In the introduction and the editorial notes, Jean O'Grady explains the methods of compilation and guides the reader through the various sections. As she indicates, this volume is an indispensable route map for the scholars from all historical disciplines concerned with the nineteenth century, as well as for those particularly devoted to Mill studies

This final volume of the "Collected Works of John Stuart Mill" comprises four major indexes to guide readers through the complexities of the contents of the complete set of volumes and of Mill's career as an author. The first is an alphabetical list of all the items in the 32 previous volumes, in effect, a combined table of contents. The second is a chronological list of Mill's writings, providing a detailed profile of Mill's career as a writer. The third is a cumulative, abbreviated index of persons compiled from the relevant lists in the separate volumes. These references to persons include lists of letters written to them by Mill. A useful bibliographic aid to studies of Mill, this section is also intended to be useful in studies of Mill's library and reading. The final section of this book is a cumulative subject index, based on the individual indexes in the previous 32 volumes, drawn together in a modified form to highlight the range and detail of Mill's thought and life. In the introduction and the editorial notes, Jean O'Grady explains the compilation methods employed and guides the reader through the various sections. This book should be of interest to students and teachers

The primary aim of the edition is to present fully collated texts of those works which exist in a number of versions, both printed and manuscript, and to provide accurate texts of those works previously unpublished or which have become relatively inaccessible. The series is complete.

A collection of quotations from Canada’s greatest literary theorist. "There is no Canadian writer of whom we can say … that their readers can grow up inside their work without ever being aware of a circumference." Northrop Frye came to that conclusion after a detailed study of the imaginative achievements of Canada’s writers from the earliest period to 1965, when that sentence from his study first appeared in print. Over the decades since then, the statement has come to be regarded as a benchmark of individual and national literary achievement. The Northrop Frye Quote Book is a specialized dictionary of quotations on all subjects that is based on the thoughts and writings of one person. It is the handiwork of a single contributor, albeit the cogitations of a remarkable one. It is also evidence that there is a Canadian writer of whom it may be said that we can grow up inside his work "without ever being aware of a circumference." John Robert Colombo has written, translated, edited, or compiled over two hundred books, including seven dictionaries of quotations. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Frye Centre at Victoria University. Jean O’Grady, a graduate of the University of Toronto, served as the associate editor of The Collected Works of Northrop Frye. She is also the author of the biography of Margaret Addison, the first dean of women at Victoria College.