The subject of writing is treated, also, in the articles:

Inscriptions (Vol. 14, p. 618); Semitic, aside from the Cuneiform, by Arthur Ernest Cowley, sub-librarian of the Bodleian, Oxford; Indian inscriptions, by John Faithfull Fleet, author of Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings, etc.; Greek, by Edward Lee Hicks, Bishop of Lincoln, author of Manual of Greek Historical Inscriptions, etc., and George Francis Hill, author of Sources for Greek History, etc.; and Latin, by Emil Hübner, late professor of classical philology at Berlin, author of Romische Epigraphik, etc., and Dr. W. M. Lindsay, of the University of St. Andrews, author of The Latin Language, etc.

Palaeography (Vol. 20, p. 556), equivalent to 75 pages of this Guide, by Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, late librarian of the British Museum and author of Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography, etc. The article is illustrated with 50 fac-similes of typical handwritings.

Manuscript (Vol. 17, p. 618), equivalent to 20 pages of this Guide, by the same author, with a description of the various forms of manuscripts, of the mechanical arrangement of writing in MSS., and of writing implements and inks. See, also, Illuminated Manuscripts, Papyrus, Paper and other articles mentioned in the chapter in this Guide For Printers.

Text Criticism

The student of language and literature and of writing will also find much valuable information in the article Textual Criticism (Vol. 26, p. 708), equivalent to 25 pages of this Guide, by Professor J. P. Postgate of the University of Liverpool, well-known to Latinists as the brilliant editor of Tibullus and Propertius. The article gives examples of the classes of errors occurring in texts and the methods of restoring true readings—largely of course by conjecture—and illustrates such errors and their correction by the very poorly printed first editions of the English poet Shelley.

In the study of language and writing as in courses on other sciences and arts, the reader will find an additional interest in supplementing general and abstract articles by biographical sketches of the great men in the science.

The following is a partial list of the articles in the Britannica on great philologists:

CHAPTER XXXVI
LITERATURE, INTRODUCTORY AND GENERAL