Editorial Notes

Abstract

his forerunners, and a comprehensive index is then indispensable. A journal such as ours contains references to current events which as time passes become of increasing importance to historians. When contemporary records have to be searched through the boon of a good index cannot be over-estimated. This fifty-volume index is long and has proved a costly undertaking, but our subscribers will not grudge the cost, even as the compilers have not grudged their labour.