THE HISTORIES OF LITERATURE, ART, SECTS, ETC., AND MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, TOGETHER WITH NOTES FOR READERS UNDER SUBJECT-REFERENCES. SECOND, OR CONSOLIDATED EDITION, JULY, 1873. PREFACE. THIS Catalogue is a combination, with the addition of accessions subsequent to their issue, of the old Finding List for History and Politics, with that for Travel and Biography; and with them are incorporated such parts of the List for Poetry, Miscellanies and Collections as properly belong here. Some important changes have also been made in the manner of the cataloguing: 1st. In the main entries (usually under authors), the place of publication, date, and size have been restored, as essential often to determine the value of the book for present use. These particulars were originally omitted for a temporary purpose. 2d. In connection with the names of persons, a brief indication of what they were and when they lived has been given. 3d. In all cases where desirable, dates covering the period described have been inclosed in brackets, when the title did not indicate it; and the date of publication, without brackets, has been given under cross-references, as indicating the comparative recentness and often consequential value of the book. 4th. Under the principal subject-references notes have been appended, concisely sketching, in some cases, the history of the literature pertaining to it, and often characterizing important or representative books, where the title does not sufficiently do it, in the hope to assist the reader to select books more nearly in accordance with his needs, or at least to advise him of the marked character of certain works, or of their general repute. Sometimes the order in which books are mentioned offers a complete survey of a subject. As the Bates Hall collection not only supplements and complements this Catalogue, but has often corresponding titles, use of them has been made, and the Bates Hall numbers appended to the titles cited, in the hope that readers will learn better how the two collections can thus be used in conjunction. Such books can of course be drawn out in the Bates Hall only. Readers will often observe references to magazine or review articles, papers in collected works, or chapters of books. These are not always made because of importance, though they frequently summarize the matter in a convenient way; but because under the ordinary forms of cataloguing no clew to them is preserved. In this first attempt to add information of this kind to a popular Catalogue, there may appear errors of judgment, both in matter inserted and omitted; but if the plan proves, on trial by the public, to be of practical usefulness, it will doubtless be carried further towards perfection in subsequent editions. Certain books of reference are frequently mentioned. They are as follows: Allibone's Dictionary of authors. Appleton's New American cyclopædia. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English literature, [392.1; B. H. 2551.2]. Chambers's Encyclopædia. Duyckinck's Cyclopædia of American literature. Hoefer's Nouvelle biographie générale, [B. H. 2242.6]. Kitto's Cyclopædia of Biblical literature. McClintock and Strong's Cyclopædia of religious and theological literature. Malcom's Index to religious literature, [B. H. 2190.19]. Michaud's Biographie universelle, [B. H. 2242.1; 4134.1]. |