CHAPTER III.

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