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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 *** |