bibliography of medical +literature, but they only refer to books and not to the contents +of those books.</p> + +<p>Every year new societies and new journals are started in +various parts of the world, so that it becomes daily more difficult +for workers to keep themselves <i>au courant</i> with the work +of others. To obviate this difficulty the Zoologists started in +1864 an annual Record of their science, and the Geologists +followed suit in 1874. The Chemists, in 1871, adopted the +still more useful plan of a monthly <i>résumé</i> of chemical papers, +and with each number of the <i>Journal of the Chemical Society</i> +is published a series of abstracts of papers in foreign journals.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[34]</span> +The year’s numbers, completed with a full index, form an +annual Record. Several foreign journals are also published +with the main object of giving abstracts of books and papers +published on their respective subjects, such for instance as +the various German “Centralblatt.” A monthly part of the +<i>Polybiblon: Revue Bibliographique Universelle</i>, is specially devoted +to summaries of the contents of various French and Foreign +periodicals. In America the contents of current periodicals +are recorded in “The Library Table” and in “The American +Bookseller.” A classified Index of the Proceedings of the +Learned Societies and the contents of the principal magazines +and reviews is announced as a feature of the newly-started +English Journal—“The Book-Analyst and Library Guide.” +On all sides there is evidence of the rapid growth of a +taste for bibliographical research. Scientific journals and +transactions now contain papers full of bibliographical details, +which a few years ago would not have been considered suitable +for publication in immediate proximity to original scientific +papers; and this is not to be wondered at, for the many +questions of priority that constantly arise can only be settled +by the correct statement of the date of publication. The +British Association publish reports on the history of science, +which are made up of accurate lists of books and papers. +The <i>Philosophical Magazine</i><a id="FNanchor_21" href="#Footnote_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a> contains an account of early Books +on Logarithms, by Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher, F.R.S.; the +<i>Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society</i><a id="FNanchor_22" href="#Footnote_22" class="fnanchor">[22]</a> has a Chronology +of Star Catalogues, by Mr. E. B. Knobel; the <i>Transactions of +the Connecticut Academy</i>,<a id="FNanchor_23" href="#Footnote_23" class="fnanchor">[23]</a> a list of writings relating to the +method of least squares, with historical and critical notes by +Mansfield Merriman; and the <i>Annals of the Lyceum of Natural +History of New York</i>, “Outlines of a Bibliography of the +History of Chemistry,”<a id="FNanchor_24" href="#Footnote_24" class="fnanchor">[24]</a> and Index to the Literature of +Manganese, 1596-1874,<a id="FNanchor_25" href="#Footnote_25" class="fnanchor">[25]</a> both by H. Carrington Bolton, Ph.D.</p> + +<p>Prof. J. Plateau, the distinguished physicist, is publishing +by sections, a “Bibliographie Analytique des principaux phénomènes +subjectifs de la Vision,” in the Memoirs of the +Brussels Academy. Mr. Edward S. Holden, of the Washington<span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[35]</span> +Naval Observatory, has prepared a valuable “Index +Catalogue of Books and Memoirs relating to Nebulæ and +Clusters,” which was published in 1871 by the Smithsonian +Institution, to whom we owe so much good work in this +direction; and in 1878 the same gentleman’s “Index Catalogue +of Books and Memoirs on the Transits of Mercury” was issued +as No. 1 of the “Bibliographical Contributions (Library of +Harvard University),” edited by Justin Winsor. Monographs +are now seldom published without some index of the bibliography +of the subject. Dr. Copland was one of the first to +make the notice of the literature of all topics treated a special +feature in his <i>Dictionary of Practical Medicine</i>. Many scientific +books on special subjects are in fact indexes; thus Morris’s +<i>Catalogue of British Fossils</i> (2nd ed. 1854); Bigsby’s <i>Thesaurus +Siluricus</i> (1868); and the same veteran geologist’s <i>Thesaurus +Devonico-Carboniferus</i> (1878), are tables of fossils with references +to places where descriptions will be found. This is the +index work which is acknowledged on all hands to be of the +greatest value in the saving of the student’s time.</p> + +<p>In passing from the consideration of Indexes of science to +those of general literature, the place of honour must be given to +Mr. Poole’s <i>Index of Periodical Literature</i>. The author gave +an interesting account of the origin of his work at the +Conference of Librarians held in London (October, 1877). +When Librarian at Yale College, Mr. Poole made a list of the +articles in the journals in the Library for his own private +use. The assistance he was thus able to give to readers +was highly appreciated, and he was asked to allow the list +to be printed for the benefit of others. This first edition +appeared in 1848, and a greatly enlarged edition followed in +1853. The second edition is out of print, and a new one is in +preparation, under the superintendence of the compiler, but with +the co-operation of librarians both in America and Great Britain. +Mr. Poole said that he had not seen a copy of his first edition +for twenty years until he saw it on the shelves of the +Reading Room of the British Museum. The nearest approach +to a general Index in existence is the useful Catalogue of +Subjects which forms the third and fourth volumes of +Watt’s <i>Bibliotheca Britannica</i>. The Index attached to Darling’s<span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[36]</span> +<i>Cyclopædia</i> has several useful features, but the work was never +finished. One of the completest Catalogues ever published is +that of the Library of the London Institution. It is classified +and has an Index of Authors. It was not usual to attach an +Index of Subjects to a Catalogue of Authors until late years, and +that to the Athenæum Library (1852) is an early specimen. The +New York State Library Catalogue, 1856, has an Index, as +have those of the Medical and Chirurgical Library (1860) and +the London Library (1865 and 1875). That appended to the +Catalogue of the Manchester Free Library (1864) is more a +short list of titles than an Index. In any notice of this kind +the valuable Indexes to the various collections of MSS. in the +British Museum must not be omitted, nor Mr. Sampson Low’s +Index to the British Catalogue of Books (1858), which was +compiled by Dr. Crestadoro, Librarian of the Manchester Free +Library. Indexes to series of Journals have naturally been +frequent, but it was a novelty when the Parker Society +published a general Index to their separate publications—a +work of the greatest utility which the Camden Society propose +to emulate.</p> + +<p>That the interest felt in Index work is pretty generally +spread abroad, may be guessed by a paragraph that went the +round of the papers a few months ago, to the effect that an +Index or ‘Repertorium’ of the contents of all the German +military magazines and periodicals, which have been published +during the last sixteen years, has been lately printed at +Berlin, which it is supposed will be of great value to every +student of military art, and even to the more general reader.</p> + +<p>The various matters treated of in the previous pages, go +to prove the existence of a revived interest in the value of +Indexes, and seem naturally to lead up to a notice of the formation +of the Index Society. The founders lay no claim to +originality of conception; but they think that the widespread +feeling of the need of some such organization, which has been +frequently expressed, will insure the success of the Society.</p> + +<p>In 1854 an announcement was made in the “Notes and +Queries”<a id="FNanchor_26" href="#Footnote_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a> of the projected formation of a “Society for the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[37]</span> +Formation of a General Literary Index.” In the second series +(vol. i. p. 486), the late Mr. Thomas Jones, who signed himself +Bibliothecar. Chetham., commenced a series of articles, +which he continued for several years, as a contribution to this +General Index; but nothing more was heard of the Society. +Inquiries were made in various numbers of the <i>Notes and +Queries</i> respecting its formation, but no response was made. +In 1870 a contributor to the same periodical, signing himself +A. H., proposed the formation of a staff of Index compilers. +In 1874 Prof. Stanley Jevons published his <i>Principles of +Science</i>. In the chapter on Classification, he enlarges on the +value of Indexes, and adds: “The time will perhaps come when +our views upon this subject will be extended, and either Government +or some public society will undertake the systematic +cataloguing and indexing of masses of historical and scientific +information, which are now almost closed against inquiry” +(1st ed. vol. ii. p. 405; 2nd. ed. p. 718).</p> + +<p>In the following year Mr. Edward Solly and the writer of +these pages, without having seen this passage, consulted as to +the possibility of starting an Index Society, but postponed the +actual carrying out of their scheme for a time. In July, 1875, +Mr. J. Ashton Cross argued in a pamphlet, that a Universal +Index might be formed by co-operation through a clearing-house, +and would pay if published in separate parts. In September, +1877, some letters were printed in the <i>Pall Mall +Gazette</i> by one who signed himself ‘A Lover of Indexes,’ in +which the foundation of an Index Society was strongly urged. +In October, 1877, Mr. Cross read a paper before the Conference +of Librarians, which was a revival of the scheme previously +suggested. All these movements in different quarters proved +that the train was widely spread, and only needed the lighting +spark to make itself apparent; or, to use another metaphor, the +volunteers were ready for their work, and only waited for the +bugle call, and this was given in the <i>Athenæum</i> for October 13, +1877, in a report of the Conference of Librarians written by +Mr. Robert Harrison. There we read: “Could not a permanent +Index Society be founded with the support of voluntary +contributions of money as well as of subject matter? In +this way a regular staff could be set to work, under competent<span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[38]</span> +direction, and could be kept steadily at work until +its performances became so generally known and so useful as +to enable it to stand alone and be self-supporting. Many +readers would readily jot down the name of any new subject +they meet with in the book before them, and the page on +which it occurs, and forward their notes to be sorted and +arranged by any Society that would undertake the work.”</p> + +<p>The following number of the <i>Athenæum</i> contained letters +in approval of the suggestion from Mr. G. Laurence Gomme +and from Professor Justin Winsor, of Harvard, who wrote: +“We have been in America striving for years to get some +organized body to undertake this very work.” In the number +for October 27, it was announced that steps were being taken +for the formation of the Society, and the editor complained +that he had been overwhelmed with letters on the subject for +which he could not find space.</p> + +<p>In closing this general notice of Index work, and before +passing on to the consideration of the various modes of +indexing, it will perhaps be well to offer some answer to the +question—What can such a Society do? We have seen how +highly a good Index is appreciated by workers, but it does +not need much argument to prove how few such there are, +and how many more are wanted. It has been said that a +big book is a great evil, and so it is until it receives an Index, +and then it becomes a great good. Prof. De Morgan, who +treated Bibliography in a more interesting manner than many +authors treat lighter subjects, says, when referring to Samuel +Jeake’s “Arithmetick surveighed and reviewed,” (1696) in +his <i>Arithmetical Books</i>—“Those who know the value of a +large book with a good index will pick this one up when they +can.” Mr. Jeake published his work in a folio volume, the +size and weight of which made De Morgan suggest the +possibility that the author thought arithmetic was a branch +of controversial divinity. In spite of this he singles it out for +praise on account of the value of the information it contains +and the fullness of the references to this information. I +think we see in various directions evidence of an awakening +of interest in Index work, but this interest wants fostering, +and if book-buyers will agree to give the preference to well-indexed<span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[39]</span> +books, the publishers will soon be eager to supply +the want so generally recognized. We may then hope to see +the time when it will be as rare to find a book without an +Index as without a title-page. The Library Association of +the United Kingdom have set a good example by issuing the +Report of the Conference of Librarians, 1877, with an elaborate +Index to its varied contents, which has been much appreciated, +and does great credit to Mr. Tedder who compiled it.</p> + +<p>To direct public attention to a neglected subject is one of +the main objects of the Index Society; but although Indexes +to new books may be demanded from publishers, it is hardly to +be expected that these merchants in literature will index books +of the past. There are a large number of standard works to +which students must frequently refer, which are a source of +constant irritation from the difficulty of finding what is required +in their voluminous pages. The county and local +histories, in the possession of which England is so rich, +rank high in the list of these—a list which would also +contain the Standard Historical Collections, such as those +of Rushworth, and Nalson, the Harleian Miscellany, Somers’ +Tracts, Ellis’s Original Letters, and many other books that +it is needless to enumerate here.<a id="FNanchor_27" href="#Footnote_27" class="fnanchor">[27]</a> To this department the +Society will devote special attention. In all cases a book +that may be considered as <i>the</i> authority upon a given subject +will have the preference, so that the Indexes may serve as +complete guides to the various topics. In many instances the +works of standard authors will be indexed as a whole, and +in this way Indexes to particular books or authors will often +be Subject Indexes as well. With these and Subject Indexes +referring to Books and Papers in British and Foreign Journals +and Transactions, it is hoped that in a few years the Society +will have accumulated and published a series of books that will +be of real service to all classes of readers.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[40]</span></p> + +<p>Much that would otherwise be neglected may be done by a +public society, but to attack with effect the mass of work waiting +to be undertaken, it is necessary that we should receive a +hearty support. It is to the interest of subscribers to make +the objects of the Society widely known, and otherwise to help +it, because the more numerous the subscribers the larger will +be the return that each subscriber will get for his subscription, +and the larger the plot of the great field that can be put under +cultivation. It is expected that the work of the Society will +be largely extended when they acquire funds that will enable +them to open an office which shall contain a library of indexes, +and in which can be placed the General Reference Index.</p> + +<p>I have heard two objections brought against the scheme of +the Society:</p> + +<p>1. That it is needless to urge the compilation of indexes, +because every worker worthy of the name makes his own. +This, however, is just the loss of power that the Society wish +to prevent. Now the same work is often done over and over +again, and the MSS. are only saved from the waste-paper +basket by the merest chance, to be again lost among a heap of +other papers. There are, doubtless, many valuable indexes +lying hidden and unknown, and it will be our object to draw +them if possible to the light.</p> + +<p>2. That the General Index is an impossibility, and that to +attempt its preparation is a waste of time. Those who hold +this opinion have not sufficient faith in the simplicity and usefulness +of the alphabet. Every one has notes and references +of some kind, which are useless if kept unarranged, but if +sorted into alphabetical order become valuable. The object of +the General Index is just this, that anything, however disconnected, +can be placed there, and much that would otherwise be +lost will there find a resting place. Always growing and never +pretending to be complete, the Index will be useful to all, and +its consulters will be sure to find something worth their trouble +if not all they may require.</p> + +<p>The objects of the Society are national in their importance, +and as such they have been acknowledged by one who has +given one hundred guineas to help in their attainment. With +more such gifts how much might be done by the Society.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[41]</span></p> + +<p>Having dwelt in the previous pages upon some of the chief +points in the history of Indexing, we will now pass on to the +consideration of the practical part of the subject. The unwise +seem to be of opinion that any fool can index, but we have +already seen that the wise think differently. The remarks with +which Dr. Johnson opens the preface to his English Dictionary +may well be applied to the Indexer: “It is the fate of those +who toil at the lower employments of life to be rather driven +by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good; to +be exposed to censure, without hope of praise; to be disgraced +by miscarriage, or punished for neglect, where success would +have been without applause, and diligence without reward. +Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries; +whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave +of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove +rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths through which +Learning and Genius press forward to conquest and glory, +without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates +their progress. Every other author may aspire to praise; the +lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this +negative recompence has been yet granted to very few.” This +dishonouring estimate has received many rude shocks, and it +should be our aim to crush it entirely out of existence.</p> + +<p>In order to give some appearance of system to what might +otherwise be considered as mere desultory remarks, I propose +to arrange the following notes under the three heads of +I. Compilation; II. Arrangement; III. Printing.</p> + + +<p class="center p2">I.</p> + +<p>In the Instructions for an Index to the Statute Law, by Sir +Henry Thring,<a id="FNanchor_28" href="#Footnote_28" class="fnanchor">[28]</a> already referred to, we find the following +clear definitions which will serve to open this portion of our +case:—</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p class="pq">“The basis of an index to a book of the ordinary kind is a series of +titles or catchwords arranged in alphabetical order and indicative of the +main topics treated of in the book.”</p> + +<p class="pq">“The object of an index is to indicate the place in a book or collection<span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[42]</span> +of books in which particular information is to be found. Such an index is +perfect in proportion as it is concise in expression, whilst exhaustive in its +indication of every important topic of the subject to which it is an index.”</p> +</div> + +<p>The question naturally arises—how is the work to be set +about? In the Special Report on the Public Libraries of the +United States of America, Part I, 1876 (pp. 727-732), is an +article on “Book Indexes” by F. B. Perkins, which contains +some rather elementary instruction as to writing, cutting up, +and pasting, but in these matters of detail the best way of +proceeding will always be the way that the indexer feels that +he can work best. Some choose to write their Index straight +on in the order of the book itself, on sheets of paper which +are afterwards cut up, sorted, and pasted; others prefer to +use slips of paper and to write one entry on each slip; a third +class will make their entries at once into an alphabetical book, +or better still on loose sheets of paper placed in a portfolio +lettered in alphabetical order. By this means the indexer +sees his work grow under his hands. Whatever system however +is adopted, it is well to bear in mind that the indexer +should obtain some knowledge of the book he is about to +Index before he commences his work. The following remarks +by Sir H. Thring may be applied more generally than +to the law—“A complete knowledge of the whole <i>law</i> is +required before he begins to make the index, for until he +can look down on the entire field of law before him, he +cannot possibly judge of the proper arrangement of the headings, +or of the relative importance of the various provisions.”</p> + +<p>During his work the Indexer must constantly ask himself +what it is for which the consulter is likely to seek. The +author frequently uses periphrases to escape from the repetition +of the same fact in the same form, but these periphrases +will give little information when inserted as headings +in an Index, and it is in this point of selecting the best +catchword that the good Indexer will show his superiority +over the commonplace worker. There are a large number +of Indexes in which not only is the <i>best</i> heading <i>not</i> chosen +but the very <i>worst is</i>. Thus in the Indexes to the <i>Canadian +Journal</i>, a high-class magazine, we find such entries as the +following, arranged under the word here printed in italics:—</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[43]</span></p> + +<div class="bqctr sm"> +<p> +<i>A</i> Monograph of the British Spongiadæ.<br> +<i>On</i> the Iodide of Barium.<br> +<i>Sir</i> Charles Barry, a Biography.<br> +<i>The</i> late Professor Boole.<br> +<i>The</i> Mohawk Language.<br> +</p></div> + + +<p>The same arrangement may be found in the Index to the +Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, thus—</p> + +<div class="bqctr sm"> +<p> +<i>A</i> Strange Story.<br> +<i>Professor</i> Wheatstone, original proposals, &c.<br> +</p> +</div> + +<p>The handsome edition of Jewel’s <i>Apology</i> by Isaacson (1825) +contains an index which is worthy of special remark. It is +divided into four alphabets, referring respectively to 1. Life; +2. Apology; 3. Notes to Life; 4. Notes to Apology; and this +complicated machinery is attached to a book of only 286 pages. +I think I may say that there is hardly an entry in the Index +that would be of any use to the consulter, and to show that this +censure is not too sweeping, I will add a few specimens:</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p class="pq"><i>Belief</i> of a Resurrection.</p> + +<p class="pq"><i>Caution</i>, Reformers proceeded with caution.</p> + +<p class="pq"><i>If</i> Protestants are Heretics let the Papists prove them so from Scripture.</p> + +<p class="pq"><i>In</i> withdrawing themselves from the Church of Rome, Protestants have +not erred from Christ and his Apostles.</p> + +<p class="pq"><i>King</i> John.</p> + +<p class="pq"><i>The</i> Pope assumes Regal power and habit.</p> + +<p class="pq"> Ditto employs spies.</p> +</div> + +<p>In the “General Index to the Spectators, Tatlers and Guardians,” +referred to on a previous page, such words as Difference, +Digression, Directions, Discourse, Dissertation and Instance, +are specially noticed as bad headings in the original Indexes, +which have been changed in the new one; and yet these are +the very words that are chosen by rule for headings in the +British Museum Catalogue. Could any plan be adopted by +which the following books would more thoroughly be hidden +out of sight than by the present arrangement:</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p class="pq"><i>Kind.</i> A Kind of a Dialogue in Hudibrasticks; designed for the use of +the Unthinking and Unlearned (1739).</p> + +<p class="pq"><i>Kinds.</i> How to make several kinds of miniature pumps and a fire +engine; a book for boys (1860).</p> +</div> + +<p>Some bibliographers always prefer substantives to adjectives +as headings, but the whole point of a sentence is often contained<span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[44]</span> +in a substantival adjective. When adjective and substantive +are joined to represent one idea, as Alimentary Canal, +English History, they should be treated as compound nouns, +and arranged under the letters <i>A</i> and <i>E</i> respectively.<a id="FNanchor_29" href="#Footnote_29" class="fnanchor">[29]</a> The +most marked example of an opposite rule that I have ever seen +is to be found in the Index to Hare’s <i>Walks in London</i> (1878). +Here all the Alleys, Bridges, Buildings, Churches, Courts, +Houses, Streets, etc., are arranged under those headings, and +not under the proper name of each. There may be a certain +advantage in some of these headings, but few would look for +Lisson Grove under Grove, and the climax of absurdity is +reached when Chalk Farm is placed under <i>Farm</i>. The adopted +rule is not rigidly carried out, for Grey Friars will be found +under G, and Austin Friars under F. Another peculiarity of +this index is that a copy of it is added to each volume.</p> + +<p>Books of facts are much easier indexed than books of +opinion; but it is most important that the contents of the +latter should be properly registered. Some indexers seem to +be of opinion that proper names are the most important items +in an index, and while carefully including all these, they omit +facts and opinions of much greater importance. As a rule it +is objectionable when the consulter finds no additional information +in the book to what is already given in the index; for +instance, should the observation be made respecting a certain +state of mind that “the Duke of Wellington probably felt the +same at the Battle of Waterloo,” it will be well for the indexer +to pass the remark by unnoticed, as should he make the following +entries, the consulter is not likely to be in a very genial +mood when he looks up the references:</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p class="pq">Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington’s supposed feelings at the battle of.</p> + +<p class="pq">Wellington (Duke of), his supposed feelings at Waterloo.</p> +</div> + +<p>The hackneyed quotation of</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> +<p class="center"> +Best, Mr. Justice, his great mind,<br> +</p> +</div> + +<p>cannot be omitted here, although I am unable to give any +satisfactory account of its origin. It forms an excellent example +of the useless references to which we have just referred, +and contains as well a ludicrous misapprehension of the passage<span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[45]</span> +indexed, which is said to have been: “Mr. Justice Best said +that he had a great mind to commit the man for trial.” There +can be no doubt that the entry, whether it ever occurred in an +Index or not, was intended as a personal fling against Sir +William Draper Best, puisne judge of the King’s Bench from +1819 to 1824, and Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas +from 1824 to 1829, in which latter year he resigned, and was +created Lord Wynford. The story was told to Mr. Solly by +Sir W. Domville, in 1825, and with reference to the index to +one of Chitty’s Law Books. Another friend tells me that he +has a faint recollection that Chitty had a grudge against Best, +and took an opportunity of expending his bile in this entry; +but the late Dr. Doran insisted that the author of the joke +was Leigh Hunt, who first published it in the <i>Examiner</i>. In +this unsettled state we must leave the question, for it is not +worth while to search the files of a newspaper in order to find +the truth of so insignificant a matter.</p> + +<p>The form in which the various entries in an index are to be +drawn up is worthy of much attention, and particular care +should be taken to expunge all redundant words. For +instance, it will be better to write</p> + + +<table class="autotable" style="margin-left:10%;"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl sm">Smith (John), his character; his execution.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">than</td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl sm">Smith (John), character of; execution of.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">or</td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl sm">Brown (Robert) saves money.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">than</td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl sm">Brown (Robert), saving of money by.</td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<p>Sometimes a characteristic adjective or adverb will help to give +life and interest to the Index.</p> + +<p>The indexer must aim at conciseness, but he should always +specify the cause of reference, more especially in the case of +proper names.<a id="FNanchor_30" href="#Footnote_30" class="fnanchor">[30]</a> Few things are more annoying than to find +a block list of references after a name, so that the consulter +has to search through many pages before he can find what he +seeks.<a id="FNanchor_31" href="#Footnote_31" class="fnanchor">[31]</a> Mr. Markland draws particular attention to this point<span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[46]</span> +in a communication to the <i>Notes and Queries</i> (2nd series, +vol. vii. p. 469) on the subject of Indexes. He complains +bitterly of the Indexes to the collected edition of Walpole’s +Letters and to Scott’s Swift. In the latter book there are 638 +references to Harley, Earl of Oxford, without any indication of +the reason why his name is entered in the Index. This case +also affords a good instance of careless indexing in another +particular, for these references are separated under different +headings, instead of being gathered under one, as follows—</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Harley (Robert)</td> +<td class="tdl">227 references.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Oxford (Lord)</td> +<td class="tdl">111 ”</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Treasurer, Lord Oxford </td> +<td class="tdl">300 ”</td> +</tr> +</table> + +</div> + +<p>Mr. Markland takes the opportunity of pointing out that good +specimens of the right way to set out the references to an +individual are to be found in Nichols’s <i>Literary Anecdotes</i>; +Hallam’s <i>Constitutional History</i>; and Campbell’s <i>Lives of the +Lord Chancellors</i>. Probably the most colossal instance of the +fault above alluded to is to be found in Ayscough’s elaborate +Index to the <i>Gentleman’s Magazine</i>, where all the references +under one surname are placed together without even the distinction +of the Christian name. Mr. Solly made a curious +calculation as to the time that would be employed in looking +up these references. For instance, under the name <i>Smith</i>, there +are 2411 entries, all “en masse,” and with no initial letters. +If there were these divisions, one would find “Zachary Smith” +in a few minutes, but now one must look to each reference to +find what is wanted. With taking down the volumes, and +hunting through long lists of names, Mr. Solly found that each +reference cost him two minutes of time, a by no means extravagant +estimate; hence it would take the consulter eight +days (working steadily ten hours a day) to find out if there +be any note about Zachary Smith in the Magazine, a task so +awful to think of that it may be presumed that no one will +ever attempt it.</p> + +<p>In some books a man will merely be referred to as holding +an acre of land, or as having been seen by the author on a +certain day. In these instances a specific cause of reference +can hardly be given, but the difficulty may be got over by<span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[47]</span> +setting out the various entries in which some fact or opinion is +mentioned, and then gathering together the remainder under +the heading of <i>Alluded to</i>.</p> + +<p>One would imagine that correctness of reference was the <i>sine +qua non</i> of an index, and yet careless compilers, to save themselves +trouble, have sometimes neglected this great essential. +Books have been published with indexes that contained no +reference at all, and until late years glossaries have usually +been compiled without references to the places where the +different words are used.</p> + +<p>Mr. Peacock has drawn my attention to the reprint of +Whitelock’s <i>Memorials</i>, published by the University of Oxford +in 1853. The original edition is in one volume folio (1682, +reprinted 1732), and the new edition is in four volumes octavo, +but, to save expense, the <i>old</i> index was printed to the <i>new</i> +book. The difficulty was in part got over by giving the +pages of the 1732 edition in the margin; but, as may be +imagined, it is a most troublesome business to find anything +by it. If the old index were a good one, there might be +some excuse for its retention; but it is thoroughly bad, and +all the mere misprints are retained in the new one. As a +specimen of the extreme inaccuracy of the compilation, it +may be mentioned that under one heading of 34 entries Mr. +Peacock detected seven blunders, and, moreover, he does not +think that this is at all an unfavourable specimen. Although +Mr. Peacock has no statistics of the other entries, his experience +leads him to believe that if any heading were +taken at random, about one in four of the entries would be +found to be misprinted.</p> + +<p>An extreme case of misleading references is given in the +Index of Authors appended to the old Classified Catalogue of +the Library of Congress (Washington, 1840). The references +here are not to pages but to chapters, and as some of the +chapters extend over one hundred pages it may be guessed that +a very tedious search has to be made; for instance, to find the +reference <i>Abdy</i>, it is necessary to look over as many as seventy +pages.</p> + +<p>It has been said that a bad index is better than no index +at all, but this is open to question, as the incomplete index<span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[48]</span> +deceives the consulter. We have fair warning of this incompleteness +in <i>The Register of Corpus Christi Guild, York</i>, +published by the Surtees Society in 1872, where we read on +p. 321—“This Index contains the names of all persons +mentioned in the Appendix and foot-notes, but a selection only +is given of those who were admitted into the Guild or enrolled +in the Obituary.” The plan here adopted is not to be commended, +for it is clear that so important a name-list as this +is should be thoroughly indexed. However learned and +judicious an editor may be, we do not choose to submit to his +judgment in the offhand decision of what is, and what is +not—unimportant.</p> + +<p>Many of the best indexes are indexes and something more; +that is, information is added which may not be in the book +itself, such as the date of birth and death of the persons +mentioned, in order to distinguish between those bearing the +same proper names. Mr. Ralph Thomas has added to his +interesting notice of Quérard<a id="FNanchor_32" href="#Footnote_32" class="fnanchor">[32]</a> (a pamphlet of 48 pages), an +Index of eight pages. This index contains several such entries +as the following:—</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p>“Athenæum, The, no general index to, great literary want (and the +Athenæum reproached the Edinburgh Review for remissness in not +keeping up its indexes!).”</p> +</div> + +<p>The Index of Authors appended to De Morgan’s Arithmetical +Books, 1847, includes a list of reported Authors of +works on Arithmetic which are not noticed in the book, but +these of course have no mark of reference. By this means the +Index shows the deficiencies of the book as well as its riches. +It is needful, however, that the information added should be +correct. An important example of the effect of wrong indexing +is given in Merewether and Stephens’s “History of Boroughs +and Municipal Corporations.” The word “Incorporation” is +introduced into the index of the Patent Rolls without authority +from the text, and long before there were incorporations in this +country. The first actual use of the term is in the Charter of<span class="pagenum" id="Page_49">[49]</span> +Incorporation of Hull (18. Henr. VI.), but upon the error in +this index many other blunders have been founded.</p> + +<p>The Indexer needs knowledge so as to be able to correct +his author when necessary, for the most careful author will +make slips occasionally, and it is highly satisfactory when +the Indexer can set him right. He needs to be specially upon +his guard in the case of misprints. Probably the most fruitful +source of blundering is the confusion of the letters <i>u</i> and +<i>n</i>. These are identical in old MSS., and consequently the +copyist sometimes finds it difficult to decide which he shall +use. In Capgrave’s Chronicle of England is a reference to +the “londe of Iude” [Judæa], but this is mis-spelt <i>Inde</i> in +the edition published in the Master of the Rolls’ series in +1858. Here we have a simple misprint which can easily be +set right, but the Indexer has enlarged it into a wonderful +blunder. Under the letter I is the following curious piece of +information:—</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p>“India ... conquered by Judas Maccabeus and his brethren, 56.”!!</p> +</div> + +<p>Many more instances of this confusion of the letters <i>u</i> and <i>n</i> +might be given here, but two will suffice. George Lo<i>n</i>don +was a very eminent horticulturist in his day, who, at the +Revolution, was appointed Superintendent of the Royal +Gardens, but he can seldom get his name properly spelt, +because a later horticulturist has made the name Lo<i>u</i>don more +familiar. The reverse mistake was one made by the Duke of +Wellington. C. J. Loudon (whose handwriting was not very +legible) wrote to the Duke a request that he might see the +Waterloo beeches at Stratfieldsaye. The letter puzzled the +Duke, who knew nothing of the horticulturist, and read C. J. +Lo<i>u</i>don as C. J. Lo<i>n</i>don and beeches as breeches; so he wrote off +to Bishop Blomfield that his Waterloo breeches disappeared +long ago.</p> + +<p>The worst blunders are not made by the ignorant, but by +those who think themselves clever and jump to unwarranted +conclusions; for instance, the compiler of a history of Norwich +attributed a work on the Differential Calculus by a Fellow of +St. John’s College, Cambridge, to a medical practitioner of the +town; but in order to make the subject more appropriate, he<span class="pagenum" id="Page_50">[50]</span> +inserted the information in the following form—“to our +respected fellow-townsman Mr. Arthur Brown we are indebted +for a valuable treatise on <i>different calculi</i>”! There are few +mistakes easier fallen into by Cataloguers and Indexers than +that of rolling two men into one, and few blunders are less +easily forgiven by the objects of the confusion; thus Bishop +Jebb is said to have been in dismay when he found himself +identified in Watt’s <i>Bibliotheca Britannica</i> with his uncle the +Unitarian writer. In Dircks’s <i>Worcesteriana</i> (1866) there is a +curious muddle of this kind. The first reprint of the Marquis of +Worcester’s <i>Century of Inventions</i> was issued by Thomas Payne, +the highly respected bookseller of the Mews Gate, in 1746, but +Mr. Dircks positively asserts that the “notorious Tom Paine” +was the publisher of it, thus ignoring the different spelling of +the two names.</p> + +<p>A curious instance of uniting two men into one will be +found in the <i>Athenæum</i> for May 13, 1871, where we read that +“William Haidinger von Franz Ritter v. Hauer, the geologist +and mineralogist, has died recently.” What is here supposed +to be one name is really the title of a biography of Haidinger +by von Hauer.</p> + +<p>There are a considerable number of names which have been +created through the misreading of difficult words, and names +of persons who never existed have by this means found their +way into Biographical Dictionaries. In the Zoological +Bibliography of Agassiz, there is an imaginary author, by +name J. K. Broch, whose work, “Entomologische Briefe,” +was published in 1823. This pamphlet is anonymous, and +written by one who signed himself J. K. <i>Broch.</i> is merely an +explanation in the catalogue from which the entry was taken, +that it was a brochure. Moreri created an author whom he +styled “Dorus Basilicus” out of the title of James the First’s +Δωρον βασιλικον, and Bishop Walton supposed the title of the +great Arabic Dictionary, the <i>Kamoos</i>, or Ocean, to be the name +of an author whom he quotes as “Camus.” In the <i>Biographie +Universelle</i> there is a life of one “Nicholas Donis” by Baron +Walckenaer, that name being a mere blundering alteration of +“Dominus Nicholas,” this Benedictine monk’s true appellation. +Thevenot, in his Travels, refers to the fables of “Damné et<span class="pagenum" id="Page_51">[51]</span> +Calilve,” meaning the Hitopadesa or Pilpay’s Fables. His +translator calls them the fables of the damned Calilve. This +is on a par with De Quincey’s specimen of a French Abbé’s +Greek. Having to paraphrase the words “Ἡροδοτος και ιαζων,” +(Herodotus even while Ionicizing), the Frenchman rendered +them “Herodote et aussi Jazon,” thus creating a new author, +one Jazon.<a id="FNanchor_33" href="#Footnote_33" class="fnanchor">[33]</a> In the <i>Present State of Peru</i>, a compilation from +the <i>Mercurio Peruano</i>, P. Geronymo Roman de la Higuera is +transformed into “Father Geronymo, a Romance of La Higuera”! +Well may we say to the worthy priest what Peter Quince said +to Bottom, “Bless thee, bless thee, thou art translated.”</p> + +<p>The scissors-and-paste compilers are peculiarly liable to such +errors as these, and Wilson Croker proved in the Quarterly +Review that the <i>Mémoires de Louis XVIII.</i> (published in 1832) +was a mendacious compilation from the <i>Mémoires de Bachaumont</i> +by giving examples of the compiler’s blundering. One of +these muddles is well worth quoting, and it occurs in the +following passage: “Seven bishops—of <i>Puy</i>, Gallard de +Terraube; of <i>Langres</i>, La Luzerne; of <i>Rhodez</i>, Seignelay-Colbert; +of <i>Gast</i>, Le Tria; of <i>Blois</i>, Laussiere Themines; of +<i>Nancy</i>, Fontanges; of <i>Alais</i>, Beausset; of <i>Nevers</i>, Seguiran.” +Had the compiler taken the trouble to count his own list, he +would have seen that he had given eight names instead of +seven, and so have suspected that something was wrong; but +he was not paid to think. The fact is that there is no such +place as Gast, and was no such person as Le Tria. The Bishop +of Rhodez was Seignelay-Colbert de Castle Hill, a descendant +of the Scotch family of Cuthbert of Castle Hill, in Inverness-shire, +and Bachaumont misled his successor by writing Gast +Le Hill for Castle Hill. The introduction of a stop and a +little misspelling originated the blunder as we now find it.</p> + +<p>An author is sometimes turned into a place, as in the article +on <i>Stenography</i> in Rees’s Cyclopædia. John Nicolai published +a Treatise on the Signs of the Ancients at the beginning of the +last century, and the writer of the article having seen it stated +that a certain fact was to be found in Nicolai, jumped to the +conclusion that it was the name of a place and wrote: “It was<span class="pagenum" id="Page_52">[52]</span> +at Nicolai that this method of writing was first introduced to +the Greeks by Xenophon himself.”</p> + +<p>D’Israeli gives a few curious instances of supposed authors +in his <i>Curiosities of Literature</i>—“A book was written in praise +of Ciampini by Ferdinand Fabiani, who quoting a French +narrative of travels in Italy, took for the name of the author +the following words, found at the end of the title-page, <i>Enrichi +de deux Listes</i>; that is, ‘Enriched with two Lists:’ on this he +observes ‘that Mr. Enriched with two Lists has not failed to do +that justice to Ciampini which he merited.’ The abridgers of +Gesner’s Bibliotheca ascribe the romance of <i>Amadis</i> to one +<i>Acuerdo Olvido</i>: Remembrance, Oblivion. Not knowing that +these two words on the title-page of the French version of that +book formed the translator’s Spanish motto. D’Aquin, the +French King’s physician, in his memoir on the preparation of +Bark, takes <i>Mantissa</i>, which is the title of the Appendix to the +History of Plants by Johnstone, for the name of an author, +and who he says is so extremely rare, that he only knows him +by name.” To these may be added <i>S. Viar</i>, whose existence +was supposed to be proved by an inscription until an antiquary +showed that the complete reading of the mutilated stone was</p> + +<p class="center"> +<span class="smcap">præfectuS . VIARum</span>.<br> +</p> + +<p>Also the <i>August Oriuna</i>, supposed to be the wife of Carausius, +of whom Dr. Stukeley wrote some theoretical memoirs. This +blunder originated in the credulous Doctor’s misreading of the +inscription on a battered coin of Carausius:—</p> + +<p class="center"> +<span class="allsmcap">ORIVNA AVG</span> . <i>for</i> <span class="allsmcap">FORTVNA AVG</span>.<br> +</p> + +<p>The French often fall into this class of blunders from their +constant practice of translating or explaining whatever it is +supposed can be translated or explained, thus G. Brunet of +Bordeaux, having occasion in his “La France Littéraire au +XVe Siècle,” to mention “White Knights,” the seat of the Duke +of Marlborough, translates it “Le Chevalier Blanc.”<a id="FNanchor_34" href="#Footnote_34" class="fnanchor">[34]</a> When +Dr. Buckland, the distinguished geologist, died, a certain +French paper published a biography of him, in which it was +explained that the deceased had been a very versatile writer, for<span class="pagenum" id="Page_53">[53]</span> +besides his works on Geology, he had produced one, “Sur les +ponts et chaussées.” This was a puzzle at first, but it was soon +found that the Bridgewater Treatise was here alluded to. The +French love of translation and explanation is amusingly illustrated +in the <i>Annuaire des Sociétés Savantes, par le Cte. Achmet +d’Hericourt</i>, 1863, where the author, in his notice of the +Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of +Yorkshire, says that as it is known that the English word <i>Ride</i> +means a “voyage à cheval ou en voiture,” it might be thought +that this was a “Société hippique,” but he obligingly adds +that it is not so.</p> + +<p>We have already seen in several cases how dangerous it is +to jump to conclusions, but we have still to point out the particular +danger of filling out contractions without sufficient +knowledge. Pope, in a note on <i>Measure for Measure</i>, informs +us that the story was taken from Giraldi Cinthio’s novel Dec. +8, Nov. 5, thus contracting the words Decade and Novel. +Warburton, in his edition of Shakespeare, was misled by these +contractions, and filled them out as December 8, and November +5. An error of the same kind is made by Dr. Allibone in his +Dictionary of English Literature, under the heading of Isaac +Disraeli. He notices new editions of that author’s works revised +by the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, of +course Isaac’s son Benjamin (now Earl of Beaconsfield and +Prime Minister); but unfortunately there were two Chancellors +in 1858, and Allibone chooses the wrong one, printing as information +to the reader that the reviser was Sir George Cornewall +Lewis. But still worse was the following emendation of +an ‘intelligent’ printer. A writer in one of the reviews sent +his copy to press with the contraction “J. C. first invaded +Britain,” and the compositor, who made it his business to fill +up all such abbreviations, instead of Julius Cæsar, set up <i>Jesus +Christ</i>.<a id="FNanchor_35" href="#Footnote_35" class="fnanchor">[35]</a></p> + +<p>Next in importance to the selection of appropriate headings<span class="pagenum" id="Page_54">[54]</span> +in an Index is the careful use of cross references. Great judgment +is here required, as the consulters are naturally irritated +by being referred backwards and forwards, particularly in a large +Index. At the same time, if judiciously inserted, such references +are a great help. When the entries are short and few, it is +better to repeat them than to refer from one to the other. In +the case of long entries cross references are very advantageous, +and it is always well to refer to cognate headings.<a id="FNanchor_36" href="#Footnote_36" class="fnanchor">[36]</a> This, however, +must not be carried too far; for, as Mr. Poole says in an +article on his own index,<a id="FNanchor_37" href="#Footnote_37" class="fnanchor">[37]</a> “If every subject shall have cross +references to its allies, the work will be mainly a book of cross +references rather than an index of subjects.” He adds, “One +correspondent gives fifty-eight cross references under Mental +Philosophy, and fifty-eight more might be added just as appropriate.”</p> + +<p>At all events let the cross references be real. In Eadie’s +Dictionary of the Bible (1850), there is a reference “Dorcas +<i>see</i> Tabitha,” but there is no entry under Tabitha at all.</p> + +<p>No reference to the contents of a general heading which +is without subdivision should be allowed.<a id="FNanchor_38" href="#Footnote_38" class="fnanchor">[38]</a> There are too +many of these vague cross references in the Penny Cyclopædia, +where you are referred from the known to the unknown. +If a general heading be divided into sections, and +each of these be clearly defined, they should be cross referenced, +but not otherwise. At present you may look for +Pesth and be referred to Hungary, where probably there is +much about Pesth, but you do not know where to look for +it in the long article without clue. Sometimes cross references +are mere expedients, particularly in the case of a cyclopædia +published in volumes or numbers. Thus a writer agrees +to contribute an article early in the alphabet, but is not ready<span class="pagenum" id="Page_55">[55]</span> +in time for the publication of the part, so a cross reference is +inserted which sends the reader to a synonym later on in the +alphabet. In certain cases this has been done two or three +times. In Cobbett’s <i>Woodlands</i> there is a good specimen of +backwards and forwards cross referencing. The author writes: +“Many years ago I wished to know whether I could raise +birch trees from the <i>seed</i>.... I then looked into the +great book of knowledge, the Encyclopædia Britannica; there +I found in the general dictionary—</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p><span class="smcap">Birch Tree.</span>—See <i>Betula</i> (Botany Index).</p> +</div> + +<p>I hastened to <span class="smcap">Betula</span> with great eagerness and there I found—</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p><span class="smcap">Betula.</span>—See <i>Birch</i> Tree.</p> +</div> + +<p>That was all, and this was pretty encouragement.”</p> + +<p>Cross referencing has its curiosities as well as other branches +of our subject. Perhaps the most odd collection of cross references +are to be found in Hawkins’s <i>Pleas of the Crown</i>, of which +it was said in the <i>Monthly Magazine</i> for June, 1801 (p. 419) +“A plain unlettered man is led to suspect that the writer of the +volume and the writer of the index are playing at cross purposes.” +The following are some of the most amusing entries, +but there are many more as good:</p> + + +<div class="bqctr"> + +<div class="blockquotsm" style="float:left;"> +<p class="nw"> +Assault, <i>see</i> Son.<br> +Cards, <i>see</i> Dice.<br> +Cattle, <i>see</i> Clergy.<br> +Chastity, <i>see</i> Homicide.<br> +Coin, <i>see</i> High Treason.<br> +Convicts, <i>see</i> Clergy.<br> +Death, <i>see</i> Appeal.<br> +Election, <i>see</i> Bribery.<br> +</p> +</div> + + +<div class="blockquotsm" style="float:right;"> +<p class="nw"> +Farthing, <i>see</i> Halfpenny.<br> +Fear, <i>see</i> Robbery.<br> +Footway, <i>see</i> Nuisance.<br> +Honour, <i>see</i> Constable.<br> +King, <i>see</i> Treason.<br> +London, <i>see</i> Outlawry.<br> +Shop, <i>see</i> Burglary.<br> +Sickness, <i>see</i> Bail.<br> +</p> +</div> +</div> + + +<p class="cl">The Index to Ford’s Handbook of Spain contains an amusing +reference—</p> + +<p class="center sm"> +Wellington, <i>see</i> Duke.<br> +</p> + +<p>But perhaps the strangest place to find a cross reference is on +a tombstone. In Barnes churchyard the following inscription +was put up to a once famous actor:—</p> + +<p class="center sm"> +Mr. J. Moody<br> +A native of the Parish of Saint Clement Danes<br> +and an old Member of Drury Lane Theatre.<br> +For his Memoirs see the European Magazine; for his professional<br> +abilities see Churchill’s Rosciad.<br> +Obiit Dec. 26 1812,<br> +Anno Ætatis 85.<br> +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_56">[56]</span></p> + + +<p class="p2 center">II.</p> + +<p>Intimately connected with compilation is arrangement, for +however well the contents of a book may be analysed, the result +will not form a good Index unless it is well arranged.</p> + +<p>An Index should be one and indivisible, and not broken up +into several alphabets, thus every work ought to have its complete +Index whether it is one volume or many.<a id="FNanchor_39" href="#Footnote_39" class="fnanchor">[39]</a> This important +rule has frequently been neglected in English books, +and is almost universally rejected in Foreign ones, to the +great inconvenience of readers. An Index may be arranged +either chronologically, alphabetically, or according to classes, +but great confusion will be caused by uniting the three. The +alphabetical arrangement is so simple, so convenient, and so +easily understood by all, that it has naturally superseded the +other forms, but some still cling to the rags of classification, +in the belief that that is a more scientific arrangement. The +evil of this is that the consulter is never sure whether the +reference he requires may not be lurking in some place that +he has missed, but in the case of a single alphabet an answer +to the question “Does the Index contain what I require?” +is obtained at once. Classification is the reverse of this, for, +as Mr. Poole says in his observations on the proposal of one +of his helpers to place Wealth, Finance, and Population under +the head of Political Economy—“the fatal defect of every +classified arrangement is that nobody understands it except +the person who made it and he is often in doubt.” The +general principle here enunciated will perhaps be better understood +by reference to a few examples. Brayley’s <i>Surrey</i>, in +five volumes, has a separate Index to each volume, and it is a +pretty general experience that whatever is wanted is sure to +be found in the last volume consulted. The new edition of +Hutchins’s <i>Dorset</i>, 1874, has at the end eight separate Indexes, +1. Places; 2. Pedigrees; 3. Persons; 4. Arms; 5. Blazons; +6. Glossarial; 7. Domesday; 8. Inquisitions. How much +thought is here required which would not be needed were all +united into one alphabet. The general Index to the Reports of<span class="pagenum" id="Page_57">[57]</span> +the British Association is a most inconvenient one to use, as it +is split up into six alphabets; but the evil of these subdivisions is +most marked in Indexes to the various volumes of the <i>Athenæum</i>, +which are so subdivided that they are practically useless. Who +would rack his brain to find under which of the many headings +the subject he requires is likely to be hidden? These divided +Indexes are the exception in English books, but abroad almost +every Index is in two parts: 1. Persons; 2. Things. The +Index to Arago’s complete works has the threefold division: +1. Auteurs; 2. Cosmique; 3. Matières. If this division be +made, it ought surely to be carried out correctly, and yet in +the <i>Autoren Register</i> to Carus’ and Engelmann’s Bibliography +of Zoology may be found the following entries: <i>Schreiben</i>; +<i>Schriften</i>; <i>Zu</i> Humboldts Cosmos; <i>Zur</i> Fauna.</p> + +<p>The inconveniences of classification in an index are so +palpable that it is needless to add more, but a list of titles of +books that have given trouble to bibliographers, and at sundry +times have been misarranged, will perhaps be amusing. +Edgeworth’s Essay on Irish Bulls and a Treatise on the +Great Seal have been placed under the heading of <i>Zoology</i>; +Napier’s Bones under <i>Anatomy</i>; Swinburne’s Under the Microscope +under <i>Optical Instruments</i>; a volume of Poems, entitled +the Viol and Lute, under <i>Musical Instruments</i>; Ruskin’s Notes +on the Construction of Sheepfolds under <i>Agriculture</i>; +McEwen on the Types under <i>Printing</i>; and most famous of +all, Link, de Stellis Marinis, under <i>Astronomy</i>. Disraeli reports +an amusing anecdote of “an honest friar who compiled a +church history and placed in the class of ecclesiastical writers +Guarini, the Italian poet; this arose from a most risible +blunder: on the faith of the title of his celebrated amorous +pastoral <i>Il Pastor Fido</i>, ‘The Faithful Shepherd,’ our good +father imagined that the character of a curate, vicar, or +bishop, was represented in this work.”</p> + +<p>Such incongruities as these had a charm for the author of +the <i>Curiosities of Literature</i>, and he therefore devotes a chapter +to the “Titles of Books.” The foregoing are tempting subjects +for the jumpers to conclusions, but some titles are impenetrable—what, +for instance, can be made of <i>Labia Dormientum</i>? It +turns out to be a Catalogue of rabbinical writers, and was so<span class="pagenum" id="Page_58">[58]</span> +called in reference to a passage in <i>Solomon’s Song</i>, “Like the +best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing <i>the +lips of those that are asleep to speak</i>” (vii. 19).</p> + +<p>In order to help the makers of Indexes in judging of the +relative extent of the various letters of the Alphabet certain +calculations have been made,<a id="FNanchor_40" href="#Footnote_40" class="fnanchor">[40]</a> but the statistics must vary +greatly according to the character of the Index. Thus <i>B</i> is +the largest in an Index of English names, but loses its preeminence +in an Index of subjects, and <i>S</i> takes high rank in +both classes.</p> + +<p>Mr. Curtis advocates in his paper the arrangement under +each initial letter according to the next following vowel, a plan +often adopted in Locke’s and other Common Place Books, but +which is highly inconvenient, especially when words without a +second vowel as <i>Ash</i> and <i>Epps</i> are placed at the head of each +letter, as <i>Ash</i> before <i>Adam</i> and <i>Abel</i>; and <i>Epps</i> before +<i>Ebenezer</i>.</p> + +<p>In arranging entries in alphabetical order it is necessary to +sort them up to the most minute difference of spelling. In +order to save themselves trouble some workers think they may +leave off sorting at the third letter, and their idleness gives +others much annoyance. I have often been troubled in this +way when consulting the Index to a large map of England in +which the names of places are not arranged further than the +third letter.</p> + +<p>The Alphabetical arrangement has its difficulties which must +be overcome; for instance, it looks awkward when the plural +comes before the singular, and the adjective before the substantive +from which it is formed, as <i>naval</i> and <i>navies</i> before +<i>navy</i>.</p> + +<p>Another difficulty arises when names and words from a +foreign language are introduced into an English Index. The +only safe rule in these cases is to use the English alphabet.<a id="FNanchor_41" href="#Footnote_41" class="fnanchor">[41]</a> +One of the Rules of the American Library Association is, “The +German <i>ae</i>, <i>oe</i>, <i>ue</i> are always to be written ä, ö, ü, and arranged<span class="pagenum" id="Page_59">[59]</span> +as a, o, u”; by this Goethe would have to be written Göthe, +which is now an unusual form, and I think it would be better +to insist that where both forms are used, one or other should be +chosen and all instances spelt alike. It is a very common +practice to arrange ä, ö, ü, as if they were written ae, oe, ue, +but this leads to the greatest confusion, and no notice should be +taken of letters that are merely to be understood. Those who +have stumbled over the arrangement that treats the vowel I +and consonant J, and the vowel U and consonant V, as identical, +will be glad to have a rule that keeps them distinct.</p> + +<p>Although it has been previously said that words and names +must be arranged in alphabet up to their last letters, it is +necessary to bear in mind that each word is to stand by itself; +for instance, first will come the various persons bearing the +surname <i>Grave</i>, arranged according to the order of their +Christian names,</p> + +<div class="bqctr sm"> + +<p class="pq">Grave, George,<br>Grave, John,</p> +</div> + +<p>then the substantive and adjective <i>grave</i>, arranged according to +the alphabet of the words that follow,</p> + +<div class="bqctr sm"> + +<p class="pq">Grave at Kherson,<br>Grave of Hope,<br>Grave Thoughts,</p> +</div> + +<p>and last,</p> + +<div class="bqctr sm"> + +<p class="pq">Gravelot,<br>Gravesend.<a id="FNanchor_42" href="#Footnote_42" class="fnanchor">[42]</a></p> +</div> + +<p>We now come to the consideration of a matter of some +perplexity. It is more of a difficulty for the Cataloguer than for +the Indexer, still it is one with which the latter must grapple. +There cannot be two opinions about the simple rule that a man +should be set down under his surname, but our trouble commences +when we ask the question—What is a surname? The +answer to it must necessarily be complicated on account of the +varieties of form which proper names take in different languages. +The greatest difficulty arises from the prefixes, some +of which can easily be dispensed with, while others are integral +portions of the name.<a id="FNanchor_43" href="#Footnote_43" class="fnanchor">[43]</a> If the prefix be a preposition, it must +be rejected, and the name arranged in alphabet under the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_60">[60]</span> +following letter; thus, <i>D’</i>, <i>De</i>, in French, <i>Da</i> in Italian,<a id="FNanchor_44" href="#Footnote_44" class="fnanchor">[44]</a> <i>Von</i> +in German, and <i>Van</i> in Dutch, are no real portion of foreign +names, which can stand very well without them. If, however, +the prefix be an article, such as the French <i>La</i>, it must be +retained; for instance, the full name of the great astronomer +La Place is De La Place, but it is under <i>L</i> that it could alone +be placed with propriety. If no other reason could be given, +a very sufficient one might be found in the fact that were +not <i>De</i> and <i>Von</i> rejected, a large proportion of French and +German names would appear respectively under those prefixes. +Although this rule is generally accepted as the only true one, it +is seldom carried out consistently; thus in the South Kensington +Universal Catalogue of Books on Art, we find D’Ayzac under +<i>Ayzac</i>, D’Azara under <i>D</i>, D’Azeglio under <i>A</i>, De La Blanchère +under <i>D</i>, De La Borde under <i>L</i>, De La Fons under both <i>D</i> and +<i>L</i>, with a cross reference from Fons. A logical difficulty arises +when the preposition is joined to the article, as in <i>Du</i> and <i>Des</i>, +and here, in order to retain the article, we are forced to retain +the preposition as well. These rules only apply to Foreign +names, and such English names as De Quincey, Delabeche, +Van Mildert, must be arranged under <i>D</i> and <i>V</i> respectively, +because the prefixes are here meaningless.</p> + +<p>The rule for the arrangement of compound names differs +accordingly as these names are either English or Foreign.<a id="FNanchor_45" href="#Footnote_45" class="fnanchor">[45]</a> The +frequent practice in England of using surnames as baptismal +names gives the united names the appearance of compound +names, which they really are not. The first name in a foreign +compound is almost invariably the true name, and frequently +the second name is that of the owner’s wife or mother. The +French cannot understand our sur-christian-names, and with few +exceptions treat them as true surnames. There is a most amusing +blunder consequent on this misapprehension in the well-known +<i>Biographie Moderne</i>, edited by the late Dr. Hoefer, and published +by Firmin Didot. In this valuable Biographical +Dictionary there is a long account of Brigham Young, extending +over many columns, but, instead of appearing under <i>Y</i>, +it has a place found for it in letter <i>B</i>, and the heading runs as<span class="pagenum" id="Page_61">[61]</span> +follows: “Brigham le jeune ou Brigham Young”! Although +such an instance as this could not well be paralleled in any +English book of the same high character, we are not as a +nation incapable of making blunders of a like kind. De +Morgan remarks, in his Arithmetical Books, “I have had in +one or two instances to throw away German <i>Authors</i> for a very +obvious reason. The reader will not find the works of <i>Anleitung</i> +or <i>Grundriss</i> or <i>Rechenbuch</i> in my list, which is more than +can be said of every one that has preceded it.” <i>Derselbe</i> might +have been added, as it sometimes has a very surname-like look. +Blunders are of no particular nationality, and it is needful to +use special vigilance in transferring proper names from the +books of one language to those of another. The most trustful, +however, would be on his guard when dealing with a writer +who introduced the Duke of Newcastle to his readers as “Gul. +de Cavendy dux de Xeucathle.”</p> + +<p>Sometimes we have to deal with the latinised names of +celebrated men, and it is a very frequent practice to turn these +back into the vernacular, but it may be questioned whether +it is right to do so. De Morgan writes, “I have not attempted +to translate the names of those who wrote in Latin at a time +when that language was the universal medium of communication.... +It is well to know that Copernicus, Dasypodius, +Xylander, Regiomontanus, and Clavius were Zepernik, Rauchfuss, +Holtzmann, Müller and Schlüssel. But as the butcher’s +bills of these eminent men are lost, and their writings only +remain, it is best to designate them by the name which they +bear on the latter rather than on the former.”</p> + +<p>The question however has pertinently been asked, how are +we to act if the butchers’ bills were by chance to be forthcoming +and required registration in a Catalogue of Manuscripts. +Probably in this case also it would be well to arrange +the names under their best known forms. The Hungarians, +and sometimes the Italians, place the surname before the +Christian name, which is very confusing to those unacquainted +with the practice. Sometimes the same difficulty occurs in +English from the manner in which the names are printed; +thus we learn from the <i>Gentleman’s Magazine</i> that</p> + + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl vt">Owen Gallager<br>Fleetwood Hesketh</td> +<td class="tdc"> <img src="images/rightbr.png" alt="" style="height:2.5em;"> </td> +<td class="tdl">died in 1769.</td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_62">[62]</span></p> + +<p>The Index-maker indexed these as <i>Gallager</i> and <i>Fleetwood</i>! +so that the death of Mr. Gallager may easily be found, but the +date of Mr. Hesketh’s death cannot be found at all. The +change of family name is a source of confusion to those unacquainted +with the niceties of genealogy. Mr. Solly draws my +attention to a case of this kind in which the Heskeths changed +their name in 1806 to Bamford by Act of Parliament, and then +subsequently obtained another Act to change it back to Hesketh. +Now the name is Lloyd-Hesketh-Bamford-Hesketh, which is +almost as complicated a series as Edward George Earle Lytton +Bulwer Lytton, Lord Lytton.<a id="FNanchor_46" href="#Footnote_46" class="fnanchor">[46]</a> This leads us to the rule by +which peers are to be arranged under their titles instead of their +family names.<a id="FNanchor_47" href="#Footnote_47" class="fnanchor">[47]</a> The most usual and certainly most natural +practice is so to arrange them, but the British Museum rule is +the reverse, and Mr. Cutter followed the Museum rule in his +full rules, although he did not approve of it. In the short +rules drawn up by Mr. Cutter and a Committee of the American +Library Association<a id="FNanchor_48" href="#Footnote_48" class="fnanchor">[48]</a> this is judiciously altered and some sound +reasons are given for the later decision. The definition of a +name as “that by which a person or thing is known” would +naturally lead to the choice of Chesterfield as the name of the +author of Chesterfield’s Letters, because Stanhope is the name +by which he is not known. It is further added—</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"> + +<p>“In regard to one objection urged against entry under the title, that it +brings together members of different families who at various times have +had the same title, and that it separates members of the same family who +have held different titles, the Committee cannot see what this has to do +with the question. The works of the various Smiths are put side by side +in the Catalogue, not because their authors belong to the same family, +which may or may not be the case, but because their names are spelled +alike and must be put together if they are ever to be found in a Catalogue +which is arranged alphabetically. If the son of James Smith chooses to +uniformly spell his name Smythe he will be put not with the ancestral +Smiths, but among the Smy’s, because he will be looked for there; and +if he is Duke of Abercorn he should be put under Abercorn for the same<span class="pagenum" id="Page_63">[63]</span> +reason. A Catalogue is not a biographical dictionary or a genealogical +table, and its efficiency is in danger of being lessened if its makers confound +the two purposes.”<a id="FNanchor_49" href="#Footnote_49" class="fnanchor">[49]</a></p> +</div> + +<p>In some instances, such as Horace Walpole, the name by +which the great letter writer is always known, the rule must +be broken, but double references should be adopted in all doubtful +cases; thus Bulwer’s novels cannot be ignored, although +their author’s name must be treated as Lytton. Apropos of +the sound rule that all theories as to the separation of different +members of the same family must be disregarded, we may +mention the case of a great composer. It would be impossible +to arrange the name of Meyerbeer under any other letter than +<i>M</i>, although by doing so we place him under his Christian +name, and separate him from his scientific brother Beer. There +can hardly be a greater absurdity than to ferret out a man’s +earliest name, and place him under that. In the British +Museum Catalogue the works of Sir Francis Palgrave are +entered under <i>Cohen</i>, a name which 999 persons out of every +thousand never heard of in connexion with him.</p> + +<p>Bishops, deans and others, holding official titles, must always +be arranged under their family names. It has been objected +that reasons which apply to peers apply also to them; but this +is not really the case, for a bishop is frequently referred to by +his surname during his lifetime, and always so after his death. +He has but a life interest in the name of his see. To illustrate +this I would mention two eminent contemporaries—John +Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Gilbert Burnet, Bishop +of Salisbury. We know the one as Duke of Marlborough and +the other as Bishop Burnet, and we should naturally turn to +M. and B. respectively for their names.</p> + +<p>There are a few minor matters worthy of mention in this +department of name headings. The initials which stand for +Christian names often give much trouble, particularly among +foreigners. Most Frenchmen consider themselves too important +and well known to need the use of Christian names, and +therefore <i>M.</i> usually stands for <i>Monsieur</i>; this cannot, however, +be taken for granted without inquiry, for it sometimes<span class="pagenum" id="Page_64">[64]</span> +means <i>Michel</i> or other Christian name commencing with <i>M</i>. +I have noticed in a German periodical<a id="FNanchor_50" href="#Footnote_50" class="fnanchor">[50]</a> some extreme cases of +the careless use of initials; and the three following will afford +good specimens of this: 1. H. D. Gerling; 2. H. W. Brandes; +3. D. W. Olbers. Here all three cases look alike, but in the +first H. D. represent two titles—Herr Doctor; in the second +H. W. represent two Christian names—Heinrich Wilhelm; +and in the third, one title and one Christian name are intended—Dr. +W. Olbers. To some these points will appear trivial, +but they are not so to those who have undergone endless trouble +in unravelling the enigmas. The indexer should insert the +names of persons in all simplicity, and ruthlessly omit the Mr. +so frequently used by his author.<a id="FNanchor_51" href="#Footnote_51" class="fnanchor">[51]</a> It was the neglect of this +rule which angered Dr. Johnson. Boswell records how, “happening +to mention Mr. Flaxman, a dissenting minister, with +some compliment to his exact memory in chronological matters, +the Dr. replied, ‘Let me hear no more of him, Sir. That is +the fellow who made the Index to my Ramblers, and set down +the name of Milton thus: Milton, <i>Mr.</i> John.’”</p> + +<p>It is amusing to find that in spite of this ebullition no means +were taken to remedy the evil. Johnson died in 1784, and yet +in the twelfth edition of the <i>Rambler</i>, dated 1791, which is now +before me, I find the same dishonouring title still retained. +Besides <i>Mr.</i> Milton, notices of <i>Mr.</i> Richard Baxter, <i>Mr.</i> Abraham +Cowley, <i>Mr.</i> John Dryden, <i>Mr.</i> Alexander Pope, and <i>Mr.</i> +Edmund Spenser will be found in the Index.</p> + +<p>Oddities in names give trouble, and are frequently the cause +of blunders; for instance, there are living at the same time +grandfather, father and grandson, who all bear the same names. +To distinguish himself, the grandson adds the word <i>Tertius</i> to +his name, and his card is printed as <i>John Smith Ter.</i> Now +‘Ter’ is so unusual an affix that a hurried cataloguer or indexer +might almost be excused for treating it as Mr. Smith’s surname.</p> + +<p>The signatures of Peers and Bishops are a source of trouble<span class="pagenum" id="Page_65">[65]</span> +to many, thus a certain eminent bookseller is said to have once +received a letter signed ‘George Winton,’ proposing the publication +of a life of Pitt, but, as he did not know the name, he +paid no attention to the letter, and was much astonished when +he afterwards learnt that his correspondent was no less a person +than Pitt’s friend and former tutor, George Pretyman Tomline +Bishop of Winchester. This is akin to the mistake of the +Scotch doctor attending on the Princess Charlotte during her +illness, who said that ‘ane Jean Saroom’ had been continually +making inquiries, but not knowing the fellow he had taken no +notice of him. Thus the Bishop of Salisbury was treated with +contempt by one totally ignorant of his dignity. There is a +reverse case of a catalogue made by a worthy bookseller of the +name of <i>William London</i>, which was long supposed to be the +work of Dr. William Juxon, the Bishop of London at the time +of publication.</p> + +<p>A very amusing blunder of this class is said to have occurred +lately. A certain person received a document signed “Richmond +& Gordon,” and being imperfectly acquainted with the +refinements of the peerage, he directed his answer for the +Duke to “Messrs. Richmond and Gordon.”</p> + +<p>It has been suggested that all lists of errata in books should +be indexed, and there is no doubt that the chief items in these +lists should be referred to, as they are otherwise likely to be +overlooked. It is worse than useless to refer to a mis-statement +in the text without reference to the place where it is set right. +This hint is the more important, in that these mistakes are +frequently repeated without any notice being taken of the +overlooked <i>errata</i>. The errata pointed out in Sir Thomas +Browne’s <i>Religio Medici</i> (1643) were not corrected in subsequent +editions, and many other books have remained in similar case. +The first book with a printed errata is the Venice Juvenal of +1478, previously the mistakes had been corrected by the pen. +One of the longest lists of errata on record is in the edition of +the works of Picus of Mirandula, printed by Knoblauch of +Strasburg in 1507, which occupies fifteen folio pages. An +English printer, however, has managed to distance the foreigner +in the race of carelessness, for a little book of only 172 pages, +entitled the “Anatomy of the Mass,” 1561, has also a list of<span class="pagenum" id="Page_66">[66]</span> +errata of fifteen pages. Dr. Johnson, referring in his <i>Life of +Lord Lyttelton</i> to his subject’s <i>History of Henry II.</i> (1773), +speaks of the 19 pages of errata as something which “the +world had hardly seen before.” Disraeli gives, in his <i>Curiosities +of Literature</i>, some amusing instances of misreadings purposely +inserted in the text, with the sole object of being corrected in +the errata. Wherever the Inquisition had any power, particularly +at Rome, the use of the word fatum or fata in any book +was strictly prohibited. An author desirous of using the latter +word, adroitly invented this scheme: he had printed in his +book <i>facta</i>, and in the errata he put, for <i>facta</i> read <i>fata</i>. +Scarron did the same thing on another occasion. He had +composed some verses, at the head of which he placed this +dedication: <i>A Guillemette, chienne de ma Sœur</i>; but, having a +quarrel with his sister, he maliciously put in the <i>errata</i>, instead +of <i>Chienne de ma Sœur</i> read <i>ma chienne de Sœur</i>.</p> + + +<p class="p2 center">III.</p> + +<p>Some Indexers suppose that their work is complete when +they have made their Index, but they need to prepare their +copy for the press, and also to see that their instructions are +carried out by the printer. Much of the value of an Index +depends upon the mode in which it is printed, and every +endeavour should be made to set it out with clearness. It +was not the practice in old Indexes to bring the Indexed +word to the front, but to leave it in its place in the sentence, +so that the alphabetical order was not made perceptible to the +eye. This is now changed, but the evil still exists in the +newspaper lists of Births, Deaths and Marriages, more especially +in those of the <i>Times</i>. When the penny papers were +started they introduced the improvement of setting the name +at the beginning of the entry as a heading. The <i>Times</i> took +the hint from its less august contemporaries, but would not +condescend to copy them completely, so that the extent of +the change was the printing of the names in small capitals. +It is to be hoped that at some future day this pride may be +overcome and the public be allowed to enjoy the convenience<span class="pagenum" id="Page_67">[67]</span> +of reading the name first. The inconvenience of the present +system is greatest in the marriage advertisements, where the +officiating clergy, about whom the reader cares nothing, take +precedence, and crowd out of sight the hero and heroine. <i>Punch</i> +had a good skit on this nuisance once, and said that when a +poor man was thus hidden under a pile of parsons it became +impossible to know what really had happened to him; whether +he was in fact born, married, dead, or bankrupt!</p> + +<p>Where the reduction of space is not an object, the titles of +each article should be made to occupy a separate line, by which +means the headings are brought more prominently before the +eye. There are few points in which the printer is more likely +to go wrong (if not watched) than in the use of marks of repetition, +and many otherwise good Indexes are full of the +most perplexing instances of their misapplication. The dash +is a far better mark of repetition than mere indentation, but +it must be kept for entries exactly similar.<a id="FNanchor_52" href="#Footnote_52" class="fnanchor">[52]</a> The neglect of +this rule leads to the perpetration of the greatest absurdities, +thus the oft-quoted instance—</p> + +<p class="bqctr sm"> +“Mill on Liberty<br> +—— on the Floss.”<br> +</p> + + +<p>is not an invention, but actually occurred in a catalogue. The +following are good examples of what to avoid.</p> + + +<p class="p1">From the Index of the <i>Companion to the Almanac</i> (Lond. 1843)</p> + + +<p class="bqctr sm"> +New Albion<br> +—— Annuities<br> +—— Bread<br> +—— Brentford<br> +Bartholomew Massacre<br> +—— Lane<br> +Brimstone, duty on<br> +—— butterfly<br> +Cotton, Sir Willoughby<br> +——, price of,<br> +Old Stratford Bridge<br> +—— Style<br> +—— Swinford<br> +</p> + + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_68">[68]</span></p> + +<p>From the Index of <i>Pepys’s Diary</i> (various editions)</p> + + +<p class="bqctr sm"> +Child, Mr.<br> +—— of Hales, the, a giant<br> +Court ladies, masculine attire of the<br> +—— of Arches<br> +Fish, method of preserving<br> +——, Mrs.<br> +Ireland, state of affairs in, &c.<br> +——, a cooper<br> +Katherine Hall, Cambridge<br> +—— Pear<br> +—— of Valois<br> +—— the Man of War<br> +—— Yacht<br> +Kentish Knock, the, a Shoal<br> +—— Town<br> +Lamb’s Conduit<br> +—— Wool<br> +Old age<br> +—— Artillery Yard<br> +—— Bailey<br> +Orange Moll<br> +——, old Prince of<br> +Scotland, state of<br> +—— Yard<br> +</p> + + +<p>The opposite evil of repeating the heading, even when identical, +is rarer, but almost as confusing.</p> + +<p>It is so easy to confuse two men of the same name together +that every help towards keeping them distinct which the +printer can give should be adopted. We have already drawn +attention to this point, but it is so important a matter that the +reader will perhaps excuse the insertion here of two more +anecdotes to close the subject with. An Englishman on a visit +to the United States carried with him a letter of introduction +to Dr. Channing, but through inadvertence he called upon the +great man’s brother, who was a physician. The doctor soon +found out that the visit was not intended for him, so he said to +the Englishman: “You have made a mistake, it is the Dr. +Channing who preaches that you want, I am the Dr. Channing +who practises.”</p> + +<p>Very sore feelings are apt to be engendered between men who<span class="pagenum" id="Page_69">[69]</span> +are constantly being confused together, and in the following +case one of the parties did not adopt the means best suited to +heal differences, but laid himself open to a well-merited rebuke. +Two men bearing the same names lived in the same country +town. One was a clergyman of the Church of England, and +the other was a Dissenting minister. On a certain occasion the +clergyman received a letter intended for the minister, which he +forwarded with a note to this effect—“Had you not taken a +title (Rev.) to which you have no claim, this mistake would not +have occurred.” Shortly afterwards a parcel containing some +lithographed sermons intended for the clergyman were delivered +by mistake to the minister, who sent them on with this +note—“Had you not undertaken an office for which you appear +to be unfitted, this mistake would not have occurred.”</p> + +<p>In the previous pages a few of the chief difficulties of the +Index-maker have been commented upon: stumbling-blocks +with which he is too well acquainted, but which are very +generally ignored by others. He must endeavour to attain +perfection, but he will always have the unpleasant feeling that +something may have been missed, and so strong was this feeling +with a contributor to the <i>Notes and Queries</i> that he sent the +following acrostic as a motto for an Index:—<a id="FNanchor_53" href="#Footnote_53" class="fnanchor">[53]</a></p> + +<p class="bqctr sm"> +I I<br> +N never<br> +D did<br> +E ensure<br> +X exactness<br> +</p> + +<p>The Index-maker of modern days must needs depend upon +himself, for he has not the help that the young man mentioned +by Giraldus had when he could discern the false passages in a +book by the crowd of devils which they attracted. Such <i>devils</i> +as these would be invaluable in a printing office!</p> + +<p>If, however, the Indexer, in common with the Bibliographer, +has his troubles, he has his reward, for we have already seen +that the claims of a big book to notice have been grounded +upon its possession of a good index, and De Morgan, when +entering his own Elements of Arithmetic in the account of<span class="pagenum" id="Page_70">[70]</span> +<i>Arithmetical Books</i>, writes:—“Books of Bibliography last +longer than elementary works, so that I have a chance of +standing in a list to be made two centuries hence, which the +book itself would certainly not procure me.”</p> + +<p>There is, therefore, hope for us that when our other works +are forgotten, we may still live as the compilers of an index.</p> + +<hr class="tb"> + +<p>[Since the previous pages have been printed off, I have been +told by Dr. Greenhill of Hastings that our late learned friend +Thomas Watts of the British Museum spoke to him about +the formation of an Index Society as early as the year 1842.</p> + +<p>I am also able, through the kindness of Mr. Macray, to +illustrate the printer’s blunder on page 53 from a work by one +of the most careful and trustworthy of editors, viz., “Historie +of ... Edward IV. 1471,” edited by John Bruce 1838 (Camden +Society). At p. 7 we read: “Wherefore the Kynge may say +as Julius Cæsar sayde, he that is nat agaynst me is with me.”]</p> + +<hr class="tb"> + +<p>The following rules have been drawn up by the Committee, +in order to obtain uniformity in the compilation of their +Indexes. They are not considered as final, and can be added +to as occasion may require.</p> + +<p>In some few points the respective rules for Cataloguing and +for Indexing are identical, but in the majority of instances the +rules made for the former will not apply to the latter.</p> + +<p>Those who require rules for Cataloguing should obtain the +British Museum Rules, Mr. Cutter’s full Rules, forming the +second part of the Special Report on American Libraries, and +the short Rules drawn up by a Committee of the American +Library Association, and printed in the Library Journal.</p> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_71">[71]</span></p> + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="RULES_FOR_OBTAINING_UNIFORMITY_IN_THE">RULES FOR OBTAINING UNIFORMITY IN THE +INDEXES OF BOOKS.</h2> +</div> + + +<p>1.—Every work should have one Index for the whole set and not +an Index to each volume.</p> + +<p>2.—Indexes to be arranged in Alphabetical Order:—proper names +and subjects being united in <i>one</i> alphabet. An Introduction, containing +some indication of the classification of the contents of the +book indexed, to be prefixed.</p> + +<p>3.—The entries to be arranged according to the order of the +English Alphabet. I and J, and U and V, to be kept distinct.</p> + +<p>4.—Headings consisting of two or more distinct words are not +to be treated as integral portions of one word, thus the arrangement +should be:—</p> + + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>Grave</i>, John,</td> +<td class="tdc" rowspan="6"> <img src="images/rightbr.png" alt="" style="height:7.5em;width:.7em"> </td> +<td class="tdc" rowspan="6"> not </td> +<td class="tdc" rowspan="6"> <img src="images/leftbr.png" alt="" style="height:7.5em;width:.7em"> </td> +<td class="tdl">Grave at Kherson.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>Grave</i> at Kherson</td> + + + +<td class="tdl">Grave, John.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>Grave</i> of Hope</td> + +<td class="tdl">Gravelot.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>Grave</i> Thoughts</td> + +<td class="tdl">Grave of Hope.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>Gravelot</i></td> + +<td class="tdl">Gravesend.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>Gravesend</i></td> + +<td class="tdl">Grave Thoughts.</td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<p>5.—Proper Names of foreigners to be alphabetically arranged under +the prefixes:—</p> + + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>Dal</i></td> +<td class="tdc" rowspan="7"> <img src="images/rightbr.png" alt="" style="height:8.5em;width:.7em"> </td> +<td class="tdc" rowspan="7"> as </td> +<td class="tdc" rowspan="7"> <img src="images/leftbr.png" alt="" style="height:8.5em;width:.7em"> </td> +<td class="tdl"><i>Dal Sie</i>.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>Del</i></td> + +<td class="tdl"><i>Del Rio</i>.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>Della</i></td> + +<td class="tdl"><i>Della Casa</i>.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>Des</i></td> + +<td class="tdl"><i>Des Cloiseaux</i>.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>Du</i></td> + +<td class="tdl"><i>Du Bois</i>.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>La</i></td> + +<td class="tdl"><i>La Condamine</i>.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>Le</i></td> + +<td class="tdl"><i>Le Sage</i>.</td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<p>but <i>not</i> under the prefixes:—</p> + + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>D’</i></td> +<td class="tdc"> as </td> +<td class="tdl"><i>Abbadie</i></td> +<td class="tdc"> not </td> +<td class="tdl"><i>D’Abbadie</i>.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>Da</i></td> +<td class="tdc">”</td> +<td class="tdl"><i>Silva</i></td> +<td class="tdc">”</td> +<td class="tdl"><i>Da Silva</i>.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>De</i></td> +<td class="tdc">”</td> +<td class="tdl"><i>La Place</i></td> +<td class="tdc">”</td> +<td class="tdl"><i>De La Place</i>.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>Von</i></td> +<td class="tdc">”</td> +<td class="tdl"><i>Humboldt</i></td> +<td class="tdc">”</td> +<td class="tdl"><i>Von Humboldt</i>.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>Van</i></td> +<td class="tdc">”</td> +<td class="tdl"><i>Beneden</i></td> +<td class="tdc">”</td> +<td class="tdl"><i>Van Beneden</i>.</td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<p>It is an acknowledged principle that when the prefix is a preposition +it is to be rejected, but when an article it is to be retained. +When, however, as in the case of the French <i>Du</i>, <i>Des</i>, the two +are joined, it is necessary to retain the preposition. This also applies<span class="pagenum" id="Page_72">[72]</span> +to the case of the Italian <i>Della</i>, which is often rejected by cataloguers. +English Names are, however, to be arranged under the prefixes</p> + + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><i>De</i><br> <i>Dela</i><br> <i>Van</i></td> +<td class="tdc"> <img src="images/rightbr.png" alt="" style="height:3.5em;width:.6em;"> </td> +<td class="tdc"> as </td> +<td class="tdc"> <img src="images/leftbr.png" alt="" style="height:3.5em;width:.6em"> </td> +<td class="tdl"><i>De Quincey</i>. <br><i>Delabeche</i>.<br> <i>Van Mildert</i>.</td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<p>because these prefixes are meaningless in English and form an integral +part of the name.</p> + +<p>6.—Proper Names, with the prefix St., as <i>St. Albans</i>, <i>St. John</i>, +to be arranged in the alphabet as if written in full <i>Saint</i>. When +the word <i>Saint</i> represents a ceremonial title as in the case of St. +Alban, St. Giles, and St. Augustine, these names to be arranged +under the letters A and G respectively; but the places St. Albans, +St. Giles’s, and St. Augustines will be found under the prefix <i>Saint</i>. +The prefixes M‘ and Mc to be arranged as if written in full <i>Mac</i>.</p> + +<p>7.—Peers to be arranged under their titles, by which alone in most +cases they are known, and not under their family names, except in +such a case as Horace Walpole, who is almost unknown by his title +of Earl of Orford, which came to him late in life. Bishops, Deans, etc., +to be always under their family names.</p> + +<p>8.—Foreign compound names to be arranged under the first name, +as <i>Lacaze Duthiers</i>, English compound names under the last, except +in such cases as <i>Royston-Pigott</i>, where the first name is a true surname. +The first name in a foreign compound is, as a rule, the surname, +but the first name in an English compound is usually a mere Christian +name.</p> + +<p>9.—An Adjective frequently to be preferred to a substantive as a +catchword, for instance, when it contains the point of the compounds, +as <i>Alimentary</i> Canal, <i>English</i> History. Also when the compound +forms a distinctive name, as <i>Soane</i> Museum.</p> + +<p>10.—The entries to be as short as is consistent with intelligibility, +but the insertion of names without <i>specification of the cause of reference</i> +to be avoided, except in particular cases. The extent of the references, +when more than one page, to be marked by giving the first and last +pages.</p> + +<p>11.—Short entries to be repeated under such headings as are likely +to be required, in place of a too frequent use of cross references. +These references, however, to be made from cognate headings, as +<i>Cerebral</i> to <i>Brain</i> and <i>vice versa</i>, where the subject matter is +different.</p> + +<p>12.—In the case of Journals and Transactions brief abstracts of the +contents of the several articles or papers to be drawn up and arranged +in the alphabetical index under the heading of the article.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_73">[73]</span></p> + +<p>13.—Authorities quoted or referred to in a book to be indexed +under each author’s name, the titles of his works being separately set +out, and the word ‘quoted’ added in italics.</p> + +<p>14.—When the indexed page is large, or contains long lists of +names, it is to be divided into four sections, referred to respectively +as <i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, <i>c</i>, <i>d</i>; thus if a page contains 64 lines, 1-16 will be <i>a</i>, 17-32 <i>b</i>, +33-48 <i>c</i>, 49-64 <i>d</i>. If in double columns, the page is still to be divided +into four: <i>a</i> and <i>b</i> forming the upper and lower halves of the first +column, and <i>c</i> and <i>d</i> the upper and lower halves of the second +column.</p> + +<p>15.—When a work is in more than one volume, the number of the +volume is to be specified by small Roman numerals. In the case of +long sets, such as the <i>Gentleman’s Magazine</i>, a special Arabic numeral +for indicating the volume distinct from the page numeral may be +employed with advantage.</p> + +<p>16.—Entries which refer to complete chapters or distinct papers, +to be printed in small capitals.</p> + +<p>17.—Headings to be printed in a marked type. A dash, instead of +indentation, to be used as a mark of repetition. The dash to be kept +for entries exactly similar, and the word to be repeated when the +second differs in any way from the first. The proper name to be +repeated when that of a different person. In the case of joint +authors, the Christian names or initials of the first, whose surname is +arranged in the alphabet, to be in parentheses, but the Christian names +of the second to be in the natural order, as <i>Smith</i> (John) and Alexander +<i>Brown</i>, not <i>Smith</i> (John) and <i>Brown</i> (Alexander).</p> + +<hr class="tb"> + +<p>The above rules do not apply to Subject Indexes, and in certain +cases may need modification in accordance with the special character +of the work to be indexed. In all cases specimens of the index must +be seen by the Committee before it is finally put in hand.</p> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_74">[74]</span></p> + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="PRELIMINARY_LIST_OF_ENGLISH_INDEXES">PRELIMINARY LIST OF ENGLISH INDEXES.</h2> +</div> + + +<p>Immediately on the formation of the Index Society, Mr. +Peacock suggested the publication of a List of such Indexes +as have been published in separate volumes, and his suggestion +was accepted as one that ought to be carried out. The +difficulty then arose as to what constituted an Index; for +instance, many actual Indexes are not so called, and such books +as the <i>Index Expurgatorius</i> are not really Indexes at all. It +was also found that the list would be very extensive and would +take up considerable time in compilation. Under these circumstances +I proposed to add to my account of Index work a +preliminary list of such Indexes as came in my way, and +indulgence is asked for the following catalogue, as it is a mere +skeleton of one division of the subject. I shall be greatly +obliged if readers will send me notice of Foreign Indexes as +well as of English ones not mentioned here, so that materials +for a full catalogue to be prepared hereafter may be gathered +together.</p> + +<p>I have been greatly assisted in the compilation of this list by +Messrs. Gomme, Peacock, and Solly. Since the first publication +I have received much highly appreciated aid from Messrs. +Ashbee, Brightwell, and Clements, and from Drs. Crompton, J. +B. Hamilton, and Francis H. Brown of Boston, U.S., and from +several other kind friends, who sent me titles of Indexes that +had escaped my notice. Prof. Justin Winsor was good enough +to send me a delightful little volume of 134 pages, entitled, +A Handbook for Readers (for the Boston Public Library), +which contains a list of Indexes. I have taken out a few of +the titles of those which I have been unable to see, and have +prefixed a star (*) to them.</p> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_75">[75]</span></p> + +<h3 class="nobreak" id="SCHEME_OF_ARRANGEMENT">SCHEME OF ARRANGEMENT.</h3> +</div> + + + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Concordances, etc.</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#CONCORDANCES">75</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Indexes of Particular Books</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#INDEXES_OF_PARTICULAR_BOOKS">78</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">—— of Atlases</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#INDEXES_OF_ATLASES">82</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">—— of Publications of Societies</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#INDEXES_TO_PUBLICATIONS_OF_SOCIETIES">83</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">—— of Periodicals</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#INDEXES_OF_PERIODICALS">89</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">—— of the Statutes</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#INDEXES_TO_THE_STATUTES">96</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">—— of Journals of the Houses of Lords and Commons</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#INDEXES_TO_THE_JOURNALS_OF_THE_HOUSES_OF_LORDS">98</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">—— of Parliamentary Papers</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#INDEXES_OF_PARLIAMENTARY_PAPERS">99</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">—— to the Proceedings of Public Bodies</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#INDEXES_TO_PROCEEDINGS_OF_PUBLIC_BODIES">101</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Miscellaneous Indexes</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#MISCELLANEOUS_INDEXES">102</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Indexes to Catalogues</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#INDEXES_TO_CATALOGUES">107</a></td> +</tr> +</table> + + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h3 class="nobreak" id="CONCORDANCES">CONCORDANCES, &c.</h3> +</div> + +<div class="bq4em"> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Bible.</i>—A Concordance, that is to saie, a worke wherein by the ordre +of the letters of the A B C ye maie redely finde any +words conteigned in the whole Bible, so often as it is +there expressed or mencioned ... anno 1550. [at end] +Richardus Grafton, typographus Regius excudebat, Mense +Iulii. A. M.D.L. folio.</p> + + + +<p>Dedicated to Edward VI. by the author, John Marbeck. +Title, 4 preliminary leaves, ff. 1-35, after which the leaves +are not numbered. (Sign. a. 1 to vvv. 6 in sixes. Woodcut +of Henry VIII. in council, 1 leaf.)</p> + + + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A briefe and Compendiouse table, in a maner of a Concordaunce +openyng the waye to the principall histories of the whole +Bible, and the most com̃on articles grounded and comprehended +in the newe Testament and olde, in maner +as amply as doeth the great Concordaūce of the Bible. +Gathered and set furth by Henry Bullynger, Leo Jude, +Conrade Pellicane, and by the other Ministers of the +Churche of Tygurie. And nowe first imprinted in +Englyshe. D M L ... London for Gwalter Lynne +1550. Sm. 8vo. A to T 2 in eights.</p> +</div> + +<p>R. F. Hervey published a Concordance in 1579, which went +through several editions; C. Cotton published one in 1622 also +frequently reprinted; J. Downame one in 1632 of which there +are later editions; and Robert Wickens one at Oxford in 1655. +The “Cambridge” Concordance of Samuel Newman (1650),<span class="pagenum" id="Page_76">[76]</span> +of which a third improved edition was issued in 1682, long +held its own, but it and all others were superseded on the +publication of Cruden’s Concordance.</p> + + + +<div class="bq4em"><p class="bq4emhang">—— A complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and +New Testaments. By Alexander Cruden, M.A. London, +1737. 4to.</p> + +<p>Second edition 1761, third edition 1769; this is the last +corrected by the author.</p> + +<p>Most of the Concordances published since are founded +upon Cruden.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A Concordance to the Psalms of David according to the +version in the Book of Common Prayer. By the Rev. +Charles Girdlestone. London (Rivingtons), 1834. 12mo. +title, preface 1 leaf, pp. 179.</p> + +<p>Proper names are in a separate alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A Concordance to the Psalter contained in the Book of Common +Prayer. From the Concordance to the Canonical +Books of the Old and New Testament. London, Society +for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Royal 8vo. title, +pp. 75.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A Metrical Index to the Bible, or Alphabetical Tables of the +Holy Scriptures in Metre. By Josiah Chorley. Norwich, +1711. 8vo. pp. 55.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Index to The Bible, in which the various subjects which +occur in the Scriptures are alphabetically arranged; with +accurate references to all the books of the Old and New +Testaments. Stereotype edition. London, 1812. Roy. 4to. +pp. 33.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— An Index to subjects not noticed, or imperfectly referred to +in the Index to the principal matters contained in the +Notes to the Family Bible lately published under the +direction of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.... +By the Rev. H. B. Wilson, D.D. London, +1818. 4to. pp. 8, sign. B to 2 E 3 in fours.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A Concordance of Parallels collected from Bibles and Commentaries, +which have been published in Hebrew, Latin, +French, Italian, Spanish, English and other languages, +with the authorities of each. By the Rev. C. Cruttwell. +Printed for the Author. 1790. 4to. title, pp. 397, 135.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Homer.</i>—A Complete Concordance to the Iliad of Homer. By Guy +Lushington Prendergast. London, 1875. 4to. pp. 416, +in double cols.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_77">[77]</span></p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Keble.</i>—A Concordance to “The Christian Year.” Oxford and +London, 1871. 12mo. pp. 524.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Liturgy.</i>—A Concordance to the Liturgy or Book of Common Prayer, +etc., according to the use of the United Church of England +and Ireland. By the Rev. J. Green, D.D., Vicar of St. +Neot’s, Hunts. London, 1851. 12mo. pp. x, 431.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Milton.</i>—A Verbal Index to Milton’s Paradise Lost, adapted to +every edition but the first, which was published in ten +books only. London, 1741. 12mo.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A Complete Concordance to the Poetical Works of Milton. +By Guy Lushington Prendergast, Madras Civil Service. +Madras (Pharaoh & Co.), 1857. 4to. title, 1 preliminary leaf, +pp. 416.</p> + +<p>Originally published in 12 parts.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A Complete Concordance to the Poetical Works of John +Milton. By Charles Dexter Cleveland, LL.D. London +(Sampson Low, Son & Marston), 1867. Sm. 8vo. pp. viii, +308.</p> +</div> + +<p>The Rev. H. J. Todd compiled a verbal Index to the whole of +Milton’s Poetry which was appended to the second edition of +his life of the Poet (1809).</p> + + +<div class="bq4em"> +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Pope.</i>—A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Pope. By Edwin +Abbott, with an Introduction by Edwin A. Abbott, D.D. +London (Chapman & Hall), 1875. Royal 8vo. pp. xviii, +366.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Shakespeare.</i>—An Index to the remarkable passages and words made +use of by Shakespeare, calculated to point out the different +meanings to which the words are applied. By Samuel +Ayscough. London, 1790. Royal 8vo.</p> + +<p>Reprinted Dublin 1791 and London 1827 in demy 8vo.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A Complete Verbal Index to the Plays of Shakspeare, +adapted to all the editions, comprehending every substantive, +adjective, verb, participle, and adverb used by +Shakespeare; with a distinct reference to every individual +passage in which each word occurs. By Francis Twiss. +London, 1805. 2 vols. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— The Complete Concordance to Shakspere: being a verbal +Index to all the passages in the dramatic works of the +Poet. By Mrs. Cowden Clarke. London (C. Knight & Co.), +1845. Royal 8vo. pp. viii, 860.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Shakespeare-Lexicon: a Complete Dictionary of all the +English words, phrases and constructions in the works of<span class="pagenum" id="Page_78">[78]</span> +the poet. By Dr. Alexander Schmidt. (Berlin and London), +1874. 2 vols. royal 8vo.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A Concordance to Shakespeare’s Poems: an Index to +every word therein contained. By Mrs. Horace Howard +Furness.</p> + +<div class="blockquotsm"><p> +<span style="padding-left: 6em;">“To your audit comes</span><br> +Their distract parcels in combined sums.”<br> +</p></div> + +<p>Philadelphia (J. B. Lippincott & Co.), 1874. Pp. iv, +422.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A Hand-Book Index to the Works of Shakespeare, including +references to the phrases, manners, customs, proverbs, +songs, particles, etc., which are used or alluded to by the +great Dramatist. By J. O. Halliwell, Esq., F.R.S. +London (J. E. Adlard), 1866. 8vo. pp. vi; contents 1 +leaf, pp. 551. Only fifty copies printed.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Tennyson.</i>—A Concordance of the entire works of Alfred Tennyson, +P.L., D.C.L., F.R.S. By D. Barron Brightwell. London +(Moxon), 1869. 8vo. p. xiv, 477.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Concordance to the works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate. +London (Strahan & Co.), 1870. Pp. 542.</p> + +<p>“The Holy Grail,” etc., is indexed separately.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— An Index to “In Memoriam.” London (E. Moxon & Co.), +1862. 12mo. pp. iv, 40.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Watts.</i>—A Complete Index to Dr. Watts’ Psalms. By D. Guy, of +Rye in Sussex. 1774. 12mo.</p> + +<p>Sigs. B to Y 4.</p> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h3 class="nobreak" id="INDEXES_OF_PARTICULAR_BOOKS">INDEXES OF PARTICULAR BOOKS.</h3> +</div> + +<div class="bq4em"> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Alison’s Europe.</i>—History of Europe from 1815 to 1852, by Sir +Archibald Alison, Bart. Index. Edinburgh (Blackwood), +1859. 8vo. title, pp. 319. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Blomefield’s Norfolk.</i>—Index Nominum; being an Index of Christian +and Surnames (with arms), mentioned in Blomefield’s +History of Norfolk, arranged in alphabetical order. By +John Nurse Chadwick. King’s Lynn (published for the +author), 1862. Royal 8vo. pp. 348.</p> + +<p>This Index refers to the octavo edition.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Buffon’s Natural History</i>—Index to Buffon’s Planches enluminées. +By Thomas Pennant. 1786. 4to.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Burke’s Landed Gentry.</i>—Index of family names in Burke’s Genealogical +and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry—fourth<span class="pagenum" id="Page_79">[79]</span> +edition 1863, in Bridger’s <i>Index to Pedigrees 1867</i>, +pp. 178-258.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Burton’s Scotland.</i>—The History of Scotland from Agricola’s Invasion +to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection. By +John Hill Burton, Historiographer-Royal for Scotland. +Second edition. Index volume. London and Edinburgh +(William Blackwood & Sons), 1873. 8vo. pp. 100, in +double columns.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Carlyle.</i>—A General Index to the People’s edition of Thomas Carlyle’s +Works. London (Chapman & Hall), 1874. 12mo. pp. 201.</p> + +<p>Mr. Carlyle’s vehement denunciation of books without +indexes is well known, and his sincerity is proved by this +careful compilation.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Dugdale’s York.</i>—Index to the Visitation of the County of Yorke begun +<span class="allsmcap">A.D.</span> 1665 and finished <span class="allsmcap">A.D.</span> 1666 by William Dugdale, Esq. +Norroy King of Armes. Compiled by George J. Armytage. +Printed by private subscription. London, 1872. 8vo. title, +preface 1 leaf, pp. 40.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet, with a list of pedigrees in order of +pages appended. Dugdale’s Visitation was printed by the +Surtees Society in 1859 (vol. 36, their publications).</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Encyclopædias.</i>—The Encyclopædia Britannica, or Dictionary of Arts, +Sciences and General Literature. Eighth edition. Index. +[By James Duncan.] Edinburgh, 1860. Pp. vii, 232. +In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Encyclopædia Metropolitana, or Universal Dictionary of +Knowledge ... Index. London, 1845. 4to. pp. iv, 370. +In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— The English Cyclopædia. Synoptical Index to the four +divisions of Geography, Biography, Natural History, Arts +and Sciences. London, 1862. 4to. pp. iv, 166.</p> + +<p>Arranged in four columns.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General and Analytical Index to the American Encyclopædia. +By T. J. Conant, D.D., assisted by his daughter Blandina. +New York (Appleton & Co.), 1878. Pp. viii, 810. 4to. +Highly praised in <i>Library Journal</i>, vol. iii. No. 8, p. 303.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">*—— Index to Appleton’s Annual Cyclopædia, vol. 1-10.</p> + +<p>Criticised adversely in <i>Library Journal</i>, vol. ii. p. 296.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Essayists.</i>—A General Index to the Spectators, Tatlers and Guardians. +1757. Second edition. London (W. Owen), 1760. 12mo. +unpaged. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— The British Essayists; with prefaces, historical and biographical,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_80">[80]</span> +by A. Chalmers, F.S.A. Vol. 38. General Index. +London, 1823. 12mo. title, pp. 277. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Gmelin’s Chemistry.</i>—Index to Gmelin’s Handbook of Chemistry. +By Henry Watts. London, 1872. 8vo. title, pp. 331.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Holme’s Armory.</i>—Index of the Names of Persons contained in the +Academy of Armory and Blazon, by Randle Holme; +printed at Chester in one volume folio, 1688. London +(R. Triphook), 1821. Folio, title, pp. 46.</p> + +<p>Only 50 copies printed. In one alphabet, and contains +names of places as well as of persons.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Howell’s State Trials.</i>—General Index to the Collection of State Trials, +compiled by T. B. Howell and T. J. Howell. By David +Jardine. London, 1828. 8vo. title, advertisement 1 leaf, +pp. 345.</p> + +<p>Part 1, Names; Part 2, Miscellaneous Contents. Appended +is “A Table of Parallel References from Howell’s +State Trials to the folio edition by Hargrave.” The references +are given as 15 <i>vol.</i> instead of <i>vol.</i> 15.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Hume’s England.</i>—Biographical Index to the History of England; +consisting of an Alphabetical Arrangement of all the +titles and proper names of persons in Hume’s History of +England, with Biographical Articles attached. By the +Rev. S. Y. McMasters, LL.D. Alton (printed at the +Courier Office), 1854. Pp. 672.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Madox’s Exchequer.</i>—A compleat Index to Mr. Madox’s History of +the Exchequer, serving as a Glossary to explain uncommon +words, to illustrate the original of families and customs, +and the antiquities of the several counties in England. +London, Printed for Francis Gosling at the Crown and +Mitre against Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, 1741. Folio, +unpaged, sheets <span class="allsmcap">A</span> to <span class="allsmcap">H</span>hh 1, in twos.</p> + +<p>This Index was made by the editor of Madox’s <i>Baronia +Anglica</i>, 1741, and was issued with that work. It was +reprinted in the second edition of the History of the +Exchequer. 2 vols. 4to. 1769. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Oke & Stone.</i>—A Pocket Index to Oke and Stone. By an Essex +Justice [Andrew Johnston]. Gloucester (John Bellows), +1877. 12mo. pp. vii, 56.</p> + +<p>This is an Index to “Oke’s Magisterial Synopsis: a +Practical Guide for Magistrates, their Clerks, Solicitors +and Constables. Twelfth edition by T. W. Saunders.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_81">[81]</span> +London, 1876.” 2 vols. 8vo. And to “The Justice’s Manual +or Guide to the ordinary duties of a Justice of the Peace, +by the late Samuel Stone, the eighteenth edition edited +by George B. Kennett. London, 1876.” 8vo.</p> + +<p>There is no clue in this Index to the titles of the +books indexed.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Parliamentary History.</i>—A General Index to the twenty-three volumes +of the Parliamentary or Constitutional History of England. +London (W. Sandby), 1761. 8vo. pp. 712.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Pennant’s London.</i>—Copious Index to Pennant’s Account of London. +By T. Downes. 1814. 4to. pp. 52, in double +columns.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Pictorial History.</i>—Index to the Pictorial History of England, forming +a complete chronological key to the civil and military +events, the lives of remarkable persons and the progress +of the country in religion, government, industry, arts and +sciences, literature, manners, and social economy. By H. +C. Hamilton. London (Orr & Co.), 1850. Roy. 8vo. pp. +iv, 280.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet. Dates are largely introduced into the +references.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Richardson’s Novels.</i>—A Collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, +maxims, cautions, and reflexions contained in the +Histories of Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison, +digested under proper heads, with references to the volume +and page, both in octavo and twelves, in the respective +histories. London (S. Richardson), 1755. 12mo. pp. x, +410.</p> + +<p>There is a separate alphabet for each novel.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Southcott’s Writings.</i>—A General Index to the Writings of Joanna +Southcott, the Prophetess. London, no date. 8vo. pp. 88.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Index to the Divine and Spiritual Writings of Joanna +Southcott. By Philip Pullen. London, 1815. 8vo. +pp. 240.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Strype’s Works.</i>—A General Index to the Historical and Biographical +Works of John Strype, A.M. [By the Rev. R. French +Lawrence.] Oxford (Clarendon Press), 1828. 2 vols. 8vo. +Vol. 1, pp. iv, 406; Vol. 2, title, pp. 404.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Tytler’s Scotland.</i>—History of Scotland. By Patrick Fraser Tytler. +Third edition. Index. Edinburgh (Black), 1850. 8vo. +title, pp. 128. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_82">[82]</span></p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Warton’s English Poetry.</i>—An Index to the History of English +Poetry. By Thomas Warton, B.D. London, 1806. +4to.</p> + +<p>In double cols. Six separate Indexes, viz. vol. 1, pp. 21. +Dissertation prefixed to vol. 1, 10 pp. vol. 2, pp. 20. +vol. 3, pp. 27. Gesta Romanorum (prefixed to vol. 3), +pp. 6. Fragment of the fourth vol. pp. 6.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Wellington Despatches.</i>—The Index to the Despatches of F. M. the +Duke of Wellington. By Lieut.-Colonel Gurwood. +London, 1839. 8vo. pp. 235, in double cols.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Wesley’s Journals.</i>—A complete and classified Index (to suit all +editions) of the Journals of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A. +By the Rev. Henry Skewes, M.A. London (Elliott +Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, E.C.), 1872. 8vo.</p> + +<p>Contents, one page; Index of Places, pp. 1-38; Index +of Persons, pp. 39-43; Index of Books, pp. 44-48; +Miscellaneous Index, pp. 49-64.</p> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h3 class="nobreak" id="INDEXES_OF_ATLASES">INDEXES OF ATLASES.</h3> +</div> + +<div class="bq4em"> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Adam.</i>—A Geographical Index, being a Supplement to the Summary +of Ancient and Modern Geography. By Alexander Adam, +LL.D. Edinburgh, 1795. 8vo.</p> + +<p>Sigs. A to S 3 in double cols.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Arrowsmith.</i>—Index to the Eton Comparative Atlas of Ancient and +Modern Geography. New and improved edition. London, +1831. Large 8vo. pt. 1, pp. 90, pt. 2, pp. 86.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Cary.</i>—Cary’s English Atlas. An Index ... London. Folio, pp. 40. +No title-page.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Hall.</i>—An Alphabetical Index to all the names contained in a new +General Atlas of fifty-three Maps. Constructed from +new drawings and engraved by Sidney Hall. London +(Longmans), 1831. Roy. 8vo. title, pp. 360.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Johnston.</i>—Index Geographicus, being a List alphabetically arranged +of the principal places on the Globe, with the countries +and subdivisions of the countries in which they are +situated and their latitudes and longitudes. Compiled +specially with reference to Keith Johnston’s Royal Atlas, +but applicable to all modern atlases and maps. Edinburgh +(Blackwood), 1864. Roy. 8vo. pp. iv, 676.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_83">[83]</span></p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Ordnance Survey.</i>—Index to the Ordnance Survey of England, Scotland +and Ireland. Folio.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Useful Knowledge Society.</i>—Index to the Maps of the Society for the +Promotion of Useful Knowledge. 1844.</p> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h3 class="nobreak" id="INDEXES_TO_PUBLICATIONS_OF_SOCIETIES">INDEXES TO PUBLICATIONS OF SOCIETIES.</h3> +</div> + +<div class="bq4em"> + +<p class="bq4emhang">*<i>American Pharmaceutical Association.</i>—Proceedings. Index, vol. 1-8, +1852-59, with the Proceedings for 1862. Index, vol. 9-17, +1860-69, with the Proceedings for 1872.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Asiatic Society of Bengal.</i>—Index to the first eighteen volumes of +the Asiatic Researches, or Transactions of the Society, +instituted in Bengal for inquiring into the History and +Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences and Literature of Asia. +Calcutta, 1835. 4to. pp. vi, 228.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Index to volumes 19 and 20 of the Asiatic Researches and to +the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Calcutta, 1856. +8vo. pp. iv, 274. In one alphabet, with 4 Appendixes—A. +Index to Numismatic Papers, etc. By G. H. Freeling. +B. Sykes’s List of Ancient Inscriptions. C. Index to +Geological Papers. By H. Piddington. D. Table of Indian +Coal. By J. Prinsep; and Supplementary Index.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>British Archæological Association.</i>—The Journal of the British +Archæological Association. General Index to Volumes +1 to 30. By Walter De Gray Birch. London, 1875. +8vo. pp. 225.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet. A Table of the Contents of each +volume is appended.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>British Association.</i>—Index to Reports and Transactions of the British +Association for the Advancement of Science, from 1831 to +1860 inclusive. London, 1864. 8vo. pp. iv, 363.</p> + +<p>In six separate alphabets, viz.—<i>Reports</i>: Index of +Authors, of Subjects, and of Places; <i>Sections</i>: Index of +Authors, of Subjects, and of Places.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Chemical Society.</i>—Index to the first twenty-five volumes of the +Journal of the Chemical Society, 1848-1872; and to the +Memoirs and Proceedings, 1841-1847. Compiled by Henry +Watts, Editor of the Journal. London, 1874. 8vo. pp. +268.</p> + +<p>In two parts. 1, Index of Names; 2, Index of Subjects.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_84">[84]</span></p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Chetham Society.</i>—General Index to the Remains, Historical and +Literary, published by the Chetham Society, Vols. 1-30. +By C. S. Simms. Manchester, 1863. 4to. pp. viii, 168, +11 leaves of Indexes to separate volumes.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Geological Society.</i>—A Classified Index to the Transactions, Proceedings +and Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of +London, including all the memoirs and notices to the end +of 1855. By George Wareing Ormerod. London (Taylor +& Francis), 1858. 8vo. pp. vii, 149.</p> + +<p>New edition to the end of 1868, with Supplement to +the end of 1875. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Geological Survey of India.</i>—Contents and Index of the first ten +volumes of the Records of the Geological Survey of India, +1868 to 1877. Calcutta, 1878. Roy. 8vo. pp. 23.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Guy’s Hospital.</i>—General Index to the first and second series of the +Guy’s Hospital Reports. London (J. Churchill), 1856. +8vo. pp. xlii, 106, 58. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p>General Index to the third series ... including the +first ten volumes (1854-1864). 8vo. pp. 26. General +Index ... for Vols. 11 to 20 (1865-1875), pp. 591-624 +of Vol. 20.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Horticultural Society.</i>—General Index to the first and second series of +the Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London. +4to. pp. cxxxviii. No title-page.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Institution of Civil Engineers.</i>—Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution +of Civil Engineers. General Index, Volumes 1 to +20. Sessions 1837 to 1860-61. London, 1865. 8vo. +pp. iv, 367.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index, Volumes 21 to 30. Sessions 1861-62 to +1869-70. London, 1871. 8vo. pp. iv, 206.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Institution of Mechanical Engineers.</i>—General Index to Proceedings, +1847-1873. Birmingham. 8vo. title, pp. 220.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Lancashire & Cheshire.</i>—Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. +Index to the first and second series of the Society’s +Transactions, comprising Vols. 1-24 inclusive, prepared +by the Rev. A. Hume. Liverpool (T. Brakell), 1874. 8vo. +pp. iv, 47.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_85">[85]</span></p> + +<p>In three parts. 1, Tables of the Contents of each +volume; 2, Alphabetical List of Authors; 3, Alphabetical +List of Subjects.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Linnean Society.</i>—General Index to the Transactions of the Linnean +Society of London. Vols. 1 to 25. London, 1867. 4to. +pp. iv, 107. In two parts. 1, Index to Papers; 2, Index +of Genera and Species. A continuation of the Index, from +Vol. 26 to 30, has since been published.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Liverpool Lit. & Phil. Soc.</i>—Index to Papers contained in the +Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of +Liverpool. Vols. 1-25. 1844-71. Compiled by Alfred +Morgan, Honorary Librarian. Liverpool (D. Marples), +1871. 8vo. pp. 28.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Manchester Statistical Society.</i>—Index to the Transactions of the +Manchester Statistical Society from 1853-4 to 1874-5. +By Thomas Read Wilkinson, President of the Society, +1875-6. Manchester, 1876. 8vo. pp. 82.</p> + +<p>Contains 1, Table of Contents; 2, List of Tables; 3, +Alphabetical Index; 4, Alphabetical List of Writers.</p> + +<p>In two parts. 1, Index of Subjects; 2, Index of +Authors.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>New Zealand Institute.</i>—Transactions and Proceedings of the New +Zealand Institute. Index, vols. 1 to 8. Edited by James +Hector. Wellington, 1877. 8vo. title, pp. 44.</p> + +<p>Divided into—1, Index of Authors; 2, Index of Subjects; +3, Appendix.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers.</i>—General +Index to the Transactions. Roy. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Parker Society.</i>—A General Index to the Publications of the Parker +Society. Compiled for the Parker Society, by Henry +Gough, of the Middle Temple. Cambridge (University +Press), 1855. 8vo. pp. viii, 811. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Pathological Society.</i>—A General Index to the first fifteen volumes of +the Transactions of the Pathological Society of London; +with a List of Authors and a Classified List of Subjects. +Compiled by T. Holmes. London, 1864. 8vo. pp. vii, +147.</p> + +<p>In two parts. 1, Index of Subjects; 2, Index of +Authors.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to the Transactions of the Pathological Society +of London, from Vols. 16 to 25, 1865-74. [By B. R. +Wheatley.] London, 1875. 8vo. pp. v, 134.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_86">[86]</span></p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Royal Agricultural Society.</i>—General Index to the first series of the +Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, +Volumes 1 to 25 London, 1865. 8vo. pp. 214.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to the second series of the Journal of the Royal +Agricultural Society of England, Volumes 1 to 10. +London, 1875. 8vo. pp. 134.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Royal Astronomical Society.</i>—A General Index to the first thirty-eight +volumes of the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical +Society. London, 1871. 8vo. title, pp. 54.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A General Index to the first twenty-nine volumes of the +Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, comprising +the Proceedings of the Society from February 9, +1827, to the end of the session 1868-69. London, 1870. +8vo. title, pp. 212. +In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Royal Geographical Society.</i>—General Index to the Contents of the +first ten volumes of the London Geographical Journal. +Compiled by J. R. Jackson. London, 1844. 8vo. pp. iv, 216.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet. Prefixed are Lists of the Papers and +Maps arranged geographically.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to the second ten volumes of the Journal of the +Royal Geographical Society. Compiled by George Smith +Brent; edited by Dr. Norton Shaw. London, 1853. 8vo. +pp. 116. Compiled on the same plan as the first Index.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Royal Irish Academy.</i>—An Index to the Transactions of the Royal Irish +Academy from its incorporation in 1786 to the present +time [Vols. 1 to 11]. By Nicholas Carlisle. London, 1813. +4to. pp. viii, 316.</p> + +<p>In two parts. 1, Index of the Names of Persons; 2, +Index of the Names of Places and of Subjects.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Royal Medical & Chir. Soc.</i>—General Index to the first thirty-three +volumes of the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, published +by the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. +[By Dr. John Hennen.] London, 1851. 8vo. pp. lxxx, 236.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet. Prefixed is a list of the contents of +each volume, and a list of engravings.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to the first fifty-three volumes of the Medico-Chirurgical +Transactions, published by the Royal Medical +and Chirurgical Society of London. [By B. R. Wheatley.] +London, 1871. 8vo. pp. viii, 355. +In one alphabet.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_87">[87]</span></p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Royal Society.</i>—A General Index to the Philosophical Transactions, +from the first to the end of the seventieth volume. By +Paul Henry Maty, M.A., F.R.S., Under Librarian to the +British Museum. London, 1787. 4to. pp. iv, 801.</p> + +<p>In two alphabets—1, of the Matter; 2, of the Writers.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A continuation to the Alphabetical Index of the Matter contained +in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal +Society of London, from vol. 71 (1781) to 110 (1820) +inclusive [including a continuation of the Index of +Writers]. London, 1821. 4to. pp. iv, 225.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A continuation to the Alphabetical Index ... from +vol. 111 (1821) to 120 (1830). London, 1833. 4to. pp. +101.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— An Index to the Anatomical, Medical, Chirurgical and +Physiological Papers contained in the Transactions of the +Royal Society of London, from the commencement of that +work to the end of the year 1813, chronologically and +alphabetically arranged. Westminster (M. Stace), 1814. +4to. pp. iv, 101. In two divisions.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Table des Mémoires imprimés dans les Transactions Philosophiques +de la Société Royale de Londres; depuis +1665 jusques en 1735, rangées par ordre chronologique, +par ordre des matières, et par noms d’auteurs; par M. de +Bremond. Paris, 1739. 4to. title, 3 preliminary leaves, +pp. v, 297, 461, lxxvi.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Royal United Service Institution.</i>—Index of the Lectures and Papers +contained in vols. 1-10 of the Journal of the Royal +United Service Institution, and also the names of their +Authors. London, 1868. 8vo. pp. 47. Index, vols. 11-20. +London, 1878. 8vo. pp. 75. In two alphabets.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Society of Antiquaries.</i>—An Index to the first fifteen volumes of +Archæologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity; +printed by order of the Society of Antiquaries of London. +[By Nicholas Carlisle.] London, 1809. 4to. pp. iv, 290.</p> + +<p>In two parts—1, Index of Names of Persons; 2, Index +of Names of Places and of Subjects.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— An Index to Archæologia, from volume 16 to volume 30 +inclusive; published by the Society of Antiquaries of +London. [By Nicholas Carlisle.] London, 1844. 4to. +pp. iv, 309. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p>A new and complete Index to the whole set of the +<i>Archæologia</i>, from volume 1 to 40, is now being prepared.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_88">[88]</span></p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Society of Arts.</i>—An Analytical Index to the first twenty-five volumes +of the Transactions of the Society instituted at London for +the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, +London, 1807. 8vo. pp. 142.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Vol. 26 to 40. 1823. 8vo. pp. 47.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Vol. 41 to 50. 1836. 8vo. pp. xxxvi.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— The Journal of the Society of Arts and of the Institutions in +Union. Index to Vols. 1-10. London, 1863. Roy. 8vo. +pp. lvii. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Vols. 11-20. 1873. Roy. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Statistical Society.</i>—Journal of the Statistical Society of London. +General Index to the first fifteen volumes. [By B. R. +Wheatley.] London, 1854. 8vo. pp. vii, 198.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to Volumes 16-25 (1853-1862), in continuation +of the General Index to the first fifteen volumes. +London, 1863. 8vo. pp. iv, 135.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to Volumes 26-35 (1863-72) in continuation +of the General Indexes to Volumes 1-15 (1834-52) and +16-25 (1853-62). London, 1874. 8vo. pp. vii, 152.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Sussex Arch. Society.</i>—Sussex Archæological Collections, relating to +the History and Antiquities of the County, published by +the Sussex Archæological Society. General Index to +Vols. 1 to 25. By Henry Campkin, F.S.A. Lewes, 1874. +8vo. pp. viii, 423. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Yorkshire, &c.</i>—An Index to the first eight volumes of Reports and +Papers read at the Meetings of the Architectural Societies +of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Northampton, Bedfordshire, +Worcestershire and Leicestershire during the years +1850-66, containing an Analysis of each Paper, with an +Introduction by the Rev. George Rowe, M.A. Lincoln +(Brookes and Viber), n.d. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Zoological Society.</i>—Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. +Index, 1830-1847. London, 1866. 8vo. pp. iv, 190.</p> + +<p>In two parts. 1, List of Contributors; 2, Index of +Species.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Index, 1848-1860. London, 1863. 8vo. pp. iv, 304.</p> + +<p>In three parts. 1, List of Contributors; 2, List of +Illustrations; 3, Index of Species.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_89">[89]</span></p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological +Society of London. Index, 1861-1870. London, 1872. +8vo. pp. iv., 481.</p> + +<p>In two parts. 1, List of Contributors; 2, Index of +Species.</p> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h3 class="nobreak" id="INDEXES_OF_PERIODICALS">INDEXES OF PERIODICALS.</h3> +</div> + +<div class="bq4em"> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>All the Year Round.</i>—General Index to the first twenty volumes of +All the Year Round. 1868. Pp. 32, in three columns.</p> + +<p>Under the headings of Miscellaneous Articles, Poetry, +Tales.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">*<i>American Almanac.</i>—Indexes, ten years each, in vols. 1839, 1849, 1859.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>American Journal.</i>—The American Journal of Science and Arts. Conducted +by Prof. Silliman and Benj. Silliman, jun. +Volume 50. General Index to forty-nine volumes. New +Haven, 1847. 8vo. pp. xviii, 348.</p> + +<p>In one general alphabet, with a Supplement of omitted +references and a Register of Plates, Maps and other Illustrations.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Second Series. Vol. 10 (1850) contains Index for Vols. +1-10; Vol. 20 (1855) for Vols. 11-20; Vol. 30 +(1860) for Vols. 21-30; Vol. 40 (1865) for Vols. 31-40; +Vol. 50 (1870) for Vols. 41-50.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Third Series. Vol. 10 (1875) contains Index for Vols. 1-10.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">*<i>American Journal of Pharmacy.</i>—General Index, 1825-1870.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">*<i>American Jurist and Law Magazine.</i>—In vols. 10 and 20.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Annual Register.</i>—A General Index to the Annual Register; or, A +Summary View of the History of Europe, Domestic Occurrences +... from 1758 to 1780, both inclusive. (The +second edition, 1784.) The third edition. London (Rivington), +1799. 8vo. unpaged. Half-title, “Index to Dodsley’s +Annual Register, Vol. 1, 1758 to 1780.” Arranged in +fourteen alphabets.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— from 1781 to 1792, both inclusive. London (Rivington), +1799. 8vo. unpaged. Half-title, “Index to Dodsley and +Rivington’s Annual Register, Vol. 2, 1781 to 1792.”</p> + +<p>Arranged like the former volume in fourteen alphabets.</p> + +<p>There is also a General Index under seven heads, from +1758 to 1819. 1826. 8vo. pp. 938.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Assurance Magazine</i>, and Journal of the Institute of Actuaries. +General Index to vols. 1-10. By John Nicholson, +Assistant Librarian of Lincoln’s Inn. London, 1864. 8vo.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_90">[90]</span></p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Atlantic Monthly.</i>—Index to the Atlantic Monthly, Volumes i-xxxviii. +(1857-1876). By Horace E. Scudder. 1. Index of Articles +(a) General Articles, (b) Editorial Departments. 2. Index +of Authors. Boston (H. O. Houghton & Co.), 1877. 8vo. +pp. 106.</p> + +<p>In double columns and interleaved.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review.</i>—Index volume from 1825 to +1868. Philadelphia (Peter Walker), 1871.</p> + +<p>This contains also a Retrospect of the history of the +Princeton Review, and an Index to Authors, with Biographical +Notices.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Bibliotheca Sacra.</i>—Index to the Bibliotheca Sacra, and American +Biblical Repertory. Volumes 1 to 13, containing an Index +of Subjects and Authors, a Topical Index, and a List of +Scripture Texts. By W. F. Draper. Andover (Mass.), +1857.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Index to the Bibliotheca Sacra, volumes 1 to 30. An Index +of Scripture Texts and Texts of Greek and Hebrew Words. +By W. F. Draper. Andover, 1874.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Blackwood’s Magazine.</i>—General Index to Blackwood’s Edinburgh +Magazine, Vols. 1 to 50. Edinburgh (Blackwood and +Sons), 1855. 8vo. title, pp. 588.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Botanical Magazine.</i>—General Indexes to the Plants contained in the +first twenty volumes of the Botanical Magazine. London, +1805. 8vo. pp. 53. +Partly in double cols.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Indexes to the Plants in the first fifty-three volumes +of the Botanical Magazine. By Samuel Curtis. 1828. +8vo.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>British & For. Med. Rev.</i>—The British and Foreign Medical Review.... +Edited by John Forbes, M.D. Vol. 25, being a General +Index to the preceding twenty-four volumes. London (J. +Churchill), 1848. 8vo. pp. xi, 303. By Dr. Robert +Bower.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>British Critic.</i>—A General Index to the first twenty volumes of the +British Critic, in two parts. Part 1 contains a List of all +the Books Reviewed. Part 2 an Index to the Extracts, +Criticisms, etc. London, 1804. 8vo. pp. iii, 386.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A General Index to the British Critic, commencing with the +twenty-first and ending with the forty-second or concluding<span class="pagenum" id="Page_91">[91]</span> +volume of the first series, in two parts. Part 1 +contains a List of all the Books Reviewed. Part 2 an +Index to the Extracts, Criticisms, etc. London, 1815. +8vo. pp. iv, 343.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Calcutta Review.</i>—Index to the first Fifty Volumes of the Calcutta +Review, in two parts. Calcutta (Thos. J. Smith), 1873. +8vo.</p> + +<p>Part 1. Index to Articles and Books, pp. 196, in +double columns. Part 2. Index to Subjects noticed +incidentally in the Articles contained in Part 1. Pp. 47, +in double columns.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Companion to the Almanac.</i>—A complete Index to the Companion to +the Almanac, from its commencement in 1828 to 1843 +inclusive. London (C. Knight & Co.), 1843. 12mo. title, +pp. 561.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet, with a Supplementary Index.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">*<i>Congregational Quarterly</i>, vol. 1-10.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Dublin Medical Journal.</i>—A General Index to the Dublin Medical +Journal, from volume 1 to 28, concluding the first series, +from 1832 to 1845 inclusive. 8vo. pp. 127.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Edinburgh Review.</i>—General Index to the Edinburgh Review, from its +commencement in October, 1802, to the end of the twentieth +volume, published in November, 1812. Edinburgh, 1813. +8vo. pp. v, 515. In one alphabet. Prefixed is an Index +of Authors reviewed.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">——, from the twenty-first to the fiftieth volumes inclusive (1813-1830). +Edinburgh, 1832. 8vo. pp. xxi, 513.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet, with an Index of the Titles of the +Articles prefixed.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">——, from the fifty-first to the eightieth volumes inclusive (1830-1844). +London, 1850. 8vo. pp. 511.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet. Prefixed is an Index of the Titles +of the Articles according to the running heads of each.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">——, from the eighty-first to the hundred and tenth volumes +inclusive (1845-1859). London, 1862. 8vo. pp. 474. +Same as previous Index.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">——, from the hundred and eleventh to the hundred and fortieth +volumes inclusive (1860-1874). London, 1876. 8vo. title, +pp. 431. Same as previous Index.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Edinburgh Med. and Surg. Journal.</i>—The Edinburgh Medical and +Surgical Journal ... volume twentieth, Index [to the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_92">[92]</span> +first nineteen volumes]. Edinburgh (A. Constable & Co.), +1824. 8vo. pp. vii, 395.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet, to which are added Index of <i>works +reviewed</i>; and catalogue of Edinburgh Theses, from 1726 +to 1823.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Gentleman’s Magazine.</i>—A General Index to the first fifty-six volumes +of the Gentleman’s Magazine, from 1731 to the end of +1786. Compiled by Samuel Ayscough, Clerk, Assistant +Librarian of the British Museum. In two volumes. +Vol. 1 containing an Index to the Essays, Dissertations, +and Historical Passages. London (J. Nichols), 1789. 8vo. +pp. iv, 494.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Vol. 2, in four parts, containing Indexes to the Poetical +Articles, the Names of Persons and Plates, and to the +Books and Pamphlets. London (J. Nichols), 1789. 8vo. +title, pp. 368.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— from 1787 to 1818, both inclusive. Vol. 3, in two parts, containing +Indexes to the Essays, Dissertations, Transactions +and Historical Passages, and to the Poetical Articles. With +a prefatory Introduction descriptive of the rise and +progress of the Magazine by John Nichols. London (J. +Nichols & Son), 1821. 8vo. pp. lxxx, 543.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Vol. 4, in five parts, containing Indexes to Books reviewed +and Books announced; to the Musical publications; to +the Plates; and to the Names of Persons. London (J. +Nichols & Son), 1821. 8vo. title, pp. 656.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A List of Plates, Maps, etc., in the Gentleman’s Magazine +from 1731 to 1813 inclusive. London (Machell Stace), +1814. 8vo. pp. iv, 58.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A complete List of the Plates and Woodcuts in the Gentleman’s +Magazine, from 1731 to 1818 inclusive, and an +Alphabetical Index thereto. London (J. Nichols & Son), +1821. 8vo. pp. viii, 226.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Hansard’s Debates.</i>—General Index to the first and second series of +Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, forming a Digest of the +recorded Proceedings of Parliament from 1803 to 1830. +Edited by Sir John Philippart. London, 1834. Roy. 8vo. +pp. v, viii, 743. In several divisions.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Harper’s Magazine.</i>—An Index to Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, +volumes 1 to 50; from June, 1850, to May, 1875. New +York (Harper & Brothers), 1875. 8vo.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_93">[93]</span></p> + +<p>Arranged in one alphabet. Each alternate page has +been left blank, so that the Index can be continued by +any person for a large number of volumes to come, +pp. viii, 580 (including the blank pages), in double +columns.</p> + +<p>A previous Index of vols. 1 to 40 was published in +1870.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Leisure Hour.</i>—Index to the Leisure Hour, vol. 1-25, 1852-76. +royal 8vo. pp. 48 in four-columned pages.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>London Magazine.</i>—The General Index to twenty-seven volumes of +the London Magazine, viz., from 1732 to 1758 inclusive. +London, 1760. 8vo. unpaged.</p> + +<p>1, Index to the Essays; 2, to the Poetry; 3, of Names; +4, to the Books.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>London Med. & Phys. Journal.</i>—A General Index to the London +Medical and Physical Journal from Volume 1 to 40 +inclusive, containing an analytical Table of their Contents, +arranged in alphabetical order, with references to +the whole of the cited authorities, under their nominal +characters, etc. London (J. Souter), 1820. 8vo. pp. iv, +358.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet, with a supplement.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Medico-Chirurgical Review.</i>—General Index to the new series of the +Medico-Chirurgical Review, volume 1 to volume 20 inclusive +(from June 1, 1824, to June 1, 1834). With an +appendix comprising an Index to the series of four +annual volumes, from June, 1820, to April, 1824. London +(S. Highley), 1834. 8vo. title, pp. 110.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Merchants’ Magazine.</i>—A Compendious Index to the Merchants’ +Magazine and Commercial Review, embracing the first +two volumes, from its commencement in July, 1839, to +June, 1844, inclusive. New York, 1846.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Monthly Review.</i>—A General Index to the Monthly Review, from its +commencement to the end of the seventieth volume. By +the Rev. S. Ayscough. In two volumes; Vol. 1 containing +a [classified] Catalogue of the books and pamphlets characterized, +with the size and price of each article, to which is +added a complete Index of the names mentioned in the +Catalogue; Vol. 2 containing an Alphabetical Index to all +the memorable passages ... contained in the Monthly +Review. London, 1786. 8vo. Vol. 1, pp. xi, 714; Vol. 2, +title, pp. 571.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_94">[94]</span></p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A continuation of the General Index to the Monthly +Review, commencing at the seventy-first and ending with +the eighty-first volume, completing the first series of that +work, in two parts. Compiled by the Rev. S. Ayscough. +London, 1796. 8vo. pp. iv, 288.</p> + +<p>Arranged upon the same plan as the previous Index.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A General Index to the Monthly Review, from the commencement +of the new series in January, 1790, to the end of the +eighty-first volume, completed in December, 1816. In +two volumes; Vol. 1 containing a Catalogue of the books +and pamphlets.... Vol. 2 containing an Alphabetical +Index. London (J. Porter), 1818. Vol. 1, pp. ix, 958; +Vol. 2, title, table 1 leaf, pp. 624.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Naturalist’s Miscellany.</i>—General Indexes, in Latin and English, to the +subjects contained in the twenty-four volumes of the +Naturalist’s Miscellany. By the late George Shaw, M.D., +and Rich. P. Nodder. London, 1813. 8vo. pp. 26, in +double cols.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">*<i>New England Historical and Genealogical Register</i>, vol. 1-15.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>New Englander.</i>—Index to the New Englander, vols. 1-19 (1843 to +1861), containing an Index of Authors, a topical index, +an index of books noticed and reviewed, and a list of +engravings. Vol. 20. New Haven, Conn. (William L. +Kingsley, Editor and Proprietor), 1862.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>New York Daily Tribune.</i>—Index for 1876. The Tribune Association, +New York.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>New York Medical Journal.</i>—General Index to the New York Medical +Journal, from April, 1865, to June, 1876. By James B. +Hunter, M.D. New York (Appleton & Co.), 1877.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>New York Times.</i>—Index to the New York Times for 1865. Including +the Second Inauguration of President Lincoln, and his +Assassination; the Accession of President Johnson; the +close of the 38th and the opening of the 39th Congress, +and the close of the War of Secession. New York (Henry +J. Raymond & Co.), 1866.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">*<i>Niles’s Weekly Register</i>, vol. 1-12, 1811-18.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>North American Review.</i>—General Index to the North American +Review, from its commencement in 1815 to the end of the +25th volume, 1827. Boston (Gray & Bowen), 1829.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— New and Complete Index, vol. 1-125, 1815-77. By W. +Cushing. Cambridge, Mass., 1878. 8vo. in two parts. +1. Subjects; 2. Writers.</p> + +<p>Reviewed in <i>Library Journal</i>, vol. iii. No. 9, p. 343.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_95">[95]</span></p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Notes and Queries.</i>—Notes and Queries. General Index to Series the +First, Vols. 1 to 12. [By James Yeowell.] London (Bell +and Daldy), 1856. 4to. pp. iv, 146.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to Series the Second, Vols. 1 to 12. [By J. +Yeowell.] London (Bell & Daldy), 1862. 4to. pp. vi, 160.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to Series the Third (1862-1867), Vols. 1 to 12. +[By J. Yeowell.] London (Office, 43, Wellington Street), +1868. 4to. pp. iv, 156.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to Series the Fourth (1868-1873), Vols. 1 to +12. London (J. Francis), 1874. 4to. title, preface, 1 leaf, +pp. 166.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Pharmaceutical Journal.</i>—Index to fifteen volumes of the Pharmaceutical +Journal. London (J. Churchill), 1857. 8vo. +half-title, title, pp. 202, double columns.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Index to twelve volumes of the Pharmaceutical Journal, vol. +xvi, Old Series (1856) to vol. ix, Second Series (1868). +London, 1869. 8vo. pp. 155, in double cols.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Philosophical Magazine.</i>—General Index to the Philosophical Magazine, +or Annals of Chemistry, Mathematics, Astronomy, Natural +History and General Science, Volumes 1 to 11 (1827-1832). +London (R. Taylor), 1835. 8vo. pp. 50. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to the London and Edinburgh Philosophical +Magazine and Journal of Science ... for Volumes 1 to 12 +(1832-1838). London (R. & J. E. Taylor), 1839. 8vo. +pp. 58. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Practitioner.</i>—General Index to volumes i-xii. London, 1876. 8vo. +pp. 62 in double cols.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Quarterly Journal of Science.</i>—Index to the first twenty volumes of +the Quarterly Journal of Science and the Arts. London +(J. Murray), 1826. 8vo. title, pp. 218. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Quarterly Review.</i>—The Quarterly Review, Vol. 20. General Index +to the first nineteen volumes. London, 1820. 8vo. pp. +xxiv, 514.</p> + +<p>In three parts. 1, Personal Names; 2, Subjects; 3, +New Publications. Prefixed are Lists of Books and of +Authors reviewed.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Vol. 40. General Index to Volumes 21 to 39. London, 1831. +8vo. pp. xxxi, 366.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">Arranged on the same system as the first Index.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Vol. 60. General Index to Volumes 41 to 59. London, 1839. +8vo. title, pp. 612. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_96">[96]</span></p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Vol. 80. General Index to Volumes 61 to 79. +London, 1850. 8vo. pp. 326. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Vol. 100. General Index to Volumes from 81 to 99 inclusive. +London, 1858. 8vo. title, pp. 310. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Vol. 121. General Index to Volumes from 101 to 120 +inclusive. London, 1867. 8vo. title, pp. 298. In one +alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Repertory of Arts.</i>—An Analytical Index to the sixteen volumes of +the first series of the Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, +being a condensed epitome of that work, accompanied by +Alphabetical Lists of the Authors and Patentees whose +Memoirs and Patents are inserted therein, and of all Patents +granted for Inventions from the year 1795 to April, 1802. +To which is added a General Index to the first eight +volumes of the second series. London, 1806. 8vo. pp. iv, +232, 43.</p> + +<p>The first Index is in two alphabets, the second is in +one.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">*<i>Scribner’s Monthly</i>, vol. 1-10.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Times (The).</i>—An Index to “The Times,” and to the topics and events +of the year 1862. [By J. Giddings.] London (W. Freeman), +1863. 8vo. pp. vi, 87.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— An Index to “The Times,” and to the topics and events of +the year 1863. By J. Giddings. London (S. Palmer), +1864. 8vo. pp. xxvii, 201.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Index to “The Times” Newspaper, April, 1865, to June, +1878. London (S. Palmer). 4to. 52 vols.</p> + +<p>Commenced in 1865 and continued in quarterly volumes.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Westminster Review.</i>—A General Index to the Westminster Review, +from the first to the thirteenth volume inclusive, to which +is added an Index of Names. London (R. Heward), 1832. +8vo. half-title, title, pp. 216.</p> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h3 class="nobreak" id="INDEXES_TO_THE_STATUTES">INDEXES TO THE STATUTES.</h3> +</div> + +<div class="bq4em"> + +<p class="bq4emhang">1215-1714.—The Alphabetical Index to the Statutes of the Realm +from Magna Charta to the end of the reign of Queen +Anne. London, 1824. Folio.</p> + +<p>The Chronological Index to the Statutes of the Realm, +from Magna Charta to the end of the reign of Queen +Anne. London, 1828. Folio.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_97">[97]</span></p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">1215-1761.—The Statutes at Large, from Magna Charta to 1761, +Vol. 24 being the Index, by Danby Pickering. Cambridge, +1769. 8vo. 2 titles, pp. vii, 633. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">1215-1769.—A Complete Index to the Statutes at Large, from Magna +Charta to the tenth year of George III. inclusive, by +Owen Ruffhead and another gentleman. London, 1772. +8vo. unpaged. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">1215-1808.—An Index to the Statutes at Large, from Magna Charta +to the forty-ninth year of George III. inclusive. By +John Raithby, of Lincoln’s Inn. In three volumes. +London (Eyre & Strahan), 1814. 8vo. unpaged.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">1224-1847.—An Index to the Public Statutes from 9 Hen. III. to +10 & 11 Vict. inclusive (excepting those relating exclusively +to Scotland, Ireland, the Colonies and Dependencies). +Analytically arranged and affording a synoptical view of +the Statute Book. In two parts. Part 1 by Henry +Riddell and John Warrington Rogers, of the Middle +Temple. London (Benning & Co.), 1848. 8vo. pp. xiv, +half-title, pp. 406.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">1727-1834.—An Analytical Table of the Private Statutes, passed +between 1 Geo. II. 1727, and 52 Geo. III. 1812, both +inclusive.... By George Bramwell, of Lincoln’s Inn +Fields. London (T. Davison), 1813. 8vo. unpaged.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— —— An Analytical Table of the Private Statutes passed +between 53 Geo. III. 1813, and 4, 5 Will. IV. 1834.... +Vol. 2. London, 1835. 8vo. unpaged.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">1798-1839.—Index to the Local and Personal and Private Acts, +1798-1839, 38 Geo. III.—2 & 3 Vict. By Thomas +Vardon. London (Hansard’s), 1840. 8vo. title, preface 1 +leaf, pp. 485. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">1801-1828.—Index to the Public General Statutes of the United +Kingdom from January, 1801, to July, 1828. By B. +Spiller, Librarian, House of Commons. London (Hansard’s), +1829. 4to. pp. xxi, ff. 306.</p> + +<p>Printed on one side only, the verso of each leaf being +left blank for additions. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">1801-1865.—An Index to the Statutes, Public and Private, passed in +the several years from the Union with Ireland to the +termination of the eighteenth Parliament of the United +Kingdom, 41 Geo. III. (1801) to 28 & 29 Vict. (1865). +In two parts. Part 1, The Public General Acts, with a<span class="pagenum" id="Page_98">[98]</span> +chronological list of Acts repealed. Compiled by order of +the Select Committee on the Library of the House of +Lords, 1867. Folio. Prefatory observations, pp. vii, +pp. 703, clxxi.</p> + +<p>Part II. The Local and Personal Acts, Local Acts and +Private Acts in classes. 1867. Pp. vi, 1033.</p> + +<p class="bq4hang">An Index to the Statute Law of England, by George Stamp; +the third edition brought down to the close of the +Session 24 & 25 Vict. (1861) by James Edward Davis. +London, 1862. 8vo. pp. xcv, 468.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet, with a Table of Titles prefixed.</p> + +<p class="bq4hang">Chronological Table and Index of the Statutes to 1869. +8vo. 1870. Fourth edition, to the end of the Session of +1877, 40 & 41 Victoria. London, 1878. Roy. 8vo. pp. +xi, 842. Containing Table of Variances; Chronological +Table; Alphabetical Index and Appendices.</p> + + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>India.</i>—Chronological Table of, and Index to, the Indian Statute Book +from the year 1834, with a General Introduction to +the Statute Law of India. By C. D. Field, M.A., LL.D. +London (Butterworths), 1870. 4to. pp. vi, 1 leaf, pp. 277.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Ireland.</i>—Index to the Irish Statutes. By Andrew Newton Oulton. +2 vols. with Supplements.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Year Books, etc.</i>—Repertorium Juridicum. An Index to all the cases +in the year books, entries, reports and abridgments in +Law and Equity; beginning with Edward I. and continued +down to this time. [By Kennett Freeman.] +London, 1742. 2 parts, folio.</p> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h3 class="nobreak" id="INDEXES_TO_THE_JOURNALS_OF_THE_HOUSES_OF_LORDS">INDEXES TO THE JOURNALS OF THE HOUSES OF LORDS +AND COMMONS.</h3> +</div> + +<div class="bq4em"> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>House of Lords.</i>—Calendar of the Journals of the House of Lords, +from the beginning of the reign of Henry VIII. to 30 +Aug., 1642, and from 1660 to 21 Jan., 1808. [London, +1810.] Folio, pp. xxiii, 779.</p> + +<p>—— —— from 21st Jan., 1808, to 14th Nov., 1826. +[London]. Folio, pp. vii, 288.</p> + +<p>General Index to the Journals of the House of Lords. +Vol. 1-10. 1509-1649. [London], 1836. Folio, title, +pp. 679.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_99">[99]</span></p> + +<p>Vol. 11-19. 1660-1714. [London], 1834. Folio, +title, pp. 380.</p> + +<p>Vol. 20-35. 1714-1779. Compiled by Thomas Brodie. +[London], 1817. Folio, title, pp. 905.</p> + +<p>Vol. 36-52. 1780-1819. [London], 1832. Folio, +title, pp. 1027.</p> + +<p>Vol. 53-64. 1820-1833. [London], 1855. Folio, +title, pp. 775.</p> + +<p>1833-1863. London, 1865. 2 vols. folio.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>House of Commons.</i>—A General Index to the first seven volumes of +the Journals of the House of Commons. Compiled by +Timothy Cunningham. [London], 1785. Folio, pp. vii, +24 prelim. leaves, pp. 1100. (Vol. 8-11 by Flaxman, vol. +12-17 by Forster, superseded by the next article.)</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, +Vol. 1-17, 1547-1714. By Thomas Vardon and Thomas +Erskine May. [London], 1852. Folio, pp. vii, 1149.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A General Index to, or Digest of, seventeen volumes of the +Journals of the House of Commons—</p> + +<p>Vol. 18-34, 1714-1774. [By E. Moore.] [London], +1778. Folio, unpaged.</p> + +<p>Vol. 35-45, 1774-1790. [By S. Dunn.] [London], +1796. Folio, unpaged.</p> + +<p>Vol. 46-55, 1790-1800. [By S. Dunn.] [London], +1803. Folio, unpaged.</p> + +<p>Vol. 56-75, 1801-1820. By Martin Charles Burney. +[London], 1825. Folio.</p> + +<p>Vol. 75-92, 1820-1837. By Thomas Vardon. [London], +1839. Folio, pp. xx, 1072.</p> + +<p>Vol. 93-107, 1837-1852. By Thomas Vardon. [London], +1857. Folio, pp. viii, 1 leaf, pp. 999.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Ireland.</i>—Index to the Commons’ Journals of Ireland.</p> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h3 class="nobreak" id="INDEXES_OF_PARLIAMENTARY_PAPERS">INDEXES OF PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.</h3> +</div> + +<div class="bq4em"> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>House of Lords.</i>—A General Index to the Sessional Papers printed by +order of the House of Lords or presented by Special +Command, 1801-1837. [London], 1839. Folio, title, +pp. 370.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A General Index to the Sessional Papers printed by order of +the House of Lords or presented by Special Command, +from the Union with Ireland to the termination of the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_100">[100]</span> +seventeenth Parliament of the United Kingdom, 41 Geo. III. +to 22 Vict. (1801-1859). Compiled by order of the Select +Committee on the Library of the House of Lords. 1860. +Folio, pp. 992.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A General Index to the Sessional Papers, printed by +order of the House of Lords or presented by Special Command, +from 22 Vict. (1859) to 33 & 34 Vict. (1870). 1872. +Folio, pp. xv, 368.</p> + +<p>Indexes are published annually in continuation of this.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>House of Commons.</i>—Indexes to the Reports of the House of Commons, +1801-1834. 10th July, 1837. Folio, pp. 88. Divided into +the following sections—“Ecclesiastical,” “Education,” +“Finance and Public Accounts,” “Municipal Reform,” +“Debtor and Creditor.”</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— A General Index to the Reports from Committees of the House +of Commons, 1715-1801, forming the series of fifteen +volumes of Reports. [London], 1803. Folio, title, 1 leaf, +pp. 380.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to the Reports of Select Committees, printed +by order of the House of Commons, 1801-1852. [London], +1853. Folio, pp. xxxii, 412.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to the Reports on Public Petitions, 1833-1852. +[London], 1855. Folio, pp. xxxvi, 984.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to the Divisions of the House of Commons, +1852-53-1857. [London], 1857. Folio, pp. x, 202.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to the Bills, Reports, Accounts, and other +Papers, printed by order of the House of Commons, +1801-1826. [London], 1829. Folio, pp. iv, 352.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to the Bills, Reports, Accounts, and other +Papers, printed by order of the House of Commons, +1832-1838. [London], 1840. Folio, title, 1 leaf, pp. +338.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to the Accounts and Papers, Reports of Commissioners, +Estimates, &c. &c., printed by order of the +House of Commons, or presented by command, 1801-1852 +[London], 1853. Folio, pp. 1, 1080.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to the Bills printed by order of the House +of Commons, 1801-1852 [London], 1853. Folio, pp. xlii, +468.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to the Bills, Reports, Accounts, and other Papers +printed by order of the House of Commons or presented<span class="pagenum" id="Page_101">[101]</span> +by command, 1852-53-1861. 8 April, 1862. Folio, +Pp. lxii, 1019.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— General Index to the Bills, Reports, Estimates, +Accounts and Papers printed by order of the House of +Commons, and to the Papers presented by command, 1852-53-1868-69 +[London], 1870. Folio, title, pp. 775.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Charities.</i>—Index to the Reports of the Commissioners for inquiring Concerning +Charities in England and Wales. London, 1840. +Folio, title, pp. 443.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Historical MSS.</i>—Fourth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical +Manuscripts. Part ii, Index, 1874. Folio, +pp. 615-985.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Fifth Report. Part ii, Index, 1876. Folio, pp. 659-985.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Sixth Report. Part ii, Index, 1878. Folio, pp. 783-958.</p> + +<p>References are made in this index to the columns as +well as to the pages, the columns being designated by the +letters <i>a</i>, <i>b</i>.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>London Corporation.</i>—An analytical index of the minutes of Evidence +taken before the Commissioners appointed to Enquire into +the state of the Corporation of the City of London, etc., +etc., etc., 1854. Pp. 879-1058.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Standards.</i>—General Index to the Reports of the Standards Commission +(Reports I. to V.). London, 1878. Folio, pp. +viii, 101. In one alphabet, with a preliminary list of the +entries.</p> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h3 class="nobreak" id="INDEXES_TO_PROCEEDINGS_OF_PUBLIC_BODIES">INDEXES TO PROCEEDINGS OF PUBLIC BODIES.</h3> +</div> + +<div class="bq4em"> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Boston [Mass.] (City of).</i>—Index to the City Documents, from 1834 to +1865. Boston, 1866. Pp. 39.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— from 1834 to 1874. Boston, 1875.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Canada.</i>—General Index to the Journals of the Legislative Assembly +of Canada, in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Parliaments, 1841-1851. +By Alfred Todd. Montreal, 1855. Fol. pp. 575.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Courts of Equity, etc.</i>—An Index to all the reported Cases decided in +the several Courts of Equity in England and Ireland, the +Privy Council, and the House of Lords; and to the +Statutes on or relating to the Principles, Pleading and +Practice of Equity and Bankruptcy; from the earliest period. +By Edward Chitty. In four volumes. London, 1853. 8vo.</p> + +<p>In double columns.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_102">[102]</span></p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Rotuli Parliamentorum.</i>—Index to the Rolls of Parliament, comprising +the Petitions, Pleas and Proceedings of Parliament, +from Ann. 6 Edw. I. to Ann. 19 Hen. VI. (<span class="allsmcap">A.D.</span> 1278-<span class="allsmcap">A.D.</span> +1503). Prepared and edited by order of a +Committee of the House of Lords, in part by the Rev. +John Strachey and the Rev. John Pridden, and completed +by Edward Upham. London, 1832. Folio, title, preface +1 leaf, pp. 1036.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Scotland, Free Church.</i>—Handbook and Index to the principal acts of +assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1868. +Edinburgh, 1869. 12mo. pp. 63.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>—— Parliaments.</i>—General Index to the Acts of the Parliaments +of Scotland, to which is prefixed a supplement to the Acts +printed by authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her +Majesty’s Treasury. H. M. General Register House, +Edinburgh, <span class="allsmcap">M.DCCC.LXXV.</span> large folio, preface, etc., x. +Chronological Table of the supplement to the Acts of the +Parliament of Scotland, xi. pp. xxiii, 1255.</p> + +<p>In double columns.</p> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h3 class="nobreak" id="MISCELLANEOUS_INDEXES">MISCELLANEOUS INDEXES.</h3> +</div> + +<div class="bq4em"> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Augmentation Office.</i>—Index to Particulars for Grants in the Augmentation +Office, temp. Edward VI. folio, n.d. or place, +pp. 28.</p> + +<p>Privately printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Cartularies.</i>—Index to Cartularies, since the Dissolution of Monasteries. +Typis Medio-Montanis, impressit G. Gilmour, 1839. +12mo.</p> + +<p>Privately printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>County Visitations.</i>—Indexes to the County Visitations in the Library +at Middle Hill, 1840, and to a few others in the Harl. +MSS., British Museum, the Bodleian Library and Queen’s +College, Oxford. Typis Medio-Montanis, impressit C. +Gilmour, 1841. Folio, pp. 56.</p> + +<p>By Sir Thomas Phillipps, privately printed.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>English Language.</i>—A Glossarial Index to the Printed English +Literature of the Thirteenth Century. By Herbert Coleridge. +London (Trübner & Co), 1859. 8vo. pp. viii, 103.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Heirs-at-Law.</i>—Index to Heirs-at-Law, Next-of-Kin, Legatees,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_103">[103]</span> +Missing Friends, Encumbrances, and Creditors, or their +representatives in Chancery suits, who have been advertised +for during the last 150 years, containing upwards +of 50,000 names relating to vast sums of unclaimed money. +Collected, compiled, and alphabetically arranged by Robert +Chambers. Third edition. London (Reeves & Turner), +1872. 8vo.</p> + +<p>The advertisements are only referred to by numbers, +and further information must be obtained from the compiler. +It is therefore not a true Index, but only a means +for the obtaining of money by the compiler.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— De Bernardy’s Index-Register for Next-of-Kin, Heirs-at-Law, +Prize Captors, and of Unclaimed Property. 1754-1856.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>India.</i>—Index to Books and Papers on the Physical Geography, +Antiquities, and Statistics of India. By George Buist, +LL.D. Bombay, 1852. 8vo. pp. 103.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet. Chiefly consisting of references to +Indian periodicals.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Irish Law.</i>—A Digest and Index of all the Irish Reported Cases in +Law and Equity, from the earliest period to the present +time, and also of the Reported Cases in Ecclesiastical and +Criminal Law.... By John Finlay, LL.D. Dublin +(J. Cumming), 1830. 8vo. pp. xix, 600.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Leases.</i>—Index of Leases of Manors and Lands in England granted +since the Reformation, Annis 4 & 5 Edw. VI. [Edited by +Sir Thomas Phillipps.] 1832.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Manuscripts.</i>—Guide to the Historian, the Biographer, the Antiquary, +the man of literary curiosity, and the collector of autographs +towards the verification of Manuscripts, by reference +to engraved facsimiles of handwriting. [By Dawson +Turner.] Yarmouth (C. Sloman), 1848. Roy. 8vo. pp. +xii, 96.</p> + +<p>A most valuable alphabetical Index of the names of +celebrated men, with references to the books where specimens +of their writing can be found.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Pedigrees.</i>—Index to the Heralds’ Visitations in the British Museum. +1823. 12mo. pp. 52.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— An Index to the Pedigrees and Arms contained in the +Heralds’ Visitations and other Genealogical Manuscripts +in the British Museum, by R. Sims. London (J. Russell +Smith), 1849. Pp. vi, 330.</p> + +<p>The names are arranged in alphabet under each county.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_104">[104]</span></p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— An Index to the Pedigrees contained in the Printed Heralds’ +Visitations, etc., etc. By George W. Marshall, LL.M., +of the Middle Temple. London (B. Hardwicke), 1866. +8vo. pp. 164.</p> + +<p>An Index of the Pedigrees in Berry’s County Genealogies +is incorporated with this Index.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Coleman’s General Index to Printed Pedigrees, which are to +be found in all the principal County and Local Histories +and in many privately printed Genealogies, under alphabetical +arrangement, with an Appendix commencing at +page 106. London (J. Coleman), 1866. Pp. vii, 155.</p> + +<p>This Index is said in the preface to contain references +to nearly 10,000 pedigrees.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— An Index to Printed Pedigrees contained in County and +Local Histories, the Heralds’ Visitations, and in the more +important Genealogical Collections. By Charles Bridger. +London (J. Russell Smith), 1867. 8vo. pp. vi, 384.</p> + +<p>Contains separate Indexes to family names in 287 books, +and a general Index referring back to these.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Periodicals.</i>—An Alphabetical Index to Subjects treated in the +Reviews and other Periodicals, to which no indexes have +been published. Prepared for the Library of the Brothers +in Unity, Yale College. [By Wm. Fred. Poole.] New +York, 1848. Pp. 155. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— An Index to Periodical Literature. By Wm. Fred. Poole. +New York, 1853. Roy. 8vo. pp. xi, 521.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet of subjects.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Catalogue of Scientific Papers (1800-1863). Compiled and +published by the Royal Society of London. London, +1867-72. 6 vols., 4to. (1864-1873.) Vol. 7, 1877.</p> + +<p>Vol. 1, A-Clu, pp. lxxix, 960; Vol. 2, Coa-Gra, +pp. iv, 1012; Vol. 3, Gre-Lez, pp. v, 1002; Vol. 4, Lhe-Poz, +pp. iv, 1006; Vol. 5, Pra-Tiz, pp. iv, 1000; Vol. 6, +Tka-Zyl, pp. xi, 763; Vol. 7, A-Hyr, pp. xxxi, 1047.</p> +</div> + + +<p>The celebrated Dr. Thomas Young published in the second +volume of his <i>Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the +Mechanical Arts</i> (1807) a most valuable Catalogue of books +and papers relating to the subject of his Lectures, which is +classified minutely, and occupies 514 quarto pages in double +columns. In Kelland’s new edition (1845) the references are +abridged and inserted after the several lectures to which +they refer.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_105">[105]</span></p> + +<div class="bq4em"> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Places.</i>—Index Villaris, or an Exact Register, alphabetically digested, +of all the cities, market-towns, parishes, villages ... [in +England and Wales. By J. Adams.] London, 1690. +Folio, title, 3 preliminary leaves, pp. 419.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet, with appendix.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Index to the Population Tables of England and Wales and +Islands in the British Seas [of the Census of 1871]. +Folio, pp. 570-772.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland, +showing the number of the sheet of the Ordnance Survey +Maps on which they appear; also the area of the Townlands, +the County, the Barony, Parish, Poor Law Union, +and Poor Law Electoral Division in which they are +situated; and the volume and page of the Census of 1871, +part 1, which contain the population and number of houses +in 1841, 1851, 1861, and 1871, and the Poor Law Valuation +in 1871; with separate Indices of the Parishes, Baronies, +Poor Law Unions (or Superintendent Registrars’ +Districts), Poor Law Electoral Divisions, Dispensary (or +Registrars’) Districts, Petty Sessions Districts, and Parliamentary +Boroughs of Ireland. Presented to both Houses +of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Dublin, +1877. Folio, pp. 799.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Records.</i>—An Index to the Records, with Directions to the several +Places where they are to be found, and short explanations +of the different kinds of Rolls, Writs, etc.; to +which is added A List of the Latin Sir-Names, and Names +of Places, as they are written in the old Records, explained +by the Modern Names. Also A Chronological Table, +shewing at one View the Year of our Lord, answering to +the particular year of each King’s Reign, the several +Parliaments, and the different Titles by which our Kings +are styled in the Records. London (G. Hawkins), 1739. +8vo. pp. viii, 182.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Index to Records called the Originalia and Memoranda on the +Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer’s Side of the Exchequer, +extracted from the Records, and from the MSS. of Mr. +Tayleure, Mr. Madox and Mr. Chapman.... By Edward +Jones, Inner Temple. London, Printed for the Editor, +1793, vol. 1. 1795, vol. 2. Folio.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— An Index drawn up about 1629 of many Records of Charters +granted by the different sovereigns of Scotland between<span class="pagenum" id="Page_106">[106]</span> +the years 1309 and 1413, most of which Records have +been long missing. With an Introduction ... by +William Robertson. Edinburgh (Murray & Cochrane), +1798. 4to. pp. liii, 196.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Index to the Printed Reports of Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H., +the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, 1840-1861. +London (Eyre & Spottiswoode), 1865. Pp. 371. By John +Edwards and Edward James Tabrum. In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Religious Houses.</i>—Fasti Monastici Aevi Saxonici: or an Alphabetical +List of the Heads of Religious Houses in England previous +to the Norman Conquest; to which is prefixed a Chronological +Catalogue of Contemporary Foundations. By +Walter De Gray Birch. London (Taylor & Co.), 1873. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Sermons.</i>—An Index to the Sermons published since the Restoration, +pointing out the texts in the order they lie in the Bible; +showing the occasion on which they were preached, and +directing to the volume and page where they occur. +London (J. Newbery, etc.), 1751. 8vo. pp. iv, 212.</p> + +<p>Arranged according to the order of the Books of the Bible.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— The Preacher’s Assistant. In two parts. Part 1, A Series of +the Texts of all the Sermons and Discourses preached +upon, and published since the Restoration to the present +time. Part 2, An Historical Register of all the Authors +in the Series, containing a succinct view of their several +works. To which are added two Lists of the Archbishops +and Bishops of England and Ireland from 1660 to 1753, +with an appendix to each part. By Sampson Letsome, +M.A., Vicar of Thame, in Oxfordshire. London, 1753. +8vo. pp. xii, 288; part 2, title, pp. 238.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— The Preacher’s Assistant (after the manner of Mr. Letsome).... +By John Cooke, M.A. ... Rector of Wentnor, +Salop. Vol. 1. Oxford (Clarendon Press), 1783. Pp. xii, +487.</p> + +<p>An Historical Register of all the Authors in the Series, +alphabetically disposed. Vol. 2, pp. 425.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— The Churchman’s Guide: a copious Index to Sermons and +other Works. By John Forster, M.A. London, 1840. 8vo.</p> + +<p>List of Authors of Miscellaneous Sermons, pp. 6. Index +of Subjects, pp. 210.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Cyclopædia Bibliographica.... By James Darling. Subjects: +Holy Scriptures. London (Darling), 1859. Roy. 8vo.</p> + +<p>Contains an Index of Sermons arranged under the texts.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_107">[107]</span></p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Theology.</i>—Theological Index. References to the Principal Works +in every department of Religious Literature, embracing +nearly 70,000 citations, alphabetically arranged under +2000 heads. By Howard Malcom, D.D., LL.D. Boston +(Gould & Lincoln). 8vo. pp. 488.</p> + +<p>A second edition has been published.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Index to Systematic Theology. By Charles Hodge, D.D. +London and Edinburgh, 1873. 8vo. +pp. 79 in double cols.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Wills.</i>—An Index to Wills proved in the Court of the Chancellor +of the University of Oxford, and to such of the records +and other instruments and papers of that Court as relate +to matters or causes testamentary. By the Rev. John +Griffiths, M.A., Keeper of the Archives. Oxford (University +Press), 1862. Roy. 8vo. pp. xiv, 88.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet, with a chronological list appended.</p> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h3 class="nobreak" id="INDEXES_TO_CATALOGUES">INDEXES TO CATALOGUES.</h3> +</div> + +<div class="bq4em"> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>British Catalogue.</i>—Index to the British Catalogue of Books published +during the years 1837 to 1857 inclusive. By Sampson +Low. 1858. 8vo.</p> + +<p>pp. 292, xxx, and xlviii, in double columns, really compiled +by Dr. Crestadoro, Librarian of the Manchester Free +Library.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— An Index to Current Literature, comprising a Reference to +Author and Subject of Every Book in the English +Language, and to Articles in Literature, Science and +Art in Serial Publications, 1859, 1860, 1861. London +(Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 47 Ludgate Hill), 1862.</p> + +<p>This most valuable Index was published quarterly; its +failure is a loss to literature, for it was very carefully +compiled.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>London Catalogue of Books.</i>—Classified Index, 1814 to 1846. London +(Hodgson), 1848. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— 1816 to 1851. London (Hodgson), 1853. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>College of Surgeons.</i>—Classified Index to the Catalogue of the Library +of the Royal College of Surgeons. London, 1853. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Lambeth Library.</i>—An Index of such English Books printed before +the year 1600 as are now in the Archiepiscopal Library +at Lambeth. Published by ... the Rev. S. R. Maitland,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_108">[108]</span> +Librarian. London (F. & J. Rivington), 1845. 8vo. +pp. xii, 120.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Med. and Chir. Soc.</i>—Index to the Catalogue of the Library of the +Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, containing +an alphabetical List of Subjects, with the names +of the authors. [By B. R. Wheatley.] London (J. E. +Adlard), 1860. 8vo. pp. vii, 293.</p> + +<p>A new Catalogue and a new Index are now in the press.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>New York State Library.</i>—Subject-Index of the General Library. +Albany, 1872. 8vo. pp. xviii, 651.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Trin. Coll. Camb.</i>—An Index to such English Books printed before +the year 1600 as are now in the Library of Trinity College, +Cambridge. By Edward Cranwell, Under Librarian. Cambridge, +1847. 8vo. pp. 68.</p> +</div> + +<h4><span class="smcap">Manuscripts.</span></h4> + +<div class="bq4em"> +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Baker MSS.</i>—Index to the Baker MSS., by Four Members of the +Cambridge Antiquarian Society. 1848. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>Bodleian Library.</i>—Index to the Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Elias +Ashmole preserved in the Ashmolean Museum, and now +deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. By the Rev. +W. D. Macray. Oxford, 1866. 4to. pp. 188 in triple +cols.</p> + +<p>In one alphabet.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Index to the Catalogue (vols. 1 and 2) of the Rawlinson MSS. +in the Bodleian Library. By the Rev. W. D. Macray. +Oxford, 1878. 4to. pp. 565-992.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang"><i>British Museum.</i>—Index to the Additional MSS. with those of the +Egerton Collection, 1783-1835. London, 1849. Fol. pp. +iv, 514.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Indexes to the Additional MSS, 1836-1845. London, folio.</p> + +<p class="bq4emhang">—— Preface and Index to the Catalogue of the Harleian MSS. +London, 1763. Fol.</p> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_109">[109]</span></p> + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="INDEX">INDEX.</h2> +</div> + + +<ul class="index"> + +<li class="ifrst">Abbott (E.), Concordance to Pope, <a href="#Page_77">77</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Abecedarie, as a synonym of Index, <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Acrostic, as a motto for an Index, <a href="#Page_69">69</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Acuerdo Olvido,” a supposed author, <a href="#Page_52">52</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Adam (A.), Geographical Index, <a href="#Page_82">82</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Adams (J.), Index Villaris, <a href="#Page_105">105</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Adjectives, when to be used as catchwords, <a href="#Page_72">72</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— (Substantival), as headings, <a href="#Page_44">44</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Agassiz, Bibliographia Zoologiæ, <a href="#Page_32">32</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— —— blunder in, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Agricultural (Royal) Society, Index to Journal, <a href="#Page_86">86</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Aler (Paul), editor of the “Gradus ad Parnassum”, <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Alison’s History of Europe, Index, <a href="#Page_78">78</a></li> + +<li class="indx">All the Year Round, Index, <a href="#Page_89">89</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Allibone’s Dictionary of Authors, <i>alluded to</i>, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>, <a href="#Page_27">27</a>, <a href="#Page_53">53</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— —— the forty Indexes, <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Almanac, Index to the Companion to the, <a href="#Page_91">91</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— —— marks of repetition in, <a href="#Page_67">67</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Almanac (American), Indexes, <a href="#Page_89">89</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Alphabet (<i>one</i>) for Indexes, <a href="#Page_71">71</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Alphabetical Arrangement, difficulties of, <a href="#Page_58">58</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Alunno (F.), Index to Boccaccio, <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li> + +<li class="indx">American Almanac, Indexes, <a href="#Page_89">89</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“American Bookseller”, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">American Journal, Indexes, <a href="#Page_89">89</a></li> + +<li class="indx">American Journal of Pharmacy, Index, <a href="#Page_89">89</a></li> + +<li class="indx">American Jurist and Law Magazine, Index, <a href="#Page_89">89</a></li> + +<li class="indx">American Pharmaceutical Association, Index to Proceedings, <a href="#Page_83">83</a></li> + +<li class="indx">‘Anleitung’ as an author, <a href="#Page_61">61</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_110">[110]</span>Annual Register, Index, <a href="#Page_89">89</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Anonymous Books, arrangement of, in the British Museum Catalogue, <a href="#Page_29">29</a> (note)</li> + +<li class="indx">Antonio (N.), value of his “Bibliotheca Hispana”, <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— arrangement of the Index, <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— his quotation of the remark that an Index should be made by the author of the book, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>, <a href="#Page_21">21</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Aquin (D’) quotes ‘Mantissa’ as an author, <a href="#Page_52">52</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Arago’s Works, divided Index to, <a href="#Page_57">57</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Architectural Societies of Yorkshire, etc., Index, <a href="#Page_88">88</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Archæologia, Indexes, <a href="#Page_87">87</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Archæological (British) Association, Index to the Journal, <a href="#Page_83">83</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Archæological Epistle to Dean Milles, not by Mason, but by Baynes, <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Armytage (G. J.), Index to Dugdale’s Visitation of York, <a href="#Page_79">79</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Arrowsmith’s Atlas, Index, <a href="#Page_82">82</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Ashmole MSS., Index, <a href="#Page_108">108</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Asiatic Society of Bengal, Index to Asiatic Researches and Journal, <a href="#Page_83">83</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Assurance Magazine, Index, <a href="#Page_89">89</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Astronomical (Royal) Society’s Memoirs, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Indexes to Memoirs and Monthly Notices, <a href="#Page_86">86</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Athenæum” (The), <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— uselessness of the Indexes from their subdivisions, <a href="#Page_57">57</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— want of a general Index, <a href="#Page_48">48</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— suggestion of an Index Society in 1877, <a href="#Page_37">37</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Athenæum Library Catalogue, Index of Subjects, <a href="#Page_36">36</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Athenæus, blunder in the Index to Dalechamp’s edition, <a href="#Page_21">21</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Atlantic Monthly, Index, <a href="#Page_90">90</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Atlases, Indexes of, <a href="#Page_82">82</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Augmentation Office, Index to Grants, <a href="#Page_102">102</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Authorities to be Indexed, <a href="#Page_73">73</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Ayenbite of Inwyt,” Table of Contents to the book, <a href="#Page_7">7</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Ayscough’s (Rev. S.) Indexes, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>, <a href="#Page_46">46</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to the Gentleman’s Magazine, <a href="#Page_92">92</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to the Monthly Review, <a href="#Page_93">93</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to Shakespeare, <a href="#Page_77">77</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">Bachaumont, Mémoires de, <a href="#Page_51">51</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Baillet, his General Index in thirty-two folio volumes, <a href="#Page_21">21</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Baker MSS., Index, <a href="#Page_108">108</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_111">[111]</span>Baret’s Alvearie, use of the words Index and Table in the book, <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Barker (E. H.), Index to his edition of Stephens’s Thesaurus, <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Baronius, noble Index to his “Annales Ecclesiastici”, <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Bayle, his opinion on the need of judgment in the compilation of an Index, <a href="#Page_21">21</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Baynes (John), his terrible curse, <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Beaconsfield (Earl of), editor of Isaac Disraeli’s Works, <a href="#Page_53">53</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Bentley attacked in an Index by Dr. King, <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Best (Mr. Justice), reference to his “great mind”, <a href="#Page_44">44</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Bible, Concordances to the, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>, <a href="#Page_75">75-76</a></li> + +<li class="indx">——, Indexes to the, <a href="#Page_76">76</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, Index, <a href="#Page_90">90</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Bibliographical Research, rapid growth of the taste for, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Bibliotheca Sacra, Index, <a href="#Page_90">90</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Bibliothecar. Chetham.,” his contribution to a General Index, <a href="#Page_37">37</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Biglow Papers,” humorous Index to it, <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Bigsby’s Thesaurus Siluricus, <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Thesaurus Devonico-Carboniferus, <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Billings (Dr. J. S.), his proposed National Catalogue of Medical Literature, <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Binney (Hon. Horace), proposed punishment for the publisher of an indexless book, <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Biographie Moderne, blunder in, <a href="#Page_60">60</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Biographie Universelle, life of an imaginary person, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Birch (W. De Gray), Fasti Monastici Aevi Saxonici, <a href="#Page_106">106</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to the Journal of the British Archæological Association, <a href="#Page_83">83</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Births, Deaths and Marriages, arrangement of newspaper lists of, <a href="#Page_66">66</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Bishops, their signatures a source of trouble to some, <a href="#Page_64">64</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— to be arranged under their family names, <a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_72">72</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Index, <a href="#Page_90">90</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Blomefield’s History of Norfolk, Index Nominum, <a href="#Page_78">78</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Blomfield’s (Bishop) review of Barker’s edition of Stephens’s Thesaurus, <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Boccaccio, Index to his words and phrases, <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Bochart (M.), called an Index the soul of big books, <a href="#Page_21">21</a> <a href="#Footnote_12">(note 12</a>)</li> + +<li class="indx">Bodleian Library, Indexes to Catalogues of MSS., <a href="#Page_108">108</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Bolton (H. C.), Bibliography of the History of Chemistry, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to the Literature of Manganese, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Book-Analyst and Library Guide, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Bookseller’s ‘reason’ for not giving an Index, <a href="#Page_13">13</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_112">[112]</span>Boston (Mass.), Indexes to City Documents, <a href="#Page_101">101</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Botanical Magazine, Indexes, <a href="#Page_90">90</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Bowyer (William), praise of one of his Indexes, <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Boyle upon Bentley”, <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Bramwell (G.), Table of the Private Statutes, <a href="#Page_97">97</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Brayley’s Surrey, Indexes to, <a href="#Page_56">56</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Bremond (— de), Table des Mémoires dans les Transactions Philosophiques, <a href="#Page_87">87</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Brent (G. S.), Index to the Journal of the Geographical Society, <a href="#Page_86">86</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Bridger’s Index to Pedigrees, <a href="#Page_79">79</a>, <a href="#Page_104">104</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Brigham le jeune <i>for</i> Brigham Young, <a href="#Page_61">61</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Brightwell (D. B.), Concordance to Tennyson, <a href="#Page_78">78</a></li> + +<li class="indx">British and Foreign Medical Review, Index, <a href="#Page_90">90</a></li> + +<li class="indx">British Archæological Association, Index to the Journal, <a href="#Page_83">83</a></li> + +<li class="indx">British Association Reports, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— —— General Index in six Alphabets, <a href="#Page_57">57</a>, <a href="#Page_83">83</a></li> + +<li class="indx">British Catalogue of Books, Index, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_107">107</a></li> + +<li class="indx">British Critic, Indexes, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>, <a href="#Page_90">90</a></li> + +<li class="indx">British Museum Catalogue, <a href="#Page_63">63</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— —— arrangement of Anonymous Books, <a href="#Page_29">29</a> (note), <a href="#Page_43">43</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Rules for Cataloguing, <a href="#Page_70">70</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Indexes to Catalogues of MSS., <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_108">108</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Broch (J. K.), an imaginary author, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Brodie (Thomas), Index to the Journals of the House of Lords, <a href="#Page_99">99</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Bromley’s (William) Travels, ill-natured Index made to them by his enemies, <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Brown (Arthur), Treatise on different calculi, attributed to him, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Browne’s (Sir Thomas) “Religio Medici,” the errata uncorrected in several editions, <a href="#Page_65">65</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Brunet (G.) translates ‘White Knights’ as <i>Le Chevalier Blanc</i>, <a href="#Page_52">52</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Brussels Academy’s Memoirs, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Buckland (Dr.), said to be the author of a work “sur les ponts et chaussées”, <a href="#Page_53">53</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Buffon’s Natural History, Index to the Plates, <a href="#Page_78">78</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Buist, Index to Books and Papers on India, <a href="#Page_103">103</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Bulwer Lytton (Sir Edward), Lord Lytton, his numerous names, <a href="#Page_62">62</a>, <a href="#Page_63">63</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Burke’s Landed Gentry, Index to, <a href="#Page_78">78</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_113">[113]</span>Burney (M. C.), Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, <a href="#Page_99">99</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Burton (Hill), “Book Hunter,” allusion to the power in the hands of an Indexer, <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— History of Scotland, Index, <a href="#Page_79">79</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">Calcutta Review, Index, <a href="#Page_91">91</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Calendar, as a synonym of Index, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Calendars of State Papers, <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Calendarium, use of the word in English books, <a href="#Page_7">7</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cambridge Concordance, <a href="#Page_75">75</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cambridge, Trinity College, Index of Books printed before 1600, <a href="#Page_108">108</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Camden Society Publications, projected Index to, <a href="#Page_36">36</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Campbell (Lord), proposed punishment for the publisher of an indexless book, <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— his confession, <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— good index to Lives of the Lord Chancellors, <a href="#Page_46">46</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Campkin (H.), his Index to the Sussex Archæological Collections, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>, <a href="#Page_88">88</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Camus, an imaginary author, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Canada, Index to the Journals of the Legislative Assembly, <a href="#Page_101">101</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Canadian Journal, bad Indexes to, <a href="#Page_42">42-43</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Capgrave’s Chronicle of England, blunder in the Index, <a href="#Page_49">49</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Carlisle (Nicholas) Index to Archæologia, <a href="#Page_87">87</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, <a href="#Page_86">86</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Carlyle (Thomas), Index to his Works, <a href="#Page_79">79</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— his reference to Prynne’s “Histrio-Mastix”, <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— he denounces the putters forth of indexless books, <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— his remarks on the want of Indexes to the standard Historical Collections, <a href="#Page_39">39</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cartularies, Index to, <a href="#Page_102">102</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Carus (J. V.), Bibliotheca Zoologica, <a href="#Page_32">32</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— —— blunders in the Index, <a href="#Page_57">57</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cary’s English Atlas, Index, <a href="#Page_82">82</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Catalogue, as a synonym of Index, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Catalogue of Scientific Papers, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>, <a href="#Page_104">104</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Catalogues, Indexes to, <a href="#Page_107">107-108</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cataloguing, Rules for, <a href="#Page_70">70</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Census of 1871, Index, <a href="#Page_105">105</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Centralblatt,” various German, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Chadwick (J. N.), Index Nominum to Blomefield’s Norfolk, <a href="#Page_78">78</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Chambers (R.), Index to Heirs-at-Law, <a href="#Page_102">102</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Channing, two Doctors of the name, how to be distinguished, <a href="#Page_68">68</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_114">[114]</span>Charities, Index to the Commissioners’ Reports, <a href="#Page_101">101</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Chatillon, compiler of the “Gradus ad Parnassum”, <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Chemical Society’s Journal, <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— —— Index, <a href="#Page_83">83</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Chemistry, Bibliography of the History of, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Chetham Society’s Index, <a href="#Page_84">84</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Chitty (E.), Index to Cases in Courts of Equity, <a href="#Page_101">101</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— his grudge against Justice Best, <a href="#Page_45">45</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Chorley (Josiah), Metrical Index to the Bible, <a href="#Page_76">76</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Christian Observer, Index to, by Macaulay, <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cicero, his joke about Pollex and Index, <a href="#Page_8">8</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— his use of the word Index, <a href="#Page_8">8</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cinthio’s Novel turned into <i>November</i> by Warburton, <a href="#Page_53">53</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Clarke (Mrs. Cowden), Concordance to Shakspere, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>, <a href="#Page_77">77</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Clarke’s (Wm.) Roman, Saxon, and English Coins, Index to it, <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Classification <i>v.</i> the Alphabetical Arrangement, <a href="#Page_56">56</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Clergyman and Dissenting Minister of the same Name, <a href="#Page_69">69</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cleveland (C. D.), Concordance to Milton, <a href="#Page_77">77</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cobbett’s <i>Woodlands</i> quoted, <a href="#Page_55">55</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cohen, the former name of Sir Francis Palgrave, <a href="#Page_63">63</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Coke (Lord Chief Justice), an inaccurate man, <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Coleman (J.), Index to Printed Pedigrees, <a href="#Page_104">104</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Coleridge (H.), Glossarial Index, <a href="#Page_102">102</a></li> + +<li class="indx">College of Surgeons, Index to the Catalogue, <a href="#Page_107">107</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Commons (House of), Indexes to Reports, Bills, Papers, etc., <a href="#Page_100">100</a>, <a href="#Page_101">101</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Indexes to Journals, <a href="#Page_99">99</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Companion to the Almanac, Index, <a href="#Page_91">91</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Conant (T. J.), Index to the American Encyclopædia, <a href="#Page_79">79</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Concordances to the Bible, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>;</li> +<li class="isub1">first, in 1247, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>;</li> +<li class="isub1">first English, by Marbeck, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>;</li> +<li class="isub1">first English to New Testament, <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— list of, <a href="#Page_75">75-78</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Congregational Quarterly, Index, <a href="#Page_91">91</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Congress Library, U.S., Index to old Catalogue, <a href="#Page_47">47</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Connecticut Academy, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Contractions, dangers in filling them out, <a href="#Page_53">53</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cooke (J.), The Preacher’s Assistant, <a href="#Page_106">106</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Copland’s Dictionary of Practical Medicine, <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Corpus Christi Guild, York, incomplete Index to the Register of, <a href="#Page_48">48</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cotton’s (C.) Concordance, <a href="#Page_75">75</a></li> + +<li class="indx">County and Local Histories, need of Indexes to them, <a href="#Page_39">39</a></li> + +<li class="indx">County Visitations, Indexes to, <a href="#Page_102">102</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_115">[115]</span>Courts of Equity, etc., Index to Cases, <a href="#Page_101">101</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cranwell (E.), Index to Books printed before 1600 in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, <a href="#Page_108">108</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Crestadoro (Dr.), his Index to the British Catalogue of Books, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_107">107</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Croker’s (Wilson) discovery of the blunders in the Mémoires de Louis XVIII., <a href="#Page_51">51</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cross (J. Ashton), his pamphlet on a Universal Index, <a href="#Page_37">37</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— paper before the Conference of Librarians, <a href="#Page_37">37</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cross references in an epitaph, <a href="#Page_55">55</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— need of care in the use of, <a href="#Page_54">54</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— use and abuse of, <a href="#Page_72">72</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cruden’s (Alex.) Concordance, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>, <a href="#Page_76">76</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cruttwell (Rev. C.), Concordance of Parallels collected from Bibles and Commentaries, <a href="#Page_76">76</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cunningham (T.), Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>, <a href="#Page_99">99</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Curtis (F. A.), on the best method of constructing an Index, <a href="#Page_58">58</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Curtis (S.), Indexes to the Botanical Magazine, <a href="#Page_90">90</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cushing (W.), Index to the North American Review, <a href="#Page_94">94</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cutter’s Rules for Cataloguing, <a href="#Page_62">62</a>, <a href="#Page_70">70</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Cyclopædia (Appleton’s Annual), Index, <a href="#Page_79">79</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— (English), Index, <a href="#Page_79">79</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">“Da,” surnames not to be arranged under this prefix, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>, <a href="#Page_71">71</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Dal,” surnames to be arranged under this prefix, <a href="#Page_71">71</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Darling’s Cyclopædia Bibliographica, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_106">106</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“De,” French surnames not to be arranged under this prefix, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>, <a href="#Page_71">71</a></li> + +<li class="indx">De Bernardy’s Index-Register for next-of-kin, <a href="#Page_103">103</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Dedication of an Index, <a href="#Page_13">13</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Del,” “Della,” surnames to be arranged under these prefixes, <a href="#Page_71">71</a></li> + +<li class="indx">De Morgan (Prof.) on the Index to Jeake’s “Arithmetick”, <a href="#Page_38">38</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— on the length of life of bibliographies, <a href="#Page_62">62</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index of authors to his Arithmetical Books, <a href="#Page_48">48</a></li> + +<li class="indx">De Quincey’s specimen of a French Abbé’s Greek, <a href="#Page_51">51</a></li> + +<li class="indx">‘Derselbe’ as an author, <a href="#Page_61">61</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Des,” surnames to be arranged under this prefix, <a href="#Page_71">71</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Devils of use in a printing office, <a href="#Page_69">69</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Differential Calculus misread as different calculi, <a href="#Page_49">49</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Dircks’s Worcesteriana, blunder in, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Disraeli’s (Isaac), Works edited by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, <a href="#Page_53">53</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Curiosities of Literature, quoted, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>, <a href="#Page_54">54</a>, <a href="#Page_57">57</a>, <a href="#Page_66">66</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_116">[116]</span>Donis (Nicholas), an imaginary author, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Doran (Dr.) on “Best’s great mind”, <a href="#Page_45">45</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Dorus Basilicus, an imaginary author, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Douce (Francis), <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Downame’s (J.) Concordance, <a href="#Page_75">75</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Downes’ (T.) Index to Pennant’s London, <a href="#Page_81">81</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Draper (W. F.), Index to the Bibliotheca Sacra, <a href="#Page_90">90</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Drayton, his use of the word Index, <a href="#Page_7">7</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Dublin Medical Journal, Index, <a href="#Page_91">91</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Du,” surnames to be arranged under this prefix, <a href="#Page_71">71</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Dugdale’s (Sir W.) Visitation of York, Index, <a href="#Page_79">79</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Antiquities of Warwickshire, use of the words Index and Table in that book, <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Duncan (J.), Index to the Encyclopædia Britannica, <a href="#Page_79">79</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Dunn (S.), Indexes to the Journals of the House of Commons, <a href="#Page_99">99</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">Eadie’s Dictionary of the Bible, cross reference in, <a href="#Page_54">54</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Edgeworth’s Essay on Irish Bulls, arranged under the head of Zoology, <a href="#Page_57">57</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Index, <a href="#Page_91">91</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Edinburgh Review, Indexes, <a href="#Page_91">91</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Edwards (J.), Index to Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Records, <a href="#Page_106">106</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Egerton MSS., Index to, <a href="#Page_108">108</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Encyclopædia (American), Index, <a href="#Page_79">79</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Encyclopædia Britannica, useless cross reference in, <a href="#Page_55">55</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— —— Index, <a href="#Page_79">79</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Metropolitana, Index, <a href="#Page_79">79</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Engelmann’s praiseworthy Bibliographies, <a href="#Page_32">32</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Engineers, see <i><a href="#Page_120">Institution</a></i>; <i><a href="#Page_124">North of England</a></i>.</li> + +<li class="indx">England, Parliamentary History of, Index, <a href="#Page_81">81</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Pictorial History of, Index, <a href="#Page_81">81</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Enriched with two lists,” a supposed author, <a href="#Page_52">52</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Erasmus, his use of Alphabetical Indexes, <a href="#Page_8">8</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Errata, should they be Indexed?, <a href="#Page_65">65</a></li> + +<li class="indx">——, instances of malicious, <a href="#Page_66">66</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Essayists, Indexes to the, <a href="#Page_79">79</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Exchequer Records, Index to, <a href="#Page_105">105</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">Fabiani (Ferdinand), his blunder in a name, <a href="#Page_52">52</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Fasti Monastici Aevi Saxonici, <a href="#Page_106">106</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Field (C. D.), Index to the Indian Statute Book, <a href="#Page_98">98</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_117">[117]</span>Finlay (J.), Index of Irish Cases in Law and Equity, <a href="#Page_103">103</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Flaxman (Dr. Roger), payment for Parliamentary Indexes, <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, <a href="#Page_99">99</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Johnson angry with him on account of the entry <i>Mr.</i> John Milton in the Index to the Ramblers, <a href="#Page_64">64</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Fleming (Abraham), the index-maker of Shakespeare’s day, <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Ford’s Handbook of Spain, amusing reference in, <a href="#Page_55">55</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Forster (J.), The Churchman’s Guide, <a href="#Page_106">106</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Forster (Rev. Mr.), Parliamentary Indexer, <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, <a href="#Page_99">99</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Freeling (G. H.), Index to Numismatic Papers, <a href="#Page_83">83</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Freeman (K.), Repertorium Juridicum, <a href="#Page_98">98</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Fuller (Thomas), his praise of Indexes, <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— his Index to the ‘Pisgah-sight of Palestine’, <a href="#Page_12">12-13</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Furness (Mrs. H. H.), A Concordance to Shakespeare’s Poems, <a href="#Page_78">78</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">Gallager (Owen), <a href="#Page_61">61</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Gentleman’s Magazine, Indexes, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>, <a href="#Page_92">92</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— badness of the Index of names, <a href="#Page_46">46</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Geographical (Royal) Society, Indexes to the Journal, <a href="#Page_86">86</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Geological Society, Index to Transactions, Proceedings, and Journal, <a href="#Page_84">84</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Geological Survey of India, Index to the Records, <a href="#Page_84">84</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Gerarde’s Herbal, by Johnson, use of the words Index and Table in that book, <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Giddings (J.), Indexes to <i>The Times</i>, <a href="#Page_96">96</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Giraldus, his story of the crowd of devils attracted by false passages in a book, <a href="#Page_69">69</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Girdlestone’s (Rev. C.) Concordance to the Psalms, <a href="#Page_76">76</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Glaisher (J. W. L.), account of early books on Logarithms, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Glanville’s ‘Vanity of Dogmatizing,’ quotation from, <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Glossarial Index to English Literature of thirteenth century, <a href="#Page_102">102</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Gmelin’s Handbook of Chemistry, Index, <a href="#Page_80">80</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Gomme (G. Laurence), Letter to the “Athenæum” on an Index Society, <a href="#Page_38">38</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Gough (H.), Index to Parker Society’s Publications, <a href="#Page_85">85</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Gradus ad Parnassum, <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— in the British Museum Catalogue, <a href="#Page_29">29</a> (<a href="#Footnote_18">note 18</a>)</li> + +<li class="indx">Green (Rev. J.), Concordance to the Liturgy, <a href="#Page_77">77</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Greenhill (Dr.), on the formation of an Index Society, <a href="#Page_70">70</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_118">[118]</span>Griffiths (Rev. J.), Index to Wills in the Court of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, <a href="#Page_107">107</a></li> + +<li class="indx">‘Grundriss’ as an author, <a href="#Page_61">61</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Gruteri Thesaurus Inscriptionum, Index to the book by Scaliger, <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Guarini placed among Ecclesiastical writers on account of his <i>Il Pastor Fido</i>, <a href="#Page_57">57</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Gurwood’s Despatches of the Duke of Wellington, Index, <a href="#Page_82">82</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Guy (D.), Index to Dr. Watts’s Psalms, <a href="#Page_78">78</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Guy’s Hospital Reports, Index, <a href="#Page_84">84</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">Haidinger and Hauer, their names mixed up, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hall’s (Sidney) General Atlas, Index, <a href="#Page_82">82</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hallam’s Constitutional History, good Index to, <a href="#Page_46">46</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Haller, as great a bibliographer as he was a physiologist, <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Halliwell (J. O.), Hand-Book Index to Shakespeare, <a href="#Page_78">78</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hamilton (H. C.), Index to the Pictorial History of England, <a href="#Page_81">81</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hamst (Olphar), pseud. for Ralph Thomas, <a href="#Page_48">48</a>, <a href="#Page_52">52</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Index, <a href="#Page_92">92</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hardy (Sir T. Duffus), remarks on the “Pye-Book”, <a href="#Page_11">11</a> (<a href="#Footnote_7">note 7</a>)</li> + +<li class="indx">Hare’s Walks in London, Index, <a href="#Page_44">44</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Harleian MSS., Index to, <a href="#Page_108">108</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Index, <a href="#Page_92">92</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Harrison (Robert), he proposes the formation of an Index Society in the “Athenæum”, <a href="#Page_37">37</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Harvard University, <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hawkins’s Pleas of the Crown, absurd cross references in, <a href="#Page_55">55</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Headings, instances of bad, <a href="#Page_43">43</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— arrangement of, <a href="#Page_71">71</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— printing of, <a href="#Page_73">73</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hector (J.), Index to Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, <a href="#Page_85">85</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hennen (J.), Index to the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, <a href="#Page_86">86</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Henrietta Maria, not alluded to in Prynne’s Index, <a href="#Page_15">15</a> (<a href="#Footnote_9">note 9</a>)</li> + +<li class="indx">Heralds’ Visitations, Indexes to, <a href="#Page_102">102</a>, <a href="#Page_103">103</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hericourt (Achmet d’), Annuaire des Sociétés Savantes, <a href="#Page_53">53</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Heirs-at-Law, Indexes to, <a href="#Page_102">102-103</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hervey’s (R. F.) Concordance, <a href="#Page_75">75</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hesketh (Fleetwood), <a href="#Page_61">61</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Heskeths, their change of name, <a href="#Page_62">62</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hippocrates, dedication of the Index to his Aphorisms, <a href="#Page_13">13</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Index to Transactions, <a href="#Page_84">84</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_119">[119]</span>Historical Collections, need of Indexes to those standard works, <a href="#Page_39">39</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Historical MSS. Commission, Indexes to Reports, <a href="#Page_101">101</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hitopadesa quoted as the fables of the damned Calilve, <a href="#Page_51">51</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hodge (C.), Index to Systematic Theology, <a href="#Page_107">107</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Holden (Edward S.), Index of Books and Memoirs relating to Nebulæ, <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index of Books and Memoirs on the Transits of Mercury, <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Holland (Philemon), the translator-general, <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Holme’s Academy of Armory, Index, <a href="#Page_80">80</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Holmes (T.), Index to Transactions of the Pathological Society, <a href="#Page_85">85</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Homer, Poetical Index to Pope’s translation of the Iliad, <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Concordance to the Iliad, <a href="#Page_76">76</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Horticultural Society, Index to Transactions, <a href="#Page_84">84</a></li> + +<li class="indx">House of Commons Journals, sums paid for the Indexes, <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Howell’s “Discourse concerning the Precedency of Kings”, <a href="#Page_13">13</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Howell’s State Trials, Index, <a href="#Page_80">80</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hume (Rev. A.), Index to Transactions of Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, <a href="#Page_84">84</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hume’s History of England, Biographical Index to, <a href="#Page_80">80</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hungarians place the Surname before the Christian name, <a href="#Page_61">61</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hunt (Leigh), his opinion on Index-making, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>, <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— supposed author of the joke on Best’s great mind, <a href="#Page_45">45</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hunter (J. B.), Index to the New York Medical Journal, <a href="#Page_94">94</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Hutchins’s Dorset, separate Indexes to, <a href="#Page_56">56</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">I and J to be kept distinct, <a href="#Page_59">59</a>, <a href="#Page_71">71</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Incorporation,” first use of the term, <a href="#Page_48">48</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Index, history of the word, <a href="#Page_7">7-11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— use by the Romans, <a href="#Page_8">8</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— naturalization of the word in English, <a href="#Page_8">8</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— introduced in the nominative case, <a href="#Page_8">8</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— the French word, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— the German word, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— alphabetical order not at first considered essential in one, <a href="#Page_9">9</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— long struggle with the word Table, <a href="#Page_10">10-11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— said to be the soul of a book, <a href="#Page_21">21</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— not to be subdivided, <a href="#Page_56">56</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— answers to objections to a General Reference Index, <a href="#Page_40">40</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— various opinions on the value of Indexes, <a href="#Page_12">12-13</a>, <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Indexes not necessarily dry, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>, <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_120">[120]</span>—— satirical and humorous Indexes, <a href="#Page_16">16-18</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Indexes of sentiments and opinions, <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— special and subject Indexes, <a href="#Page_28">28-36</a>, <a href="#Page_39">39</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Preliminary List of English Indexes, <a href="#Page_74">74-108</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Index Expurgatorius not a true Index, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, <a href="#Page_74">74</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Index learning, authors continually warning readers against it, <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Index Society, sense in which its title should be understood, <a href="#Page_7">7</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— account of the various attempts to found one, <a href="#Page_36">36-38</a>, <a href="#Page_70">70</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— answer to the question, what can such a Society do?, <a href="#Page_38">38-40</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Indexers, power in their hands, <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— no writers more read, <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— celebrated, <a href="#Page_20">20-21</a>, <a href="#Page_24">24-26</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— proposed formation of a staff of, <a href="#Page_37">37</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Indexing—compilation, <a href="#Page_41">41-55</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— arrangement, <a href="#Page_56">56-66</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— printing, <a href="#Page_66">66-70</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Rules, <a href="#Page_71">71-73</a></li> + +<li class="indx">India, Index to Books and Papers on, <a href="#Page_103">103</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— said to be conquered by Judas Maccabeus, in Capgrave’s Chronicle, <a href="#Page_49">49</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Indian Statute Book, Index, <a href="#Page_98">98</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Indical, word used by Fuller, <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Indice, the word used by Ben Jonson, <a href="#Page_8">8</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— the French word, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— the Italian word, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— the Spanish word, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Indices, objection taken to the use of this plural in English, <a href="#Page_9">9</a> (<a href="#Footnote_4">note 4</a>)</li> + +<li class="indx">Indicium, the original of the French Indice, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Initials, careless use of, <a href="#Page_64">64</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Inquisition (The), ingenious mode of outwitting, <a href="#Page_66">66</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Institute of Actuaries, Index of Journal, <a href="#Page_89">89</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Institution of Civil Engineers, Index to Proceedings, <a href="#Page_84">84</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Index to Proceedings, <a href="#Page_84">84</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Inventory, as a synonym of Index, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Ireland, Index to the Commons’ Journal of, <a href="#Page_99">99</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to the Townlands and Towns of, <a href="#Page_105">105</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Irish (Royal) Academy, Index to the Transactions, <a href="#Page_86">86</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Irish Cases in Law and Equity, Index, <a href="#Page_103">103</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Irish Statutes, Index, <a href="#Page_98">98</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_121">[121]</span>Italians sometimes place the surname before the Christian name, <a href="#Page_61">61</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">J. C., ludicrous filling out of these initials, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>, <a href="#Page_70">70</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Jackson (J. R.), Index to the London Geographical Journal, <a href="#Page_86">86</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Jardine (D.), Index to Howell’s State Trials, <a href="#Page_80">80</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Jazon, an imaginary author, <a href="#Page_51">51</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Jeake’s “Arithmetick surveighed and reviewed,” Index to, <a href="#Page_38">38</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Jebb (Bishop) confused with his uncle, the Unitarian writer, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Jevons (Prof. Stanley), his suggestion of an Index Society, <a href="#Page_37">37</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Jewel’s Apology, by Isaacson, bad Index to, <a href="#Page_43">43</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Johnson (Dr.) advises Richardson to add an Index to his novels, <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— preface to his Dictionary quoted, <a href="#Page_41">41</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— his anger at Milton being styled <i>Mr.</i> John Milton, <a href="#Page_64">64</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Johnston (Andrew), Pocket Index to Oke and Stone, <a href="#Page_80">80</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Johnston’s (Keith) Index Geographicus, <a href="#Page_82">82</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Jones (Edward), Index to Records, <a href="#Page_105">105</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Jones (Thomas), his contributions to a General Index, <a href="#Page_36">36</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Jonson (Ben), his use of the word Indice, <a href="#Page_8">8</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Journals and Transactions, indexing of, <a href="#Page_72">72</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Juvenal, the Venice edition of 1478, the first book with a printed errata, <a href="#Page_65">65</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">Keble’s Christian Year, Concordance to, <a href="#Page_77">77</a></li> + +<li class="indx">King (Dr. William), the inventor of satirical Indexes, <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— his attack upon Bentley in the Index to “Boyle upon Bentley”, <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— his parody of Lister’s “Journey to Paris”, <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— his attack upon Sir Hans Sloane, and the “Philosophical Transactions”, <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Knobel (E. B.), Chronology of Star Catalogues, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">“La,” surnames to be arranged under this prefix, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>, <a href="#Page_71">71</a></li> + +<li class="indx">‘Labia Dormientum,’ title of a book, <a href="#Page_57">57</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Lambeth Library, Index of Books printed before 1600, <a href="#Page_107">107</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Lamoignon (M. de), his library, <a href="#Page_21">21</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Lancashire and Cheshire, Historic Society of, Index, <a href="#Page_84">84</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Latinised names of celebrated men, <a href="#Page_61">61</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Lawrence (Rev. R. French), Index to Strype’s Works, <a href="#Page_81">81</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Lawyers good indexers, <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Le,” surnames to be arranged under this prefix, <a href="#Page_71">71</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Leases of Manors and Lands, Index of, <a href="#Page_103">103</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Le Clerc, his appreciation of the work of the indexer, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>, <a href="#Page_21">21</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_122">[122]</span>Leisure Hour, Index, <a href="#Page_93">93</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Letsome (S.), the Preacher’s Assistant, <a href="#Page_106">106</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Lewis (Sir George Cornewall), the supposed editor of Isaac Disraeli’s Works, <a href="#Page_53">53</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Libraries (Public) in the United States, Special Report, <a href="#Page_42">42</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Library Association of United Kingdom, Index to the Report of the Conference of Librarians, <a href="#Page_39">39</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Library Association (American), Rules for Cataloguing, <a href="#Page_62">62</a>, <a href="#Page_70">70</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Library Table”, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Link, de Stellis Marinis, arranged under the head of Astronomy, <a href="#Page_57">57</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Linnean Society, Index to the Transactions, <a href="#Page_85">85</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Lister’s “Journey to Paris,” parodied by Dr. King, <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Littré, his derivation of Indice, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Liturgy, Concordance to the, <a href="#Page_77">77</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Liverpool, Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Index, <a href="#Page_84">84</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, Index to Proceedings, <a href="#Page_85">85</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Logarithms, Account of early books on, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">London (George), his name often spelt Loudon, <a href="#Page_49">49</a></li> + +<li class="indx">London (William), the bookseller, mistaken for Bishop Juxon, <a href="#Page_65">65</a></li> + +<li class="indx">London Catalogue, Index, <a href="#Page_107">107</a></li> + +<li class="indx">London Corporation, Index to Minutes of evidence taken before the Commissioners, <a href="#Page_101">101</a></li> + +<li class="indx">London Institution Catalogue, <a href="#Page_36">36</a></li> + +<li class="indx">London Library Catalogue, Index, <a href="#Page_36">36</a></li> + +<li class="indx">London Magazine, Index, <a href="#Page_93">93</a></li> + +<li class="indx">London Medical and Physical Journal, Index, <a href="#Page_93">93</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Lords (House of), Indexes to Sessional Papers, <a href="#Page_99">99-100</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Indexes to Journals, <a href="#Page_98">98-99</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Loudon (C. J.), the Duke of Wellington mistakes his signature for that of the Bishop of London, <a href="#Page_49">49</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Louis XVIII., Memoirs of, a mendacious compilation, <a href="#Page_51">51</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Low (Sampson), Index to the British Catalogue, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_107">107</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to Current Literature, <a href="#Page_107">107</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Lowell’s “Biglow Papers,” humorous Index to the book, <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Lyttelton’s (Lord) History of Henry II. has a long list of errata, <a href="#Page_66">66</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Lytton (Lord), his numerous names, <a href="#Page_62">62</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">M‘ and Mc to be arranged as if written Mac, <a href="#Page_72">72</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Macaulay an Indexer at the age of fifteen, <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Indexers treated with contempt by him, <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— his objection to the indexing of his History by a Tory, <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_123">[123]</span>McEwen on the Types, arranged under the head of Printing, <a href="#Page_57">57</a></li> + +<li class="indx">McMasters (Rev. S. Y.), Index to Hume’s History of England, <a href="#Page_80">80</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Macray (Rev. W. D.), Index to the Catalogue of Ashmole MSS., <a href="#Page_108">108</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to the Catalogue of Rawlinson MSS., <a href="#Page_108">108</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Madox’s History of the Exchequer, Index to, <a href="#Page_80">80</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Maitland (Rev. S. R.), Index of Books printed before 1600 in the Lambeth Library, <a href="#Page_107">107</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Maittaire (M.) prides himself on his talent for Index-making, <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Malcom (H.), Theological Index, <a href="#Page_107">107</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Manchester Free Library Catalogue, Index, <a href="#Page_36">36</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Manchester Statistical Society, Index to Transactions, <a href="#Page_85">85</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Manganese, Index to the Literature of, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Mantissa, a supposed author, <a href="#Page_52">52</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Manuscripts, Guide to the verification of, <a href="#Page_103">103</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Indexes of, <a href="#Page_108">108</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Marbeck (J.), Concordance to the Bible, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>, <a href="#Page_75">75</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Markland (J. H.), remarks on Indexing, <a href="#Page_27">27</a>, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>, <a href="#Page_46">46</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Marshall (G. W.), Index to Pedigrees, <a href="#Page_104">104</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Mass, Anatomy of the,” has a long list of errata, <a href="#Page_65">65</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Maty (P. H.), Index to the Philosophical Transactions, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>, <a href="#Page_87">87</a></li> + +<li class="indx">May (T. Erskine), Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, <a href="#Page_99">99</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Medical and Chirurgical Library, Index to Catalogue, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_108">108</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— —— Indexes to the Transactions, <a href="#Page_86">86</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Medical Literature, Bibliography of, <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Medico-Chirurgical Review, Index, <a href="#Page_93">93</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Menagiana,” quotation from, <a href="#Page_21">21</a> (<a href="#Footnote_12">note 12</a>)</li> + +<li class="indx">Merchants’ Magazine, Index, <a href="#Page_93">93</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Merewether and Stephens’s History of Boroughs alluded to, <a href="#Page_48">48</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Meyerbeer, his name a union of Christian- and Sur-names, <a href="#Page_63">63</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Michel’s (Dan) ‘Ayenbite of Inwyt,’ Table of Contents to the book, <a href="#Page_7">7</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Military Magazines (German), Index to, <a href="#Page_36">36</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Milton, Concordance to, <a href="#Page_77">77</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Minsheu, his use of the word Index, <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Misprints, the Indexer must be on his guard against them, <a href="#Page_49">49</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Mr., use of this word in an Index, <a href="#Page_64">64</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Montaigne’s Essays, Index to Cotton’s Translation, <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Monthly Magazine quoted, <a href="#Page_55">55</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Monthly Review, Indexes, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>, <a href="#Page_93">93-94</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— late use of the word Table in that work, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— quotation from, <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_124">[124]</span>Moody (J.), epitaph on, <a href="#Page_55">55</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Moore (Edward), Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>, <a href="#Page_99">99</a></li> + +<li class="indx">More (Hannah), Macaulay’s letter to her, <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Morgan (A.), Index to Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, <a href="#Page_85">85</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Moreri, makes an author named Dorus Basilicus, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Morris’s Catalogue of British Fossils, <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">Name is that by which a person is known, <a href="#Page_62">62</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— one, divided into two, <a href="#Page_51">51</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— two of the same, often confused together, <a href="#Page_68">68</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— surname placed before the Christian name, <a href="#Page_61">61</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Names, rules for the arrangement of foreign and English, respectively, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>, <a href="#Page_71">71</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— two rolled into one, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— authors arranged under their Christian names, <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— rule for the arrangement of compound names, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>, <a href="#Page_72">72</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Latinised names of celebrated men, <a href="#Page_61">61</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Napier’s Bones, works on, arranged under the head of Anatomy, <a href="#Page_57">57</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Naturalists’ Miscellany, Indexes, <a href="#Page_94">94</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Nebulæ, Index of Books and Memoirs relating to, <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> + +<li class="indx">New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Index, <a href="#Page_94">94</a></li> + +<li class="indx">New Englander, Index, <a href="#Page_94">94</a></li> + +<li class="indx">New York Lyceum of Natural History, Annals of, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">New York Medical Journal, Index, <a href="#Page_94">94</a></li> + +<li class="indx">New York State Library, Index to the Catalogue, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_108">108</a></li> + +<li class="indx">New York Times, Index, <a href="#Page_94">94</a></li> + +<li class="indx">New York Daily Tribune, Index, <a href="#Page_94">94</a></li> + +<li class="indx">New Zealand Institute, Index to Transactions and Proceedings, <a href="#Page_85">85</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Newman’s (Samuel) Concordance, <a href="#Page_75">75</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Next-of-Kin, Indexes to, <a href="#Page_102">102-103</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Nichols (John), Indexes to his “Literary Anecdotes” and “Illustrations”, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>, <a href="#Page_46">46</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Nicholson (J.), Index to Assurance Magazine, <a href="#Page_89">89</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Nicolai (John), turned into a place, <a href="#Page_51">51</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Niles’s Weekly Register, Index, <a href="#Page_94">94</a></li> + +<li class="indx">North American Review, Indexes, <a href="#Page_94">94</a></li> + +<li class="indx">North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Index to Transactions, <a href="#Page_85">85</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Notes and Queries”, <a href="#Page_46">46</a>, <a href="#Page_69">69</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_125">[125]</span>—— announcement in its pages of the projected formation of an Index Society in 1854, <a href="#Page_36">36</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Indexes, <a href="#Page_95">95</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Noy’s (Attorney-General) reference to Prynne’s Index, <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Numerals to be used for number of volumes, <a href="#Page_73">73</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">Oke and Stone, Pocket Index to, <a href="#Page_80">80</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Oldys (William) on the need of Indexes, <a href="#Page_19">19-20</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Ordnance Survey, Index, <a href="#Page_83">83</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Oriuna, the supposed wife of Carausius, <a href="#Page_52">52</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Ormerod (G. W.), Classified Index to the Geological Society, <a href="#Page_84">84</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Oulton (A. N.), Index to the Irish Statutes, <a href="#Page_98">98</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Ovid, Index to Sandys’s translation, <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Oxford, Bodleian Library, Indexes of Ashmole and Rawlinson MSS., <a href="#Page_107">107</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index of the Wills in the Court of the Chancellor of the University, <a href="#Page_107">107</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Oxford (Robert Harley Earl of), reported to be the author of the Index to Bromley’s Travels, <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">Page, division of the Indexed, <a href="#Page_73">73</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Palgrave (Sir Francis), his former name Cohen, <a href="#Page_63">63</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to his Reports as Deputy Keeper of the Records, <a href="#Page_106">106</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Pall Mall Gazette, letters in, by “A Lover of Indexes”, <a href="#Page_37">37</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Parker Society Publications, Index to, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_85">85</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Parliament, Indexes to the Journals of the Houses of Lords and Commons, <a href="#Page_98">98-99</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to the Rolls of, <a href="#Page_102">102</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Parliamentary Debates, Index, <a href="#Page_92">92</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Parliamentary History of England, Index, <a href="#Page_81">81</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Parliamentary Papers, Indexes of, <a href="#Page_99">99-101</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Pathological Society, Indexes to Transactions, <a href="#Page_85">85</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Payne (Thomas) mistaken for Tom Paine, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Peacock (Edw.), remarks on the badness of the Index to Whitelock’s Memorials, <a href="#Page_47">47</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— suggests a List of Indexes, <a href="#Page_74">74</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Pedigrees, Indexes to, <a href="#Page_103">103</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Peers to be arranged under their titles, <a href="#Page_62">62</a>, <a href="#Page_72">72</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— their signatures a source of trouble to some, <a href="#Page_64">64</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Pennant (T.), Index to Buffon, <a href="#Page_78">78</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to his Account of London, <a href="#Page_81">81</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Penny Cyclopædia, vague cross references in the, <a href="#Page_54">54</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_126">[126]</span>Pepys’s Diary, marks of repetition in the Index, <a href="#Page_68">68</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Periodicals, Indexes of, <a href="#Page_89">89-96</a>, <a href="#Page_104">104</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Perkins, (F. B.), on Book Indexes, <a href="#Page_42">42</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Peru, Present State of, <a href="#Page_51">51</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Pharmaceutical Journal, Indexes, <a href="#Page_95">95</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Pharmaceutical (American) Association, Index to Proceedings, <a href="#Page_83">83</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Philippart (Sir John), Index to Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, <a href="#Page_92">92</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Phillipps (Sir Thomas), Indexes, <a href="#Page_102">102-103</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Philosophical Magazine, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Indexes, <a href="#Page_95">95</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Philosophical Transactions, Indexes, <a href="#Page_87">87</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— laughed at by Dr. King, <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Pickering (Danby), Index to the Statutes at Large, <a href="#Page_97">97</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Picus of Mirandula, an edition of his works, published in 1507, has a long list of errata, <a href="#Page_65">65</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Piddington (H.), Index to Geological Papers, <a href="#Page_83">83</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Pilpay’s Fables quoted as the fables of the damned Calilve, <a href="#Page_51">51</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Pineda (Juan de), Index to his “Monarchia Ecclesiastica”, <a href="#Page_13">13</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Places, Indexes of, <a href="#Page_105">105</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Plateau (J.), Bibliographie Analytique des principaux phénomènes subjectifs de la Vision, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Plays, Prynne’s attack upon, <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Pliny’s Naturall Historie of the World, use of the words Index and Table in that book, <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Plutarch’s Lives, by North, the Index called a Table, <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li> + +<li class="indx">‘Pollex’ contrasted with ‘Index’, <a href="#Page_8">8</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Polybiblon: Revue Bibliographique Universelle, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Poole’s (W. F.) Index of Periodical Literature, <a href="#Page_35">35</a>, <a href="#Page_104">104</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— the projected third edition, <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— his remarks on the abuse of cross references, <a href="#Page_54">54</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— on the defects of classification, <a href="#Page_56">56</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Pope (A.), Concordance to the Works of, <a href="#Page_77">77</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Population Tables, 1871, Index, <a href="#Page_105">105</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Practitioner, Index, <a href="#Page_95">95</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Prefixes in surnames, rules regarding them, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>, <a href="#Page_71">71</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Prendergast (G. L.), Concordance to the Iliad, <a href="#Page_76">76</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Concordance to Milton, <a href="#Page_77">77</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Pridden (Rev. J.), Index to the Rolls of Parliament, <a href="#Page_102">102</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Prinsep (J.), Table of Indian Coal, <a href="#Page_83">83</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Printing of an Index, <a href="#Page_66">66</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— of the headings, <a href="#Page_73">73</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_127">[127]</span>Prynne’s “Histrio-Mastix,” specimens from the Index, <a href="#Page_14">14-15</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Prynne, a martyr to his conscientiousness in making an Index, <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Psalms, Concordances to the, <a href="#Page_76">76</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Pullen (P.), Index to Joanna Southcott’s Writings, <a href="#Page_81">81</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Pye” as a synonym of Index, <a href="#Page_11">11</a> (<a href="#Footnote_7">note 7</a>)</li> + +<li class="indx">“Pye-Book,” derivation of the word, <a href="#Page_11">11</a> (<a href="#Footnote_7">note 7</a>)</li> + + +<li class="ifrst">“Quarterly Journal of Science,” Index, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>, <a href="#Page_95">95</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Quarterly Review, Indexes, <a href="#Page_95">95-96</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Quérard (J. M.), Thomas’s notice of his life, <a href="#Page_48">48</a>, <a href="#Page_52">52</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Quotations to be Indexed, <a href="#Page_73">73</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">Raithby (J.), Index to the Statutes at Large, <a href="#Page_97">97</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Rambler, Index to, <a href="#Page_64">64</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Rawlinson MSS., Index, <a href="#Page_108">108</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Rawlinson’s (Dr.) note on the Index to Bromley’s Travels, <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li> + +<li class="indx">‘Rechenbuch’ as an author, <a href="#Page_61">61</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Records, Index to the, <a href="#Page_105">105</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Register, as a synonym of Index, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_10">10</a>, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— the German word for Index, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Religious Houses, Alphabetical List of the Heads of, <a href="#Page_106">106</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Repertory of the Acts, Index, <a href="#Page_96">96</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Repetition, marks of, in an Index, <a href="#Page_67">67</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Reuss, Repertorium commentationum, <a href="#Page_32">32</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Richardson (S.), Tables to Clarissa, <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to his three novels, <a href="#Page_23">23</a>, <a href="#Page_81">81</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— a practised Indexer, <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Richmond and Gordon (Duke of), his signature mistaken for that of a firm, <a href="#Page_65">65</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Riddell (H.) and J. W. Rogers, Index to the Public Statutes, <a href="#Page_97">97</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Riding (West) of Yorkshire, attempted derivation by a Frenchman, <a href="#Page_53">53</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Robertson (W.), Index to the Charters granted by Sovereigns of Scotland, <a href="#Page_105">105</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Rogers (H.), his appreciation of the work of the Indexer, <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Rolls of Parliament, Index, <a href="#Page_102">102</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Roman de la Higuera (Geronymo) transformed into ‘Father Geronymo, a Romance of La Higuera’, <a href="#Page_51">51</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Rowe (Rev. George), Index to Reports of the Architectural Societies of Yorkshire, etc., <a href="#Page_88">88</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Royal Society attacked by Dr. King, <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Catalogue of Scientific Papers, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>, <a href="#Page_104">104</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_128">[128]</span>—— Indexes to the Philosophical Transactions, <a href="#Page_87">87</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Ruffhead (Owen), Index to the Statutes at Large, <a href="#Page_97">97</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Rules for obtaining Uniformity in the Indexes of Books, <a href="#Page_71">71-73</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Ruskin’s Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds arranged under the head of Agriculture, <a href="#Page_57">57</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">St. to be arranged in the alphabet as Saint, <a href="#Page_72">72</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Saints to be arranged under their proper names, <a href="#Page_72">72</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Salisbury (Bishop of), mistaken for a Mr. John Sarum, <a href="#Page_65">65</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Scaliger, his Index to Grater’s “Thesaurus Inscriptionum”, <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Scarron, his malicious erratum, <a href="#Page_66">66</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Schmidt (A.), Shakespeare-Lexicon, <a href="#Page_77">77</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Scientific Papers, Catalogue of, <a href="#Page_104">104</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Scobell’s ‘Acts and Ordinances,’ use of the words Index and Table in that Book, <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Scotland, Index to the Acts of Parliament, <a href="#Page_102">102</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to the Acts of the Free Church, <a href="#Page_102">102</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to Charters granted by Sovereigns of, <a href="#Page_105">105</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Scribner’s Monthly, Index, <a href="#Page_96">96</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Scudder (H. E.), Index to the Atlantic Monthly, <a href="#Page_90">90</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Scudery (Mdlle. de), her notice of a dedicated Index, <a href="#Page_13">13</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Seal (Great), Treatise on, arranged under the head of Zoology, <a href="#Page_57">57</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Seignelay-Colbert de Castle Hill, Bishop of Rhodez, <a href="#Page_51">51</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Seneca, his indication of the contents of his books, <a href="#Page_7">7</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— his use of the word Index, <a href="#Page_8">8</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Sermons, Indexes to, <a href="#Page_106">106</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Shaftesbury (Earl of), misprint in his letter to “The Times”, <a href="#Page_53">53</a> (<a href="#Footnote_35">note 35</a>)</li> + +<li class="indx">Shakespeare, his use of the word Index, <a href="#Page_9">9</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Concordances to, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>, <a href="#Page_77">77-78</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Shaw (G.) and R. P. Nodder, Indexes to Naturalists’ Miscellany, <a href="#Page_94">94</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Shenstone’s “Schoolmistress,” ludicrous table of contents, <a href="#Page_22">22-23</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Silliman’s American Journal, Indexes, <a href="#Page_89">89</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Simms (C. S.), Index to the “Remains” published by the Chetham Society, <a href="#Page_84">84</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Sims (R.), Index to Pedigrees and Arms, <a href="#Page_103">103</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Skewes (Rev. H.), Index to Wesley’s Journals, <a href="#Page_82">82</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Sloane (Sir Hans) laughed at by Dr. King, <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Societies, Indexes to Publications of, <a href="#Page_83">83</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Society of Antiquaries, Indexes to Archæologia, <a href="#Page_87">87</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Society of Arts, Indexes to Transactions and Journals, <a href="#Page_88">88</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Solly (Edward), he proposes the formation of an Index Society, <a href="#Page_37">37</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_129">[129]</span>—— on “Best’s great mind”, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>, <a href="#Page_46">46</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Southcott’s (Joanna) Writings, Indexes, <a href="#Page_81">81</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Southey’s “Doctor,” headings to the chapters, <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Spectators, Tatlers and Guardians, General Index, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>, <a href="#Page_43">43</a>, <a href="#Page_79">79</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Speed’s History of Great Britaine, use of the words Index and Table in that book, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Speed (S.) reason for not adding an Index to one of Howell’s works, <a href="#Page_13">13</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Spiller (B.), Index to Public Statutes, <a href="#Page_97">97</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Stamp (G.), Index to the Statute Law, <a href="#Page_98">98</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Standards Commission, Index to Reports, <a href="#Page_101">101</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Star Catalogues, Chronology of, <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Statistical Society, Indexes to the Journal, <a href="#Page_88">88</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— (Manchester), Index to Transactions, <a href="#Page_85">85</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Statutes, Indexes to the, <a href="#Page_96">96-98</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Steele’s (Sir Richard) Indexes, <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Stenography, article on, in Rees’s Cyclopædia, <a href="#Page_51">51</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Stephen (Sir J. Fitzjames), on a complete digest of the Law, <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— on the early digesters of the Law, <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Stone’s Justice’s Manual, Index, <a href="#Page_80">80</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Strachey (Rev. J.), Index to the Rolls of Parliament, <a href="#Page_102">102</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Strype’s (J.) Works, Index, <a href="#Page_81">81</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Summary, as a synonym of Index, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Surname, What is a?, <a href="#Page_59">59</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Sussex Archæological Collections, Index, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>, <a href="#Page_88">88</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Swift’s analytical table to his ‘Tale of a Tub’, <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— account of the condition of Edmund Curll, <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— bad index to his Works, edited by Scott, <a href="#Page_46">46</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Swinburne’s “Under the Microscope” arranged under the head of Optical Instruments, <a href="#Page_57">57</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Sykes (B.), List of Ancient Inscriptions, <a href="#Page_83">83</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Syllabus, as a synonym of Index, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">Table, as a synonym of Index, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_10">10</a>, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>, <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— present use of the word to describe a summary of the contents of a book, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— late use of the word in the sense of an Index, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— the French word, <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Tabrum (E. J.), Index to Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Records, <a href="#Page_106">106</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Tabula, use of the word in English books, <a href="#Page_7">7</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_130">[130]</span>Tatler, Index to the, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>, <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Tedder (H. R.), his full Index to the Report of the Conference of Librarians, <a href="#Page_39">39</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Telegraph Engineers’ Society, Index to the Journal, <a href="#Page_43">43</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Tennyson, Concordances to, <a href="#Page_78">78</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Ter <i>for</i> tertius, as an affix to a name, <a href="#Page_64">64</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Theology, Indexes to, <a href="#Page_107">107</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Theses and Inaugural Dissertations, <a href="#Page_32">32</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Thevenot’s Travels, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Thomas (Ralph), Notice of Quérard, full index to it, <a href="#Page_48">48</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Thoms (W. J.), his references to indexing, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>, <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Thring (Sir Henry), his Instructions for an Index to the Statute Law, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>, <a href="#Page_42">42</a></li> + +<li class="indx">“Times (The),” arrangement of the names in the lists of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, <a href="#Page_66">66</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Indexes, <a href="#Page_96">96</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Titles (misleading) of books, <a href="#Page_57">57</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Todd (A.), Index to the Journals of the Legislative Assembly of Canada, <a href="#Page_101">101</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Todd (Rev. H. J.), Verbal Index to Milton, <a href="#Page_77">77</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Topographical works, need of indexes to the chief, <a href="#Page_39">39</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Transactions, indexing of, <a href="#Page_72">72</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Transits of Mercury, Index of Books and Memoirs on the, <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Trials (State), Index to, <a href="#Page_80">80</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Trinity College, Cambridge, Index to Books printed before 1600, <a href="#Page_108">108</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Turner (Dawson), Guide to the verification of Manuscripts, <a href="#Page_103">103</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Twiss (Francis), Verbal Index to Shakspeare, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>, <a href="#Page_77">77</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Tytler’s (P. F.) History of Scotland, Index, <a href="#Page_81">81</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">U and V to be kept distinct, <a href="#Page_59">59</a>, <a href="#Page_71">71</a></li> + +<li class="indx">United Service (Royal) Institution, Index of Lectures and Papers, <a href="#Page_87">87</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Upham (E.), Index to the Rolls of Parliament, <a href="#Page_102">102</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Useful Knowledge Society, Index to the Maps, <a href="#Page_83">83</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">“Van,” surnames not to be arranged under this prefix, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>, <a href="#Page_71">71</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Vardon (T.), Index to Local and Personal and Private Acts, <a href="#Page_97">97</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Indexes to the Journals of the House of Commons, <a href="#Page_99">99</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Viar (S), an imaginary saint, <a href="#Page_52">52</a></li> + +<li class="indx">‘Viol and Lute,’ a collection of Poems, arranged under the head of Musical Instruments, <a href="#Page_57">57</a></li> + +<li class="indx"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_131">[131]</span>“Von,” surnames not to be arranged under this prefix, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>, <a href="#Page_71">71</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">Walpole’s Letters, bad index to, <a href="#Page_46">46</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Walton (Bp.) imagines an author named Camus, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Warburton’s (Bishop) blunder in filling out contractions, <a href="#Page_53">53</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Warton’s History of English Poetry, Index, <a href="#Page_82">82</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— —— Index, <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Watts (Dr.), his warning against index learning, <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to his Psalms, <a href="#Page_78">78</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Watts (H.), Index to Gmelin’s Handbook of Chemistry, <a href="#Page_80">80</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to the Journal of the Chemical Society, <a href="#Page_83">83</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Watts (Mr.), his objection to the use of an uncomplimentary adjective in an Index, <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Watts (Thomas), on the formation of an Index Society, <a href="#Page_70">70</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Wellington (Duke of), Index to his Despatches, <a href="#Page_82">82</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— amusing misreading of Loudon’s letter, <a href="#Page_49">49</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Wesley’s Journals, Index, <a href="#Page_82">82</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Westminster Review, Index, <a href="#Page_96">96</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Wheatley (B. R.), paper on an ‘evitandum’ in Index-making alluded to, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>, <a href="#Page_54">54</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, <a href="#Page_86">86</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to the Catalogue of the Library of the Medical and Chirurgical Society, <a href="#Page_108">108</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to Transactions of the Pathological Society, <a href="#Page_85">85</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— Index to the Journal of the Statistical Society, <a href="#Page_88">88</a></li> + +<li class="indx">‘White Knights’ translated as ‘Le Chevalier Blanc’, <a href="#Page_52">52</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Whitelock’s Memorial, Index to one volume folio edition made to do duty for four volume octavo edition, <a href="#Page_47">47</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Wickens (Robert), Concordance, <a href="#Page_75">75</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Wilkinson (T. R.), Index to Transactions of Manchester Statistical Society, <a href="#Page_85">85</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Wills in the Court of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Index, <a href="#Page_107">107</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Wilson (Rev. H. B.), Index to the Family Bible, <a href="#Page_76">76</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Winsor (Justin), Bibliographical Contributions, <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— letter to the “Athenæum” on an Index Society, <a href="#Page_38">38</a></li> + +<li class="indx">—— his “Handbook for Readers”, <a href="#Page_74">74</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Winton (George), the signature of Bishop Tomline, <a href="#Page_65">65</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Worcester’s (Marquis of) Century of Inventions, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Wrong (Abstract), a crime never committed, <a href="#Page_18">18</a> (<a href="#Footnote_10">note 10</a>)</li> + +<li class="indx">Wynford (Lord), previously Sir W. D. Best, <a href="#Page_45">45</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_132">[132]</span>Xeucathle, a disguised form of Newcastle, <a href="#Page_61">61</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">Year Books, etc., Index to, <a href="#Page_98">98</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Yeowell (J.), Indexes to the Notes and Queries, <a href="#Page_95">95</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Young (Brigham), called Brigham le jeune in the <i>Biographie Moderne</i>, <a href="#Page_61">61</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Young (T.), Lectures on Natural Philosophy, <a href="#Page_104">104</a></li> + + +<li class="ifrst">Zoological Record, <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li> + +<li class="indx">Zoological Society, Indexes to Proceedings, <a href="#Page_88">88</a></li> +</ul> + + +<p class="p4 fs80 center">STEPHEN AUSTIN AND SONS, PRINTERS, HERTFORD.</p> + + +<div class="footnotes"><h2>FOOTNOTES:</h2> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1" class="label">[1]</a> <i>Rosamond’s Epistle</i>, lines 103-4.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_2" href="#FNanchor_2" class="label">[2]</a> “Etiam vellem mihi mittas de tuis librariolis duos aliquos, quibus Tyrannio +utatur glutinatoribus, ad cetera administres: iisque imperes ut sumant membranulam, +ex qua <i>indices</i> fiant, quos vos Græci (ut opinor) συλλάβους appellatis.”—Ad. Atticum +lib. iv. ep. 4.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_3" href="#FNanchor_3" class="label">[3]</a> <i>Discoveries</i>, ed. 1640, p. 93.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_4" href="#FNanchor_4" class="label">[4]</a> I would here, under cover of our great poet’s name, protest against the use of the +plural <i>indices</i>. As long as a word continues to take the plural form of the language +from which it is borrowed, we cannot look upon it as thoroughly naturalized. +Surely Index may be considered an English word when it was treated as such by +Shakespeare.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_5" href="#FNanchor_5" class="label">[5]</a> My friend Mr. Furnivall draws my attention to the fact that Fleming was the +index-maker of Shakespeare’s day as Philemon Holland was the translator.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_6" href="#FNanchor_6" class="label">[6]</a> Some in the present day seem to be of the same opinion as Baret, for we +occasionally hear of an <i>Index Rerum</i> instead of an <i>Index of Subjects</i>.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_7" href="#FNanchor_7" class="label">[7]</a> Another word occasionally used in the sense of an Index is <i>Pye</i>, which has been +supposed to be derived from the Greek Πίναξ. The late Sir T. Duffus Hardy, in +some observations on the derivation of the word “Pye-Book,” remarks that the +earliest use he had noted of <i>pye</i> in this sense is dated 1547—“A Pye of all the +names of such Balives as been to accompte pro anno regni regis Edwardi Sexti +primo.”—Appendix to the 35th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public +Records, p. 195.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_8" href="#FNanchor_8" class="label">[8]</a> Noy calls it an Index, but Prynne, in conformity with the usual practice, writes +<i>Table</i>.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_9" href="#FNanchor_9" class="label">[9]</a> The book was published six weeks before Henrietta Maria acted in a pastoral +at Somerset House, so that the passage “women actors notorious whores” could +not have been intended to allude to the Queen. See Cobbett’s “State Trials,” +vol. 3, coll. 561-586.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_10" href="#FNanchor_10" class="label">[10]</a> This is the last entry but one in the index, and I cannot resist the pleasure of +adding in a note the passage here indexed:—</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> +<div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“I’m willin a man should go tollable strong</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Agin wrong in the abstract, for that kind o’ wrong</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Is ollers unpop’lar an’ never gits pit’ed,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Because it’s a crime no one never committed.”</div> + </div> +</div> +</div> + + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_11" href="#FNanchor_11" class="label">[11]</a> “Idcirco celebris quidam scriptor nostræ gentis, quò significaret eam curam ejus +esse debere, cujus cura opus ipsum constitit, urbane, salseque ajebat, Indicem libri +ab authore, librum ipsum à quovis alio conficiendum esse.”—Nicolaus Antonius, +Bibliotheca Hispana, 1672, tom. 2, p. 371.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_12" href="#FNanchor_12" class="label">[12]</a> “M. Bochart ... me prioit surtout d’y faire [i.e. his Diogenes Laertius] un +<i>Index</i>, étant, disoit-il, l’âme des gros livres.”—<i>Menagiana</i>, Paris, 1729, tome i. +p. 75.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_13" href="#FNanchor_13" class="label">[13]</a> Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes, vol. iii. p. 46.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_14" href="#FNanchor_14" class="label">[14]</a> Notes and Queries, 2nd series, vol. vii. p. 469.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_15" href="#FNanchor_15" class="label">[15]</a> Notes and Queries, 5th series, vol. viii. p. 87.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_16" href="#FNanchor_16" class="label">[16]</a> See Transactions of the Conference, p. 88.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_17" href="#FNanchor_17" class="label">[17]</a> +For full title see <a href="#Page_75">p. 75.</a></p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_18" href="#FNanchor_18" class="label">[18]</a> I searched in vain for the date of the first edition of the <i>Gradus</i>, until I was so +fortunate as to find it in the valuable article on “Dictionaries” in the new edition +of the <i>Encyclopædia Britannica</i>. Little information was to be obtained from the +British Museum Catalogue, owing to the complicated arrangement of the anonymous +books. I looked into the new General Catalogue under the heading <i>Parnassus</i>, +where the book should have been entered according to the rules, and there was only +one edition of the present century. I then turned to <i>Gradus</i>, and there was a +reference to an edition by Valpy. I knew that there must be some earlier edition, +so I went to the old General Catalogue and there I at once found among others an +“editio novissima” (Coloniæ Agrippinæ, 1687). When the book was in my hands +I noticed that it was marked to be catalogued under the heading of “Dictionaries,” +where I venture to think few would look for it. This experience is related here as +a good illustration of the inconvenience of classification in an Alphabetical Catalogue.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_19" href="#FNanchor_19" class="label">[19]</a> These instructions, with specimens of the proposed Index, are printed in the +<i>Law Magazine</i> for August, 1877, 4th series, vol. 8, p. 491.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_20" href="#FNanchor_20" class="label">[20]</a> <i>Plan of an English Dictionary.</i></p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_21" href="#FNanchor_21" class="label">[21]</a> Fourth series, vol. 44.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_22" href="#FNanchor_22" class="label">[22]</a> Vol. 43, p. 1.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_23" href="#FNanchor_23" class="label">[23]</a> Vol. 4, p. 151.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_24" href="#FNanchor_24" class="label">[24]</a> Vol. 10.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_25" href="#FNanchor_25" class="label">[25]</a> Vol. 11.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_26" href="#FNanchor_26" class="label">[26]</a> Vol. x. p. 356.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_27" href="#FNanchor_27" class="label">[27]</a> “The Rushworths, Whitlockes, Nalsons, Thurloes; enormous folios, these and +many others have been printed, and some of them again printed, but never yet +edited,—edited as you edit wagon-loads of broken bricks and dry mortar simply by +tumbling up the wagon! Not one of those monstrous old volumes has so much as +an available Index. It is the general rule of editing on this matter. If your editor +correct the press, it is an honourable distinction.”—<i>Carlyle’s Introduction to Cromwell’s +Letters and Speeches.</i></p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_28" href="#FNanchor_28" class="label">[28]</a> Law Magazine, August, 1877.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_29" href="#FNanchor_29" class="label">[29]</a> See Rule 9, on <a href="#Page_72">page 72.</a></p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_30" href="#FNanchor_30" class="label">[30]</a> See Rule 10 on <a href="#Page_72">page 72.</a></p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_31" href="#FNanchor_31" class="label">[31]</a> This evil is enlarged upon in a paper “On an ‘Evitandum’ in Index-making, +principally met with in French and German Periodical Scientific Literature, by B. R. +Wheatley.”—Transactions and Proceedings of the Conference of Librarians, 1877, +pp. 88-92.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_32" href="#FNanchor_32" class="label">[32]</a> A Martyr to Bibliography: a Notice of the Life and Works of Joseph-Marie +Quérard, Bibliographer ... By Olphar Hamst, Esq. London (J. Russell +Smith), 1867.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_33" href="#FNanchor_33" class="label">[33]</a> De Quincey’s Works, ed. 1862, vol. 8, p. 180.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_34" href="#FNanchor_34" class="label">[34]</a> Notice of Quérard, by Olphar Hamst, 1867.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_35" href="#FNanchor_35" class="label">[35]</a> A friend asks me to give chapter and verse for this blunder, but it will be seen +that nothing is more difficult than to find an authority for misprints which are +corrected as soon as they are found out, perhaps even in the proof. A curious misprint +occurred in <i>The Times</i> in a letter from Lord Shaftesbury (August, 1878), who +wrote of the Bulgarians that “they panted for liberty,” but was made by the printer +to say “they prated of liberty.”</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_36" href="#FNanchor_36" class="label">[36]</a> See Rule 11, <a href="#Page_72">p. 72.</a></p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_37" href="#FNanchor_37" class="label">[37]</a> Library Journal.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_38" href="#FNanchor_38" class="label">[38]</a> My brother (Mr. B. R. Wheatley) writes as follows of Allibone’s forty +Indexes: “What however shall we say of the sub-indexes which really have no +existence whatever, except in the list of their titles at the commencement? Take, for +instance, the first—Alchemy—which refers you to Class or Index 8, which is +Chemistry. How much nearer are you to Alchemy?—it is a more secret science in +the Index than it was in the middle ages—you have 500 names under Chemistry, +and you must look out the whole of them before you find the philosopher’s stone +which lies hid in this five-century crucible of mixed ingredients.”—Trans. Conference +of Librarians, 1877.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_39" href="#FNanchor_39" class="label">[39]</a> See Rules 1 and 2, <a href="#Page_71">p. 71.</a></p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_40" href="#FNanchor_40" class="label">[40]</a> “On the best method of constructing an Index, by F. A. Curtis, of the Eagle +Insurance Office,” in the <i>Assurance Magazine</i>, vol. 8 (1858), pp. 54-57. See also +<i>Notes and Queries</i>, 2nd S. vi. 496, 3rd S. iv. 371.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_41" href="#FNanchor_41" class="label">[41]</a> See <a href="#Page_71">Rule 3.</a></p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_42" href="#FNanchor_42" class="label">[42]</a><a href="#Page_71"> Rule 4.</a></p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_43" href="#FNanchor_43" class="label">[43]</a> See <a href="#Page_71">Rule 5.</a></p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_44" href="#FNanchor_44" class="label">[44]</a> <i>Da</i> in Portuguese is a compound of preposition and article.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_45" href="#FNanchor_45" class="label">[45]</a> See <a href="#Page_72">Rule 8.</a></p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_46" href="#FNanchor_46" class="label">[46]</a></p> + +<p>“When I asked his name, said, in a thick, gobbling kind of voice:</p> + +<p>‘Sawedwadgeorgeearllittnbulwig.’</p> + +<p>‘Sir what?’ says I quite agast at the same.</p> + +<p>‘Sawedwad—no, I mean Mistawedwad Lyttn Bulwig.’”</p> + +<p class="right"> +—Thackeray’s <i>Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush</i>.<br> +</p> + + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_47" href="#FNanchor_47" class="label">[47]</a> See <a href="#Page_72">Rule 7.</a></p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_48" href="#FNanchor_48" class="label">[48]</a> Library Journal, vol. iii. No. 1.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_49" href="#FNanchor_49" class="label">[49]</a> American Library Association Report (Library Journal, vol. iii. No. 1, March, +1878, p. 15, col. 1).</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_50" href="#FNanchor_50" class="label">[50]</a> Lindenau, Zeitschrift für Astronomie, 1816.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_51" href="#FNanchor_51" class="label">[51]</a> In the case of little known men, whose Christian names are not given, it may +sometimes be necessary to use the Mr.; for instance, in Pepys’s Diary, if this word +were not added to certain of the persons mentioned, there would often be confusion +between the names of persons and of places.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_52" href="#FNanchor_52" class="label">[52]</a> See <a href="#Page_73">Rule 17.</a></p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_53" href="#FNanchor_53" class="label">[53]</a> 2nd Series, vol. i. p. 481.</p> + +</div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter transnote"> +<p class="center">Transcriber’s Notes.</p> + +<p> +Evident typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected +silently. 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