The book is a list of the principal publications each year, together with an alphabetical index of authors with the titles of their works.

          The purpose of this book is to give the student, at a glance, the main literary output of any year or series of years; to show what books people were likely to be reading at any time, and with what rivals a candidate for literary fame had to reckon. The Index of Authors gives at once a conspectus of any literary career; the birth-date of an author is given where it is known, and it is thus possible to find the author’s age when he published any particular book.