How to Make an Index

There is still a great want for indexes of history and biography, and it is probable that if the objects of the Index Society had been confined to these it might have been more successful. In November, 1878, Mr. Edward Solly wrote a letter to me in which he sketched out a very important scheme for a biographical index which would be of the greatest value. He wrote:

"I do not think the Index Society can take up any subject of greater utility, or one more likely to be of service to the general public as well as students, than an Index of Biographies. An entire index of all known lives would obviously be much too large an undertaking; we can only attempt a part of the subject. Probably in the first instance we should do well to try and form an index of British lives; such a work would I think, if tolerably complete, certainly fill at least ten large octavo volumes.

"The work might be considerably diminished in bulk if we were to determine to leave out all names now to be found in certain standard works such as Chalmers' Biographical Dictionary. It is evident, however, that to do this would greatly diminish the value of our index, and would cause us to put aside hundreds of memoranda which it is most important to index, I mean references to more recent notes, memoirs, letters and anecdotes, which are to be met with in journals and lives, and which often throw new and important light on older published Biographies.

"It is on account of these difficulties that I would propose that we endeavour to undertake an index of Biographical references of persons who have died in a certain given period—say 1800-1825, or 1800-1850, or perhaps 1750-1800.

"With a view to this I should like to see lists made of all Biographical matters in such books as the Gentleman's Magazine, European Magazine, Monthly Magazine, Anti-Jacobin Magazine, etc. Also such books as the Annual Necrology, Public Characters, Living Authors, etc., and thirdly of references to Biographical Memoranda dispersed throughout Lives and Memoirs such as 'Kilvert's Memoirs,' I mean books in which no one from the title would expect to find such information."

It will be seen that such an index as is here sketched would be an inestimable help to the student. It would form a useful supplement to the Dictionary of National Biography, for it must be remembered that such an index would contain a majority of references to men and women whose claims to distinction or notoriety do not attain to the standard set up by the promoters of that grand work. Possibly, if such an index was undertaken by co-operation as an object in itself, and not as one among other subjects, it might be compiled in one alphabet instead of in periods, which would make it much more valuable for reference. Naturally the great advantage of periods is that, if left incomplete, what is published (if it covers a period) will always be of value, while a portion of the alphabet would be almost worthless.

The Rev. John E. B. Mayor has collected a great mass of biographical references which are of much value. In an interesting communication on his indexes he suggests the formation of a British Biographical Society which might be called the Antony Wood Society. [26]

There is one project of the Index Society which has never been undertaken, but which is still wanted as much as ever—viz. a general or universal index. Some think this to be an impossibility, and that to attempt its preparation is a waste of time. Those who hold this opinion have not sufficient faith in the simplicity and usefulness of the alphabet. Every one has notes and references of some kind, which are useless if kept unarranged, but, if sorted into alphabetical order, become valuable.

The object of the general index is just this, that anything, however disconnected, can be placed there, and much that would otherwise be lost will there find a resting-place. Always growing and never pretending to be complete, the index will be useful to all, and its consulters will be sure to find something worth their trouble, if not all they may require.

Some attempts have been made at compiling a general index, for what are Poole's Index, Index of Essays, Q.P. Indexes, Hetherington's Index to the Periodicals of the World, and Indexes to "The Times," but contributions towards a universal index? Such a work as is here proposed can scarcely be carried out unless Government aid is extended to it; but surely the small amount of money that need be expended upon a sort of general inquiry office would be well laid out!

A sort of skeleton index of universal information might be drawn up, and this could be added to gradually, partly by specialised effort and partly by the reception of any stray references of interest sent by those who recognise that their notes would find a home. This could be kept in a clearing-house and reference-room.

When the index had become of some importance, and was recognised as a help to the inquirer, it could be printed. When published, it might be interleaved, so that additions might be made which could be sent to the office. Gradually the index would grow into a work of very considerable importance.

One of the chief objections to index catalogues of public libraries is that the same work is practically repeated by each library, while a general index would be useful to all. Surely some arrangement might be made by which the various libraries would contribute funds to the central office and receive the indexes, which would serve their purpose as well as those of all the other libraries!

Having said so much, it seems necessary to explain rather more fully what the general index should contain and what should be omitted. To explain it in a few words, it should be a sort of encyclopædia of references rather than of direct information; but it should contain more headings than any existing encyclopædia. Every one must have felt the want of some book which would give information or references on a large number of subjects that are constantly topics of ordinary conversation, but are consistently ignored in the ordinary books of reference. On the other hand, mere technical references should be omitted, because these details would overload the work, and because specialists have their own sources of information. It is the general information which every one is supposed to possess that is so difficult to obtain.

In the first instance the groundwork of the index should be laid down with care by an expert. All special bibliographies should be entered under their subjects, both those published separately and those included in other books. Various societies have published indexes. There are those among the publications of the Index Society and many others. The Bibliographical Society has published indexes to the German periodical Serapeum and to Dibdin's edition of Ames' and Herbert's Typographical Antiquities; but very few persons know of these books.

The authorities of the British Museum have given students an immense help by gathering separate indexes and bibliographies on various subjects into the dwarf bookcases in the Reading-room. Here are a large number of aids to knowledge of which the general reader would have known nothing if they had not so obligingly been brought under his notice. [27]

A large number of books contain special information of importance on various subjects, the existence of which would never be guessed from the titles. Attempts at general indexes of special subjects have been published, such as F. S. Thomas's Historical Notes (1509-1714), and the main points of these should be included in the proposed General Index.

When a good groundwork has been made, the index could be printed; and doubtless, if this printed index was widely circulated, a large number of helpers would speedily be found. Many persons know of places where full information on some subject may be found, and would be glad to place their collections where they would be helpful to others.

There can surely be no doubt that a general inquiry office with such an ever-growing index and a library of printed indexes would be a boon not only to the student, but to the general public. Every day the great truth that keys to knowledge are more and more required is generally appreciated.

As a groundwork for such a general index, selection could be made from the books already mentioned; and from the index volumes of Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica (1824), which, with all its faults, is one of the most valuable helps to bibliography, and the subject index of James Darling's Cyclopædia Bibliographica (1854-1859), many useful references could be obtained. These two books are gradually getting out of date, but information may be obtained from their pages which is not easily to be obtained elsewhere.

In closing this subject, I feel that too great honour cannot be done to the memory of W. F. Poole, who placed the world under great obligations by the production of his Index of Periodical Literature. As far back as 1848, when a student at Yale College, he published an Index to Subjects treated in the Reviews and other Periodicals (New York). In 1853 an improved edition was published as the Index to Periodical Literature. When Mr. Poole attended the Library Conference at London in 1877 he expressed publicly his pleasure in seeing on the shelves of the British Museum Library a copy of his first index, which he had not seen for some years elsewhere. He realised that the work, if it were to be continued, was too great an undertaking for one man, and he succeeded in arranging for a co-operative index, which is continued now in several supplements under the able superintendence of Mr. William I. Fletcher.

An Index to the "Times" was started by J. Giddings in 1862-63, but not continued. Later, Mr. S. Palmer commenced a Quarterly Index, which has been continued forward to the present time, and also backward. In 1899 Bailey's Annual Index to the "Times" came into being.

The indexing of a paper such as the Times is a very arduous and difficult undertaking. In consequence, these indexes cannot be considered as models of what such works should be.

Mr. Corrie Leonard Thompson criticises in Notes and Queries (7th S., x. 345) the arrangement of the headings of Palmer's Index to the "Times" severely, but not unfairly. He writes:

"The following are instances of the absurdities which appear in the volume just issued (Oct.-Dec. 1842), and will serve to illustrate the system which has been adopted throughout the index:

"In November, 1842, a floating chapel on the Severn was loosed from its moorings; this occurrence appears in the index under the heading, 'Disgraceful Act.' Again, referring to the dry weather that was prevailing at the time, the entry is, 'Present Dry Season.' Other references to the same subject are, however, to be found under the heading 'Weather,' which of course is correct.

"A more marked example of carelessness or ignorance of the art of indexing, or both, is that of two women who were committed to Ruthin prison—one, Amelia Home for firing a pistol at a man named Roberts; the other, Jane Williams, for stealing a mare belonging to Robert Owen. This occurrence is entered under the letter R—'Rather uncommon for Females.' The chance of any one looking under Rather for an occurrence of this kind must be infinitesimal, to say the least of it; and so on. A storm at Saone-et-Loire is indexed under 'Fatal Storm,' and an account of the trial of a small boy for stealing a twopenny pie will be found under 'Atrocious Criminal.' A certain Jane Thomas was so overjoyed at seeing her mother waiting at the stage-door of a theatre that she died in her arms. The employment of capitals is most remarkable, as is also the arrangement of the words, 'Death of Jane Thomas in her Mother's Arms in Holborn at Joy in Seeing her parent at the Stage Door to Receive her.'

"The errors pointed out in these examples, omitting the last instance, as well as the additional fault of indexing under adjectives which have no distinctive feature in them to guide the searcher, evidently arise from the fact that the simple heading of the newspaper article has been taken, without any attempt being made to discover the actual contents of such article."

As already stated on a previous page, it is most important to index the articles in periodicals afresh, and not always to follow the heading of the original. This is of course more particularly the case in respect to newspapers, where the headings are drawn up to catch the reader's eye. The same rule may be insisted on in respect to all indexing, and this is so important that the restatement of it may well conclude this little volume.

In making a general index of several volumes, always index the volumes afresh, and do not be contented with using what has been done before. It is always wiser to put 'new wine into new bottles.'

INDEX.

Baronius, noble index to his Annales Ecclesiastici, 89.

Bartlett (John), concordance to Shakespeare, 120.

Bayle, his opinion on the need of judgment in the compilation of an index, 132.

Baynes (John), his terrible curse, 82.

Bellenden (Mary) maligned in an index, 81.

Bentham's Works, Good index to, by J. H. Burton, 102.

Bentley's Dissertation on the Epistle of Phalaris, attack of the "Wits" upon this book and Dr. King's Index, 36.

Best (Mr. Justice), his great mind, 157.

Bible, Concordances to the, 119.

"Bibliothecar. Chetham.," his contribution to a general index in Notes and Queries, 207.

Biglow Papers, Humorous index to, 33.

Biographical (British) Society suggested by the Rev. John E. B. Mayor, 214.

Biography, Dictionary of National, plan of arranging peers under their surnames instead of their titles, 146.

Birdwood's (Sir George) note "On the Indexing of the Names of Eastern People," 164.

Blackburn (Charles F.), Hints on Catalogue Titles quoted, 183.

"Book Prices Current," General index to, 113.

Boswell's Life of Johnson, Boswell's own index, 109.
—— Dr. Birkbeck Hill's admirable index to his edition, 105.

Boyle (Hon. Charles), his attack upon Bentley, 36.
—— offended Atterbury, 40.

"Boyle upon Bentley," 36.

Boyle's (Hon. Robert) Considerations touching Natural Philosophy, table of contents called an index, 13.

British Association Reports, index in six alphabets, 70.

British Museum, collection of indexes in the Reading-room a great boon, 218.
—— proposed subject index to the catalogue of the library, 126.

Bromley's (William) Travels, ill-natured index made to them by Dr. King, 44;
his note on the attack made upon him, 46;
his Jacobite leanings, 52;
his portrait at Oxford, 52.

Bruce's (John) edition of Historie of Edward IV., absurd filling up of initials J. C., 78.

Brunet (G.) translates White Knight as Le Chevalier Blanc, 77.

Buckland (Dr.) said to be the author of a work Sur les Ponts et Chaussées, 77.

Burton (Hill), Book-Hunter, allusion to the power in the hands of an indexer, 24.
—— his reference to Prynne's Histrio-Mastix, 20.
—— his index to Bentham's Works, 102.

Calendar as a synonym of index, 7.

Camden Society's publications, Proposed index to, 112.

Campbell (Lady Charlotte) maligned in an index, 81.

Campbell (Lord) proposed punishment for the publication of an indexless book, 82.
—— his confession, 83.

Campkin (Henry), plea for index-makers, 92.

Canadian Journal, bad index, 56.

Capgrave's Chronicle of England, blunder in the index, 66.

Cards or separate slips used for indexes, 182.

Carlyle (Thomas), he denounces the putters-forth of indexless books, 82, 91.
—— his reference to Prynne's Histrio-Mastix, 15.
—— his remarks on the want of indexes to the standard historical collections, 91.

Catalogue as a synonym of index, 7.

Catalogues, Indexes to, 123.
—— of libraries, Indexes to, 123.

Chitty (E.), his supposed grudge against Justice Best, 157.

Christian Observer, Index to, by Macaulay, 91.

Cicero, his use of the word "index," 6, 8.

Clark's (Perceval) index to Trevelyan's Life of Macaulay, 95.

Clarke (Mrs. Cowden), her Concordance to Shakespeare, 120.

Clarke (William) quoted, 118.

Classification within the alphabet, Evils of, 58, 67.

Cobbett's Woodlands quoted, 72.

Coke (Lord Chief Justice) an inaccurate man, 101.

Commonplace books, Indexes to, 174.

Concordances to the Bible, 119.

Concordances to Shakespeare, 120.

Contractions, dangers in filling them out, 78.

Corpus Christi Guild, York, Incomplete index to The Register of, 122.

Crestadoro's Index to the Manchester Free Library Catalogue, 125.

Cross (J. Ashton), proposal for a universal index, 208, 209.

Cross references not usually popular, 158.
—— curiosities of, 72.
—— want of, in indexes, 70.

Cunningham (Mr.) paid £500 for indexing, 97.

Curll's authors, instructions how to find them, 53.

Curtis (F. A.) on the best method of constructing an index, 195.

Cutter's rule as to the arrangement of peers under their surnames, 146.

Cutting up of entries when written on pages of paper, 182.

"Da," surnames not to be arranged under this prefix, 141.

"Dal" surnames to be arranged under this prefix, 141.

Darling's (James) Cyclopædia Bibliographica, Index, 220.

Dashes in printing representing repetition to be of uniform length, 161, 204;
instances of incorrect use of them, 80, 138.

"De," French surnames not to be arranged under this prefix, 141;
English surnames to be arranged under this prefix, 142.

De Quincey on Bentley, 39.

"Del," "Della," surnames to be arranged under these prefixes, 141.

"Des," surnames to be arranged under this prefix, 141.

Dictionary catalogue, its history, 129.
—— Mr. Fortescue's objections to it, 130.

Dictionary makers really indexers, 120.

Disraeli's (Isaac) Literary Miscellanies quoted, 1.

Drayton (M.), his use of the word "index," 11.

"Du," surnames to be arranged under this prefix, 141.

Dugdale's Warwickshire, the words "index" and "table" both used, 9.

Dumas (Alexandre) père et fils, confused with Alexandre père et fils, harmonium-makers, 24.

Eadie's Dictionary of the Bible, Cross reference in, 72.

Electricity, Indexes of, 123.

Ellis's Original Letters quoted, 19.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Cross references in, 72, 74.

Envelopes as safe receptacles for index slips, 182, 189.

Erasmus made alphabetical indexes, 7.

Fétis Musical Library, blunder in the index to the catalogue, 24.

Flaxman (Dr. Roger) paid £3000 for indexing, 97.

Fleming (Abraham), his use of the word "index," 8.

Fletcher (William I.), his valuable additions to index literature, 221.

Ford's Handbook of Spain, Amusing cross reference in, 76.

Forster (Rev. —) paid £3000 for indexing, 97.

Fortescue (G. K.) on the proposed subject index to the British Museum library catalogue, 126.
—— on five-yearly indexes to the British Museum catalogue, 128.

Freeman's opinion that foreign names should be Englished, 144.

Freemason, bad index quoted, 54.

Fuller (Thomas) quoted, 3, 172.

Gay's Trivia, humorous index, 32.

Gentleman's Magazine, badness of the index of names, 153.

Gerarde's Herbal, by Johnson, use of the words "index" and "table" in that book, 9.

Giddings (J.), index to The Times, 221.

Glanville's (Joseph) Vanity of Dogmatizing quoted, 2.

Gough (H.), index to Parker Society's publications, 112.

Greenhill (Dr.) on the formation of an Index Society, 207.

Gruter's Thesaurus Inscriptionum, index to the book by Scaliger, 88.

Gum an unsatisfactory material for laying down slips, 189.

Hardy (Sir T. Duffus), remarks on the "Pye-book," 7.

Hare's Walks in London, Index to, 152.

Harley (Robert, Earl of Oxford), the index to Bromley's Travels attributed to him, 46, 48.

Harrison (Robert) proposes the formation of an Index Society in The Athenæum, 209.

Hawkins's Pleas of the Crown, Odd cross references in, 75.

Headings, alphabetical arrangement of, 137.
—— instances of bad, 54.
—— printing of, 160.

Henrietta Maria offended with Prynne's Histrio-Mastix, 18.

Heskeths, their change of name, 151.

Hetherington's (Miss) opinions on the indexing of periodicals, 59;
specimens of absurd references quoted by her, 60;
on the qualifications of an indexer, 114.

Hill's (Dr. Birkbeck) admirable indexes, 105-108.

Historical collections, need of indexes to these standard works, 91.

Homer, poetical index to Pope's translation of the Iliad, 21.

House of Commons' Journals, sums paid for the indexes, 97.

Hume (David), index to his Essays, 23;
he was glad to be saved from the drudgery of making one, 23.

Hunt (Leigh), his opinion on index-making, 26.
—— supposed author of the joke on Best's great mind, 157.

Hutchins's Dorset, Separate indexes to, 69.

Hyphen, Use of, in compound names, 149.

I and J to be kept distinct, 66, 135.

Im Thurn, place of this name in the alphabet, 143.

Index, alphabetical order not at first considered essential, 6;
classification to be abjured in an alphabetical index, 58, 67;
evils of dividing an index into several alphabets, 69;
General or Universal Index (chap. viii.), 206, 223;
history of the word, 7;
use by the Romans, 6;
naturalisation of the word in English, 8;
introduced into English in the nominative case, 10;
How to Set About the Index (chap. vii.), 172-205;
long struggle with the word "table," 7;
soul of a book, Title-page;
one index to each book, 134;
two chief causes of the badness of indexes, 64;
varied kinds of, 5.

Index-learning ridiculed, 2.

Index Society, its formation, 210;
published index to Trevelyan's Life of Macaulay, 95;
amalgamation with the Index Library, 210.

Indexer, chief characteristics of a good indexer, 116;
difference of opinion as to whether the indexer is "born, not made," "not born, but made," or "born and made," 114;
power in his hands, 93;
The Bad Indexer (chap. iii.), 53-84;
The Good Indexer (chap. iv.), 85-117.

Indexes, Amusing and Satirical Indexes (chap. ii.), 25-52;
Different Classes of Indexes (chap. v.), 118-131;
General Rules for Alphabetical Indexes (chap. vi.), 132-171;
list of indexes, 218;
official indexes, 96;
to great authors proposed, 111;
veneration due to the inventor of indexes, 1.

India said in the index to Capgrave's Chronicle to be conquered by Judas Maccabeus, 66.

Indical, word used by Fuller, 4.

Indice, word used by Ben Jonson, 10.
—— French word, 10.
—— Italian word, 10.

Indices, objections to the use of this plural in English, 11.

Indicium, the original of the French indice, 10.

Initials, Careless use of, 161.

Inventory as a synonym of index, 7.

J.C., absurd filling out of these initials, 78.

Jaggard's (William) index to Book Prices Current, 113.

Jeake's Arithmetick Surveighed and Reviewed, Index to, 89.

Jevons (Professor Stanley), his suggestion of an Index Society, 208.
—— his Principles of Science quoted, 208.

Jewel's Apology by Isaacson, bad index, 56.

Jews generally wore red hats in Italy, but not at Leghorn, 51.

Johnson (Dr.), his division of necessary knowledge, 5.
—— advises Richardson to add an index to his novels, 21.

Jones (Thomas), his contribution to a general index in Notes and Queries, 207.

Jonson (Ben), his use of the word "indice," 10.

King (Dr. William), the inventor of satirical indexes, 35.
—— his attack upon Bentley in the index to "Boyle upon Bentley," 36.

King (Dr. William), his parody of Lister's Journey to Paris, 42.
—— his attack upon Sir Hans Sloane and the Philosophical Transactions", 42.
—— satirical index to Bromley's Travels, 44.

Knowledge, what is true, 1.

"La," surnames to be arranged under this prefix, 141.

Lamoignon (M. de), his library, indexed by Baillet, 206.

Lawyers good indexers, 98.

"Le," surnames to be arranged under this prefix, 141.

Library Association, Index to Reports, 113.

Lister's Journey to Paris parodied by Dr. King, 42.

Littré, his derivation of indice, 10.

London (George), his name often spelt Loudon, 67.

Longman's Magazine, bad index, 63.

Loudon (C. J.), the Duke of Wellington mistakes his signature for that of the Bishop of London, 67.

Lowell's Biglow Papers, humorous index, 33.

"M'" and "Mc" to be arranged as if written "Mac," 145.

Macaulay (Lord) an indexer, 91.
—— indexers treated with contempt by him, 92.
—— his opinion on the index to his History, 93.
—— objection to the indexing of his History by a Tory, 93.
—— his Englishing of foreign names approved by Freeman, 144.
—— on Bentley's foibles, 38.

Maine (Duc de), Duc of Maine, Duke de Maine, or Duke of Maine, 144.

Malcolm (E. H.) quoted, 193.

Markland (J. H.), remarks on indexing, 82.

Mayor's (Rev. John E. B.) collection of biographical references, 214.

Michel's (Dan) Ayenbite of Inwyt, table of contents, 6.

Minsheu, his use of the word "index," 9.

Montaigne's Essays, index to Florio's translation, 12.

Moore (Edward) paid £6400 for indexing, 97.

More (Hannah), Macaulay's letter to her, 91.

Morley (John) protests against indexless books, 84.

Morris (William) on an absurd cross reference, 72.

Names, authors arranged under their Christian names, 89;
compound names, 149;
proper names with prefixes, 145;
rule for the arrangement of compound names, 149;
rules for the arrangement of foreign and English respectively, 141, 142.

North's Lives of the Norths, index to Jessopp's edition, 179.

Norton (Thomas), Remembrancer of London, an indexer, 85.

Notes and Queries, announcement in its pages of the projected formation of an Index Society in 1854, 207.
—— indexes highly appreciated, 112.

Noy (Attorney-General) prosecutes Prynne, 15

Numerals, Use of, for series of volumes, 159.

Oldys (William) on the need of indexes, 86.

Oriental names, Rules for indexing, 163;
Sir George Birdwood's notes on the names of Eastern people, 164.

Oxford (Robert Harley, Earl of) reported to be author of the index to Bromley's Travels, 46, 48.

Page, when a division of a, should be marked, 159.

Paget (Sir James) pleased to make an index, 23.

Paper, saving of, an unwise economy, 176, 187.

Parr (Dr.), note on the index to Bromley's Travels, 47.

Paste the only material for laying down slips, 189.

Peacock (Edward), detection of blunders in Oxford reprint of Whitelock's Memorials, 181.

Peers to be arranged under their titles, 145.

Penny Cyclopædia, vague cross references in, 73.

Periodicals, transactions, etc., Indexing of, 121;
usually badly indexed, 59.

Perkins (F. B.), plan of arranging slips, 185.

Philosophical Transactions laughed at by Dr. King, 42.

Pineda (Juan de), index to his Monarchia Ecclesiastica, 89.

Plays, Prynne's attack upon, 16.

Plinie's Natural Historie, by Holland, Use of the word "index" in, 10.

Plutarch's Lives, by North, the index called a table, 8.

Poole's (W. F.) Index to Periodical Literature quoted, 59;
its great value, 220;
new edition by co-operation, 221;
his remarks on cross references, 71.

Printing of headings, 160;
special type, 160.

Prynne, Histrio-Mastix, specimens from the index, 14.
—— a martyr to his conscientiousness in making an index, 15.

Puritans, Prynne's praise of, 17.

"Pye" as a synonym of index, 7 (note).

"Pye-book," derivation, 7 (note).

Ranke's History of England, issue of revised index by the Clarendon Press, 113.

Rawlinson (Dr.) on the index to Bromley's Travels, 45.

Register as a synonym of index, 7, 8.

Remembrancia, Index to, quoted, 85.

Repetition, Marks of, in an index, 161, 204;
instances of incorrect use of them, 80, 138.

Richardson (S.), index to his three novels, 22.
—— a practised indexer, 22.

Royal Society attacked by Dr. King, 42.

Rules for Alphabetical Indexes (chap. vi.), 132-171.

Rules for cataloguing referred to, 133.

Ruskin's Fors Clavigera, Index to, 103.

Russell (Constance, Lady) points out confusions in indexes, 80.

"St." to be arranged in the alphabet as "Saint," 145.

Saints to be arranged under their proper names, 145.

Scaliger, his index to Gruter's Thesaurus Inscriptionum, 88.

Schmidt (Dr. Alexander), Shakespeare Lexicon (1874), 120.

"Scholar's (A)" opposition to publication of a subject-index to the British Museum library catalogue, 126.

Scientific books, Indexing of, 120.

Scobell's Acts and Ordinances of Parliament, the words "index" and "table" both used, 9.

Selwyn (George), and his Contemporaries, published without an index, 84.

Seneca, his indication of the contents of his books, 6.

Shakespeare, his use of the word "index," 11.

Shenstone's Schoolmistress, humorous table of contents, 31.

Shylock acted by Macklin in a red hat, 51.

Sloane (Sir Hans) laughed at by Dr. King, 42.

Solly (Edward), calculation of the time wasted in looking up a reference in the index to the Gentleman's Magazine, 153.
—— note on early indexes, 14.
—— proposes the formation of an Index Society, 208.
—— scheme of a biographical index, 211.

Spectator, The, Index to, 30.

Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians, general index, 29.

Speed's History of Great Britaine, the words "index" and "table" both used, 10.

State papers, indexes to the calendars, 97.

Statutes of the realm, valuable index to the edition of the Record Commission, 98.

Stephen (Sir J. Fitzjames) on a complete digest of the law, 99.
—— on the early digesters of the law, 101.

Summary as a synonym of index, 7.

Swift's Battle of the Books quoted, 38.
—— Condition of Edmund Curll quoted, 53.
—— his satirical reference to index-learning, 2.
—— Tale of a Tub quoted, 2.
—— Works edited by Scott, bad index, 154.

Syllabus as a synonym of index, 7, 8.

Table as a synonym of index, 7, 8, 9.

Tatler, The, Index to, 27.

Tedder (H. R.), his indexes to Reports of Conference of Librarians and Library Association, 112.

Ten Brink, place of this name in the alphabet, 143.

Thomas (F. S.), Historical Notes referred to, 219.

Thompson (Corrie L.), his criticism of Palmer's index to The Times, 221.

Thoms (W. J.) urged the formation of an Index Society, 209.

Thring (Lord), his instructions for an index to the Statute Law, 98.

Thrub-chandler, Bung of a, 73.

Times (The), Indexes to, 221;
criticism on Palmer's index, 221.

Translations (French) of titles, 77.

Trevelyan's Life of Macaulay, Index to, by Perceval Clark, 95.

U and N, Confusion between, 66.

U and V to be kept distinct, 66, 135.

"Van," foreign names not to be indexed under this prefix, 141.
—— English names to be indexed under this prefix, 142.

Vergil (Polydore), Anglicæ Historiæ has a good index, 14.

"Von," surnames not to be arranged under this prefix, 141.

Walford (Cornelius), inquiry for the earliest index, 14.

Walpole's Letters, Bad index to, 79;
examples of bad entries, 80.

Warton's History of English Poetry, index, 70.

Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica, index, 219.

Watts (Dr.), his warning against index-learning, 2.

Watts (Thomas), his expression of the need for an Index Society, 207.

Welch (J. Cuthbert) on the publication of an index to a journal, 211.

Wellington (Duke of), amusing misreading of Loudon's letter, 67.
—— cross reference in Ford's Handbook to Spain, 76.

Wheatley (B. R.) as a good indexer, 117;
his "Evitandum" in indexing, 155.

White Knights translated as Le Chevalier Blanc, 77.

Whitelock's Memorial, Carlyle's condemnation of, 91;
index to Oxford reprint, 180.

Winsor (Justin) advocated the formation of Index Society, 210.

Wynford (Lord), previously Sir W. D. Best, 157.

York, Register of Corpu Christi Guild, index, 122.

Elliot Stock, Paternoster Row, London.