31,32."Power, A secret of personal,"162-167.Powers of leadership developed under stress,163.Pre-Columbian book,seeMexican.Prehistoric background of the book,79-81.Press, errors of,152-161.Pressman, a spoiler of books,40-42.Presswork, requirements of,58.Prices, as affected by italic,20,by the small books of the Elzevirs,22;fancy, what they mean,7;of choice books compared with those of other art objects,49;of choice books not excessive,7."Print as an interpreter of meaning,"14-18.See alsoTypography.Printer, as affected by spelling reform,150;a spoiler of books,40,41;what the librarian asks of him,47,48.Printer's errors,152-161.Printing, added only speed and cheapness to book production,14;distinctions to the eye in,16-18;of Chinese books,88;"Printing problems for science to solve,"115-119;would be benefited by contemporary calligraphy,51.See alsoTypography.Privilege of the reader,63-78."Problems, Printing, for science to solve,"115-119.Progress, possible only in the field of knowledge,29,30.Proof, authors' additions in,15.Proofreader, requirements of,58;a spoiler of books,40,41.Property, distinguished from Possessions,31,32.Proportions of the page,4,42,55-57.Prosody,seePoetry.Public, value of reading to the,28,29.Publication of books for 1913,105.Publisher, librarian's grievance against the,45-47;a spoiler of books,40,41.Punctuation, and legibility,121;in poetry,17-18.Puritans, less modern than Horace,69;a Puritan's devotion to Calvin,166;Shakespeare best reading for,72.Putnam, George Haven, on the Elzevirs,22.RAPID reading,14-17.Rare books, relatively cheap,49.Readable print,seeLegibility."Reader's high privilege,"63-78.Reading, aid of print to,14,17;amount possible in a lifetime,105;Erasmus on art of,166;John Beattie Crozier on,111,112;"Lest we forget the few great books,"104-114;means intellectual effort,74;of contemporaries,76,77;results of ten pages a day,108;"The student and the library,"139-144;systematic,74-76;true end and aim of,78;value, to the public and to the individual,28-32;when travelling,22,23.Reading aloud, print as an aid to,17,18.Rebindings, costly, unnecessary,46.Rebus, place in development of alphabet,81.Reference books,135;effective typography of,16,17.Reformed spelling,145-151.Registration, requirements of,59.Rembrandt, his drawing of the elephant,80;his "School of Anatomy," as a product of genius,65.Reprinting of perishable records,46.Responsibility, a stimulus to greatness,163."Respublicæ Variæ," published by the Elzevirs, described,22,23."Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium Libri IIII," the Aldus edition of 1546described,21.Roethlein, Barbara Elizabeth, on "The relative legibility of differentfaces of printing types,"124-127.Rogers, Bruce, his Centaur type commended,132.Roll,seePapyrus.Roman alphabet,seeAlphabet.Roman codex,seeCodex.Roman literature, masterpieces of,68,69.Romance literatures,144.Romans, surpassed by moderns in knowledge,30.Royal octavo, pitfall of the book designer,12,13.Ruskin, John, editions of his works contrasted,13;on manuscript books,51;on reading Sir Walter Scott,109.Russia, annual book publication,105;illiterate communities of,28,29.SANBORN, FRANKLIN BENJAMIN, his "Beacon Biography" of Longfellow,75.Sanford, Edmund Clark, on "The relative legibility of the smallletters,"122-124.Scaliger, Julius Caesar, his learning,106.Schiller, cited,52.School books, misfortune of treating classics as such,68,69;type in,5,117.School children, increase of near sight among,120.School of typography, proposed by Henry Stevens,40-43.Science, "Printing problems for science to solve,"115-119.Scott, Sir Walter, alterations in the proof-sheets of his "WaverleyNovels,"15;a ghost word in his "Monastery,"158;Goethe on,110;Ruskin on,109."Secret of personal power,"162-167.Sequoyah, his Cherokee syllabary,146.Serifs, necessary to prevent irradiation,123;source of confusion in types,123,124.Shakespeare, William, "Hamlet" preferred in youth,111;Hazlitt on,142;his "Apocrypha," on thin paper,95;his character and greatness,70-73;Lamb would say grace before reading,77;"Lear" preferred in old age,111;misprints in his works,157;privilege of reading,64,71,72;quoted,9,54;reading,77;the spelling of his works,149,150;tribute of Blackmore to,110.Shelley, Percy Bysshe, an editor's error in his "Skylark,"157,158;inappropriate Forman edition of,11;read by young men,111.Shelton, Thomas, his translation of "Don Quixote,"144.Sight, relation of the elements of the book to,5,6,116-119;"Types and eyes: The problem,"120-127,—— "Progress,"128-133.Sign language,80.Silent letters, cost to English world,147.Size, determines expression of the book,4;"Favorite book sizes,"19-27;of books preferred by librarian,47;of letters and legibility,134,135;question of an ideal size of type,117;standardization of book sizes,26,27.See alsoBigness;Thickness;Thinness.Skeat, Walter William, on ghost words,158.Smirke, Robert, illustrator of Barlow's "Columbiad,"10.Smollett, Tobias George, on reading him,143.Society of Printers, address under its auspices,3,note.Socrates, in a Bible of humanity,68.Sophocles, as characterized by Mrs. Browning,67,68.Southey, Robert, a favorite edition of,24.Spacing, between words,121;of letters in words,120.Spain, illiterate communities of,28,29.Spanish, language,144;spelling,147.Spectacles, a measure of civilization,120.Spedding, James, at Cambridge University,139.Spelling, Milton gave metric hints by,18;"Orthographic reform,"145-151.Spenser, Edmund, Hazlitt on,142;his spelling,149;Lamb would say grace before reading the "Fairy Queen,"77;Milton's spiritual kinship to,72.Standardization of book sizes,26,27.Sterne, Laurence, a favorite edition of,24.Stevens, Henry, "A constructive critic of the book,"38-43;detects a misprint,156;his "My English library,"39;his "Recollections of Mr. James Lenox,"38,footnote.Stevenson, Robert Louis, on Hazlitt,141.Stoddard, Richard Henry, on Cervantes and Shakespeare,70.Storage of books,seeBigness,Thickness,Thinness.Strassburg Cathedral, as a product of genius,65."Student, The, and the Library,"139-144.Study, art of,166,167.Success, won by knowledge,30.Swedish spelling,148.Sweynheym and Pannartz, grandeur in their work,4.TASTE,seeEsthetics.Tauchnitz editions, compared with Little Classic editions,26.Tennyson, Alfred, and his brothers at Cambridge University,139;inappropriate edition of his "Life,"11;a novel reader,107.Tests, of the utility of the book,115;of type,120-127.Thackeray, William Makepeace, at Cambridge University,139;on reading him,143;quoted,11;works in illegible print,130.Theocritus, as characterized by Mrs. Browning,68.Thickness, in books, esthetic effect of,23,25;"Thick paper and thin,"92-96.Thinness, in books, esthetic effect of,23;"Thick paper and thin,"92-96.Thompson, Francis, indicated caesura by an asterisk,18.Thomson, James, Hazlitt on,142.Thoreau, Henry David, member of the New England group of authors,75,76.Thou, Jacques Auguste de, binding made for,100.Title-page, problems of,59.Torrey, Joseph, on reading Dante,109,110.Translations of "Don Quixote,"143,144.Tribute typography,9-13,136,137.Type, aims in its design,5,117,118;Chinese,80;contrast of,16,17;"Exceptions to the rule of legibility,"130,131,135-138;faults of German and French,117;in relation to the book beautiful,57-59,61;page,56,57;"Perversities of type,"152-161;reform of,118;"Types and eyes: The problem,"120-127,—— "Progress,"128-133.See alsoItalic;Page.Typewriting, a form of print,15.Typography, primarily a reduction of cost,115;school of, proposed by Henry Stevens,40-43;tribute typography,9-13,136,137;a triumph of,16.See alsoPrint.UNITED STATES, annual book publication,105;library development since 1875,104.Updike, Daniel Berkeley, his comic edition of Irving's "Knickerbocker,"10,11;his specimen pages of the "Imitatio Christi,"136."VALUE of reading, to the public and to the individual,"28-32.Values, two great classes,31,32.Vergil, Dante's master,69;did not write for children,68;his Aeneid,69;scanty punctuation in earliest manuscript of,17.Verse,seePoetry.Vision,seeSight.WARD, ARTEMUS,pseudonym, adopts a misprint,157.Webster, Daniel, debt to Milton,110.Webster, Noah, his "Collegiate Dictionary" on thin paper preferred,95;his "Unabridged Dictionary" on large paper,131.Wendell, Barrett, on Barlow's "Columbiad,"10.Wheatley, Henry Benjamin, on "Literary blunders,"156,157.Whitman, Walt, on the world's greatest books,113,114.Whittier, John Greenleaf, member of New England group of authors,75.Whittingham, Charles, method of book design,41;printer,38."Who spoils our new English books?" by Henry Stevens,38.Wilberforce, Samuel, Bishop of Oxford, a famous misprint concerning,153,154.Wordsworth, Dorothy, on favorite books,3.Wordsworth, William, a favorite edition of,24;read by old men,111.World Almanac, commended,130,131.Writing,seeAuthorship;Manuscript;Materials.XENOPHON, contributor to a Bible of humanity,68;did not write for children,68.