Naturalists’ Miscellany, Indexes, 94
Nebulæ, Index of Books and Memoirs relating to, 35
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Index, 94
New Englander, Index, 94
New York Lyceum of Natural History, Annals of, 34
New York Medical Journal, Index, 94
New York State Library, Index to the Catalogue, 36, 108
New York Times, Index, 94
New York Daily Tribune, Index, 94
New Zealand Institute, Index to Transactions and Proceedings, 85
Newman’s (Samuel) Concordance, 75
Next-of-Kin, Indexes to, 102-103
Nichols (John), Indexes to his “Literary Anecdotes” and
“Illustrations”, 25, 46
Nicholson (J.), Index to Assurance Magazine, 89
Nicolai (John), turned into a place, 51
Niles’s Weekly Register, Index, 94
North American Review, Indexes, 94
North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Index
to Transactions, 85
“Notes and Queries”, 46, 69
---- announcement in its pages of the projected formation of an Index
Society in 1854, 36
---- Indexes, 95
Noy’s (Attorney-General) reference to Prynne’s Index, 14
Numerals to be used for number of volumes, 73
Oke and Stone, Pocket Index to, 80
Oldys (William) on the need of Indexes, 19-20
Ordnance Survey, Index, 83
Oriuna, the supposed wife of Carausius, 52
Ormerod (G. W.), Classified Index to the Geological Society, 84
Oulton (A. N.), Index to the Irish Statutes, 98
Ovid, Index to Sandys’s translation, 22
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Indexes of Ashmole and Rawlinson MSS., 107
---- Index of the Wills in the Court of the Chancellor of the
University, 107
Oxford (Robert Harley Earl of), reported to be the author of the
Index to Bromley’s Travels, 18
Page, division of the Indexed, 73
Palgrave (Sir Francis), his former name Cohen, 63
---- Index to his Reports as Deputy Keeper of the Records, 106
Pall Mall Gazette, letters in, by “A Lover of Indexes”, 37
Parker Society Publications, Index to, 36, 85
Parliament, Indexes to the Journals of the Houses of Lords and
Commons, 98-99
---- Index to the Rolls of, 102
Parliamentary Debates, Index, 92
Parliamentary History of England, Index, 81
Parliamentary Papers, Indexes of, 99-101
Pathological Society, Indexes to Transactions, 85
Payne (Thomas) mistaken for Tom Paine, 50
Peacock (Edw.), remarks on the badness of the Index to Whitelock’s
Memorials, 47
---- suggests a List of Indexes, 74
Pedigrees, Indexes to, 103
Peers to be arranged under their titles, 62, 72
---- their signatures a source of trouble to some, 64
Pennant (T.), Index to Buffon, 78
---- Index to his Account of London, 81
Penny Cyclopædia, vague cross references in the, 54
Pepys’s Diary, marks of repetition in the Index, 68
Periodicals, Indexes of, 89-96, 104
Perkins, (F. B.), on Book Indexes, 42
Peru, Present State of, 51
Pharmaceutical Journal, Indexes, 95
Pharmaceutical (American) Association, Index to Proceedings, 83
Philippart (Sir John), Index to Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 92
Phillipps (Sir Thomas), Indexes, 102-103
Philosophical Magazine, 34
---- Indexes, 95
Philosophical Transactions, Indexes, 87
---- laughed at by Dr. King, 17
Pickering (Danby), Index to the Statutes at Large, 97
Picus of Mirandula, an edition of his works, published in 1507, has a
long list of errata, 65
Piddington (H.), Index to Geological Papers, 83
Pilpay’s Fables quoted as the fables of the damned Calilve, 51
Pineda (Juan de), Index to his “Monarchia Ecclesiastica”, 13
Places, Indexes of, 105
Plateau (J.), Bibliographie Analytique des principaux phénomènes
subjectifs de la Vision, 34
Plays, Prynne’s attack upon, 14
Pliny’s Naturall Historie of the World, use of the words Index and
Table in that book, 10
Plutarch’s Lives, by North, the Index called a Table, 10
‘Pollex’ contrasted with ‘Index’, 8
Polybiblon: Revue Bibliographique Universelle, 34
Poole’s (W. F.) Index of Periodical Literature, 35, 104
---- the projected third edition, 35
---- his remarks on the abuse of cross references, 54
---- on the defects of classification, 56
Pope (A.), Concordance to the Works of, 77
Population Tables, 1871, Index, 105
Practitioner, Index, 95
Prefixes in surnames, rules regarding them, 60, 71
Prendergast (G. L.), Concordance to the Iliad, 76
---- Concordance to Milton, 77
Pridden (Rev. J.), Index to the Rolls of Parliament, 102
Prinsep (J.), Table of Indian Coal, 83
Printing of an Index, 66
---- of the headings, 73
Prynne’s “Histrio-Mastix,” specimens from the Index, 14-15
Prynne, a martyr to his conscientiousness in making an Index, 14
Psalms, Concordances to the, 76
Pullen (P.), Index to Joanna Southcott’s Writings, 81
“Pye” as a synonym of Index, 11 (note 7)
“Pye-Book,” derivation of the word, 11 (note 7)
“Quarterly Journal of Science,” Index, 16, 95
Quarterly Review, Indexes, 95-96
Quérard (J. M.), Thomas’s notice of his life, 48, 52
Quotations to be Indexed, 73
Raithby (J.), Index to the Statutes at Large, 97
Rambler, Index to, 64
Rawlinson MSS., Index, 108
Rawlinson’s (Dr.) note on the Index to Bromley’s Travels, 17
‘Rechenbuch’ as an author, 61
Records, Index to the, 105
Register, as a synonym of Index, 7, 10, 11
---- the German word for Index, 11
Religious Houses, Alphabetical List of the Heads of, 106
Repertory of the Acts, Index, 96
Repetition, marks of, in an Index, 67
Reuss, Repertorium commentationum, 32
Richardson (S.), Tables to Clarissa, 23
---- Index to his three novels, 23, 81
---- a practised Indexer, 24
Richmond and Gordon (Duke of), his signature mistaken for that of a
firm, 65
Riddell (H.) and J. W. Rogers, Index to the Public Statutes, 97
Riding (West) of Yorkshire, attempted derivation by a Frenchman, 53
Robertson (W.), Index to the Charters granted by Sovereigns of
Scotland, 105
Rogers (H.), his appreciation of the work of the Indexer, 19
Rolls of Parliament, Index, 102
Roman de la Higuera (Geronymo) transformed into ‘Father Geronymo, a
Romance of La Higuera’, 51
Rowe (Rev. George), Index to Reports of the Architectural Societies
of Yorkshire, etc., 88
Royal Society attacked by Dr. King, 17
---- Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 32, 104
---- Indexes to the Philosophical Transactions, 87
Ruffhead (Owen), Index to the Statutes at Large, 97
Rules for obtaining Uniformity in the Indexes of Books, 71-73
Ruskin’s Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds arranged under the
head of Agriculture, 57
St. to be arranged in the alphabet as Saint, 72
Saints to be arranged under their proper names, 72
Salisbury (Bishop of), mistaken for a Mr. John Sarum, 65
Scaliger, his Index to Grater’s “Thesaurus Inscriptionum”, 20
Scarron, his malicious erratum, 66
Schmidt (A.), Shakespeare-Lexicon, 77
Scientific Papers, Catalogue of, 104
Scobell’s ‘Acts and Ordinances,’ use of the words Index and Table in
that Book, 10
Scotland, Index to the Acts of Parliament, 102
---- Index to the Acts of the Free Church, 102
---- Index to Charters granted by Sovereigns of, 105
Scribner’s Monthly, Index, 96
Scudder (H. E.), Index to the Atlantic Monthly, 90
Scudery (Mdlle. de), her notice of a dedicated Index, 13
Seal (Great), Treatise on, arranged under the head of Zoology, 57
Seignelay-Colbert de Castle Hill, Bishop of Rhodez, 51
Seneca, his indication of the contents of his books, 7
---- his use of the word Index, 8
Sermons, Indexes to, 106
Shaftesbury (Earl of), misprint in his letter to “The Times”, 53
(note 35)
Shakespeare, his use of the word Index, 9
---- Concordances to, 25, 77-78
Shaw (G.) and R. P. Nodder, Indexes to Naturalists’ Miscellany, 94
Shenstone’s “Schoolmistress,” ludicrous table of contents, 22-23
Silliman’s American Journal, Indexes, 89
Simms (C. S.), Index to the “Remains” published by the Chetham
Society, 84
Sims (R.), Index to Pedigrees and Arms, 103
Skewes (Rev. H.), Index to Wesley’s Journals, 82
Sloane (Sir Hans) laughed at by Dr. King, 17
Societies, Indexes to Publications of, 83
Society of Antiquaries, Indexes to Archæologia, 87
Society of Arts, Indexes to Transactions and Journals, 88
Solly (Edward), he proposes the formation of an Index Society, 37
---- on “Best’s great mind”, 45, 46
Southcott’s (Joanna) Writings, Indexes, 81
Southey’s “Doctor,” headings to the chapters, 23
Spectators, Tatlers and Guardians, General Index, 24, 43, 79
Speed’s History of Great Britaine, use of the words Index and Table
in that book, 11
Speed (S.) reason for not adding an Index to one of Howell’s works, 13
Spiller (B.), Index to Public Statutes, 97
Stamp (G.), Index to the Statute Law, 98
Standards Commission, Index to Reports, 101
Star Catalogues, Chronology of, 34
Statistical Society, Indexes to the Journal, 88
---- (Manchester), Index to Transactions, 85
Statutes, Indexes to the, 96-98
Steele’s (Sir Richard) Indexes, 24
Stenography, article on, in Rees’s Cyclopædia, 51
Stephen (Sir J. Fitzjames), on a complete digest of the Law, 30
---- on the early digesters of the Law, 31
Stone’s Justice’s Manual, Index, 80
Strachey (Rev. J.), Index to the Rolls of Parliament, 102
Strype’s (J.) Works, Index, 81
Summary, as a synonym of Index, 7, 11
Surname, What is a?, 59
Sussex Archæological Collections, Index, 26, 88
Swift’s analytical table to his ‘Tale of a Tub’, 22
---- account of the condition of Edmund Curll, 26
---- bad index to his Works, edited by Scott, 46
Swinburne’s “Under the Microscope” arranged under the head of Optical
Instruments, 57
Sykes (B.), List of Ancient Inscriptions, 83
Syllabus, as a synonym of Index, 7, 8, 11
Table, as a synonym of Index, 7, 10, 11, 14
---- present use of the word to describe a summary of the contents of
a book, 11
---- late use of the word in the sense of an Index, 11
---- the French word, 11
Tabrum (E. J.), Index to Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Records,
106
Tabula, use of the word in English books, 7
Tatler, Index to the, 22, 24
Tedder (H. R.), his full Index to the Report of the Conference of
Librarians, 39
Telegraph Engineers’ Society, Index to the Journal, 43
Tennyson, Concordances to, 78
Ter _for_ tertius, as an affix to a name, 64
Theology, Indexes to, 107
Theses and Inaugural Dissertations, 32
Thevenot’s Travels, 50
Thomas (Ralph), Notice of Quérard, full index to it, 48
Thoms (W. J.), his references to indexing, 19, 27
Thring (Sir Henry), his Instructions for an Index to the Statute Law,
29, 41, 42
“Times (The),” arrangement of the names in the lists of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages, 66
---- Indexes, 96
Titles (misleading) of books, 57
Todd (A.), Index to the Journals of the Legislative Assembly of
Canada, 101
Todd (Rev. H. J.), Verbal Index to Milton, 77
Topographical works, need of indexes to the chief, 39
Transactions, indexing of, 72
Transits of Mercury, Index of Books and Memoirs on the, 35
Trials (State), Index to, 80
Trinity College, Cambridge, Index to Books printed before 1600, 108
Turner (Dawson), Guide to the verification of Manuscripts, 103
Twiss (Francis), Verbal Index to Shakspeare, 25, 77
Tytler’s (P. F.) History of Scotland, Index, 81
U and V to be kept distinct, 59, 71
United Service (Royal) Institution, Index of Lectures and Papers, 87
Upham (E.), Index to the Rolls of Parliament, 102
Useful Knowledge Society, Index to the Maps, 83
“Van,” surnames not to be arranged under this prefix, 60, 71
Vardon (T.), Index to Local and Personal and Private Acts, 97
---- Indexes to the Journals of the House of Commons, 99
Viar (S), an imaginary saint, 52
‘Viol and Lute,’ a collection of Poems, arranged under the head of
Musical Instruments, 57
“Von,” surnames not to be arranged under this prefix, 60, 71
Walpole’s Letters, bad index to, 46
Walton (Bp.) imagines an author named Camus, 50
Warburton’s (Bishop) blunder in filling out contractions, 53
Warton’s History of English Poetry, Index, 82
Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica, 50
---- ---- Index, 35
Watts (Dr.), his warning against index learning, 12
---- Index to his Psalms, 78
Watts (H.), Index to Gmelin’s Handbook of Chemistry, 80
---- Index to the Journal of the Chemical Society, 83
Watts (Mr.), his objection to the use of an uncomplimentary adjective
in an Index, 16
Watts (Thomas), on the formation of an Index Society, 70
Wellington (Duke of), Index to his Despatches, 82
---- amusing misreading of Loudon’s letter, 49
Wesley’s Journals, Index, 82
Westminster Review, Index, 96
Wheatley (B. R.), paper on an ‘evitandum’ in Index-making alluded to,
28, 45, 54
---- Index to the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, 86
---- Index to the Catalogue of the Library of the Medical and
Chirurgical Society, 108
---- Index to Transactions of the Pathological Society, 85
---- Index to the Journal of the Statistical Society, 88
‘White Knights’ translated as ‘Le Chevalier Blanc’, 52
Whitelock’s Memorial, Index to one volume folio edition made to do
duty for four volume octavo edition, 47
Wickens (Robert), Concordance, 75
Wilkinson (T. R.), Index to Transactions of Manchester Statistical
Society, 85
Wills in the Court of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford,
Index, 107
Wilson (Rev. H. B.), Index to the Family Bible, 76
Winsor (Justin), Bibliographical Contributions, 35
---- letter to the “Athenæum” on an Index Society, 38
---- his “Handbook for Readers”, 74
Winton (George), the signature of Bishop Tomline, 65
Worcester’s (Marquis of) Century of Inventions, 50
Wrong (Abstract), a crime never committed, 18 (note 10)
Wynford (Lord), previously Sir W. D. Best, 45
Xeucathle, a disguised form of Newcastle, 61
Year Books, etc., Index to, 98
Yeowell (J.), Indexes to the Notes and Queries, 95
Young (Brigham), called Brigham le jeune in the _Biographie Moderne_,
61
Young (T.), Lectures on Natural Philosophy, 104
Zoological Record, 33
Zoological Society, Indexes to Proceedings, 88
STEPHEN AUSTIN AND SONS, PRINTERS, HERTFORD.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] _Rosamond’s Epistle_, lines 103-4.
[2] “Etiam vellem mihi mittas de tuis librariolis duos aliquos, quibus
Tyrannio utatur glutinatoribus, ad cetera administres: iisque imperes
ut sumant membranulam, ex qua _indices_ fiant, quos vos Græci (ut
opinor) συλλάβους appellatis.”--Ad. Atticum lib. iv. ep. 4.
[3] _Discoveries_, ed. 1640, p. 93.
[4] I would here, under cover of our great poet’s name, protest against
the use of the plural _indices_. As long as a word continues to take
the plural form of the language from which it is borrowed, we cannot
look upon it as thoroughly naturalized. Surely Index may be considered
an English word when it was treated as such by Shakespeare.
[5] My friend Mr. Furnivall draws my attention to the fact that Fleming
was the index-maker of Shakespeare’s day as Philemon Holland was the
translator.
[6] Some in the present day seem to be of the same opinion as Baret,
for we occasionally hear of an _Index Rerum_ instead of an _Index of
Subjects_.
[7] Another word occasionally used in the sense of an Index is _Pye_,
which has been supposed to be derived from the Greek Πίναξ. The late
Sir T. Duffus Hardy, in some observations on the derivation of the word
“Pye-Book,” remarks that the earliest use he had noted of _pye_ in this
sense is dated 1547--“A Pye of all the names of such Balives as been to
accompte pro anno regni regis Edwardi Sexti primo.”--Appendix to the
35th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, p. 195.
[8] Noy calls it an Index, but Prynne, in conformity with the usual
practice, writes _Table_.
[9] The book was published six weeks before Henrietta Maria acted in a
pastoral at Somerset House, so that the passage “women actors notorious
whores” could not have been intended to allude to the Queen. See
Cobbett’s “State Trials,” vol. 3, coll. 561-586.
[10] This is the last entry but one in the index, and I cannot resist
the pleasure of adding in a note the passage here indexed:--
“I’m willin a man should go tollable strong Agin wrong in the abstract,
for that kind o’ wrong Is ollers unpop’lar an’ never gits pit’ed,
Because it’s a crime no one never committed.”
[11] “Idcirco celebris quidam scriptor nostræ gentis, quò significaret
eam curam ejus esse debere, cujus cura opus ipsum constitit, urbane,
salseque ajebat, Indicem libri ab authore, librum ipsum à quovis alio
conficiendum esse.”--Nicolaus Antonius, Bibliotheca Hispana, 1672, tom.
2, p. 371.
[12] “M. Bochart ... me prioit surtout d’y faire [i.e. his
Diogenes Laertius] un _Index_, étant, disoit-il, l’âme des gros
livres.”--_Menagiana_, Paris, 1729, tome i. p. 75.
[13] Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes, vol. iii. p. 46.
[14] Notes and Queries, 2nd series, vol. vii. p. 469.
[15] Notes and Queries, 5th series, vol. viii. p. 87.
[16] See Transactions of the Conference, p. 88.
[17] For full title see p. 75.
[18] I searched in vain for the date of the first edition of the
_Gradus_, until I was so fortunate as to find it in the valuable
article on “Dictionaries” in the new edition of the _Encyclopædia
Britannica_. Little information was to be obtained from the British
Museum Catalogue, owing to the complicated arrangement of the anonymous
books. I looked into the new General Catalogue under the heading
_Parnassus_, where the book should have been entered according to the
rules, and there was only one edition of the present century. I then
turned to _Gradus_, and there was a reference to an edition by Valpy.
I knew that there must be some earlier edition, so I went to the old
General Catalogue and there I at once found among others an “editio
novissima” (Coloniæ Agrippinæ, 1687). When the book was in my hands
I noticed that it was marked to be catalogued under the heading of
“Dictionaries,” where I venture to think few would look for it. This
experience is related here as a good illustration of the inconvenience
of classification in an Alphabetical Catalogue.
[19] These instructions, with specimens of the proposed Index, are
printed in the _Law Magazine_ for August, 1877, 4th series, vol. 8, p.
491.
[20] _Plan of an English Dictionary._
[21] Fourth series, vol. 44.
[22] Vol. 43, p. 1.
[23] Vol. 4, p. 151.
[24] Vol. 10.
[25] Vol. 11.
[26] Vol. x. p. 356.
[27] “The Rushworths, Whitlockes, Nalsons, Thurloes; enormous folios,
these and many others have been printed, and some of them again
printed, but never yet edited,--edited as you edit wagon-loads of
broken bricks and dry mortar simply by tumbling up the wagon! Not one
of those monstrous old volumes has so much as an available Index. It is
the general rule of editing on this matter. If your editor correct the
press, it is an honourable distinction.”--_Carlyle’s Introduction to
Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches._
[28] Law Magazine, August, 1877.
[29] See Rule 9, on page 72.
[30] See Rule 10 on page 72.
[31] This evil is enlarged upon in a paper “On an ‘Evitandum’ in
Index-making, principally met with in French and German Periodical
Scientific Literature, by B. R. Wheatley.”--Transactions and
Proceedings of the Conference of Librarians, 1877, pp. 88-92.
[32] A Martyr to Bibliography: a Notice of the Life and Works of
Joseph-Marie Quérard, Bibliographer ... By Olphar Hamst, Esq. London
(J. Russell Smith), 1867.
[33] De Quincey’s Works, ed. 1862, vol. 8, p. 180.
[34] Notice of Quérard, by Olphar Hamst, 1867.
[35] A friend asks me to give chapter and verse for this blunder,
but it will be seen that nothing is more difficult than to find an
authority for misprints which are corrected as soon as they are found
out, perhaps even in the proof. A curious misprint occurred in _The
Times_ in a letter from Lord Shaftesbury (August, 1878), who wrote of
the Bulgarians that “they panted for liberty,” but was made by the
printer to say “they prated of liberty.”
[36] See Rule 11, p. 72.
[37] Library Journal.
[38] My brother (Mr. B. R. Wheatley) writes as follows of Allibone’s
forty Indexes: “What however shall we say of the sub-indexes which
really have no existence whatever, except in the list of their titles
at the commencement? Take, for instance, the first--Alchemy--which
refers you to Class or Index 8, which is Chemistry. How much nearer
are you to Alchemy?--it is a more secret science in the Index than
it was in the middle ages--you have 500 names under Chemistry, and
you must look out the whole of them before you find the philosopher’s
stone which lies hid in this five-century crucible of mixed
ingredients.”--Trans. Conference of Librarians, 1877.
[39] See Rules 1 and 2, p. 71.
[40] “On the best method of constructing an Index, by F. A. Curtis,
of the Eagle Insurance Office,” in the _Assurance Magazine_, vol. 8
(1858), pp. 54-57. See also _Notes and Queries_, 2nd S. vi. 496, 3rd S.
iv. 371.
[41] See Rule 3.
[42] Rule 4.
[43] See Rule 5.
[44] _Da_ in Portuguese is a compound of preposition and article.
[45] See Rule 8.
[46]
“When I asked his name, said, in a thick, gobbling kind of
voice:
‘Sawedwadgeorgeearllittnbulwig.’
‘Sir what?’ says I quite agast at the same.
‘Sawedwad--no, I mean Mistawedwad Lyttn Bulwig.’”
--Thackeray’s _Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush_.
[47] See Rule 7.
[48] Library Journal, vol. iii. No. 1.
[49] American Library Association Report (Library Journal, vol. iii.
No. 1, March, 1878, p. 15, col. 1).
[50] Lindenau, Zeitschrift für Astronomie, 1816.
[51] In the case of little known men, whose Christian names are not
given, it may sometimes be necessary to use the Mr.; for instance, in
Pepys’s Diary, if this word were not added to certain of the persons
mentioned, there would often be confusion between the names of persons
and of places.
[52] See Rule 17.
[53] 2nd Series, vol. i. p. 481.
Transcriber’s Notes.
Italic text is indicated with _underscores_, bold text with =equals=.
Small/mixed capitals have been replaced with ALL CAPITALS.
The “missing” text in the inscription [PRÆFECTU]S . VIAR[UM] on page 52
has been enclosed in square brackets, in place of the small capitals
used by the author.
Evident typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected
silently. Inconsistent spelling/hyphenation has been normalised.
Plinie’s (page 10 and Index) has been corrected to Pliny’s.
Inconsistent capitalisation of Index -es, -ed, -er, -ing is retained.
The possessive form Nichols’s, Sandys’s, Stephens’s etc. is the
author’s.
End of page footnotes have been sequentially numbered and relocated to
the end of the book.
Index references to “note” have been modified to include the relevant
note number.