THE BAD INDEXER.
Some of the Worst Indexes in Periodicals--Jewel's
_Apology_--Classified in place of completely Alphabetical
Indexes--Mr. Poole's Opinion of Indexes to Periodicals--Miss
Hetherington's Examples of Bad Indexes--Want of Complete
Alphabetization--Confusion of _u_ and _n_, and Blunders
caused by it--Classification within the Alphabet--Variety of
Alphabets--Want of Cross References--Useless Cross
References--Amusing Mistranslations--Incorrect Filling-up of
Contractions--Bad Index to Walpole's _Letters_--Incorrect
Use of the Line for Repetition of Heading--Index to Pepys's
_Diary_--Evil of an Indexless Book--Complaints 53