LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Class CATALOGUE TITLES AND INDEX ENTEIES. Fcp. 8vo, Is. A CONTINENTAL TOUR of EIGHT DAYS for Forty-four Shillings. BY A JOURNEY-MAN. " Of all the books, seasonable or unseasonable, which the Christmas season produces in abundance, we doubt whether many will better repay purchase and perusal than this unpretending little work of a jorrney-man. It has a charm about it which is difficult precisely to analyze, as it is impossible to deny. It is not so much for any information it conveys that we value it. In fact, it is in no sense a guide-book . . . tells us nothing about the places visited. Neither, on the other hand, does it weary one with statistics of the manner in whirh the forty-four shillings were spent. Incidentally, the cost of the passage and the sum total of the bill for one or two nights' lodging are given, by way of illustration, and that is all. There are no novel speculations, moral or otherwise, no disquisitions on peasant proprietorship, or capital and labour, no architectural criticism or historical leferencps, and scarcely a political allusion, while such moralizing as does find a place in the narrative from time to -time is on trite and familiar subjects. And yet, if it can be believed, the book is simply delightful . . . his narrative ripples along brightly enough in the main, yet now and again hushing itself into a serious stillness w>>ich argues depth of feeling and reflection, and then auain breaking out into gaiety, and even playfulness, which reflect the happy and conscious carelessness imposed on itself by his well-regulated mind. . . . Out of the fulness of the mind as well as the heart the mouth sometimes speaks, and his references to men and things are not mere purpurei panni, but e- TTA.OVTOV." SPECTATOR, Feb. 15, 1879. LONDON : SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SE \RLB, & RIVINGTON, CEOWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET, E.G. HINTS ON CATALOGUE TITLES AND ON INDEX ENTEIBS, WITH A ROUGH VOCABULARY OP TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS CHIEFLY FROM CATALOGUES, AND SOME PASSAGES FROM JOURNEYING AMONG BOOKS. CHARLES F. BLACKBURN. [New edition, re vised! . LIBRARY SCHOOL Tfte vignette on the title-page is a copy in miniature of an engraving in "Picturesque Europe," which has been made by the kind permission of Messrs. Cassell and Co. Nominally a view from Milan Cathedral, under the artist's hand it has become an emblem of the journey of life. PBEFACE. Que viens tu faire ici ? Des recherches dans la bibliotheque. Bel emploi ! dit le dragon. Tu ne sera pas gend par la foule des concurrents ; il n'y va pas trois personnes par jour, car nous n'avons pas de temps a perdre dans les etudes inutilea . . . les habitants de Longueville se pendraient plutot que mettre le nez dans leur bouquins. Hier, mon proprie"taire, qui est un des gros bourgeois de la ville, me disait avec emotion: "Ah! monsieur, tout le mal esfc venu des livres. Sans ces coquins de barbouilleurs de papier, nous vivrions bien tranquilles et nous toucheriona nos revenus en dormant sur les deux oreilles ; mais 1'encre, voyez-vous, monsieur, et le papier, et la lettre moule'e, sont les vraies inventions du diable ; et pour moi, quand je lis un journal, je crois voir la fourcheet les comes de Lucifer. Voila, mon cher ami, 1'opinion qu'on a de ton me'tier. Tu juges si ces braves gena sont disposed a frequenter un tel lieu de perdition. En revanche, ils jouent volontiers aux cartes et aux d9minos, ce qui ne fatiguenb pas 1'esprit et ne trouble ni la conscience ni la digestion." UlTB VILLB DE GABNISOir. IN tlie present state of dependence upon books for nearly all our informa- tion, the importance of ready access to great collections need scarcely be insisted upon. Literature grows about us with an almost alarming rapidity, and minutes, as time goes on, seem fewer and more quickly gone. Twenty years of aimless wandering and experiment at home and abroad measured to an hour, without any knowledge of it at the time have blindly prepared the ground for this book. The journeyings were pre- ceded by years of apprenticeship in a foreign business, and followed by daily labour on catalogues in London houses of different lines in relation to books. Thus the writer has come to notice many ways in which cata- logues might act more clearly and quickly. The book now before the reader is mainly occupied with an endeavour to show this. The examples are actual pieces of experience. Books may be said to resolve themselves into three great divisions. There are books of reference, merely to be consulted ; books for sale, which are to be obtained ; and books which are possessed, and to be enjoyed. Thus there arise catalogues of reference, and the catalogues of publishers and booksellers ; while a private library, to be accessible, must also have its catalogue. Specimens of each kind are given. That of a private library catalogue I imagine to be a perfectly novel attempt. People have been ki^own to play at doing work, but, in the " overtime " of constant employment aliter non fit, avite ! liber to work at, or to act, the part of a man who is amusing himself, and merely killing time, is not the easiest thing in the world. It is, I believe, one of the laws of bibliography, that catalogue titles should be copies of the title-pages of books, except that for facility of reference the authors' names are written first. At page 48 is given an example of a title-page thus " faithfully " dealt with. Bat a title-page is a 222796 vi Preface. form of words which is carefully prepared for a particular purpose. A title in a catalogue is a form of words destined for another purpose. What more can be said against mere copying ? Here is an instance of the difference between the letter and the spirit of a title-page. On the right hand is an endeavour to give instant perception of the nature of the book : SANSOM (A. Ernest) The Lettsomian Lee- Sansom (A. Ernest) Valvular diseases of tures on the Treatment of some of the the heart, treatment of some forms. Forms of Valvular Diseases of the Heart, Lettsomian Lectures, 1883 delivered before the Medical Society of London. 1883 It is too often the case that those who work in a library, or at a book- seller's, are allowed to find their own way in writing the titles of books. If any proof were wanted, I would cite the library catalogue of which an example is made at page 58. The object throughout this book is to show those who are young in cata- loguing the way to write concise and 'telling titles from the title-pages of books, or to prepare them from already printed matter with clearness and precision. The work is a bundle of hints on a species of craft, illustrated by examples of faulty workmanship, opposite which is a second series to show how the titles might have been more effectively given. Cataloguing is a handicraft just as much as any other mechanical trade ; an art to be learned by attention and diligent practice. When amateurs get together and talk about catalogues, the question is sure to come up, " What arrangement do you prefer ?" To discuss arrangement before you can prepare a title for a catalogue is as if you would be a colourist before you can draw an outline. Cross references are a tremendous cheval de bataille with your amateur cataloguer. It is as if an embryo Macadam were to intersect the country with by-roads, cutting up the fields into little bits, instead of going direct to any point, merely in order to show that he could make a road. I have an idea that cross references may almost be dispensed with, and that if entries are made with care, " arrangement " may cease to be a matter for thought; that a child may almost make a catalogue of the manuscript. The old saying, " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves/" is put in practice in another walk of life. Among the privileges of an amateur is an "antique * disposition." Type which is in itself an anachronism, discoloured leaves, and jagged edges are among the outward signs. One might say to the bookbinder " Cui flavam religas comam.f Simplex munditiis " is, rather, the motto of a dreamer who has been beaten into practical ways by the necessity of earning his living ; black and white his sober badge, .so far as letterpress is concerned. * Readers of Nathaniel Hawthorne's " Transformation "or the " Marble Faun," as he preferred to call it will understand the relation of antic to the antique. Indeed, the two names of the book almost give you that without reading a line. f Avec la barbe is a well-known term for unkempt and unshaven books. Preface. vii In America, where everything is done on a larger scale, the " antic dis- position " is carried into weightier matters than the mere "trappings and the suits " of books. The characteristic energy of the West the land of the " free " has found vent in hideous contortions of spelling of which I need only instance the words "catalog" and "sudonym" by which the very landmarks of our language, if one may speak of English as men to both countries, are being removed. Such truncated ,nake one think of the senseless snout of a latter-day steamer which roots up the water, in place of the graceful stem and gracious figure-head that inclined to every wave as they flew over it. Reading an American printed book is to go through a kind of inferno, where mutilated forms and horrible grimaces confront you at every step, and your flesh creeps as you dread to encounter some new form of ugliness. Mr. Grant White has earned the gratitude of all who value Shakespeare by not putting his language " to this purgation." That nothing may be wanting, we owe to America the prettiest piece of satire on spelling reform. A periodical once bore conspicuously on its front the editor's name mangled out of all knowledge. Another periodical issuing from the same house of business had to make the name intelligible by means of the unregenerate spelling. If hacking about of familiar and time-honoured words, and improving the spelling of the great writers who have shaped the English language were the extent of the evil, one might have reason to be glad. But, unfortunately, the meaning of what is written on the other side of the Atlantic is not always clear to a dull -minded Britisher. Librarianship, and the mechanism of books, are in America pursued with a wonderful enthusiasm. We should derive encouragement from what is done, and great instruction from what is written in America on the best ways of cataloguing, if we were quite sure we knew what the writers meant. A few years ago the United States put forth a catalogue in three volumes folio. Although it merely relates to a particular collection of books three thousand miles away, the writer of these lines is glad to have the catalogue always near him, because of its literary interest. He cannot be accused of any prejudice against the catalogue, for he once wrote a notice of it which the compilers thought worth printing among testimonials from professors and learned men. The notice was a cordial recognition of the loving pains which had been bestowed on the work. But, as a matter of business, the catalogue is grievously I had almost said fatally marred by what we should call complication or complexity of arrangement. The other day I read an American critique upon it, written by a gentleman who is not a romancer, that I am aware of. The following is an extract, intended, apparently, to describe the catalogue : "An index catalogue of authors, titles, and subjects, arranged in alphabetical order, in the simplest dictionary manner, with plenty of viii Preface. cross references and duplicate entries, will make the best catalogue for readers and habitues of libraries. " On the left hand below, the reader has an example of the " simplest manner/' on the right hand accurate information conveyed with less maiming of words, in less space. GREVILLE. GREVILLE. GREVILLE : (Charles c. F .Clerk of the council to Greville (Charles C. F.) Journal of the 6eo. and Wm. lv.) Memoirs, bee Biography, p. . i _ ' -ITT-II- TTT 161 ; also Qu. rev., 138, 1875. 1875 reigns ot (reorge IV. and William IV., BIOGRAPHY" (INDIVIDUAL). edited by H. Reeve ,3vols. London ,1874 GREVILLE (Charles Cavendish F., Clerk of ~ Memoir ^ brid * d t>7 R. H. Stoddard the council to Geo. IV. and Wm. IV., b. Brtc-a-brac series, (N. Y.) 1875 1794 d 1865 See Fortnightly Review, Dec., 1874, Macmillan and a ' was Clert ' ,. , and William IV. Ed. by H. Eeeve. 2 v. New York, 1875. 12- 3072.22 -- Same. [Abridged] By "R. H. Stoddard. New York, 1875. 16 [Bric-a-brac ser. v. 5.] 3072-24 Reviewed in Fortnightly rev., Dec., 1874 (by C. L. Stanley) ; and Macmillan, v. 31, 1875 (2 art. by A. G. Stapleton). Mr. Henry Reeve did not edit Mr. Greville's " Memoirs." Mr. Charles Greville was in the habit of " booking up " his contemporaries in a " Journal/' portions of which were published in 1874. This book has a most cunningly devised title-page, admirable for the cataloguer who has a " feeling of his business/' but a trap for the unwary. Above the real title, and divided from it by a thin line, is what builders would call a " temporary " title suited for colloquial use, and for circulating library catalogues. In the hands of one who is preparing a catalogue of per- manent reference, the temporary title " comes away ;" it disappears. At page 81 I have ventured to show the best use of such a title as that of the " Greville Memoirs " familiarly speaking. The American catalogue just quoted is an elaborate and beautiful piece of work, but it is not simple, as English people understand the word ; we appear to be dealing with a foreign language which must be translated into English. An instance familiar to all will show that this may be no vain imagining. In England " superior " means higher, better; we say superior in station, or superior in education. But the expression Lake Superior * does not mean that a particular lake is more highly placed than others, or that its waters are better than all the waters of America; it only means that the volume (sticking to our shop) of it is greater. Some day, when cataloguing has become a recognised art, the proper medium between too fine theory and too coarse practice may be hit upon. About a tenth part of the volume before the reader is occupied with the treatment of books from the private or possessor's point of view. Bearing in mind that every man may be said to own a library according to his means, this is well within the proportion. Very likely the space thus * SUPERIOR (LAKE) The largest sheet of fresh water on the face of the globe, and the most remarkable of the great American lakes, not only from its magnitude, &c. AMERICAN GAZETTEER. Preface. ix devoted will not seem to have any practical value. But an endeavour has been made that it shall be interesting apart from any possible value. Indeed, if the reader could know the pains which have been taken to render this section of " Catalogue titles " attractive, he would be amused. However, the writer has some confidence that the fun, the strange interest, the historical value, the beauty, the power nay, even the pathos, of which the passages laid before the reader are turn by turn the vehicle, will form an oasis amid the dry places about it. At all events, culling these garnishings to "a private library catalogue " has been to the writer that kind of refuge from maddening detail, and an opportunity of shadowing forth a theory of book illustration, that books may brighten one another by association, as people in company do. There has been especial pleasure in seizing upon pieces which minister to a love of one's country and to pride in its heroes. Besides mere literary illustration, the writer has sought to fling about the private library catalogue a kind of humanity that shall in some sort clothe the bare bones of titles. Our American cousins have brought a great amount of mechanism and invention to bear on getting people to " read," as if mere reading, any more than mere eating, would do people good, or as if inert or sluggish bodies could be galvanised into communion with immortal spirits. Indeed, one may be met, at any moment, by the question, " What is the good of books ? " The British Working Man will tell you, that in towns where Free Libraries exist, women sit over the fire reading novels instead of doing their work. In the matter of science it may be objected that books do but show us the way to heal diseases which are the product of a bookish era. And, it is quite possible that the two or three inches of the book now before the reader which are given to a way of counteracting the evils of sedentary life, may be found more useful than all the rest of the letterpress, dealing as it does with an occupation which is among the most sedentary. It is a condition of the "treatment" that all books, newspapers, and writing shall be abstained from, and English companionship abjured. A cataloguer never knows for whom he may have to work, what kind of work he will have to do, or the style in which the work may have to be done. Set rules are of little use. Printed suggestions will no more make a craftsman than a book will make a swimmer of one who contents himself with going through his exercises on the dry land, instead of throwing himself into the water or than a book will teach a language, that being the province of a master, or of any human being. If you will depend upon books, you get a dead language, as you find when brought into contact with the living. There is no doubt, of course, as to an Englishman's preference for lay figures of speech. The reason, I take it, that the progress of culture is so ludicrously out of proportion to the amount of appliances, that books are our masters rather than our servants. What we want is that the mind should be above and not below its instru- Preface. ments; and then, like the top sawyer, we shall not get the dust in our eyes. The mind may be likened to a piece of metal, a dull, inapprehensive thing at first. But when it is prepared by cultivation, not crammed from books, it becomes like a photographic plate, it receives and holds images. In small matters, as in great, we can but say, with Hamlet, " The readiness is all." It may seem that the examples of second-hand cataloguing are " more abundant " than they need be. We have to recollect that a "second- hand book " shop is our only school for librarians. Nowadays, books, except the fortunate few which are to become immortal, fall out of the ranks and are dead after a few months. It follows, therefore, measuring by time when was printing invented? that new literature is to second- hand literature as (say) one is to eight hundred. The " new book " seller not merely works within a comparatively small circle, but it may be said that he handles merely such articles as he chooses or such as are ordered of him. The " second-hand book " seller, on the other hand, has the whole area of printed literature for a field, and never knows, from hour to hour, what he may have to deal with. Such an experience is of priceless value to a librarian, and cannot be supplanted by any amount of biblio- graphical science which may result from professorship in the future. And a book which in the least reflects it cannot help being of use in a library. Moreover, no one as yet has had the . effrontery to speak, in print, of second-hand catalogue-making. ABSTEACT OF CONTENTS. PACK Abbreviations of words, terms and phrases in foreign catalogues . 161 181 Alphabetical arrangement of titles, and the alphabet in print ... 8 Foreign terms relating to autographs, books, maps, portraits, and prints . 161 Biblical books, their names in French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin . 19 Circulating library ticket, book-marker and paper-cutter, in one . . 16 The use of capital letters shown by words in different languages . 161 181 The management of Christian names in a printed alphabet of authors . . 22 Some remarks on the catalogue of a circulating library, with examples . 57 Straining after classification a vice of cataloguers, indexers, and writers 3638 Coincidence and resemblance of different books' titles . . .143, 158 A concise way of entering dictionaries of various languages . . .45 Full titles do not always convey full information .... 44, 49 Titles of Greek and Latin classics, hints, and a table for the novice . . 29 Observations and various suggestions on indexing books . 50 On indexing a catalogue of books for reference, with examples . . .114 Catalogues made to look and to be interesting, by means of notes . 67, 108 Italian names in title-pages or advertisements likely to mislead, with examples 53 How to acquire some knowledge of languages almost without thought 50, 54 Some Latin names of towns in catalogues, and their abbreviations . . 161 On the catalogue of a learned society, with parallel examples . 57, 59 Foreign terms relating to maps, and their abbreviations . . . .161 M. on a title-page, which may, or may not be, short for Monsieur . . 64 Mr., what English word are these two letters short for 1 . . .63 Getting titles into one line for a handy catalogue of reference . . .39 Order of words in titles, the desirability of a plan 78 Young man out of a situation ; what he might do to pass the time , . 54 Foreign terms relating to portraits and prints, a few explained . . .161 Titles and prefixes of authors, how to manage . . . . . .26 The usefulness of prices in a catalogue of mere reference .... 80 Private library catalogued by its owner, or by an expert . . . .81 A few remarks on publishers' catalogues, with examples . . .104 The meaning of the term " reader " 112 Reference titles and index one alphabet, ordinary titles shown opposite . 115 Examples showing the need of registration of past and future books . .143 Scientific books, how they are best described 145 Cataloguing second-hand books, with parallel examples . . . .145 A simple and inexpensive remedy for ills of a sedentary life . . .95 Subjects indicated in an alphabet of authors without adding a word . .157 Titles of books and index of their subjects in one alphabet . . .115 A rough vocabulary of terms and phrases, from foreign catalogues . .161 Translated books, and their originals, in a catalogue for reference . .158 The meaning of the expression uncut, in relation to modern books . .160 Uniformity of style desirable in the titles of a reference catalogue . .160 FUNCTIONS OF A CATALOGUE AND OF ITS INDEX. The library affords work to employ all my time, as well as that of twenty assistants. Seventeen of these are occupied chiefly with cataloguing. A LIB R ASIAN'S WORK, BY J. FlSKK. A CATALOGUE of books is composed of what are called titles, whose office is to represent the nature of books to those who are away from them ; whereas title-pages are inseparable from the books. Catalogues,, little interesting and attractive as they must be to the great majority of mankind, are vitally important to two classes of persons ; to those who consult, and to those who produce them. Consulters of catalogues naturally desire to see what they are looking for as speedily as may be. Saving room in titles means saving money to the paymaster ; while conciseness, without loss of clearness, means saving time and trouble to the consulter, be he student, librarian, or bookseller. From every point of view, there can be little doubt that, cteteris paribus, the best catalogue is that which takes the least room. Before entering into detail, it may be well to try and make plain the value and use of a catalogue of books and of its index by means of a figure of speech. A book is, as it were, a region or a city that a man wishes to make himself acquainted with, or to visit. In order to reach a district or a city, you must have a road, ordinarily speaking. The road or way to a book in a library or large collection is the catalogue. It will sometimes happen that a traveller cannot hit upon the road to the place he is bound for. Then he is glad of a sign-post or a finger-post, in French called an indicateur, whose analogue is an index entry to put him on the right road. We have the index finger, among ourselves ; among animals there is the pointer, w'hich indicates birds; and, among the stars, we have the pointers, which, stand at what angle they will, unfailingly guide the eye to the polar star. The parallel between titles in a catalogue and roads to a place is not complete without mention of cross references, which serve the reader in getting from one part of a catalogue to another as cross roads lead from one highway to another. And, just as no sensible man will travel on a cross road when the main road will serve, so are cross references to be avoided when you can do without them. Our parable of a road and its finger-post as illustrating the functions of a catalogue is not quite exhausted. The learner has to bear in mind that, as the arm of a sign-post is not the road, but only points towards it, the entries in an index need not, and probably should not, have the fulness of a title entry, but contain the smallest number of words that will suffice to show where the inquirer will get his information. Each entry in the index to a catalogue should be kept within one line. Not merely is the appearance of an index much improved by this kind of regularity, but the knowledge that there is only so much space gets the Index entries and titles in a catalogue. operator into the way of suiting himself to it. The length of line will be determined by the size of the intended page, to which the size of type will be adapted. Before indexes to catalogues were in common use, all sorts of twistings of the road to a book were resorted to by the knowing ones in order to draw attention, that the seeker might not " lose his way." This is all very well so long as you have no sign-post, finger-post, or index. But when you have an arrangement for directing the inquirer and putting him on to the right track, these contortions of a title become ridiculous. Among the examples of Reference titles will be found many books' names which have been worried out of their proper shape without any occasion for it, because there is an index entry to guide the inquirer. Among the examples of the right-hand column, the index entry shows the needlessness of forcing the titles out of their natural run. Thus far the more important kind of catalogue, that which is for reference, and which may be in use for any number of years ; demanding, therefore, great care in its preparation. But catalogues of books for sale are more numerous and brought out at (or after) more frequent intervals. Far more young hands, probably, are employed in the United Kingdom, in America, and on the Continent on this latter branch of the craft, than on reference catalogues ; and it is likely that cautions or hints will be more needed for commercial cataloguing than for the permanent kind. A familiar illustration will show the conception I have of a selling catalogue. If you were to ask an ordinary tradesman, he would tell you that anybody can sell a thing which is asked for, but that it requires a salesman to dispose of articles which are not in the mind of a customer when he enters a shop. The cataloguer of books for sale is, or should be, this salesman. He has, entrusted to him, a given quantity of goods. Some of these will inevitably be asked for ; will sell themselves, in fact. These require the briefest hint; if, indeed, they should be catalogued at all. The second kind is that which, by moderate description or naming, is pretty sure to be sold. Lastly comes the kind which, without the art of display or setting forth, will stay on the shelves. At this point the value of a cataloguer is shown in two ways. Firstly, in determining the degree of attention or space that a book deserves or requires in order to sell it ; and secondly, in the setting forth or making attractive articles which need that kind of pains. The amount of trouble you give to one entry in a catalogue is materially affected by the number of copies there may be of the book in stock. For, if in order to sell one copy, you use your persuasive powers so that twenty-five orders come for it, there is waste of force. A stall in an exhibition appears to me best to represent the idea I have of a commercial catalogue, because it is of no use having good articles, even if they are duly priced, unless people can be got to look at your show. How this may be done, and has been done, the reader will find shown under the heading Notes in a catalogue. One of the bugbears of a cataloguer is a long title-page. From the bookseller's point of view a title can hardly be too short, proof of which is that the colloquial or oral bookseller's title almost always differs from the printed title. If authors were to reflect, or to be aware, that their books, if they sell * at all, will be rapidly ." called over " with hundreds * The difference between active and that which is not active was capitally set forth in the course of the Austro-Italian war of 1866. The Italians built au ironclad ram which they called the Affondatore, the sinker of her enemies. The "Art of sinking" was presently Title-pages ; abbreviations wHich may be met with. 3 of others in the course of hurried business, they might perhaps be induced to shape their title-pages accordingly. The following are almost perfect names, because, whether in the shop, in the warehouse, or in the library, you can scarcely do other than speak all the words of them : Black (W.) Kilmeny. Blackmore (E. D.) Mary Anerley. Murray (E. C. Grenville) Bound about France. The last one, however, speaking practically, is defective in this respect, that it gives the idea of a travelling over France, or of a sailing round the coast, whereas it is the body politic which is explored. Of titles which err by reason of their length and consequent unhandiness if we may so say of that which has to be spoken now and then abundant specimens are offered under the heading Reference titles. GENERAL HINTS, Bramble, as soon as he had passed any shoal or danger, pointed it out to me. He said, " I tell it to you, because you can't be told too often. You won't recollect much that I tell you, I dare say ; I don't expect it ; but you may recollect a little, and every little helps." MAHBYAT'B POOR JACK. Abbreviations. The following note may have its use for the young hand. In old-fashioned books an " over a consonant signifies that it is repeated; numus, for example, being, in effect, the same as nummus. The same mark over a vowel stands for the letter " m "; donti, therefore, is the same as donum. A small e over an a, an o, or a u has the same force as what we now write a, 6, or ii; each is a stage in the process of contraction. The German word for men was first written Maenner, then Manner, and is now most commonly seen as Manner. In some old inscriptions the Octo, Novem, and Decem of October, November, and December are represented by the Roman numeral. Thus, instead of die Octobris, die Novembris, die Decembris, we find die VHTbris, die IXbris, die Xbris. Alphabetical arrangement. Having never seen in print any direc- tions for putting titles into alphabetical order, I venture to describe the system I have been accustomed to use. First sort the entire heap into six heaps, which will lie before you thus : A D E H I M N R S T Z Then take the heap A D and sort it into its component letters, after which each letter can be brought into shape by use of the plan first applied to the whole alphabet. It is best to go on with the second process until you have the whole alphabet in separate letters, because, if you brought A, for example, into its component parts, and put them into alpha- betical order, you might, not impossibly, find some A/s among the later letters, one of the inevitable accidents of sorting quickly. With this hint or two, the young cataloguer will easily find his way ; and various illustrated by the going down of this doughty champion before the assault of a wooden Austrian man-of-war under the command of Admiral Tegethoff. The " sinker " speedily found herself at the bottom of the Adriatic, an illustration of the English sailor's word " founder." The Italian commander might have said to his opponent, in the words of Horace, . . tu levior cortice et improbo iracuudior Hadria. . . . CARMINA, iii 9. B 2 Alphabetical arrangement of titles. devices for doing this or that more handily are sure to suggest themselves in the course of practice. The great thing is to be started. In my own practice I have got into a way of letting the slips fall on the table at an angle of forty-five degrees. Then, if the accumulation of titles should cause the heaps to slide, they will run into one another distinct, so that they can be separated instantly without sorting afresh. Here is a hint which may save time. Suppose you have, in course of sorting, got before you a heap of titles composed of Bab, Sac, Bad there will probably not be Baa not yet separated. The natural impulse will be first to get them into three heaps, a step towards the perfect alphabet. I suggest taking the whole heap and sorting it as if it merely consisted of Bav. In doing this Bab flies out to the left hand, and Bad to the right, each into a heap ; while Bac is not merely separated from them, but is found one step nearer disintegration. The operator will soon determine for himself whether this is any gain. In sorting and arranging an alphabet for the printer, you will often come upon two titles, each occupying a line, as Punch, vol. 76, 4to, 8s. 6d. Punch, vol. 77, 4to, 8s. 6d. In these cases it is usual to blend the matter of the two slips on one of them, and cancel the other, which gives you Punch, vols. 76 and 77, 4to, 8s. 6cZ. each. I suggest, as an improvement, in this, and similar cases, to take the later slip, and insert merely in its proper place such information as the earlier slip contains beyond what is in the later, putting a semicolon after the inser- tion ; thus : Punch, vol. 76, 8s. Qd.; 77, 4to, 8s. 6cZ. This is neater, quicker, and more certain ; neater because there are less words, quicker for the same reason, and more certain because there is always the chance of the vols. to which you are putting " each " differing in price, which happens so seldom that one is too often apt to take the sameness for granted. However, the mere getting rid of the awkward " each" after the price justifies the way I suggest I venture to think. When you come to print your alphabet, supposing each title is comprised within one line, you do not repeat the same proper name, but let a (long as the word omitted, or shorter, according to the plan of the cata- logue) stand for the second, third, and other authors of the same name ; as Kogers (H.} Private libraries. (M.) Waverley dictionary. Alphabetical arrangement of titles. When, however, the name, while identically the same, represents some- thing different, as in the following case, where one word stands for a surname, a Christian name, and the name of a flower, the name must be repeated for every change of meaning : Eose (R. E.) Gems for the king's crown. Rose and Josephine. Dunbar's mistake. Robin, and little May. Rose of the world. Here is a variation on the same theme. Suppose, which is at least possible, that a man named Albert Rose writes a novel called " Without a thorn," and that in the same list there appears a book called (< a Rose in bloom." This is what the catalogue says, according to the usual style of doing such things : Rose (A.) In bloom. Without a thorn. Which conveys the idea that one A. Rose, man or woman, has written two books, the one entitled " In bloom," the other " Without a thorn;" which, as Euclid might say, is absurd, and, one would think, a strong case against the meaningless capital letters of English catalogues. The titles should be given thus : Rose (A.) Without a thorn. Rose in bloom (a), &c. It is a frequent error among compositors to place the article, which is, for the sake of the alphabet, necessarily withdrawn from the beginning of a title, immediately after the first word, which might, some day, cause a medical work and a possible children's book to be noted thus : Box (A.) On the ear, On the ear; instead of as follows : Box (A.) On the ear. Box on the ear (a). It occasionally happens that several words, besides the author's name, are repeated in a succeeding title, even to the extent of the whole name of a book. In these cases of repetition the line which denotes that the words are the same as before is in some catalogues made as long as the space taken by the words the line stands for. These long lines seem to me very unsightly, but you must now and then use them. A better way is to substitute a short for each word omitted. Great economy of space results from habitually doing this. Here is an instance, drawn from Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston, and Co/s Educational catalogue : JEschines. See also Demosthenes: In Ctesiphontem (Oxford Pocket Classics), with short notes, 2s J. Parker et Demosthenes de Corona (Oxford Pocket Classics'), text, 2s J". Parker with Latin translation by Stock, 3s Kelly On the Crown (and Demosthenes), literal translation, by R. Mongan, 2s...Kelly The ingenious arrangement of the " dashes " is derived from Mr. Sampson Low's index volumes. Where a preceding title occupies more than one line, I would use no marks to denote omission, but give the name of the book afresh, as : Goethe, Hermann und Dorothea. Text, with explanatory Notes and Vocabulary. By M. Forster. 2nd Edition. 12mo, cloth. 2s. 6d. Goethe, Hermann und Dorothea. German Text, with grammatical Notes. In the alphabet of a catalogue, as it comes from the printer, names 6 Alphabetical arrangement of titles. sometimes present themselves as given on the left, below. On the right the names are given in a way that is better ; always supposing you have not the initial of one of the Browns. His name should be followed by a comma, which is preferable to distorting the name into " Brown's. ' Brown (T.) Logic. Brown, Sermons. 's Sermons. (T.) Logic. The dash on the left, succeeded by an upraised comma, looks awkward. Never give an author's name thus, it is inelegant : Macaulay's (Lord) History of England. This should be printed in one of these two ways : Macaulay'a History of England. Maoaulay (Lord) History of England j or, better still Macaulay (T. B. ; Lord) History of England ; because, in the latter case, the initials tally with entries in catalogues printed before the great historian became Lord Macaulay. As to the possessive 's, it is found in practice, that where such names as " Burn " and t( Burns " (and others which differ to the extent of a letter) are written or printed " Burn's " and " Burns'," confusion arises ; besides that in alphabetical arrangement it looks ill and is undesirable to have an author's name in the least distorted. At page 23, eight authors' names may be seen together in alphabetical order, two of which are mis-spelled, owing to the use of these wretched possessives when they are not wanted. The names should be " Fellows " and ' ' Bernays." The word " the," at the beginning of a title, may, and therefore should, almost always be omitted when it follows the author's name in an alpha- betical list, as : Collins (W. Wilkie) Woman in white. We all know that the title of the book is " The woman in white, by W. Wilkie Collins," but the suggestions here given are for making a cata- logue which shall be most useful to practical men. A series of " the," preceding each of a dozen works by the same author, would materially hinder the searcher's (f plumping " upon what he wanted instantaneously. Take the same kind of care not to omit " the " in the middle of a title, if you would not be awkward, as in Laurie (J. S.) Introd. grammar, for use of junior classes. Or, having broken through the rule of absolute faithfulness of transcrip- tion (if there be one) by leaving out the " the " in ' ' for the use of," you may advantageously go a step farther, and omit " use of." A grammar for junior classes from the pen of a reasonable man will be introductory, one must suppose. Wherefore we get, instead of the above title, Laurie (J. S.) English grammar for junior classes. " Sooner said than done " does not apply here. The saying it has pain- fully occupied nine lines, but when once the artificer's head is pointed the right way, this matter of the " the "s is arranged currente calamo, and without conscious thought. The prefix de should be placed after the Christian name or initial. Putting the " de " first gets an alphabet into hopeless disorder. Voltaire, for example, would have to be put under D ; where nobody would look for him. The German prefix von belongs to the same category, and should never have a capital " v." For more on this head see De. Alphabetical arrangement of titles. While " de " is not allowed to come first in the alphabet with French names, there is many a French name, such as De Burgh, Defoe, Delohne, De Morgan, &c.,* which has become naturalised with us. Such as these must be ranged in the alphabet under "De." Thus far is tolerably clear, but before a name, originally French, beginning with " De " becomes a part of the English language, it goes through a period of transition in which you don't know whether it is French or English, and are consequently puzzled how to treat it. Such a name is De Hochstrasser, which I met with the other day. The odds are that, ultimately, if this name became English, the " de " would be dropped. I therefore put tho name under H ; and would say to the novice that in any doubtful case, he cannot be very wrong in putting a "de" after the initial and ranging his author under the more characteristic part of his name. " De Porquet," by the way, is a very good instance of a " transitional " name. You do not know where to place it. I think the old catalogues used to say, " See Fenwick de Porquet/' One of our popular errors in chronicling names may here be mentioned. Many authors have what are called compound names, which are really two surnames joined by a hyphen. The British mode of treatment in a catalogue is to dislocate the first of the two surnames and make a Christian name of it. Thus, Mr. S. Baring-Gould and Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen are (1877) generally given in an alphabetical list of books as on the left, underneath ; whereas B and K are the letters they should appear under, as on the right : Gould (S. B.). Baring-Gould (S.). Hugessen (E. H. K.). Knatchbull-Hugessen (E. H. ; M.P.). The force of this is best seen if we take the name " Halliwell-Phillipps." What name is better known in the literature of Shakspeare than that of Mr. J. 0. Halliwell ? But suppose he is, as an author, relegated to P, as Phillipps (J. 0. H.), how will those who are accustomed to the old name, find him ? Some persons are sure to have forgotten the modification of name, and some may not have heard of it. In making a catalogue which comprehends the books of a certain period, three titles such as the following may come together in the process of alphabetising, each on a separate slip Brown (J.) Guide to London, 12mo, Is. the environs of London, 12mo, Is. London and its environs, 12mo, 2s. Qd. You may get these into one line, and very rapidly, thus. Take the last slip, strike out " audits," inserting " Is."; before " 12mo " insert " Is.-, 1 vol." Observe the effect : Brown (J.) Guide to London, Is.; Environs, Is.; 1 vol. 12mo, 2s. Qd. The slips which preceded can now be thrown away. Similia similibus '(curis) curantur. In a collective alphabet you may sometimes get two slips, the one * I am constantly tempted to make a mistake in one Greek name, because in the second- hand book lists it always comes after mine. Look into any book list of a miscellaneous character, and you will see the succession following : DE MOIVRE. DE MORGAN. DE MOSTHENES. PROCESSOR DE MORGAN'S LIFE. 8 Alphabetical arrangement of titles. recording vol. i. of a work, the other naming vol. ii. of it. They are commonly blended thus : vols. 1 and 2, or. 8vo, Is. Qd. each. I suggest taking the later slip and inserting immediately before ' ' 2 " "1, Is. 6d.," and using Koman numerals. Then you get vol. i. Is. Qd. ; ii. or. 8vo, Is. Qd. When there are two editions of one book to be got into one line, a common way of noting them is, Stowe (Mrs.) Poganuc people, 1st and 2nd edit. 10s. 6d. each. I prefer the following : Stowe (Harriet E.j Mrs. Beecher) Poganuc people, 10s. Qd. j 2nd edit. 10s. Qd. For, when you come to later editions, the method holds good : Poganuc people, 3rd ed. 10s. Qd. ; 4th ed. 6s. The first cited method breaks down at the third and fourth editions, because of the change of price. Although bibliography, strictly so called, is not the theme of these pages, bibliographers will probably agree with what is here suggested, if only because the (word or) expression " first edition " is never * seen on title-pages. I claim, farther, that getting rid of the disagreeable " each " after the price in a title is distinct gain. Anonymous books. I imagine that the most elementary rule in cataloguing is that authors' Christian names and prefixes shall come after the surname when you prepare a title. Indeed, an old hand would scarcely think of naming it to a young one, because the practice stares you in the face at every turn ; you cannot help seeing it to be done. Let us imagine that one Signor Monaldini, whose Christian name we do not know, has written a book whose title-page says " by Signor Monaldini;" we write Monaldini (Signor), &c. But suppose there exists a book whose title is " Signor Monaldini's niece " without any naming of an author, we do just the opposite. Then " Signor " comes first. And in an index the names of books which have authors run the same way ; Lord Lynn's wife. Lady Audley's secret. Miss Gwynne of Woodford. Mr. and Mrs. Falconbridge. Signor Monaldini's niece. An anonymous work will often give considerable trouble in determining the best word to commence your line with, in an alphabet that rules according to authors, which is supplemented by an index. Here is an example : An essay on spiritual evolution considered in its bearing upon modern spiritualism, &c., &c. When your alphabet is supplemented by an index, the only way out of the difficulty is to accept the rough and ready rule, " Range under the first substantive/' which gives : Essay on spiritual evolution (an), &c. ; * I have seen " first edition " on the title-page of one book ; exceptio probat, &c. Archceologia, titles which are an abstract of contents. 9 while iii the index you say, Evolution, spiritual, essay. Spiritualism, modern ; spiritual evolution, essay. The word in italic, according to the very convenient plan of Mr. Sampson Low's indexes, denotes the word by which the book is found in the general alphabet. When you are without an index the title runs, Spiritual evolution, an essay, &c. ; supplemented by a cross entry Evolution. See Spiritual evolution. In a catalogue which is not provided with an index, the rule of placing an anonymous work in the alphabet according to the first substantive in the title may be found unsatisfactory in other ways. Take the following : A treatise on the art of boring, supposing there is such a book ; the thing there is no doubt about. This work must be catalogued Boring, treatise on the art, &c. A stronger case is furnished by the next, which begins, " The life of Mansie Wauch," &C., and, according to the rule, stands Life of Mansie Wauch (the), tailor of Dalkeith. These are two among many instances where the judgment of the cataloguer is brought into play. The title just quoted, in good hands, becomes - Mansie Wauch, tailor of Dalkeith, life of. Else how is any one to find the book when it is wanted ? Matters are farther complicated here by the fact that the work derives a great part of its interest from being by David Macbeth Moir, one of Scotland's sweetest lyric poets, the A of Black wood. If I were cataloguing the work say for a circulating library, or for a list of books to be sold, my entries of " Mansie Wauch " would be double, thus : Mansie Wauch, tailor of Dalkeith (by D. Moir (D. M. ; " A ") Mansie Wauch, tailor M. Moir; "A"). of Dalkeith. We must recollect that the book will be asked for in one of two ways " Have you Mansie Wauch ?" or " Have you Moir's Mansie Wauch ?" In Mr. Haggerston's admirable catalogue of the Newcastle Public Libraries, which has come out since the foregoing was written, I find what I am suggesting actually done ; with the useful addition ' ' a tale/' that people may not suppose the " life of Mansie Wauch " to be a real piece of autobiography. Archaeologia is an article which requires a little attention, for the single volumes that often occur have to be so given in a catalogue that they will " sell/' This is done by naming the most attractive articles in the course of your title. The trouble in proportion to the price is farther increased to the " second-hand " bookseller by the frequent occurrence of parts or halves of volumes, which can only be moved off by a certain minuteness of cataloguing. Out of the thirty or forty papers or articles which one volume of Archceologia sometimes contains, the difficulty, to many people, will be to select " taking " ones, and to make the choice without consuming too much time ; also not to waste money in printing by occupying too much space. 10 Archceologia, titles which are an abstract of contents. In the course of several years' cataloguing* of second-hand books in leisure hours, or overtime, a great proportion of the volumes of which Archceologia consists, have come in my way, and I have been fortunate enough to hit upon a mode of presenting each in a title that has given satisfaction to those who employed me. Indeed, I have been told that one of the cognoscenti said he ' ( wondered how the deuce I did it." It may, therefore, be useful to the young cataloguer to say that I have for the most part selected interesting material or substantial objects for mention, rather than musty deeds, letters, copies of treaties, lists of goods and furniture, &c. The numerous examples appended will show the kind of article selected for presentation. Of course, each paper, as will be observed, must be named with the utmost conciseness. Indeed, I have got into the way, latterly, to that end, of omitting the writers' names. The time taken has been one minute per line, including selection of papers. 33 ARCH^30LOGIA, I., containing Ward onbeacons; Antiquities at Bourdeaux; Intaglio of Antinous ; Pillars of Rome ; Eoman anti- quities of Brecknock ; 61 papers, plates and other illustrations, 4to. 1770. ARCH^EOLOGIA, II., containing Roman remains in Monmouthshire; Inscription at Spello ; Ancient cornelian ; Remarkable monu- ment at Penrith ; Roman monuments in Cumberland; Round tower at Brechin; Ancient font ; Old wall at Verulam, &c. ; 42 papers, 27 plates. 1773. ARCHCEOLOGIA, III., containing Ancient hor se- shoeing ; Roman altars at Graham's Dyke; Cock-fighting, by the Rev. Mr. Pegge; Inscription to Serapis at York; Parthian epochas on a coin ; CoinofNerva; Ancient in- scribed marbles; Undescribed Roman station; Large barrow ; Barrow in Derbyshire, &c. ; 44 papers, 19 plates. 1775. 27 ARC H^EOLOGIA,IV.,containing Daines Barrington on the term Levant; Gold ena- melled ring ; Human bones filled with lead ; Singular discovery of bones ; The word Romance ; Sir W. Hamilton on Pompeii ; Seal ring; Gold coin; Egyptian wisdom; King's bed; Apamean medal, ter ; Coins from St. Mary Hill, London, &c. ; 26 papers, 25 plates. 1786. ARCH^EOLOGIA, V., containing Roman, &c., antiquities in Monmouthshire; Rudston pyramidal stone ; Piece of ordnance from the Goodwins ; Gold coins from Northumberland ; Roman camps in Gloucestershire; Ancient fortifications, &c., at Christchurch and in Scotland ; Roman earthenware from the Thames; Vases from the Mosquito shore; Roman bath at Dover ; Ancient building at Warnford,&c.,&c.; 44 papers, 30 plates. 1779. ARCHCEOLOGIA, VI., containing Roman antiquities at Exeter j Saxon inscription ; Sin- gular stone; Plague in England; Vitrified walls; Earthen masks from the Mosquito shore; Druidical remains; Roman earthen- ware, ter; Monument in Brittany; Indian picture writing ; Round churches, &c. ; 30 papers, 56 plates. 1782. ARCH^EpLOGIA,VIL, containing Antient pillar inscription; Druidical remains, bis; Undescribed Roman roads ; Skeleton from a bog ; Farther discoveries ; Lows or barrows ; Dundalk ship temple ; Roman pig of lead ; Crystal vase; Chariots of the ancient Britains (sic), by the Rev. Mr. Pegge ; Ancient musical instruments ; Tartar burial places ; Pits in Berks ; Pagoda near Bombay ; Amphitheatre of Vespasian, &c. ; 45 papers, 30 plates. 1785. ARCH^EOLOGIA, VIII., containing Genii or lares ; Urns and Druidical temple ; Roman tile at Reculver; Discovery of Ikeneld Street; Discoveries in a sewer in Birchin Lane, bis ; Invention of cards ; North American inscrip- tion, bis ; Barberini vase, bis ; Roman altar and tablet ; Two Roman villas, pottery, &c. ; Druid, temple, monument, &c. ; 37 papers, 31 plates. 1787. ARCH^SOLOGIA, IX., containing Roman pig of lead; Satyrical medals; Brass celts, weapons, &c. ; Roman road in Surrey; Roman building; Tumulus in Derbyshire; Roman roads and camps, Mansfield, Notts; Discoveries in Brotherton Church; Round towers in Ireland ; Persons called Waldenses in Kent ; Roman antiquities; Roman baths, &c. ; 31 papers, 24 plates. 1789. ARCHCEOLOGIA, X., containing Catarac- ionium ; Druidic remains in Cumberland ; Pits in Derbyshire ; Machine called the Lewis ; Unnoticed Roman antiquities in Cumberland ; Late continuance of torture in England ; Vitri- fied fortifications ; Mosaic pavement ; Saxon arch; Roman horologium; Antient font; Old font; Antiquities at Bath; Sepulchral anti- quities, &c. ; 40 papers, 40 plates. 1792. ARCHJEOLOGIA, XL, containing Greek inscription at (sic) London ; Burning of St. Paul's steeple; Italian musical instrument; Brass vessel from Dumfries ; Fonts in Scot- land ; European names of chessmen, &c. ; 26 papers, 21 plates of Roman antiquities, &c. 1794. 38 ARCH ^EOLOGI A,XII.,containingStone figures at Chalk ; Carving at Long Melf orcl ; Roman sepulchre, and remains in Lincoln- shire ; Reliefs on a font at Thorpe Salvin; Ornaments of female dress; Barrow in Derby- shire, &c., &c.; 28 papers, 52 plates, 4to. 1796. Archceologia, titles which are an abstract of contents. 11 138 ARCH^EOLOGIA, XIII. , containing a Roman camp in Westphalia ; Gold medal of Charles II. ; Unpublished gold coin of Charles I. ; Inscriptions at the Tower ; Fall of stones at Stonehenge ; Inscription on a barn in Kent; Flint weapons in Suffolk ; Antiquities from St.Domingo; Greek sepulchral monument,&c.; 30 papers, 27 plates. 1800. 142 ARCH^EOLOGIA, XIV., containing Burial urn in Norfolk ; Gimmalring; Ancient symbol of Macedon ; Chimney-piece carving ; Roman antiquities in Essex ; Arundelian marble II. ; Stone cross or pillar in Norfolk ; Roman way, and antiquities; Moulds for Roman coins ; Bridekirk font and Runic column ; Unpublished Phoenician coin ; Rom- sey Abbey sculptures and inscriptions, bis; Tombs at Tewkesbury ; Inscription from Babylon ; Walls of Constantinople, &c. ; 34 papers, 57 plates, 4to. 1803. 20 ARCH^EOLOGIA, XV., containing Names, &c., of James I. ships; Greek inscrip- tions on Pompey's Pillar ; Ancient rolls of Papyrus ; Tumuli in Wiltshire ; Ruins of Carthage; Kinds of trial by ordeal; Tomb of Theobald at Canterbury; Engraved brass plate at Netley; Ancient sculptures, &c., at Rumsey ; Gothic architecture in Italy and Sicily, &c.; 39 papers, 48 plates, 4to. 1806. 143 ARCH^EOLOGIA,XVI.,containingUn- published Greek coins ; Greek coins of Lybia ; Coin of Atusa; Roman antiquities in Caermar- thenshire; Persian gem ; Cornwall antiquities ; Egyptian Papyrus, and unrolling it; Aqueduc romain d Antibes ; Rosetta stone in three languages ; Rare Samaritan coin ; Roman vault at York; Golden rod, &c.; 45 papers, 72 plates. 1812. 17 ARCBLEOLOGIA, XVII, containing Ancient mitre and crosier ; Ancient Pontifi~ calia ; Bacchanalian cup ; Roman remains in Wales ; Bronze figure in Kent ; Coin of OermanicopliK ; Lids of stone coffins ; In- struments called Celts ; Roman altar in Cumberland; Druidical remains in Guernsey; Evesham Abbey reading-desk, &c.; 37 papers, 25 plates. 1814. 15 ARCH^OLOGIA, XVIII., containing Henry II. pennies ; Monumental inscription in Cornwall ; Roman buildings, &c., in Glou- cester ; Sepulchral monuments in Italy and France ; Saxon antiquities at Lancaster ; Roman villa in Sussex ; Gog and Magog ; Sarcophagus at Reading ; Gold ring at Coventry ; Celtic remains on the Cambridge road ; Bayeux tapestry ; Engraved gems from Babylon, &c. ; 46 papers, 31 plates, 4to. 1817. 34 ARCH^EOLOGIA, XVIII. 1, containing Henry II. pennies; English seals (not ani- mated); Egyptian antiquities ; English sur- names ; Roman antiquities, Gloucestershire ; Sepulchral monuments in England and France; Saxon antiquities, Lancaster ; Roman villa, Sussex; Composition of the colour on a Roman wall, &c., &c. ; 23 papers, 19 plates. 1815. 28 ARCH^OLOGIA, XIX., Wilbraham, Glossary of Cheshire words ; Colt Hoare, Stone barrow at Willow ; Clarke, Antiquities at Fulborn ; Millingen, Antique bas-relief ; Narrien, Roman encampment at East Hemp- stead; Anglo-Saxon pennies at Dorking; Meyrick on Body-armour, &c. ; 41 papers, 43 plates, 2 parts. 1821. 28 ARCH^OLOGIA, XX., containing Markland, Early carriages and travelling in England ; Meyrick, Ancient mode of putting on armour ; Amyot, Population of English cities temp. Edward IIT.; Taylor (A.) Gothic ornaments of the Duomo, Battis- terio, and Campo Santo of Pisa; Ancient vessel from the Rother's bed, &c., &c. ; 14- papers, 29 plates, 4to. 1824. 30 ARCHJEOLOGIA, XX. 1, containing Deposition and death of Richard II., by Weld and Amyot ; and Amyot on Early English carriages ; 3 papers, 18 plates, thick 4to. 1823. 34 ARCH^OLOGIA, XX. 2, containing Tomb of Sir J. Chandos ; Meyrick on Putting on old armour ; Lord E. Bruce' s heart ; Population of cities under Edward III. ; Use of the pix ; Gothic ornaments of the Duomo, Battisterio, and Campo Santo of Pisa ; Ancient vessel (not floating) from the Rother, &c., &c. ; 11 papers, 11 plates, thin 4to. 1824. 141 ARCH^OLOGIA, XXL, containing Coins from S. Indian tumuli ; Coins from the same tumuli ; Fragments of British chariots ; Runic inscription on a jasper ring, Us; Prussian ancient buildings; Roman antiquities of the Vallum Antonini; Steven- age church effigy ; Pointed arch in architec- ture, &c., &c.; 35 papers, 27 plates. 1827. 35 ARCH^EOLOGIA, XXL, containing Coins from Indian tumuli, 2 papers ; Runic gold ring ; British chariots ; Sarcastic verses, 1399; Runic ring of Jasper ; another ; Ancient buildings in Prussia ; Roman antiquities from Antonine's Vallum ; Monumental effigy, &c. ; 35 papers, 27 plates. 1827. 34 ARCH^EOLOGIA, XXI. 2, containing Webb, Survey of Egypt and Syria; Stotharcl, Effigy in stone at Stonehenge ; Meyrick, the Abbey of Ystrad Marchell, &c., &c ; 4to. 1827. 33 ARCH^OLOGIA, XXII., containing Turner's Roman bath at Stoke, Lincolnshire; R. C. Hoare, Mosaic pavements in Hants; S. R. Meyrick, Hand firearms, and also engravings on a German suit of armour; H. Ellis, Bronze bracelet at Altyre; J. Norris, British coins at High Wycombe ; Kempe, Discoveries at Holwood Hill; Old English poem on the siege of Rouen, &, 2110c, 2lWd, loses 2110&, the library clerk has only to give him 21IOe, and make a note on the page 2110 of his entering-book, "Don't honour 2110<7.' ; If the directions are given to the library assistants always to watch for such a mem., it will become mechanical and cause no trouble. Besides, every library has its plan of book-keeping, and very likely the pages of the entering-book are specially printed before binding. Thus, there will only be to reserve one line towards the head of each page, at the beginning of which is printed Stop, and then the number of a lost ticket is entered in that line, to which the clerk's eye will inevitably go on opening the book. * This book is not on the "art of teaching the English language with the correctness and propriety" of an American grammarian, but on incidents of actual or likely occurrence in dealing mechanically with books. C 18 Botik-wiarJcer ; book notices ; books of the Bible. I am aware that at Mr. Mudie's library town exchanges are registered on cards which are kept in alphabetical order, each card representing a subscription. In this way it is instantly seen whether any book has been already had on the day inquiry is made ; which seemed to me miraculous till I found how it was done. But I believe that the great majority of circulating libraries, such as are kept by booksellers in the country, make entries direct in their books, when exchanges take place, and what comes back is then erased. Supposing the tablet I suggest were adopted, each page of the library entering-book, or the two pages which show at once, might be divided into four columns. Then, in one instant, the librarian could head them a, b, c, d } if a new subscriber wanted four books at a time. Without such heading they would take the successive entries of a single subscriber. Free libraries might, I think, use a modification of the tablet book- marker as a ticket, in some tougher substance than card. Book notices. I have sometimes thought that, for librarians and booksellers at a distance, notices of new books might advantageously be expository and graphic rather than critical ; the critical you have always with you. Here are two attempts : Quatre Bras, Ligny, and Waterloo. 1882. The battle of Waterloo has receded into the past nearly sixty-seven years. The traveller may walk across the field without coming upon a trace of it. The very land- marks of the country are disappearing. At this moment the fine trees which bound the roads from Brussels to Nivelles, from Nivelles to Quatre Bras, and from Brussels towards Charleroi, which almost marked the site of the campaign, and might be called historic, are being rooted up by order of the Govern- ment. Any one might drive from Brussels to Nivelles without thinking of the battle, were it not for the great tumulus which Belgian enthusiasm has raised to the memory of its braves. Countless histories, memoirs, ac- counts of eye-witnesses, poems, and even works of fiction have made Waterloo their theme. Such has been the flood of literature, that the appearance of a new work on the subject inevitably causes one to wonder what can remain to be said. Mr. Gardner does not profess to give us anything new, but we think that his book will be welcomed by every reader of modern history, as bringing into one volume the substance of conflicting testimony, and as tempering the enthusiasm of patriotic historians. Had " Quatre Bras, Ligny, and Waterloo " no literary merit, the wealth of citation in the notes makes it an anthology of the poetical and prose literature of the battle nay, almost a bibliography. On account of the short duration of the campaign, " the expedient has been adopted " (says the author) " of stating not merely the day, but the hour of each incident so pro- minently that they cannot be overlooked." Time being of this importance, it follows that space is equally so ; which leads us to make a little note. Victor Hugo, as cited in Mr. Gardner's book, graphically defines the site of Waterloo to be like the letter A . Seamanship, by NARES, sixth edit. 1882. Not a great way from the establishment whence this elaborate book is issued, lies moored Nelson's flagship the Victory, a monument of the naval days that have been. Then all vessels were built of wood, a.nd were much smaller than they are now. Midway between those days and the present, came in steam as aii "auxiliary." Now, steam-power is universal. Formerly, all rigging was made of rope, and reefs were taken in entirely by men aloft. Now, a great proportion of a ship's rigging is of wire, and topsails are reefed by purchases on deck. But perhaps the greatest difference of all which is pre- sented by modern days is in books of infor- mation as to professional matters. The midshipmen who are told of in Captain Basil Hall's "Fragments" as being examined in seamanship for promotion had no books to learn from, so that if they happened to be asked a question on some point which had not come under their observation, they were unable to answer it. More than forty years later, we believe that the only accessible book for an Englishman was a reprint of Dana's " Seaman's Manual," a small foolscap octavo. The strides we have made in these matters during the past twenty years ai-e strikingly shown by the present enlarged edition of Sir G. S. Nares' " Seamanship." It is a bulky demy octavo, with 420 en- gravings. There are also 12 pages of coloured flags, showing those of the navies of different nations and of the merchant service, also flags of numbers, others de- noting the alphabet, the coloured lights shown by different kinds of vessels at sea, and even the way in which flags are held in squaring a vessel's yards. Beacon signals, semaphore signals, and sail signals are also depicted. The different parts of a ship are explained, rigging directions . . . Books Of the Bible. The following table may be found useful. Names of the Old and Neiv Testament books. 19 BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. FRENCH. GERMAN. GREEK. ITALIAN. LATIN. Bible eitd Bibbia Biblia Saintes Ecritures )tilioc cbrift Testament Snub Testamento Testamentum Pentateuque Genese 'Siit ftinf Sucker 'DJoftS TENE2I2 Genesi Pentateuchus Genesis Exode 2 OToftS (SKofe) EHOA02 Esodo Exodus Le"vitique 3 3J?oft AEYITIKON Levitico Leviticus Nombres 4 9Hoftl API0MOI Numeri Numeri Deuteronome AEYTEPONOMION Deuteronomio Deuteronomium Josue 3ofna IH20Y2 Giosue Josue Juges Kilter KPITAI Giudici Liber Judicum Ruth DaS 33ucb 9lut& POY0 Rut Ruth Samuel Samuel BA2IAEION I., II. Samuele Samuelis I., II. Rois Jtoniae III., IV. Re Regurn I. , II. Ohroniquea (Sbronica HAPAAEinOMENON I., II. Croniche Chronicoruna 1., II. Esdras fta E2APA2 Esdra Esra Nehe"mie 9Jfbemto NEEMIA2 Neemia Nehemias Esther Pktt E20HP Ester Esther Job IfiB Giobbe Job Psaumes {Jfa'Sfn'"} J *AAMOI 1 l^AATHPIONf Salmi f Psalmi I Liber Psalmorum Proverbes Spriidje alomo* J OAPOIMIO1 \ \IAPOIMIAI f Proverbi ( Proverbia I Liber Proverbiorum Ecclesiaste f 'Crebiflet Salerno) EKKAH2IA2TH2 Ecclesiaste Ecclesiastes Cantique des ) Cantiques / Esaiie jbcbflub Salomon? Sefaia (AI2MA \ lAI2MAAI2MATnNJ H2AIA2 Cantice de Cantici Isaia Canticum Canticorum ( Esaias \ Isaias Jeivmie Se.tmia IEPEMIA2 Geremia t Jeremias \ leremias Lamentations Slaqlifber Seremia 0PHNOI IEPEMIOY Lamentazioni Threni Ezechiel iSjerfml IE2EKHIA Ezecchiele Ezechiel Daniel Daniel AANIHA Daniele Daniel f>fJJ?ic^a MIXAIA2 Michea Micha Nahum 9Jabnm NAOYM Nahum Nahum Habakuk AMBAKOYM Aba cue Habacuc Sophonie 3'pbania 20SONIA2 Sot'onia Zephania Aggee Ari'AIO2 Aggeo Hagga3us Zacharie i%iii | ISactarja ) ZAXAPIA2 Zaccaria Zacharias Malachie < 9JJalad)ia 1 1 SDWeactyi 1 MAAAXIA2 Malachia Malachias BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. Matthieu Marc OTarci MAT0AION MAPKON Matteo Marco Matthaeum Marci Luc ucd AOYKAN Luca Lucae Jean ScbanniS (@o.) M2ANNHN (jeara) Giovanni Joannem (secundnm) Actes Remains Kimci HPAEEI2 POMAIOY2 (Trpos) Atti Roman! Actus Apostolorum Romanos (ad) Corinthiens (f orintb'r KOPIN0IOY2 Corinti Corinthios Galates alattr (Salaterbrt'ef) FA A ATA 2 Galati Galatas Ephe"siens gpbejer E4>E2IOY2 Effesi Ephesios Philippiens Colossiens gj/lffe!" KOAO22AEI2 Filippesi Colossese Philippenses Colossenses Thessaloniciens Jbeffalcnifc^et E22AAONIKEI2 Tessalonicese Thessalonicenses Tirnothe'e Siniotb flint tan) TIM00EON Timoteo Timotheum Tite Xitum TITON Tito Titum Philemon 9(i(mn 9IAEMONA (irpos) Filemone Philemonem (ad) Hebreux {lebrdetbrief} EBPAIOY2 Ebrei Hebrajos Jacques @t. Sacobi IAK11BOY S. Jacobo Jacobi Pierre I., II. St. ?}etrt HETPOY S. Pietro Apostolo Petri Epitre de Jean ? I., II., III. J t. Sezanne* IOANNOY S. Giovanni Apostolo Joannis Jude t. 3ubd IOYAA / S. Giuda Apostolo ) I Giudei ) Judas !L' Apocalisse, o la . Apocalypse Dffntbarung AHOKAAY^U Revelazione di S. ' Giovanni Teologo J Apocalypsis (divine) ) c 2 20 Capital letters in English and foreign catalogues. Capital letters. The needless and importunate capital letters of an English-printed catalogue are a grievous eyesore to any one who has been educated i.e. led out of insular prejudice by observation of the methods pursued in countries where bibliography has been studied for a longer time than it has in England. The practice of other countries and in other languages is very well exhibited by the following catting from a Roman catalogue, that of Mr. E. Loscher * By a " fortuitous concourse " which is very handy for the immediate purpose, an English, French, German, Latin, and an Italian title find themselves in immediate juxtaposition. In the German, accord- ing to a rule of the language, substantives are distinguished by capital letters. In all the others capital letters are not obtruded : Billing: S., Scientific materialism and ultimate auf die Grundantinomie d. wissenschaf'tl. conceptions. London, in-8. 17 50 Denkens. Berlin, in-8. Carrau L, fitudes sur la theorie de 1'evolu- Comoldl J. M Institutions i philosophic tion aui points de vue psycholugiqae, speculative ad tnentem b. Thpmae Aqui- rplitrieux et moral Paris in 6 natls m latmum versae a Dormmco Agoshm, Venetiarum patriarch* Bononiae, in-16. Caspari O., Die Grundprobleme der Erkennt- nissthatigkeit beleucbtet vom psycholo- Descours di Tournoy G., Sulla educazione gischen u. kritischen Gesichtspunkte. 2. dei figli del popolo nella scuola pubblica. Bd. Die Natur d. Intellects im Hinblick Napoli, in-8. 1 50 To the foregoing may be added three titles from the catalogue of Mr. Rosenthal of Miinchen, which, in themselves, are historically interesting : Chute de 1'Angleterre, (Englands Verderben.) Batterie, schwim- mende, auf Flossen erbaut, mit welcher die Franzosen eine Landung in England versuchen wollen. Colorirte Abbildung uebst d. beschreibenden Text. Verfertigt v. Leblanc, franz. Ingenieur, gest. v. J. Miller in Hanau (1806). Roy.-fol. Sehr seltenes Flugblatt ! Colonne in memoria della vittoria di Murengo, proeetti da Pistocchi di Faenza e Antolini di Castel Bolognese, J. Caniani del. Milano (circa 1800). Constitution de 1'assemblee nationale et serment des deputes qui la com- posent a Versailles le 17. Juin 1789. Dtssiue et gr. p. J. M. Moreau. Gr.-in-fol. Not a capital letter is there here, just as with the preceding examples, which cannot be accounted for. Why should there not be, even with English catalogues, the simple rule to abstain from the employment of capital letters when they are not imperative? (Titles *' Cornoldi" and "Colonne" among those just cited serve to show the use of a vocabulary of terms and proper names occurring in catalogues, which is found at the end of the book. Bononice is Latin for " (at) Bologna," and Bolognese is Italian for an " inhabitant of Bologna" or " of Bologna." Practised hands will not want to be told this ; but there must be many young men entering on business, to whom the information will be useful.) This matter will be found abundantly illustrated by the examples under Notes and Reference. It will be seen from the picture opposite and its accompanying words that the question of capital or small letter at the beginning of a word might be serious. I owe the illustration and its words to Sclialk, a humorous paper of Berlin. Capital letters In titles; careless entering of books. 21 1m Buchhandlerladen. JUNGE DAME. Ich finde sie wirklich reizend. BlJCHHAENDLER. Midi, meill Fi iiulein ? JUNGE DAME. Nein, die Lie- der im Kattenfanger. Scene : a booksellers shop. YOUXG LADY. I fin,d you * truly charming. BOOKSELLER. Me, mademoi- selle ? YOUNG LADY. No,f the songs in the Ratcatcher. Carelessness. Nothing, I should think, is more conspicuous to an observer than the carelessness, the extraordinary want of thought, with which books are chronicled by some of our experienced hands who rank as " authorities " in the trade. Here are a couple of samples from the catalogue of one of our largest wholesale houses, compiled for the use of booksellers. On the right is how the titles might have been given : KELLY'S D [RECTORY of HAMPSHIRE, with the Post-office directory; Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Dorset, 6th ed. imp. 8vo, 1 10s. Kelly. Hampshire. Post-office, directory. Isle of Wight. Post-office directory. Wiltshire. Post-office directory. Dorset. Post-office directory. Xenophon, Anabasis, literally translated, com- plete in one vol. 12mo. 3s. Qd. Kelly's keys. ISLE of WIGHT, WILTSHIRE, & DOR- SETSHIRE. With Maps. 6th Edit. Imp. 8vo. II. 10s. KEYS to the CLASSICS : XENOPHON'S ANABASIS. Literally translated by T. J. ARNOLD. Complete in 1 vol. I2mo. 3s. 6d. * In German, Sie means "you," and sie " they"; to the ear the words are identical. The bookseller gives himself the benefit of the doubt. f II me prit amicalement a part et me dit qu'il voulait me faire un petit cadeau. Quoi ? II faut abandonner et oublier pour ainsi dire le particule non, dont vous faites un fre'quent \jp;ic;e a tort et a travers. Noil n'est pas un mot fran^ais ; au lieu de cctto syllabe desobligeaute, dites : Pardon. Non est un dementi. MEVIOIRES DE CASANOVA. 22 British carelessness ; Christian names in titles. With regard to the first example, the inquiries it will meet, or should meet, are " Has any volume (or what volumes) of the Post-office directory been published lately ? " or, " Has any directory been published lately of Hampshire, or of the Isle of Wight, or of Wilts or Dorset ?" The book- seller looks under these names in the list, and not finding anything, supposes there is nothing ; it is not very likely he will have the courage to wade through some hundred lines of close print to find out. The second example should provide an answer to a customer's question, " Has any literal translation of Xenophon' s Anabasis been issued lately ?" A country bookseller L >oks under " Xenophon " and under " Anabasis," and finding none says "No." Is he to be obliged to have Mr. Kelly's Irish keys in his head, before he can unlock the treasures of this truly British catalogue ? Here is another British entry from a similar quarter, whose office is (I suppose) to tell the unfortunate local bookseller that an edition of Anne of Geierstein has lately been given to the world. On the left is the actual entry, and on the right of it is how I should have thought the smallest reflection would have induced a man to turn it : SCOTT (SiR W.) : WAVERLEY NOVELS. Vols. Scott (W.) Anne of Geierstein, 2 vols, illust. 44 and 45. Illustrated edit, with cr. 8vo, at 2s. Qd. Novels xliv. xlv. Author's notes. ANNE OP GEIERSTEIN, Vols. 1 .and 2, 12mo. 2s. Gd. each. Can we need, now 'Tis sixty years since, not only to be informed that each of Scott's novels was for a time a part of the celebrated " Waverley Novels," but now that the name has no practical meaning, to have the words tbrust upon us to the obscuring of that which is sought ? I know I shall be told that Waverley Novels is on the title-page of the volumes. Very likely ; but a man who had any savoir-faire would not put them into his title in a practical catalogue. Cheap. Never use the words " cheap " or " cheaper " in a reference catalogue ; it is neater and more effective to say as in the following title : Twain (Mark) Tramp abroad (formerly 2 vols. 21s.) illust. cr. 8vo, 7s. Qd. 1880. A kind of corollary to the foregoing hint, is Never say " I vol." or "one vol." in describing a book; it is awkward. And it is unnecessary, because if a book is in more than one volume, the number is invariably stated. The only excuse for saying 1 vol. is when a book has hitherto consisted of several ; and then it is more useful to indicate that fact as shown above. Christian names. When an author is a classic, English or foreign, it is hardly necessary in a catalogue that is not of the straitest official character to burden the alphabet with his Christian name, unless, as in the case of Macaulay, there are two historians, or, as in the case of Corneille, there are two poets. This is how I would suggest entering the greatest names : Dante, Divina Commedia, Homer, Iliad, Milton, Paradise lost, Rabelais, CEuvres, Xenophon, Anabasis, putting either a comma or a semicolon after the surname, instead of the too common hissing possessive "*s." In this way an author's name is never distorted to the eye, and the confusion arising out of names like Christian names of authors, how they are best yiceii. 23 Burn, Bums ; Dod, Dods; Edward, Edwards, Edwardes; Richard, Richards, is kept clear of. The following examples are from an English " second-hand " catalogue of twenty-two pages. They are here presented to show what absurdity the needless employment of the possessive leads to. In this one catalogue hundreds of authors' names are distorted, and space wasted, all through writing the titles in a dull, mechanical way which might not matter if the Christian names were not also given, but which the presence of the Christian names renders absurd. And even in error, uniformity is not obsei'ved. To show this, the example " Southey (R.) " is also given. It serves to point out how the majority should have been. Arnold's (T. D.D.) Sermons, &c. 1844. Rhinds (W.) Feline species. 1834. Eales's (Rev. W. T. H.) The Great, &o. 1869. Bernay's (A. J.) Household chemistry. 1854. Fellow's (Sir C.) Journal, &c. 1839-41. Southey (R.) Salections. 1832. Curry's Civil wars, &c. Dublin, 1810. S^urg-eon's Lectures. 1875. When there are two authors of exactly the same name, the young cataloguer has to mind that their works are kept apart, and that the name of each author is so given that it is distinctly seen which of the two is meant. In the case of the two authors named Alexandre Dumas, father and son, custom has saved us trouble ; their names are always or generally given as under : Dumas (Alex.) Tulipe noire. (Alex, fils) Dame aux camellias. But with the name of Dickens, the path is not so clear. I would suggest the following as a simple way of distinguishing Dickens (C. Novelist) Bleak House. (Charles) Dictionary of London. This method has at least the merit of securing that the author who is latest in point of time comes also last in the alphabet. Or, with the same effect, you may say Dickens (Charles) Bleak House. Dickens' Dictionary of London. Only the printer is almost sure, with the best intentions, to substitute a for the second surname. When an author has what may be called a characteristic Christian name, or one of his Christian names is generally spoken in full, Jet that Christian name appear in full in your catalogue ; taking care, of course, that the colloquial habit of speaking of an author does not lead you to ignore his other Christian name (if he have one), which should appear in initial. There is no more popular name in light literature than Wllkie Collins, but to give in a catalogue Collins (Wilkie) is incorrect. The gentleman's name is "William Wilkie Collins." Therefore the entry should be Collins (W. Wilkie). The following are examples of familiar or characteristic Christian names as they are likely to appear in a catalogue : Duff (M. E. G.). Duff (M E. Grant). Parker (T.). Parker (Theodore). Spencer (H.). Spencer (Herbert). Taylor (M.). Taylor (Meadows). Winslow (F. E.). Winslow (Forbes E.). These five writers are colloquially known, I believe, as Messrs. " Grant 24 Christian names and prefixes of authors. Duff," "Theodore Parker/' "Herbert Spencer/ 1 " Meadows Taylor/' and " Forbes Winslow." Your title, therefore, must so note the Christian names, that a young fellow, if suddenly asked, " Is this book by Mr. Grant Duff?" (the book itself, perhaps, not at hand) may not be put to confusion. One way of being clear is to give these and similar names as on the right a few lines before this. It is rather a significant fact that I owe the full Christian names of Mr. Grant Duff to an American catalogue, that of the Brooklyn Library, which is an excellent dictionary of reference in regard to authors' names. Nothing, in cataloguing, requires more care than the recording of books written by married ladies. Uncle Tom's- Cabin and its celebrated authoress are an excellent case in point. The lady is generally known in conversation as " Mrs. Stowe," or as " Mrs. Beecher Stowe." On this, the British cataloguer makes entry thus Stowe (Mrs. Beecher) Uncle Tom's cabin. In similar hands, if contraction is required, the name becomes one of the following : Stowe (Mrs. B.), Stowe (B.) ; from which last it appears that the initial letter of the lady's Christian name is B, the name being actually Harriet Elizabeth ; but even this, in bibliography, is doubtful, for half a dozen copies will give you various readings. Taking the Christian names, however, as Harriet Elizabeth, this is how I would enter " Uncle Tom's cabin " in a catalogue for reference : Stowe (Harriet E. ; Mrs. Beecher) Uncle Tom's cabin ; which renders mistake impossible ; and so with like cases. Another name may be added by way of example, that of the accom- plished authoress of the " Tide on the moaning bar." I will give her name immediately below, alongside of Mrs. Beecher S towe's, to show different ways in which want of proper attention may cause the names to be recorded : Stowe (Mrs.). Burnett (F. E.). (Mrs. B.). (Mrs.). (B.). (Mrs. Hodgson). (Mrs. H. B.). (H.). (H. B.). (F. H.). (H. E. B.). (Mrs. F. H.). The lady whose name comes immediately after Mrs. Stowe's is known colloquially, I believe, as Mrs. Hodgson Burnett. The following way of giving the name is probably the most useful : Burnett (F. E. Mrs. Hodgson) Tide on the moaning bar. Where a lady has a characteristic 'name beyond her surname, which is colloquially associated with her books, as in the case of Mrs. Linnaeus Banks, don't write Banks (Mrs. L.), or (worst of all) (Mrs.), Banks (L.), but- Banks (Mrs. Linnseus). In chronicling a book by a maiden lady, don't put " Miss" immediately after the surname, but the Christian name if you can get it; because if the lady has written several works, some others are very likely to be noted Christian names and prefixes of authors. 25 with her Christian name after the surname. The best plan is, as suggested with regard to " Mrs.," to give the Christian name immediately after the surname, adding the prefix afterwards, thus : Yonge (Charlotte M. ; Miss) Daisy chain. Sometimes an author, after publishing a book with the name on the title-page, publishes another without it, as : Mathers (Helen) Comiu' thro' the rye, &c. 1875. My Lady Green sleeves, by the author of Comin' thro' the rye;, &c. 1878. In such a case you are almost obliged in a collective catalogue (i.e. of several years' books) to add the following entries after " Mathers " and " My '' respectively : See also " My Lady Green sleeves." See also " Mathers." The following instance will show the advantage of giving ladies' Christian names in full in a catalogue. Within the last ten years, apart from Mr. Wilkie Collins, three authors of the name of Collins have given works of fiction to the world. They are : the late Mr. Mortimer Collins, Mrs. Mortimer Collins, and Miss Mabel Collins. If the names Mortimer and Mabel are merely represented by an initial letter in the catalogue, it becomes impossible for those who refer to it to learn which novels are by Mr. Collins and which by Miss Collins. The method I suggest for giving ladies' names and their prefixes keeps each novelist's works perfectly distinct, thus : Collins (Frances, Mrs. Mortimer) Woodleighs, &c. (Mabel ; Miss) In this world, 2 vols. (Mortimer) Village comedy, 3 vols. (W. Wilkie) Fallen leaves, 3 vols. One more example may be added to show the necessity for care in recording books which bear on their title-pages well-known names. Sometimes one well-known name is borne by several authors, whose Christian names and initials require exceeding circumspection that they be not confused or interchanged. On the left immediately below is an extract from a catalogue of reference, with which there is no fault to be found ; but a learner may write the titles exactly as we see them printed, and the printer, unless he is closely watched, may, for some reason of space, give merely initials, as on the right : Marryat (Blanche) Briars and thorns. Marryat (B.) Briars and thorns. (Capt.) Masterman Ready. (Capt.) Masterman Ready. (E.) Long Evenings. (E.) Long evenings. (Florence) Her father's name. (F.) Her father's name. (J.) History of Pottery. (J.) History of pottery. Captain Marryat's name being Frederick, it is not good to have another " F " without showing that it does not stand for Frederick. The following is therefore the better way to treat the two : Marryat (Florence). (Fred. Capt). It is sometimes a question whether the writer of a particular book is a man or a woman. My impulse would be, for that and other reasons, always to give one at least of a lady writer's Christian names if she have more than one in full ; and where the sex is doubtful, to let the Christian names be unshorn of their fair proportions. After " Currer, Ellis, and 26 Christian names and prefixes of authors. Acton Bell " it cannot be said of authors' names that the sex " stands confest." Here is a title of a book which may be by a lady, and, farther, the whole name may be a pseudonym ; but you must treat the name as if it were a real one, supposing you do not know to the contrary. Moreover, if we know the name given to be a pseudonym, we can scarcely invade the author's privacy by giving the real one, unless it lias been disclosed by the owner of it. Derwent (Leith) Our Lady of tears, a novel, 3 vols. We have two well-known writers at the present day, whose surnames are identical, whose first initial of the Christian name is the same, who have both given us books on historical matters, and who have both, I believe, made the history of France their theme. Their names are Yonge ; the one, Miss Charlotte M. Yonge, long known in the world of letters as the author of the Heir of Redclyffe, the other, Mr. Charles Duke Yonge, whose Latin Gradus is a monument * of learning and labour. Is not con- fusion possible if we content ourselves with mere initials here ? On the left below is what may be called the common way of giving these author's names, on the right that I would suggest : Yonge (C. D.) Latin gradua. Yonge (Charles D.). (C. M.) Heartsease. (Charlotte M. ; Miss). Titles of persons in an alphabet should immediately follow the Christian name or its initial letters, and be included within the same parenthesis, thus : Bright (J. M.P.) Speeches. Robertson (F. W. Rev.) Sermons. The title or its initials should be in italic letter, to keep clear of the letters that represent the Christian name ; else, what is to tell us that Mr. Bright' s initials are not " J. M. P." ? The advantage of giving the title last is that the alphabet of Christian names is not disturbed; for, e.g. if we said " Robertson (Rev. F. W.)/' a Robertson whose Christian name was John might precede F. W. in the alphabet, and so on. But the advantage of the Christian name coming before the title is most distinctly seen when an author has written books at various periods of his life, at each of which he has had a different title. Here is a notable instance. On the left is the usual method, or at least how one of the present Archbishops of Dublin's name might occur in an alphabet of authors which embraced the productions of fifty years. On the right is the suggested way : Trench (Archbp.) Parables, new ed. 1874. Trench (Frances, Mrs. R.) Education, 1837. (Dean) Miracles, new ed. 1856. (Francis) Sermons at Heading, 1843. (Francis) Sermons at Reading, 1843. (Fred. Sir) Letter to Ld. Duncannon, (Mrs. R.) Education, 1837. 1841. (Rev. R. C.) Justin Martyr, &c. 1837. (R. C. Rev.) Justin Martyr, &c. 1837. (Sir Fred.) Letter to Ld. Duncannon, (R. C. Dean) Miracles, new ed. 1856. 1841. (R.C. Archbp.) Parables, new ed. 1874. * I have endeavoured to distinguish words used by the authors of the golden age Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid, Grotius, and Albinovanus from those in use among their predecessors and successors. ... In giving the authorities ... it may be taken for granted, if the authority I cite for a word be other than one of the purest writers, I could not find any instance of its having been used in their works. ... I have given most, if not all, of the different senses in which each word occurs in Latin poetry, and have ranged the synonymes in order with reference to these. I have endeavoured to insert no word as a synonyme which is not really such, and to omit as few as possible. Nor have I ever inserted a word as a synonyme for another without showing under the word itself the authority for doing so. Lastly, I believe that I have not omitted one word used by any poet of the slightest authority whatever between the time of Lucretius and the time of Donu'tian, except proper names. From the preface to Mr. C. D. YONGE'S GRADUS AD PAKNASSUM. Christian names and prefixes ; table of bishops. 27 Not merely does the latter method keep us clear of confusion, but an author's position in life is interestingly indicated, without spending much time, when you habituate yourself to it. Only, care must be taken that, in a case like that of Archbishop Trench's name, the successive prefixes " Rev.," " Dean," do not distract us from keeping the names of the books of one author in alphabetical order. The following is a very good instance of a title to which no superficial objection can be made ; it looks right enough : Bangor (Bp.) Charge, September, 1878. But every bishop is likely to have published something before he protested nolo episcopari, which (book) of course will have been chronicled under his surname, whatever that may be. Some day or other the catalogue containing books of 1878 will (or may) be amalgamated with that which contains the bishop's earlier productions. How are people to know that " - Rev. " and " - (Bp.) " are the same author, or to bring his various works together in their minds ? The remedy is, to give all bishops' episcopal works like "Browne" in Reference titles which shows the use of this table making it your business to ascertain the surname : Canterbury York Londoi. Durhafca Winchester Bangor Bath and Wells Carlisle Chester Chichester Ely Exeter Gloucester and Bristol Hereford Lichfield Lincoln Llandaff Manchester Norwich Oxford Peterborough Ripon Rochester Salisbury St. Alban's Liverpool St. Asaph St. David's Truro Worcester Sodor and Man Benson Thomson Jackson Lightfoot Browne Campbell Hervey Goodwin Jacobson Durnford Woodford Temple Ellicott At! ay Maclagan Wordsworth Ollivant Eraser Pelham Mackarness Magee Bickersteth Thorold Moberly Claughton Ryle Hughes Jones Wilkinson Philpott Hill (E. W. Cantuar.). (N. Ebor.). (J. London). (J. B. Dunelm.). (E. Harold, Winton.). (J. C. Bangor). (A. C. Bath and Wells). (Harvey, Carlisle). (W. Chester). (R. Cicestr.). (J. E. Ely). (F. Exon.). (C. J. Gloucester and Bristol). (J. Hereford). (W. D. Lichfield). (C. Lincoln). (A. Llandaff). (J. Manchester). (J. T. Norwich). (J. F. Oxon.). (W. C. Peterborough). (R. Ripon). (A. W. Roffen.). (G. Sarum). (T. L. St. Alban's). (J. C. Liverpool). (J. St. Asaph). (W. B. St. David's). (G. H. Truro). (H. Worcester). (R. Sodor and Man). If I were planning a catalogue for reference where each title occupied a line and no more, I should be very much tempted to try the experiment of putting the Christian names of the authors before the surnames. This has been done with initials, and I have not liked the effect. But I propose that the surname shall be in stronger type, and a species of column reserved to the left to accommodate the Christian names, thus : W. Stanley Jevons. Theory of political economy, 2nd ed. 1879. Charles J. Mathews. Life, chiefly autobiographical ; by C. Dickens, 2 vols. Frances Trench (Mrs. Richard) Education. Francis (Rev.) Mont Blanc. Frederick (Sir) Letter to Lord Duncannon, 1841. R. Chenevix (Rev.) Justin Martyr, 1837. (Dean) Notes on the Miracles, new ed. 1856. (Archbp.) Notes on the Parables, now ed. 1874. 28 How names and 'words should commence a title. Since writing what immediately precedes, I have observed this idea carried out with regard to articles, prepositions, &c. which occur at the beginning of a title, and which generally have to be got out of the way or omitted. The awkwardness of their presence in the natural order is ingeniously evaded in the catalogue of Mr. Otto Harrassowitz, of Quer- strasse, Leipzig, as seen in the following extract, Nos. 1127 and 1128 : 1123 Nyrop, C. Bidrag til den danske boghandels historie. 2 Bde. Kjobenh. 1870. gr. 8. M. Facs., Portr. u. Holzschn. ,,Als Manuscript gedruckt." Das beste Werk ub. d. Geschichte des dan. Buchhandels. 1124 Pay en, Vigreux et Prouteaux. La fabrication du papier et du carton. Paris 1873. gr. 8. Av. 6 pi. (10 fr.) 1125 Perthes, Cl. Th. Friedr. Perthes' Leben, nach s. schriftl. u. miindl. Mittheilungen. 6. Aufl. 3 Bde. Gotha 1872. 8. 1126 Praloran, G. Delle origini e del primato della stampa tipograf. Milano 1868. gr. 8. M. Facsim. etc. 172 pag. 1127 Ueber Pressfreyheit u. deren Granzen. Ziill. 1787. 8. Ppbd. 172 pag. 1128 the Publisher's Circular and general record of British and foreign lite- rature (publ. by S. Low.) July 1876 Decemb. 1877. Lond. gr. 8. (12 sh.) 18. 3. 50 3. 2. 25 1. 2 These six titles, comprehending among them five languages, are part of an interesting collection of works on the bookselling trade. The titles are useful as showing the English "second-hand" bookseller how, viz. at 1124 and 1128, "selling" prices are indicated by their Continental brethren without saying ("publ." 12s.). We also see here how much more effective capital letters are when used with temperateness. Parenthetically, I am disposed to ask how many ordinary booksellers' or library assistants will instantly apprehend the boghandels, Bde., M., Holzschn., Av. 6 pi., s. schriftl. u. miindl., Granzen, of the above extract from Mr. Harrassowitz' catalogue, the very ingenuity of which (or the learning, properly so called) makes it here and there puzzling? For, in a purely German catalogue, m. or M. means generally mit = with, or M. = Mark. But here the books are described in the language of the countries they come from. " M.," therefore, in speaking of an Italian book, cannot be mit, but is probably molte; molte facsimili, for example, as above. In Holland, not merely deliberate catalogues, but even auctioneers' lists will describe articles in the language of each book. How would an English library assistant or bookseller's shopman like to have to do that ? The vocabulary at the end of this book is an attempt towards explaining- some of these varied terms. Mr. Steiger, the eminent bookseller of New York, who is one of the most energetic cataloguers of the day, has adopted the plan of letting names come in their natural order in a title. In his catalogues the proper names are so treated, while in Mr. Harrassowitz' it is the names of books when they are not preceded by an author's name. Here is a sample from JVIr. Steiger's catalogue : 4 ^\ A CATALOGUE OF AMERICAN BOOKS. Dan: Gardner t. Imtitutes~df '-international Law, Public and Private, as settled by the IStipreme Court of the United States, and by our Republic, with reference to Judicial Decisions. 8. 717 pp. '60| law sh. $5.50. Baker Q,' A: Grillmore. Coignet Beton and other Artificial Stone. 8. 107pp. 9 'pis. '7J| cl. 2.50. Van Nostrand Parke Godwin. The Cyclopaedia of Biography : a Record of the Lives of Eminent Persons, cr. 8. 979 pp. '72[ ed '73. cl. $3.50. % cf. 5.00. Putnam C. Goepp. Leitfaden der parlamentarischen Geschcifts- Ordming fiir Deutsch-Amerikaner. 61 86 pp. '71| bds. SOiao, pap., gt. e. $0.30. Steiger I; Ir Hayes. An Arctic Boat Journey in the Autumn c/1854. 12. 412pp. 14 ills. '67|4th. cl. 2.50. Osgood The Open Polar Sea. A Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole, in the Schooner " United States". 8. 478 pp. illd. '66|3rd. cl. 2.50. 1/ 2 cf. 6.00. Kurd "Willis P: Hazard. The Jersey, Alderney, and Guernsey Cow : Their History, Nature and Manage- ment, showing now to choose a good cow, how to feed, to manage, to milk, and to breed; to the most profit. roy. 12. 142pp. 30111s. '72| cl. 1.50. Porter P: F: Heard. See Horatio B: Storerand Initials of latinised names ; Cataloguing classics. 29 This method has the effect of disturbing the eye which is accustomed to the ordinary arrangement ; and it put into my head to see if the thing could not be done without such disturbance. The example at page 27 is the result. A little confusion as to initials is sometimes occasioned when an English author writes a book on whose title-page his name appears in Latin. Thus, Dr. J. W. Donaldson has written several famous books on the study of language, in which his name appears as J. W. Donaldson. But he has also edited a book in which his name appears as J. Gr. Donaldson, because the title-page is written in Latin; Johannes Gulielmus being Latin for John William. My suggestion to a young cataloguer would be to leave out the initials in cataloguing an English-printed Latin book, because there will be plenty of people to whom Latin is not so familiar that they e.g. instantly recognise the initials J. Gr. as meaning the same as J. W. ; besides, if J. Gr. gets into the same alphabet with J. W. the matter is complicated, while a name without initials is harmless, com- paratively. French initials require the same description of watching, for the celebrated name " August Wilhelm v. Schlegel " becomes " A. Gr. de Schlegel ;" Guillaume being French for William. Classics. Never let any alteration or inflection of the name of a classical author commence your title. If on the editor's title-page of an edition of Cicero you get Cicero's or Ciceronis, put before them " Cicero " with a full stop after it, to show that the first word is not part of the actual title-page, thus : Cicero. Ciceronis Opera. Cicero. Cicero's Letters. In this way you avoid the barbarous jumble that ensues from beginning with Cicero, Ciceronis, Cicero's, one after another, for one author's works, perhaps all in the original, notwithstanding the English turn of the title more Britannico. Of course, as elsewhere suggested, if the titles are comprised each in one line you get rid, in alphabet, of succeeding " Cicero " " Cicero," by successive after the first title. The following is a good example of the evil which comes of using the genitive instead of the nominative case of an author's name. J. Polhicis Historia is an entry which I came upon the other day in the course of business. If the printer's reader had had any feeling for Latin, he would have per- ceived that J. Pollucis Historia was what was intended. But I think that Pollux (Julius) Historia is a more useful and practical way of showing that a history, in Latin, by Julias Pollux, is the thing to be understood.. It is not to be expected that every one who refers to a catalogue shall know Pollucis to be an inflection of Pollux. If I were cataloguing an isolated copy of Terence in Latin say, for sale I should be apt to give it as underneath : Tercntius, Comcediao, whothrr the title-page said " Terentii " or " Terence's "; taking care to [Continued at page 32. 30 Glassies, Greek names, French names and description. Ai\iav6s (^Elian) AvciKpeoov 'ATTTTICIVOS (Appianj ' Apt(TTOT\rjs (Aristotle) 'Appiavos (Arrian) Bu,3ptos, Bafipias Aiodcopos, &C. 6 Aaepr/os Evpuridrjs 'Upa)8iav6 'Hpo'Soroy $lien le tacticien JZsc/iine, orateur grec Ulschyle, poete grec Ammien Marcellin, historien latin Anacreon, poete grec Antonin le philosophe Apollonius de Rhodes, poete Appien, historien grec Aristop/iane, poete comique grec Aristote, philosophe grec Arrien, historien grec Babrius ou JBabrias, fabuliste grec Jules Cesar Catulle, Tibulle, Properce Ciceron, orateur et ecrivain Cornelius Nepos, historien latin Demosthene, orateur grec Diodore de Sidle, historien grec Diogene Laerce, biographe grec Euripide, poete tragique grec Eutrope, historien latin Herodien, historien grec Herodote, historien grec Hesiode, poete grec Homere (s'il a rejlleraent existe) Isocrate, orateur grec Juv&nal, poete satirique latin Tite-Live, historien latin Lucain, poete latin Lucien, ecrivain grec Lucrece,* poete latin Lysias, orateur grec Martial, poete latin Ovide, poete latin Pausanias, geographe et archeologue Perse, poete latin Phedre, fabuliste latin Pindare, poete lyrique grec Platon, illustre philosophe grec Plaute, poete comique latin Pline le Jeune, ecrivain latin Pline I'Ancien, naturaliste Plutarche, biographe, &c., grec Polybe, historien grec Ptolemee, astronome grec Quintilien, rheteur latin Quintus de Smyrne, poete grec Salluste, historien roniain Senfyue, rheteur latin Sophocle, poete tragique grec Strabon, geographe grec Suetone, biogi'aphe latin Tacite, historien latin Terence, poete comique latin Thfocrite, poete grec Theophraste, philosophe grec Thucydide, historien grec VaTere Maxime, historien latin Velleius Pater culus, historien latin Virgile, celebre poete latin Xenophon, historien et philosophe * The following colloquy shows that classical names rendered into French are likely to be puzzling for an Englishman : C'eatla faute de ce Lucroce, rdpondit Meg. . . . C'est drole, j'avais to'.vjours cru quo ce Lucrece etait une femme. AovKiavos Avcrias (Pindar) KXavSios K.VLVTOS SjLVvalos QeoKptros Classics, Latin names and beginning of title-pages. 31 .ffilianus. JEliani varia historia. .32schines. ^Eschinis oratoris Opera. .ffischylus. JEschyli Tragcedise. Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammiani Marcellini qute supersunt. Anacreon. Anacreontis Carmina. Antoninus (Marcus). Marci D. Antonini Imperatoris Commentariorum libri XII., &c. Apollonius Rhodius. Apollonii Rhodii Argonautica. Appianus. Appiani Alexandrini Romanaium Historiarum quae supersunt. Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comrediae. Aristoteles. Aristotelis Opera. Arrianus. Arriani Nicomediensis Expeditio Alexandri. Babrius. Babrii Fabulae. Caesar. Caii Julii Caesaris Commentarii. Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius. Catulli, Tibulli et Propertii Carminn. Cicero. Marci Tullii Ciceronis Opera. Cornelius Nepos. Cornelii Nepotis Vitae. Demosthenes. Demosthenis Oration es. Diodorus Siculus. Diodori Siculi Bibliotbeca bistorica. Diogenes Laertius. Diogenis Laertii De vitis philosophorum libri X. Dionysius Halicarnassensis. Dionysii Halicarnas^ensis Opera. Euripides. Euripidis TragcEdiB. Eutropius. Eutropii Breviarium bistoriae Romano?. Herodianus. Herodiani Historiarum Romanarum libri VIII. Herodotus. Herodoti Historiarum libri VIII. Hesiodus. Hesiodi Carmina. Homerus. Homeri Ilias. Horatius. Quinti Horatii Flacci Carmina. Isocrates. Isocratis Orationes. Juvenalis. D. Junii Juvenalis Satirae. Livius. Titi Livii Patavini Historiarum libri quae supersunt. Lucanus. M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia. Lucianus. Luciani quae extant. Lucretius. Titi Cari Lucretii De rerum natura libri VI. Lysias. Lysiae Orationes. Martialis. M. Valerii Martialis Epigrammata. Ovidius. P. Ovidii Nasonis Opera. Pausanias. PausaniaB Graeciae descriptio. Persius. A. Persii Flacci Sathse, Phaedrus. Phaedri Fabulae. Pindarus. Pindari Epinicia. Plato. Platonis Opera. Plautus. M. Macci Plauti Comoadiae. Plinius Secundus (min.). C. Caecilii Plinii Secundi Epistola?. Plinius Secundus (maior). Historiae naturalis libri. Plutarchus. Plutarchi Vitae parallels. Polybius. Polybii Historiarum quae supersunt. Ptolemaeus. Claudii Ptolemoai Geographia. Q,uintilianus. M. Fabii Qaintiliani de institutione oratoria libri XII. Q,uintus Smyrnaeus. Quinti Smyrnaei Carmina. Sallustius. C. Crispi Sallustii Opera. Seneca. L. Annaei Senecae pbilosophi Opera. Sophocles. Sophoclis Tragoadiae. Strabo. Strabonis Rerum geograpbicarum libri XVII. Suetonius. C. Tranquilli Suetonii Vitae Ca3sarum. Tacitus. C. Cornelii Taciti Opera. Terentius. P. Terentii Afri Comcediae. Theocritus. Tbeocriti, &c , Idyllia. Theophrastus. Theophrasti Characteres. Thucydides. Thucydides De bello Peloponnesiaco libri VIII. Valerius Maximus. Valerii Maximi Dictorum, &c., libri IX. Velleius Paterculus. Velleii C. Paterculi Historia3 Romance libri II. Virgilius. Publii Virgilii Maronis Opera. Xenophon. Xenophontis Opera. Ma chere belle, repliqua Mdlle. Feeray, il n'est pas permis de confondre un grand poete remain avec la femme de Collatin . . . Qui eut tine aventure assez singuliere, qu'elle prit au grand tragiquo, interrompit Meg; mais cela no m importe guere. CHEKBCLIEZ, Miss RovEt. 32 Cataloguing Greek and Latin classics. interpose a comma to save one's self from the imputation of not knowing Latin.. You and I are, of course, perfectly aware that "Terentii" is the genitive of Terentius; but how, would I ask, is a young fallow who, perhaps, has never attempted to learn Latin, to know that Terentii is not the author's nominative name ? And what is to prevent his speaking of the Latin dramatist as " Terentii "? It is continually done; and the backs of books often get lettered OICEEONIS and TEKENTII (leaving out the " opera") for a similar reason. What I have just suggested is very good when you have got your (sea, or) classical legs, but the beginner had better at first be guided by the table at pages 30 and 31. You will now and then encounter a title of the following description: Caesaris De Bello Gallico libri VII. In such cases it is better to write Csesar, De bello Gallico I. VII., because the compositor or reader is likely enough to make an alteration for you whereby the article appears about 85 per cent, less valuable than it really is, thus : Caesar, De bello Gallico liber VII. ; which trifling change very easily escapes notice. It may, perhaps, be worth while to say that, here and elsewhere, I am not imagining an evil, but endeavouring to provide against the recurrence of awkwardnesses which have come under my notice in the course of actual work. Pages 30, 31 are occupied with a table of authors called the Greek and Latin Classics. The object of the table is to assist the young cataloguer who does not know Latin, and to guide him in commencing his title with the proper word for each author, which is difficult or. account of the genitive case being that which is mostly found on the title-pages. The column on the right hand gives the words with which the title-page of each book begins. Immediately to the left, in a prominent type, is found the uninflected or undistorted name of each author, with which the young cataloguer is to commence his title, putting a full stop immediately after this name. Old hands generally find something in a Latin (as well as in an English) title that they can omit. This is rather risky for a beginner to attempt. The danger of absurdity is materially lessened by his having the correct word to bsgin with, that by which the book will be called, colloquially perhaps. On the left of the authors' names is an account of each classic in French, in which his name is given as the French are in the habit of calling him. This often differs materially from the name on the book, even to beginning with another letter, as in the case of Ellen = ^EKan. On the extreme lefu the name of each Greek author is given in Greek letters, for the double purpose of showing at once which are Greek writers, and that the name may be recognised and understood when seen in Greek. I suppose there are many of us who, if asked suddenly whether Lucan and Lucian were both Latin authors, and if not, which of the two was a Greek might be puzzled for a moment. I am aware that if an author's name were to appear in Greek on a title- page, capital letters would be used, but thab is very seldom ; the more useful and much the most intelligible form is in the smaller letters. Moreover, it is almost a sign of a book in Romaic or Modern Greek when the title-page is given in Greek capital letters. Cataloguing Greek and Latin classics. 33 Pages 34, 35, and part of page 36 are occupied by about 150 titles in classics, comprehending more than 150 articles, and many more volumes. They represent a bundle of classical books which I once catalogued for a large firm of booksellers, at their request. This was done, handling every book, in four hours, without attempting to do the work quickly for any par- ticular reason ; one was " in the vein/' probably. The titles as they now appear are as they came out in print without my having the opportunity of making any correction, which shows, I think, that the copy must have been legible, while the mistakes are accounted for. These two pages will be useful to the learner as showing the extreme conciseness with which classical books can be given. Abridgment is plentifully resorted to, the articles being for sale, and the catalogue of a temporary nature, as opposed to the reference catalogue, where cutting about of words is undesirable. If any one is inclined to doubt the necessity of guidance in classical names, his attention is directed to the following, which appeared in the catalogue of one of our best houses : 223 DEMO STHENEM Apparatus Criticus DEMOSTHENES. Apparatus criticus ; et Exegeticua v. Obsopoei, H. Wolfii, lo. Wolff, et Reisk, 7 vola. 8vo, calf, 12s. 6d. 1824 Taylori et J. J. Reiskii, Annotation es Tenens, 7 vols, 8vo, calf, 12s 6d 1824 On the right hand you have a sufficient title for selling purposes, without a form of the orator's name which is accusative of certain ignorance in Latin forms ; and the full stop denotes, in case of its being needful, that Demosthenes is the subject and not the author, and the semicolon makes considerable abridgment possible nett result, two lines instead of four. The rough-looking collection of titles which ensues is full of useful suggestion to those who have not had much experience in preparing matter for the press. Plenty of books show how to correct, giving examples of printed matter in an imperfect state ; but none of the books, that I am aware of, show how the mistakes occurred, nor are foreign names, the most troublesome to ordinary persons, made the subject of remark. Besides pointing out some mistakes of the classical titles which follow, several methods of abbreviation are shown, which are also applicable to serious cataloguing. Devices for gaining room and clearness. 1007 " c." instead of " contra." You can- not say Septem Thebas without a " saving c." 1007, &c. "a" is made use of instead of " edidit ;" perhaps twenty times in the course of 150 titles. 1020 " fid. opt." instead of " fidem opti- morum." 1027 " Nic." for " Nicomachean." 1041, &c. A semicolon used to keep the name of each book separate, when a title holds several. 1045, &c. " Ctes." instead of " Ctesiphontem." 1061 " et " instead of " cura." 1102, &c. " by " instead of " edited by." 1116 stamp implies the binding of a prize. 1094-1119 SOPHOCLES' instead of SOPHO- CLES'S; and "Plato," instead of Plato's "passim. The dashes hide this. Notabilia. 1010, &c. (Gul.) inserted to show that Gul.=W. 1062 and 1097 Hint to let columns begin with names instead of . 1112 Hint that the Latin Rex = tyrannus. " Printer's errors," partly due to the copy. 1025 " Nichomachean " for " Nicomachean." 1033 " Antho " for " Anthon." 1050 " Septinem" for " Leptinem." 1054 "OPERA" instead of " " among the " Demosthenes " titles. When one person writes a title, another arranges the slips, and dashes are substituted for names, these things occur. 1056 " Shillet " for " Shilleto." 1062 1063 1067 1070 1078 1081 1089 1090 J. A." for "T. A." (Theodore Aloys). J." instead of " T." J." instead of "T." Muller " for " Miiller." J." for "A. J." J. H. S."for "T. H. S." Metamorpho-sen" for "-sea' or "-aes/ Eclogase " for " Eclogae." 1091-93 These titles are out of alphabet. 1107 " Merivali " for " Merivale." 1117 " J. Mitchell" for " T. Mitchell." 1121 " Teachiniae " for " Trachiniae." 1135 " Adelpliis" for "Adelphi." 1143-50 " VIRGIL/' out of place. 1148 " Erklard " for " erklart." 1148 " u " instead of " v," short for " von." D Cataloguing Greek and Latin classics. GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS FOE SALE. 1001 ^SSCHYLUS, by F. A. Paley, 8vo, 8s 6d 1855 1002 Tragedies in English prose, Svo, Is and Is 6d Oxford, 1822 and 1810 1003 Agamemnon, with F. A. Paley' s Notes, Svo, Is 1853 1004 Lexicon, by Linwood, Svo, 2s 1843 1005 Choephorae and Scholia, by J. F. Davies, Is 6d 1862 1006 Supplices, Notes by F. A. Paley, Svo, Is 1844 1007 Septem c. Thebas, a C. J. Bloni- field, Svo, Is 1829 1008 Tragcedire Quaa Supersunt, a F. A. Paley, vol. I., 8vo, 2s 1847 1009 Choephoras, Copious Notes, by F. W. Peile, Svo, 2s 1840 1010 Eumenides, a (Gul.) W. Lin- wood, Svo, Is 1844 1011 Eumenides, a. F. A. Paley, Svo, Is 1845 1012 Eumenides, with Verse Trans- lation and an Analysis of K. O. Muller's Dissertations, Svo, half calf, 2s 1853 1013 Orestea, Agamemnon, Clioe- phorse, Eumenides, a. F. A. Paley, Svo, Is 6d 1845 1014 Tragoedia3, a F. A. Paley, Cambridge T., ISmo, Is 1864 1015 Tragcediaa, a C. H. Weise, 24mo, half calf, Is Tauchnitz, 1843 1016 Prometheus, Notes and Exami- nation Questions, 12mo, Is 1833 1017 Tragedies, translated by T. A. Buckley, 12mo, Is 6d Bohn, 1849 1018 TragoediaB, a A. Wellauer, 2 vols. in 1, Svo, good calf, 2s 3d 1823-4 1019 Septem contra Thebas, a F. A. Paley, interleaved with almost unused writing paper, Svo, 2s 18 47 1020 JESCHINES in Ctesiphotitem et De- mosthenes de Corona ad fid. opt, a J. H. Bremi, Svo, 2s 1837 1021 in Ctesiphontem, a J. Stock, complete, half bound, 12mo, Is 1818 1022 ARISTOPHANES' Plutus and the Frogs, in literal English prose, Svo, good calf, 2s, board Is 6d 1822 1023 Wasps, with Notes by T. Mitchell, Svo, cloth, 3s 6d 1855 1024 ARISTOTLE'S Categorise et Topica, cum Porph, a. Stag., a J. Bekker, Svo, Is 1843 1025 Nichomachean Ethics, trans- lated, Svo, Is 1819 1026 Rhetorica, interleaved, only used with pencil, Svo, half calf, Ox., Is 1826 1027 Nic. Ethics, newly translated, by R. Williams, Svo, 8s 1869 1027a Michelet Commentaria, Svo, 2s Berol, 1843 1028 C^SARAs Commentaries (Gallic War, L, II., III.) Notes by G. Long, ISmo, Is 1857 1029 CICERO Disp. Tusculanaa et Para- doxa, a J. C. Orelli, Svo, 2s, 1829 ; Ox., 3s and Is 6d, 1834 1030 Oratio pro Milone, Notes, &c., by J. S. Burton, Svo, la 1864 1031 CICERO Orationes Selectee ; De Se- nectute et de Amicitia, Delphin, Svo, Is 1813 1032 Oratio pro Cluentio, prolego- mena and Notes by Ramsay, post Svo, 2s 1863 1032a Select Orations translated, cr. 8vo, Is Dublin, 1834 1033 Select Orations, Notes by Antho and Wheeler, 12mo, 2s 3d Tegg, 1859 1034 Offices, Cato Major, Lselius, Paradoxa, etc., Bohn's translation, Is 6d 1853 1035 De Oratore, Book I., translated with Notes, 12mo, Is 1836 1036 PILLANS' Ecloga? Curtianse, Quinti Curtii Alexander, lib. I., II., III., Is 1850 1037 CICERO'S Catiline Orations, with Hamiltonian translation, Is 1831 1038 Select Orations, by T. K. Arnold and W. Chambers, 12mo, cloth, Is 1866 1039 Epistola? Selects? a Matthias et F. H. Muller, Svo, 2s 1849 1040 CAESAR, Vocabulary, Notes, &c., by M. Dowall, 12mo, Is 1860 1041 DEMOSTHENIS Philippics a G. H. Heslop, 12mo, Is 6d, 1866 ; by T. K. Arnold, Is, 1860 1042 Orations on the Crown and Embassy, translated by C. R. Kennedy, 2s 6d Bohn 1043 Olynthiacs, by G. H. Heslop, Is 6d, 1868; by T. K. Arnold, Is, 1856 1044 Midian Orations, translated by G. Burges, 12mo, Is 1842 1045 On the Crown and ^Eschines in Ctes. literal by H. Owgan, 12mo, Is 1852 1046 Oration on the Crown, trans- lated by J. P. Norris, Is 1851 1047 Select Private Orations, Notes by C. T. Penrose, 12mo, Is 1843 1048 Select Orations, with JEschines in Ctes., Notes by E. H. Barker, post Svo, Is 1841 1049 Select Speeches, translated by C. R. Kennedy, with Notes, cr. Svo, 2s 1841 1050 And Aristides in Septinem, translated, with Notes, post 8vo, Is 1840 1051 In Midiam a P. Buttmann, Svo, half calf, Is 6d 1833 1052 De Republica a (Gul.), W. Allen, 2 vols, Svo, good calf, 2s 6d 1755 1053 De Corona et -<33sch. in Ctesi- phontem a J. H. Bremi, Svo, Is 6d 1837 1054 OPERA quaa supersunt, Latine a Wolf, cura G. H. Schaafer, Tom III., Svo, Is 6d 1826 1055 Philippics, translated by T. Leland, Svo, good half calf, 2s 3d 1825 1056 De Falsa Legatione, Notes by R. Shillet, Svo, 2s 1853 1057 EURIPIDES, by F. A. Paley, Vol. I., 8vo, good half calf, 6s 1857 1058 Ion, Notes by C. Badham, interleaved, Svo, cloth, Is 1861 1059 Orestes, by J. R. Major, post Svo, Is ; Phoenissaa, by Major, post Svo, Is 1060 Phcenissaa, literally translated, 12mo, 6d Catnbridije 1061 Orestes a Porson et G. H. Schocfer, post Svo, half calf, Is 1825 Cataloguing Greek and Latin classics. 35 1062 Plays, literally translated by J. A. Buckley (Bohn), Vol. II., 2s 6d 1063 Andromache, Notes by J. Edwards and C. Hawkins, 12mo, Is 1064 Literal Translation, Alcestis, 12mo, 6d ; Hecuba, 12mo, 6d 1065 EUTROPIUS, with English transla- tion opposite, 8vo, Is 1774 1066 with Notes and copious Voca- bulary by Bradbury and White, Is 1067 HERODOTUS' Egypt, Notes, &c., by J. Kenrick, 8vo, 2s 6d 1841 1068 with Commentary by J. W. Blakesley, 2 vols, 8vo, 14s 1854 1069 Book I., Clio, literal transla- tion by Philomerus, 12mo, Is 1846 1070 Nine Books, Notes by A.Negris, Life by K. 0. Muller, 2 in 1, 2s 3d 1071 HOMERI Odyssea, 18mo, 6d, Ox., 1871 ; Ilias, Tauchuitz, 2 in 1, Is 1072 Ilias, Books I. to IV., Notes, etc., by T. K. Arnold, 12mo, Is 1856 1073 Ilias a (Gul.), W. Veitch, 12mo, Is 6d 1860 1074 HOMER Odyssey, Hymns, &c., literal translation, 2s 9d ' Bohn 1075 Ilias, with English Notes, 8vo, half calf, Is 9d Valpy, 1854 1076 Iliad, I. to VI., translated into 14-syllabled verse, by Simms, 8vo, cloth, 2s 1873 1077 ISOCRATES ad Demonicum, et Pane- gyricus, by J. L. Sandys, 12mo, 2s 1868 1078 JUVENAL and Persius, by J. Mac- leane, 8vo, 7s 6d 1857 1079 a C. F. Heinrich, 2 vols, 8vo, in 1 good half calf, 3s 1839 1080 13 Satires, by G. A. Simcox, 12mo, 1867, 2s 3d ; 1873, 3s 3d 1081 Satires, Notes, &c., by J. H. S. Escott, 12mo, Is 1868 1082 LIVIUS, Vol. L, part 1 ; Decade I., by C. W. Stocker, 8vo, Is 1844 1083 Literal Translation, Vol. III., 2s 6d Bohn 1084 Book XXI., with Copious Notes and Analysis, 12mo, Is 1841 1085 Cornelius Nepos ; Questions, Exercises, &c., by T. K. Arnold, Is 1086 (C.) by Bradley and White, with Vocabulary, Is ; Eton, Is, 1852 1087 OVID, Literally Translated (Bohn), Metamorphoses, 2s 9d ; Heroids, &c., 2s 6d 1088 OVID et Tibullus, Electa a (Gul.) W, G. Cookesley, Is 3868 1089 Metamorphosen, adapted to the P. S. Primer, White's, Is 3d 1090 Eclogaae II., selected from the Metamorphoses, by T. K. Arnold 1091 PH^DRUS' Fables, Prose and Verse Translation, 12mo, Is 1092 PERSII Satirae, a O. Jahn, 8vo, good half calf, 3s Lips., 1843 1093 PH^EDRUS. Vocabulary and Notes, by Bradley and Whte, 12mo, Is 1094 PLATO. Apol. of Socrates, Crito, part of the Phaedo, &c., 12mo, Is 6d Taylor and W., 1852 1095 : Translated by Surges, Vol III. (Bohn), 2s*6d ; Vol II., by Davis, 2s Bohn 1096 Gorgias, Meno, a C. F. Her- mann, 6d ; Theaatetus, Stallbaum, 8vo, cloth, 2s 1097 a Staltbaum, V., 1, Laches, Charmides, Alcibiades, &c., 8vo, Is 1098 a Stallbaum, IV., 1, Phsedo, 8vo, Is ; Gorgias, 8vo, cloth, Is 1099 a Stallbaum I., 2, Phaedo, interleaving blank, 8vo, cloth, 2s 1100 Apologia et Grit., a Stallbaum, 8vo, half calf, Is 6d 1101 a Stallbaum II., 2, Protagoras, Is ; II., 1, Gorgias, 8vo, Is 1102 Protagoras, Analysis and Notes, by W. Wayte, 8vo, Is 6d 1854 1103 Republic, translated, with Analysis and Notes, by Davis and Vaughan, 8vo, 6s 1858 1104PLAUTI Aulularia, Notis et Glos- sario, a J. Hildyard, 8vo, 2s 1839 1105 Mensechmei, Notis et Glos- sario, a Jac. Hildyard, 8vo, Is 6d 1839 1106 PLUTARCHI Vitas Parallels Recog., C. Lintenis, 12mo, half calf, Is 1861 1107 SALLUSTII Catil.et Jugurtha, Notes, by C. Merivali, 8vo, 2s 1852 1108 Catil. et Jugurtha, Anthon'a Notes, by Boyd, 12mo, Is, 1834 and 1836 ; Is 6d 1854 1109 Opera, a Societate Bipontina, 8vo, half calf gilt, Is 1110 SOPHOCLES' Tragedies, literal translation, 8vo, 2s Oxford, 1842 1111 Plays and Fragments, Notes, &c., by L. Campbell, Vol I., 8vo, 8s 6d 1871 1112 (Edipus Coloneus, Is ; (Rex or) Tyrannus, by Mitchell (?), 8vo, Is 1113 SOCRATES. Apuleii de Deo So- cratis Liber, a Th. A. (Gul.) W. Buckley, Is 1114 SOPHOCLES' (Edipus Rex, with translation, &c., by Edwards, Is 6d 1115 Ajax, with Notes, by J. R. Pitman, 8vo, Is ; (Ed. Tyrannus and Electra, with literal translation, in one, 8vo, Is ; Antigone, with E. Wunder's Notes translated, 8vo, Is ; Ajax, similar, 8vo, Is ; CEdipus Col., similar, half calf Is 6d 1116 Tragoediae et Fragmenta, 8vo, good calf gilt, stamp, 3s 1832 1U7- Ajax, by J. Mitchell, 8vo, Is 6d, 1844; Electra, in English, by J. G. Brinckle, 8vo, Is 6d Philad., 1873 1118 Tragcediaa, a (Gul.) W. Lin- wood, 8vo, 3s 1846 1119 SOPHOCLES' Philoctetes, a E. Wunder, 8vo, cloth, Is 1848 1120 (Edipus Coloneus, a T. Mit- chell, 8vo, Is 6d 1841 1121 Teachinize, a. E. Wunder, 8vo, half calf, Is 1841 1122 (Edipus Coloneus, with Notes, by J. Brasse, post 8vo, Is 1123 Electra, English Prose, Is ; Trachiniaa, by Brasse, Greek, Is 1124 (Ed. Col., by Brasse, with Notes, Is ; (Ed. Rex, by Brasse, Is 1125 Tragoediaa, a G. Dindorf, square cloth, Is, 1860; Lips. Is 1825 H26 Ajax, by R. C. Jeb.b, 2s 3d 1868 1127 Antigone, by Schneidewin and W. Brown, 12mo, Is 1128 Tragoediae, text, cloth, Is D 2 Oxford Pocket, 36 Cataloguing Greek and Latin classics ; classification. 1129 TACITUS' Germania, Ethnographi- cal, Ac., Notes, by Latham, 2s 6d ; Annals, with Commentary by P. Frost, 8vo, 6s 6d 1872 1130 English Notes, by Valpy, Vol., II., part of the Annales and the Historioo, post 8vo, Is 1131 TERENTII Comoediao, with ordo, 8vo, Is, Delphin.; Heautontimoramenos, Hecyra, Eunuchus, and Adelphi, prose translation, Is each 1132 Andria, by T. L. Papillon, 12mo, Is 9d, 1875 ; Andria and Eunuchus, by T. L. Papillon, 12mo, 2s 3d 1870 1133 Como3dia0, ribbed paper, uncut, 12mo, Is 6d. classical ed., Is 6d 1825 1135 Andria, Heautontimorumenos, Eunuchus, Adelphis, Hecyra, and Phormio, more than 250 pages of notes, by J. Davies, thick 12mo, cloth, 3s 6d 1869 1136 ComoediEe, prose translation opposite, containing the Adelphi, Hecyra, and Phormio, Is 1745 1137 THUCYDIDES' Peloponnesian and Athenian War, Books I., II., Notes, &c., by C. Bigg, 12mo, 2s 3d and 2s 9d 1868 1138 Sheppard and Evans' Notes upon Thucydides, I., II., 2s 6d 1857 1139 Peloponnesian War, literally translated (Bohn), 2 vols, 3s 6d and 3s 1140 by T. Arnold, of Rugby, Books I. to III., 8vo, 2s 1847 1141 Book VI., with Notes, by P. Frost, 8vo, Is 6d 1854 1142 Lib. VIII., by F. Goeller, 2 vols, good calf gilt, 3s 6d 1836 1143 VIRGIL's Georgics,in English Prose, by Isaac Butt, Is 1144 Georgics, with translation underneath, by Davidson, Is 1145 JEneid, by Anthon and Major, copious notes, 2s 3d 1847 1146 Bucolics and Georgics, by Anthon, Is 6d, 1847; 2s 1867 1147 Opera, Dymock, Is, 1866 ; 8vo, calf, Is 6d Oxon., 1820 1148 Opera, by Valpy, Notes only, ending with ^Eneis XII, Is ; Erklard u. Th. Ladewig (German Notes), small 8vo, boards, 2s Berl., 1860 1149 ^Eneid,by T.K.Arnold, Is 1852 1150 XENOPHON. Anabasis, by J. F. Macmichael, 1852 and 1868 ; 2s 1873 Classification. The young cataloguer who classifies should avoid all seeming ingenuity of arrangement, which is the same thing as complica- tion because it gives trouble to those who will have to consult his work. It is an exceedingly strong argument against classification that the misplacement or even the use of one innocent word is enough to reduce the whole arrangement to absurdity. The following example is part of a page of a steady- going German catalogue, where assuredly no joke is intended. This fragment is useful as showing to those who may doubt the utility of the vocabulary at the end of this book, the kind of terms and abbreviations which are met with in the most ordinary foreign catalogue: Theologie. 13 397 Wackernagel, Ph., deutsches Lesebuch. I. Bd. 11. Abdr. Stuttg. 1851. Hlwd. 398 Walcker, K-, Ausspriiche d. deutsch. Classiker u. Friedrichs d. Grossen iib. Politik, Nationalokonomie, Kirche u. Heerwesen. Berl. 1875. br. (M. 3. ) 399 Webb, J. B., Naomi or the last days of Jerusalem. New. ed. With numerous illustr. by Gilbert. Lond. 1863. Lwd. (M. 9. ) 400 Weill, A., Sittengemalde aus d. elsass. Volksleben. Novellen m. Vorw. v. H. Heine. 2 Bde. 2. Aufl. Stuttg. 1847. Hfz. (M. 6. 60) 401 Weisse, C. H., kleine Schriften zur Aesthetik und aesthetischen Kritik zusam- mengest. v. R. Seydel. Lpz. 1867. gr. 8. Eleg. Hlwd. (M. 7. 50) 402 Wichert, E., Rauschen. Ein Strand-Idyll. Leipz. 1881. br. 403 Widmann, G. R., Faust's Leben. Hrsg. v. A. v. Keller. Stuttg. 1880. gr. 8. br. Publikation d. literar. Vereins. Nicht im Handel. 404 Wildermuth, O., aus dem Frauenleben. 2 Bde. Stuttg. 185557. Lwd. 405 neue Bilder und Geschichten aus Schwaben. Stuttg. 1854. Lwd. 406 Wirmt v. Gravenberg, Guy von Waleis der Ritter mit d. Rade. Dtsch. v. W. v. Baudissin. Lpz. 1848. br. (M. 4. 50) 407 Wolzogen, E. v., Immaculata. Erzahlung. Leipz. 1881. br. (M. 3. ) 408 Yonffe, Ch., Magnum bonum or mother Carey's brood. 2 vols. Leipz. 1880. br. (M. 3 20) 409 Zabaleta, I. de, obras histor. politic, filosof. y moral. Barcelona 1704. 4. Pgt. 410 Zacher, I. die Historic von der Pfalzgrafin Genovefa. Konigsberg 1860. br. 411 Zedlitz, I. Ch. v., dramat. Werke. 4 Bde. Stuttg. 1860. 12. Hfz. 412 Gedichte. Stuttg. 1859. 12. Hfz. 413 Waldfraulein. Soldatenbiichlein. Altnord. Bilder. Stuttg. 1860. 12. Hfz. 414 Zinkgref, I. W., scharfsinnige Spiiiclie d. Teutschen, Apophthegmata genannt. Hrsg. v. B. F. Guttenstein. Mannh. 1835. br. (M. 3. ) Classification a fertile source oj absurdity and error. 37 Theologie. 415 Zipoli, P-> il malmantile racquistato, poema. Colle note di P. Lamoni ed altri 2 voll. c. ritr. Firenze 1731. 4 Pgt. 416 Zola, E., Nana. 20. edit. Paris 1880. br. (Frcs. 3. 50) 417 nos auteurs dramatiques. Paris 1881. br. (Frcs. 3. 50) 418 le naturalisme an theatre. Paris 1881. br. (Frcs. 3. 50) 419 Cecil's Tryst by the author of ,,Found dead." Leipzig 1872. br. (M. 1. 60) 420 Collins, Wilkie, the fallen leaves. 2 vols. Leipzig 1879. br. (M. 3. 20) 421 Forrester, Mrs., Viva. 2 vols. Leipzig 1878. br. (M. 3. 20) 422 Le Sage, der hinkende Teufel. Dtsch. v. G. Fink. M.Holzst. nach Tony Johaunot. Pforzheim 1843. gr. 8. Hfz. (M. 9 ) 423 Whyte Melville, G. J., Sarchedon, a legend of the great Queen. 2 vols. Leipzig 1871. br. (M. 3. 20) 424 Moliere, oeuvres. Tome I. II. Nouv. e*dit. enrich, de fig. en taille-douce. Amsterd., Wetstein, 1725. 16. Ldr. 425 Not wisely, but too well ; by the author of ,,Cometh up as a flower." 2 vols. Leipzig 1867. br. (M. 3. 20) 426 Oliphant, Mrs., the greatest hairess in England. 2 vols. Leipzig 1880. br. (M.3. 20) 427 Stowe, H. Beecher, Oldtown Folks. 2 vols. Leipzig 1869. br. (M. 3. 20) 428 TTnflad, L., die Schiller- u. Gothe-Literatur in Deutschland. 2. Aufl. Muuchen 1878. br. (M. 3. ) I venture to think that the meaning of elsass., m. Vorw., Bde., Aufl., Hfz.j &c., in No. 400 of the above sample will not be immediately obvious to every English handler of books. The figures between parentheses are the publishing prices. The ' f second-hand " prices must have been in the margin of the original, if the catalogue is not an auctioneer's. By way of showing what classification may do for us, here is a title from an English catalogue which would have been all right if the author's words could have been taken as they stood. It is to be presumed that the bookseller did not know that Bodensee is the name by which the Lake of Constance is known to those who dwell near it, and that no less than three countries, Austria, Baden and Switzerland, own its shores. 310 HOLLAND. Capper's (S. J.) Shores and Cities of the Boden Sea, being Eambles in 1879 & 80, with map and numerous illus- trations, 8vo, cloth, 7s (pub 18s) 1881 Catalogues are not alone here. Literature offers an example which might, I think, be called classificatio in excelsis. An American book of selections has lately been published in which the pieces are arranged " practically." At all events the book is called a Dictionary of practical quotations. Among the examples are Lord Byron's famous line on young ladies who are fresh from school, and a verse in praise of the beauties of a lady's mouth from an old poet. This is how they come before us, practically conducted : OCCUPATIONS. CULINARY. Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. BEPPO. DENTISTEY. Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row, Which, when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds fill'd with snow. RICHARD ALLISON. Criticism assists us by making it likely that a large proportion of those who use the word classification do not know the meaning of it. Thus, one of our very best English papers wrote of M. Leon ValleVs lately published Bibliographic des bibliographies as having a " double classification, one by titles or names of authors, the other by subjects. 38 Clearness of statement ; cloth bindings. The truth is that the book is composed of two alphabets, one of authors' names, the other of the names or subjects of the books. M. Vallee has avoided classification, and explains in his preface that he has preferred to be useful rather than scientific. Clearness of statement. There should never be the smallest doubt as to what you mean by a title. Look at the statement on the left just below : Our boys and girls, &c. vol. i. 1877. Our boys and girls, &o. vol. i. 1877 which may very fairly be taken to mean the first volume of the year 1877, instead of which I believe it is intended to convey that the year 1877 constitutes the first volume ; an example of the British way of making a statement. If this seems hard on the Britisher, I may recall to the reader that not many years ago a street leading out of the Strand was labelled SHEET STEEET on one side, and SUEEEY STEEET on the other. Cloth, " cloth boards," and " cloth lettered/' at the present day mean pretty much the same thing, for scarcely a book, unless it be a school book, is now issued without having the name in gilt letters on the back or side. This being so, the cataloguer has only to write sewed or boards when books are not " done up " in the ordinary manner. Cloth boards, in strictness, means that the millboard sides of a book are covered with cloth, as also the back, which bears a label on which the name and price are printed. This kind of binding was much used for sermons forty years ago. Another kind of cloth boards is where the millboard is covered with a drab cloth or canvas pale enough to receive the title of the book, exactly in the same manner that French and German books bear their titles on the paper covers. Modern " cloth lettered " books are sometimes now styled "cloth boards;" why, I cannot understand. Cloth extra means that the end papers are of some colour or pattern, rather than white like the paper of the book, and the cloth itself a little ornamental in design. Cloth binding has attained such a degree of per- fection, that it is very seldom a book from a leading house is not in " cloth extra " as a matter of course. This expression may also, practically, be dispensed with. But when you come to characteristic ornamentation in gold, or " effects" in colour, symbolic of the contents of the book, which are now very general, the cataloguer will only be doing his duty in indicating this, in making the catalogue of a publisher. But when works of this kind occur in the collection of a second-hand bookseller, the bindings, if cloth, are not named, because books are generally assumed by persons at a distance to be in the publisher's binding ; the contrary has to be stated, when it is so. Colour in catalogues. If a man has a good collection of merely English publishers' catalogues, one of each kind, they form a heap, lying flatwise, of a foot thick twice over. A publisher naturally wishes his catalogue to be consulted as often as possible. It is therefore a great point that amid all these twenty-four inches of edges of paper the desired list should readily be caught by the eye. If you can contrive that colour is discernible on one of them, that catalogue is singled out at once. Among other things, it may be worth while to recollect that the most enthusiastic collectors of catalogues, among men of business, have now Condensation of titles. 39 and then to lighten the vessel* by throwing overboard some of the accu- mulation. Most catalogues, ninety per cent, very likely, being of the ordinary white, even on the outside, the odds are that a catalogue which is made agreeable-looking by means of colour, is not the first to become waste paper. Condensation. Never abbreviate a word if you can help it, but do your shortening of a title by the omission of useless and the least important words. I am here thinking chiefly of a catalogue for ultimate reference, for practical men, in which it is found vastly more convenient to say nothing of the difference of expense to have every title forced into one line, whatever number of words the title-page may contain. This process is called condensation ; and I may say that any one who desires to acquire conciseness of expression will find it excellent practice to take ordinary titles, i.e. transcripts of title-pages, and reduce them, by striking out, to the compass of a given line of print. Those who try it will be surprised at the rapidity with which they get to catch essentials, and to measure them for the allotted space, at sight. The title just below shows very well the way in which condensation of a title is most usefully done : Lunge (G.) A theoretical and practical treatise on the manufacture of sulphuric acid, vol. i. The following shows the title, which is longer than that I have given, brought into the space of one line. First we have the usual way : Lunge (G.) Theoretical and Pract. Treat, on Man. of Sulph. Acid, &c. vol. i. ; which, as practice in England goes, is a very fair sample, not one to provoke comment; but I think the next is much better : - Lunge (G.) Manufacture of sulphuric acid, vol. i. Here there is no crowding, no mutilation of words, there are no capital letters to importune the eye, and the student or bookseller sees immediately after the name of the author the subject-matter of his book without the obscuring verbiage of " theoretical and practical/' Pray what would a manufacturing book be if it were not practical, and what is practice but theory embodied ? To divorce the two is to part soul and body. I venture to call the following titles very good examples of what may be done in the way of condensation, by one who is practised in it. First we must have the transcript titles : DOWSE (T. S.) On some Diseases of the assist intending purchasers in the choice Skin which are produced by Derangements of a Machine, 1879-80. Year : being a Chronicle of the New Inven- tions and Improvements introduced each TODHUNTER (I.) A Treatise on Plane Co- Season, and forming a Permanent Record ordinate Geometry : as applied to the of the Progress in the Manufacture of Straight Line and the Conic Sections. Bicycles and Tricycles ; designed also to With numerous examples. * I believe that a vessel, strictly speaking, is something which holds (a ship is nothing without its hold) something else. Thus the cupboard or rack which holds catalogues is, not altogether figuratively, a vessel ; and throwing overboard scarcely a figure of speech. Conse- quently the following would seem to be an unnecessary piece of ingenuity : Hold of a ship. Corrupted by a very natural transition from the word hull. WORDS, ?i CTS, AND PHBASES, BY ElIBZEB EDWABDS. Mr. Edwards can afford to hear a dissentient voice, for once. His book is mostly admirable in its addition to and correction of our knowledge. 40 Con-fuse-us ; contrast of type in a title or page. Just below is how they appear, without practical loss. When you are in good swing, less than half a minute is required for each operation. Dowse (T. S.) Diseases of the skin from derangements of the nervous system. Griffin (H. H.) Bicycles and tricycles; inventions and improvements, 1879-80. Private prayer book for school use, with six short sermons. Todhunter (I.) Plane co-ordinate geometry ; the straight line and conic sections. Nihil tetigit quod non conturbavit. THE LATB LOBD DESBY OK A LIBBBAL STATESMAN. Con-fuse-US. Con-fu-tsee, or Confucius, as he is more commonly called, is as we all know the great Chinese philosopher. The following title would almost justify one in believing that Con-fuse-us, or Con-fuse-ye., was the Great British " guide, philosopher and friend." The title is transcribed from a publisher's catalogue, so far as is needful to make out the case : A Synopsis of Livy's History of the Second Punic War, books xxi. xxiv., with . . . notes . . . Would not any human being who did not know something about the contents of Livy's writings suppose that the above meant the 21st to the 24th books of Livy's history of the second Punic war ? I suppose the fact to be that books 21, 22, 23, and 24 of Livy's Koman history contain what he has to say about the second Punic war. If so, is it wonderful that general catalogues, which in England have frequently to be compiled from publishers' catalogues, are unsatisfactory, when the very fount of information is thus muddled ? Here is another instance. A publisher wants to say that he can offer, in their original tongue, the books of Livy which tell of Hannibal and his exploits ; at least, I imagine so, for that is all one can do without looking at the book. On the left hand, below, is given the publisher's statement. On the right hand is shown how it ought to be made ; for we may safely conclude, I think, that Livy did not devote twenty-two books of a story of Rome which dates ab urbe conditd, to consideration of a Punic general, great man as he was : Livy's Hannibal, books 21, 22, &c. Livius, Historiarum libri xxi. xxii. (Hannibal). The learner will observe that the right-hand entry corrects the awkwardness of giving the title of a Latin book in English words; another element of confusion which is seldom absent in home-made catalogues. Contrast ; enlivening the page. The reader will not find much said about this in the work before him, but the thought has never been absent ; of which each page should bear witness. Most of us, in actual life, have met with faces almost exactly similar in their outline and features ; yet there is " all the difference " between the two, because one of the faces is full of expression. If the writer has succeeded in his aim, the parallel examples which are found under Reference titles will be found to differ in this manner, arrangement or contrast of type being the means of giving expression to that which, in the ordinary course, might be tame or lifeless. Where a title is given to " the letter/' literally, and without thought, it presents a dead level of uniformity ; when the spirit only, is given, room is gained for the desired contrast. One of the minor ways of enlivening a catalogue is to print the first line of each title larger than the rest; and if in a practical catalogue Contrast of type ; coup d'ceil in reference. 41 you can contrive that the essence of the title is found in this line, you have achieved something. Here are one or two examples : According to the spirit. Churchwardens' duties, Prideaux (C. G.) Masque of the gods, Taylor (Bayard) Mechanics, Elementary, Walton (W.) Prideaux (C. G.) Churchwardens' duties. With list of cases, statutes, canons, &c. Prince Deukalion, Taylor (Bayard) Prophet, Taylor (Bayard) Taylor (Bayard) Prophet, Masque of the gods, and Prince Deukalion; dramatic poems. Boston, 1880. Temple Bar vol. LV. (1879 I). Walton (W.) Elementary mechanics ; illust. problems. According to the letter. PRIDEAUX (C. G.) A Practical Guide to the Duties of Churchwardens in the Exe- cution of their Office. With List of Cases, Statutes, Canons, &c. TAYLOR (B.) Dramatic Poems, including all of Mr. Bayard Taylor's Poems dramatic in form, namely: "The Pro- phet," " The Masque of the Gods," and " Prince Deukalion " (Boston). TEMPLE BAR, vol. 55. WALTON (W.) A Collection of Problems in illustration of the Principles of Ele- mentary Mechanics. Conciseness and relief to the eye are not the only things shown here. When several works by a well-known author are included in one volume, it is quite likely that some day there may be difficulty in tracing one or more of them, especially if the writer's name is not remembered. This is provided against by the arrangement on the right, where each of Bayard Taylor's dramas has an index entry under the name of the work. " Temple Bar" shows how, primary and secondary titles being in one alphabet, an index entry is rendered needless, for it. Another way of relieving the dead level of type in successive titles is to put the very few foreign words which occur now and then in English titles, in italics. And if another book be mentioned in the course of a title that you are printing, let it be given in italics, too. Both these little devices produce an effect which is agreeable to the eye. These are examples : Gilliat (E. ; Rev.) Asylum Christi, a tale of the Dragonnades. Eolleston (Frances ; Miss] Testimony of the stars to truths revealed in the Bible, abridged from Mazzaroth, or the constel- lations. Coup d'ceil in reference. If the cataloguer chooses, he may often facilitate reference for the consulter of a catalogue, who, of course, would like instantly to see whether what he seeks is where he is looking, or not. Especially is this felt when several works of a similar nature are chronicled side by side ; all of one author, perhaps. The titles of five books by Mr. C. P. Mason are here given, first in the usual concise way, and then in the way I would suggest for like cases, as a step in the direction of instan- taneous reference. I will anticipate the probable objection, " Oh, you are too elaborate ; practical men cannot waste their time in that way/' by saying that the transformation of these and like titles takes a minute for each, including all necessary thought. Perhaps, in the end, it may be found a cheap mode of saving " practical men " from wasting their valuable time when they are in search of information. Mason (C. P.) Analysis of Sentences, applied to Latin. Analytical Latin Exercises. English Grammar. First Steps in English Gram- mar. Grammatical Analysis of Sen- tences. Mason (C. P.) English grammar. English grammar ; first steps. (English) Grammatical analysis of sentences. Latin ; analysis of sentences. Latin exercises ; analytical. In the examples on the right hand, the learner will see that an inserted 42 Cross references ; cut edges ; der, das, le, la, il, la, fyc. word, used to dovetail the title up, is denoted by parentheses ; and that a word whose position is shifted that the consulter may come " plump " on his quarry, or be instantly warned away, is followed by a semicolon. suggestions under the head Punctuation. Cross references. Never send an inquirer away, after he has found an article in your catalogue, by referring him to some other part of it ; excepting only when a work is named in its wrong place out of concession to long habit of erroneous entry. In one word, never make a cross reference if you can help it. The following is a good example of a case of necessity, when you have no index to help you out : Chrysostom. See John (St. ; Chrysostom). I suppose that ninety-nine persons out of a hundred would look for the name " Chrysostom " in the letter C ; forgetting, or not thinking, that " Chrysostom " is but the nickname of an eloquent saint whose " name was called John." A worse fault than sending the consulter of a catalogue away at once, is to give him half what he wants, and then disturb him to finish his researches in another place. That this should be done is one of the truths that are stranger than fiction. Examples could be given, were it desirable, in abundance. Altogether, it may be taken, I think, as a maxim in cataloguing, that cross references are a sign of something faulty, whether the blame lie at the door of the producer of the book which is chronicled, because of an awkward title ; with the cataloguer, who ought to know better ; or with the person whom you expect to use your catalogue, and whose stupidity you feel you can safely rely upon. I think, if I had to catalogue a collection of books which did not require more than a moderately sized octavo volume, I would contrive to do it without cross references. The examples at pages 60, 61 show an attempt in that direction. Cut edges. There are not two opinions, I suppose, among true lovers of books as to whether a new volume should reach them with its edges shaved into smoothness or no. For myself, half the pleasure of reading a new novel is gone if some one else has been through it first, even with a paper-knife ; for, oddly enough, as it seems to me, in some libraries they will set a boy to take the bloom off a new arrival, to deflower it, so to say, by cutting the leaves. A novel may be likened to a pleasure garden, as opposed to a potager ; you lounge through the former and linger in its pleasant places, while you hasten through the latter as you would through a street which leads somewhere. Cutting open a new book sheet by sheet, as you go along, gives time for digestion. But there is a practical side to this matter. A book on your shelves which is shaved round the edges sooner looks dingy. And many an intelligent bookseller will send a new book to a " likely " customer on inspection. If you cut books round, you put a stop to this mode of cultivating business, because a book can be read through and returned without leaving any trace. Das, le, &C. Just as in English work, the " the " of a title immediately following an author's name is generally omitted in catalogues., the title to the right showing the proper way, e.g. : Freeman (B. A.) The Norman Conquest. | Freeman (E. A.) Norman conquest ; the corresponding article in French, German, and Italian is omitted in a catalogue, as : The date not always required in a title ; de, von, da, fyc. 43 Iffland, Das Gewissen. Iffland, Gewissen. Milton, L' Allegro. Milton, Allegro. Comus. Comus. Moli6re, L'Avare. Molidre, Avare. Le Misanthrope. Misanthrope. - Les prdcieuses ridicules. Precieuses ridicules. The articles, inter alia, make alphabetical arrangement nearly im- possible, and are disagreeable to the ear. Date. "All titles in a well-ordered catalogue of books should give their dates." On the spur of the moment every one would assent to this dictum, and yet there are two kinds of catalogues which are exceptions ; the one, a list of books published within the same year; the other a catalogue, for reference, of books on a particular subject (say education), which catalogue may be in use for several years because there is no later issue. In the latter case the objection to dates, from the consumer's point of view, is this. The catalogue is published (let us say) in 1879. In it is named a book with the date 1876. The catalogue is consulted in 1881. " Oh, dear," says the consulter, "no edition since 1876;" whereas there may have been editions published in 1880 and 1881. Then comes the remark, " We ought to have a catalogue of such things yearly." No doubt ; but who will make it ? If the above-mentioned reason for omitting dates be thought invalid, there is another, which cannot be gainsaid. The putting them to a catalogue of the kind I name is an impossibility, or, at least, a work of such labour as to prevent any one's undertaking it. Every book would have to be looked at in order to arrive at the dates, for publishers' catalogues in England do not give dates, with the one exception of Messrs. Triibners', in which the titles are perfect. By ' ' perfect " I mean an exact copy of the title-page, headed by the author's name so that the articles can be ranged in alphabetical order. Messrs. Triibners' publication catalogue gives what is apparently quite beyond the reach of the ordinary English cataloguer the number of pages of introductory matter in a book, indicated by Roman letters, alongside of the number of figured pages. In German catalogues of reference, this kind of information is a matter of course. I am bound to add, that if I were a publisher, I do not think I would put dates in a catalogue, I would leave that to the professional catalogue makers. When a date is not on the title-page of a book, but is found elsewhere, by seeking, indicate the fact by putting parentheses ( ) round the figures. The following is an example : Bulwer (E. L.) Parisians, 4 vols. cr. 8vo, N.D. | Bulwer (E. L.) Parisians, 4 vols. cr. 8vo (1872). The craftsman, or man of craft, when baulked in the title-page, turns the leaves of a book over a little, and from internal evidence can often give the date, when it has not been agreeable to the producer to let his book show signs of age. In this case of Bulwer's Parisians the desired figures are discerned at the end of the preface. On the left I have given the ordinary practice. De. Omit from before French surnames the prefix " de." It can gene- rally be dispensed with altogether, as in the case of Yoltaire, whose full name is Francois -Marie Arouet, dit De Voltaire ; but the name is great enough as simply " Voltaire." To the literary names Lamartine, Musset, and Stael also belong " de." They are best given Lamartine (A. de). Musset (A. de). Stael (Mad. de). 44 De, von, da, fyc. ; defective titles. The German " von/' from its commonness for many a writer, and more than one bookseller, is entitled to it may safely be done without ; which saves a great deal of trouble. Ignorant people, who do not know the force, or rather the little force of " von," ostentatiously put it before a surname, and begin it with a capital letter. This, logically carried out, brings Hammer-Purgstall, Herder, Goethe, Schiller, and so on, ad infinitum, all under the letter V. Sometimes the British bibliographer " halts between two opinions/'' and presents an author's name in different parts of the alphabet, according as fancy guides ; thus, the entries De Lamartine (A.) Lamartine (A. de) might be discoverable in D and L of one catalogue. Those who lead off with a " de " in French, and a " von " in German, must use the Italian "da" (the exact equivalent of von, meaning "of" or " from " *) in the same manner. Thus we get Leonardo da Vinci (Leonard, of or from Vinci) under the letter D. Whence, if logic be admitted into these matters, it follows that Jack of the Beanstalk, and John o' Groats, in their quality of authors, must be sought under the letter in a British catalogue : Of the Beanstalk (Jack). O' Groats (John). The absurdity of entering such names as t( Alphonse de Lamartine " under D, " Count von Moltke " under V, and " Leonardo da Vinci " under D, will be brought home to an ordinary man of business by pointing out that a conscientious clerk, guided by these principles if one may be forgiven the expression will plan the index of his employer's ledger thus : O Of Bristol, Kerslake. Of Oxford, Parker. Of Cambridge, Deighton. Of Taunton, Barnicott. Of Exeter, Dray ton. Of Weymouth, Wheeler. Thus all customers, with a beautiful simplicity, are comprehended under the one letter 0. " For nought is everything, and everything is nought." BEJECTED ADDRESSES. On the other hand, ' ' van " in Dutch names is generally retained in the front with a capital letter, as Van Dyck (if he have been a paper-stainer). Van Hoeven. Defective titles. I call a title defective when it reflects a title-page which does not convey to the mind what a book is about. A catalogue, like a dictionary, is for the use of those who do not know, rather than for those who do. Let us take a case. A book has lately been published, under the title Oliver (G.) Book of the lodge, and officer's manual, new edit. No doubt I shall be met by the remark, " Oh, everybody knows that that book is on freemasonry." Very likely ; but there are plenty of people in the world who ' ' are not everybody/' and there is many a young fellow entering upon business who is entitled as is any one to be told plainly the nature of an article which is offered for sale. * If you travel from Milan to Venice, your baggage is labelled Da Milano per Venezia. Defective titles ; dictionaries, how best catalogued. 45 Here are one or two more examples of defective titles. The following is most likely a volume of poetry, inasmuch as the writer is chiefly known by his graceful lyrics. Turning to the publisher's advertisement (not catalogue) one only finds (1879) that the work is " a new volume by Mr. Frederick Locker. " For the benefit, therefore, of those who may consult your catalogue at a distance from the book, I think the entry should be made as on the right hand, below ; here, as elsewhere, indicating added words by parentheses : Locker (F.) Patchwork. Locker (Frederick) Patchwork (verse, &c.). Apropos, it may be remembered that a favourite book some forty years ago, Captain Basil Hall's Patchwork, was a series of sketches of travel, in prose. The following titles each lack something, for those who have not special acquaintance with the subject or with the particular book : 1. Grant (M.) Franchise ; an educational test for the degeneracy of the House of Commons. 2. Schiller's Ballads. No. 1. The Diver, with notes. 3. Slade (H. P.) Treatise on dew ponds. 1 . The reader will scarcely guess that it is the electors, not the elected, whose education is to be tried ; the title-page does not tell you that. 2. I cannot understand a title from which you do not learn whether a book is in German or in English. 3. " What are dew ponds ? " may any layman say to himself. It seems, as I found on going to the publisher's to look at the book, that dew ponds are a device for collecting dew on high sheep farms, where water is scarce. But the maker of a one-line catalogue for reference cannot indulge in the luxury of exposition. He has to remedy the obscurity of a title-page, which faithfully reflected in his title is equally cloudy, by index entries which lead the seeker to water for sheep farms : Dew ponds, Slade (H. P.). Sheep farming. Slade (H. P.) Dew ponds. Water for sheep. Slade (H. P.) Dew ponds. Suppose an average young man is desired by his employer to look out the names of books which relate to sheep farming, or the supply of water on farms, will the expression " dew ponds " give him light ? Besides, he has first to hit upon the title which contains it. All trouble of this kind is saved by the method set forth under Reference titles. Here is another defective title : Breeder's and fancier's pedigree book. Surely the ordinary inquirer should be told what kind of animal the book concerns itself with. Pigeons are probably the theme, but there are a great many persons who do not care about pigeons, and whose minds are not carriers of pigeons. The title-page of the book here referred to, and the publisher's catalogue, are equally silent on the matter. Dictionaries. You will often see a dictionary described as on the left hand below. There is no occasion for such minuteness ; the title, as given on the right, implies that the dictionary works both ways : Nug-ent, French-English and English-French Nugent, French * dictionary, dictionary. If the dictionary were merely French-English, or English-French, this * To say "French and English "is open to the objection that it is too like " French- English." 46 Dictionaries) how lest catalogued. would be distinctly stated, as, for example, in the two following titles, extracted from the catalogue of Mr. Otto Holtze, of Leipzig, who is now the publisher of the well-known (Karl) Tauchnitz dictionaries : Earth, Carl Friedr., lateinisch-deutsches Worterbuch. Neue wohlfeile Ausgabe. gr. 8. 21 1 Bogen. 1866. 1 Mk. 50 Pf. lateinisches Vocabularium. Stereotypausgabe. gr. 8. 3| Bogen. 1839. 30 Pf. The English reader is invited to notice the conscientious scruple with which the thickness of each book is given, even to a fraction of a sheet ; and the admission of a date is absolutely not shrunk from. It must be owned that/ practically, dates are hardly needed in an English publisher's catalogue. A book is either an evanescent article which is " gone " within a year, or it is a substantial work which is con- tinually being reprinted. Catalogues are quickly purged of butterfly literature. The German titles just cited deal with the dead (in language) where all dates are equal. One book, although forty years old, is not more antiquated than if just published. The following titles of " Tauchnitz dictionaries " indicate the kind of saving of room that may be effected : Dictionnaire, nouveau portatif, frangais- Dictionnaire danois, 16mo danois et danois-fran^ "pi T^ rH'r-'^;r^ r T^CT?-''-rtCl ^ rx f o3 o3 o3 000 s F.ST; pp o CD O PP On the library catalogue of a learned society. 59 Pages 60, 61 are occupied with eighteen entries selected from the catalogue of a learned society. On the right of the entries are printed titles of the same books, interwoven with an index, to show how much more efficiently an inquirer might be served. (1) Is universally known as the " Imperial dictionary of biography," under which heading the entry should be found. But the title given has effectually hidden it. The heading " dictionary" leads to another considera- tion. Prefaced by this word the catalogue and its supplement (1865-71) tender six entries of dictionaries of languages and of geography, whence it follows that the strength of the Royal Geographical Society's library in these indispensable articles of reference is half a dozen books, or that the remainder of the dictionaries are stowed away in the catalogue under some other word yet to be discovered; or, very likely, that there are several such cachettes or oubliettes which the instant * seeker cannot or will not ferret out. (2) Is well known as Tauchnitz' Russian dictionary. People who are accustomed to the use of books, but not to the use of this catalogue, will look for (2) under Tauchnitz and (1) under Imperial. Finding neither, and having no index to guide them, they will go empty away. (3) This, from the great "minute philosopher," is, of course, of value to all who have anything to say or to learn about the Red Sea. But I do not know how a seeker is to find the book without going through the whole catalogue, and then he must know German in order to detect it. Suppose a member of parliament said to his private secretary, " Make me a list of all books on the Red Sea which are in the library of the Geographical Society;" is it not very likely that the young gentleman would overlook this work, the catalogue being without an index ? And if it had an index, I suppose the lawful entry would be Kothe Meer (das). Now, even members of parliament are not so handy with German that they would ask for a book like that of Ehrenberg by the name known to the author. They would say, " Have you Ehrenberg's ' Coral of the Red Sea ' in German ? " Well, then, would not the usefulness of a catalogue of books for reference, many of which are in foreign languages, be incal- culably increased by translated headings or entries, in addition to those which are a matter of course ? My specimen, to the right of the sample of the existing catalogue, is an attempt in this direction. (4, 5, 6, 7) Show how greater clearness may be attained with an economy of room which enables us to give additional information. This is seen in the right-hand column, and fairly illustrated by (8) on the left. If a man is upon " silk," how is he to find " John of Homergue " quickly, if at all ? (9) I am, let us say, gathering information about the Indian Archipelago. I ask a friend where I shall best find it. " Oh," he says, " in the Journal of the Indian Archipelago ; the Geographical Society have it." I look in their catalogue under " Journal," and perhaps under " Archipelago," and do not find it. Perhaps I ought to look under " Indian," but I say the seeker has no business to be sent about in this way. (10) Much the same applies here. (11) Is a stronger case. Suppose 1 am full of desire to learn something about Aden and its history. How on earth am I to know or guess that " India " comprehends it in the Geographical Society's catalogue? (12) Here we have a delightful muddle entirely due to that enemy of all clearness, i.e. classification. We are now landed in America, still under the " Indian " flag. Is the great West, as well as * " Vultus instantis tyranni." 60 Library catalogue of a learned society, examples. o In a s - fH O ^ i-Sa Us M's g -l-s |S sa-s ^' Q 'g O ^ Library catalogue of a learned society, examples. 61 oo IS o $i* H ; r -u I I O - J I^OO^S' Illl^ll ^ ^4! i^t PrH ^ rM fVl fl.S^W^oO^ lllllill S d i ^3 o g r . d PH O2 I OQ CQ 02 CT 1 CS3 62 Library catalogue of a society; made-up books ; maps. the great East, outside of Hindostan, to be sought under '' Indian ? " This liability to confusion through the indiscriminate use of the word " Indian " led me, in a catalogue I once made, to use " Hindostan " for the Indian peninsula, and " America, North," or " North America" when India or Indians of the West were in question. (13) Suppose I am allowed to consult anything the Geographical Society possesses on Arabia, how am I to learn that the library contains this, if I do not know of the book? (14) Familiarly known by those who use it as Norie's " Epitome," merely. The eight lines gained are a valuable contingent towards the space wanted for the index. (15) I suppose that what this book has to say about Brazil and the Moors has its use or interest. Pray how does the Geographical Society's catalogue lead to that? It takes eight lines for the book. On the right hand, three lines suffice, one of which is headed "Brazil," and another "Moors." (16, 17, 18) Here are three books by the celebrated Carl Ritter, one of the world's greatest geographers; on Africa, on the distribution of cotton, and on the sugar cane. Will any one tell me how people looking for cotton or the sugar cane are to perceive them ? See, per contra, under " cotton " and " sugar " on the right hand. Made-up books lead to a kind of confusion in catalogues for reference, which is of more than passing moment. For example, we often see a selection of pieces by a popular author, which is called after his name (say) the " Gulliver birthday book." This is all right ; and an ordinary person would think it simple enough to enter the book according to the name, as it stands Gulliver Birthday book, so that everybody could see what it was. But your jt?seiio -bibliographer has a chance of putting his confusing fingers to work, and he uses it. This is what we get : Gulliver (L.) Birthday book ; from which, in after years, people learn that the distinguished traveller has written a book called the Birthday book ; which, if he never called one so, he has not done. The force of the objection here made can only be estimated if you imagine a young fellow, long after the reader and writer of this have ceased to " cumber the (surface of the) ground," desired to write out, for a library, or for the customer of a bookshop, a lisb of Mr. Gulliver's productions. The young man copies from the catalogue which has been printed for reference. Besides the works which have undoubtedly issued from the traveller's pen, the transcriber notes as one of the author's works a selection, got up for sale, from all or several of them ; not knowing what he is about, because the catalogue misleads him. Is not this kind of work to be guarded against ? The case is not complete without farther imagining the customer to order the books named in the written list, afterwards finding out that he lias been induced to buy works in duplicate, which duplicity is laid to the bookseller's charge. It may be said, Everybody knows what a " birthday book " is. Perhaps he does, now; but I will put a case. Just thirty-five years ago, a well- known writer issued at Leipzig a series called the Sonntaysweihe. Does " everybody" in England know that to be a collection of sermons which may, or may not have been published previously ? Maps ; Mr., what word do the two letters stand for ? 63 Maps. Any proper account of a map in a catalogue gives the dimen- sions in feet or inches, thus Western hemisphere, 50 X 42. Having upon one occasion to make a catalogue of all British maps (not charts) that were obtainable in the ordinary way of trade, I had the curiosity to ask at the next map-maker's whether the order of the figures signified anything. The answer was, " Nothing." Still, I could not persuade myself that intelligent men would not have a plan by which you should know which way a map measures 50 and which 42 inches, without having to ask. So I asked the question again, this time at a higher class of establishment. The answer was, instantly, " The first-named measure- ment means across the sheet." So that a map whose dimensions are 50 x 42 is wider than it is high, as this book is, when it lies open. Apropos to maps, it may be useful here to quote an explanation of the term Mercator as applied to maps. For myself, until quite lately, it was a mere word to convey the rude ideas of a past age. In a map on the projection of Mercator the world is seen to come to an end, while a sphere, which the modern maps " project" for us, may be called a " world without end" quite as justly, perhaps, as any book can be a Story without an end. This projection, which is universally adopted for nautical charts, was invented by Gerard Mercator (his true name was Kauffmann, of which Mercator is the Latin equivalent), a native of lluppelmonde in East Flanders, born in the year 1312. BRANDE'S DICTIONARY. Before this explanation presented itself, Mercator had seemed, so far as any meaning dawned, the guide of the merchant-man (who mostly uses a chart), just as we call by the name of " Reader " a book to be used in teaching reading. Mr. One of the drollest questions that comes before the bibliographer who thinks perhaps a cataloguer may be defined as a pseudo-\)ib\io- grapher who does not think is the place in alphabetical arrangement of a book whose name begins with the words " Mr." or t( Mrs." ; in cases, of course, where the author's name does not, by beginning the line, help us out of the difficulty. It is agreed, I believe, that " St." shall be placed as if it were spelled in full, " Saint." It is reasonable, therefore, to suppose that the abbreviations " Mr." and " Mrs." should be similarly treated. But nobody knows precisely what they are " short for." Does ' ( Mr." stand for Magister, Maitre, or Master ; is the old-fashioned Italian Messer represented by it ; is it a " razee " * for the truly British " Mister ;" does it shadow forth the more courtly Monsieur of the French ; or, lastly, is it a substitute for Mr. Peggotty's " Muster " in David Copperfield ? We have here the choice of Ma, Me, Mi, Mo, or Mu, the whole gamut of vowels. Which shall it be ? that is the question. In like manner it may be asked, what does Dr. stand for ? Is it a dabbler in literature ; a debtor, of which literature occasionally furnishes an example; a director; a drawer of water, j- i.e. a marine painter; a doctor; or, lastly, a ductor dubitantium, the very thing we need, at this moment ? Here is a title whose place in an alphabetical arrangement of names of books depends on what the two letters Mr. stand for : Mr. and Mrs. Falconbridge, by Hamilton Aide. * In the good old days of ceaseless conflict with France, and of flogging round the fleet seventy-fours were occasionally made into frigates by taking a deck off them. The b&timent thus unbuilt was called a rase or rasee, pronounced "rah-zee." f The hewer of wood will be the engraver. 64 "M." on the title-pages of French books. In most cases, no doubt, we are saved the trouble of considering or determining the place of Mr. and Mrs. in the alphabet by the author's name coming first in the line. But in the index to an alphabetical catalogue, the author's name does not, or should not, commence a line. Here is an example, from actual practice, of " Mr." at the beginning of a line, in the alphabet of an index : Moth, Great Atlas, of Central Asia (Attacus Atlas) Gosse. Mr. Leslie of Underwood, a Story, Patrick (Mary). Municipal Sanitary Engineers' Assoc. Proceedings. The alphabetical arrangement is the printer's, showing that with him the letters Mr. stand for no word in particular. I have seen, in a list of one year's books, nine instances of lines which began with "Mr." So the matter deserves consideration. Monsieur. Christian names, or rather the initial letters of Christian names, as they are often seen on the title-pages of French books, require care from those who make catalogues. I am speaking of books in the French language, wherever they may have been printed. Technically, i.e. speaking as a bookseller or librarian, I believe that " French books " means works which are printed in France; for a bookseller is rather Procrustean, and consciously, or unconsciously, acts upon a geographical distribution of books. Here is an instance of what I wish to draw attention to. The full name of Guizot, the French statesman and historian, is Fran9ois-Pierre- Guillaume Guizot. The name is often given in a French title-page as M. Guizot, or M. F. Guizot ; F. being the initial letter of the most familiar Christian name. The result is that the British chronicler introduces the illustrious foreigner into his catalogue " with variations." Here are some of them : Guizot (F.). Guizot (M. F. ). (F. P. G.). (M. F. P. G.). The only safe way with French books (or even with English books, i^ No. 21 of Reference titles), where " M." occurs in the title-page, and you are not quite sure as to the author's prenoms, is to give the surname merely, as Guizot, Amour dans le mariage. The absence of the Christian name is not of vast moment, although there is another contemporary Guizot, Alfred, who has also written books ; but to give a name in uncertainty, in a list which may be looked to some day, and trusted, is surely a thing to be kept clear of. The two following entries from a decent second-hand catalogue fairly illustrate the matter in hand. The possessive after each surname is a very booksellerish touch : 313 GUIZOT's (F.) Memoirs of a Minister of State from the Year 1840, 8vo, 5s 6d 1864 314 GUIZOT's (M.) France under Louis- Philippe from 1841 to 47, 8vo, 6s 1865 The titles follow one another exactly as here given, the author being, of course, the same man. An advertisement cut from the Times "new book column" seems almost intended as an example, for in it " M." stands for Monsieur to one author's name and for the Christian name of another author ; side by side, almost. M. Viollet-le-Duc's initial is E. : THE MILITARY ARCHITECTURE of the MIDDLE AGES. Translated from the French of M. VIOLLET LE DUO by M. MACDERMOTT, ESQ., Architect, &c. TIMES ADVKKTJSKMKNT, A r GUST 19th, 1879. " M." as a prefix to an aitfhor's name on a title-page. 65 The following title-pages of the same book, the one copied from a Paris edition, the other from one published at Quedlinburg, still farther illustrate the ridiculousness of M. on a book's title-page, when it is not the initial letter of a Christian name. The German title-page of a French book here justifies the reputation of German bibliography by its superior exactness and distinctness. A German title of a book in any language is almost sure to be the best. Before, however, we look at the various aspects of the historian Mignet's Christian name or names, as offered us by various title-pages, let us be charged with the correct article. Then we shall " go off " properly : MIGNET (Francis- Auguste-Marie) historien frainjaia, membre de 1'Academie, &c., &c., ne a Aix le 8 Mai, 1798. . . . En 1824 parut son Histoire de la Revolution fran^aise de 1789 & 1814, &c. VAPEREAU, DICTIONNAIUE DES CONTEMPOKAINS. HISTOIRE HISTOIRE DE LA DE LA REVOLUTION FEANCAISE, REVOLUTION FRANCAISE, DEPUIS 1789 JUSQU'EN 1814. DEPUIS 1789 JUSQU'EN 1814. PAR F. A. MIGNET, PAR M. MIGNET. Membre de VImtitut, fc. EDITION POUR I/ANGLETERRE. PARIS QTJEDLINBOURa, DIDIEE ET C IE - | FIRMIN-DIDOT ET C IE - GODOFE. BASSE, LIBRAIEB. 1875. 1868. If this be not a reductio ad absurdum, I do not know what is. After the above was written, another title-page of Mignet's Revolution frangaise has presented itself, this time from Belgium. Thus it runs, as if it were printed expressly for our instruction : PANTHEON CLASSIQUE. HISTOIRE DE LA REVOLUTION Depuis 1789 jusqu'd, 1814. FAB MIGNET. Nouvelle Edition. A BEUXELLES. &c. 66 "If." as a prefix to an author's name on a title-page. Being upon neutral ground, the fashioner of the title-page has judiciously abstained from giving it either a French or a German colouring. The examples of M. on title-pages may be closed with a specimen from Holland, where the attention given to bibliography might put us to shame. To keep the Dutch title company, is a French advertisement ; for if one of them went across the page, it would take too much room downwards. Each of these " lets you know " by hindering knowledge. LES PEDICULINES, LE FEBMAGE DBS AU'l RUCHES M. B. PIAGBT, EN ALGE'RIE. Membredela^teentomologique INCU BATION ARTIFICIELLE. des Jrays-.Bas. Par M. J. OUDOT, ING^NIEUR CIVIL. 2 vol. gr.-in 4. E. J. BRILL, LEIDE (Hollande). Since the foregoing was written, I came, in actual practice, upon two Parisian titles, which are very " pat " to our present purpose. They followed in immediate succession, and were prepared by me for a foreign list as under : Lescure, Memoires sur les assemblies parle- Havard (Henry) La Hollande a vol d'oiseau, mentaires de la Revolution, tome I. Con- avec eaux fortes et gravures par M(axime) stituante. Lalanne. As M. de Lescure's name appears in the advertisement which is coming, you do not know whether you have the initial of his Christian name or not ; consequently, I have omitted it and the " de," which is only an obstruc- tion in an alphabetical list. In writing M. Lalanne's name the " Maxime " became M., which would have left other people in doubt as to whether it stood for Monsieur ; and the writer of the title himself would presently not know. The only remedy I can see is to give all Christian names beginning with M. in full, and where M. stands by itself to omit it. These are the titles as they appeared in the authoritative advertisement from whence I took them : LA HOLLANDE A YOL D'OISEAU. PAR ASSEMBLERS PABLEMENTAIBES DE LA REVOLUTION. HENRY HAVARD. PAR M. DE LESCURE. 25 EAUX-FORTES ET FUSAINS HORS TEXTE, ET 150 GRAVURES DANS LE TEXTE, TOME PREMIER. PAR CONSTITUANTE. MAXIME LALANNE. Names of books ; notes in a catalogue. 07 Kames of books. The following versitied catalogue is so good as to be worth reprinting here. The British Museum does not possess the source of the lines : " Mistress and Maid," at " Orloy Farm," Of" Black Moss" make their victuals, And "After Dark," with " Adam Bede," Play "Hide and Seek" and " Skittles." " The Game of Life " 'twixt " John and I " At "Amberhill" begins, And " Bertie Bray " and " Rachel Ray " Have gone to see " Which Wins." There's " Stella," who "Two Years Ago" To men made no objections, " The Seven Sons of Mammon " shuns As " Dangerous Connexions." A hint that " Cousin Phillis" stole " The Crock of Gold " has risen ; LITERARY GOSSIP. " MY Brother's Wife " was so upset By " Basil's" "Barren Honour," That " Philip" ran to " Ask Mamma For a dose of " Bella Donna." Not Dead Said "Doctor Thorne," she's fet," Let's hope she'll " Live it Down ;" " Home Influence" may bring her round, With " Leisure Hours in Town." Report asserts "Sir Victor's Choice" Turns out "The Young Stepmother;" That " Martha Brown " has vanished with " My Good-for- Nothing Brother." And then there's " Gilbert Rugge," who says He leads the " Gentle Life," While " Doctor Jacob" goes "Next Door" To see " The Doctor's Wife." 'Tis " Wondrous Strange " if she escapes From " Female Life in Prison." My " Strange Story " I'll now conclude, So pray " Wait for the End;" And if it's " Not Forgotten," write And tell " Our Mutual Friend." Notes in a catalogue. Two things are needful to a list of books for sale I. that the prices are such as to induce people to buy; II. that your catalogue gets looked at. The first is not the concern of the cataloguer proper, but the second is eminently his. Notes are always of advantage in a catalogue of books for sale. The mere change of type is a relief to the eye, which is apt to become wearied by monotonous expanses, by page after page of printed matter. From the ease and cheapness with which catalogues are now printed, the number of those that are sent forth (more especially of such as offer second-hand books) has amazingly increased ; and they may be said literally to rain upon any one who chances to be known as a lover of literature, or as a book buyer. A result of this is, that the number of catalogues which promptly find their way into the waste-paper basket would be truly distressing were it possible to have the statistics. Under these circumstances it may be called a vital matter to see how you can get your list looked at one " among so many." I am disposed to think that a catalogue which is observed to have notes, will be, if not looked over immediately, not among the " first flight " to perdition ; and that if a particular series of catalogues gets known to have notes that are in themselves interesting, the cata- logues will be preserved and perhaps shown to friends. Better than this cannot be desired by any man who has books to sell. The pages which follow give examples of an attempt in this direction, titles with notes, selected from some thousands which have appeared in the periodical catalogues of one of the best and largest houses in London. As they actually appeared, the proportion of annotated titles was not more than one in fifteen, or one in twenty. It is desirable to name this, because in (for a particular purpose) giving solely titles with notes, the effect that is pro- duced in practice by having some five or six per cent, of the mass of titles annotated, is lost ; our business here is with the kind of notes solely. The annotated titles which follow were produced at the rate of about a line per minute, including any reference that had to be made, and the handling of the books. The finding and verifying of passages also came out of the time which is mentioned. If it were my business to catalogue second-hand books, I would seize everything, day by day, that bore on F 2 68 Notes in a catalogue of books for sale. books, from whatsoever source, and preserve these disjecta membra in al- phabet, to wait for the article they served to illustrate. Here is one. If I were a second-hand bookseller or his cataloguer, this would be its use : "Ward. Ideal of a Christian church, 8vo. Garneray, Voyages, combats, &c. 6 vol*. Mr. Ward, of Balliol, published his ideal of a Le reste de 1'arack contenu dans la bouteille fut Christian Church which called down the censure of port au medecin, qui declara que cette liqueur the University, and caused him to be degraded from e"tait empoisonne. Comment cela avait-il eu lieu ? his degrees. On this question Mr. Gladstone and On ne 1'ait jamais su, et comme je ne fais pas un Dean Wilberforce took different sides, the former roman ici, et que je me contents de retracer les voting against the censure and degradation, the f aits dontj'ai etc le temoin, je me vois force, quitte latter for them. STANDAED, 1879. a de"plaire au lecteur, de laisser ces e"venemeuts sans explication aucune. There must be many a one to whom the title of "Ward," as above, if unexplained, would convey no notion of the interest of the book in con- nection with the Tractarian movement. The note to " Garneray " comes from reading the book. Both notes would teed to make any ephemeral catalogue worth preserving. Garneray, a brave Frenchman, man-of-warsman, pirate, and slaver at Zanzibar, passed many years in the hulks at Portsmouth after gallantly fighting the English in Eastern Seas, without being invariably beaten Vixi Britannis nuper idoneus Et militavi non sine gloria. His book is enchaining in its interest, and so modest that it may be called self -effacing. The extract given above would have furnished a motto for the book called " Catalogue tides/' as accounting for matters which are not dealt with. The " points " of some of the annotated titles which occupy pages 69 to 75 may be briefly indicated. I. Nos. 1, 2, 73, 81, 93, 96, 116, 120, are made interesting by quotations from the books. II. Nos. 9,23, 109, 110, 111, 112, 128, 130, describe irregular articles, books which have no title-pages, and generally no letterpres. These examples may be of especial use to the novice who counts on having printed data to work upon. Once, when I was cataloguing for a large London house, a bundle of sticks tied round with a string, was sent up to rne without any remark. I described the article as if it had been a book, without knowing what it was, and it was ordered from the catalogue. III. Nos. 25, 28, 33, 62, 72, 89, 115, are pieces of careful description. IV. Nos. 10, 17, 27, 31, 36, 42, 77, 83, 92, 100, 102, 103, 131, 133, might perhaps be called bibliographical in their annotation. V. Nos. 54, 61, 84, 122, show maps catalogued without measuring for the dimensions. Done habitually, this gives no trouble. VI. No. 63. " Landscape " commences the entry, because the binder has so lettered the back. This is done that the book may be found when it is asked for from the catalogue. VII. Nos. 8, 24, 98, 104, exhibit purely commercial description. VIII. Nos. 6, 11, 90, 95, 114, 127, 132, 135, give items, quantum valeant, in the history of art; Nos. 14, 16, 18, &c., items of contemporary history. There would be nothing in this if they were not caught on the passage. IX. Nos. 2, 6, 7) 62, 100, &c., show the unseemly capital letters which often deface commercial printing, and which are too often inserted by the commercial cataloguer. The right-hand column of these examples has been cleared of such, to show the difference. Altogether, the titles which follow are an attempt to make a catalogue readable. The numbers which precede the titles of pages 69 to 75, and elsewhere in this book, are a sign that the examples have stood the test of practical experience. Annotated titles, examples of various kinds. 69 1 ABOUT (E.) Question Komaine, 8vo, i cloth, 2s. Qd. 1859 ( 107 BEWICK (W., Artist) Life and letters, edited by T. Landseer, with portrait, 2 vols. Antonelli is described as half brigand, half priest post 8vo, 4s. 6d. 1871 ^^^"SeTSS^ 1 2Sf^rSS 1 S of Be k ' s Batert works was to copy spire un certain ftonnement.'' Michael Angelo's paintings m the Sistine chapel, sixty feet from the ground, on a scaffolding built so 3 ADAMS (W. B.) English Pleasure Car- 2) as to bring him close to them. The arduousness of fonied pZctfes, 8vo, 2s. 6d. 1837 ( I2 117 BIBLE (Old Test, only), sm. 4to, calf, A pamphlet was lately published by Mr. Rowland 01 . 1608 Black letter, a very neat example, with margina notes. Rather close shaved in places. On the last Ira, advocating the reduction of all postages on letters to a penny. Page 288. 1151 ADOLPHUS (J ) Public and Private 3) page is " The Ende of the Prophets." Consequently Life, Extracts from Diaries, &c., by E. the " Profitable Concordance " named on the title- Henderson, 8vo, 2s. 1871 page 1S absent ' While the "Waverley Novels were yet anonymous, / infi'RT'RTTT 1 f>m on nailed " "RrPPrliPj' " Mr. Adolphus wrote some papers in which he proved (l3 , ] B /4> tne s O-called Br es , from internal evidence, that Scott was the author. because of the rendering ot the passage The same love of the companionship of dogs, was about Adam and Eve's raiment, with wood- found. in the novels as in Scott's poetry, and so on. Hence a friendship which is told of in these pages. Q/ the furniture, utensils, Us ? 9 ALFIERI (Vittorio) Vita, scritta da esso 4) Has a map of the Garden of Eden, showing the ( ; 'his" self), 2 vols. in 1, portrait, royal 8vo, position of the rivers that bounded it, a matter of half calf, 3s. Firenze, 1822 much controversy among the learned. to VJvfctSrioul ('4 100 BOURNE (J. C.) Lithog. drawing of the London and Birmingham Railway, with 14 AMERICAN WAE,&c., Remembrancer, 5) topographical descriptions by J. Britton, Alfieri. Impartial Repository of Public Events, vols. 1 to 8, 11 and 12, roy. 8vo, bound, 2 12s. fid. 1775 &c Valuable as preserving documents, letters of public interest, &c. Thus the work commences with a letter to an English M.P. on a proclamation for- bidding the export of arms to America. 86 ART. Parthenon, a Magazine of Lite- rature and Art, Nos. I. to XVI., in original covers, 6s. 1825-6 There are many plates, examples of various styles tion of a picture, as an auxiliary to words, is here employed, under date 1825. 62 BABBAGE (C.) Economy of Manu- factures, 12mo, 2s. 1832 One chapter describes a " trades-union " of book- 8ellers - 1156 BALZAC (H de) Novels, in French, 40 vols. 18mo, newly half bound into 20, 33s. This does not pretend to be a compete collectfon. Here are, however, Deux jeunes marines (most curious) ; Les C^libataires (ditto) ; Eugt?nie Grandet (perhaps his prettiest); the famous Peaude Chagrin, These 20 vols. are a treasury of perhaps the most curious reading in French literature. 108 BARTHOLOMEW FAIR Scrap Book, about an inch thick, 4to, half calf, 16s. 6d. The seventy or so leaves are fcr the most part pasted on both sides with scraps, cuttings, &c. Benides, there are about fifty extracts, portraits of dwarfs, giants, monstrosities, such as a parti- coloured Indian, armless man, &c. Among the scraps is a cuttingfrom the "Mirror." with a portrait of a mermaid. This became Mr. Barnum's Mermaid thirty years later, and was exhibited by him m England and America. 1043 BAYERI Explicatio Characterum seneis Uranometrias imaginum tabulis, &o., &c., sm. 4to, 7s. 6ct. Ulmce Suev,, 1640 It is not often that a book published at Ulm (of " the Suabiaus") is seen. Its fortifications and history are more in the mind than its literary productions. 37 P l ^ es atlas foho a llttle damaged, 5s. Gives an idea of what had to be done before the Journey could be made by a passenger. The sta- tionary engine is mentioned for drawing trams from Euston to Carr.den, locomotives not being allowed lest they set the town on fire. f) 110 BRITISH MUSEUM. A list of the us books of reference in the Reading Room, with coloured plan, 8vo, 4s. 6d. 1859 T j d afc th Museum> to know if there wer e (ifi 182 BUCKINGHAM (J. Silk) Outline of 7) his voyages, travels, writings, &c., 8vo, cloth, 2s. 1848 He proposed to Mehemet AH re-opening the ancient Suez canal. 8) B UERGER's Lenore (text in appro- black letter) with translation by W. $ Spencer and six plates by Lady Diana Beauclerc, also cherubimic head and tail puces, folio, 3s. 6d. 1809 ,,. ___i nT , nf Mr -Rnro-hA nr Rnrcrhpr's TSPA other s work ' lfc 1S sai(L (ig 177 BURTON (R. F.) Zanzibar; city, 9 ) islands, and coast, 2 vols. 8vo, 9s. 6d. 1872 I had proposed to build a fort at Berherah, and buy all the Ottoman ports on the we.-tern shores of the Bed Sea, for 10,000. . . . The Court of Directors were lostiu wonder that a subaltern officer should dare to prepare for the Suea Canal, which Lord Palmerston and Mr. Robert Stephenson had declared to be impracticable. Page 9. ( jgQ BYRON and LEIGH HUNT. The 9 ^^ verge and proge frQm the g outh) 2 1 ) vo ls. in 1, 8vo, half calf gilt, 4s. 1822-3 This is the periodica i which i ed to a good deal of dispute between the friends of Byron and Hunt; see respective biographies. Hunt went to Pisa with tis family at Byron's invitation, whence the Liberal was written. Byron's "Vision of Judgmeut," and " Letter to my Grandmother's Review " are in it. 70 Annotated titles, examples of various lands. 159 CAMPAGNES des Fransais sous le 20) 268 COOKE (E. W.) Leaves from my consulat et 1 empire, album de 52 battailes et ' 2 9 sketch book, series ii. 25 plates with letter- 100 portraits (of marshals and generals), 60 press, oblong 4to, 20s. 1876 planches dites de C. Vernet, folio, cloth, Have the air of delicate sepia drawing; pood 12s Gd. Paris, 1840 ? instances of which are an " Evening cloud, Venice," The illustrations are not mnch, as pictures, but " Evening in the Lagoons," and the Biva degli thev convey a good idea of the nature of the ground Schiavoni. This last gives the untravelled reader a on Which great battles have been fought, and of the capital idea of the place. There are a good many external aspect of the places after which they are views in Egypt. iiHuied. Thus we getRoveredo, near Trent, Mantua w ; th its marshy environment, Ulm with its hill- (30 773 COOKE (E. W.) Shipping and craft, forts (very seldom portrayed), Napoleon's transfer 50 plates drawn and etched, original edition, t<> the Northumberland en route lor St. Helena, Vf4-i 4-4- A A4- v if ^f VA IQOQ Fontainebleau, Ratisbonne, &c., &c. a httle 8 P otted > 4t > half calf, 24s. One of the plates depicts the famous interview at Besides being a happy example of (the artist's) Tilsit, on a raft, on the river. craft, the work has value as depicting craft and _ . apparatus that England knows not now. East 155 CARPENTERS Human Physiology, 21) i m ii a men, West Indiamen, three deckers, &c., in all plates and woodcuts, thick 8vo, cloth. 4s. Qd. the glory of canvas, a brig of war, stem quarter 1844 galleries, carronades, &c , &c. One plate gives a man and a monkey's skeleton , OQA nnT?Arw A r T T unmutilated edition, 6 vols. small c F c was the Bnthor Qf Pnilo80phical theorieg ovo, 17s. bet. lirux. 171 and experience," No. I. of Small books on great Mont de pi^te", qui prete a cinq pour cent. Ce bel subjects, a series which has always been held in et utile e"tablisseraent manque a Venihe, ou les juifs high estimation. Among the translations are the ont toujours trouv^ le moyen de 1'empecher. 1.505. "Sword song," &c., from Korner, pieces from At Vicenza, not eo very far from Venice, there is, Schiller, &c. Sismondi is among the correspon- at this moment, a very fine Monte di pieta. dents. 192 CAVES, Caverns, Grottos, nnd Rock j^) 294 CRIES of Venice, 60 plates of every Phenomena- a Scrap Book, circa 24 by 21, 32 day life, folio, half calf, 10s. 1803 containing examples from Japan, the Isle of The prosy side of the poetic city, dustmen, rat- Wight, Biarritz, Scotland, Ireland, Inkermann, catchers, tinkers, milk, the greengrocer, and so on. China, &c., 30 leaves on which are coloured On one of the plates a child inside a veritable go-cart ' , . , , .. . , . , , f \s introduced. An occasional mask litts the scene drawings, English and foreign plates, half now and then from its sordid work-a-day level. bound, in new condition, 16s. Qd. 1870 The Grotto of Antiparos, also that of Posilipo, are (33 268 CRIMEA. Atlas historique et topogra- well represented, in various aspects. Gibraltar is phique de la guerre d'Orieut, 185 1, 1855 et ^^^&^ ^^^^ tm9 ^ ^ 1856, redig. sur documens officiels, sous lea soins du depot de la guerre, &c., 31 coloured 221 CHAMBERS' Edinburgh Journal, two 24) military plans, maps, and views (some folded Beries, 40 vols in 20, roy. 8vo, half green ^ 35 by 24), oblong, half bound, cloth morocco, gilt, 3 3s. 18 14 s id es , 15s. 1858 The immense variety of short articles, tales, Bket hes, social essays, anecdotes, biographies, &c., The . a P s a . re very good, and the views (winding makes this a most desirable set of books for U P. Wlt ^ a triumphal entry beneath the Vendome IpTKlino- cmt column) graphic. The French camp before the city is very well given, also the naval bombardment. 158CHURPFALZ BaierischeMilitair-Etat, 25) a beautifully written volume of 317 pages, '34 263 CUYCKIUS. Speculum concubinario- besides Index, printed (also in places) and rum sacerdotum, monachorum ac clericorum, ruled in red ink by hand, after the manner of 18mo, calf, red edges, 5s. Coloniae, 1599 a ledger, 12mo, calf gilt, red edyes, 20s. 1798 Lies within a small compass ; apparently a treatise The title is set in a most delioa ely drawn pen on lying. and ink frame, surmounted by a crown. ^ ^^ Architect e in ^ 240 COBBETT (W.) Political Register, 88 2 6) builder's constructive manual of foundations, vols. and 4 supplements ; altogether 92 vols. fr c g vo 2s 1839 V*n > ' ve8 a P a * e P late of the famous campanile at wanting) &b 10s. Pis a> O f which nobody knows now whether it was There is probably nowhere another such assem- made to lean, or whether it leant after it wab made. blau:e of pungent political papers, besides the substantial history of the time. The value of the (,5 272 DELOLME on the constitution of ork i a greatly enhanced by extracts from foreign ^ n p-l nr d iin'th nnrtrnit Svn r>alf 9e r nland to see itself as thr -&ugiai.a, w vn po? air, ovo, call, ^s. papers, enabling England to see itself as others saw it. " All the booksellers in London at first refused to oco nrkT TTT?TTPT? nTovfla-rrN "P^a, r'4-u > have anything to do with my English edition. . . . 263 COLERIDGE (Hartley) Poems, with 27) The original was first p ub - li8h ed in Holland."- a Memoir by his Brother (Derwent), 2 vols. PBEFACB. 12mo, 8s. Qd. 1851 "Hartley" came of the admiration S. T. Cole- (37 298 D'ORVILLE Sicula ; Rudero, antiqui- ridge at one time had for the writings of Hartley. tates, ac numismata Siciliae, commentarium 203 COMMON PRAYER, reprinted from 2 8 , acl J ecit R Burmann Sec., with many plates the 1662 edition, in antique (brevier?) type, / ru s > monuments, Zfc , and 20 plates of double red lines round the page, fcap. 8vo, coins > 2 vols - in ] > ro J- folio . Ieaf 6 7-8 half ornamentally stamped m rocco, worked gilt g ne > 8s - 6c *- 64 rims and gilt edges over red, bevelled boards v The iple of Si ci1y is represented in the title by i i ! i >W1T ,. 4 aj three human legs rndiatmg from a. head ; differing with clasps, equal to new, 4s. Qd. fmm the Isle ^ Man> wh( ^ 6e arms are three l * Masters, 1853 without a mau's head. Annotated titles, examples of various kinds. 71 322 DQNDONALD (Earl) Autobiography 38) 490 HALFPENNY (W., Architect and of a Seaman, 2 vols. 8vo, 7s. 6d. 1860 (48 Builder) Art of sound building demon- Best known as Lord Cochrane, the most splendid strated in geometrical problems, with S^'lSS^S^WS^iSrf d ^ te "fluids, $~c curiously engrave* France, from one end to the other, in terror with on copper plates, folio, calf, 3s. Gd. his single frigate Now, we like buildings without draughts, and to 298E AST India Company . T. Sandys, 39) ^?S3rS5 B ^f H K ' f Id The Argument (sic) of the Lord Chief (49 685 HALL (Capt B.) Schloss Hamfeld a Justice (Jeffreys) concerning the Great Case *f m Lower St y na > P ost 8vo <*<* of Monopolies, in the King's Bench, with ^^^ narration of life in an oat of JfJ Mb. Annotations, folio, 2s. lby corner of the world, bibliographically interesting That a Lord Chief Justice should " argue" (i.e. because of revelations of private life, which it waa take a side) is noticeable. thought the author should not have made. 247 ESSAYS Reprinted from the Times gj 458 HARDING's Sketches at home and (by S. Phillips), 2 vols. 12mo, 3s. fid. 1854 abroad, original copy, imp. folio, half The essay on Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton has morocco 4 10s been especially noticed. May be ' called a mO nument in lead (sere perennius) . 249 EURIPIDES Hermann, 2 vols. 8vo, 4 1 ) showing what may be done with a lead pencil. It good half calf, 8s, 6d. Lips. 1838, &c. also a gallery or drawing-room table-book of Andromache/Hecuba, Orestes, Iphigenia Taurica f ore| ip scenes > Bought under the eye by the artist's et Aulica, Cyclops, Phoeniss*, Helena. vlcenza, with its fairy campanile, and Monte de 363 FAMILY Atlas of the S.D.U.K., 8042) Pieta opposite; Como, from the Milan road; and coloured maps by eminent geographers, in- Belluno, are among the splendid views. eluding Murchison's geological England and (si 469 HECKETHORN (C. W.) Roba d' Ita- Wales and Lubbock's star maps, and plans of 1> Italian lights and shadows, a record of London and Paris, with discoveries and travel, 2 vols. 8vo, 10s. 1875 improvements to the latest date, impl. folio ,,** **&g&k NapTsVI ^SSSg halt red morocco, cloth sides, I Is. circa 18bd are depicted in glowing colours, while the horrors Inside the cover is a coloured map of Speke and o f its charael-house for dead bodies, with its 366 Grant's route. There is a good index, and the maps pits, whereinto the poor are thrown naked da'ly, are indexed through their edges, s > that any one are depicted with almost frightful power. The can be instantly turned to without reference. sunlit picture has its shadows of corresponding 349 FONBLANQUE (A.) Life and Labours, 43) depth * by E. B. de Fonblanque, 8vo, 5s. 6d. 1874 (52 506 HISTORY of Mexico from Spanish Nearly 500 pages are occupied with a selection of and Mexican historians, MSS. Indian paint- his choicest papers from the Examiner. ings, &c., by D. F. Saverio Clavigers, trans- 325 FORCES de 1'Europe, recueilli (le 44 ) lated by Cullen, numerous plates, 2 vols. 4to, tout) pour Monsignor le Due de Bourgogne, ca ^f 10 S 1787 7 parts io 1, obloug folio, calf, 8.. M.. SST?SS^S S ^ hile energeti- cover gone, 4s. -T Antiverpen, lolo cally denouncing ministerial measures, once ex- " His i a,me is Gonzago, the story is extant, and claimed, ' Why, there is the noble lord asleep," Ac. written in very ctiOiCe itilian." HAMLEI. " I wish to God I was," giowled Lord Norih. 72 Annotated titles, examples of various kinds. 584 KALENDARIUM Hebraicum a S. 58) 535 LUCKNOW. Rees' (L. E. Ruutz) Munster, with the Latin, sm. 4to, 4s. Gd. 1527 ^ 68 Personal narrative of the siege, with portrait Capital print, with pictorial initial letters; and of Sir Henry Lawrence, post 8vo, 2s. Qd. 1858 there are pages of lunar and solar eclipses depicted, From the hands of one of the < unc ovenanted." with descriptions. The dark masks that deface Hence a rather acrimonious correspondence in the Borne of the heavenly bodies are very droll. Times. 385 KAYE's PORTRAITS. 150 Portraits g) 6 23 MACAULAY, JEFFREY, &c. Selec- of Celebrities and Oddities, mostly belong- tiong from the Edinburgh Review, by Maurice it,g to Edinburgh, with letterpress, thick CrogS) the begt artic i eS) from itg commence- 4to, boards, 2 2s. ment to the pre sent, 4 vols. 8vo, cloth For fear the reader should not perceive the fun of i ri -i 9 1 oqq them, the descriptions point out to the intelligent " s ' ^- wherein the " wit " of these portraits consists. Thus _ Sydney Smith , a ? d Macaulay's finest essays also there is no escape Jeffrey s, scarcely less admirable, are here. There is a portrait of Jeffrey. His papers are the more 570 KEY (T. H.) Philological Essays, 8vo, 60) remarkable that he is understood to have employed 4s 6ci 1868 almost no works of reference. In allusion to the The preface has some Bibliographical matter slenderness of means or of dictionaries generally, whichi8i,:terestinRforLatinscholarsofthehi ? her Jeffrey used to say, "Tenui musam mertitamur order, with regard to Terentian metres and other arena." We cultivate literature on a little oat- conti everted points, and the author gives a list of his philological productions during 40 years. ( 70 547 MALTBY (Bp.) Greek gradus, poeti- 520 KNIPE (J. A.) Geological and Miners- 61) cal lexicon, with Latin and English trans- , logical Map of England and Wales, with Iation and English-Greek vocabulary, thick Parts of Scotland, Ireland, and France, in 2 8vo > half calf, 2s. 6d. sheets, each about 30x24 inches, fully Is, in fact a cheap Greek-English lexicon for I ,n ~t i i i it- /> tnOoc WOO Will USG ll HO, coloured, with additional representations of strata, fc., on canvas, bound round, in cloth <7' ^ METAMOBPHOSI ; Yedute da Basi- case, about post 8vo size, 6s. llde J'eremita, sul sermmare del secolo XVIII. France is very partially represented. It is barely 12mo, 2s. 1799 stepped upon, so to say, for the Pas de Calais is Libro ( ) commences " Di rotorno alia specie almost all that the space affords. umana." Lib. I. 6 is " Gli Ourang Utan col. mondo nuovo." Something towards the controversy as to 525 LABORATORY PLATES. 46 coloured 62) whether men have been quadrumanous. plates of Shells, Tubes, various Cartridges, (72 581 MILITARY Maps and plans, show- Parachute Balls, and the like, most carefully ing the pr i nc ip a l movements, battles, and executed on extra oblong folio paper, the sieges of the British army (1808 to 1814) in interspersed directions being on linen to tne Spanish Peninsula and the South of preserve them, half bound cloth sides, 6s. France, 50 splendid military plans, coloured n a paving apparatus, and a section of a "carcase," volume about 30 inches by 18, half morocco, ironically moulded. cloth sides, 45s. 544LAOTSCAPE -Fmden-sinustrat^ of Byron s Life and Works, with original and selected information on the subjects of (73 467 MITCHELL (Col. J.) Fall of Napoleon, the plates, by Brockedon, more than 150 fine 3 vols - P ost 8vo > 5s - 6d - 1845 plates, 3 vols. large 8vo, half bound, 32s. Qd. Except Napoleon and Murat, the author has seen nearly all the leading men named. ... He has endeavoured to balance French exaggerations by looo Includes interesting Portraits, as of Miss Cha- the more dispassionate statements of German worth, Margharita Cogni (a Venetian Belle) &c. writers. PHEFACB. 615 LIVES and Exploits of Celebrated^} 554 MITCHELL (T.) Comedies of Aristo- Highwaymen, Pirates, and Robbers, illus- phanes, 2 vols. 8vo, 9s. trated, 12mo ; 2s. A truly British title, leaving you in doubt whether Among the highwaj'men is Eugene Aram, who the book is the original, a translation, or a treatise may still be encountered in the paths of literature. on Aristophanes. It is a translation. 598 (LOCKHART) Peter's Letters to his Js) 604 MITFORD (Mary Russell) Life, related Kinsfolk, with portraits of Jeffrey, Allan the 7S in a selection from letters to her friends, painter, Judge Braxfield, Dr. Chalmers, James edited by A. G. L'Estrange, 3 vols. post 8vo, Hogg, Play fair, and many others, 3 vols. 8vo, 4s. 6d. 1870 half calf, 8s. 6d. 1819 Abounds in interesting and amu?ing matter, Smart sketches of literary and other notabilities dramatic and literary criticism, &c. They say Miss when Edinburgh was indeed the modern Athens. ^ used to "do" the various entertainment-* ft>r "Braxfield. they say, would " chaff" a man in broad local P a Pers. Among the celebrated persons noticed Scotch almost in the same breath as he sentenced in 'hese vols. are : Miss Austen, Dr. Parr, Lady him to the gallows. Byron, Cobbett (a neighbour of Miss M.'t?) Talfourd, Valpy, Hazlitt, Haydon, Mrs. Barrett Browning, 556a LOGARITHMISCH - Trigonometri- 66) Marryat, C. Kingsley, &c., &c. sches Handbuch heransgeg. v. H. G. Kohler, / * ^^ , T ^ T Tnn-n -^ roy 8vo boards 2s Qd ' 1867 7 MOLIERE, Dramatic works, trans- About 200 pages are given to the " Geraeinen oder lated b ^ C " Heron - Wall sm - 8vo - ^ohn, 1876 BriggischeLogarithmen." Then come the Gaussian. The French patois of Don Juan is rendered by English of Zomerzet, as the fairest equivalent. 775 LONG (G.) France and its Revolu-6 7 ) tions, a Pictorial History, imp. 8vo, cloth (77 483 MISS PERKINS' BALL, by M. 6s. Qd. 1850 ^- I 1 i tmars h with many illustrations by Many of the engravings are from the same hands Thackeray, small 4to, tidy copy, 4-?. Qd. 1847 that, illustrated the tarn ;us Lane's Arabian Nigtits; ^ n on e of the pages is a caricature of the German Knight's publications both. method of pronouncing French. Annotated titles, examples of various lands. 73 488 MUSIC (Instrumental) Nearly 15078) 727 PAMPHLETS on 1745 Koberts (S.) Pieces by Thalberg, Calcott, Wallace, ^ 8S Sermon, 1745 ; Britain's danger not yet Hiinten, Verdi, Mendelssohn, Donizetti, &c., over, 1746 ; N. Clarke, Sermon against the &c., strongly bound in 4 vols. imp. 4to, " Pretender," recommending him a celestial cloth, 21s. kingdom, 1745 ; M. Hughes, Narrative of These volumes represent an outlay of between 1745 ; T. Gibbons, Thanksgiving sermon on fifteen and twenty pounds ; possibly more. At 2*. the Duke of Cumberland's success, 1746 ; T. per P1 ece they come to nearly 15. Gibbons, Britannia's alarm, poem, 1745; 907 MUSICAL ENTERTAINER, by Bick- 79) Miscellaneous pieces from the newspapers, ham, 100 pieces of music, each with its plate, 1 7 45> a ff ec ting case of Oswald ; Ensign under folio, 12s. 6d. Bedfordbury the p re tender, 1745 ; &c., near two inches One plate gives Vauxhall, another the Spa at 4-i^w >^lf nf ,if <- R/J Islington (Sadler's Wells?), another Hampstead, a thick, 8vo, halt call, 8s. bet. mountainous region. (89 783 PANZER'S Fauna ; Deutschlands 775 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE; Achieve- 80) Insekten, Hefte, parts 1 to 28, and 30 to 52 ; ments, Campaigns, Anecdotes, &c., to the the lot of 51 parts, 2 2s. Nurnburg Raft on the Niemen, coloured portrait 12mo, ^ *$$,?* F&?! wrapper, 2s. Clerkeniuell Lrreen than 1200 varieties, handsomely portrayed, each 503 NEWMAN (J. H.) Apologia in^**^^w2^ T 'g?% sua, 8vo, 16s. 1864 The whole is therefore in a beautiful state of preser- Had I been asked twenty years ago what, the vation. doctrine of the Established Church was, I should / /y n q -D\T>TO rViomnm'n VHPO do Pan'a have answered "Neither Romish nor Protestant/ 90 / Uy PAKIb. Lnamouin, vues de Paris but 'Anglican 'or 'Anglo-Catholic.'" 35-6. prises au Daguerreotype, 24 pictures about >?nn XTT Tern* m? T 'T^KPT n<3 rnnfoaai'nna R,^ 15 ^ 10 ches, in oblong boards, 4s. , L E. CLOb Confessions, 82) Their b called D ? reot fixes the dafce par E. Moret, numerous illustrations, 4to, j840 to 1842, circa. cloth, 4s. 6d. 1860 ((?I 773 PARRY. Last days of Byron, 8vo, Has more usefulness than would seem from the i 1f lf fi ISO* title. It is written in the third person; an historical n ![,' \ t-\ ^ tr v 7 . picture, of which Ninon is the central figure. " Bentham hove too (c) abreast of Carlisle'8 Around her group themselves Richelieu, St. Evre- sn P- P- *** mond, the Corneilles, Madame de Maintenon, Cinq (92 678 PASSERATII Commentarii in Cattvl- Mars, &c. i vm Tibvllvm, et Propertivm, with three If it is romance, there are notes which have the < v ir o j value of history, in illustrating the times, giving mdexes, folio, calf, 3s. Qd. Pans, 1608 verses, &c- The style and engravings are rather The view of Paris (Lvtetia vrbs Parisiorvm) on free as the period they depict. tne title is most curious. There are the old walls, __._. ..,*.. I* MI. i o o \ encircling moat, the islands in the Seine, with Notre 703 NOVELLE Otto, 4to, calf gilt, 12s. 83) Dame, cattle grazing, bridges with houses on them, London, 1790 a cemetery, a gibbet in the street, and a cross. At the end is a touching appeal to the reader : Si (93 447 PHILLIPS (J.) British Belemnitidse, tmveranno nelle presenti Novelle moltissimi errcri K vn iq 4,<- n -M e 635 ORDNANCE Survey Maps, very nicely 84) they were mere stones, crystals, horns, or shells . . . mounted and folded in calf cases, looking on , now ranked as Cephalopods.-p. 1. the shelves like 12 imp. 8vo volumes, 4s. 6d. (94 723 PICTORIAL History of England, the The above are lettered consecutively I. to XI E. people as well as the kingdom, with many Each volume contains four sheets of about 36 by 24 hundred illustrations of costumes, customs, games, buildings for fighting, living, and 669 OUGHT we to Visit Her ? by Mrs' 85) praying, vessels to hold water and to keep EHwardes, 3 vols. 4s. 1871 it out, bridges, &c., &c., 8 large vols. imp. Full of " situations " of the broadest farce, arising gvo 3 C Kniqht 1838 from the perplexities of people who consider them- Th coracle," a species of tub used anciently T^wnorn 764 PICTORIAL SUNDAY BOOK; 164 higher people whom they would give their ears to pages folio, alternate letterpress and en- be noticed bv, are delightful. gravings in natural history, customs,costumes, 763 PAMPHLETS (3). Picton's Case, by 86) buildings, views, and Scripture scenes from Draper, adversus Fullarton and Sullivan, great paintings, besides 100 pages (circa) of 1806; Defence of Andrew Cochrane John- Bible geography, ivith coloured atlas, folio, stone, 1806, one inch and a half thick, 8vo, half bound cloth sides, 12s. 1848 half calf, 3s. The maps are noticeable as an early example of Sir Thomas Picton, who went into Waterloo colour printing, and of an attempt to apply that already wounded, and was killed in that battle process to the production of coloured maps. was, previously, Governor of Trinidad, in the West (96 841 PLEYDELL ( J. C.) Military observa- Indies. The above-named deals with alleged x-_^-, T?. Vn i -mi ^ a cruelties on his part during his administration of tlons m France French Flanders, and that island. Luxembourg, thin 4to, 2s. *7fi7 PAMPHLETS f8^ _ Gpnrap TTT ' RVk Uusoldierlike custom of the men beine permitted 7o7 V AMJ H 1^ i (;. ,orge 1 Us 87) to talk - n fche Fren(jh raukg Absolute gile ^ ce is onQ Keign, l/8(J-yO, Dublin; Another bketch, great principle of the Prussian discipline (1795). Review of Great Britain, 1787 ; to the *Prince p. 39. of Wales, 1795; French Revolution,*' Events," (97 711 PLIMSOLL (S.) Our seamen, an Cork, 1789; French Revolutionary Wars by appeal, 4to, cloth, 4s. 1873 Miller, Dublin, 1811, over one inch thick, 8vo, Has many plates, showing that they "who go down to the sea in ships " of ten sail in vessels that are calculated to go down. There are also many On a second applica'ion for money to pay his debts. facsimiles of documents, &c. 74 Annotated titles, examples of various kinds. 550 POETS. Chaucer to Cowper, with 98) 824 (SCOTT) Paul's letters to his kins- Dr. Johnson's Prefaces; also the most ( z 7 folk, 8 vo, boards, 3s. 1816 approved translations with additional lives Sir Walter Scott's account of the Battle of Water- by Alex. Chalmers, 21 vols. roy. 8vo, calf, l^d^ved from a visit to the Iocalitie 3 very shortly treble lettered, 5 5s. 1810, _ . artr>AT> T> -i e -L. Nearly 1500 closely printed columns per volume < 108 , 844 SCRAP Book of about 100 inserted make this a vast treasurw-house of poetical literature. pictures, portraits, silhouettes, scenes comic, And the prose which the authors wrote (with or landscape &c ; nearly as much MS prose without knowing it) is also here. and poet gm> folio> hftlf bound> gg> 554 POOR (H. V.) Manual of the Rail- 99) There are a few extra scraps, among them a view- roads of the United States, Series V. 1872-3, of Munich with its curious double-barrelled cathe- with an Appendix, Analysis of the State dra1 ' seen from the Isar '> alao leaves fjr iaserti m - Debt, and the Debts of the several States, (109 845 SCRAP Book: a collection of 150 thick 8vo, 4s. 1872 indescribable pieces, full page and small, The volume has a secondary interest as an with room for farther insertion, 45 leaves, example of advertising in the " States," as they are sfnnf nanpr im dtn hnlf naif o-ilf ^ familiarly called by .hose who go there. One client St U P a P e r. im P- 4fco > nalt calt Bjji 5s - has no mind that h's " light be hid under a bushel " Man ^ of L fc J e 8Cra P s are coloured. The grotesque of other clamouring for notice, BO he flames in prevails. There are some pretty costumes, a French large letters outside the cover. ,J eu d es *> rit > e ^ rtme > &c. 762 PUGIN (A. W.) Recollections, and of }) 96 SCRAP BOOK of CARICATURE, a his Father, Aug. Pugin, with Notices of their volume about 16 X 12, containing 49 sheets Works, by B. Ferrey, and Appendix by E. S. of handsome Bristol board, to which are Purcell, 8vo, calf, 4s. 1861 attached coloured (mostly) portraits, political There are illuminations, two portraits, illuminated parables, and grotesque pictures of Rowland- facsimile of A. W. Putin's design for his own wed- sonian vigour of handling, half morocco, ding card, and illuminated commencement of a letter. cloth gideSj gilt e dges, 6 6s. 571 QUEEN CAROLINE'S Last Days, 101) Thistlewood in the dock is one of the larger Memoirs, and Trial, by J. Nightingale, 6 vols. portraits ; alao the man that " drives the Sovereign," 8vn hnlfralf 21 2 a One'of the earliest favourites of Sir Walter Scott, ("3 799SEDGWICK (A.) Studies at Cam- mentioned in his autobiography. This companion bridge, post 8vo, 3s. 6d. 1850 of his childish years is believed to have helped to After a " conclusion " at p. ccccxlii, the " dis- form Scott's taste for ballads and songs. From the course " begins. date this is doubtless the edition he had. , 00 , OTT _. ,.-. T * \ T* . SO* ^ATTTRDAY MAftA7TNF M vnU (ll f 831 SHEE Sir M. A., Pres. R.A.) Life, by i, i V- v ir ,f iT ' T2S IQ 4> his son, 2 vols. 8vo, half calf gilt, 6s. 1860 m 14, sm folio, half calf, 34s. 1853 The a ' ppendix con ^ [ua Hayd ,* an ' d Shee , 8 evi . For a village lending library, or for children to dence before a Commons' Committee, the key-note turn over, there could be nothing better. Natural of whose inte rest is in the words, " the Academy is history, biography, interesting views, copies of said to have arisen in the bMmt infriffue .-ii. 328. great masters paintings, ancient marks in paoer, length of rivers, mines, panoramic view of heights (115 826 SHIPPING, drawn and etched by H. of mountains, well and boldly given where en- Moses, about 60 tinted plates, roy. 4to, cloth, gravings are required make a most attractive -i - melange; and there are religious extracts that almost render the " Saturday Magazine " a Sunday L n ^ on Docks, Limehouse, a cutter race, the repertory into the bargain. Lord Mayor's barge, hauling out of dock, stern and QQI cntrTMTvyTF'TPT?xr\rT\rmr /TVT A"\ .quarters of an Indiaman alongside a wharf, dis- LlMM^L,f^.MJNlJNLJi. (M. A.; 105) masted vessel in dock, in dock and under repairs, Beauty, Deformity, Physiognomical Expres- several varieties, Navy Yards, Blackwall, outside sion, &c., in Works of Art, with 4 charts and ( ld st y le ) Portsmouth, the Thames and Medway, 38 coloured plates, 4to, half roan, 8s. 6d. 1815 many aspect8 ' seacoast views ' &c " Homan beauty is illustrated by a Trans-Tiberme (116 889 SINCLAIR (Catherine) Scotland and woman, an old hag from che Trattevere. the Scotch, or the Northern Circuit, post 8vo, 913 SCOTT. Minstrelsy of the Scottish 106) 2s. 1840 Border Historical and Romantic Ballads, A sheet of paper has been made at Cowan's one collected in the Southern Counties of Scot- mile and a half long. p. 86. land, with a few of modern date, founded on (117 982 SPENSER, Faerie Queene, early local tradition, 3 vols. 8vo, calf gilt, 6s. 6nT?nxrT TV i^ i 10 r n,, help K! to form the collpction, contributes his Mer- ("8 8o6SPORONI Dialoghi, 18mo, vellum, maid, an exquisite modern example of the ballad 2s. 6c. Aldus, 1546 Btyle. From " cure famijliarl " to Cathay is the range. Annotated titles, examples of various kiuds. 75 852 STRAFFORD (T. Wentworth, Earl) 9> 94i WATEIIFALLS and GLACIERS Lifj, by E. Cooper, 2 vols. 8vo, 6s 6d. 1874 1 X 3A collection of coloured, tinted, and plain Thomas Wentworth was born on Good Friday scraps, from Niagara, coloured, 30 by 21, (April 13, 159 J,in Chancery-lane. downwards; Swiss, Canadian, Welsh, Swedish, 5t2 STUAUSS (D. F.) New Life of Jesus, 120) (Minor) Asiatic, &c., examples, laid down on 2 vols. 8vo, 12s. 6d. 1865 near ly 30 leaves, about 24 by 21, half bound, In my former Life of Jesus it was particularly : mnditinn 1fills, Wlth ^ he Phenomena of spray, forms the titl e. cially for taymen.-PA<. ?J any . var * m ,g a3 Pf cts of Niagara are given, and , . ,,, there is a coloured plate of a fall at Briars (St. 8o5 SULLY (Dae de) Memoires, with 121) Helena?). portrait, 6 vols. 8vo, half calf gilt, 6s. Qd. 1827 ('3 1 1110 WELLINGTON'S Life and campaigns, I have never met with a book that delighted me b 7 G - N - Wright, 4 vols. 8vo, half red calf so much. Miss MITFOED. neat, 14s. The work was a favourite of Walter Scott's, in Interesting from the number of portraits. Here whose life by Lockhart a ghost story from Sully is are Beresford, hero of Albuera ; Perceval, prime named. minister, who was assassinated ; Huskisson, who 1014 TEESDALE's Map of the World, in IM ) ^&S, dSS^of^fflS?: SGSSt two divisions, each circa 48 X 40, on canvas, m i t ted suicide ; the first Sir R. Peel, &c. There are marbled inside, folded to folio size, and bound aiso maps. in morocco extra gilt, 6s. 6d. 1842 1111 wTTTTpaTm?',, T^ITT ,- +*, itm, The above is Mercttorially projected, making the ( '3 2 1111 WHITESIDE 8 Italy m the 19th earth flat century, with portraits, 3 vols. post 8vo, half 914 THIERS (A.) Consulat et Empire, 20 123) calf neat, 4s. 6d. 1849 vnls 8vn wrnnprt Loinrii 1N1^ Gives a description of the impression produced by . ' ^ a PP e ,f s y 6 - Leipzig, It h Beatri Cen f G ido f M u al e the b k Empire," so called, because the tendency is to is worfch havinu- em t iirer things in general. 972 TRACTS for the Times, by Members \* 96 WILSON (J.) Noctes Ambrosianaa, of the University of Oxford, 6 vols. 8vo, cloth 4 vols. post 8vo, 11s. Qd. 1855 hmrrlc ^S IRlO Onl y Wilson's Noctes are here. Many of the v f m t nn , T TT XT readers of Walter Scott's life must have wished to The last paragraph of Tract 90, signed J. H. N., see these celebrated dialogues, which were not to be had in a separate form before. They are called 9S5 TURNER'S Annual Tour ; Wanderings 125) " Ambrosianse," because the symposiasts were wont by the Loire by L. Ritchie, with 25 plates 5; to " use the house of one Ambrose. after Turner, royal 8vo, morocco gilt, gilt ^ 1000 WOLFE (C.) Remains, with a brief edges, 16s. fid. 1833 memoir, portrait, #c., 8vo, half calf gilt, 2s. Not a very good copy, but the " effects " are here. 1827 BO much in them. 972 VAUBAN, Attaque et Defense des 126 > 10 il WOOD ENGRAVING. Art Union Places, with 40 or 50 folding, $"c., plates, 2 ^ I3S scrap book, 150 proofs from the Penny vols. 4to, calf gilt, nice copy, 6s. 6d. 1837 Magazine, of paintings, churches, sculpture, The good old'orthodox styl ; is here tavamment objects in natural history, &c., by eminent .. are the subjects of the plates. JJolin, What the basilica is in Italy, the ramparts of The frontispiece gives the celebrated Madonna Vauban in France, and the pyrami i in Egypt, is the della sedia (the Lady of the chair), so called to dis- castle in England. TUCKBEMAK'S MONTH is tingm'sh it from other delineations of the Virgin and ENGLAND. bambino in a particular style of engraving. 942 VISCONTL Letters on the Elgin 127) 109 , WOR DSWORTH (W } Prose works Mai-bes, with his Catalogue, > * I dedicate every leisure moment tothemCAxovA. Published MSS., with notes, illustrations Sfc. t __,_ , by A. B. Grosart, 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, L Is. 928 VOLCANOS, Subterranean Fire, and i 2 8) jgyg Boiling Springs Examples from China, the Not tbe least interesting part of these volumes is South Seas, Iceland, Sicily, South America a long pamphlet on the much disliked Convention (Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, &c ) English, French, of Cintra. Among other things are essays and anH Tfalinn Prinfa nlrl Q,ii1 n^ w (\ n rlf^ letters, elucidatory of his poems; a guide to the Italian fruits, old and new (in date), Lakes, letters on a proposed railway through the laid down on 30 leaves, circa 24 by 21, half Lake district; and there is a let: er from Mr. .brown- bound, in new condition, 15s. ing, as to who the " Lost leader " is. A great part of the volume is occupied with aspects of eruptions of 200 years of Etna and Vesuvius; (137 H51 YORKSHIRE COSTUME, forty very sometimes coloured representations, and there is a handsome and able facsimiles of original coloured drawiDgs, with letterpress in French and English, folio, half calf gilt, 25s. 1811 1149 WARING s Masterpieces of Industrial I29 j One of the plates has a i ocomo tive drawing Art and Sculpture of the International Exhi- trucks. bidon l-S6i, 3 vols. complete in the 75 YORKSHIRE Anthology, ancient One of the most splendid productions of a Day to \orkshire, edited by J. 0. Hal i well 4. that gave the world many gorgeous books. The Cloth, 3s. bet. Aalara, loo I paper covers alone are a handsome example of typo- Only 110 printed; a certified copy. First in the graphy in gold. list of subscribers is the Duke of Queensbar.v. 76 Numbering series, volumes, and parts ; titles in one line. Numbering of volumes, &C. Books are usually divided into series, volumes, and parts. When all three kinds occur in one title, the best way of noting them is to say, e. g. : Notes and Queries, fourth series, vol. i. part 1. And, in a general way, I would use Roman numerals to indicate volumes, and ordinary figures for parts. But sometimes you will have to enumerate parts or minor divisions of a book in close juxtaposition with their prices. Then, for clearness sake, use Roman numerals, that there may be no confusion between the numbering of the parts and the figures of the prices. Here is the ordinary British method : English reader, part 1, 6d., 2, 9d., 3, 10rf M 4, Is. 4rf., 5, 1*. 9d., 6, 2s. 3d. I suggest, in preference : English reader, i. 6) avec un autre. Le pauvre poete revint a Londres mourir de melancolie et de pauvrete. VAPEEKAU. -CHEF DE Police ; Memoires de CLAUDE. En ce temps-la, si Orsini ayait une maitresse qui le conseillait, Mazzini en ayait deux qui, loin de le conseiller recevaient ses inspirations avec uu soin pieux. C'^taient deux Anglaises.* Ces femmes vivaient dans F accord le plus parfait aupres de Mazzini, qui au declin de la vie, ne pouvait inspirer que des passions platoniques. . . . Les femmes anglaises sont aussi os<5es dans leur patrie que les hommes y sont reserve's. Us n'ont pas crairit, en Angleterre, d'adopter spirituellement les theories polygames de la secte mormonne. This leads funnily enough, and will no doubt be ascribed to French malice or prejudice. The writer may say that he once saw the diary of a demoiselle anijlaise, in whuh a popular writer's theory of spiritual wives was anticipated. MARRYAT, Poor Jack ; Phantom ship, Jacob Faithful, &c. The humanitv and inextinguishable p'easantness of these beautiful books will keep them sweet through all time. Some of them are, moreover, i- historical. Pensioners no longer sun their wooden legs outside the splendid palace at Green- wich, and the phantom ship will be vainly sought in a gale off " the Cape." Vanderdecken has resigned his command. He now peacefully doubles his cape on a table in a printing-office, and may occasionally be seen gliding through a publishing house. DE Pradt, Congres de Vienne. Paris, 1815 L'existence d'Angleterre n'a pas cesse" d'etre menacee depuis Fouverture de la guerre l er feVrier, 1795, jusqu'au 31 mars, 1814. Dans tout cet espace de temps, il ne s'est pas 6con\6 un seul jour dans lequel 1' Angleterre n'ait ete' vouee a une subversion complete. i. 212. Ghangarnier assured me (Rt. Hon. Jas. Wilson) that when he was in office, and Louis Napoleon was President, hardly a day passed without his being sent for to his cabinet to give his opinion on the feasibility of schemes for the invasion of England. RBV. JULIAN YOUNG'S DIABI. Pyramid, the great; observatory, tomb. and temple, by R. A. PEOCTOE. Chatio, 1883 What are the hopes of man ? Old Egypt's king Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid ; But somebody or other, rummaging, Burglariously broke his coffin's lid: Let not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops. DON JCAW. * If we except a few devoted Englishwomen, there is hardly a human being whom long familiarity had not estranged from Mazzini. TIMES, MARCH 12, 1872. 98 Passages from journeying s among books, his surplice was waiting. The coffins, removed from the cai r 'ges, were borne on the shoulders of sixteen men, eight to each, to two graves dug side by side, and ill the men clustered round as they pleased, witn their heads bared. Only the firing party were drawn up in a line near the grave, watching for the order to discharge their volleys. The funeral service began ; and at the words, " We commit their bodies to the ground ; earth to earth, ashes to ashes," the order to fire was given ; and three times, firing all together, the men dis- charged their carbines towards the clouds. The air was filled with smoke, the birds fluttered away frightened from surrounding trees, and then all was still again while the chaplain finished the service. Some of the soldiers not many were strangely moved. One young man, who did not know either of the dead," but some chord in whose heart had been struck by what he saw or what he heard, leaned against a tombstone and sobbed. Old soldiers, who are callous to all else, often say that a funeral unnerves them for the day. Such were !he obsequies of Gerald Gay, per- formed with all the pomp which had cheered him in his dying days. Friendless, he was buried amidst a greater concourse of mourners than many who have troops of friends ; honourless, he was interred with every mark of honour. " After all, it's something to be a soldier," remarked a young recruit, as we marched back to barracks to the tune of a popular medley. Six MONTHS IN THE RANKS. Old soldiers. Mitouflet . . . ne riant jamais d'une plaisanterie, en homme accoutum^ a entendre le canon et a plaisanter sous les armes. BALZAC. Bill Short's three comrades were three men like himself, more or less medalled, sunburnt, and grumpy, but all as alike as brothers in the character- istics of the veteran soldier. There was a cool pride about them which came from their having lived so long among subject races, by whom the commonest English private is cringed to as a master; and this sentiment was increased now by the consideration which younger soldiers, and even officers, paid to them. Discipline sat as comfort- ably upon them as the saddle upon an old charger ; they knew every rule, and obeyed orders to the letter not, indeed, without grumbling; but then grumbling was a mere trick with them, and they would have growled even in Paradise. This esprit de corps was such that they despised every regiment in the service but their own, and affected to have the poorest opinion of that under its modern management. The calm respect which they showed to officers, and which, gradated in clearly marked shades, they extended to all non-commissioned officers, including bombardiers, was mechanical, for they were always scoffing at officers whose standirg in the army was not equal to their own. They appeared to think that the only efficient superiors they had ever seen were the officers and sergeants (most of them long ago dead) under whom tbey had served as recruits, though the stories they told with such grim relish about the savage harshness and drunken, brutal excesses of some of these worthies were enough to make the flesh of a young soldier of our times creep all down his back. ... A trait common to all of them was their appreciation of creature comforts and their wondrous keenness in taking care of themselves. If you came into the room of an evening, you were pretty sure to find them all four ensconced in the snuggest seats near the fire; at dinner they got the best plutefuls of meat ; when the beer was distributed, not a man among them ever obtained a drop less than his share. Accustomed to the cheapness of provisions in India, and to the high feeding soldiers indulge in there, they of course found perpetual fault with the barrack fare at home ; but they ate it heartily for all that, and when one of them was cook, he mostly contrived to get a prime cut off the meat in the kitchen, and to eat it there before bringing the dish up. Six MONTHS IN THE RANKS. Madame de Stael. Madame de Stael was at one time the soul of all those aristocratic and Jesuitical intrigues which preceded the fall of Napoleon, and like a true witch, she cowered over the seething pot wherein all the diplomatic poison dealers, her friends Talleyrand, Pozzo di Borgo, Castlereagh, &c., had brewed destruction for the great emperor. The woman stirred up with fatal ladle of hate the fatal caldron wherein the misery of the whole world was seething at once. When the emperor was defeated, Frau von Stael entered triumphantly into Paris with her book " De rAllemagne," and in the company of a hundred thousand Germans whom she brought, as it were, as pompous illustrations of her volume. Being in suchwise illustrated by copper-plate figures, the work gained in authen- ticity, and one could convince oneself by ocular evidence that the authoress had portrayed us Germans and our patriotic virtues quite veraciously. What a valuable old copper-plate frontispiece was Father Bliicher, the old votary of the gaming table, who stunk of bad tobacco, and who once put forth an order of the day in which he declared that if he could catch the emperor alive he would chop him up ! Also our A. W. von Schlegel did Frau von Stael bring to Paris that pattern of German naivete and heroic virtue. HEINE. Sunday afternoon ; an English garden, a Belgian field. On Sunday, June 18, 1815, it chanced that hetween the services a clergyman in Kent was walking in his garden with his gardener, an old soldier who had gone through the Peninsular cam- paigns. The gardener looked attentively at a bank, from the face of which mould kept crumbling down. u There's a fight going on somewhere, sir! When we were in Spain we always knew when a cannonade was taking place, wherever it might be, by the crumbling of fresh mould." He took a spade and dug down a foot : along the smooth surface left by the steel an imperceptible trembling shook down little pellets of soil. " That's it, sir," said the old soldier, " they are at it sure enough." This was the first intimation in England of the Battle of Waterloo. TEMPLE BAR, 1879. Twenty years' Wanderjahre. One Manstein, travelling ages ago in Russia, heard a singular story. The Czar, annoyed at somebody or other, had a citizen seized, placed in a covered carriage, a dungeon on wheels, and driven about the country none to speak to him the while for twenty years ; at the end of which time, to none more unexpectedly than to himself, he was landed at his own old door again. Whether or not his wife had married again, his sons dissipated his store, his friend had written his biography, the corporation put up a statue to him, or the townsfolk missed the statue, the story sayeth not. But I have often thought there are many of us have such careers. FRIENDS OF BOHEMIA. A village church. On the day of which we write, however, Virley Church was full to overflowing. This is not saying much, for Virley Church is not bigger than a stable which consists of two stalls and a loose box, whereof A private library and the society of books. 99 Baikes' Diary, with D'Orsay's sketches. English and foreign tittle-tattle of the very highest class. Roving Englishman in Turkey. 1855 Contains the famous caricature of Lord Stratford under the name of " Sir Hector Stubble." Grenville Murray (in exile at Mitylene) employed his time in writing the " Roving Englishman." . . . For graphic description and biting sarcasm these sketches have never been excelled. The rage of Sir Stratford at seeing himself held up by one of his own attache's to European ridicule may better be imagined than described. ..." He shall rot in Mitylene," he went about grumbling, and in order to avenge his lacerated feelings, he treated the attaches and secretaries that were about him worse than dogs. TROTH. W. CLARK Russell, Book of authors. Authors on authors, a collection of criticisms. Sailor's word-book, by Admiral W. H. SMYTH and Vice -Admiral SirE.BELCHEE. Saint Simon, ficrits inedits, 8vo. 1880 Gives particulars about Gabrielle d'Estrees, &c. GEORGE Sand, Nanon. J'entrepends, dans uu age avance", en 1850, d'e*crire 1'histoire de ma jeunesse. Shakespeare, dramatische Werke, iiber- setzt von Schlegel und Tieck. Grote The " Divine Williams" (as an ecstatic French- man called him) is here wondrously clad in German. The engravings are very attractive, in the sense of tempting the mere skimmer to read. Shakspeare, Plays, by GEORGE STEEVENS, Esq. Trade, 1824 Has better print than any modern 12mo edition I h-iveseen. Note the "Conservative" spelling of the surname. It is that of the Quarterly Review. Ship. Harris' Little Library, 1830 A ship ! the most mysterious, as it is the most beautiful of human creations. If any one would divert his mind from his own troubles, let him visit the docks, and think of what anyone of the vessels lying there, asleep, as it were, upon its own shadow, has been through since this time last year and yet the figure-head "looks" the same. There is yet a tranquillising sight. In a London timber-yard may be seen a row of wooden images. They are the figure-heads of depaited men-of-war. As they lean therewith stedfast gaze, those ancient mermen and women, one almost sees them pressing forward through the agitation of countless billows. The mind calls up the majestic mass of hull, the towering spread of canvas, and the overbearing bowsprit with its outspread wings which went with them into fight. Dim shades of bygone glory and elemental strife, what climes have not gilded them with their suns; what tempests howled about their heads, what surges drenched and drowned! And now, though high and dry upon the shore, and rooted in the ground like so many Termes, they stretch yearningly over the road as if essaying angelic flight. Six months in the ranks, by a gentleman private. Smith, Elder, and Co., 1882 If I were asked off-hand to name the " best books I have ever read," this would be one of them. A soldier's life in barracks is so narrated as to lie like " Robinson Crusoe." We get romance from more than one grade of society, detective experience in London, office work, glimpses of military school and prison, and scenes of actual fighting all handled with a masculine grasp, with a keenness. and with fine qualities of mind that are very striking. The clean, straightforward way in which the story is told is enviable. Slang dictionary. Chatto and Windus. The definitions are, mostly, admirable in their terseness and sufficient learning. Gent, contraction of gentleman, in more senses than one. Don, a clever fellow, the opposite of a muff; a person of^distinction in his line or walk. " Don " being old-fashioned for to do on or put on clothes, is a very suitable name for a ready-made clothes establishment. It would be interesting to know whether this had anything to do with the selection in an existing case. Pyan, weak, useless, paltry . . . evidently derived from the Indian term PARIAH ; signifying the lowest caste of Hindoos. Thus the Pariah dogs in India are termed PyAH dogs; and the Pariah descendants of the old Portuguese settlers are called PYAH Portu- guese. Sailors term the natives of St. Helena Pyah Englishmen. There is no such word as PYAH. PARI-AH, accent on last syllable, pronounced carelessly, sounds like Pyah. The inhabitants of St. Helena are oftenest called *' yam-stalks," or " yam-stocks." De Stael's Allemag-ne, &c. Paris, 1858 De VA.llema.gne contains some remarkable and admirably written chapters on German literature. All the rest is dished-up rubbish. What does so disgusting an egotist, who refers everything to les peine* du caenr, that is, to the wretched history of her (deservedly) unsuccessful love-trials what does or can she know about nations, or for that matter about individuals, when it is not revealed to her as in these chapters by a sort of inspiration ? . . . But since none, even with the highest so-called talent, can express anything greater than is in them, in her best compositions she produces only emphatic chatter. ... I regard Chateaubriand as the rnan- nikiu of her species. F. vow GENTZ. Sterne, Sentimental journey. Shall not a sentimental Journey-man possess the " Sentimental journey " ? Swift, by SCOTT ; and Stella et Vanessa. Lord Bathurst remarked, that by an hour's work in his study, an Irish parson had often made three kingdoms druuk at once. BLACKWOOD, MARCH, 1883. A lock of Stella's hair was preserved in an enve- lope in which he had written . . . "Only a woman's hair." . . . I think that any one who judges Swift fairly will read . . . pathetic yearning for the irre- vocable past, &c. LESLIB STEPHEN. In politics tlie terrible Dean was supreme ; but the pathos of "Only a woman's hair" has been matched. About a century later, a girl aged nineteen died in London, after terrible suffering, of a carbuncle on the face. When asked where she felt pain, she said Near my heart. Later on it was iound that the poor girl had treasured up a lock of her own hair, tied in a true lover's knot, which she had reclaimed from a young fellow who could refuse her nothing. A few months previously the lover had been got rid of to please an elder rival, whose husband had lent the girl's father money. The lover also was under " obligations," so the net was complete. Switzerland, photographic views. Zurich, 1882 Those who may never hope to " see mountains" or to hear again a torrent's roar, will find these a veritable treasure. As for our mountains and lakes, it is in vain that they are defended for their finish or their prettiness. The people who admire them after Switzerland do not understand Switzerland even Wordsworth does not. Our mountains are mere bogs and lumps of spongey moorland, and our lakes are little swampy fish-ponds. It is curious I can take more pleasure in the chalk downs of Sussex, which pretend to nothing, than in these would-be hills. J. RUSKIN, 1850. 2 100 Passages from journey-ings among books. the loose box represents the chancel. When the curate in charge preached from the pulpit the rectors of the two parishes were always non-resident they kept a curate between them he was able to cuff the boys in the west gallery who whispered, cracked nuts, or snored. The bell ringer stood in the gallery, and had much ado to guard his knuckles from abrasion against the ceiling at each upcast of th rope. He managed to save them when tolling for a burial, but when the movement was double-quick for a wedding his knuckles came continually in contact with the plaster; and when they did, an oath, audible throughout the sacred building, boomed between the clangours of the bell. Virley Church possessed one respectable feature, a massive chancel-arch, but that gaped; and the pillars slouched back against the wall, in the attitude of the Virley men in the village street waiting to insult the women as they went by. On either side ot the east window hung one table of the commandments, but a village humourist had erased all the "nots" in the Decalogue; and it cannot conscientiously be denied that the par- ishioners did their utmost to fulfil the letter of the law thus altered. The congregation on Sundays consisted chiefly of young people. The youths who attended divine worship occupied the hour of devotion by wafting kisses to the girls, making faces at the children, and scratching ships on the paint of the pews. Indeed, the religious services performed alternately at the two churches might have been discontinued, without discomposure to any, had not traditional usage consecrated them to the meeting of young couples. The " dearly beloved " met in the Lord's house every Lord's day to acknowledge their "erring and straying like lost sheep" and make appointments for erring and straying again. MEHALAH. Well of English undefiled. "Webster connut mal les sources de la langue anglo-saxonne et son desir d'mnover le conduisit a des reformes orthographiques a la fois malen- contreuses et insignifiantes. Croyant que son pays, detache politiquement del'Angleterre, Hevait aussi a quelques egards s'en distinguer par le Ian- gage, il tendit a etablir une langue americaine qui differat de la langue anglaise, au moins par Portho- graphie. VAPERKAU, LITTERATUKE ANGLAISE. (M. Odysse-Barot, in his Litterature cnntemporaine en Anyleterre, published by Clutrpentier in 1874, says: La lanyue anylaise ne contient 15,000 mots * fran^aises sur 38,000 (apparently the total). Since then the English language would appear to have increased in quantity. The following is one column or jet from one of the new reservoirs : Sardoin sark sarmentaceous Sardonian sarking sarmentose sardonic, a. sarlac sarmentoua sardonic, n. sarlyk sarn sardonyx sarmatian saro. g saree Barmatic saros sargus sarment sarplar sarique WORCESTER'S DICTIONARY. There are just 1700 pages of dictionary proper. Each page has three columns, and each column (say) twenty words = 100,000 and more words.) Women's voices. The sort of sound we echo with a tear. BTKOW. A maid, an upper servant. . . . She spoke in a subdued tone ; but every syllable was disunct, al- * This is the condemnation of flavor and (ugh !) aavor, &c. Words ending in " our " come to English- speaking people through the French, not direct from the Latin ; e.g. we write enquire, not mquire. though she was at the farther end of a large dining- room. Her mistress' voice was no less sweet and charming, and as they talked, in their low, even tones, with perfect ease and understanding at this distance, the whole of the great room resounded sweetly with spoken music. When English is spoken in this way by a woman of superior breeding and intelligence there is of course an added charm, and it is then the most delightful speech that I ever heard, or can imigine. Compared with it, German becomes harsh and ridiculous, French mean and snappish, Spanish too weak and open- mouthed, and even Italian, noble and sw r eet as it is, seems to lack a certain firmness and crispness, and to be without a homely charm which it may not lack to those whose mother-tongue is bastard Latin One reason of this beauty of the speech of Englibhwomen is doubtless in the voice itself. . . . The other element of the beauty of an English- woman's speech is in her utterance. We all re- member poor Lear's words about a voice, soft, gentle and low, being an excellent thing in woman. Shakespeare knew the truth in this, as in so many other things. One of the very few points on which we may be sure of his personal preferences is that he disliked high voices and sharp speech in women. Singular man ! GRANT WHITE'S ENGLAND WITHOUT AND WITHIN. " La prudence " de Wellington. (Moniteur.) La lenteur et la prudence de Wellington etaieut aussi appropries aux circonstances de la guerre d'Espagne, que la rapiditeet 1'audace de Bonaparte 1'avaient ete a crlles de la guerre d'ltalie. Cette tactique nouvelle etait non seulement adaptee a 1'inferiorite des moyens dont disposait le general anglais inais elle etait fondee sur une connaissance Srofonde des cotes faibles de la methode imperiale, es defauts comme des qualites de 1'arm enfranchise telle que Napoleon 1'avait fait. Cette armee nou- velle, plus impetueuse que solide, visant avanttout a 1'effet et 1'eclat, moins soucieuse du resultat, que de 1'apparence, ne vivant que d'expedients et de rapines, se creant un ennemi pour chaque bouchee de pain qu'elle consommait, temeraire dans le surces, insubordonee dans les revers, commenqait a dedaigner comme autant de prejuges les fortes et galantes vertus qui lui avaient values lagloire. Les rivalites y avaient remplace 1'emulation, 1'ambition y tenait lieu de patriotisme, la rage des distinctions y avail introduit jusqu'a des privileges du cour. Comment expliquer dans une armee formee par un general tel que Napoleon, cette etiquette digne du has empire, qui defendait a la garde de charger, tel que fut le peril, sans un ordre expres de son com- mandant direct, comme si son role aupres du souverain lui avait communique 1'inviolabilite de sa person ne sacree ! Discipline inflexible, attention constante a assurer les suhsistance au soldat, a payer toutes ses depenses, a garder ses communications, defensive systematique qui n'acceptait une bataille qu'apres avoir mis tous les avantages de son cote, cir- conspection extreme dans le dessein, opiniatrete invincible dans 1'action, tels etaient les moyens que nous opposait Wellington. Us etaient sans doute beaucoup moins brillant que les notres, au point de vue esthetique. Us n'offraient ni coups de theatre, ni combinaisons savantes a mettre dans une traite de strategic ; mais ils etaient efficaces_ Wellington n'eblouissait personne, mais il nous battait. On pouvait supporter nos dedains avec beaucoup de philosophic, lorsqu'on avait vaintju tour a tour, Junot, Soult, Ney, Massena, c'est-a- dire les generaux qui avaient le phis contribue a la fortune de 1'empire. NAPOLEON, FAR LANFKEV. A private library and the society of looks. 101 Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart." A Tale of a cross, manuscript. 1879 One evening, on the upper slopes of the Italian Alps, after vainly traversing the street of a little town in search of a lodging, the writer, on turning to retrace his steps, saw, ablaze in the blue, a cross and above it, a star. The-e were accompanied by a legend which, read fully either in Italian or Latin, was a paraphrase, applicable to the writer's on history, of the words said to have been seen by Constantine in the sky. The star and the cross were but, optically raised, the sign of a hotel, in which, when onre installed, the wondrous beauty of the prospect induced a state of beatitude which could only be described in terms that would make the reader smile. The MS. is an explanation of the legend. Thorndale, or the conflict of opinions, by WILLIAM SMITH. Blackivood, 1858 Tissot. Pays des milliards, 35me e d. 1876 (STUTTGART.) Cette charmante ville d'hurneur si accommpdante et joviale. ou le peuple a conserve sa bonhomie, rneme sous le casque a pointe. Stutt- gard restera le sourire de I'Aliemagne, tandis qua Berlin n'en est que la grimace. p. 44. (NKAR BERLIN.) Pas de villages, pas de vie champetre, pas de chariots entoures de joyeux laboureurs, mais le silence et rimmobilite" de la mort; ca et la seulement quelques miserables chaumieres groupies, comnae de vieilles mendiantes, an pied d'un clocher qui ressemble lui-meme a une ruine. Des dunes comme au bord de la mer. Puis des rangees de pins rabougris dont les racines noueuses sprtent du sable, pareilles a des serpents en convulsion. Dans les bas-ionds des flaques d'eau verdatre, au bord desquelles boivent deux ou trois vaches plus maigres que celles que Pharaon vit en songe. Nul etre humain, aucun oiseau. Un seul fleur croit dans ces solitudes: le coquelicot; on dirait des taches de sang. p. 156. Berlin 1 have not seen ; Stuttgart is perfectly characterised, and its name diplomatically rendered. Tourist's guide to the continent. An Englishman, weary of the sordid bustle of every- day life, seeks a change. He finds in the very* streets of a continental city an almost holy calm, which the still figures and gentle plash of an occasional fountain do but emphasise. There you can walk in peace, without being elbowed or trodden upon, without having to dodge an opponent at every step, without being beset by a working-man with aggressive pipe and ostentatious cough, without being bespattered by mud if you are not wading in it, and without being stunned by the clatter and roar of vehicles. And for company you have the saints about the churches, resting, as it were, in the eternal blue of a cloudless heaven. Trafalgar, par MEET. Nelson, le due de Bronte, combl<$ de toutes les faveurs de la fortune et de la gloire ; Nelson, le sensuel e"picurien de la Villa Neale, le langoureux sybarite napolitain, se tenait debout sur la dunette du Victory en elevant le dandyisme anglais jusqu'a I'hyperbo'le de 1'he'roisme : il dominait son armde et voulait etre I'^clatant point de mire de 1'ennemi, avec tous les insignes de son grade, qui e"tincelaient au soleil. . . . L'illustre vainqueur d'Aboukir est le plus grand de tous les hommes qui ont honore la profession de marin. Un once de plomb defait tout cela. Remains of Mrs. Trench. M. Gentz strikes me as possessing more energy than any man I have ever seen. His head seems to be organised in a very superior manner, and his conversation bears the stamp of veal genius. He is one of those who seem to impart a portion of their own endowment ; for you feel your mind elevated while in his society. In argument he is irresistible ; but it seems to be from fair and honest force, unassisted by trick or artifice. ... In his writings be proposes Burke for his model. December 5. Types of Womanhood. Four stories of a pathos to which the circum- stances of reading, and the names, even, of the heroines, have lent a peculiar depth. The heart which may be broken ; happy they ! Thrico fortunate ! who of that fragile mould, The preci>us porcelain of human clay, Break with the first fall ; they can ne'er behold The long year link'd with heavy day on day, And all which must be borne, and never told ; While life's strange principle will often lie Deepest iu those who long the most to die. BYRON. Veaus d' Aries. Ce qu'il vit le cloua sur place. . . . Appuyde sur le rebord de la fen&tre, dans une pose de sphynx, elle regardait atteutivement Leopold, avec des yeux qui pouvaient fixer le soleil, car ils semolaient etre un double produit de ses raj-ons. La jeune fille, coiffe"e a 1'earyptienne, portait le collier et les boucles d'oreilles trouv<5s dans les h.vpogees d'lpsambul. ... La jeune title fit une de ccs pirouettes que les celebres danseuses d' Aries ont apprises a leur po^terite, comme le prouvent leurs charmantea statues, exhutn^es des fouilles du theatre de Constautiu. MABTHB LA BLANCHIS8EU8E. Waterloo, atlas special, par CO!.CHARRAS. Bntxelles, 1858 Napoleon fnt le premier des fuyards. Comme aux retours d'Egypte, de Moscou, de Leipsick, il devansu tout le monde, merita le prix de la course. MlCHKLET. Waterloo. Dramede Waterloo. Paris,l8(JS " A la me'moire de deux mare'chaux calomni^s." The book abounds in prose and poetical citation from all manner of sources. Werthers Leiden. French and German opposite, 2 vols. 8vo. Paris, 18U2 I am afraid I like the French best for reading. Toutes mes autres osuvres e"taient tres-e"loignees da la maniere francaise. GOETHE, CONVERSATIONS. THE NEW Werther. C. Kegan Paul, 1880 The mere name was enough to send one after this. Raphael, Ethel, I forgive you You were but human. Ethel beloved I die (Exeunt). " Denn Alles was ensteht 1st werth, dass es zu Grunde peht." OSCAR Wilde, Poems. David Bogue, 1881 . . . they formed a group, Half naked, natural, and quite Greek. BTBON. Athanasia, Charmides, and Panthea are among the names of the poems. N. P. Willis, Life here and there. I am inclined to think there is a particular tender- ness in the human breast for lame women. ... I picture myself, now, pacing those rickety colonnades at Lebanon, with the gentle Meeta hanging heavily, and with the dependence inseparable from her infirmity, on my arm. p. 100 She dandines as she walks, but she is worth the whole lot of us put together. MADEMOISELLE MATHILDB. CHARLES READE, Womanhater, Foul play, Christie Johnstone, &c. If any one would like to see how bla/ing genius can light up paper and print, let him look at one of these. EDWARDS, Words, facts, and phrases. Alp. The word is Keltic, and signifies white. No doubt; but among the Alps themselves "Alp" means a high pasture, and therefore, probably, something green. H initial is never mute in words of Anglo-Saxon origin. Surely this a hint of the greatest value. Only, like a barometer, it requires knowledge to use it. Yarns. Round the galley fire. Chatto,l833 Mr. W. Clark Russell is, I think, the one writer who has described the delights of "going aloft." 102 Private library ; privately printed ; profit. The best plan, no doubt, in cataloguing a private collection of literature which is not absolutely light, is to write two titles, the one commencing with the author's name when you have it, the other entry commencing with the subject or the name of the book. Thus, if a press, or assemblage of shelves, is devoted to mathematical and similar works, it will probably contain Todhunter's treatises on the differential and integral calculus, Colenso's algebra, and so on. These books should be entered thus : Algebra, Colenso. Calculus, differential. Todliunter. integral, Todhunler. Colenso, Algebra. Todliunter, Differential calculus. Integral calculus. Do not trouble yourself, in cataloguing, with " mathematics/' or any other great division of knowledge under which books may be grouped on the shelves; for that would be classifying, which is, in catalogues, to be avoided if possible. You have (with the grouping) a threefold method of guiding the inquirer to a book. These few suggestions, with the assistance of the specimens of titles in the right-hand columns of the examples given under the heads library and reference, will, I think, sufficiently indicate the method of treating a serious private library. In the preface I have ventured to divide books into three classes. The matter before us may be better apprehended if we divide mankind in a similar manner. Firstly, we have those who cannot or will not read ; secondly, those who do read, and by so doing are brought before the letter of a book, as a horse to a pond ; thirdly, those to whom, without any volition of their own, or use of mechanical means, the spirit comes when books are about them. I say nothing of study (of which I have always been incapable), but of companionship. For study and companion- ship differ as the society of a fellow-worker from that of one with whom we can wander all day in the fields, silent, perhaps, a great part of the time. If all happiness be in the anticipation, may not hovering about them be the right use of books ? Privately printed. When a book is privately printed, instead of wasting room by saying so, put the printer's name where the publisher's should be, but within parentheses, as in " Scott/' The titles above and below are given to show how the names of publishers contrast : Grey (Mrs.) Little wife, new ed. 12mo, Is. Routledge, 1877 Scott (J. E.) Memorials of Kent, 4to, 63s. (Simmons and Botten) 1876 Wood (Mrs. Henry) Edina, cr. 8vo, 6s. Bentley, 1877 Is there anything to be done ? No, but there is a good deal to be said. WEBNEB. Profit. Our theme being the handling intelligently of books, I am tempted to say a couple of words on a subject that was discussed with much vivacity in the year 1853, even to letters to the " Editor of the Times/' viz. booksellers' profits, of all things in the world. And now, in 1883, leading articles in daily papers are given to the matter. One knotty point appears to have been this : If a man sells a book for four shillings which he has bought for 3s. d., what is his profit ? The bookseller who deals in new looks and here is the curious part of the matter says Profit and discount, not clearly discerned. 103 instantly, " 12 J per cent., to be sure;" which it is not. The bookseller has in his mind that if he buy a (so-called) four-shilling book for three shillings, that is getting twenty-five per cent, discount or allowance off a hypothetical sum ; and, therefore, such was the reasoning of almost every bookseller, if the said three-shilling book were sold for four shillings, the profit would be twenty-five per cent. If you attempted to show the man it was not so, he would shut you up by saying that profits were always reckoned off " returns/' returns meaning the gross sum of money taken within a given time. If reckonings are thus always made, more's the pity for the sake of accurate bookkeeping. It is a kind of mistake which has brought many a manufacturer to grief; though here, happily, it is an error on the safe side. The word profit, in itself, shows the fallacy of reckoning it " off " anything, for a man's profit merely means that he has got so much farther on the road to wealth ; that is, a man who buys an article for three shillings and sells it for four, is better by one shilling than he was before. Three shillings was his previous status j one shilling being a third of that, he has got forward to the extent of 33^ per cent.; a hundred divided by three being 33J. If you can imagine a man buying a book for 100s. and selling it for 133s. 4d., you have the matter still more plainly before you. It may sound absurd, but I trace the inability on the part of what are called " new booksellers " to grasp this matter to the cramping effect on the mind of a selling price to books, a price which the seller is not considered competent to fix, as in many another trade that the bookseller considers of a lower class. The inferior traders are avenged by seeing the bookseller in his figures " like a crab go backward." I remember some years ago trying to expound this matter to one of our most intelligent and energetic booksellers, a man who dealt largely both in new and second-hand literature, and who was a keen disputant in matters religious, social, and political. I placed three pennies on the table. "There," I said, "you begin the day with three (say shillings), and at the close of the day another coin is added to your three ; you have a third=33J per cent, more." No; it would not do. He said, "You must calculate upon the return ;" not discerning the absurdity, in talking of profit, of basing a calculation on an amount composed of profit and cost. We, all of us, now and then, speak of a man as " getting on." Now, the phrase " He is getting on " * is, it may be noted, an exact translation of the Latin profit (from proficiscor). Poetically rendered, we have it with equal exactness in Longfellow's Psalm of life : . . . that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day. Returning to publishing prices no manufacturer likes to see his goods depreciated. Here, is how one of the leading German publishers looks at the matter. I extract it from a table of nine commandments which he prefixes to his Auslieferungscatalog, or wholesale trade catalogue : 9. Mit Handlungen, welche meinen Verlag 9. Whenever a house advertises and offers unter den Ladenpreisen offentlich anzeigen ray books to the public under price, I close all und ausbieten hebe ich jede Geschaftsbindung my business relations with it. Respectable auf. Ich bitte alle soliden Sortimentsbuch- booksellers are requested to inform me of any handlungen mir desfallsige Wahrnehmungen such proceedings. mitzutheilen. Another " condition " under which the trade do business with this * And when a man gets on, we say he is "better off." 104 Pseudonyms ; publishers 9 catalogues. German publishing house may be worth quoting, showing as it does an aspect of bookselling which will be new to many in England : 7. Remittenden weder pro noch contra 7. I do not allow of Remittenda, "weder notirt verbitte ich mir. An Handlungen pro noch contra notirt." Where booksellers welche es nicht der MuJie werth halten, meine do not find it worth while to enter articles Sendungen zu buclien, liefere ich nichts mehr. received from me, I decline to send anything. In Germany it is the fashion with publishers to send out new books to regular customers in the trade, als neu, pro Novitate, &c., which are returnable if unsold. Sometimes it happens that a parcel comes thus conditionally, the contents of which are all unsuitable. In such a case the bookseller often ties up the books immediately, and sticks the invoice, folded so as to show where the consignment comes from, under the string, merely writing on top of the invoice : Retour, weder pro noch contra notirt, and so sends the parcel back to Leipzig. I have done it, frequently, when employed in a German house. Pseudonyms, whenever they are known to be so, should appear in the middle of a title, or wherever they may occur in the order of words on the title-page of a book ; in contradistinction to real names of authors, which, when they occur on a title-page, commence a title and govern the alphabet of a catalogue. Thus, to be strictly correct, George Eliot's Romola should be entered Romola, by GEORGE ELIOT, and so with similar cases ; making a cross entry Eliot (George) see Romola. But if you think the balance of convenience lies in the direction of treating the assumed name as if it were a real one, the following is a useful kind of entry : Caballero (Fernan ; pseud, of Cecilia Bohl de Arron) ; as there must be many who see the name of " Fernan Caballero " without thinking that it is a pseudonym for a lady. The young operator will have to judge whether strictness or expediency best suits his purpose in such cases ; which will probably be determined by the nature of the catalogue he is making, or the practice of the establishment. If you only think that a writer's name is a disguise, treat it as if it were none, giving the Christian name in full. Thus : Roslyn (Guy) Lyrics and landscapes, is the only way in which you can give a work which is most likely pseudonymous. Publishers' catalogues. Besides the great libraries, whose catalogues are perhaps official records, I think there is no doubt, theoretically speak- ing, that the catalogue of each publisher should give a copy of books' title- pages with absolute faithfulness, however long they may be, because publishing houses are the very fountain-head of information, seeing that not one book in five hundred is given to the world other than through a publisher. Students who live remote from great libraries should be able, in one way, at least, to obtain a perfect reflex of the author's description of his work. If one might speak of such a thing as an ideal title, I should say that it was one which first gave the few words by which a book is familiarly A few remarks on publishers' catalogues. 105 known, these words in prominent letters, and then a copy of the title- page in moderately large print. " Chalmers " and " Greville/' page 81, are examples. After the ideal title, I would mention the perfect title, which consists of an absolute transcript of the title-page, stating the number of pages, and giving the date to each article. I believe I am correct in saying that Messrs. Triibner and Co. are the only publishers in England whose catalogue is composed of perfect titles. Here is an example : BEAMES. A COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR OF THE MODERN ARYAN LANGUAGES OF INDIA, to wit, Hindi, Panjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya, and Bengali. By John Beanies, Bengal Civil Service, M.tt.A.S., &c., &c. Vol. I. On Sounds. Demy 8vo, pp. xvi. and 360, cloth. 1872. 16s. Vol. II. The Noun and the Pronoun. Demy 8vo, pp. xii. and 348, cloth. 1875. 16s. It may be worth while to point out to the young cataloguer that the Roman numerals mean the numbers of pages of prefatory matter, in which the numbering is done by means of letters rather than figures. This scrupulous care is almost unknown in England, where we roughly club together the two kinds of nurnerotation and say pp. 360, that is, if we are so good as to indicate the number of pages at all. In Germany, on the other hand, a perfect title is a matter of course. The following title, extracted from the catalogue of Mr. Holtze, of Leipzig, who now publishes the famous Carl Tauchnitz dictionaries, is a good example of the conscientiousness one is accustomed to meet with in German catalogues : Dictiounaire de poche, nouvean, francais-anglais et anglais-frangais. Edition stereo- type de Charles Tauchnitz. Nouvelle impression. 16. 46| Bogen. 1872. 3 Mk. 2Cud) urter bent Sitel : New Pocket-Dictionary of the english and French languages. Karl Tauchnitz' Stereotype Edition. New impression. 1872. As the title-page is in two languages, the title is given in duplicate. I have elsewhere shown, pages 45 47, that while such particulars are admirable as issuing from the house which publishes a book, dictionaries such as the above named can be catalogued for practical purposes in about half the space occupied by one of the twin titles, without the consulter's being deprived of any material information. While upon the subject, I cannot forbear giving the following examples from the catalogue of an " educational " publisher, as showing the kind of material which has to be dealt with by a man who makes a catalogue from other people's work instead of direct from the books : Eves' School Examiner. Containing nearly 4,000 Exercises on Sacred History, Geography, English Grammar, Histories of England and Koine, Sacred Geography, and Arithmetic. 53rd Edition Key to the School Examiner. Eve's Second School Examiner. Containing 5,000 Exercises. SPELLING BOOKS. SENIOR. Ackworth's Vocabulary. In the first and third entries, spelling a word of one syllable appears to be beyond the ability of the writer. In the fourth, he appears utterly to have missed the meaning of the two words which compose the title. I suppose Ackworth vocabulary to mean a book which has a " name " in consequence of being used at Ackworth School. I said at starting, of publishers' catalogues, that they probably should 106 A few remarks on publishers' catalogues. give an exact copy of books' title-pages. The following shows what comes of mere literalness :-^- The Vulgate Latin Course. Containing (1) an outline of the Grammar. (2) A Delectus, consisting of easy passages, progressively arranged for reading and translation, taken from the Latin Bible, preference being given to those which are most striking and familiar to children, and are, as much as possible, free from all sectarian and denomina- tional bias, and approach most nearlv to classical idiom. (3) An Exercise Book, con- taining very easy phrases and sertences in English for translation into Latin. (4) A Dictionary of all the words used in the work. By W. E. DODDS. Cloth, Is. 6d. The title seems to note an anonymous work until you have read through seven lines of unusually close type. And this is what one must do who is searching for " Dodds' Latin course/' as it will be called; for the vulgar will not take the pains to say "Vulgate" every time they name the book. Any one who is making a handy catalogue of reference in school books will have to read through titles built like the above, for many pages, in order to know merely what letter he is to begin with ; then the work of boiling the wordiness down to one line for each title may have to be done. And the mere searcher for one book has perhaps to wade through the whole of the pages because there is no alphabetical arrangement and no index. What trouble would be saved by just heading each title "Dodds (W. E.) Latin course." and so on, only sufferers know. The next two pages are occupied with specimens of a catalogue of Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston, and Co/s publications, which they were kind enough to let me make on a plan of my own. It is intended to be, according to the circumstances, a model catalogue. What is meant by " circumstances " is this. In the majority of cases it would probably be desirable to have the books in a publisher's catalogue arranged alpha- betically under author's names, with an alphabet of subjects or an index in smaller type as an adjunct. But so great a proportion of Messrs. Sampson Low and Co.'s books deal with exploration, travel, and adventure in various parts of the world, that countries, i. e. the subjects, appear to predominate over authors' names ; so many parts of the world are repre- sented that it seemed natural for their names to be the most prominent feature of the catalogue. Most of the pages are taken up in this way and with books in series ; while those who like the alphabetical plan best find every article quoted in that manner, with price, &c., in the earlier part of the catalogue. The index, or key, has precedence of that which is opened by it contrary to custom, in print. At the foot of each sample page is given so much of the alphabetical index (or catalogue) as refers to the more extended entries; sufficient to give an idea of the aspect of that part of the catalogue which is meant for ready reference. In short, the catalogue is designed to meet the two ways in which books (or information about them) are brought before people. In the one case, perhaps in a bookseller's shop, the customer asks for information about a given book (say) on Africa. The question is instantly answered by reference to the alphabetical portion of the catalogue ; while it is conceivable that if the more displayed portion of it were opened at the place where upwards of a dozen different articles on Africa are set forth, the customer might be tempted by a work that was new to him. Similarly, the librarian is assisted to show his inquirer something beyond what is sought. And, if the catalogue, in its wrapper of tender grey as a back- ground for the colour of the maps upon it, be found agreeable to look at, this alone is something. A few remarks on publishers* catalogues. 107 To be expository is the aim of the notes to the titles of the two following pages. In one case a trait is takeii from the body of a book, as an illus- tration. In other cases, the contents, the preface, the introduction, the translator, or the editor of a book is laid under contribution, according to circumstances. Here and there the note is a short account of the aims of a book. And once, in the case of "Through the dark continent/' extracts from conscientious papers whose reviewers read the books they criticise, are given as better, far, than a cataloguer's hasty attempt to give the scope of two such volumes. The following are the leading points of Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.'s catalogue : 1. The name of the firm is legibly given at the top of the first page which catches the eye. Those who have had to handle a number of publishers' catalogues, and to tell one from another, will appreciate this. 2. The nature of the contents is indicated by a coloured map of the hemispheres, which occupies the middle of the wrapper, back and front. If it serve no other purpose, the tinted cover makes the catalogue instantly recognisable amid a heap of others printed in the ordinary way ; no small step towards its being used. 3. Every page is so headed, that torn away from the rest, it is plainly seen whose catalogue it belongs to ; and the headline agreeably diversifies the monotony of type in the closely packed alphabet at the beginning. 4. The disposition of type in the " subject " part is an attempt to make the articles look interesting ; while the matter in smaller type beneath the titles is an attempt to make the entries really so, using in a great measure the author's words, whether in preface, contents, or notes. The very sparing extracts from newspapers are in yet smaller type. All matter which is not extracted from the books or from some source which is named is intended to be of a purely expository nature. 5. It will be observed that the first lines of titles in the subject division are printed in comparatively large type. One aim has been to get the title, or the best part of it, into that line ; to which idea a little regularity of aspect has been sacrificed. 6. Notwithstanding this effort at display, about 500 entries are accom- modated in the space of forty pages. The first sixteen pages, by extreme compression, are made to hold nearly a thousand articles. A manufacturer has often made a name or greatly extended his repu- tation by means of a stall at some exhibition. Here, by means of type, is a perennial show which reaches to the ends of the earth through the post. In order that those who had to use the catalogue might clearly see its bearing, the following ticket was attached by one corner, so that ib could be thrown away when read : Notice. THE object of this catalogue is, primarily, to attract readers by giving in prominent letters the subject of each book of fact, in alphabet. Every reader has a subject or subjects that specially interest him. His attention is more likely to be arrested thus than by an alphabet of names which may convey no idea. It is believed that this arrangement will also have its uses for librarians and booksellers, who are often asked, " What recent books are there on such a subject ? " There is another way in which some pains have been taken to make the catalogue of service. To give an instance : an assistant in a library or at a bookseller's might be puzzled for a moment for an answer to (say) "What is Mr. Stanley's new book about ? I see he has just published two volumes." To meet such a case, two extracts are given from competent authorities ; the one a summary of the geographical results of Mr. Stanley's latest travels ; the other an opinion as to how the story is told. And so with other works ; in their case, chiefly in the words of the book kself. 108 A few remarks on publisher/ catalogues. Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.'s Books. 3 Africa, How I found Livingstone, by HENRY M. STANLEY; travels, adventures, and discoveries, including four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, with illustrations and maps, new edition, revised, post 8vo, cloth, emblematically gilt, 7-?. Qd. ; large paper, 10& 6d. Selim said to me, " I see the Doctor, Sir, Oh, what an old man ! He has got a white beard." ... I pushed back the crowds, and passing from the rear, walked down an avenue of people, until I came in front of the semicircle of Arabs, before which stood the " white man with the grey beard." As I advanced slowly towards him I noticed he was pale, that he looked wearied and wan, that he had grey whiskers and moustache, that he wore a bluish cloth cap with a faded gold band on a red ground round it, and that he had on a red-sleeved waistcoat, and a pair of grey tweed trousers. Pages 330-1. Africa. Flooding of the Sahara, by DONALD MACKENZIE ; a plan for opening Central Africa to commerce and civilization from the North- West, illustrated, post 8vo, 106'. Qd. El Juf (the vast depression it is proposed to fill) is estimated to be 200 feet below the sea level, extending to within 12 miles of the shore at a point some nine days' sail from England. Africa. Through the dark continent, by H. M. STANLEY, with numerous illustrations, also maps, 2 vols. 8vo, 2 2s. The sources of the Nile, round the great lakes, and down the Congo. " The two lakes most interesting to geographers, the one as the source of the Nile, the other on account of its strange character as the central receptacle of the drainage of a vast and not ill-watered region, yet itself without an outlet, have been thoroughly explored ; and the Congo, by the connection of Mr. Stanley's discoveries with those of previous explorers, has been traced from its source to its outlet in the Atlantic." STANDARD. "Mr. Stanley tells us that the story of the journey through the dark continent will long be told in the hut homes of Zanzibar, where rest the companions of his toil and trouble. Longer still, in the homes of Europe and America, will be read the story he now tells us a story fraught with a great interest, one through which courage, determination, and energy flow as broadly marked as that immense river whose course he traced through all the countless dangers of the dim interior. DAILY NEWS. America. My rambles in the New World, by LUCIEN BIART, translated by MARY DE HAUTEVILLE, with numerous illustrations, Svo, cloth extra gilt, gilt edges, 7& Qd. Labrador ; a Canadian family ; Niagara in winter ; San Francisco ; Tortoise Island ; Water- spout at sea; Christmas at Havannah; New Orleans ; the pearl forest; serpent charmer; dead city ; unicorn; grotto of the Toltecs ; Aztec education ; &c. HEADINGS OF CHAPTERS. America (North- West). Great Lone Land, by MAJOR W. F. BUTLER ; travel and adventure, with illustrations and route map, new edition, post Svo, emblematical cloth, 7s. Qd. An account of the Red River expedition, 1869-70, subsequent travels and adventures in the Manitoba country, and a winter journey across the Saskatchewan Valley to the Rocky Mountains. The Great Lone Land is no sensational name. There is no other portion of the globe, on which travel is possible, where loneliness can be said to dwell so thoroughly. One may wander 500 miles in a direct line without seeing a human being, or an animal larger than a wolf. And if vastness of plain, magnitude of lake, mountain and river can mark a land as great, no region possesses higher claims to that distinction. PREFACE. Biography. PHILLIPS' Dictionary of biographical reference, royal Svo, morocco back, y J. D. Crusoe, with Illustrations by J. D. Watson. Watson. 1878 1878 Delitti e pene, Beccaria (C. B.). Dermatology, Wi/son (E.). Diabetes, Pavy (F. W.). Diamonds, my mother's, Greer (Maria J.). DICKINSON (W. J.) A Practical English 69 Dickinson (W. J.) English grammar and Grammar and Analysis, with copious care- analysis with exercises. 1878 fully graduated Exercises. 1878 DICKINSON (W. J.) How to Teach the 70 Dickinson (W. J.) How to teach grammar Rudiments of Grammar and Analysis sue- and analysis, model lessons. 1878 cessfully : being a Series of Model Lessons for Teachers. 1878 DICTIONARY of every Parish, Township, 7 , Dictionary of every parish, township, Hamlet, &c., in England and Wales, in hamlet, &c. in England and Wales. 1879 alphabetical order, showing the Population, Gives the P9pulation, also the Poor Law and Petty and the Poor Law and Petty Sessional Sessional divisions. Division in which each is comprised. 1879 Differentialzeichnungen, Vorlesungen, Spitzer (S.). Distress, the law, illust. hy the decision in Lake v. Duppa. DOBELL (Horace) On Loss of Weight, Blood- 72 Dobell (Horace) Loss of weight, blood- Spitting and Lung Disease. 1878 spitting, and lung disease. 1878 Domestic dictionary, CasseWs. Drawing, principles, Barry (C. A.). DUBLIN, One Hundred Years Ago ; being a 73 Dublin 100 years ago, photographs, with series of 12 Photographs of interesting a map. 1879 Localities, and a Map of Ancient Dublin. 1879 122 Reference titles, commentary ; index entries, hints. (74) Example of an author, who is also a public man, with a character- istic Christian name (see page 23). An expert cataloguer will take care that his title reflects the modus loquendi while dropping no initials. Probably, it may be said that the best written language is that which, bating inaccuracy, most nearly approaches spoken language. In its way, 74 on the right aims at this. (75) When a book by a French, or other foreign author, is quoted in a catalogue by its native name, although a translation, the word translation or translated should be inserted. It is best, I think, to put the inserted word within parentheses, to show that it is added. (76) A title enlivened by " making a note " of the less important part of it, besides its being shortened. (77) A very capital British title on a North British subject. Mr. W. Knight has written certain notes of conversation with a Mr. Duncan, which it has pleased him to call Colloquia peripatetica (walks and talks). Insular ingenuity has twisted and quasi- indexed the title until it appears that John Duncan has written certain Colloquia, even as Erasmus. When the title on the left is abridged by an ordinary hand for a catalogue of reference, you have a reductio ad absurdum : Duncan (J.) Colloquia peripatetica, notes of conversations, by W. Knight. (78) Good case of abridgment. (79) A long title, whose essentials are brought into one line, while an abridgment of the rest makes a note in smaller type. (80) In a library, or at a bookseller's shop, these letters will be asked for thus : (< Have you the letters of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen ? " The title on the left does not make it clear or certain that this is the work. Inserting the name of a place with which an author is associated, and printing it in italics, is one among the ways in which a catalogue may be enlivened and made to look interesting. (81) The language of a book should be indicated where it is possible. A title must be faulty which leaves you in doubt whether a book is in Greek or English. (82) Faussett not being the author of his own memorials, the better way of entering the book in a catalogue which has an index, is shown at page 131 . (83, 84, 85) Directness and ease of reference gained by omission of words. (86) " Being " is one of the utterly useless words, in cataloguing. (87) Mr. Coventry Patmore has written no book called Florilegium amantis. under P, English spelling under S, and so on, or not, according as it has been the humour * of a pedagogue to write English in his title-page or otherwise. The handy cataloguer, as opposed to the severe bibliographer, brings into harmony these little discrepancies ; recollecting that French school books, and German school books, and histories of France and Germany will have also to be dealt with. Considerable pains have been taken in the opposite pages, under " English " and " French," to illustrate the hints here offered. The following is given to enforce what has elsewhere been said about Roman numerals in juxtaposition with figures of price. On the left is an ordinary index entry, on the right hand is howl should prefer to see it : Industries of Great Britain, vol. 2, 7s. 6d. Industries of Great Britain, vol. ii. 7s. 6d. The comma, the semicolon, and the full stop, each has its distinct office in indexing ; or might have, if you chose. The comma is the sign of the * Surely it is a grave defect in a book which has been written to instruct us in a language, that when you see the title you cannot tell what language it is. Space and clearness gained, a collection of cases. 123 DUFF (Mountstuart E. Grant) Miscellanies, 74 Political and Literary. DUMAS (A.) Vicomte de Bragelonne. New 75 edit. With Illustrations. 1878 DU MONCEL (Count) The Telephone, 76 the Microphone, and the Phonograph. Authorized Translation, with Additions and Corrections by the Author. With 70 Illustrations on Wood. 1879 DUNCAN ( J.) Colloquia Peripatetica : Deep 77 Sea Soundings. Being Notes of Conversa- tions with the late John Duncan. By William Knight. 1879 ELLIOT (J.) Complete Treatise on Practical 7 8 Geometry and Mensuration. Withnumerous Exercises. New edit., with many improve- ments. 1878 ELTOFT (T. ) Systematic Course of Practical 79 Qualitative Analysis, specially arranged for Students preparing for the Science and Art Department, Medical Schools, Prelimi- nary Scientific and first B.Sc., London, Oxford and Cambridge Local, Practical Chemistry Examinations. 1879 ERSKINE (T.) Letters. Edited by William 80 Hanna. 1878 EURIPIDES. Scenes from the Cyclops. 81 By A. Sidgwick. 1878 82 FLEMING (S.) Exodus Notes for the Help of 83 Bible Students. 1879 FLETCHER (B.) Light and Air: a Text- 34 Book for Architects and Surveyors ; shows in a Tabulated form what constitutes Ancient Light, How the Right is acquired, How the Right may be jeopardized, How the Right may be lost, Injuries to Ancient Light for which there is no remedy, relative position of servient and dominant owners, also methods of estimating injuries, &c. FLINT (Austin) Clinical Medicine: a Sys- 85 tematic Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases. Designed for the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine. 1878 FLINT (E.) Theism ; being the Baird Lecture 86 for 1876, 2nd edit. cr. 8vo. 1878 PATMORE (Coventry). FlorilegiumAmantis. 8 Edited by Richard Garnett. Duff (M. E. Grant) Miscellanies, political and literary. Dumas (A.) 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Flint (Austin) Clinical medicine, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. 1879 Flint (R.) Theism, 2nd edit. cr. 8vo. (1876) Baird Lecture, 1878 Florilegium amantis, edited by K. Garnett. A selection from Coventry Patmore's poems. 124 Reference titles, commentary ; index entries, hints. (88, 89, 90, 91) Examples of useful omission. (92, 93) " Translated " is a word which can generally be dispensed with. (94) This author is best known as "Harvey Goodwin." You do not perceive this on the left. If a young hand with that title before him were suddenly asked, " Is that Harvey Goodwin ? " he would be puzzled, most likely. The Christian name, as on the right, before the name of the diocese, is the remedy. (95) On the right is the proper way of giving Christopher North's life by his daughter. See also No. 45. (96) Judging by the couplet Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on the fact that the Gospels number four is sufficiently well known to make the statement unnecessary. People of the " meanest capacity," as Mr. Coles used to call those who were to use his Latin dictionary, know as much as that. (97) Mere verbiage repressed. (98) A good example of British awkwardness. The young cataloguer should study the example in the left-hand column, and impress it on his mind, as a warning. (99) Admirably shows up the absurdity of the preceding entry. The books, by father and son respectively, are made, or attempted to be made, to look as if they were by the same author. (1 00) Practical abridgment, and change of type in the less important matter. (101) The title on the left hand deserves particular attention. Contracted into one line by any ordinary hand it may run Gresley (W.) Scepticism of the 19th century, &c. From which posterity will learn that Mr. Gresley wrote a book so called, which he did not. (102, 103) Tautology taken away. pause which ensues when the order of words is not disturbed beyond placing the name of the author after that of the book. Thus, the title which follows is indexed as on the right hand : Alcott (Louisa M.) Little women. Little women, Alcott (Louisa M.). A semicolon is best where the key -word of the entry conies from a distant part of the title, as shown underneath : Boyd (C.) and Meara (H. G.) Helps to wor- Communion, Holy ; Boyd and Meara, Helps, ship, a manual for the Holy Communion. A full stop should be used to denote that the key-word of an index entry has been inserted, because the author's title-page lacks one of the requisite directness. The examples of indexing Dew ponds at page 45 furnish instances of this. Here is another example of the use of the semicolon. The title under- neath would be written by me as on the right hand : Convict life, or revelations concerning con- Convict life ; revelations of convicts and victs and convict prisons, by a ticket-of- convict prisons, by a ticket -of-leave man. leave man. The semicolon delicately points to the omission of the utterly useless