Dutch, German names), 3; of philosophical, literary, and artistic schools, 9: of political alliances, 16; of political divisions, 6–7; of political parties, 9, 16; of pronouns referring to the Supreme Being, 24; of proper nouns and adjectives, 1, 5, 53; of regions or parts of world, 5; of terms applied to groups of states, 5; of religious denominations, 9; of sessions of Congress, 13; of thorough-fares, parks, squares, blocks, buildings, etc., 8; of titles, academic degrees, orders (decorations), etc., 21 (cf. 49); of titles of publications, 41; of treaties, acts, laws, bills, etc., 18: of versions of the Bible, 30; of words with an acquired, limited, or special meaning, 25; verbs derived from proper names not capitalized, 1; rules for, 1–57; word lists, 4.
Capitals: how indicated, 257; rules for use of, 1–49.
Capitals and small capitals, rules for use of, 50, 51.
Caps. See Capitals.
Center-heads: defined, 279; illustrated, 279; use of capitals in, 41.
"Centigrade," abbreviation for, 111.
Centuries, numbers of, to be spelled out, 100.
Cf., to be set in roman, 61.
Chapters, titles of: capitalization of principal words in, 41; to be roman-quoted, 82.
Chemical symbols, how to treat, 123.
Christian names, to be spelled out, 93.
"Church," when captalized, 28.
Church fathers: omission of "St." in connection with names of, 108; when capitalize, 27.
Citations: from different authors following each other uninterrupted by any intervening original matter, 75; of passages in author's own words, 74 (cf. 8s); rules for reduction of, 85–87; for punctuation of, 112.
Civil titles, capitalization of, 21.
Classical Journal, form of footnotes in, 239, note.
Classical Philology, form of footnotes in, 239, note.
Classical references, rules for punctuation, 237, 239. note.
Clauses: adverbial, 150; antithetical, 149; appositional, 150; complementary, 169; conjunctive, 144; parenthetical, 150, 167, 169, 177; participial, 148; summarizing, 170.
"Cleared," definition of, 90.
"Co-," compounds with, 203.
Colon: definition and illustration of use of, 131; rules for use of, 131–36; use of, after salutatory phrase at beginning of letters, 133; between place of publication and publisher's name, 135; in connection with introductory remarks of speaker, 133; to emphasize close connection between two clauses, 131; to introduce statement, extract, etc., 131; to separate chapter and verse in Scripture passages, 134; clause from illustration or amplification, 131; hours and minutes in time-indications, 134.
Columns of figures, spacing of, 244.
Combination of words into one adjective preceding noun, use of hyphen for, 183.
Comma: definition and illustrations of use of, 244, omission of, between two adjectives, 247; in signatures and after author's name at beginning of articles, 161; use of, after digits indicating thousands, 159; before "and," "or," and "nor," 143; before "of" in connection with residence or position, 157; omission of, between consecutive pages, etc., 158; between month and year, 160; in connection with adjectival phrases, 152; omitted before "rather," 146; with adverbial clauses, 150; with antithetical clauses, 149; with appositional clauses, 150; with brief quotations or maxims, 156; with clauses ending in different prepositions, 153; with conjunctions, 144; with conjunctions, adverbs, connective particles, and phrases, 145; with parenthetical clauses, 150; with participial clauses, 148; to indicate omissions, 155; to separate identical, or similar, words, 151; to separate numbers, 154; to separate proper nouns, 142; rules for use of, 141–62.
Commercial: firms, how to treat titles of, 107; organizations and institutions, capitalization of names of, 11
"Company," to be abbreviated when forming part of name of firm, 107.
Complementary clauses, use of dashes in connection with, 169.
Component elements, omission of, in compound words, 211
Compound adjectives, 183.
Compound words, etymological division of, when followed, 221; omission of
