"There is no greater literary sin than the omission of an Index, and, if I had my way, even novels would be provided with charts of this kind to their multifarious contents—how convenient it wold be for readers, as well as reviewers, to have such a handy means of checking the emotions of 's quick-change heroines and the involved relationships, business and otherwise, or Mr. Galsworthy's , who increase in number and variety with each successive installment of his epic of property!"
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Chapter XVI. Humours of Indexing, pp. 91–95, quote from p. 91
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E. B. Osborn
1867 – 1938
(1867–1938) was a British journalist, author and editor. He is perhaps best known as the editor of ', an anthology of British war poetry published in November 1917.
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