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 small
letters," 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 "Waverley
Novels," 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 also_ Bigness; 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;