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each subject being placed first, and a 

 geographical order being adopted for the 

 rest when the conditions of the case 

 allow. Genealogy is regarded as an ap- 

 pendix to History ; Letters to Biography ; 

 Elocution, with Literary Criticism and 

 Bibliography, to Poetry and the Dramatic 

 Art. The class of Belles Lettres is headed 

 by Libraries and Cyclopaedias. 



It should be stated that the system here 

 explained refers in the strictest sense only 

 to works complete in themselves, and not 

 to Periodicals, Academical Publications, 

 and State Papers, which are placed sepa- 

 rately. Although, however, these consti- 

 tute distinct series, the principle of classi- 

 fication is practically identical. The same 

 remarks apply to the Oriental departments 

 of the collection, the Grenville library, and 

 the reference-library of the reading-room, 



