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siderable in the case of the different series of 

 " British State Papers," or the " Scelta di Curio- 

 sita Italiane ; " and of course one rule must be fol- 

 lowed for all such cases. Suppose, again, that your 

 book is Grimm's "Deutsches Woerterbuch," be- 

 gun by the illustrious Grimm, but continued by 

 several other hands. Here you must obviously 

 have a distinct entry for each collaborator, and 

 each of these entries requires a card. 



In writing the long card, the first great point 

 is to ascertain every jot and tittle of the author's 

 name ; and, as a general rule, title-pages are very 

 poor helps toward settling this distressing ques- 

 tion. For instance, you see from the title-pages of 

 " Money " and " Pilgrim Memories " that the au- 

 thors are " W. Stanley Jevons," and " John S. Stu- 

 art-Glennie ; " but your duty as an accurate cat- 

 aloguer is not fulfilled until you have ascertained 

 what names the W. and S. stand for in these 

 cases. In the alphabetical catalogue of a great 

 library, it is a matter of the first practical im- 

 portance that every name should be given with 

 the utmost completeness that the most extreme 

 pedantry could suggest. No one who has not had 

 experience in these matters can duly realize that 

 the number of published books is so enormous as 

 to occasion serious difficulty in keeping apart the 



