CHAPTER V.

DIFFERENT CLASSES OF INDEXES.

"Of all your talents you are a most amazing man at Indexes. What a flag too, do you hang out at the stern! You must certainly persuade people that the book overflows with matter, which (to speak the truth) is but thinly spread. But I know all this is fair in trade, and you have a right to expect that the publick should purchase freely when you reduce the whole book into an epitome for their benefit; I shall read the index with pleasure."--WILLIAM CLARKE TO WILLIAM BOWYER, NICHOLS'S _Literary Anecdotes_, vol. 3, p. 46.