How to make an index / by Henry B. Wheatley.

  • Henry B. Wheatley
Date:
1902
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Credit: How to make an index / by Henry B. Wheatley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    other hand, Lord Eliot’s ‘ politeness to Johnson’ which stands in the first edition, is cut down in the second to the bald ‘Eliot, Lord’; while ‘Lough¬ borough, Lord, his talents and great good fortune,’ may have seemed a little offen¬ sive, and was expunged. The Literary Club was reverentially put in capitals. There are also such odd entries as {Brutus, a ruffian,’ &c.” One wishes that there were more indexes like Dr. Hill’s in the world; and since I made an index to Shelley’s works, I have often thought that a series of indexes of great authors would be of inestimable value. First, all the author’s works should be indexed, then his biographies, and lastly the anecdotes and notices in reviews and other books. How valuable would such books be in the study of our greatest poets! The plan is quite pos¬ sible of attainment, and the indexes would be entertaining in themselves if made fairly full. It is not possible to refer to all the good indexes that have been produced,