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WHAT IS AN INDEX?

INDEX SOCIETY
PUBLICATIONS, 1878.

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WHAT IS AN INDEX?

A FEW NOTES

INDEXES AND INDEXERS.
HENRY b/^HEATLEY, F.S.A.

TBBABtrBBK OF THB BABLT BHOUBH TIXT MOtBrV.

" I foi mj pert Tenerate the inTentor of Indexes ; and I know not
to whom to yield the preference, either to Hippocrates, vho vaa
the first gr&tt aoHUiniiser of the human hodj, or to that nnknomi
labourer in literature who Srst laid open the nerves and arteries
of a book." — Uaat Ditratii, Littrary MUeclUmin.

" I magnitj mine office."

LONDON:

PUBLIBHED FOR THE INDEX 80CIETT
BY LONGMANS, GREEN & Co., 39, PATERNOSTEB BO"W.

SECOND EDITION.

BKSTTOSO :
PBIMTII) BT STKrHllf AUttllf AND BOMB.

• •

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

HISTOBICAL ACCOUNT.

Meaning of the word ' Index/ 7.— Early use of * Tables,' 7.— Use of the word
'Index' by the Eomans, 8. — Its introdnction into modem 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.— Grood 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 Trayels made by a political enemy, 17. — Index to the Biglow Papers,
18. — The author to make his own index, 19. —Monthly Re?iew on indexes, 19. —
N Opinion of William Oldys, 19. — Scaliger, an eminent indexer, 20. — Antonio's in-

V dexes, 20. — Baillet's general index, 21. — Opinion of Bayle, 21. — Of Leigh Hunt,

^ 22.— Specimens of indexes, 22. — Shenstone's Schoolmistress, 22. — Bichardson's

"^ Norels, 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 caUing has been held, 26. —

Index-adTocates : Mr. Thoms and Dr. Allibone, 27. — Baynes's curse, 27. — Lord
Campbell's theory and practice not in accord, 28.— Early compilation of con-
cordances, 28.— Sir Henry Thring's Insiaructions for an Index to Statute Law,29.
Opinion of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, 80. — Money voted by Parliament for
Indexes, 31. — Scientific bibliography, 81. — Annual records of progress, 32. —
Bibliography in scientific periodicals, 33.— Poole's Index, 35.— Indexes to cata-
logues, 36. — Reyiyed interest in index work, 36.— Various proposals for the
formation of an Index Society, 86.— What can an Index Society do P 38.

6 COKTENTS.

PRACTICE OF INDEX-MAKING.

I. — Compilation.

Sir H. Thrmg*8 InstructionB, 41. — How the work should be set about, 42.
— SpecimeiiB 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 Gentle-
inan*s Magazine, 46. — Correctness of reference an essential point, 47. — Is an
incomplete index better than none at all P 47. — Added information in an index,
48. — Blunders, 49. — Two men rolled into one, 50. — Names of men who ncTer
liyed, 50.— French trandatioiiB of names, 52. — Filling up of contractions, 53.—
Use and abuse of cross references, 54.

II. — ^Akbanobmbnt.

Adyantages of alphabetical order, 56.— >One alphabet, not many, 56. — Disad-
yantages of classification, 57. — Statistics, 58.— Arrangement by the English
alphabet, 58. — What is a surname F 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. — Printino.

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.

Bules for obtaining uniformity in the indexes of books, 71.

Preliminary List of English Indexes, 74.

Index 109

WffAT 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 some-
times 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 mj lisping, guilty tongue should halt,
My lips might prove the index to my fault." ^

Such is still its meaning, and it is in this sense that the Index
Society would wish their title to be imderstood.

There is a group of words, viz. Index, Table, Register,
Calendar, Summary, and Syllabus, aU of which were once
generally used with much the same eagnification ; 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 parti-
cular 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 boo voljinde."

^ Roianumd^M Spittle^ lines 103-4.

8 WHAT IS AN INDEX P

With the invention of printing many time-saving expedients
were introduced, and one of these apparently was the alpha-
betical 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 Eomans; and (2) the introduction
of the word into the modem languages and its naturalization
in English. With regard to the first question, we find that
according to classical usage Index denoted a discoverer, dis-
closer 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 PoUex
told him that he would be back by the 13th of August, and
he came to Lanuviimi on the 12th, thus he is rightly called
PoUex and not Index, because the thimib comes before the fore-
finger. 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 fortimately he added " which you Greeks
call a St/llabus,** and the meaning thus becomes clear.^

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." *

The most celebrated of Indexes, the Index lihrorum pro-
hibitorum and Ind^x Expurgatorius of the Koman Catholic
Church, are not indexes in the modem acceptation of the term,
but partake more of the character of what we should now call
Begisters. Erasmus gives alphabetical indexes to many of his

' <<Etiam yellem mihi mittas de tnis librariolis duos aliqnos, qnibus Tyrannic
utatur glutinatoribus, ad cetera administres : iisque imperes nt sumant membrannlam,
ex qua indieet fiant, quosTosGncci (ut opinor) crvXXdfiovs appellate.'* — Ad. Atticum
lib. iT. ep. 4.

' DtseoperieSf ed. 1640, p. 93.

WHAT 18 AN INDEX ? 9

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 pre-
face 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,^ although small pricks
To their subsequent volumes^ there is seen
The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come at large.'* — jyoHus and Cressida, i. 3.

Buckingham threaten*—

*' 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 lago 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 mean-
ing 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. HI, 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 P

1 I would here, under coyer 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
nrom which it is borrowed, we cannot look upon it as thoroughly natmtuiz^.
Surely Index may be considered an English word when it was tr^ted as such by
Shakespeare.

10 AVTIAT IS AN INDEX ?

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 imtil 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 Eoman Histories, contains an alphabetical index at the
end, but it is called a Table. On the title-page of Baret's
Ahearie (1573) mention is made of *^ two Tables in the ende of
this booke," but the Tables themselves, which were compiled by
Abraham Fleming,^ 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.* 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," pre-
ceded 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, Plinie's NaturaU Hisiorie of the Worlds
translated by Philemon Holland (1601), has at the beginning

1 My friend Mr. FnmiTall draws my attention to the fact that Fleming was the
index-maker of Shakespeare's day as Pnilemon Holland was the translator.

' Some in the present day seem to be of the same opinion as Baret, for we
occasionally hear of an Index Serum instead of an Index of SubJeeU.

WHAT IS AN INDEX? 11

— "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 Oreat Britaine (1611) there
is an "Index or Alphabetical Table containing the principal
matters in this history/'

About the latter haU 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 MofUhly 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 boUi kinds, as is Indiee in Italian
and Spanish.

The French word indiee has a different meaning from the
Italian indiee, and in fact is not the same word. According
to littr^ 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 oc-
casionally used, but the regular word is Register.

In concluding this philological inquiry it will only be neces-
sary 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 aU find their respec-
tive places imder the general heading of Index work.^

^ Another word occasionally nsed in the sense of an Index is Pye^ which has heen
supposed to be deriyed from ti^e Greek n(ra|. The late Sir T. Duffos Hardy, in
some obserrations on the deriyation 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 Baliyes as been to accompte pro anno regni regis Eawardi Sexti
primo."— Appendix to the 35th Beport of the Depnty Keeper of the Publio
tleoords, p. 195.

12 WHAT IS AN INDEX ?

As books increased, the need of indexes could not fail to
be very generally felt ; but authors, while praising thenii 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."

Fidler 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 iiseful 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

WHAT IS AN INDEX? 13

usually thought to be so dry: — "And thus by God's assist-
ance 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 sUpping
by, may tell tales against us. This I profess, I have
not, in the language of some modem quartermasters, wil-
fully 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 MdUe. 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 imder to preceding ages. An Index there->
fore is a standing warning against f orgetfulness, and accurate
reference to forgotten work is almost equal to a new dis-
covery. The value of indexes was recognized in the earliest
times, and many old books have full and admirably -con-
structed 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

14 WHAT IS AN INDEX?

fifth volume of the whole set ; and the three folio volumes
of Indexes in one alphabet to the Annalea Hccksiastici 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 Sistrio-maatix (1633), unlike the text, is very read-
able, 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. Garlyle refers to the HisMo-maatix as
"a book still extant but never more to be read by mortal.**
The vituperation however was easily imderstood when boiled
down in an alphabetical form, and Attorney-General Noy found
that the author himself had forged the weapons that the pro-
secutor 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." ^
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 coimtry. 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 —
"-^schylus 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 playa
Impudeucj, a dangerous sin occasioned bj stage plays.
Lyes condemned, frequent in plays.
Sedition occasioned by stage plays.''

^ Noy calls it an Index, but Prynne, in conformity with the usual practice, writes
Tabu.

WHAT IS AN INDEX? 15

The index is full of the judgments which are supposed to
follow the acting of plays, of which the following are speci-
mens : —

'* Herod Agrippa smitten in the theater bj an angel and so died.

Herod the great^ the first erecter of a theater among the Jews, who
thereupon conspire his death.

Plagues occasioned bj stage plajs. All the Roman actors oonsiuned
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 de-
nounced, and such entries as the following, that gave the
greatest offence to the Court : ^ —

''Acting of popular or private enterludes for gain or pleasure inftimous,
unlawfull, and that as well for Princes, Nobles, Gentlemen, Schollars,
Divines as common actors.

Kings — in&mous 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 in-
ference. 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

1 The book was pablished six weeks before Henrietta Maria acted in a pastoral
at Somerset House, so that the passage '* women actors notorious whores could
nfot haye been intended to allude to the Queen. Bee Cobbett's " State Trials,"
vol. 8, coU. 661-d86.

16 WHAT IS AN INDEX P

Quarterh/ Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts, 1820, is
the f oUowing entry :—

" Watts (Mr.), illiberal remarks o( on Captain Eater'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 Esop examin'd,** 1698. The
first entry is

" Dr. Bentlej'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
Person calls it, which not only defeated his enemies, but posi-
tively annihilated them. In the same year that King assisted
Boyle he turned his attention to a less formidable antagonist

WHAT IS AN INDEX P 17

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 Tramactioneer (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 annoy-
ance, 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 pub-
lished " 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 amus-
ing, 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

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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 calunmy 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 himiorous index has not quite died out
is proved by the admirable one which Mr. Lowell has added
to his Bighw 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.

CsBsar, a tribute to, 99, his veniy vidiy vici censured for iindue prolixity,

iia

Castles, Spanish, comfortable accommodations in.
Eating words, habit o( 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, 68, borrows money, 135. (For fiill
particulars see Homer and Dante).
Wrong, abstract, safe to oppose.*' *

The occupation of the indexer has been allowed to fall into
disrepute during the present century, and some have sup-
posed 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 publidier took a proper

1 This IB 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 wilhn a man should go tollable strong
Agin wrong in the abstract, for that kind o' wrong
Is oilers unpop'lar an' never gits pit'ed,
Because it's a crime no one neyer committed."

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pride in this part of their work. This spirit found whim-
sical 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.^ An ideal indexer needs
many high qualifications ; but, unlike the poet, he is not bom
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 thank-
fulness 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) :

1 « Idcirco Celebris quidam scriptor nostne gentu, qnd significaret earn curam ejus
esse debere, cujns cura opus ipsum constitit, urbane, salseqae ajebat, Indicem libri
ab aothore, librom ipsnm II quoyis alio conficiendum esse."— Nicolaus Antonios,
Bibliotheca Hispana, 1672, torn. 2, p. 371.

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" 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
Thesaurm Imcriptionum. Bibliographers have been unani-
mous in praise of the energy eidiibited by the great critic
in imdertaking 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 accoxmt 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

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tighly praised by both Baillet and Bayle, two men who were
well able to form an opinion.

When Baillet, the learned author of the Jugemem 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 BaiUet'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 gentle-
men 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 Athenseus, "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.*

If we examine the indexes to old books, we shall certainly
find ample reason for the belief that in former centuries authors

^ *' M. Bochart .... me prioit surtout d'y faire [i.e. his Diogenes Laertius] nn
Ifid€Sf 4tant, d^ii-il, Time des gros liyres." — Menagiano, Paris, 1729, tome i.
p. 76.

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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 foxmd them presenting us a variety of pleasant
memories and contrasts." He then praises the Indexes to the
Tatler jemd 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. 68.

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, ihidJ*

•

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 abandoned 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:

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" A circumstance iu the situation of mansion of early discipline, dis-
covering 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
poets 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 senti-
ments 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 Kichardson 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, imless he
knows in which volume it is told; for Clarissa is not a per-
formance 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" Kichardson 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 Kichardson, sug-
gesting 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 man-
kind I hope never to injure them." Kichardson 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 Keflexions contained in the

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Hiistories of Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Orandison, di-
gested 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
Tatkr 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 dis-
course.
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 re-
issued 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 volimies, some
slight inaccuracies have passed, and where observed they are
altered. Few readers who desire to know Mr. BickerstajBf's
opinion of the Comedy called the Coxmtry Wife, or the character
of Mrs. Bickerstaff as an actress, would consult the Index
under the word Ada.**

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

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Bowyer, the learned printer, made the excellent Index to
"WilHam Clarke's " Connexion of the Roman, Saxon and Eng-
lish 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
stem 1 You must certainly persuade people that the book over-
flows 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."^ 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 foUowed in his footsteps.
The memory of Dr. Maty has often been blessed by con-
suiters 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 head-
ing 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

^ Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, toI. iii. p. 46.

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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 volimie of the Chtnstian Obserrer, which I
have had the honour of composing. Index-making, though
the lowest, is not the most useless round in the ladder of litera-
ture ; and I pride myself upon being able to say that there
are many readers of tiie Christian Observer who could do with-
out Walter Scotfs 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 Archceological Collections — " The compilation of Indexes
will always, and naturally so, be regarded as a hiunble 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 furnish-
ing a fairly practicable key to a valuable set of voliunes, 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 eight-
eenth 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

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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 8eld<mL 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 interest-
ing 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
Boxburghe Club that " the omission of an Index when essential
should be an indictable offence.''^ Carlyle denounces the
putters forth of indexless books ; and Baynes, the author of
the Archaeological 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."^

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

^ Notes and Queries, 2nd series, toI. rii. p. 469.
' Notes and Queries, 6th series, toI. yiii. p. 87.

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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.^ 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.* Previously to the publication of this valuable work

^ See Transactions of the Conference, p. 88.
> For full title see p. 75.

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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
Aluimo, and published in Le Ricchezze della Lingua volgare.
Verbal Indexes to the ancient classics afterwards became
common, and in 1662 the celebrated Oradua ad Parnasaum
first appeared imder the title of ** Epithetorum et Synony-
morum Thesaurus" (Paris). It is attributed to Chatillon,
and was reprinted by Paul Aler, a German Jesuit, as the
Oradus}

The lawyers can claim the honour of being the first class
to realize the absolute need of Indexes, and the Digests pro-
duced 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 to-
wards 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, imworthy of the energy and ability of an ac-
complished 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 theo-
retical 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 effec-

^ I searched in Tain for the date of the first edition of the Oradiu, nntil I was so
fortunate as to find it in the Talnable article on ** Dictionaries " in the new edition
of the Eneyelopadia Briianniea. Littie information was to be obtained horn the
British Mnsenm Catalogue, owing to the complicated arrangement of the anonymons
books. I looked into the new General Catalogue under the heading Parnassus,
where the book should haye 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 Yalpy. I knew that there must be some earlier edition,
so I went to the old Gener&l Catalogue and there I at once found among others an
** editio noyissima*' (Colonise Agrippin®, 1687). When the book was in my hands
I noticed that it was marked to be catalogued under the heading of *' Dictionaries/'
where I yenture 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.

^

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tive 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." ^

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 re-
arrangement and condensation of the vast masses of matter
contained in our law Ubraries 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
imiversal 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

^ These instractions, with flpecimens of the proposed Index, are printed in the
Law Magazine lot Angnst, 1877, ith series, toL 8, p. 491.

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out, plenty of persons might be found to do the work of filling
up the details, though that work is very far froni 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 conse-
quence, 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
£600 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 imder 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

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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/'*
That Albert von Haller did not hold this disgraceful doctrine
his Bibliotheca Botanica (1771), his Bibliotheca Anatotnica
(1774-77), his Bibliotheca Chirurgica (1774-75) and his Biblio^
theca MedicifUB practices (1776-78) amply prove.

We find in these bibliographies a large proportion of Univer-
sity 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 imoccupied field for in-
dexing was here discovered. In 1800 Beuss commenced at
Gottingen the publication of his Repertorium Commenta-
tionum a Societatibtis Literariis editarum, which was continued
for twenty years, and completed in sixteen quarto voliimes.
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 Zoologice 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
imdertook 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

1 Plan of an EnglUh Dictiotiary,

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course of publication. The value of the Catalogue is grate-
fully 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 Oeneral 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 build-
ing?"

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 Koyal 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 diffi-
cult for workers to keep themselves au courant with the work
of others. To obviate this difficulty the Zoologists started in
1864 an annual Eecord of their science, and the Geologists
followed suit in 1874. The Chemists, in 1871, adopted the
still more useful plan of a monthly r^sumS 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.

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34 WHAT IS AN INDEX?

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 JJniveraelley 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 ^ contains an account of early Books
on Logarithms, by Mr. J. "W. L. Glaisher, F.R.S. ; the
Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society ^ has a Chronology
of Star Catalogues, by Mr. E. B. Knobel ; the Transactions of
the Connecticut Academy,^ 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," * and Index to the Literature of
Manganese, 1596-1874,^ both by H. Carrington Bolton, Ph.D.
Prof. J. Plateau, the distinguished physicist, is publishing
by sections, a " Bibliographie Analytique des principaux ph^-
nomenes subjectifs de la Vision," in the Memoirs of the
Brussels Academy. Mr. Edward S. Holden, of the "Wash-

1 Fourth series, vol 44. » Vol, 43, p. 1. » Vol. 4, p. 161. * Vol. 10. » Vol. 11.

WHAT IS AN INDEX P 35

ington Naval Observatory, has prepared a valuable "Index
Catalogue of Books and Memoirs relating to Nebulae 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 biblio-
graphy 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 refer-
ences 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, imder 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 imtil he saw it on the shelves of the
Reading Boom 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 Bihliotheca Britannica. The Index attached to Darling^s

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Cyclopaedia 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 Athenaeum 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 for-
mation 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 " ^ of the projected formation of a " Society for the

> Vol. X. p. 356.

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Formation of a General Literary Index." In the second series
(vol. i. p. 486), the late Mr. Thomas Jones, who signed him-
self 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 staiBT 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 Govern-
ment or some public society will imdertake 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, 1876,
Mr. J. Ashton Cross argued in a jmmphlet, that a Universal
Index might be formed by co-operation through a clearing-
house, and would pay if published in separate parts. In Sep-
tember, 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 Athenceum for October 13,
1877, in a report of the Conference of Librarians written by
Mr. Robert Harrison. There we read : " Could not a perma-
nent 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 com-

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petent 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 Athenceum 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 niimber
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 wiU perhaps be well to offer some answer to the
question — ^What can such a Society doP 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
possibiKty 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-

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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 elabo-
rate Index to its varied contents, which has been much appre-
ciated, and does great credit to Mr. Tedder who compiled it.

To direct pubKc 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 re-
quired 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 Bushworth, and Nalson, the Harleian Miscellany, Somers'
Tracts, Ellis's Original Letters, and many other books that
it is needless to enumerate here.^ 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.

^ **The Rush worths, Whitlockes, Nalsons, Thurloes; enormous folios, these and
many others have been printed, and some of them again printed, but nerer 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 Tolumes has so muon as
an ayailable Index. It is the general rule of editing on this matter. If your editor
correct the press, it is an honourable distinction." — CarlyUt Introduction to CroM'
iciii't Zettert and Sjmches.

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Much that would otherwise be neglected may be done by a
public society, but to attack with effect the mass of work wait-
ing 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 imder
cultivation. It is expected that the work of the Society will
be largely extended when they acquire fimds that will enable
them to open an oflSce 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 suflScient faith in the simplicity and use-
fulness 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 discon-
nected, 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.

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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 imhappy 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,^ 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 catch-words 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

^ Law Magazine, August, 1877.

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of books in which particular informatioD is to be found. Such an iudex 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 P In the Special Report on the Public Libraries of the
United States of America, Part 1, 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 how-
ever 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 re-
marks 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 imtil he
can look down on the entire field of law before him, he
cannot possibly judge of the proper arrangement of the head-
ings, 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 likelv to seek. The
author frequently uses periphrases to escape from the re-
petition of the same fact in the same form, but these peri-
phrases will give little information when inserted as head-
ings 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 : —

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A Monograph of the British Spongiadse.

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 Apohgy 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 :

Bdief 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 spiea

In the '' General Index to the Spectators, Tatlers and Guar-
dians/' 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 (i8()0).

Some bibliographers always prefer substantives to adjectives
as headings, but the whole {>oint of a sentence is often con-

44 WHAT IS AN INDEX ?

tained in a substantival adjective. When adjective and sub-
stantive 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 JS respectively.^ 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 imder 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
imder 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 infor-
mation 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 follow- ^ •'^'

ing 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 ex-
ample of the useless references to which we have just referred,
and contains as well a ludicrous misapprehension of the passage

^ See Rule 9, on page 72.

: V.

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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 Wynf ord. 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 ofl

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 shoidd always
specify the cause of reference, more especially in the case of
proper names.^ 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.' Mr. Markland draws particular attention to this point

^ See Rule 10 on page 72.

* This eyil is enlarged upon in a paper '* On an * Eyitandom ' in Index-makinff,
principally met with in French and German Periodical Scientific Literature, by B. K.
Wheatley." — Transactions and Proceedings of the Conference of Librarians, 1877,
pp. 88-92.

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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 CampbeU'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 Oentleman^s Magazine^ where all the references
imder one surname are placed together without even the dis-
tinction 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, imder 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 ex-
travagant 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

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setting out the various entries in whicli some fact or opinion is
mentioned, and then gathering together the remainder imder
the heading of Alluded to.

One woidd imagine that correctness of reference was the sine
qua non of an index, and yet careless compilers, to save them-
selves trouble, have sometimes neglected this great essential.
Books have been publisliod 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 ex-
perience 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 Abdt/, 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 ally but this is open to question, as the incomplete index

48 WHAT IS AN INDEX?

deceives the consulter. We have fair warning of this incom-
pleteness in The Register of Corpm Chriali Ouild, 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 com-
mended, 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 ;
1 \ 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. Halph Thomas has added to his
interesting notice of Qu^rard ^ (a pamphlet of 48 pages), an
Index of eight pages. This index contains several such entries
as the following : —

"Athenaeum, The, no general index to, great literary want (and the
AthensBum reproached the Edinburgh Review for remissness in not
keeping up its indexes !).

The Index of Authors appended to De Morgan's Arith-
metical 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 Bolls without authority
from the text, and long before there were incorporations in this
coimtry. The first actual use of the term is in the Charter of

' A Martyr to Bibliography : a Notice of the Life and Works of Joseph-Marie
Qu^rard, Bibliographer ... By Olphar Hamst, Esq. JiOndon (J. Russell
Smith), 1867.

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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 fruit-
ful 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 difficidt to decide which he shall
use. In Capgrave's Chronicle of England is a reference to
the "londe of lude" [Judaoa], but this is mis-spelt Inde in
the edition published in the Master of the Bolls' 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." ! I

Many more instances of this confusion of the letters u and n
might be given here, but two will suffice. George London
was a very eminent horticulturist in his day, who, at the
Revolution, was appointed Superintendent of the Boyal
Ghirdens, but he can seldom get his name properly spelt,
because a later horticulturist has made the name LoMon 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.
Loeidon as C. J. London 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 imwarranted
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

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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
Tlnitarian writer. In Dircks's Worceateriana (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 imiting two men into one will be
foimd in the Afhenceum 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 difficidt 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
Atopov ^aaiXiKov, and Bishop Walton supposed the title of the
great Arabic Dictionary, the Kdmoos, or Ocean, to be the name
of an author whom he quotes as " Camus." In the Biographic
Univeraelle 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 " Damn^ et

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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 Abba's
Greek. Having to paraphrase the words *''H/)oSoto9 /ecu la^tov,'*
(Herodotus even while lonicizing), the Frenchman rendered
them " Herodote et aussi Jazon/' thus creating a new author,
one Jazon.^ In the Present State of Peru, a compilation from
the Mercuric Peruana, P. Geronymo Homan de la Higuera is
transformed into " Father Geronymo, a Romance of La Higuera " 1
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 M^moires de Louis XVIIL (published in 1832)
was a mendacious compilation from the Mimoires 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 Oast, 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 CyclopsBdia. 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

1 De Quincej*8 Works, ed. 1862, vol. 8, p. 180.

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at Nicolai that this method of writmg 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
narratiye 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 : Bromembrance, 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

PRjEFEcrruS . VIARuM.

Also the August Oriuna, supposed to be the wife of Carausius,
of whom Dr. Stukeley wrote some theoretical memoirs. This
blimder 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 Litt^raire au
XV* Siicle," to mention " White Knights," the seat of the Duke
of Marlborough, translates it " Le Chevalier Blanc." ^ 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

1 Notice of Qtt^rard, by Olphar Hamat. 1867.

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besides his works on Geology, he had produced one, " Sur les
ponts et chauss^es." 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 illus-
trated in the Annuaire des Sociitfa Savantes, par le Cte. Achmet
d'ffericourty 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 Hide
means a " voyage k cheval ou en voiture," it might be thought
that this was a " Soci^t^ 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 par-
ticular danger of filling out contractions without Buj£cient
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 re-
vised by the Bight 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 in-
formation to the reader that the reviser was Sir George Come-
wall 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 CaBsar, set up Jesus
Christ.^

Next in importance to the selection of appropriate headings

' A friend asks me to ^re chapter and Terse for this hlunder, hut it will he seen
that nothing is more difficult tnan to find an authority for misprints which are
corrected as soon as they are found out, perhaps even in tne proof. A curious mis-
print occurred in The Tunes in a letter from Lord Shafteshury (August, 1878), who
wrote of the Bulgarians that ** they panted for liberty/* but was mads by the printer
to say ** they prated of liberty.*'

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in an Index is the careful use of cross references. Great judg-
ment 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.^ This, how-
ever, must not be carried too far ; for, as Mr. Poole says in an
article on his own index,* " 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 ap-
propriate."

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.* There are too
many of these vague cross references in the Penny Cyclo-
paedia, where you are referred from the known to the un-
known. If a general heading be divided into sections, and
each of these be clearly defined, they should be cross refer-
enced, 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 refer-
ences are mere expedients, particularly in the case of a cyclo-
psedia published in volumes or numbers. Thus a writer agrees
to contribute an article early in the alphabet, but is not ready

1 SeeKule 11, p. 72.

• Library Journal.

• My brother (Mr. B. R. Wheatley) writes aa follows of AUibone's forty
Jndex^ : *' What howeyer 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 Alcnemy P — 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 oefore you find the philosopher*8 stone
whicn lies hid in this five-century crucible of mixed ingredients.'* — Trans. Con-
ference of Librarians, 1877.

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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 Encyclopsedia Britannica ; there
I found in the general dictionary —

Birch Tree. — See Betula (Botany Index).
I hastened to Betula with great eagerness and there I f oimd —

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 refer-
ences are to be found in Hawkins's Pleas of the Crofcn, 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 pur-
poses." The following are some of the most amusing entries,

but there are many more as good :

Assault, see Son. Farthing, see Halfpenny.

Cards, see Dice. Fear, see Robbery.

Cattle, see Clergy. Footway, see Niusance.

Chastity, see Homicide. Honour, see Constable.

Coin, see EUgh Treason. Kine, see Treason.

Convicts, see Clergy. London, see Outlawry.

Death, see Appeal Shop, see Buivlary.

Election, see Bribery. 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 Dniry Lane Theatre.

For his Memoirs see the European Magazine ; for his professional

abilities see Churchill's Rosciad.
Obiit Dec 26 1812,
Anno iEtatis 85.

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11.

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 com-
plete Index whether it is one volume or many.^ This im-
portant 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 enimciated will perhaps be better imder-
stood 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 foimd 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
imited into one alphabet. The general Index ta the Reports of

> See Rules 1 and 2, p. 71.

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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 Athenceum,
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 P 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. Gosmique ; 3. Mati^res. If this division be
made, it ought surely to be carried out correctly, and yet in
the Autaren Register to Cams' 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
Qreat Seal have been placed under the heading of Zoology ;
Napier's Bones under Anatomy ; Swinburne's Under the Micro-
scope under Optical Instruments; a volume of Poems, entitled
the Viol and Lute, under Musical Instruments ; Buskin'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 II Pastor Mdo, '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 CwHosities 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

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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 jorder to help the makers of Indexes in judging of the
relative extent of the various letters of the Alphabet certain
calculations have been made,^ but the statistics must vary
greatly according to the character of the Index. Thus B is
the largest in an Index of EngUsh names, but loses its pre-
eminence 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 JEpps 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 sub-
stantive 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.^
One of the Eules of the American Library Association is, " The
German ae, oe, ue are always to be written a, o, ii, and arranged

^ *< On the best method of conBtracting an Index, by F. A. Cnrtis, of the Eaele
Insurance Office/* in the A$surance Magazine^ toI. 8 (1858), pp. 54-57. See also
Notes and Queries, 2nd S. yi. 496, 3rd S. iv. 371.

s See Rule 3.

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as a, o, u " ; by this Goethe would have to be written Gothe,
which is now an unusual form, and I think it would be better
to indst 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 a, o, ii, 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 Y, 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 b^Eur in mind that each word is to stand by itself ;
for instance, first will come the various persons bearing the
surname Ch^ave^ arranged according to the order of their
Christian names,

Grave, George,

Grave, John,

then the substantive and adjective grace^ arranged according to

the alphabet of the words that follow.

Grave at Kherson,
Grave of Hope,
Grave Thoughts,

and last,

Gravelot,
Gravesend.^

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 com-
mences when we ask the question — ^What is a surname P The
answer to it must necessarily be complicated on account of tho
varieties of form which proper names take in different lan-
guages. The greatest difficulty arises from the prefixes, some
of which can easily be dispensed with, while others are integral
portions of the name.^ If the prefix be a preposition, it must
be rejected, and the name arranged in alphabet under the

^ Rule 4. > See Rule 6.

k

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following letter ; thus, D*, Dcy in French, Da in Italian/ 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 Xa, 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 2>, D'Azeglio under A, De La Blanch^re
imder D, De La Borde under Z, De La Fons under both D and
X, 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.^ 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 Modeme, edited by the late Dr. Hoefer, and pub-
lished by Firmin Didot. In this valuable Biographical
Dictionary there is a long account of Brigham Young, extend-
ing over many columns, but, instead of appearing under Y,
it has a place found for it in letter B, and the heading nms as

> Da in Portogaese is a compoond of preposition and article,
s See Rule 8.

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follows : '* Brlgham le jeiine ou Brigham Young " I 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 Anlei-
tung or Orundrm 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 " Gui-
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 communica-
tion It is well to know that Copernicus, Dasypodius,

Xylander, Regiomontanus, and Clavius were Zepemik, Rauch-
fuss, Holtzmann, Muller and Schlussel. 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 forth-
coming and required registration in a Catalogue of Manu-
scripts. 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 maimer in which the names are printed;
thus we learn from the Gentleman's Magazine that

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The Index-maker indexed these as Oallager and Fleetwood!
BO 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 un-
acquainted 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.^ This leads us to the rule by
which peers are to be arranged under their titles instead of their
family names.^ The most usual and certainly most natural
practice is so to arrange them, but the British Museum rule is
the reverse, and Mr. Gutter 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 ' 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 hold 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 Abercom he should be put imder Abercom for the same

1 M When I taked his name, said. In a thick, gobbling kind of TOice :

* SawedwadeeorgeearUittnbnlwig.'

* Sir what ? says I quite agast at the same.

* Sawedwad— no, I mean Mistawedwad Ljttn Bulwig.' '*

— Thackeray's Memoira of Mr, ChMrlea /. TtUowpimsh.
* See Rule 7.
' Library Journal, vol. iii. No. 1.

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reason. A Catalogue is not a biographical dictionary or a genealogical
table, and its efficiency is in danger of being lessened if its makers con-
found the two purposes." '

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 doubt-
ful 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
Jlf, 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 illus-
trate 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 import-
ant and well known to need the use of Christian names, and
therefore M, usually stands for Monsieur; this cannot, how-
ever, be taken for granted without inquiry, for it sometimes

* American Library Association Report (Library Journal, voL iii. No. 1, March,
1S78, p. 15, col. 1).

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means Michel or other Christian name commencing with M,
I have noticed in a German periodical ^ 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. Brandos ;
8. 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.* It was the neglect of this
rule which angered Dr. Johnson. Boswell records how, hap-
pening 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 Rambkr, dated 1791, which is now
before me, I find the same dishonouring title stiU retained.
Besides Mr. Milton, notices of Mr. Richard Baxter, Mr. Abra-
ham 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 sur-
name.

The signatures of Peers and Bishops are a source of trouble

^ Lindenau, Zeitschrift fiir Astronomie, 1816.

' In tibe case of little known men, whose Christian names are not giren, 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.

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to many, thus a certam eminent bookseller is said to have once
received a letter signed ' George Winton/ proposing the pub-
lication 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
reyerse 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 "Rich-
mond & 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

66 WHAT IS AN INDEX P

errata of fifteen pages. Dr. Johnson, referring in his Life of
Lord Lyitelton to his subject's Sistory of Henry 11. (1773),
speaks of the 19 pages of errata as something which 'Hhe
world had hardly seen before." Disraeli gives, in his Curiosities
of lAteraiurey 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, par-
ticularly at Rome, the use of the word f atum 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 factay 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 Gfuillemeiie, chienne de ma SoBur ; but, having a
quarrel with his sister, he maliciously put in the errata, instead
of Chienne de ma Sosur read ma chienne de Sceur.

in.

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 stiU exists in the
newspaper lists of Births, Deaths and Marriages, more especi-
ally 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

WHAT IS AN INDEX? 67

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 bom, married, dead, or bankrupt I

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 re-
petition, 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.^ The neglect of
this rule leads to the perpetration of the greatest absurdities,
thus the oft-quoted instance —

" Mill on Liberty
on the Floaa"

is not an invention, but actually occurred in a catalogue. The
following are good examples of ^ what to avoid.

4

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

1 Bee Rule 17,

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From the Index of Pepij9*a Diary (yarions editions)

Child, Mr.

of Hales, the, a giant

Court ladies, maiiculine attire <^ the

- of Arches

Fiah, method of preserving

Ireland, state of affiiirs in, &c.

> a cooper

Katherine Hall, Cambridge

Pear

of Valoia

^^— the Man of War

Yacht

Kentish Knock, the, a Shoal

Town

Liimb*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 abnost 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 hare 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
f oimd 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

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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 de-
livered by mistake to the minister, who sent them on with this
note — " Had you not tmdertaken 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 b^n 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 : — ^

I I

N

never

D

did

E

ensure

X

exactness

The Index maker of modem 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

^ 2nd Series, toI. i. p. 481.

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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 ind^.

[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., " Historic
of . . . Edward IV. 1471," edited by John Bruce 1838 (Camden
Society). At p. 7 we read: "Wherefore the £ynge may say
as Julius CsBsar 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

71

RULES FOR OBTAINING UNIFORMITY IN THE

INDEXES OF BOOKS.

1. — Every work shonld 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 on$ alphabet. An Introduction, con-
taining 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 TJ and Y, 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 arrange-
ment should be:^

Ghrave at Kherson.
Grave, John.
Gravelot.
Grave of Hope.
Gravesend.
Grave Thoughts.

6hav0, John,
Grave at Kherson
Grave of Hope
Grave Thoughts
Gravelot
Gravesend

not

5. — Proper Names of foreigners to be alphabetically arranged under

the prefixes : —

J>al

Del

Delia

Dee

Du

La

Le

but not under the prefixes : —

D^ as Ahhadie

Da „ Siha

De „ La Place

Von „ Humboldt

Van ' .. Beneden

as

ij

not

99

DalSte.
Del Rio.
DeUa Casa.
Dee Cloiseaux,
Du Dots.
La Condamine.
Le Sage,

UAhhadie.
Da Sika.
De La Place,
Von Humboldt,
Van Beneden,

It is an acknowledged principle that when the prefix is a pre-
position it is to be rejected, but when an article it is to be retained.
When, however, as in the case of the French Du^ Dee, the two
are joined; it is necessary to retain the preposition. This also applies

70 WHAT IS AN INDEX?

Arithmetical Books, writes : — " Books of BibKography 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 oflP, 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 i>age 53 from a work by one
of the most careful and trustworthy of editors, viz., " Historic
of . . . Edward IV. 1471," edited by John Bruce 1838 (Camden
Society). At p. 7 we read : "Wherefore the Kynge may say
as Julius CsBsar 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 JoumaL

71

RULES FOR OBTAININO UNIFORMITY IN THE

INDEXES OF BOOKS.

1. — Every work should have one Index for tlie whole set and not
an Index to each volnme.

2. — ^Indexes to be arranged in Alphabetical Order : — proper names
and subjects being united in oim alphabet. An Introduction, con-
taining 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 IT and Y, 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 arrange-
ment should be :-^

Grave at Kherson.
Grave, John.
Gravelot.
Grave of Hope.
Gravesend.
Grave Thoughts.

6h'av0, John,
Grave at Kherson
Grave of Hope
Grave Thoughts
Gravelot
Gravesend

not

5. — Proper Names of foreigners to be alphabetically arranged under

)

as

the prefixes : —

J>al

Del

Delia

Dee

Du

La

Le

but not under the prefixes : —

D^ as Ahhadie

Da „ Siha

De „ Za Place

Von „ Humboldt

Van ■ ,. Deneden

I

79

not

t9

it
>>
ft

Dal 8ie.
Del Rio.
Delia Caea.
Dee Cloieeaux.
Du Dote.
La Condamine.
Le Sage.

D'Ahhadie.
Da Sika,
De La Place.
Von Humboldt.
Van Beneden.

It is an acknowledged principle that when the prefix is a pre-
position it is to be rejected, but when an article it is to be retained.
When, however, as in the case of the French Du, Dee, the two
are joined^ it is necessary to retain the preposition. This also applies

70 WHAT IS AN INDEX?

Arithmetical Books, writes : — " Books of BibKography 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 oflP, 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., '' Historic
of . . . Edward IV. 1471," edited by John Bruce 1838 (Camden
Society). At p. 7 we read : "Wherefore the Kynge may say
as Julius CsBsar 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 Bules, forming the
second part of the Special Beport on American Libraries, and
the short Bules drawn up by a Committee of the American
Library Association, and printed in the Library JoumaL

71

RULES FOR OBTAININO UNIFORMITY IN THE

INDEXES OF BOOKS.

1. — Every work Bhould have one Index for tlie whole set and not
an Index to each volnme.

2. — ^Indexes to be arranged in Alphabetical Order : — proper names
and subjects being united in on4 alphabet. An Introduction, con-
taining 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 IT and Y, 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 arrange-
ment should be:-^

Grave at Kherson.
Grave, John.
Gravelot.
Grave of Hope.
Gravesend.
Grave Thoughts.

Grave, John,
Grave at Kherson
Grave of Hope
Grave Thoughts
Chavelot
Chra/veeend

not

5. — Proper Names of foreigners to be alphabetically arranged under

the prefixes : —

Dal

Del

Delia

Dee

Du

La

Le

but not uuder the prefixes : —

f

)

as

D^

Da

De

Von
Van

as

t9

Alhadie
Siha
La Place
Humboldt
Beneden

not

yt
It

DalSie.
Del Rio.
Delia Caea.
Dee Cloieeaux,
Du Dote,
La Condamine.
Le Sage,

D'Ahhadie.
Da Siha,
De La Place,
Von Humboldt,
Van Beneden,

It is an acknowledged principle that when the prefix is a pre-
position it is to be rejected, but when an article it is to be retained.
When, however, as in the case of the French Du^ Dee, the two
are joined; it is necessary to retain the preposition. This also applies

76 ENGLISH INDEXES.

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.

Bible. — 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 Com-

mon Prayer. From the Concordance to the Canonical
Books of the Old and Kew 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. 66.

I 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 Kew
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 Know-
ledge By the Rev. H. B. Wilson, D.D. London,

1818. 4to. pp. 8, sign. B to 2 £ 3 in fours.

— — A Concordance of Parallels collected from Bibles and Com-
mentaries, 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.

Somer, — A Complete Concordance to the Iliad of Homer. By Guy
Lushington Prendergast. London, 1875. 4to. pp. 416,
in double cols.

ENGLISH INDEXES. 77

JTehle, — 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. Bm. 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. Eoyal 8vo. pp. xviii,
366.
Shakeipeare. — ^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 sub-
stantive, 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

78 ENGLISH INDEXES.

the poet. By Dr. Alexander Schmidt. (Berlin and London),
1874. 2 vols, royal 8vo.
Shakespeare. — ^A Concordance to Shakespeare's Poems: an Index to
every word therein contained. By Mrs. Horace Howard

Fumess.

** To joxa audit comes
Their distract parcels in combined sxmis."

Philadelphia (J. B. Lippincott & Co.), 1874. pp. iv,

422.
A Hand-Book Index to the Works of Shakespeare, including

references to the phrases, maimers, customs, proverhs,

songs, particles, etc., which are used or alluded to by the

great Dramatist. By J. 0. Halliwell, Esq., F.R.S.

London (J. E. Adlard), 1866. 8vo. pp. vi ; contents 1

leaf, pp. 551. Only fifty copies printed.
Tennif9(m.-^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

Bye in Sussex. 1774. 12mo.
Sigs. B to Y 4.

INDEXES OF PARTICXJLAR 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.

BlomefiekPs 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. Eoyal 8vo. pp. 348.
This Index refers to the octavo edition.

Buffon's Natural History — ^Index to BufEbn's Planches enlumin^es.
By Thomas Pennant. 1786. 4to.

Burke's Landed Gentry. — Index of family names in Burke's Genea-
logical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry —

ENGLISH INDEXES. 79

fourth editioii 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-Eoyal for Scotland.

Second edition. Index volume. London and Edinburgh

(William Blackwood & Sons), 1873. 8vo. pp. 100, in

double columns.
CarlyU, — ^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.
LugdMs York, — ^Index to the Visitation of the County of Yorke begun

A.n. 1665 and finished a.d. 1666 by William Dugdale, Esq.

Norroy King of Armes. Compiled by Oeorge 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).
Eneyehpmdioi. — ^The Encyclopsedia Britannica, or Dictionary of Arts,

Sciences and General Literature. Eighth edition. Index.

[By James Duncan.] Edinburgh, 1860. Pp. vii, 232.

In one alphabet.
Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, or Universal Dictionary of

Knowledge . . . Index. London, 1845. 4to. pp. iv, 370.

In one alphabet.

■ The English Cyclopaedia. 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 Encyclopaedia.

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. 308.

• Index to Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia, vols. 1-10.

Criticised adversely in Library Journal, vol. ii. p. 296.
JSitayttts, — ^A General Index to tiie Spectators, Tatlers and GKiardians.

1757. Second edition. London (W. Owen), 1760. 12mo.

unpaged. In one alphabet.

■ The British Essayists; with prefaces, historical and bio-

80 ENGLISH INDEXES.

grapHcal, by A. Chalmers, F.S. A. Vol. 38. General Index.
London, 1823. 12mo. title, pp. 277. In one alphabet.

GmeUn^B Chemittry, — Index to Gmelin's Handbook of Chemistry.
By Henry Watts. London, 1872. 8vo. title, pp. 831.
In one alphabet.

Solnui'i Armory, — Index of the Karnes of Persons contained in the
Academy of Armory and Blazon, by Handle Holme ;
printed at Chester in one volume foUo, 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.

HoweWi State TriaU, — 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; Fart 2, Miscellaneous Contents. Ap-
pended is ''A Table of Parallel Beferences from Howell's
State Trials to the folio edition by Hargrave." The refer-
ences are given as 15 vol. instead of vol. 15.

JBume^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
Bev. S. Y. McMasters, LL.D. Alton (printed at the
Courier Office), 1854. pp. 672.

Madox^i JSzchequer. — 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 nhh 1, in twos.

This Index was made by the editor of Madox's Baronia
Anylica, 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.

k.

ENGLISH INDEXES. 81

London, 1876." 2vol8. 8vo. And to "The Justice's Manual
or Guide to the ordinary duties of a Justice of the Peace,
hy the late Samuel Stone, the eighteenth edition edited
by George B. Kennett. London, 1876." 8vo.

There is no clue in this Lidex 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.

Pennanf* London, — Copious Lidex to Pennant's Account of London.
By T. Downes. 1814. 4to. pp. 62, in double
columns.

Pictorial History, — Lidex to the Pictorial History of England, form-
ing 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.

Li one alphabet. Dates are largely introduced into the
references.

Richardson^ s Novels, — ^A Collection of the moral and instructive senti-
ments, 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. Bichardson), 1755. 12mo. pp. x,
410.

There is a separate alphabet for each novel.

Southeotfs Writings. — A General Lidex to the Writings of Joanna
Southcott, the Prophetess. London, no date. 8vo. pp. 33.

— — Lidex to the Divine and Spiritual WritingB of Joanna
Southcott. By Philip Pullen. London, 1815. 8vo.
pp. 240.

StrypsU 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'% Scotland.— BietoTj of Scotland. By Patrick Eraser Tytler.
Third edition. Index. Edinburgh (Black), 1850. 8vo.
title, pp. 128. In one alphabet.

6

82 ENGLISH INDEXES.

WarUnCi EngU9h Poetry. — An Index to the History of English

Poetry. By Thomas Warton, B.D. London, 1806.

4to.

In doable coIb. Six separate Indexes, tIz. vol 1, pp. 21.

Dissertation prefixed to vol. 1, 10 pp. vol. 2, pp. 20.

vol. 3, pp. 27. Gesta Bomanomm 'prefixed to voL 3),

pp. 6. Fragment of the fourth vol. pp. 6.
Wellington Despatches, — The Index to the Despatches of F. H. 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, ir.A.

By the Be v. Henry Skewes, M.A. London (Elliott

Stock, 62 Paternoster Bow, 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 Modem 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
Modem Geography. New and improved edition. London,
1831. Large 8vo. pt. 1, pp. 90, pt. 2, pp. 86.

Cory, — Gary's English Atlas. An Index . . . London. Folio, pp. 40.
No title-page.

SaU. — An Alphabetical Index to all the names contained in a new
General Atlas of fifty-three Maps. Constructed from
now drawings and engraved by Sidney Hall. London
(Longmans), 1831. Boy. 8vo. title, pp. 360.

Johnston, — Index Geographicus, being a List alphabetically arranged
of the principal places on the Globe, with the countries
and sub-divisions of the countries in which they are
situated and their latitudes and longitudes. Compiled
specially with reference to Keith Johnston's Boyal Atlas,
but applicable to all modem atlases and maps. Edinburgh
(Blackwood), 1864. Boy. 8vo. pp. iv, 676.

ENGLISH INDEXES. 83

Ordtiance Survey. — Index to tho Ordnance Survey of England, Scotland

and Ireland, folio.
Use/id Knowledge Society, — Index to the Maps of the Society for the

Promotion of Useful Eiiowledge. 1844.

INDEXES TO PUBLICATIONS OF SOCIETIES.

*Ameriean Fharmaceutieal 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 Bengcd, — Index to the first eighteen volumes of
the Asiatic Kesearches, 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, 1 856.
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 ArchdBologicdl Association, — The Journal of the British
Archaeological 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 Eeports 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.

84 ENGLISH INDEXES.

Chetham Society, — General Index to the KemainSy Historical and
Literary, pubHshed by the Chetham Society, Vols. 1 — 30.
By C. S. Simms. Manchester, 1863. 4to. pp. yiii, 168,
1 1 leaves of Indexes to separate volumes.

Oeological Society, — A Classified Index to the Transactions, Proceed-
ings 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.

Kew 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 Becords of the G^logical Survey of India,
1868 to 1877. Calcutta, 1878. Boy. 8vo. pp. 23.

Guy*s JSoepital. — General Index to the first and second series of the
Guy's Hospital Beports. 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 Institu-
tion 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 Sf Cheshire, — BListoric 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 Bev. A. Hume. Liverpool (T. Brakell), 1874. 8vo.
pp. iv, 47.
In three parts. 1, Tables of the Contents of each

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volume ; 2, Alphabetical List of Authors ; 3, Alphabetical

List of Subjects.
Linn&an 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. Sf Phil. Soe. — 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. Maiples),

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,

Alphabetioal Index ; 4, Alphabetical List of Writers.
In two parts. 1, Index of Subjects ; 2, Index of

Authors.
Neiv 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— I, 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.

86 E^VGUflU UCDEXES.

Royal AgrieuUurtd Society, — General Index to the first aeries of the
Jonmal of the Boyal Agricnltoial Society of Englanil,
Yoliunefl I to 25 London, 1865. 8vo. pp. 214.
In one alphabet.

— — General Index to the second series of the Jonmal of the Boyal
Agricnltnral Society of England, Yolnmes 1 to 10.
London, 1875. 8vo. pp. 134.
In one alphabet.

Royal AstrtmanUeal Society. — A Greneral Index to the fiist thirty-eight
Tolames of the Memoirs of the Boyal Astronomical
Society. London, 1871. 8yo. title, pp. 54.
In one alphabet.

A General Index to the first twenty-nine volnmes of the

Monthly IS'otices of the Boyal Astronomical Society, com-
prising the Proceedings of the Society from Eebmary 9,
1827, to the end of the session 1868-69. London, 1870.
8to. title, pp. 212. In. one alphabet.

Royal 6hoyrapkical Society, — General Index to the Contents of the

first ten Tolnmes of the London G^graphical Jonmal.

Compiled by J. B. 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

Boyal Geographical Society. Compiled by George Smith
Brent ; edited by Dr. Norton Shaw. London, 1853. 8vo.
pp. 116. Compiltfd on the same plan as the first Index.

Royal IrisA Academy. — An Index to the Transactions of the Boyal Irish
Academy from its incorporation in 1786 to the present
time [Yols. 1 to 1 1]. 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 Sf Chir. Soc. — General Index to the first thirty-three
yolnmes of the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, published
by the Boyal Medical and Chimrgical Society of London.
[By Dr. John Hennen.] London, 1851. 8vo. pp. Ixxx, 236.
In one alphabet. Prefixed is a list of the contents of
each Tolume, and a list of engrayings.

General Index to the first fifty-three volumes of the Medico-
Chirurgical Transactions, published by the Boyal Medical
and Chimrgical Society of London. [By B. B. Wheatley.]
London, 1871. 8yo. pp. yiii, 355. In one alphabet.

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Eoydl 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.E.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 con-
tained 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. Ill (1821) to 120 (1830). London, 1833. 4to. pp.
101.

^ An Index to the Anatomical, Medical, Ghirurgical and

Physiological Papers contained in the Transactions of the
Boyal 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 M6moires imprimis dans les Transactions Philo-

sophiques de la Soci^t^ Royale de Londres ; depuis
1665 jusques en 1735, rang^es par ordre chronologique,
par ordre des mati^res, et par noms d'auteurs ; par M. de
Bremond. Paris, 1739. 4to. title, 3 preliminary leaves,
pp. V, 297, 461, Ixxvi.

Boyal United Service Institutitm, — Index of the Lectures and Papers
contained in vols. 1-10 of the Journal of the Eoyal
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
Archeeologia, 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 ArchcBologia, 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
Arckaoloyia, from volume 1 to 40, is now being prepared.

88 ENGLISH INDEXES.

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. Ivii. In one alphabet.

Vols. 11-20. 1873. Roy. 8vo.

Statistical Society.— ^oum&L of the Statistical Society of London.
General Index to the first fifteen volumes. [By B. R.
Vheatley.] London, 1854. 8vo. pp. vii, 198.
In one alphabet.

■ GFeneral Index to Volumes 16 — 25 (1853-1862), in continua-

tion 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 Archseological Collections, relating to
the History and Antiquities of the County, published by
the Sussex Archaeological Society. General Index to
Vols. 1 to 25. By Henry Campkin, F.S A. Lewes, 1874.
8vo. pp. viii, 423. In one alphabet.

Yorkshire, Sfc. — 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. Gteorge 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 Zoologiccd

ENGLISH INDEXES. 89

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 Tear Bound. — Oeneral Index to the first twenty yolumes of
All the Year Round. 1868. pp. 82, 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. Con-
ducted by Prof. SiUiman and Benj. SiUiman, jun.
Volume 50. General Index to forty-nine volumes. Kew
Haven, 1847. 8vo. pp. xviii, 348.

In one general alphabet, with a Supplement of omitted
references and a Register of Plates, Maps and other Illus-
trations.

— 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.

Anntud Register, — A General Index to the Annual Register; or, A
Summary View of the History of Europe, Domestic Occur-
rences from 1758 to 1780, both inclusive. (The

second edition, 1784.) The third edition. London (Ri ving-
ton), 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. ujipaged. 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.

Aseuranee 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.

90 ENGLISH INDEXES.

Atlantic Monthly/. —Index to the Atlantic Monthly, Volumes i-xxxviii.
( 1 857-1 876). By Horace E. Scudder. 1 . Index of Articles
(a) General Articles, (b) Editorial Departments. 2. Index
of Authors. Boston (H. 0. Houghton & Co.), 1877. 8vo.
pp. 106.

In double columns and interleaved.
biblical Repertory and Princeton Review. — Index volume from 1825 to

1868. Phikdelphia (Peter Walker), 1871.
This contains also a Eetrospect of the history of the

Princeton Review, and an Index to Authors, with Bio-
graphical Notices.
Bihliotheca Sacra, — Index to the Bibliotheca Sacra, and American

Biblical Eepertory. 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.
BlacJcwoo^8 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 Sp For. Med. Rev. — The British and Foreign Medical Eeview

• . 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 Eeviewed. Part 2 an Index to the Extracts,

Criticisms, etc. London, 1804. Svo. pp. iii, 386.
A General Index to the British Critic, commencing with the

twenty-first and ending with the forty-second or con-

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eluding Yolume of the first series, in two parts. Fart 1

contains a List of all the Books Eeviewed. 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

Eeview, in two parts. Calcutta (Thos. J. Smith), 1873.

Svo.

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.
Companum 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.
* Con^egational Quarterly y 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.
JSdinburgh Beview. — General Index to the Edinburgh Review, from its

commencement in October, 1 802, 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.
y 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. Svo. 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.
Edinhurgh Med. and Surg. Journal. — The Edinburgh Medical and

Surgical Journal . . . volume twentieth, Index [to the

92 ( ENGLISH INDEXES.

j'l I *^- ^ first nineteen volumes]. Edinburgli (A. Constable & Co.),

] A A V ' ' In one alphabet, to which are added Index of ivarks

reviewed; and catalogue of Edinburgh Theses, from 1726
to 1823.
OentlematCB 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, con-
taining 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. Ixxx, 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 Gentle-

man's Magazine, from 1731 to 1818 inclusive, and an
Alphabetical Index thereto. London (J. Nichols & Son),
1821. 8vo. pp. viii, 226.

Mansard'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. Boy. 8vo.
pp. V, viii, 743. In several divisions.

JTarper^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

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been left blank, so that the Index can be continxicd by
any person for a large number of volumes to come,
pp. viiiy 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 Maga%%ne, — 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, j- Phye, Journal. — A General Index to the London
Medical and Physical Journal from Volume 1 to 40
inclusive, containing an analytical Table of their Con-
tents, 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 Heview. — General Index to the new series of the
Medico-Chirurgical Review, volume 1 to volume 20 inclu-
sive (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 charac-
terized, 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. l,pp. xi, 714; Vol. 2,
title, pp. 571.

94 ENGLISH INDEXES.

Monthly Review, — ^A contiiiaation of the (General Index to the Monthly
Eeview, 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 Bev. 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 commence-

ment 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 Yol. 2 containing an Alphabetical

Index. London (J. Porter), 1818. Yol. 1, pp. ix, 958 ;
Yol. 2, title, table 1 leaf, pp. 624.

Naturaliifs 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 Eich. P. Kodder. London, 1813. 8vo. pp. 26, in
double cols.

*New England Ststorical and Genealogical Register ^ vol. 1-15.

New JEnglander. — 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. Yol. 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 d8th and the opening of the 39th Congress,
and the close of the War of Secession. New York (Henry
J. Baymond & Co.), 1866.

*Niles's Weekly Register^ vol. 1-12, 1811-18.

North American Review, — General Index to the North American
Beview, 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.
Beviewed in Library Journal^ vol. iii. No. 9, p. 343.

ENGLISH INDEXES. 95

NoUb 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.

Pharmaeeutical Journal. — Index to fifteen volumes of the Pharma-
ceutical Journal. London (J. Churchill), 1857. 8vo.
half title, title, pp. 202, douhle 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 douhle cols.

Philosophical Magazine. — General Index to the Philosophical Magazine,
or AnnaLs of Chemistry, Mathematics, Astronomy, Natural
History and General Science, Volumes 1 to 1 1 ( 1 827-1 832).
London (E. 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 (E. & 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.
Quarterli^ 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 jReview. — 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.

96 £NGJJ«H IKDEXEC.

ilMrUfly Rftfciew. — Vol. 80. General Index to Tolizmes 61 to 79,
J>^jud<;jQ; mw. 8vo. pp. 326. In one alphabet.

■ V<;1. 100. Oenend Index to Volumes from 81 to 99 indiinTe.

London, 1868. 8vo. Utle, pp. 810. In one alphabet

Vol. 121. General Index to Volumes Irom 101 to 120

inclufedve. London, 1867, 8vo. title, pp. 298. In one
alphabet.

JttperUry of ArU. — An Analytical Ladex to the sixteen rolumes of
the finit series of the Ilepertorj of Arts and Ifannfactores,
being a condensed epitome of that work, accompanied bj
Alphabeti^;al Lists of the Authors and Patentees whose
Memoirs and Patents are inserted therein, and of all Patents
grunted for Inventirms from the year 1795 to April, 1802.
lo which is added a General Index to the first eight
volumes of the second series. London, 1806. 8to. pp. iy,
232, 43.

The first Inilex is in two alphabets, the second is in
one.

^HorihfurU MonifUi/, vol. I -10.

TitMt ^ThsJ. — An Index to ** The Times,'' and to the topics and events
of the year 1862. [By J. Oiddings.] London (W. Free-
man), 1863, 8vo. pp. vi, 87.

An Index to ** The Times," and to the topics and events of

the year 1863. By J. Oiddings. London (S. Palmer),
1H64. 8vo. pp. xxvii, 201.

JiuUx to ''Tlio Times" Newspaper, April, 1866, to June,

1878. London (H. Pulmor). 4to. 62 vols.
(!oinmcmc(ul in 1866 and continued in quarterly volumes.
Wettminuhr Hfiview, — A Uenoral Index to the Westminster Review,
from tliu first to the thirteenth volume inclusive, to which
is added an Index of Names. London (R. Howard), 1832.
8vo. half-title, title, pp. 216.

INDEXES TO THE STATUTES.

rilA>l7U.— The Alphabetical Index to the Statutes of the Realm
fhnu Magna Chartu to the end of the reign of Queen
Aune. London, IH24. folio.

The Chronologiiud Index to the Statutes of the Realm,
from Magna (^horta to the end of the reign of Queen
Auue, London, 1838, folio.

ENGLISH INDEXES. 97

1215-1761. — ^The Statutes at Large, from Magna Charta to 1761,
Yol. 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 Euffhead 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 Kaithby, 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 exclu-
sively 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
Biddell and John Warrington Kogers, 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 (Hansards), 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 (Hansajrds),
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

98 SKGLUH IXDEXEA.

cbnmologicftl list of Acts repealed. Compiled by order of
tlie Select Committee on the labnuy of the House of
Lords, 1867. Folio. Prefatory obserratioiis, pp. vii,
pp. 703, clxzi.

Part II. The Local and Personal Acts, Local Acts and
PriTate Acts in classes. 1867. Pp. ri, 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. 8yo. pp. xcv, 468.

In one alphabet, with a Tabic of Titles prefixed.
Chronological Table and Index of the Statutes to 1869.
8to. 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.

IndU. — 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 (Buttcrworths), 1870. 4to. pp. vi, 1 leaf, pp. 277.

Ireland, — Index to the Irish Statutes. By Andrew I^ewton On] ton.
2 vols, with Supplements.

Tear Booh, etc. — Rcpcrtorium Juridicum. An Index to all the cases
in the year-books, entries, reports and abridgments in
Law and Equity; beginning with Edward I. and con-
tinued down to this time. [By Kennett Freeman.]
London, 1742. 2 parts, folio.

INDEXES TO THE JOURNALS OF THE HOUSES OF LORDS

AND COMMONS.

JTouse 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.] FoUo, pp. xxiii, 779.

from 2l8t Jan., 1808, to 14th Nov., 1826.

[London]. Folio, pp. vii, 288.

General Index to the Journals of the House of Lords.
Vol. I-IO. 1609-1649. [London], 1836. FoUo, title,
pp. 679.

ENGLISH INDEXES. D9

Vol. 11-19. 1660-1714. [London], 1834. Folio,
title, pp. 880.

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.
Umie of Commons, — A GFeneral Loidex to the first seven yolumee 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
ErskineMay. [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, ujipaged.

VoL 35-45, 1774-1790. [By S. Dunn.] [London],
1796. FoHo, unpaged.

VoL 46-55, 1790-1800. [By S. Dunn.] [London],
1803. Folio, unpaged.

Vol. 56-75, 1801-1820. By Martin Charles Bumey.
[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.

JTouBs 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

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100 ENGLISH INDEXES.

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.

Mnue of Lords. — A General Index to the Sessional Papers, printed by
order of the House of Lords or presented by Special Com-
mand, from 22 Vict. (1859) to 33 & 34 Vict. (1870). 1872.
Folio, pp. XV, 368.

Indexes are published annually in continuation of this.

Souse of Commons, — Indexes to the Eeports 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 Com-
missioners, 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

ENGLISH INDEXES. 101

by command, 1852-53-1861. 8 April, 1862. Folio,
Pp. bdi, 1019.

JTouse of Commons, — General Index to the Bills, Eeports, 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. FoHo, title, pp. 775.

Charities, — Index to the Reports of the Commissioners for inquiring Con-
cerning Charities in England and Wales. London, 1840.
Folio, title, pp. 443.

Mistorieal MS8. — Fourth Report of the Royal Commission on His-
torical 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, h,

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 Com-
mission (Reports I. to Y.). London, 1878. Folio, pp.
viii, 101. Li 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 Chitfy. In four volumes. London, 1853. 8vo.
In double columns.

102 ENGLISH IKDBXES.

Hotuli Parliamentorum, — Index to the Rolls of Parliament, com-
prising the Petitions, Pleas and Proceedings of Parliament,
from Ann. 6 Edw. I. to Ann. 19 Hen. VI. (a.d. 1278-
A.n. 1503). Prepared and edited by order of a
Committee of the House of Lords, in part by the Bev.
John Strachej and the Eev. 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 Eegister House,
Edhiburgh, ic.dccc.lxxt. 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.

MISCELLAiraOTIS INDEXES.

Augmentation Office, — Index to Particulars for Grants in the Aug-
mentation Office, temp. Edward VI. folio, n.d. or place,
pp. 28.

Prirately printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps.

Carttdaries, — ^Index to Cartularies, since the Dissolution of Monasteries.
Typis Medio-Montanis, impressit G. Gilmour, 1839.
12mo.
Prirately printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps.

County VUitaticns, — 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 Cole-
ri3ge. London (Triibner & Co), 1859. 8vo. pp. viii, 103.

HeirS'Ot'Law, — Index to Heirs-at-Law, Next of Kin, Legatees,

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ENGLISH INDEXES. 103

MiBaing Friends, Encumbrances, and Creditors, or their
representatiTes in Cliancery suits, who have been ad-
vertised 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 Eobert
Chambers. Third edition. London (Eeeves & Turner), vU^'
1872. 8vo. t

The advertisements are only referred to by numbers, "r ,1*^*^

and further information must be obtained from the com- ^^^^

piler. It is therefore not a true Index, but only a means
for the obtaining of money by the compiler.

Sein-at-Law, — ^De Bemardy's Index Begister for Next-of-EIin, Heirs-at-
Law, Prize Captors, and of Unclaimed Property. 1 754-1 856.

India, — Index to Books and Papers on the Physical Geography,
1 Antiquities, and Statistics of India. By George Buist,

I LL.D. Bombay, 1852. 8vo. pp. 103.

In one alphabet. Chiefly consisting of references to
I Indian periodicals.

Irish Law, — A Digest and Index of all the Irish B-eported Cases in
Law and Equity, from the earliest period to the present
time, and also of the Beported Cases in Ecclesiastical and

Criminal Law By John Finlay, LL.D. Dublin

(J. Gumming), 1830. 8yo. pp. xix, 600.

Leases, — Index of Leases of Manors and Lands in England granted
since the Beformation, Annis 4 & 5 Edw. YI. [Edited by
by Sir Thomas PhiUipps.] 1832.

Manuscripts, — Guide to the Historian, the Biographer, the Antiquary,
the man of literary curiosity, and the collector of auto-
graphs towards the verification of Manuscripts, by refer-
ence 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 speci-
mens of their writing can be found.

Pedigrees. — Index to the Heralds' Yisitations in the British Museum.
1823. 12mo. pp. 52.

■ An Index to the Pedigrees and Arms contained in the

Heralds' Yisitations and other Genealogical Manuscripts

in the British Museum, by B. Sims. London (J. Bussell

Smith), 1849. Pp. vi, 330.

The names are arranged in alphabet under each county.

104 ENGLISH INDEXES.

Pedigrees, — An Index to the Pedigrees contained in the Printed Heralds'
Visitations, etc., etc. By George W. Marsliall, LL.M.,
of the Middle Temple. London (R. Hardwicke), 1866.
8vo. pp. 164.

An Index of the Pedigrees in Berry's County Genealo-
gies 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 alpha-
betical 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

ti w. Local Histories, the Heralds' Visitations, and in the more

^ M*^ **/•*»* ^* important Genealogical Collections. By Charles Bridger.

f^^ ^^K^[:.. '^ ^ London (J. RussoU Smith), 1867. 8to. pp. vi, 384.

^i« ' Contains separate Indexes to family names in 287 books,

i 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 CoUege. [By Wm. Fred. Poole.] New
York, 1848. Pp. 155. In one alphabet.

An Index to Periodical Literature. By Wm. Fred. Poole.

l^ew 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. Ixxix, 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.

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Places, — Index Yillaris, or an Exact Eegister, alphabetically digested,
of all the cities, market-towns, parishes, Tillages ... [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].
PoHo, pp. 670-772.

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 Town-
lands, the County, the Barony, Parish, Poor Law Unions
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 Valua-
tion in 1871 ; with separate Indices of the Parishes, Baro-
nies, Poor Law Unions (or Superintendent Registrars'
Districts), Poor Law Electoral Divisions, Dispensary (or
Registrars' ) Districts, Petty Sessions Districts, and Parlia-
mentary Boroughs of Ireland. Presented to both Houses
of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Dublin,
1877. Polio, pp. 799.

Hecords, — An Index to the Records, with Directions to the several
Places where they are to be found, and short explana-
tions of the different kinds of Rolls, Writs, etc. ; to
which is added A List of the Latin Sir-Kamcs, and iNames
of Places, as they are written in the old Records, explained
by the Modem Kames. 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 di£ferent 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

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106 ENGLISH INDEXES.

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.

Records, — 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 Mouses, — Easti 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 Chrono-
logical 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 Regbter 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 ia 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.

Cyclopaedia Bibliographica. ... By James Darling. Subjects :

Holy Scriptures. London (Darling), 1859. Roy. 8vo.
Contains an Index of Sermons arranged under the texts.

ENGLISH INDEXES. 107

Theology. — ^Theological Index. Eeferences to the Principal Works
in every department of Eeligious Literature, embracing
nearly 70,000 citations, alphabetically arranged under
2000 heads. By Howard Malcom, D.I)., 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. Svo.
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. Svo. pp. xiv, 88.

In one alphabet, with a chronological list appended.

INDEXES TO CATALOGUES.

BrUish Catalogue, — Index to the British Catalogue of Books published
during the years 1837 to 1857 inclusive. By Sampson
Low. 1868. 8vo.

pp. 292, XXX, and xlviii, in double columns, really com-
piled 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
I failure is a loss to literature, for it was very caref uUy

compiled.

London Catalogue of Boohe, — Classified Index, 1814 to 1846. London
(Hodgson), 1848. 8vo.

1816tol851. London (Hodgson), 1853. 8vo.

College of Surgeons, — Classified Index to the Catalogue of the Library
of the Royal College of Surgeons. London, 1 853. 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,

108 ENGLISH INDEXES.

Librarian. London (F. & J. Rivington), 1845. 8vo.
pp. xiiy 120.

Medn and Chir. Soc, — Index to the Catalogue of the Library of the
Koyal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, con-
taining 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 Lidex are now in the press.

New York State Library. — Subject - Index of the General Library.
Albany, 1872. 8vo. pp. xviii, 661.

Trin, Coll, Camh, — 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. Cam-
bridge, 1847. 8vo. pp. 68.

Manuscbipts.

Baker M88, — Index to the Baker M8S., by Four Members of the

Cambridge Antiquarian Society. 1848. 8vo.
Bodleian Idhrary, — 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

PAOK

Abbott (E.), Concordance to Pope 77

Abecedme, as a synonym of Index 10

Acrostic, as a motto for an Index 69

" Acnerdo Olvido," a supposed author 62

Adam (A.), Geographical Index 82

Adams (J.), Index Villaris 105

Adjectives, when to be used as catchwords .... 72

(Substantival), as headings 44

Agassiz, Bibliographia Zoologiee 32

_^_ blunder in 50

Agricultural (Royal) Society, Index to Journal ... 86

Aler (Paul), editor of the " Gradus ad Pamassum " . . 29

Alison's History of Europe, Index 78

All the Year Hound, Index 89

Allibone's Dictionary of Authors, alluded to , . 19, 25, 27, 63

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 Kegistor, Index 89

110 INDEX.

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 67

Architectural Societies of Yorkshire, etc., Index ... 88

Archeeologia, Indexes 87

Archaeological (British) Association, Index to the Journal . 83
Archeeological 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 Eesearches and

Journal 83

Assurance Magazine, Index 89

Astronomical (Royal) Society's Memoirs . . . . 34

Indexes to Memoirs and Monthly Notices . . 86

" Athenaeum " (The) 50

— ^^^ uselessness of the Indexes from their subdivisions . 57

want of a general Index 48

suggestion of an Index Society in 1877 ... 37

Athenaeum Library Catalogue, Index of Subjects ... 36

Athenaeus, blunder in the Index to Delechamp'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, M^moircs 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

INDEX. Ill

Barker (E. H.), Index to bis edition of Stephens's Thesanras . 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 • • 63

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

f Indexes to the 76

Biblical Eepertory and Princeton Review, Index . • . 90

Bibliographical Itesearch, 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 indcxless book 27

Biographic Modeme, blunder in 60

Biographic TJniTerselle, life of an imaginary person ... 60

Birch (W. De Gray), Fasti Monastici Aevi Saxonici . . 106
' Index to the Journal of the British Archseological

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

Blomcficld's History of JN'orfolk, Index iNominum ... 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)
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

112 INDEX.

Botanical Magazine, Indexes 90

Bowyer ("William), praise of one of his Indexes ... 25

** Boyle upon Bentley *' 16

BramweU (G.), Table of the Private Statutes .... 97

Brayley's Surrey, Indexes to 66

Bremond ( — de), Table des Memoires 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 /or Brigham Young 61

Brightwell (D. B.), Concordance to Tennyson ... 78
British and Foreign Medical Review, Index .... 90
British Archaeological Association, Index to the Journal . . 83
British Association Eeports . . . . . • . 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

-^— — Bules 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 un-
corrected in several editions 65

Brunet (G.) translates 'White Knights' as Le Chevalier

JBlanc .••.••... 52

Brussels Academy's Memoirs 34

Buckland (Dr.), said to 'be the author of a work '' sur les ponts

6t chauss6es " 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

Bumey (M. C), Index to the Journals of the House of Com-
mons . 99

INDEX. 1 13

Burton (Hill), " Book Hunter," allusion to the power in the

hands of an Indexer 16

History of Scotland, Index 79

Calcutta Eeyiew, 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 Archaeological 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

Cap grave' 8 Chronicle of England, blunder in the Index . . 49

Carlisle (Nicholas) Index to Archeeologia .... 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

Cams (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

Chad wick (J. N.), Index Nominum to Blomefield's Norfolk . 78
Chambers (E..), Index to Heirs-at-Law . . . .102

Channing, two Doctors of the name, how to be distinguished . 68

Charities, Index to the Commissioners' Reports . . . 101

8

114

INDEX.

Chatillon, compiler of tho " Gradus ad Paraassum"
Chemical Society's Journal . . . . .
Index .....

Chemistry, Bibliography of the History of

Chotham Society's Index

Chitty (E.), Index to Cases in Courts of Equity
' his grudge against Justice Best

Chorley (Josiah), Metrical Index to the Bible
Christian Observer, Index to, by Macaulay
Cicero, his joke about Pollex and Index

his use of the word Index

Cinthio's Novel turned into Nbvemler by Warburton

Clarke (Mrs. Cowden), Concordance to Shakspero .

Clarke's (Wm.) Roman, Saxon, and English Coins, Index to it

Classification v. the Alphabetical Arrangement

Clergyman and Dissenting Minister of the same Name

Cleveland (C. D.), Concordance to Milton

Cobbett*8 Woodlands quoted .....

Cohen, the former name of Sir Francis Palgravo

Coke (Lord Chief Justice), an inaccurate man

Coleman (J.), Index to Printed Pedigrees

Coleridge (H.), Glossarial Index ....

College of Surgeons, Index to tho Catalogue .

Commons (House of), Indexes to Reports, Bills, Papers, etc.

Indexes to Journals ....

Companion to the Almanac, Index

Conant (T. J.), Index to the American Encyclopedia

Concordances to the Bible, 28 ; first, in 1247, 28 ; first English

by Marbeck, 28 ; first English to New Testament
. list of

29

33

83

34

84

101

45

76

26

8

8

53

25,77

25

56

69

77

55

63

31

104

102

107

100, 101

99

91

79

Congregational Quarterly, Index .....
Congress Library, U.S., Index to old Catalogue

Connecticut Academy

Contractions, dangers in filling them out

Cooke (J.), The Preacher's Assistant ....

Copland's Dictionary of Practical Medicine

Corpus Christi Guild, York, incomplete Index to the Register

of

Cotton's (C.) Concordance

County and Local Histories, need of Indexes to them

County Visitations, Indexes to

Courts of Equity, etc.. Index to Cases ....

28
75-78
91
47
34
53
106
35

48

75

39

102

101

INDEX. 115

Cranwell (E.), Index to Books printed before 1600 in the

Library of Trinity College, Cambridge . • .108

Crestadoro (Dr.), bis Index to the British Catalogue of Books 36, 107
Croker's (Wilson) discovery of the blunders in the Memoires de

Louis XVIII 61

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 (Bey. 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.)y Indexes to the Botanical Magazine ... 90
Cushing (W.), Index to the North American Review • . 94

Cutter's Rules for Cataloguing 62, 70

Cyclopaedia (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 Cyclopajdia Bibliographica . . . . 36, 106

** De," French surnames not to be arranged under this prefix . 60, 71
De Bemardy's Index-Register for next-of-kin . . .103

Dedication of an Index 13

** Del," ** DeUa," 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

Do Quincey's specimen of a French Abb6'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 difPerent 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

116

INDEX.

Doran (Dr.) on "Boat's great mind " .
Dorus Basilicus, an imaginary author .

Douce (Francis)

Downame's (J.) Concordance ....

Downes' (T.) Index to Pennant's London

Draper (W. F.), Index to the Bibliotheca Sacra

Drayton, his use of the word Index

Dublin Medical Journal, Index

" Du," surnames to be arranged under this prefix

Dugdalo's (Sir W.) Visitation of York, Index

■ Antiquities of Warwickshire, use of the words Index

and Table in that book ....
Duncan (J.), Index to the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dunn (S,), Indexes to the Journals of the House of Commons

Eadie's Dictionary of the Bible, cross reference in

Edge worth's Essay on Irish Bulls, arranged under the head of

Zoology .......

Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Index

Edinburgh Review, Indexes

Edwards (J.), Index to Reports of the Deputy-Keeper

Records .......

Egerton MSS., Index to

Encyclopaedia (American), Index ....
Encyclopaedia Britannica, useless cross reference in
Index

of the

Metropolitana, Index

Engelmann's praiseworthy Bibliographies
Engineers, see Institution ; North of Eyigland.
England, Parliamentary History of. Index

Pictorial History of, Index

" Enriched with two lists," a supposed author
Erasmus, his use of Alphabetical Indexes
Errata, should they be Indexed ? .

, instances of malicious ....

Essayists, Indexes to the

Exchequer Records, Index to ... .

Fabriani (Ferdinand), his blunder in a name
Fasti Monastici Aevi Saxonici ....
Field (C. D.), Index to the Indian Statute Book .
Finlay (J.), Index of Irish Cases in Law and Equity

45
50
27
75
81
90
7
91
71
79

10
79
99

54

57
91
91

106
108
79
55
79
79
32

81
81
52
8
65
66
79
105

52
106

98
103

INDEX. 117

Flaxman (Dr. Eoger), payment for Parliamentary Indexes . 31
Index to the Jonmals of the House of Commons . 99

■ Johnson angry with him on account of the entry Mr.

John Milton in the Index to the Eamblers . . . 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 JoumaLs of the House of Commons . 99
Freeling (G. H.), Index to Numismatic Papers . . . 83

Freeman (K.), Bepertorium Juridicum 98

Fuller (Thomas), his praise of Indexes 12

■ his Index to the * Pisgah-sight of Palestine ' . . 12-13
Fumess (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 Tfords Index and

Table in that book 10

Giddings (J.), Indexes to Tlie Titnes 96

Ginddus, 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 " AthensBum " on an

Index Society . 38

Gough (H.), Index to Parker Society's Publications . . 85

Gradus ad Pamassum 29

in the British Museum Catalogue . . .29 (note)

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 Chan-
cellor of the University of Oxford . . . .107

118 INDEX.

* OrundnHfl ' 08 an author 61

Oruteri Theftaurus Inscriptionum, Index to the book by

Scaliger 20

Ouarini placed among EcclcHiaKtical writers on account of his

II Pastor Fido 67

Ourwood'n DeBpatchcB of the Duke of Wellington, Index . 82

Guy (I).), Index to Dr. Watts's Psalms 78

Guy's IIoKpital Reports, Index 84

Haidinger and Hauor, their names mixed up • . . . 50

HalPs (Sidney) General Atlas, Index ..... 82

Uallam's Constitutional History, good Index to . . . 46

Haller, as great a bibliographer as he was a physiologist . 31

Halliwell (J. 0.), Hand Book Index to Shakespeare . . 78

Hamilton (H. C), Index to the Pictorial History of England . 81
Hamst (Olpliar), pseud, for Ralph Thomas ... 48, 52

HansanVs Parliamentary Debates, Index .... 92
Hardy (Sir T. Duff us), remarks on the ** Pye-Book " . 11 (note)

Hare's Walks in London, Index 44

Hurleiau MSS., Index to 108

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Index .... 92
Harrison (Robert), ho proposes the formation of an Index

Society in the **Athena3um" 37

Harvard University 85

Hawkins's Plens 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 Now

Zealand Institute 85

Hennon (J.), Index to the Modico-Chirurgical Transactions . 86
Huuriuttu Muriu, not alluded to in Prynne's Index . .15 (note)

Heralds' Visitations, Indexes to 102, 103

Hericourt (Aclimet d*), Annuiuro des Soci6t68 Savantes . . 53

Heirs-at-Law, Indexes to 102-103

Hervey's (R. F.) Conconianco 75

Hesketh (Fleetwood) 61

Heskeths, their change of name 62

Hippocrates, deilication of the Index to his Aphorisms . . 13
Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Index to Trans-
actions 84

Historical CoUoctiouSi need of Indexes to these standard works 39

INDEX. 119

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

NebulflB 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 7-1 1

use by the Romans 8

naturalization of the word in English ... 8

introduced in the nominative case .... 8

the French word . . .... 1 1

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

V20

INDEX.

Index — Indexes of sentiments and opinions
■ special and subject Indexes .
Preliminary List of English Indexes

Index Expurgatorius not a tme Index

Index-learning, authors continually warning readers against it .
Index Society, sense in which its title should be under-
stood ........

23

28-36, 39

74-108

. 8, 74

12

account of the various attempts to found one

answer to the question, what can such a Society

do? ....

Indexers, power in their hands

■ no writers more read

- celebrated 20-21

proposed formation of a staff of

Indexing — compilation

■ arrangement

printing

Itules .

India, Index to Books and Papers on

said to bo conquered by Judas Maccabeus, in Cap

grave's Chronicle
Indian Statute Book, Index
Indical, wonl used by Fuller
Indice, the word used by Ben Jonson

the French word .

the Italian woitl ,

the Spiinish word .

Indices, objection taken to the use of this plural in English
Indicium, the original of the Frtneh Indice ,
Initials, careless use of ....
Inquisition (The), ingenious mode of outwitting
Institute of Actuaries, Index of Journal
Institution of Civil Engineers, Index to Proceedings
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Index to Proceedings
Inventory, as a synonym of Index .
Ireland, Index to the Commons* Journal of .
Index to the Townlands and Towns of

liish (Royal) Academy, Index to the Transactions
Irish Cases in Law and Equity^ Index .

Irish Statutes, Index

Italians sometimes place the surname before the Christian
namq

36-38, 70

38-40

15

19

24-26

37

41-55

56-66

66-70

71-73

103

49

98

12

8

8, 11

8, 11

11

9 (note)

11

64

66

89

84

84

11

99

105

86

103

98

61

INDEX. 121

J. C, ludicrous filling out of these initials . . . . 53, 70

Jttckson (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
JohDson (Dr.) advises Eichardson 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 Becords 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 *' Philo-
sophical 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

122 INDEX.

Letsome (S.), tho Preacher's Assistant . . . . .106
Lewis (Sir George Come wall), the supposed editor of Isaac

Disraeli's Works 53

Libraries (Public) in the United States, Special Eeport . . 42
Library Association of United Kingdom, Index to the Eeport

of the Conference of Librarians 39

Library Association (American), Eules 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

Littr6, 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 Pro-
ceedings 85

Logarithms, Account of early books on 34

London (George), his name often spelt London . , .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

London (C. J.), the Duke of Wellington mistakes his signature

for that of the Bishop of London . . . . . 49
Louis XVIIL, 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
Lytt^lton's (Lord) History of Henry II. has a long list of errata 66
Lytton (Lord), his numerous names 62

M' and M® 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

INDEX. 123

McMasters (Bev. S. Y.), Index to Hume's History of England 80

Macray (Rev. W. D.), Index to the Catalogue of AshmoleMSS. 108

Index to the Catalogue of Rawlinson MSS. . . 108

Madox's History of the Exchequer, Index to ... 80
Maitland (Bev. S. E.), 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)

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
Michers (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

124 INDEX.

Moore (Edward), Index to the Journals of the House of

Conunons 31, 99

More (Hannah), Macaulay's letter to her .... 26
Morgan (A.), Index to Proceedings of the Literary and Philo-
sophical Society of Liverpool . , . . . 85
Moreri, makes an author named Dorus Basilic us . . . 50
Morris's Catalogue of British Fossils 85

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

Kames, rules for the arrangement of foreign and English,

respectively 60, VI

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

Nebulae, Index of Books and Memoirs relating to . . . 85

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

" Notea and Queries " 46, 69

^—^-~ announcement in its pages of the projected forma-
tion of an Index Society in 1854 .... 36

INDKX. 125

'* Notes and Queries," Indexes 95

Noy's (Attorney-General) reference to Prynne's Index . . 14

Numerals to be used for number of Tolumcs . . . . 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 " . 87

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 Cyclopeedia, vague cross references in the ... 54

Pepys's Diary, marks of repetition in the Index ... 68

126

INDEX.

Periodicals, Indexes of 89-96, 104

Perkins, (F. B.), on Book Indexes

Peru, Present State of

Pharmaceutical Journal, Indexes .....
Pharmaceutical (American) Association, Index to Proceedings
Philippart (Sir John), Index to Hansard's Parliamentary

Debates ....
Phillipps (^Sir Thomas), Indexes .
Philosophical Magazine
Indexes

Philosophical Transactions, Indexes
laughed at by Dr. King

42
51
95
83

92
102-103
34

1507

words

Pickering (Danby), Index to the Statutes at Large .
Picus of Mirandula, an edition of his works, published in

has a long list of errata ....
Piddington (H.), Index to Geological Papers .
Pilpay*8 Fables quoted as the fables of the damned Calilve
Pineda (Juan de), Index to his "Monarchia Ecclesiastica "

Places, Indexes of

Plateau (J.), Bibliographic Analytique des principaux pheno

m^nes subjectifs de la Vision . . •

Plays, Prynne's attack upon

Plinie's Naturall Historic of the World, use of the

Index and Table in that book
Plutarch's Lives, by North, the Index called a Table
* Pollex ' contrasted with * Index ' .
Polybiblon : Eevuo Bibliographique TJniverselle
Poole's (W. F.) Index of Periodical Literature

the projected third edition

his remarks on the abuse of cross references

on the defects of classification .

Pope (A.), Concordance to the Works of
Population Tables, 1871, Index ....

Pi-actitioner, Index

Prefixes in surnames, rules regarding them
Prendergast (G. L.), Concordance to the Iliad.
Concordance to Milton ....

Pridden (Rev. J.), Index to the Rolls of Parliament
Prinsep (J.), Table of Indian Coal

Printing of an Index

of the headings

Prynne's ''Histrio-Mastix," specimens from the Index

95
87
17
97

65
83
51
13
105

34
14

10
10
8
34
35, 104
35
54
56
77
105
95
60, 71
76
77
102
83
66
73
14-15

INDEX. 127

Prynno, a martyr to his conscientiousness in making an Index 14

Psalms, Concordances to the 76

PuUen (P.), Index to Joanna Southcott's Writings . . 81

** Pye" as a synonym of Index 11 (note)

" Pye-Book," derivation of the word .... 11 (note)

" Quarterly Journal of Science," Index . . . .16,95

Quarterly Review, Indexes 95-96

Querard (J. M.), Thomas's notice of his life .... 48, 52
Quotations to he Indexed 73

Raithhy (J.), Index to the Statutes at Large .... 97

Ramhler, Index to 64

EawHnson MSS., Index 108

EawHnson'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

<

128

INDEX.

Ruffhead (Owen), Index to the Statutes at Large .
Eules for obtaining Uniformity in the Indexes of Books .
Euskin's Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds urranged
under the head of Agriculture ....

St. to be arranged in the alphabet as Saint
Saints to be arranged under their proper names
Salisbury (Bishop of), mistaken for a Mr. John Sarum .
Scaliger, his Index to Gruter's ** Thesaurus Inscriptionum "
Scarron, his malicious erratum .....
Schmidt (A.), Shakespeare Lexicon ....

Scientific Papers, Catalogue of

Scobell's ' Acts and Ordinances,' use of the words Index and

Table in that Book

Scotland, Index to the Acts of Parliament

— — Index to the Acts of the Free Church

Index to Charters granted by Sovereigns of

Scribner's Monthly, Index

Scudder (H. E.), Index to the Atlantic Monthly

Scudery (Mdlle. de), her notice of a dedicated Index

Seal (Great), Treatise on, arranged under the head of Zoology

Seignelay-Colbert de Castle Hill, Bishop of Ehodez

Seneca, his indication of the contents of his books .

his use of the word Index

97
71-73

57

72
72
65
20
66
77
104

10

102

102

105

96

90

18

57

51

7

8

Sermons, Indexes to 106

Shaftesbury (Earl of), misprint in his letter to "The Times " 53 (note)
Shakespeare, his use of the word Index ..... 9

Concordances to, 25, 77-78

Shaw (G.) and K. P. Nodder, Indexes to Naturalists' Mis-
cellany

Shcnstone's *' Schoolmistress," ludicrous table of contents
Silliman's American Journal, Indexes ....
Simms (C. S.), Index to the ** Remains" published by the

Chetham Society

Sims (R), Index to Pedigrees and Arms

Skewes (Rev. H.), Index to Wesley's Journals

Sloane (Sir Hans) laughed at by Dr. King

Societies, Indexes to Publications of ... .

Society of Antiquaries, Indexes to ArchaBologia

Society of Arts, Indexes to Transactions and Journals

Solly (Edward), he proposes the formation of an Index Society

94
22-23
89

84
103
82
17
83
87
88
37

on ** Best's great mind "

. 45, 46

INDEX.

129

Southcott's (Joanna) Writings, Indexes . . . . 81

Southey's '*D'"ctor," 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

Tahle in that book 11

Speed (S.) reason for not adding an Index to one of Howell's

works .

SpiUer (B.), Index to Public Statutes ....
Stamp (G.), Index to the Statute Law ....
Standards Commission, Index to Reports

Star Catalogues, Chronology of

Statistical Society, Indexes to the Journal
(Manchester), Index to Transactions .

13
97
98

101
34
88
85
96-98
24
51
30
31
80

102
81

7,11
59
26, 88
22
26
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

Statutes, Indexes to the

Steele's (Sir Richard) Indexes

Stenography, article on, in Kees's Cyclopaedia

Stephen (Sir J. Eitzjames), on a complete digest of the Law

on the early digesters of the Law .

Stone's Justice's Manual, Index

Strachey (Rev. J.), Index to the Rolls of Parliament

Strype's (J.) Works, Index

Summary, as a synonym of Index ....

Surname, What is a ? .

Sussex Archaeological Collections, Index

Swift's analytical table to his * Tale of a Tub '

account of the condition of Edmund Curll

bad index to his Works, edited by Scott .

Table, as a sy:\onym 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 wonl in the sense of an Index . . 11

the French wonl 11

Tabrum (E. J.), Index to Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the

Records 106

I

Tabula, use of the word in English books .... 7

Tatler, Index to the 22, 24

9

130 INDEX.

Teddor (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

Terfor tertius, as an affix to a name 64

Theology, Indexes to 107

Theses and Inaugural Dissertations 82

Thevenot's Travels 50

Thomas (Ralph), Notice of Querard, 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

TJpham (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

INDBX. 131

"Walpole's Letters, bad index to ' . 46

"Walton (Bp.) imagines an author named Camns . . . 50

"Warbnrton's (Bishop) blunder in filling out contractions . 63

"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 V8

Watts (H.), Index to Gmelin's Handbook of CJhemistry . . 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 " Athenajum " 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)

Wynford (Lord), previously Sir W. D. Best .... 45

Xencathle, a disguised form of Newcastle . . . . 61

132 INDEX.

Year Books, etc., Index to 98

Ycowell (J.), Indexes to the Notes and Queries ... 95
Young (Brigham), called Brigliam lo joune in the Biographie

Modeme ......... 61

Young (T.), Lectures on Natural Philosophy . . ,104

Zoological Record 83

Zoological Society, Indexes to Proceedings . . . . 83

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