What's Happening In Your Book Now?

One of the pleasures of Gissing's The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft is its index, which appeared in the original 1903 edition. For example,

Battersea Bridge, old, 129
Beer, 78
Blackberries, a meal of, 118
Books, love of, 28-33, 37, 99, 160
Botanizing, 14, 99
British Museum, 25, 28

and

Silence, 49
Sixpence, the lost, 15
Snob, the English, 87
Social characteristics of the English, 80
Somerset, 56
Spinoza, 113
Spring, thoughts of, 18, 19, 35, 50
Steamboats, advertisements of, 76 

My penciled-in additions:

Automaton, 118
Balance of mind and body, 121
Carrots, 92
Cycling, 77
Reading, forgotten, 38, 44, 160
Roundheads, 165
Weather, bad, 139, 144