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requires two cards, because of the author's corripound 

 name. The book must be entered under " Stuart- 

 Glennie," because that is the form in which the name 

 appears on the title-page, and which the autlior is 

 therefore supposed to prefer. It is very important, 

 however, that a reference should be made from 

 "Glennie" to " Stuart-Glennie," else some one, re- 

 membering only the last half of the name, would 

 look in vain for " Glennie," and conclude that the 

 book was not in the library. 



Suppose, again, that your book is Jevons on Money 

 and the Mechanism of Exchange. This belongs to the 

 International Scientific Series, and therefore needs to 

 be entered under " Jevons," and again on the general 

 card which bears the superscription " International 

 Scientific Series." Without such a general entry, 

 books are liable to be ordered and bought under 

 one heading when they are already in the library and 

 catalogued under the other heading. The risk of such 

 a mishap is small in the case of the new and well- 

 known series just mentioned, but it is considerable in 

 the case of the different series of British State Papers, 

 or the Scelta di Curiositd Italiane ; and of course one 

 rule must be followed for all such cases. Suppose, 

 again, that your book is Grimm's Deutsches Woerter- 

 biich, begun by the illustrious Grimm, but continued 



