TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Original spelling and grammar have
been generally retained, with some exceptions noted
below. Original printed page numbers are shown like
this: {52}. Footnotes and other anchored notes have
been relabeled 1–73, and moved from within paragraphs
to nearby locations between paragraphs. I produced the
cover image and hereby assign it to the public domain.
Large curly brackets that graphically indicate
combination of information on two or more lines of
text have been removed. The text was modified, if necessary, to retain
the original meaning. In most cases, as on page 8, this was
trivial. However, the task was not trivial for the
chart beginning at the bottom of page 11, so errors of
interpretation are not impossible. For reference, the
original image is shown below.
Chart showing various types of entries and catalogues
The original Table of Contents failed to connect reliably
with the text. The original has been severely overhauled,
without further comment here.
Precise horizontal spacing of words
is essential in this
book. But precise horizontal spacing is
difficult to attain in an ebook, given the
constraints necessarily imposed upon us. Browser
support of html and css varies considerably;
support for specialized Unicode space characters varies;
the ebook product must
be readable on many different devices with widely
varying screen sizes; and users may choose from many
widely different fonts. The following example of a
catalogue entry is taken from page
90.
— Same. Erkl. von O. Heine. Berlin, 1857.
8º.
It should not look like the
following, from which the required spacing has been
removed:
— Same. Erkl. von O. Heine. Berlin,
1857. 8º.
If these two examples look alike,
or if strange characters appear in the first example,
then a different choice of browser or device is
recommended.
- Page 12. The word ‹unsorbordinated› was changed to
‹unsubordinated›.
- Page 15.
During the process of producing an ebook, headings
are coded in HTML as h1–h6 elements, with h1 representing
the highest level in an outline. A new h2 level heading,
‹ENTRY.›, was inserted on page 15. A new h4 level heading,
‹CATALOGUE.›, was inserted after the existing h3 heading ‹I.
AUTHOR-ENTRY.›.
- Page 16.
The existing h4 heading ‹AUTHORS.› was changed to
‹A. AUTHORS.›.
- Page 17. The h5 level heading ‹1. PERSONAL.› was changed to
‹(a.) PERSONAL.›.
The h6 heading ‹a. Under whom as author.›
was changed to ‹(i.) Under whom as author.›.
Subsequent entries in these lists were enumerated
similarly, e.g. on page 20 where ‹b.› was changed to
‹(ii.)›.
- Page 21.
The phrase ‹Grässe’s ‘Lehrbuch› was changed to
‹Grässe’s “Lehrbuch›.
- Page 27.
The phrase ‹Tilsley’s ‘Digest› was changed to
‹Tilsley’s “Digest›.
- Page 32.
The phrase ‹the Christain name› was changed to
‹the Christian name›.
- Page 37.
The word ‹vesssels› was changed to ‹vessels›.
- Page 38.
A new h4 heading was inserted: ‹CATALOGUE.›.
- Page 45.
The h3 heading ‹III. SUBJECTS.› was changed to
‹III. SUBJECT-ENTRY.› A new h4 level heading ‹CATALOGUE.›
was inserted before the catalogue.
- Page 46.
The h5 level heading ‹A. ENTRIES CONSIDERED SEPARATELY.› was changed
to ‹(a.) ENTRIES CONSIDERED
SEPARATELY.›, and the h5 level heading on page
57 was changed similarly. The h6 level heading ‹1.
CHOICE BETWEEN DIFFERENT
SUBJECTS.› was changed to ‹(i.) CHOICE
BETWEEN DIFFERENT SUBJECTS.›.
- Page 51.
The phrase ‹as Moral
philosophy to
Ethics or to Morals,
Intellectual or
Mental
philosophy to Intellect or Mind,
Natural
philosophy to Physics, Sanitary
science
to Hygiene, Scientific
men to Scientists,
Social
science to Sociology;› was changed
to ‹as Moral
philosophy to Ethics or to
Morals,
Intellectual; or Mental
philosophy
to Intellect; or Mind, Natural
philosophy to
Physics, Sanitary
science; or Hygiene, Scientific
men to Scientists; or Social
science to
Sociology;›. Specifically, semicolons have been introduced to
improve the syntax of this complicated phrase.
- Page 54.
The word ‹slighest› was changed to ‹slightest›.
- Pages 58–117.
Several instances of originally
gesperrt text, in which the spacing between
letters has been increased, have been changed
to bold. Gesperrt text—the HTML/CSS attribute
letter-spacing—is not yet supported by many epub
reader browsers. Two instances of gesperrt text
have been preserved. On page 64,
the name ‹Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume›
has been rendered herein with a clumsy artificial
gesperrt, namely by adding explicit spaces [u202f
narrow no-break space] between the letters of
‹F r a n ç o i s
P i e r r e›.
On page 84, the name ‹Franklin, John
D a v i d› has been
rendered herein with similar artificial gesperrt.
- Page 61.
The h2 level heading ‹VI. STYLE.› was changed to
‹STYLE.›. A new h3 heading was inserted: ‹CATALOGUE.›.
- Page 62.
The h3 level heading ‹STYLE.› was changed to ‹VI.
STYLE.›.
- Page 81.
The h4 heading ‹H.
PUNCTUATION, ETC.›
was changed to ‹I. PUNCTUATION, ETC.›.
- Page 83.
The h4 heading ‹I.
ARRANGEMENT.› was changed to ‹J.
ARRANGEMENT.›.
- Pages 94–96. In § 258, the two example catalogues were
originally printed side by side: (1.) dictionary
catalogue with a “bit of classification”, on the left,
and (2.) dictionary catalogue, “pure and simple”, on
the right. Semantically, these are two independent
lists, which do not comprise a table.
Catalogue 2 has been moved after catalogue 1, and new
headings have been inserted. In catalogue 1, the three
subjects ‹Satire.›, ‹Sonnets.›, and ‹Wit and humor.›
were subordinated under ‹Literature.›, correcting
an evident error in the original.
- Page 98.
The h4 heading ‹J.
Etc.› was changed to ‹K. Etc.›.
- Page 103.
The word ‹noticeable› was originally printed on
two lines as ‹notice,› ‹able›.
- Page 106.
The word ‹arrranged› was changed to ‹arranged›.
- Pages 109–110. The table is semantically three
columns but was printed in two columns, so appears
in the original to have six columns. Herein the
table has been restored to three columns. On page 109, first
column, seventh entry ‹an› is changed to ‹au›.
- Page 117.
The quotation mark in ‹“A single ful name› has no
mate; its mate possibly belongs after ‹John.›.