(7) ARETEUS the Cappadocian. [A. Kaññadoxos 'Iaтpixa, &c. Augustæ Vindelicorum, 1603. fol.] (8) ANDREAS, Hierosolymitanus, Archbishop of Crete. II. Names that have been altered by being used in various languages should be uniformly entered in their vernacular form (1), if that can be represented by the letters of the English alphabet; if otherwise, then by the nearest approximation consistent with adherence to that alphabet. Compound foreign surnames should be entered or arranged under the first of them (2). Compound English surnames should be entered under the last (3), unless it be known that the usage of the individual or family bearing them is to regard the first as the surname (4). Prefixes (A, Da, De, Van, Von, and the like,) should not govern the place or sequence of titles (5). But in the special case of French names it might be useful, as according with a prevailing usage, through it be far from an absolute one, to take the article, (Le, Les,) and the article when combined with a preposition (Du, Des,) as a substantive part of the family name, and therefore as governing the order of the entry (6). When an author is described on a title - page merely by a title of honour, or of official dignity, the family name should be supplied (7), and should govern the place of the entry in like manner. Thus, (1) Bibliotheca Cluniacensis, in qua SS. Patrum Abbatum Cluniacensium Vitæ, Miracula, Scripta, Statuta, Privilegia, Chronologiaque duplex; item Catalogus Abbatiarum .... et Ecclesiarum a Cluniacensi Canobio dependentium; una cum chartis et diplomatibus do BOOK III. Chapter III. BOOK III. Chapter III. Details. nationum earundem: omnia nunc primum ex MSS. Codd. collegerunt Martinus MARRIER et Andreas QUERCETANUS [André DUCHESNE.] Lutetiæ Parisiorum 1614. fol. (2) Il nuovo Teatro Comico del Marchese Francesco ALBERGATI CAPACELLI, coll' aggiunta d'alcune Tragedie Francesi da lui tradotte. 4 tom. Venezia, 1774-76. 8vo. (3) Poems of many years. By Richard Monckton MILNES. London, 1850. 8vo. (4) Memoirs of the Whig Party during my time. By Henry Richard [VASSALL Fox]. Lord Holland. Edited by his son Henry Edward [Fox,] Lord Holland. London, 1851. 8vo. (5) Mémoire que M. le Comte d'ALBERT DE RIOMS a fait dans la prison où il est détenu. [Paris, 1788?] 8vo. J. G. von HERDER'S sämmtliche Werke. 16 Bde. Carlsruhe, 1822. 8vo. (6) La Vie des Peintres Flamands, Allemands, et Hollandois; par Théorie des fonctions analytiques; par M. le Comte de LA GRANGE. (7) Examen critique des anciens historiens d'Alexandre. Seconde Edi- ..... The Speech of Francis [ATTERBURY] late Lord Bishop of Rochester, at the bar of the House of Lords; § 2. RULES AND EXAMPLES AS TO ANONYMOUS, pseudo NYMOUS, AND APOCRYPHAL WORKS. III. Such books only are to be deemed Anonymous as contain no indication of their authorship, either on the title-page, or in any other part of them (1). If the author be found to be distinctively described, although not named (2), the book ceases to be anonymous; if described hypothetically, or by a circumlocution which is not individually distinctive, the book is anonymous. If the author be indicated by initials, they should be set out, at length. with the proper explanation, if known to the cataloguer (3, 4). The place in a classed catalogue BOOK III. Chapter III. Rules, and (so far as that depends on the title), or the head- (1) Considerations touching the likeliest means to remove Hirelings (3) The Censure of the way, ..... By J. H. Rota upon Mr. MILTON'S Ready and easy Note. The initials were intended to fasten the Authorship (4) Gouvernement. Ouvrage posthume de M[onsieur] B[OULANGER], 12mo. (5) Lettre de l'Abbé de La Trappe [Armand Jean BOUTHILLIER DE RANCE] à un Évêque, pour répondre aux plaintes et aux difficultez d'Innocent Masson, Général des Chartreux, au sujet des ..... devoirs de la vie monastique. (6) Guerres des Vendéens et des Chouans contre la République Française..... Par un Officier Supérieur des Armées de la Répulique, habitant dans la Vendée avant les troubles [i. e. Jean Julien Michel SAVARY.] 6 vol. Paris, 1824-25. 8vo. IV. For the treatment of Pseudonymous works the best rule seems to be, that the fictitious name should in all cases be dealt with as if it were a real name; the Editor of a Catalogue taking the utmost pains to supply the latter, wherever it be possible, by additional words, carefully distin BOOK III. Chapter III. quished. In this class of cases nothing but confusion and doubt can arise, from treating a work "by the Author of Waverley," or one "by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent,❞—the true authorship of which is known to all readers,-differently from a work by "Philalethes, a citizen of Utopia," which, (though it be written by a famous man,) thousands of readers have neither seen nor heard of. For, between these extremes, there lie hosts of pseudonymous books, to discriminate the various gradations of the obscurity or familiarity or which, would be as hard a task as to count the steps of Jacob's ladder. Viro clarissimo J. Pecqueto Epistola Sebastiani ALETHO PHILI [. e. of Samuel SORBIERE], de thoracis lacteis. .... Les Provinciales, ou les Lettres Écrites par Louis de MONTALTE [i. e. Blaise PASCAL] à un Provincial de ses amis et aux RR. PP. Jésuites; sur le sujet de la Morale et de la Politique de ces Pères. Cologne, 1657. 12mo. Les Provinciales, avec les notes de Guillaume WENDROCK [e. Pierre NICOLE], traduites en François. Nouvelle Édition. 3. tom Amst. 1734-5. 8vo. NOVALIS' [i. e. Friedrich von HARDENBERG] Schriften. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Tieck und Fr. Schlegel. La vraie Religion démontrée par l'Écriture Sainte. Traduit de l'Anglais de Gilbert BURNET, évêque de Salisbury. [An attack on the Christian Religion and Morals by M. de LA SERRE.] Londres [Pseud.] G. Cook [Pseud]. 1745. Examen de la Religion 12mo. Attribué à M. de SAINT EVREMONT; Traduit de l'Anglais de Gilbert BURNET. [The same work as the preceding.] Londres, G. Cook, [Pseud.] 1761. 12mo. A letter from Mons. DE VOLTAIRE [anagram of AROUET 1. j. (le jeune)] to the Author of The Orphan of China. London, 1759. 8vo. Note. This letter is falsely attributed to Voltaire. Leçons de Géographie; par BUQCELLOS [anagram of S(imon) BLOCQUEL.] Lille, 1825. 12mo. In all such cases the explanation of the pseudonym should be so given as to shew, both the precise manner in which the latter appears on the title-page, and also the source of the explanation, i. e. whether it be derived from the book itself, (as in the instance of anagrammatic names), or from independent information. The like precision should be used with works which are known not to be the production of the authors, whose names they bear. Many other questions which have an important bearing on the details of cataloguing may be discussed most usefully with direct reference to the character of the Catalogue which is undertaken. That, for example, which lies at the threshold of all such tasks,-the question, to what length shall the title-pages of books be copied?-will be materially affected by the different requirements of classed and nominal catalogues, and also by the proposed inclusion or exclusion of Indexes, as necessary parts of the work. If, for example, the Catalogue be arranged according to the names of Authors, it is not indispensable to shew in what position, or with what precise phraseology, those names occur on the titles; in a classed catalogue, on the other hand, these particulars are essential. But, as a general rule, it is impossible to lay too much stress on the propriety of copying title-pages, in full, leaving the necessary abridgement of them to the judgment of the Editor of the Catalogue, and of him BOOK III. Chapter III. |