tal letters. No
period.

4. The numbers of the pages in Arabic figures. If there are several
editions varying in subject matter and paging the edition used should
be specified. If the edition has been specified in the Bibliography
this information should not be repeated in the footnotes. {20} In books
like the Bible, Shakespeare, Blackstone, or Milton, which have been
printed in innumerable editions book, chapter and verse; act, scene and
line; section and paragraph, or canto, stanza, and line must be
specified.

Number of paragraph only No. 68
Stanza only st. 18
Page only P. 213
Line only l. 384
Paragraph only [**] 34
Section only [**] 5
Chapter only } xiv
Canto only }
Book only iii
Book and chapter }
Part and chapter } iii 2
Book and line }
Act and scene }
Act, scene, and line iv. 3. 45
Chapter and verse }
Number and page } II 34
Volume and page }
Volume and chapter IV. iv.
Part, book, and chapter } II. iv. 12
Part, canto, and stanza }
Chapter, section, paragraph vii. [**] 3, [**] 4
Volume, part, section, paragraph } I. i. [**] 2, [**] 6
Book, chapter, section, paragraph }

In abbreviated references to the Bible or to the plays of Shakespeare
use Arabic figures prefixed to the name to indicate part of succession
of the book, play, or letter.

2 Kings II: 5
3 John 11
1 Henry VI, iii. 2. 14

{21}

The following excellently chosen illustrations of good methods in handling
numerous footnotes in learned works are taken from De Vinne's "Correct
Composition."

_From English Past and Present, by R. C. Trench_

^1 Guest, Hist. of English Rhythms, vol. I. p. 280.
^2 Hooker, Eccles. Pol. i. 3, 5.
^3 Craik, On the English of Shakespeare, 2nd edit. p. 97.
^4 Marsh, Manual of the English Language, Engl. edit. p. 278.

_From Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Murray's edition of
1881 (8 vols. 8 vo)_

^1 Orosius, I. ii. c. 19, p. 143.
^2 Heineccius, Antiquitat. Juris Roman,