How to Make an Index

7

Rosicrucians and Free-Masons (De Quincey's Works, vol. 13, p. 388).

8

Memorial Chronology (De Quincey's Works, vol. 14, p. 309).

9

Memoirs of Bishop Atterbury, compiled by Folkestone Williams, vol. i. (1869), p. 42.

10

Notes and Queries, 5th Series, VIII. 87.

11

Quoted Notes and Queries, 8th Series, IX. 425.

12

Notes and Queries, 2nd Series, XI. 309.

13

Vol. i., p. 85.

14

Trevelyan's Life and Letters of Macaulay, chap. xi.

15

These instructions, with specimens of the proposed index, are printed in the Law Magazine for August, 1877, 4th Series, vol. 8, p. 491.

16

Index to the Periodical Literature of the World (1892).

17

"A Concordance, that is to saie, a worke wherein by the ordre of the letters of the ABC ye maie redely finde any worde conteigned in the whole Bible, so often as it is there expressed or mencioned … anno 1550."—Folio.

18

Miss Hetherington gives an additional instance of this class of blunder, but her only authority is "said to be from the index of a young lady's scrap book":

"Patti, Adelina,

–– oyster."

The example in the text is absolutely genuine, although it has been doubted.

19

Some may consider this a monstrous word; but it conveys a convenient description of blank books with the alphabet marked on the leaves of the book either cut in or with tablets projecting from the margin.

20

Public Libraries in the United States. Special Report. Part I., 1876, p. 730.

21

5th S., vi. 114 (1876).

22

Assurance Magazine, vol. viii., 1860, pp. 54-7.

23

2nd S., vi. 496.

24

3rd S., iv. 371.

25

8th S., i. 364.

26

Notes and Queries, 5th S., xii. 511.

27

The late Professor Justin Winsor gave a list of indexes in his useful Handbook for Readers (for the Boston Public Library); and I added a "Preliminary List of Indexes" to What is an Index? London, 1879. Other lists have also been published by the British Museum, etc.