ABILITY, cannot be created,164.Accents, their help in reading poetry,17,18.Æschylus, as characterized by Mrs. Browning,67.Aldine edition of the British Poets, by Pickering,23,24.Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, his "Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book,"87,88.Aldus, Alduses and Elzevirs contrasted,23;beauty in his work,4;bindings of,100;his characteristic book,21;his example followed by the Elzevirs,22;his italic type and its effect on the size and price of books,20,21;Pickering and other followers of,23,24;vexed by misprints,156.Alphabet, Chinese, picture writing,80,81;derivation from picture writing,81;scientific and actual,147;varieties in use,146.See alsoType.American Journal of Psychology, contains Sanford's study on "Therelative legibility of the small letters,"122.Arnold, Edwin, misprints in his "Light of Asia,"159.Art, art aspect of the book,3,49,115;shares the prehistoric background of the book,79,80.Artists not opposed to criticism,62.Assyrian clay tablet,4.Astor Library, size in 1875,104.Audubon, John James, his elephant-folio "Birds of America,"55.Authors, reading by single authors and groups,74-76;spoilers of books,40.Authorship, rules of,44.BABYLONIAN book,82.Back numbers, unimportant contemporary works become,77."Background of the book,"79-86.Bacon, Francis, Lord, quoted,106,112.Baird, John Wallace, directs Clark University studies on legibility,124.Ballads, Old English, Hazlitt on,142.Balzac, Honoré de, expanded his novels in proof,15.Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de, acknowledged his indebtedness to theElzevirs,22.Bamboo, source of Chinese paper,85.Barlow, Joel, place of his "Columbiad" in modern printing,10.Bartlett, John, quoted,128.Baskerville, John, his smooth paper,5.Beauty,seeEsthetics.Beecher, Henry Ward, his "Norwood" in three volumes,12;John Beattie Crozier on his sermons,111.Beethoven, his Ninth Symphony as a product of genius,65.Bellarmin, Cardinal, list of errata in his works,160.Best books, need of provision for daily reading,107.See alsoBooks.Bible, Hazlitt on its poetry,141;influence on Bunyan, on Calhoun,110;misprints in,154,156;various folio editions,19.Bible of humanity, Socrates in,68.Bigness, in books,35,36,45,47.Binder, a spoiler of books,40,42;what the librarian asks of him,48.Binding, as an element of the book,6;"The clothing of a book,"97-101;of the book beautiful,52-55;of the Chinese book,88,89;of the well-made book,52;"Parchment bindings,"102,103;unnecessary rebindings,46.Bion, as characterized by Mrs. Browning,68.Birch bark, used for book of India,85.Bismarck, misprint concerning,155.Blackmore, Richard Doddridge, tribute to Shakespeare,110.Blue and Gold editions, a favorite book size,24-26.Bodoni, Giambattista, his type commended,58,129,130.Book, "The background of the book,"79-86;"blown" books,35;"The book beautiful,"49-62;"The book of to-day and the book of to-morrow,"33-37;Chinese,84,85,87-91;"The clothing of a book,"97-101;a constructive critic of the,38-43;elements of,4-6;"Fitness in book design,"9-13;its structural contradiction,52;materials,92;of the future,95,96;on its physical side an art object,3;pre-Columbian Mexican,6;printed, a "substitute" for manuscript,4;subject to laws of esthetics and economics,115;tests of its utility,115;well-made, not extremely costly,7,not identical with beautiful,52;worth writing three times,44.See alsoDesign;Size.Book buyers, how to educate,37;spoilers of books,40,42.Booklovers, "Books and booklovers,"3-8;must first know books,7;service in improvement of books,48,61,62.Book production,105;elements added by printing,14.Books, as a librarian would like them,44-48;"Books and booklovers,"3-8;the greatest, few,66;intellectual riffraff,9;learning to love,7;"Lest we forget the few great books,"104-114;perishable,34,45,46;progress in legibility of,132,133;small, commended by Dr. Johnson,20;"The student and the library,"139-144;that are not books,105,106;world's annual publication of,105.Books of Hours, dainty volumes,20.Boston Athenaeum Library, size in 1875,104.Boston Public Library, Address in,3,footnote;size in 1875,104.Brandes, Georg, his "Shakespeare: a critical study,"72.Brass, used for book of India,85.British Poets, rival editions of, by Pickering and by Little and Brown,23,24.Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes, on Aldus and his italic type,20.Brown, John Carter, patron of Henry Stevens,38.Brown University, misprint in quoting its charter,154,155.Browne, Charles Farrar, adopts a misprint,157.Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, her "Wine of Cyprus" quoted,67,68.Buchanan, George, his Latin poems, commended by Dr. Johnson,23;published by the Elzevirs,23.Bulk, in books,92-96.Bunyan, John, debt to the Bible,110.Burma, book of,seeIndia.Burns, Robert, Hazlitt on,142.Burnside, General Ambrose Everett, his limitations,163,164.Burton, Sir Richard, his "Kasîdah" in Mosher's tribute typography,137.Bury, Richard de, author of the "Philobiblon,"8.Byron, Lord, hated Horace,68.CAESURA, indication of, in print,18.Calhoun, John Caldwell, reader of the Bible,110.Calligraphy,seeManuscript.Calvin, John, as a Puritan's spiritual nightcap,166.Cambridge University, student groups in,139.Capital letters, legibility,121,122,126;Roman in origin,118;Roman, superior to black-letter in combination,57;undersized, used by Aldus,21.Carlyle, Thomas, on Goethe,110;rewrote his books in proof,15.Caslon type, commended,58,117.Catchwords, usage of Aldus,21.Cattell, James McKeen, his investigations of legibility,121,122.Cave men, pictures made by them,79,80.Centaur type, commended,132.Century Dictionary, illustration of cerastes,81;a triumph of typography,16,135.Century types, commended,127,132.Cervantes, "Don Quixote," character and meaning of,70,71,no final edition of,11,on reading,143,144,translations of,143,144;his character,70;later novelists indebted to,143.Chaucer, Geoffrey, complaint of his scribe's errors,160,161;Hazlitt on,142;his spelling,149.Cheapness,seeCost.Cheltenham type, commended,132.Cherokee syllabary,146.Children, increase of near sight among,120;legibility of books for,5,117.Chinese, alphabet, conventionalized picture writing,80,81;book,84,85,87-91.Chiswick Press,38,footnote;Pickering's books printed at,41.Christian of Lubeck, letter of Erasmus to, quoted,166.Cicero, did not write for children,68.Clark University, studies on legibility,124-127,132.Classroom, not equal to a good book,140.Clay tablet, and booklovers,4;described,82.Clodd, Edward, on discovery of British prehistoric antiquities,79.Cloister Oldstyle type, commended,132;a safe norm for poetry,58.Cloth, used in binding,53."Clothing of a book,"97-101.Codex, Roman, form adopted for parchment books,84;original of modern book form,19,52,90.Collins, Wilkie, tribute to "Robinson Crusoe,"110.Color, use of,60.Columbian type, first used in Barlow's "Columbiad,"10.Columns, in wide pages,47.Community, value of reading to the,28,29.Compactness and legibility,117,130,131,134,135.Compositor, a spoiler of books,40,41."Constructive critic of the book,"38-43.Consumers,seeBook buyers.Contemporary writers, on reading their works,76,77.Contrast of type,16,17.Copperplate printing, in connection with typography,60.Cornell University Library, proof-sheets of the "Waverley Novels" in,15.Corrigenda,152-161;lists of,159,160.Cost, the book of to-morrow will be cheaper,36;cheapened books,45;of beautiful books little more than of unsightly,39;relatively small, of well-made books,7.Cowper, William, Hazlitt on,142.Crabbe, George, a favorite edition of,24.Criticism, "A constructive critic of the book,"38-43;not opposed by artists,62.Crozier, John Beattie, on reading,111,112.Culture cannot be vicarious,140.DANA, JOHN COTTON, his analysis of the elements of the book,4.Dante, his "Divine Comedy," character of,69,70,144;"fly's-eye" edition of,55;Hazlitt on,141;privilege of reading,64;Professor Torrey on reading,109.Decoration, in bindings,6,99-101;use of color in,60.Defoe, Daniel, tribute of Wilkie Collins to "Robinson Crusoe,"110.Democratization of learning, by the cheap books of Aldus,21.De Morgan, William, quoted,63,72;value of his novels,77.De Quincey, Thomas, on possible amount of reading in a lifetime,105.Design, "Fitness in book design,"9-13;of type,5,117,118.Diagonal of page,57.Dickens, Charles, his works in illegible print,130,on Oxford India paper,94,on thick paper,95;on reading him,143.Dickinson, Emily, quoted,30,31.Didot, Ambrose Firmin, his "microscopic" type,131.Discovery of a great book,108,109.Distinctions, to the eye, in manuscript and print,16-18.Don Quixote,seeCervantes.Dordogne, France, its prehistoric pictures,79,80.Dowden, Edward, his "Shakspere: his mind and art,"72.Dryden, John, Hazlitt on,142.ECONOMICS, the book within the domain of,115,116.Edges, treatment of,61.Edison, Thomas Alva, would substitute nickel for paper,92,footnote.Editions de luxe, disapproved by Henry Stevens,39.Education, in appreciation of beautiful books,50;of book buyers,37.Efficiency, in modern life,162;of the book,115.Egyptian, book, seePapyrus;hieroglyphics, picture writing,81.Elements of the book,4-6.Elimination, test of, applied to reading,63,64.Eliot, Charles William, his Latin signature,102,103.Elzevirs, compared with Aldines,23,with Blue and Gold editions,25;described,21-23.Emerson, Ralph Waldo, his life and works,75,76;importance of his works,112;John Beattie Crozier on,112;quoted,144.Encyclopædia Britannica, in its two sizes of type,135.English, alphabets,117,118;book publication in 1913,105;books, criticised,38-43;literature as affected by reformed spelling,149;poets, Hazlitt's Lectures on,141,142;romancers, of the 18th century,143;spelling,145-151.Engravings,seeIllustrations.Erasmus, Desiderius, letter to Christian of Lubeck, quoted,166.Errata,152-161;lists of,159,160.Errors of the press,152-161.Essays, in a favorite book size,24.Esthetics, beauty in typography,136-138;"The book beautiful,"49-62;the book subject to the laws of,115;harmony between beauty and use in type design,132;in choice of type,127,131;involves sacrifice of utility,116;its demands must be met in a favorite book,24,met by the Little Classic editions,26;of the book,3,9;printer's duty, to,18;relation of thickness and thinness to,23,24;sacrificed to legibility,117.Etymology in spelling,148.Eumenes II, originates parchment,83,84.Euripides, as characterized by Mrs. Browning,68.Everyman's Library, in a favorite book size,24.Eves, binders, their work,100."Exceptions to the rule of legibility,"134-138,130,131.Expression in typography,9-13,137,138.Eyes,seeSight.F, the letter, origin and derivatives,81.Fairy Queen,seeSpenser, Edmund."Favorite book sizes,"19-27.Favorite literature, in appropriate typography,137.Fielding, Henry, a favorite edition of,24;on reading him,143;an unattractive edition of,12.Fields, Annie Adams, her "Beacon Biography" of Hawthorne,75.Finishing,seeBinding.Fitness, between illustrations and type,6;in book design,9-13;in typography,137,138.Fitzgerald, Edward, at Cambridge University,139.Forethought, "A secret of personal power,"162-167.Forewilling, "A secret of personal power,"162-167.Format,seeSize.Forwarding,seeBinding.Franklin, Benjamin, quoted,35,123.French, alphabet,147;book publication in 1913,105;type, faults of,117,120,128.Frowde, Henry, publishes "The Periodical" in form of a Chinese book,88,90.GALILEO, acknowledged his indebtedness to the Elzevirs,22.Garfield, James Abram, recommends reading of fiction,107.Gems, in bindings,6.Genius, its bad spelling,150,151;its monuments in the various arts,65.German, book publication in 1913,105;spelling reform,147,148,150;tribute typography,137;