id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-10755 Shores, Louis Great Books of the Western World: Variations on an Index Theme (Book Review) 1953-04-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1555 86 63 A third difference to note is the inclusion of two features, usually found elsewhere in reference books, as part of the index. But at other times and especially while reading the 80-page appendix on Principles and Methods of Syntopical Construction one has the uncomfortable feel- ing that the author is one of those intelligent readers who has spent his reading life either taking for granted or minimizing the impor- tance of indexes until this moment when called upon to assume responsibility for con- structing one, and then, suddenly aware that indexing is a fundamental, but still not fully initiated in the art, sets out to philosophize about elementaries explained in the first few days of library school. cache/crl-10755.pdf txt/crl-10755.txt