CHAPTER IV.

THE GOOD INDEXER.

Difficulties of being Exact--Value of a Good Index--Scaliger, Nicolas Antonio, Pineda, Samuel Jeake--Carlyle on Indexless Books--Macaulay's Opinion of the Aim of an Index--Official Indexes--Amount paid by Parliament for Indexes--Good Legal Indexes--Indexes to Jeremy Bentham's _Works_, and to Ruskin's _Fors Clavigera_--Dr. Birkbeck Hill's Index to Boswell's _Life of Johnson_--Boswell's Original Index--Issue of Revised Index to Ranke's _History of England_--The Indexer born and made--Characteristics of a Good Indexer 85

_PRACTICAL._