# Locke, *New Method of Making Common-Place-Books*, 1706 > [!cite] > Locke, John. *A New Method of Making Common-Place-Books ; Written by the Late Learned Mr. John Lock, Author of the Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. Translated from the French. To Which Is Added Something from Monsieur Le Clerc, Relating to the Same Subject. A Treatise Necessary for All Gentlemen, Especially Students of Divinity, Physick, and Law. There Are Also Added Two Letters, Concerning a Most Useful Method for Instructing Persons That Are Deaf and Dumb, or That Labour under Any Impediments of Speech, to Speak Distinctly; Written by the Late Learned Dr. John Wallis.* Unknown translator. J. Greenwood, 1706. Internet Archive, https://archive.org/embed/gu_newmethodmaki00lock. --- ‘So that when we extract any Thing out of an Author which is like to be of future Use, we may be able to find it without any Trouble. For it would be to little Purpose to spend our Time in Reading of Books, if we could not apply what we read to our Use.’ [[Locke, New Method of Making Common-Place-Books, 1706|(Le Clerc 1706, ii)]] ^ce1267