Excerpt from A Book of R. L. S: Works, Travels, Friends, and Commentators In adopting an alphabetical arrangement, it has been thought that the convention of the professional indexer, viz., the rigid adherence to title except for the transposition of A, ' An, ' or The in titles having these beginnings, was not the most suitable for the general reader. Therefore, Where the title of a paper contains a word which emphatically marks the subject, that word has been chosen to determine the alphabetical position. Thus Some Portraits by Raeburn is placed in R, and A Plea for Gas Lamps in G, but in the absence of this excuse a position is allotted in accordance with the untransposed title. The index will, it is hoped, make good any deficiencies which this compromise may involve. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.