Note 570 — Chapter II · MIL-HUIT-CENT-TRENTE.

In the case of a man who wrote so much and so often on the same things as Sainte-Beuve, an exhaustive general index would be a great assistance. There is a whole volume of Table to the Causeries, properly so called, the Portraits de Femmes, and the Portraits Littéraires; while the Premiers Lundis contains a succinct but very useful synopsis-index of all the works and substantive pieces, and Port-Royal has an elaborate index of its own. But my copies of the Portraits Contemporains (5 vols.) and the Chateaubriand (2), as well as the 13 of the Nouveaux Lundis, are indexless.