BOOK III. Chapter VI. Local arrangement, and its appliances. tained of giving to every book a fixed and easily found designation, and yet the Library may increase to twelve times its present size without disturbing the strictly systematic arrangement. Where the Library possesses all the works of a specific sort which can be expected, as, for instance, ten successive editions of a writer, the numbers proceed consecutively; where great acquisitions may be looked for, they leap over hundreds and thousands ("wo grosse Erwerbungen für die Zukunft zu erwarten sind, die Bezeichnungen um Hunderte und Tausende springen"). The reader can judge for himself whether this mode, or that of numbering the bookpresses (which, it may be repeated, must be of uniform dimensions), be likely to prove readiest in use and most truly "elastic" in a rapidly growing Collection. Trivial as mere questions about numbering books may look to the uninitiated, it is upon such small matters that good or bad Library economy will be found to hinge. 1 It will not, therefore, be waste of space-narrow as that has come to be-on my part, or waste of time on the reader's part, to look, in detail, at the actual arrangement of a well-ordered Library of moderate extent. For this purpose I will take that of the London Institution (which, as a building, I have described already,), and will quote the contents of each bookcase in succession. The value of such a description, as a study for the tyro, will be found to be independent of 1 Pertz, Ueber die Königliche öffentliche Bibliothek zu Berlin und deren Bereicherungen seit den letzten fünf Jahren [1846-1850]. (Reprinted in Serapeum, xiii, 1-24.) BOOK III. Chapter VI. greater intelligibility I repeat the wood-cut of the prin- Local arrangecipal room which has previously appeared: ment and its appliances. The arrangement begins with the Room at the NorthWest angle and runs thus: A. North-West Room. Bookcase No. 1, containing German and Italian Literature in quarto, No. 2, containing Philology and Grammars, in quarto, octavo, and No. 3, containing Biography, in octavo, and duodecimo. B. North-East Room:-Foreign Literature. Bookcase No. 1, containing Bulletin des Sciences:-Bibliothèque Uni- No. 2, containing the remainder of French Literature. No. 3, containing Spanish Literature, in octavo and duodecimo:- South-West Room, containing Globes, Maps, Atlases, and Portfolio of Plates and unfinished Illustrated works. ment, and its D. South-East Room. appliances. Bookcase No. 1, containing Parliamentary History:-Parliamentary Debates:-Hansard's Parliamentary History:-Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates:-Hansard's Parliamentary Debates:-the Pamphleteer :-the Christian Observer:-the Monthly Repository:-the Quarterly Journal of Education. No. 2, containing the Annual Register:-the New Annual Register :— No. 3, containing Medical Commentaries:—Medical Essays:—Medical E. Western Fire-Place. Bookcase No. 1, containing Anderson's Bee:-Spirit of the Public Jour- No. 2, containing works on Government, Political Economy, Finance, F. Eastern Fire-Place. Bookcases Nos. 1, 2, containing works on JURISPRUDENCE in folio, quarto, octavo, and duodecimo; Alphabetieally arranged.-The Statutes at Large, with Raithby's Index and the Digest of the Statates are in No. 1. THE RECESSES ROUND THE LIBRARY CONTAIN Recess I-The HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN, Chronologically arranged. In the Cabinets of this Recess are contained the Rotuli Parliamentorum Recess II.-The HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN. History of Scotland and Ireland in octavo, quarto, and duodecimo. decimo; Alphabetically arranged. English Literature in folio and quarto. Biography in folio and quarto. English Antiquities and Topography in folio and quarto. In the Cabinets are the Journals of the House of Commons from 1547 Recess III.-TOPOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES, in folio, quarto, octavo, and duodecimo: the former being arranged Alphabetically, according to the Names of the respective Counties. The latter works are placed according to the nature of the subject: as the Domesday Survey, and other general Descriptions of England; Legal, Ecclesiastical, and Topographical, Antiquities, including the Archeologia, Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, and Grose's Antiquities; accounts of the Schools and Charities of England; and Itineraries and General Tours through Great Britain. In the Cabinets are the Journals of the House of Commons from 1809 to 1830, vol. 64 to 85:-Indexes to the Lords Journals, 1684 to 1797, 7 vols.-Indexes to the Commons Journals, 1618 to 1800, 19 vols. Recess IV. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.-RECORDS. Ancient Geography: Collections of Voyages:-Particular Voyages and Travels, Alphabetically arranged according to the names of the Authors, or of the Countries where the works are anonymous. Rymer's Fœdera, new edition:-The Statutes of the Realm:-the Acts of Parliament of Scotland, and other Publications of the Commissioners of Records. Scottish History, in folio. In the Cabinets are other works of the Record Commissioners, and of Recess V. THE GREEK AND ROMAN CLASSICS, in folio, quarto, octavo, In the Cabinets are the English Public Acts of Parliament from 1760 to 1807. 69 vols. -- Recess VI. Remainder of the GREEK AND ROMAN CLASSICS, in small quarto, octavo, and duodecimo. BOOK 111. Chapter VI. Local arrange ment, and its appliances. Vol. II. 57 BOOK III. Chapter VI. Local arrangement, and its oppliances. DICTIONARIES of various LANGUAGES AND SCIENCES in quarto, Alpha- 1833. 46 vols. 14 vols. In the Cabinets are the English Public Acts from 1808 to Recess VII.-MISCELLANEOUS. Bookcase No. 1.-Dictionaries of Languages in octavo and duodecimo. The ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA with the SUPPLEMENTS. 24 vols. In the Cabinet are the Private Acts for Enclosing, for 1794 and 1795. Bookcase No. 2.-Miscellaneous ENGLISH LITERATURE, in octavo and duodecimo, Alphabetically arranged, A to F. The BYZANTINE HISTORIANS in folio. 7 vols. Works of the FATHERS; Athanasius-Chrysostom, folio. 16 vols. Recess VIII.-MISCELLANEOUS ENGLISH LITERATURE. Bookcase No. 1.-English Literature, F to P. Works of the FATHERS; Jerome Irenæus. 6 vols. ITALIAN HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES in folio;-Muratori. 17 vols. Recess IX.-LITERARY REVIEWS and MAGAZINES.-DICTIONARIES of LAS- Bookcase No. I.-The Critical Review:-the British Critic. CORPUS DIPLOMATICUS, and Authors connected with the same subject, bibus. Greek:-Suicer-Suidas-Stephanus De Cr Bookcase No. 2.-The Analytical Review:-the British Critic:-the |