for separate reference, as the eleventh was withdrawn but once.
Furthermore, apart from this irregularity, the figures for the later
volumes are relatively large, for a work in many volumes is apt to be a
standard, and although its use falls rapidly from start to finish enough
readers persevere to the end to make the final averages compare unduly
well with the initial ones where the high use of the same work is averaged
in with smaller use of dozens of other first and second volumes. That the
falling off from beginning to end in such long works is much more striking
than would appear from the averages alone may be seen from the following
records of separate works in numerous volumes:

VOLUMES
I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X
HISTORY

Grote, "Greece" 11 6 5 2 1 0 1 1 1 0
Bancroft, "United States" 22 10 6 8 10 8
Hume, "England" 24 7 5 2 1 1
Gibbon, "Rome" 38 12 7 3 4 6
Motley, "United Netherlands" 7 1 1 1
Prescott, "Ferdinand and
Isabella" 20 4 2
Carlyle, "French Revolution" 18 10 8
McCarthy, "Our Own Times" 27 8 11

BIOGRAPHY

Bourienne, "Memoirs of
Napoleon" 19 18 9 7
Longfellow's "Life" 6 4 2