brose Everett, his limitations, 163, 164.
Burton, Sir Richard, his "Kasidah" 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, _see_ Manuscript.
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, _see_ Cost.
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, 1
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