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of exact knowledge. The prime requirement of the bibliog¬ 
rapher is for systematic arrangement of books and minor 
publications under expressive, brief, and complete titles; 
and there are other requirements which the bibliographer 
holds in common with the student—though certain of the 
student’s requirements are immaterial to the bibliographer. 
Third in order of importance are the requirements of the 
librarian, for it is upon him that the student must depend 
for access to publications. The requirements of the librarian 
are that the publications shall be issued in convenient form 
for arrangement upon shelves and for binding, and that 
every volume or part-volume shall bear a definite title. 
Some of the requirements of the librarian are common with 
those of the student; but his demands are less numerous 
and exacting, since he deals only with the units and integral 
parts of publications, while the bibliographer deals with 
fractions, and the student with the undifferentiated sub¬ 
stance of books; and some of his needs are opposed to those 
of the student— e. g., prompt publication is not a desideratum 
to the librarian, but rather the opposite, since frequent issue 
in small parts gives trouble in arranging serials upon 
shelves and in volumes. But the librarian shares the stu¬ 
dent’s antipathy to multiplication of serials of the same 
society, and especially to ponderous quartos and limp folios, 
which he often relegates to bottom shelves and miscellaneous 
heaps in out of the way corners. 
Fourth in order of importance must be placed the require¬ 
ments of the author ; for it is incumbent upon him not only 
to so prepare his books that they may be conveniently 
handled by the librarian and readily recorded by the bibli¬ 
ographer and so made accessible to the student for whose 
use they are written, but to have something to say which is 
worth the saying; and he must write clearly and illustrate 
wisely in order that his writings may be comprehensible 
with a minimum of- effort on the part of the student. The 
just subserviency of the author to the student in this respect 
is not always understood ; but if the author expects to have 
