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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 question. For in- 

 stance, you see from the title-pages of Money and 

 Pilgrim Memories that the authors are " W. Stanley 

 Jevons," and " John 5. Stuart-Glennie ; " but your 

 duty as an accurate cataloguer is not fulfilled until 

 you have ascertained what names the W. and .S. 

 stand for in these cases. In the alphabetical cata- 

 logue of a great library, it is a matter of the first 

 practical importance 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 realise that the 

 number of published books is so enormous as to 

 occasion serious difficulty in keeping apart the titles 

 of works by authors of the same name. " Stanley 

 Jevons " and " Stuart-Glennie " are very uncommon 

 combinations of names ; yet the occurrence of two or 

 three different authors in an alphabetical catalogue, 

 bearing this uncommon combination of names, would 

 not be at all surprising. 



