i695 i .1 ^4H91 Cornell University Library Z695.1.P4 H91 Helps for cataloguers in finding full na ig full III olin 3 1924 029 522 053 HELPS FOR CATALOGUERS IN Finding Full Names BY CHARLES H. HULL .«. Cataloguer in Cortiell University Library Reprinted from the Library Journal NEW YORK OFFICE OF THE LIBRARY JOURNAL, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1889 ^■si^.^ '/^l Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029522053 A / Z. i6 THE LIBRARY JOURNAL. HELPS FOR CATALOGUERS IN FINDING FULL NAMES. BY CHAS. H, HULL, CATALOGUER IN CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. The following list of books useful to catalog- uers in finding full names is, for the most part, a compilation from various printed sources of good repute from the experience of the compiler.' The list makes no pretensions to completeness. Whole classes of books, e.g., genealogies and local his- tories, together with other useful works of limited scope, are omitted purposely ; doubtless many more are omitted through ignorance. Some books are included which, though they give but few full names, give many addresses, to the end that cataloguers, following the example of the Astor, Boston Public, and other careful libraries, may apply directly to those authors whose full names cannot be otherwise discovered. The comments which accompany the titles enu- merated imply no general criticism of any book mentioned. On the contrary, they refer exclu- sively to its usefulness in finding full names. As a rule, a cataloguer can without difficuky determine the nationality, or the class, or the period of the person whose name he seeks. In deciding whether he will then look for the name in a general or a special book, experience must be his guide. For an author whose surname is familiar, while his forenames have slipped the memory, a general book will be of readiest ser- vice; and even for unknown names a good general book may be consulted before an inferior special help. Most important of all, it should never be forgotten that frequently some other part of the book being catalogued gives in full the name which is incomplete on the title-page. In the subjoined list classes are arranged alphabetically and (he larger classes are sub- divided by nationalities. The resulting para- graphs are numbered consecutively. A short title, with imprint, is given for each book in the paragraph to which it principally belongs. Else- where it is cited by its author's name alone, the following number in parentheses indicating the paragraph where the title can be found. When no place of printing is mentioned, it is to be understood that American books are printed at New York, German books at Leipzig, and books in the language of any other country, or referring exclusively to any other country, are printed at ' The compiler acknowledges his indebtedness to Mr. Horace Kephart, of Yale Universily Library, and to Mr. W. C. Lane, of Harvard University Library, for many ad- ditions and suggestione. that country's political capital (London, Paris, Madrid, St. Petersburg, etc.). When no date is given the book is issued yearly, when no size is indicated the book is octavo. General Books. I. In English. The most comprehensive single vol. is L. B. Phillips's Diet, of biog. reference, Lond., 1871, 2d ed., Phil., 1881, 3d ed., Phil., 18S9 [1S88]. The additions in the later eds. are comparatively unimportant. Its 100,000 names are given, as a rule, in the fullest form that occurs in any of the books in- dexed. Hoefer (2) is apparently followed in most of the disputed cases, but the same name is sometimes entered more than once under differ- ent spellings. Forenames given in French by French books are frequently retranslated, not always correctly, into their vernacular form. On this account, and on account of his numerous misprints, all names should be pursued to the books where Phillips found them. Next in com- prehensiveness, and at least equal in usefulness, is J. Thomas's (" Lippincott'_^ ") Univ. diet, of biog. and mythology, new ed., Phil., 1886. It contains about 50,000 names, and in respect of vernacular forms, abundance of cross-references, and choice under which part of the name to enter, it is more satisfactory than any other single volume. Most of its names are full, though there is still room, especially in the case of English noblemen and of contemporaries, for improvement in that respect. Maiden names of married women are sometimes given in the body of the notice but omitted from the bold-faced type — a fault by no means confined to Dr. Thomas. The book is stronger in political, and especially in literary, than in scientific lines. B. Vincent's Diet, of biog., Lond. [1880], a revision of J. Haydn's In- dex of biog., Lond., 1870, contains some 26,000 names, commonly full and vernacular. C. Hole's Brief biog. diet, with additions by W. A. Wheeler N. Y., 1881, 12°, gives the names, generally full, of 24,000 deceased persons ; the forenames are all in Engl. T. Cooper's Biog. diet., new ed., Lond., 1883, contains about 15,000 names. French forenames are given in French, all others in Engl. W. L. R. Cates's Diet, of genl. biog., 4th ed., Lond., 1885, with notices of about 13,000 de- ceased persons, commonly gives full vernacular names. P. Godwin's Cyclopaedia of biog. , new ed., N. Y. [1878], is inaccurate. Webster's Un- abridged dictionary, last ed., has a well-selected list of 9700 names. The list is strongest in au- thors and scientists, and is excellent for fulness and vernacular. Of Engl, books in several vols., probably the best known is A. Chalmers's Genl. biog. diet., Lond., 1812-17, 32 v. It is founded on the New and genl. biog. diet, of 1798 - 1810, to which it adds about 4000 notices. The Engl, names aniQng its 9000 are fairly correct, the ^^-) THE LIBRARY JOURNAL. foreign names are less trustworthy. H, J. Rose's Newgenl. biog. diet., Lend., 1840-47, reprinted 1857, 12 v., is mainly compiled from Chalmers for Engl., and from the first ed. of Michaud (2) for continental subjects. In the letters A - C, which occupy 6 out of 12 vols., there are a few more notices than in the corresponding part of Chal- mers, but otherwise there is little improvement. J. Gorton's Genl. biog. diet., Lond., 1833,3 V., contains about 10,000 articles, and is most com- plete in political subjects. The names are com- monly full and the forenames in Engl. The biog. section of C. Knight's Engl, cyclopaedia, Lond., 1858, supplement 1872, 7 v. in 4, 4°, has articles, for the most part, on well-known men only. The names, as a rule, are full and vernac- ular. On the whole, however, the best genl. biog. diet, in Engl., with the possible exception of Thomas's, is the Imperial diet, of univ. biog., Glasgow, 1865, 5 v., which has about 22,000 names, nearly all full, and, except in ease of Scandinavians, nearly all vernacular. 2. In French. The best of all gen. biog. diets, are L. G. Michaud's Biog. univ., ancienne et moderne, nouv. [2'] 6d., 1843-65, 45 v., and the Nouv. biog. gfenl., depuis les temps les plus re- cuUs jusqu'i nos jours, publ. par Didot frferes sous la direction de [J. C. F.] Hoefer, 1852-66, 46 V. There is little choice between them as to fulness of names, but a, larger proportion of Hoefer's are vernacular, and he gives more cross- references, (Unfortunately, many references to the latter part of the book are to names that cannot be found. The last 9 or 10 v., in fact, are much.inf erior in execution to the rest of the book. ) On the score of comprehensiveness Hoefer is slightly superior in the letters A - M, and Michaud * the rest of the alphabet. Hoefer includes /iving men, Michaud does not. Hoefer's earlier volumes are completer for Spaniards, Portuguese, and Orientals, and his whole book for scientists, whereas Michaud is completer for Italians and for literary biography. Both books are naturally much stronger in the French than in other na- tionalities — Michaud being especially complete for all classes of Frenchmen during the Revolu- tion and the first empire — and both are compara- tively incomplete for north Europeans. The Biog. nouv. des contemps. par A. V. Arnault et autres, 1820 - 25 20 v., may be found of use occa- sionally. The smaller genl. biog. diets, in French add little to the works named above. 3. In German. C. G. JOcher's AUgemeines Gelehrten-Lex. vom Anfange der Welt bis auf jetzige Zeit, 1750-51, 4 v., 4°, with the Fortset- zungund Erganzungen von J. C. Adelung, 1784- 87, 2 v., 4°, and von H. W. Rotermund, Delmen- horst, Leipzig, i8io - 19, 4 v., 4° (the supplemen- tary alphabet extends only to Rinov), will be found frequently useful, especially for obscure persons. Joeher's 4 v. contain 76,000 notices and the supplements probably as many more. M. E. Oettinger's Moniteur des dates [the text is in German], 1869-82, 52 livraisons in i or 2 v., 4°, in 3 alphabets, contains over ijg.ooo names, which it attempts to give in full and also in their vernacular. Its accuracy has been questioned, but its comprehensiveness causes it to be often con- sulted, and some cataloguers sUU defend it. For a list of corrections see Thamm's Zur Kritik von Oettinger's Moniteur des dates, Lauban, 1881, 4* [gymsasium program], and for a favorable review Petzholdt's Neuer Anzeiger ffir Bibliog., Jahrg. i86g. Heft 1-6. 4. Cyclopedias. These often include valuable biog. diets. A few of the more important in Eng- lish, French, and German are here mentioned. Others in less familiar languages are brought forward under the nationality for which they are chiefly useful. Johnson's (revised) cyclopaedia, N. Y., 1886, 8 v., 1. 8°, contains about 13,000 names. They are generally vernacular, but many, especially names of Americans, are not given in full. The book is probably^ strongest in the scientific and technical classes. ' The Amer.. cyclopaedia ed. by G. Ripley and C. A. Dana, N. Y., 1873-76, 16 v., and index vol., with some 14,000 names, gives names in their vernacular, follows a uniform system of transliteration, and is strong in east Europeans. Both cyclopaedias include living men. The Encyclopaedia Britan- nica, Qth ed., 1875 - 88, 24 v., 8°, contains notices of deceased persons of the first rank only. Though the names are vernacular, and, except in ease of British noblemen, full, their number is so limited that the only value of the book is as an authority in disputed cases. In French : P. La- rousse's Grand diet. univ. du 19' sifeele, 1866- 78, 16 v., 4°, contains some 60,000 biog. notices, including contemps. The names are commonly full, the forenames are frequently translated into French. The book is strong in the drama. A 2d supplement, now publishing, will probably con- tain, as did the ist, many contemps. Most 0/ the lives in the Encyclopedic des gens du monde, 1833-44, 22 v., are included by Hoefer (2). In GexTO^n : Brockhaus's Conversations-Lex., 13' Aufl., 1882-87, 17 v., contains about 11,000 names, in most eases full and vernacular, and is eompletest for the present century. The sup- lement probably contains more names than any other vol. H. A. Pierer's Neues Univ. Con- versations-Lex., 6' Aufl., Oberhausen, 1875-80, 18 V. (7th ed. now publishing), is also useful. J. S. Ersch and J. B. Gruber's Allgem. eine En- cylopadie, 1818-88, 165 v., 4°, at present ex- tending from A to Land, and from O to Phy, includes a vast biog. diet., of unequal merit as re- gards names. J. H . Zedler's Grosses vollstand. Univ.- Lex., 1732- 54, 68 v., f°, is of importance for obscure writens of the 17th and early i8th centuries, especially for Germans. It translates forenames into German, and is eompletest for the latter part of the alphabet. 5. Catalogues of libraries are the most con- venient of all sources for full names, and examina- tion will probably show the best of them to be as accurate as any one biog. diet. For comprehen- siveness the British Museum Catalogue of printed books, 1882-89, about 194 pts., f° (nearly J^ of the alphabet out), stands at the head. Great pains have been taken, perforce, with the names, and, excluding Americans, it will probably con- tain a larger number of full, vernacular nameg than any other book in existence. The Cata^ logus bibliothecae Bodleianae, Oxon., 1843- 51, 4 v., f", and Catalogus librorum qui in bibliotheca coUegii trinitatis adservantur, Dublinii, 1864- ^HE LIBRARY JOURNAL. 87f 7 V. i f, do not take much pains to get full names and frequently Latinize forenames, but each assigns a large no. of titles to their proper authors, and is often useful on that account. The Catalogue of the advocates' library, Edin., 1867-79, 7 v., 4°, takes great pains with names, especially in its earlier vols. Of American cata- logues the best are : the Catalogue of the Astor library (continuation) [to 1880], Cambridge, 1886-88, 4 v., on the names in which Mr. C. A. Nelson has exercised unusual care, and the Cata- logue of the Boston Athenaeum, 1807-1871, Bost., 1874-82, 5 v., which likewise contains the full names of many standard authors, and in ad- dition those of many American pamphleteers. Other useful catalogues are elsewhere mentioned (7, 15, 60, 65). Academicians. [See also Collegiate, Scientific.l 6. If an author belongs to an academy or learned society, his name may be sought in its list of members. Most such lists give addresses, and many, especially the English, give full names. Among the most important are those published by : Amer. philos. soc, Amer., Brit- ish, and French assocs. for the advancement of science, the royal socs. of London and Edin- burgh, royal Irish acad., royal acads. of princi- pal European capitals, and especially Potiquet's L'institut de France, 1871, 12°, which gives the full names of all members of the 5 academies from 1796 to 1869. The Annuaire of the Insti- tute, 12°, continues the record. American. [See also AtKerican under the different classes, also CanadiaK.I 7. The Cyclopaedia of Amer. biog. edited by J. G. Wilson and J. Fiske, 1886-88 (to be), 6 v., including North and South Amer., is the most comprehensive work. Its names are commonly vernacular, but as regards fulness in the names of contemporaries there is room for improve- ment, and the ridiculous method of grouping people of the same family in one article makes the book very inconvenient to use. For instance, in vol. 5, Thomas Mather Smith, who should appear on p. 591, is entered on p. 560, 31 pp. out of place and without a cross-reference, simply, because his grandfather's name was Cotton Mather Smith. F. S. Drake's Diet, of Amer. biog., Bost., 1872, also includes both continents. It gives " nearly 10,000" names, not a few of them lacking fulness. W. Allen's Amer. biog. diet., 3d ed., Bost., 1857, confined, with few ex- ceptions, to the TJ. S., is inferior to Drake in the fulness of the names, and has but 7500 notices. All the authors in Allen are included in S. A. AUibone's Diet, of Brit, and Amer. authors, Phil., 1858-72, 3 v. This book is said to contain 46,49^ names. Perhaps half of them are Amer. Comparatively little care has been taken in the matter of fulness. F. B. Hough's Amer. biog. notes, Albany, 1875, notices briefly about 5000 persons not included by Drake and Allen. The book is strongest in N. Y. and N. E. names, and apparently gives about % of them in full. It is not entirely superseded by the Cyclopaedia of Amer. biog. , F. O. F. Adams's Handbk. of Amer. authors, Bost., 1884, 12°, is strongest in popular anil contemporary wri- ters, including a good proportion of scientists. Its names are frequently inaccurate and not uni- formly full. J. Sabin's Diet, of books relating to Amer., N. Y., 1868 - 88, 16 v., frequently repeats the author's name as it stands on the title-pages of each of his books there recorded, and the name is often given in full on one title-page and not on the others. Johnson's (4) and the Amer. (4) cyclopaedias, Thomas (l), and especially the Library journal's monthly list of full names, are useful for Amer. All these books, except Allen and Hough, include living men. Among the most useful catalogues of Amer. libraries are those of : the Astor (5), Boston Athenaeum (5). the Peabody Institute at Baltimore, the Milwau- kee Public, 1885 (continued by the indexed list of accessions for 1886-87), the Wisconsin and Minnesota historical societies, and the Library of Congress. The catalogue of the Peabody Inst, is still incomplete. The 2 vols, of the new catalogue already published make little more than a beginning for the Library of Con- gress. Separate biog. diets., of varying merit, have been published for some of the states. Reference to genealogies and local histories will often reveal full names. Such books are too numerous for detailed mentioned here, but D. S. Durrie', '-.- dex to Amer. genealogies and pedigrees, jr. ,;d Albany, 18B6, will give valuable help in such work. Amer. city directories commonly give oni; forename, seldom more. Austrian. [See also German.] 8. C. Wurzbach, Ritter von Tannenberg's Biog. Lex.des KaiserthumsOefterreichseit 1750, 1856- 87, 55 v., includes contemporaries. It is compara- tively meagre for the letters A-E, but quite complete for the remainder of the alphabet. Vols. II, 14, 22-24, 26, 28, contain inadequate supplements for the earlier letters. The book should be used by its indexes, since several mem- bers of a family are often treated in one article. Its scope includes all nationalities of the Austro- Hungarian kingdom, Bohemians and Lombards as well as Germans, and the names are commonly full and vernacular. The Hof-und Staats-Handb. is often useful. Some of the books for Germany (27), as Briimmer, Kiirschner, Kayser, and, in a less degree, Allgem. deutsche Biog., include Aus- trians. Among the best genl. books are Brock- haus (4) and Gettinger (3). Belgian. [See also Duick.l 9. The best book is the Biog. nat. publ. par I'acad. royale de Belgique, 1866-87, g v., which now extends to H. Full names in the French ^ form are given in all cases. There are vafalyble VI' notes on the prefixes of Flemish, Walloon, and ,' French names. Natives of Belgium as at present bounded are included, also natives of territories which, at the time of their birth , belonged to prov- inces that form part of the Belgium of to-day. J. F. Foppens's Bibliotheca Belgica, 1739, 2 v., 4°, is alphabetical by Latin forenames, with an THE LIBRARY JOURNAL. index of surnames. It is reputed not very ac- curate in its bibliography, but will sometimes be of use for names. [J. N. Paquot's] Memoirs pour servir ^ I'hist. Iitt6raire des Pays-Bas, Louvain, 1763-70, 18 v., 8°, also 1765-70, 3 v., f°, contains about 2400 names, nearly all full and commonly vernacular. The Bibllog. nat. 1830-80, 1882-87, I v., 2 pts., A-Gyr., gives many full names, forenames in French. Le Roy (14) and Vanderklndere (14) are also useful. Of general books those In French con- tain, as a rule, the largest number of Belgians. Canadian. [See also American^ 10. H. J. Morgan's Bibliotheca Canad., Otta- wa, 1867, notices some 1600 Canad. authors and authors of books about Canada, and gives many full names. The Dominion annual register, To- ronto, 12°, has a list of Canad. public men which lacks somewhat of fulness in the names, and also a large number each year of obituary no- tices which are a little better in that respect. The Canad. parliamentary companion, Ottawa, 16°, has quite a large list of persons connected with the Dominion and provincial govts., and is excellent for full names. The calendars of Dalhousie college, Halifax, McGill university, Montreal, and Queen's college, Kingston, give the address of their graduates, but not the full names. Morgan's Canad. legal directory (32) gives some full names. Of C. Tanguay's Diet. g6n6al. des families Canad., Montreal, 1871 - 88, the first 5 v., A to Mercier, are out. It will be found occasionally useful, especially for French Canadians. Classical. [See also Greek {Moderit)^ also Philological^ 11, W, Smith's Diet, of Greek and Roman biog. and mythology, Lond., 1844-49, 3 '^•< 's the completest book, but hardly so "advanced" in spelling of Greek names as some modern scholars. If I.atin forms of the patronymics (Smith fre- quently gives patronymics in English) are pre- ferred, they may be found in the index to J. A. Fabricius's Bibliotheca Graeca, Lipsise, 1838, 4°, in the Bodleian Catalogue (s), or in W. Engel- mann's Bibliotheca script, class., Lpz., 1880-82, 2 V. Thomas (i) will be found serviceable for the more important names and Webster (i) has a good, though limited selection. Collegiate. [The gen. catalogues of the colleges are carefully com- piled from authentic materials, and should be consulted whenever a man's college is discovered.] 12. American, B. B. Edwards's Amer. quart, register, vols. 7, 11, 15, Bost., 1835-43, gives one forename and one initial of graduates of most Amer. colleges down to 1841, but the list is in several alphabets, and may be inaccurate. The general catalogues (" triennial," " quinquen- nial," etc.) of the following Amer. colleges, and of many others of less size, give full names (some in Latin) either of all students or of grads. only : Amherst, Bowdoin, Brown, Colum- bia, Cornell, Dartmouth,' Hamilton, Harvard, Lafayette, Lehigh, Oberlin, Penn. (science and arts dept.), Phillips Exeter Acad., Princeton, Rutgers, "Trinity, Vermont, Union, Wesleyan, Williams, Wisconsin, Yale. «. 13. English. The annual calendars of Cam- bridge, Dublin, Durham, and Oxford give the full names of all living graduates of those uni- versities. Glasgow and, until 1880, Edinburgh, give the addresses, but not the full names. The calendar of the University of Lond. for 1887- 88 gives in full all grads. and all who have passed any of its examinations. The most important general lists are : J. H. Todd's Grads. of Dublin to 1868, Dublin, 1869; [D. Laing's] catalogue of grads. in art, divinity, and law of the University of Edinburgh since its foundation [Bannatyne club], Edinburgh, 1858; Grad. Cantab. 1659- 1800, Cantab., 1800; J. Romilly's Grad. Cantab., 1760- 1846, Cantab., 1846; H. R. Luard's Grad. Cantab. 1800-1872, Cantab., 1873; Oxford reg- isters since 1449, now publishing by the Oxf. hist. soc. ; Catalogue of grads. in divinity, [law and physick in the Univ. 1659-1770, Oxf., 1772; Catalogue of grads. of the Univ. of Oxf. 1659- 1850, Oxf. 1851; J. Foster's Aluibni Oxon. 1715 - 1886, Lond., 1888, 4 v., 4°. The last includes all who matriculated. Valuable school lists giving full names are : H. E. C. Stapylton's Eton school lists 1791-1850, and appendix to 1877, Lond., 1863-84, 4°; C. J. Robinson's Register of scholars admitted into Merchant Taylors' School 1562 -1874, with biog. notices, 1882, 2 v.; J. F. Smith's Admission register of the Manchester school, with notices [Chetham Soc], Manches- ter, 1866-74, 3 v., 4°; and the Rugby school register with annotations and index 1675 -1874, Lond., 1881 - 86, 2 v. A. Wood's Athenae Oxon. ed. by Bliss, 1813-20, 4 v., 4°, and C. H. and T. Cooper's Athena: Cantab. 1500- 1699, Camb., 1858-61, 2 v., furnish useful biographical par- ticulars in addition to the names. 6 14. French, German, etc. The number of such college lists published on the continent is very large. A few are here mentioned as examples : Album studiosum acad. Lugd. Bat. 1575 -1875, Hagae Comitum, 1875, 4°, gives the full Latin names of all professors and students of the Uni- versity of Leyden. L. Vanderkindere's L'univer- sit6 de Bruxelles 1834-84, Bruxelles, 1884.4°. and A. Leroy's L'universitfe de LiSge [1817- 67]. Li^ge, 1869, give the full names of all officers and students of those institutions. A. Mourier and F. Deltour's Notice sur le doctoral fes- lettres, suivie du catalogue des theses latines et franjaises, admises par les facult^s des let- tres depuis 1810, Paris, 1869, is continued by annual suppls. and has given names in full since 1884-85. The Catalogue des theses et Merits acad^miques published annually since 1884 by the French Ministfere'de I'instruction pub- lique (Hachette et cie.), includes dissertations in all departments and gives many full names. An alphab. index is promised each 5 years. R. Kukula's Allgem. Deutscher Hochschulen-Alma- nach, Wien, 1888, although it takes no paii s to give full names, does give lists of the writ- ings of professors in German-speaking univer- sities, and thus helps to distinguish between men of the same name. P. E. Richter's Address- buch der Professoren, Docenten, und Lectoren THE LIBRARY JOURNAL. *! der Univ. und tech. Hochschulen Deutschlanis, Deutsch Oesterreichs, der Schweiz, und der Ostseeprovinzen, 1S83, 16°, is similar to Kiirsch- ner's Litteratur-Kalender (27). Contemporary and Recent. [Sec also, especially, the classes Collegiate, Nobility, Official.^ 15. General. L. C. Sander's Celebrities of the century, Lond. , 1887, is quite complete within its field and frequently useful. Men of the time, Lond., 1887, 12°, gives some 2000 full vernacular names, together with a necrological index, in- itials only, to notices of as many more men re- corded in previous editions. F. Martin's Hdbk, of contemp. biog,, Lond., 1870, 16°, is compre- hensive and, for the most part, vernacular, but untrustworthy for fulness. The most compre- hensive book is L. G. Vapereau's Diet, des con- temps., 5th ed., 1880, supplements 1881 and 1886. It contains about 7500 notices and index to some 2500 more which have appeared in previous eds. The names, both in the body of the book and in the index, are given in full, but foreign forenames are often translated into French. A. Bitard's Diet, des contemp., 1680, contains about 2500 notices, and his names, though more frequently vernacular than Vapereau's, are not so often full. A new ed. of Bitard was publ. in 1887. F. Born- miiUer's Biog. Schriftsteller-Lex. der Gegenwart, 1882, 12°, contains about 2100 names, but is un- trustworthy for fulness. A. De Gubernatis's Diet, internat. des ^crivains du jour, Florence, 1888, is -a. 2d ed. of his Diz. di scrittori contemp., Firenze, 1879. When completed it will contain 7000 or more notices, giving generally the full, not the vernacular name, and being strong in Slavs, Frenchmen and, of course, in Italians. Brunialti (20) will be of use at times. Among the general books which will be found useful are Larousse (4), Brockhaus (4), and, in short, nearly all cyclopedias except the Britannica (4), Hoefer (2), Thomas (i), and Oettinger (3). The Mil- waukee Public Library catalogue (5) with its sup- plement, coming down to 1888, the Astor (5) to 1880, and the British Museum (5), each part com- plete nearly to the date of issue, are the most useful catalogues. The list of accessions to the British Museum gives full names, but go complete alphabets are out since 1880. Recent nos. of the Harvard bulletin also give full names, but a similar objection will ultimately apply to that. ^ 1 5. American. Adams, AUibone, the Cyclo- paedia of Amer. biog., Drake, Johnson, and the Amer. cyclopaedia (4) all include contempora- ries. Appletons' Annual cyclopaedia, 1876 - 87, 12 v., is not careful about full names. In the index, 1888, its obituary notices are all entered. Most of its Amer. obituaries and the Amer. notices in the Amer. cyclopaedia are in- cluded in the Cyclopaedia of Amer. biog. (7). The compilers of the Amer. catalogue, N. Y., 1880-85, 3 v.,f°, sometimes wrote to authors for their full names. The Library journal gives many new authors, for the most part Amer., whose full names cannot be found in standard books. If a practice is made of writing to authors for their names, a collection of city directories will be useful. The directories themselves seldom give full names. 17. Eiii;!idi. Men of the reign, 1884, 12°, is largely compiled from the successive editions of Men of the time (15), but some of the notices in that work are omitted. It gives about 2700 notices of persons of British and colonial birth who have died within the last 50 years. Men of the time (15) is much completer for Englishmen than for foreigners, and Kelly's Handbk. (54) is often useful. The obituary notices in the Athenceum and the Annual register commonly give, of late years, the full names of Englishmen. If the person sought lives in London, his full name may often be discovered in the London postal directory. The divisions of the alphab. part are explained in the preface. After the name is found in the alphab. part, turn back to the street address, where names are frequently given in full. J. H. Heaton's Australian diet, of dates and men of the time, Lond. and Sidney, 1879, leaves a good deal to be desired, but the field is otherwise unoccupied. 18. French. E. Glaeser's Biog. nat. des con- temps., 1878, gives notices of some 2600 living Frenchmen, about as many as the text of Vapereau (15) and far more than Bitard (15). He generally gives names in full, but Vapereau occasionally surpasses him in this respect. Each of these two books contains many names not in the other. O. H. Lorenz's Cat. de la librairie frangaise 1840 -85, Paris 1867-88, II v., takes some pains to give full names and is fairly trustworthy for a trade catalogue. Nevertheless it should be de- pended upon only when the names can be found in no other book. The biog. notes in Lorenz may direct a successful search. 19. German. Perhaps the best book for all classes of Germans of the present century is Brockhaus (4), which is particularly useful for living men. Its most important rival, Oettinger (3), is even completer for the learned world, es- pecially for university professors. Both these give names in full. A. Hinrichsen's Das literarische Deutschland, Berl., 1887, contains notices of over 2000 living Germans. It is strongest in popular writers, magazinists, etc., and sometimes ab- breviates forenames to the verge of unintel- ligibility. Bornmilller (15) also notices many popular writers and J. Kurschner's Litteratur- Kalender, Berl., 24", gives the names, seldom full, with addresses of over 1 3,000 German authors. The issue for 1888 is preferable to its predeces- sors. Briimmer's Dichter-Lex. (27) also contains a large no. of contemps. 20. Italian. The 1879 ^d. of De Gubernatis (15) contains perhaps 2500 living Italian authors, the 1888 ed. probably contains more. A. Bru- nialti's Annuario biog. univ., Torino, since 1885, is not strictly confined to contemporaries but notices also those whom contemporary events have brought into prominence. Italians are most numerous among its subjects. The names, fore- names in Italian, are reasonably full, and each vol. has a consolidated index to the set. Danish. [See also Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish^ 21. C. F. Bricka's Dansk biog. Lex,, i. Bind [A-Bea], 1887, will be an elaborate work, and promises to become the standard Danish biog. 8 THE LIBRARY JOURNAL. diet,!!' Norwegians are included for the period 1537-1814. All the names are full and vernacular. R. Nyerup and J. E. Kraft's Almindeligt Litera- turlex. for Danmark, Norge, og Island, iSzo, 4°, seems to give full vernacular names with great care. It is continued by T. H. Erslew's Alminde- ligt Forfatter-Lex. for Kongeriget Danmark med tilhrende Bilande 1814-40, supplement, 1840- 53, 1843-68, 6 v., which contains some 7200 names, about \ of them full. C. V. Bruun's Bibliotheca Danica 1482 -1830, 1877-86, 2v. , 4°, is a " systematic " bibliog., containing many full names, but without an author index. The Nordisk Familjebok (64) is useful for Danes, especially for contemporaries. Brockhaus (4) is perhaps the best among the general books. I Dutch. [See also Belgian^ 22. J. A. van der Aa's Biog. woordbk. der Ned- erl., Haarlem, 1852-78, 21 v., contains some 24,000 notices. The names, as far as possible, are full, but there is a tendency to prefer Latin to ver- nacular forenames in case of men who lived in the i6th and 17th centuries. The entries are not strictly alphabetical, but there is an index at the end of each letter. J. C. Kobus and W. de Rivecourt's Beknopt biog. wordbk. van Nederl., Zupthen, 1854-61, 3 v., contains about 5000 short notices and is very useful. Another good book, confined entirely to literary lines, is the Biog. woordbk. der noord- en zuid-Neederl. letter- kunde door W. J. A. Huberts, W. A. Elberts, en F. J. P. van den Branden, Deventer, 1878, which haS'Some 4700 brief articles and commonly gives names in full. The following are also of value : P. G. W, Geysbeek's Woordbk. der Neder-duit- schedichters, Amst., 1821 -27,6 V., and its contin- tion by J. A. van der Aa, Nieuw biog. antholo- gisch woordbk, van Nederl. dichters, Amst., 1844 -46, 3 V. J. Kok's Vaderlandsch woordbk, Amst., 1785-99,38 v., is not exclusively biographical and is of but little use to a cataloguer. English. [See also English under various classes.] 23. The Diet, of nat. biog. ed. by L. Stephen, 1885 - 88, 16 v., A to Edridge, is the only good comprehensive book. It includes Irish, Scotch, and Welsh as well as English. The Biog. Brit., 1780-93, 5 v., f (incomplete), contains com- paratively few names. T. Wright's Biog. Brit, literaria, 1842-46, 2 v., notices all persons who had a literary reputation in England before the 13th century. The Annual biog. and obituary, 1817-37, 21 v., is sometimes useful for English- men. O. F. Adams's Hdbk. of English authors, Bost., 1884, 12°, is not sufficiently comprehen- sive to have much value in a library. G. C. Boase and W. P. Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, 1874-82, 3 v., is excellent in its limited field. Until the completion of the Diet, of nat. biog. reliance must be placed, in large part, on gen- eral books in English. Of these the most useful are Imperial diet, of biog. (i), Vincent (i), Men of the time (15), Men of the reign (17), Thomas (I). Fine Arts. [Excluding Music, treated in § 41.] 24. J. D. Champlin, Jr., and C. C. Perkins's Cyclopedia of painters and paintings, N. Y., 1887, 4 v., probably contains more notices than any other one book. " Each painter is entered under his best known Engl, appellation, whether sur- name, assumed name, or sobriquet." The cor- rect name is given, ac a rule, in parentheses, and a reference is made from it. The name in paren- theses, however, is sometimes an incorrect form, and the book itself affords no means of deciding which of these two is the ease in any specific in- stance. North Europeans fail of vernacular, and contemporaries, whose studio addresses in Bos- ton and N. Y. are given, fail of fulness. M. Brayn's Diet, of painters and engravers, ed. by Stanley, Lond., 1849, is continued by H. Ottley's Living and recent painters, Lond., 1876. A new ed. of Bryan, ed. by R. E. Graves, was begun in 1885, and it bids fair to be one of the most useful books in this class. Mrs. C. E. (Clement) Waters's Painters, sculptors, architects, en- gravers, and their works, 7th ed., Bost., 1881, 12", gives the names, not uniformly full, of over 3200 persons. The Spanish, Italian, and English names are commonly vernacular, but the Dutch, French, and German forenames are frequently translated into English. Her Artists of the 19th century (with L. Hutton), Bost., 1883, 2 v., 12°, contains about 2000 name^, which are accurate, and more generally vernacular but not so uni- formly full as the preceding. A. Siret's Diet, des peintres, 1874, identical with eds. of 1861 and '66, contains a large no. of brief entries, giv- ing all names in their French form. G. K. Na- gler's Kilnstler-Lex. herausg. von Meyer, 2° Aufl. , 1870-88, 4 v., not yet complete, is highly praised. Among the books confined to one school of painting or one country are : S . Red- graves's Artists of the Engl, school, 1878, which has short, pointed notices, and generally gives full names ; A. Graves's Diet, of artists who have exhibited in Lond., 1760- 1880, Lond., 1884, "including about 16,000 artists;" The Kalendar of the Royal Institute of British archi- tects, 12°, which gives the full names of all mem- bers; A. B6rard's Diet. biog. des artistes frangais du I2» au I7» sifede, 1873, which gives about 6000 names, many of them in full. Finnish. 25. The best book is the Biog. nimikirja [diet.], recently published under the auspices of the Finnish Hist. Soc. It contains 1300 names iden- tified with Finnish history and literature, not ex- cluding contemporaries. V. Vasenius's La lit- tferature finnoise 1544 -1877 [in Finnish], 1878, sm, 4°, gives the names of all authors as full as they can be found. The Nordisk familjebok (64) is excellent for Finns, including living men, and the Biog. Lex. ofver Svenske man (64) includes Finns living before 1809. F. W. Pipping's Forteckning ofver i tryck utgifna skrifter pa Finska, 1857, 4°, gives names only as they occur on the title-page. The Baltic provinces have bibliogs. of their own. Brockhaus (4) is prob- ably the most useful of general books. TM'^i^^ ^^^^^Wd^.^e.cu.^ckS^-'rJ^ tJSlAi' THE LIBRARY JOURNAL French. [See also French under various classes.] 26. J. M. Qufirard's La France littSraire, 1827- 39, 10 V. , gives the names of some 27,000 authors of the iSth and the early part of the igth cen- turies. The work falls off a little in completeness towards the end of the alphabet, and the names, though fulness is attempted, are not so full or so accurate as might be wished. QuSrard's La litt^rature frangaise contemp., 1842-57, 6 v., has over 17,000 names, which do not maintain so high an average of fulness as those of I.a France litteraire. The letters A and B, which alone Quferard himself compiled, are much completer than the rest of the alphabet. M. L, C. La Lanne's Diet. hist, de la France, 1872, is quite complete for political persons, and its names are very full. For living Frenchmen there are Va- pereau (15), Glaeser (18), Bitard (15), and Lorenz (18), for members of the Institut, which includes the 5 acads., Potiquet (6), for all classes Michaud (2), Hoefer (2), and Larousse (4), in addition to the books named above. German. [See also German under various classes.] 27. The AUgem. deutsche Biog., 1875-88,27 V. , contains A to Rein, about 19,000 notices. It includes some Austrians, many inhabitants of German Switzerland, and Dutchmen before 1618. Less care than might have been expected has been bestowed on the fulness of the names. All cross-references are deferred to a concluding vol. , which necessitates, for the present, an ex- planation of the editor's principles in choosing' his rubrics. In the middle ages patronymics, contrary to general usage, are treated as sur- names in all cases where they form a familiar and prominent part of the name. Territorial princes, both temporal and ecclesiastical, are entered under their forenames, but modern bish- ops and abbots, from whom territorM suprem- acy has departed, are entered undsfl their sur- names. In cases of old names still in use the modern spelling is adopted for the caption, re- gardless of the form used by the writer of the article. Thus Adalbert and Adelbert are both alphabetized under Adelbert. The book, espe- cially in its earlier volumes, is completer for mili- tary and political than for scientific and literary biog. As it progresses it becomes more elaborate and complete in all lines. F. Briimmer's Deutsches Dichter-Lex., Eichstadt, 1876-77, 2 v., gives names, commonly in full, of some 3500 German writers of poetry and belles-lettres, and devotes especial attention to contemps. In the earlier vols. C. G. Kayser's Vollstandiges Bficher-Lex. , 1834-87, 24 v., 4°, gives more full names than W. Heinsius's AUgem. Biicher-Lex., 1812-86, 17 V. , 4". There is little to choose between the latter vols. J. C. Hinrichs's Biicher-Catalog, 1851- 87, 7 v., gives initials only. G. T. Mensel's Gelehrtes Deulschland ; oder, Lex. der jetzt lebenden teutschen Schriftsteller, Lemgo, 1796- 1834, .23 v., 12°, in 6 alphabets, is somewhat troublesome to use, but contains a large number of names which can scarcely be found in ariy other books. Vol. 12 contains a gen. index to the first 3 alphabets. Different alphabets of Men- sel's book are also published under separate titles, for list of which see Bd. i., S, xii of Allgem. deutsche Biog. Among the general books JScher (3V Brockhaus (4), Oettinger (3), Erschand Gruber (4), and Zedler (4) are all important for Ger- mans. Greek (Modern), [See also Classical^ 28. The most comprehensive work is K. N. Sathas's NEoeXKr/viKri cpiXoXoyia; Bioypaqnai Twv tv Toii ypa/i^adi Siaka/^ipavioov eAXr/- vaov, 1453 - 1821, ABr/vaii, 1868, which con- tains about 1500 names. Of the earlier work by A. Papadopoulos Vretos, NeoeXXT/rmr/ 1880, is "enlarged" by a suppl. of 50 names. Most of the principal medical colleges publish genl. catalogues, and incomplete names from biographical dictionaries may often be made full by reference to those, or to the gen. col- lege (12) catalogues, especially those of Colum- bia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. 38. English. The Medical register gives the full names of all practising physicians in Great Brit, and Ireland. W. Munk's Roll of the royal college of physicians 1518 - 1825, 1878, 3 v. , 120, of which vol. 3 contains a complete index to its 1700 names, and the list of Graduates in medi- cine at Edinburgh 1715-1866, Edin., 1867, giv- ing the full Latin names of 6000 physicians, are useful college lists. I Military. 39. American. Neither G. W. Cullum's West Point graduates, 1868-79, 3 v., nor T. H. S. Hamersly's Army and navy register 1779- 1887, N. Y., 1888, gives full names in all cases, but Cullum sometimes affords means of finding a full name. The List of cadets admitted to West Point to 1886, Wash., 1887, 12°, gives many names in full. The Official army register of the volunteer force l86i - 65, Wash. [1867?], 8v., 12°, commonly gives one forename and is occasion- ally useful in cataloguing matter on the Rebel- lion. The OflScial army register, Wash. 8°, gives the names, seldom full, of living officers of the army. The Register of the Mass. commandery of the loyal legion, Bost., 1882, gives full names and is useful within its field. The Catalogue of the War Dept. library, Wash., 1882, has very few full names. The Cyclopaedia of Amer. biog. (7) is very complete in military lines. 40. Foreign. H. G. Hart's Annual army list is very good for full names of English officers, and Kelly (54) gives all generals in active service and many colonels. The Annuaire de- I'armfee frangaise contains, at present, some 63,000 names. It includes all the higher officers, whose names sometimes appear in 2 or 3 differ- ent parts of the book, but are given with approx- imate fulness in but one. Musical. 41. F. J. Ffetis's Biog. univ. des musiciens, 2" ed., 1860-65, 8 v., suppl. by A. Pougin, 1878-81, 2 v., is the most comprehensive book. As a rule it gives full names, but translates forenames into French. J. D. Brown's Biog. diet, of musicians, Lond., 1886, is quite comprehensive, but fre- quently inaccurate in its names. Sir G. Grove's Diet, of music and musicians, Lond. and N. Y., 1879 - 87, 4 v., gives a great number of names in their full vernacular form. G. Schilling's Ency- clopadie der musikalischen Wiss., 2' Aufl., Stutt- gardt, 1840-42, 7 v., is very good fur names. Based largely on Schilling, but with additions, is H. Mendel and A. Reissmann's Musikalisches Conversations-Lex., Berl., 1870-79, 12 v., new ed. begun in 1885, which gives the full vernacular • names of a great number of musicians. R. Eit- ner's Bibliog. der Musik-Sammelwerke des 16. und 17. Jahrh., Berl., 1877, also takes pains with names. J. D. Champlin, Jr., is preparing an elaborate dictionary of music and musicians. The proof-sheets indicate that it will have much the same merits and the same faults as his Cyclo- pedia of painters and paintings (24). There are also' many excellent books confined to single countries. Bitard (15) gives the names of many contemp. musicians. Naval. ^ 42. American. T. H. S. Hamersly's Army and navy register (39) includes some 800 naval officers. L. R. Hamersly's Living officers of the navy, Phila., 1878, noticing some iioo officers, sometimes gives names in full which are not full in the other book and occasionally affords the means of discovering a full name elsewhere. 43. English. O'Byrne's Naval biog. Diet, of living officers from admiral to lieutenant, 1849, gives nearly 5000 names. Haydn's Book of dig- nities (54) has a list of British admirals 1660- 1850, and Kelly (54) includes all living admirals. 44. General. J. F. G. Hennequin's Biog. mari- time, frangaise et 6trang6re, 1835-37, 3 v., contains but 99 lives and is of little use to the cataloguer. Nobility and Titled Classes. [See also Oj^cial Classes.'} Austrian nobility are recorded in the same books as other German noblemen (49). 45. Belgian. Stein d'Altenstein's Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, 12°, is the standard book. 46. Danish. H. R. Hiort-Lorenzen and A. Thiset's Danmarks Adels Aarbog, 16°, is similar to the German Taschenbiicher (49) published at Gotha. 47. English. The best book for the higher or- ders of Engl, nobility is J. E. Doyle's Official bar- onage of Eng., 1886, 3 v., which gives very full information concerning all dukes, marquises, earls, and viscounts from 1066 to 1885. The standard works on the existing peerage are those published under the names of J. Burke, annual, E. Lodge, annual, and J. Foster, annual 1881-83, since dis- continued. Burke arranges peers and baronets in one alphabet, the others do not. Foster gives the children of married female members of the aristocracy, as no other peerage does, and is com- pleter than any other for recent collateral branch- es, particularly of baronets, but is not well indexed. Burke and Foster both contain " historic peer- ages," Burke's genealogies being the completer. The historic portion of Lodge was published in a separate vol. as Genealogy of the existing Brit, peerage and baronetage, 1859. Lodge gives gene- alogies in an ascending line, omitting younger sons and sons who died before their fathers, whereas Burke and Foster include some, if not all of these. On the other hand Lodge is more careful to give the maiden names of women. Burke frequently says, " Mary, daughter of Lord ■," which makes it necessary to look up her name under her father's title. C. R. Dod's Peer- age, annual, I2», and E. Walford's Shilling peer- age, annual, x6°, are less complete than those mentioned, and frequently fail to give full names. t2 THE LIBRARY JOURNAL. ' " -' ~ H. Nicolas's Historic peerage, 1857, is the simplest and clearest of all, and is reported very accurate, but it gives only the actual holders of titles, not their families. Burke's Dormant and extinct peerage, 1883, gives genealogies of those houses whose titles have lapsed or remain in abeyance. It is arranged by surnames, with an alphabetical index of titles. Nicholas also gives extinct titles. The most convenient book for the living nobility is Kelly (54) which gives alphabetically all liv- ing peers and their children, all baronets and knights. Walford's County families ; or, Manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy, contains some 15,000 entries, and under each at least the father, wife, if any, and heir of the person re- corded. The names, perhaps 50,000 in all, are full in nearly every case. Burke's Landed g-;ntry, 1837-38, 2 v., has an index in a separate vol., 1844; later eds. have no index. Irishmen are dispro- portionately numerous in this book. 48. French. The Annuaire de la noblesse de France, 12°, contains : ist, the present head of each French princely or ducal house, his parents, wife, and children, or if he has no children, his brothers, or other heirs presumptive ; 2d, gene- alogical notices of a few houses of lower rank ; 3d , an index to the genealogical notices in previous issues. L'6tat present de la noblesse frangaise, 1884, claims to notice over 60,000 persons. It is unevenly executed and of little use to the cata- loguer. 49. German. The noble and titled classes of Germany and Austria are covered by : Gotha- isches genealogisches Taschenbuch der freiherr- lichen Hauser, Gotha, annual, l6°, do. der Graflich- en Hauser, 16°, and Genealogisches Taschenbuch der adeligen Hauser, Briinn, 16°. In addition to the name of the present holder of the dignity, these give the name of his father, the maiden name of his wife, the names of all his children, and, if he has no children, of his brothers or other heirs presumptive. In other cases collateral branches, if not noble, are omitted. Complete genealogies are given, as a rule, in but one issue, and that issue is mentioned in each succeeding notice of the house. The Grafliches Taschenbuch has indexes to the last year recording extinct families and to families also mentioned in the freiherrliches Taschenbuch. The Taschenbuch der adeligen Hauser has an index to houses, once of the " adel " rank, which have been removed to a higher order, and also a useful index of by- titles. E. H. Kneschke's Deutsche Grafen-HSus- er der Gegenwart, 1852-54, 3 v., does not give as many full names as the late years of the Grafliches Taschenbuch. Its names, however, are, on the average, fuller, and its genealogies completer than those in his Deutsches Adels-Lex., 1859 - 70, 9 V. The latter includes extinct houses, and partly duplicates the earlier work. 50. Italian, The Annuario della nobiliti ital- iana, Pisa, 16°, is substantially similar to the German TaschenbUcher (49). The families are all in one alphabet, and each year has an index to the genealogical notices of previous years. The 5th year, 1883, is apparently particularly rich in such notices. ^ Russian. See § 59. 51. Spanish. Fernandez de B6thencourt's An- ales de la nobleza de EspaSa, 16°, contains, in 3 alphabets, the grandees, the titled nobility, and the non-titled nobility, with their heirs, apparent or presumptive; also a list of the military orders. Not all the names in this last list are full, but the names of the non-noble members commonly are, and the nobles occur elsewhere in the book. Each issue contains some genealogies. Norwegian. [See also Danish^ Icelandic^ Sijoedisk^ 52. Nyerup and Kraft (21) is quite complete for Norwegian authors down to 1814. J. E. Kraft's Norsk Forfatter-Lex., 1814-56, udgivet af CCA. Lange, 1863, continues Nyerup and Kraft as far as Norway is concerned. It contains about 2800 names of authors, nearly all full. But the best book for the modern period is J. B. Hal- vorsen's Norsk Forfatter-Lex., 1814-80, i88i,etc. The 2d vol., which is not yet entirely publ., will probably finish H. It is substantially a revision and continuation of Kraft and Lange, gives full names, and is very complete. Many Norwegians of the period before Kraft and Lange, and Hal- vorsen, may be found in Bricka (21). P. Botten- Hansen's La Norv^ge littgraire, Christiania, 1867, gives, in a list at the end of the book, the full names of some 650 prominent Norwegian authors of the 19th century. Erslew (21) and the Nordisk familjebok (64) are also useful for Norwegians. Of general books perhaps Brockhaus (4) is among the best in this department. Official Classes. [See also Military^ Naval^ Nobiliiyi\ 53. American. The lists of officials published by the government commonly give but one fore- name for each employ^. The most important lists are:the Official register of the U. S., Wash., biennial, 2 v., 4° which is included among the House miscellaneous documents. It has an al- phabetic index. The registers of the several de- partments, though they contain incomplete his- torical lists of officials, as well as the names of those now serving, are, as a rule, little better than the official register in respect of full names. The Register of the State Department, however, contains a complete list of all diplomatic and consular officers of the U. S. and of all foreign plenipotentiaries and heads of legations resident here since 1 789. Its names, also, are somewhat more complete than the names in the Official register. The Civil list of N. Y., Albany, 1886, gives a roll, similar to the Official register of the U. S. for fulness, of 17,000 colonial, state, and county officers, with addresses of those who are still living. The ' ' red books " of the various states are also useful. Of non-official books C Lanman's Biog. annals of the civil government, 2d ed., 1887, and B. P. Poore's Political register and congressional directory, Bost., 1878. Both contain biog. sketches of members of Congress, and chronological lists of various executive and judicial officers. Lanman contains a few more names than Poore, but a slightly larger propor- tion of the names in Poore are full. Neither book is entirely indexed. 54. English. Kelly's Hdbk. of the titled, land- ed, and official classes, 12°, is the most con- TE"R51AN. ^^^,"», ^rvaw^Acika^ ^c^wuL/vAJUv-tk , \m5. Clfco 05), pajbL>vi)lrWT-a TTFoc^ECCOPoB"b VA TTfEno BA^ATEAEV^ V\Mn tfATO^CKA- THE LIBRARY JOURNAL. n venieat of all English books in this class. It gives in one alphabet the full names of some a6,ooo persons, including the more important of- ficials of Great Brit, and the colonies. Walford, (47) also is convenient. The Foreign office list, 12°, has an official alphabetical register of 2500 names, generally full and vernacular, of all living persons who are or have been in the foreign ser- vice, with an index, initials only, to the year re- cording all who have died since 1852. It also contains a register of foreign deplomatic and consular officers resident in Great Britain and the colonies, giving names of the latter more fully than the Colonial office list, and all names more fully than the Almanach de Gotha. The Colo- nial office list, 12°, has an alphabetical register of some 2000 living colonial officials. Not all its names are full. C. R. Dod's Parliamentary companion, 16°, is also useful for officials. The London directory (17) contains a list of some n.ooo officials. A. Thorn's Dublin directory is useful for Irish officials. J. Haydn's Book of dignities, 1851, has lists of the privy council, of ambassadors, of the principal ministerial officers, and of the governors of the colonies from 1760 to 1850. Not all the names are full. 55. French. The Almanach nat. , annuaire of- ficiel de la Republique frangaise, does not give full names. The Annuaire diplomatique et con- sulaire, contains an alphabetical list, generally full names, of all living French diplomatic officers. 56. German. Austria, Baden, Bavaria, Prussia, Saxony, and in general all the German states issue Hof-und Staats-Handbticher which give a great number of officials of all classes. The names are occasionally given in full. Philologists. The most comprehensive book is F. A. Eck- stein's Nomenclator philologorum, Leipzig, 1871, 12°. It gives the full vernacular names of some 4500 classical scholars from the revival of learn- ing to 1870. W. Pokel's Philol. Schriftsteller- Lex., 1882, adds a few recent names to Eck- stein and omits many older ones, making in all about 3300. He cannot be trusted, as Eckstein commonly can, to give all a man's names, but on the other hand he has cross-references and gives a list of each author's work, as Eckstein does not. The Biog. Jahrb. fur Alterthumskunde, 1878-88, is issued as a supplement to the Jabresbericht aber die Fortschritte der Klassischen Alterthums- wiss., and is very useful for full names. Its no- tices are all necrological. The Brit. Museum catalogue (5), on account of its references from editors, translators, commentators, etc., is espe- cially useful for philologists. Portuguese. 58. The chief authorities are D, Barbosa Ma- chado's Bibliotheca Lusitana, 1741-59, 4 V. f", which gives full names, alphabetically by fore- names, with complete surname indexes, and I. F. da Silva's Die. bibliog. Port., estudos applicaveis a Portugal e ao Brasil, 1858-87, ir v. The first 7 V. complete the first alphabet, and the 8th be- gins an alphabet of additions. Antonio (63) also contains many Portuguese, and the Ticknor cata- logue (63} has the names of the principal writers. Russian. [See also Slavonic.'] 5g. The best books in Russian, in the approxi- mate order of their present usefulness, are: I. N. Berezin's Russki entsiklopedicheski slovar[Russ. encyclopedic diet.], 1873 - 80, 16 v., 8°, a new issue began in 1883. V. I. Mezhov's Russkaia istoricheskaia bibliog. za 1865 - 76 [Russ. hist bibliog. for 1865-76], 1882-87, 6 v., especially vol. 2. G. N. Gennadi and N. P. Sobko's Spravochny slovar . . . [Diet, of information con- cerning Russ. writers and scholars who died in the i8thand igth centuries, Berl.], 1876-80, 2 v., A to M only. Excepting Vengerov, this is the most comprehensive book. ' N. V. Gerbel's Russkiie poety . . . [Russ. poets in biogs. and extracts, 2d ed.], 1880. S. A. Vengerov's Kritiko- biograf. slovar . . . [Critico-biog. diet, of Russ. writers and scholars], 1886-88. The 10 parts al- ready issued conclude the letter A. The book is very complete and is edited with great care. V. S. Ikonnikov's Biog. slovar . . . [Biog. diet, of the professors and instructors of the imp. univ. of St. Vladimir, 1834-84, Kiev], 1884. P. N. Petrov's Istoriia rodov russkago dvorian- stva [Hist, of the families of the Russ. nobility, vol. I, St. P.], 1886, 4°, also V. V. Rummel and V. V. Golubtsov's Rodoslovny sbornik . . . [Gene- alogical coll. of Russ. noble families], 1886-87, 2 V. The Zapiski [annals], 1862-88, and the Sbornik Otdieleniia russkago iazyka (iezyka) . . . [collection of the section on the Russ. lang. and literature] 1867-87, published by the St. P. im- perial acad. of sciences, will be useful at times. The Table gfenferal des mati^res contenues dans les publications de I'acad. imp. des sciences de St. P., 1872 - 75, 2 pts., gives full names in Russian and also in French transliteration. Of books not in Russian the Brit. Museum catalogue (s) is the best guide, and after that Brockhaus (4), though Brockhaus often fails to give the full name including patronymics, and transliterates in a German fashion. "Thomas (i) notices a few prominent Russians, apparently basing his selec- tion on Brockhaus (4)- and re-transliterating ac- cording to his own method. Scientific. [See also Collegiate^ Medical. Tecknoloffical."] 60. S. E. Cassino's Internatl. scientists' direc- tory, Bost., 1882 [i88i], 12°, gives the names, not in full, and the addresses of some 14,000 scien- tists, for the most part excluding mathemati- cians and physicists, in all parts of the world. The Amer. and Engl, addresses aie quite definite, the foreign addresses, as a rule, are not. A new ed. to contain 20,000 names has been announced. J. C. Poggendorf's HdwSrterbk. zur Gesch. der exacten Wiss., 1863,2 V., contains some 8400 full names from all times and countries, and is invalua- ble for mathematicians and generally for scien- tists who do not deal with living nature. Men of the same surname are arranged chronologi- cally ; i and j are alphabetized as the same let- ter, u and V as different letters. ^ The Royal So- ciety's Catalogue of scientific papers, Lond., 1867-79, 8 v., 4°, occasionally gives full names and somelimes indexes obituary notices which 14 THE LIBRARY JOURNAL. ■^W give full names. The Liste des membres de la Soc. Gfeographique contains about 2500 names, many in full. J. D . Whitney's Amer. authors in geology and palaeontology, in vol. 2 of the Har- vard bull., also as Bibliog. contribution no, 15, is very useful. The Amer., Brit., and French asso- ciations for the advancement of science publish lists giving the addresses, but not the full names of their members. Among general books Hoefer (2), Johnson (4), Oettinger (3), the Astor and Brit. Museum catalogues (5) are good. The catalogues of the Royal geographical society, i88z, 8°, and of the library of the Geological survey, Lond., 1878, give few full names. Scotch. 61. J. Irving's Book of eminent Scotsmen, Paisley, i88i. 12°. is the most convenient and probably the completest single work It gives nearly 3000 full names, including a few names of contemps. W. Anderson's Scottish nation, 1863, 3 v., and R. Chamber's Scotsmen, ed. by Thom- son, Edin. , 1881, 3 v., give but few additional names. Vol. 28, 1879, of the Transactions of the Royal soc. of Edin. has a list of members, giving addresses, but not full names. The calen- dais of the Scotch universities (13) also give addresses, and Laing (13) records grads. of Edin. before 1858. Scott's Fasti (71) is the best book for Scotch clergymen, though J. F. S. Gor- don's Scotichronicon, Lond., 1875, 2 v., is not without merit. J. Foster's Members of Parlia- ment, Scotland 1357—1882, [with some genealo- gies], Lond., 1882, gives many full names. The Catalogue of the advocates' library (5) is also useful. Among the books elsewhere enumer- ated which include Scotchmen are Kelly (54), the Scottish law list (33), and the Diet, of nat. biog. (23). Burke, Lodge, and Foster (47) include Scotch noblemen. Slavonic. [Excluding Russian^ treated in § 49.] 62. F. L. Rieger and J. J. Maly's Slovnik maucny, V Praze, 1860-73, 11 v., is the great Bohemian " Conversations-Lex.," and the best authority for the full names of all Slavonic au- thors except Russians. Maly's Strucny vseob- ecny slovink vecny, V Praze, 1874-81, an abridged encyclopedia, contains some names not in the larger book. Slovansky katalog bibliog. 1877-87, V. Praze, 1878-88, 11 v., is an annual catalogue, alphabetical and classified, of books in the Bohemian. Polish, Little Russian, Croatian, and Servian languages. It gives full names in many cases. Full names of many Slavonic au- thors are also given in the indexes of A. N. Pypin and V. D. Spasovic's Geschichte der slavischen Lit- teratur, Lpz., 1880- 83, 2 v., and of K. Tieftrunk's Historie literatury ceskfe, V Praze, 1880. Wurz- bach (8) includes many Slavs, and Larousse (4) will be occasionally useful, and De Gubernatis (15) is quite full in Slavonic biography. The Amer. cyclopaedia (4), also, has more than average completeness in this department. Spanish. 63. N. Antonio's BibliothecaHispaniavetus — nova, 1783-88, 4 v., f, is the most important book for early Spaniards, The first two vols, are a literary hist, of Spain, to 1500, with alphabet- ical index. The other two are a diet,, alphabeti- cal by forenames, with surname index, of Spanish authors from 1500 to 1684. The names are gen- erally full, and the forenames in Latin, though the vernacular also is frequently given. Compound surnames are indexed under both their parts. D. Hidalgo's Die. gen. de bibliog. espanola, 1862 -79, 6 v., takes little pains with full names. P. Salv& y Mallen's Catilogo de la biblioteca de Salvi, Valencia, 1872, 2 v., is somewhat better in this respect. B. J. Gallardo's Ensayo de una biblioteca espaiiola de libros raros y curiosos, 1862-66, 2v.,4°, A-G, is good as far as it goes. The province of Valencia is well provided for by J. Rodriguez's Biblioteca valentina, Valencia, 1747, f", V. Ximeno's Escritores del reino de Valencia, Valencia, 1747-49, 2 v., f°, and P. Fuster's Bibli- oteca valenciana, Valencia, 1827, f°. For Aragon there is F. de Latassa y Ortin's Biblioteca an- tigua — nueva — de los escritores aragoneses, Zaragora, Pamplona, 1796- 1802, 8 v., sm. 4°. But the best and most available source is J. L. Whitney's Catalogue of the Spanish books be- queathed by Ticknor to the Boston Public Li- brary, Bost.) 1879, which will answerthe purpose of general cataloguers in nearly every case. G. Ticknor's Hist, of Spanish literature, 1849, 3 v., has many names, but they are not as full as in the catalogue, and in the index to the earlier eds. compound names are entered under the second instead of the first part. In 1879 a new index was compiled, and changes were made in the names. The earlier vols, of Hoefer (2) notice many Spaniards. Swedish. [See also Daniihy Norwegian^ 64. The Biog. lex. ofver namnkunnige svenske mSn, 1843 - 76, 23 v., notices about 2000 Swedes of the period since the Reformation. It omits all royal persons. The names are full and ver- nacular, but they are in strict alphabetical order. Vol. 23, however, has an alphabetical index of names entered out of their alphabetical places. H. Linnstrom's Svenskt boklex., 1830-65, 1880- 87, 2 v., is very complete, and is admirable for the fulness of its names. The Nordisk familjebok [Conversations-Lex.], 1875-88, 9 V., A to O, is very full in biography, including contem- poraries, and gives full vernacular names, Technologicai,, [See also ScientiJU.'\ 65. General. Poggendorf (60) will be found useful, and the catalogues of the Brit. (1881), and U. S. (1878, supplement 1883) patent oflSces, which give some full names, the Brit, many more than the Amer., will occasionally assist. 66. American. The Amer. Inst, of Mining En- gineers, 1400 members, the Amer. Soc, of Civil Engineers, 1000 members, and the Amer. Soc, of Mechanical Engineers, goo members, publish an- nual membership lists giving p, o, addresses, but not full names. The U, S. Patent Gazette gives, as a rule, one forename and one initial. S. New- ton's Register of the corps of engineers, U. S. Army, 1802-1887, Wash,, 12°, gives full names in most cases and is very useful. THE LIBRARY JOURNAL. IS • 67. English. The Brit, journal of patents gives the full name of each patentee. The general in- dex, coming down to 1853, and the annual suppl. indexes to 1871, give full names ; since 1871 the indexes give initials only. The annual list of members of the Statistical Soc. gives the names of about looo members, nearly all in full, and the list of members of the Inst, of Civil Engineers gives the full names of 5000 members. 68. French. C. F. Marielle's Repertoire de I'fecole polytechnique, 1855, continued to 1863 by L. Leprieur, 1867, gives the full names of many graduates of that institution. F. P. H. Tarbfe de Saint Harduin's Les ing6nieurs des ponts et chaus6es.i 71 6 - 1 884, Paris, 1 884, gives full names, but notices only about 400 of the men who have occupiedthe higher positions. The Annuaire de la soc. des inggnieurs civils gives many full names. Theological and Ecclesiastical. 69. General, Prior to 800 A.D. the field is well covered by W. Smith's Diet, of the Bible, 1860- 63, 3 v., and the Diet, of Christ. Biog. ed. by Smith and Wace, 1877-87, 4 v. The Diet, of the Bible commonly gives the accepted English form of names, the Diet, of Christ. Biog. sometimes enters, in place of the vernacular form, under such modified form as is naturalized in Engl., giving the more correct form immediately after and referring from it. It is much more complete for its period then any other book. J. Darling's Cyclopaedia bibliog., Lond., 1854, 2 v., 8°, is largely devoted to theol., mainly to Engl, theol., and gives many full names. The "Schaff-Her- zog" Cyclopaedia of religious knowledge, N. Y., 1882-85, 3 v., contains some 3500 names of de- ceased persons, including biblical notices. The names, for the most part, are full, but the south- European names are not always vernacular. S. M. Jackson's Encyclopaedia of living divines, N.Y., 1887, a supplement to Schaff-Herzog, gives the full vernacular names of 1448 living clergy- men of all nationalities and denominations. J . McClintock and J. Strong's Cyclopaedia of bibli- cal literature, N.Y.,[i867-8i], 10 v., is completer in biography than SchaS-Herzog, and commonly gives full names in the vernacular. R. Ceillier's Hist. g6nl. des auteurs sacrgs et eccl., 1858-69, 15 v., coming down to the middle of the I3tli century, contains a vast no. of notices and is well indexed, but it is of little use to the average cat- aloguer, 9 J. H. Wetzer and B. Welte's Kirchen- Lex. der katholischen Theol. und ihrer Hiilfs- wiss., Freiburg im Breisgau, 1847-60, 13 v., also an enlarged 4^rench ed. under title of Diet, ency- clopMiquede la theol.catholique, 1858-65, 25 V., are quite complete in biography, especially for Roman Catholics. Neither ed. gives vernacular names in all cases. Similar in plan but written by Protestants is the EncyklopSdie fiir die prot. Theol. und Kirche, herausg. von J. J. Herzog, G, L, Plitt u, a., 1877-86, 17 v., on which the SchaS-Herzog Cyclopaedia is founded. It aims to be particularly complete in biog. of recent continental theologians, especially Protestants. G. Moroni's Diz. di erudizioni storico-eccl. da s. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni; Venezia, 1840-79, 109 v., may be of value occasionally, especially 1p7 Roman Catliolics, Among the most impor- tant denominational books are J. Smith's Cata- logue of Friends' books. Lend., 1867, 2 v., and his Bibliotheca anti-Quakeriana, Lond., 1873, which give many full names. G. B. Gams's Series episcoporum ecclesiae catholicae quotquot inno- tuerunt a beato Petro apostolo [usque ad annum MDCCCLXXXV.], Regensburg, 1873, and suppl., 1886, 4", which gives full Latin names, and A. de Backer's Bibliothfeque de la compagnie de J6sus, Lifege, 1869-76, 3 v., f°, which gives names quite fully, but frequently translates forenames into French. ' 70. American. W. B. Sprague's Annals of the Amer. pulpit, newed., 1865-73, 11 v., is the best comprehensive work for Amer. clergymen. It is arranged by denominations and does not always give full names. The various denominational year-books give the names, not full, and the ad- dresses of their living clergymen ; the Unitarian year-book, however, gives full names. Among the catalogues of theol. seminaries which give names in full are Andover, Congregational, Au- burn, Presbyterian, Newtort, Baptist, Gen. Theol. Seminary at New York, Protestant Episcopal, Princeton, Presbyterian, Rochester, Baptist, Union Theol., Presbyterian, Theol. Institute of Conn., at Hartford, Congregational. Among the college catalogues (12) which include most clergymen are : Amherst, Presbyterian, Brown , Baptist, Colby, Baptist, Harvard, Unitarian, Princeton, Presbyterian, Trinity, Protestant Episcopal, Wesleyan, Methodist Episcopal, Will- iams, largely Congregational, and Yale, Con- gregational. The Schaff-Herzog Cyclopsedia (6g), the Jackson supplement (69), and McClintock and Strong (69) notice many Amer. clergymen. Cathcart's Baptist encyclopaedia, Phil., 1881, in- cludes biog. notices of Amer. and foreign Bap- tists. About half the names are full and means of determining the others are often afforded. ~ 71. English. Crockford's Clerical directory, contains about 30,000 names of clergymen of the Church of England resident in Great Brit, and the Colonies. The names are full, with a few colonial exceptions. J. Le Nive's Fasti eccl. Anglicanae, Oxf., 1854, 3 v., gives a complete list, with full names, of all eccl. dignitaries of England from prebendaries up, and is complete to the date of publication, A corresponding work for the Irish church is H.Cotton's Fasti eccl. Hiber- nicae, Dublin, 1845-60, 5 v.. and for Scotland H. Scott's Fasti eccl. Scoticanae, Edinburgh, 1867- 71, 5 v., 4°, which gives the succession of ministers in the parish churches of Scotland from the Ref- ormation to the date of publication. J. Gillow's Bibliog. diet, of Engl. Catholics, 1534 to present time, N. Y., 1885-88, to be in 5 v., is of great value for full names. 72. French. Eugene and Emile Haag's La France protestante, 1846 - 59, 10 v., of which an enlarged ed. is now coming out, attempts to give the full names of all important French Prot- estants since the beginning of the i6th century. La France eccl., almanach-annuaire du clergfe, le", is sometimes useful, especially for finding the surnames of French bishops. The last (13th) vol. of F. Lichtenberger's Encyclop6die des sciences religieuses, 1882, contains a useful Diet, des con- temps. It Is sold separritely. ' The French edi I« THE LIBRAE Y JO URNAL, of Wetzer and Welte (69) also gives many French names. 73. German, J. M. H. Doering's Gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands im 18. und 19. Jahrh. , Neustadt, 1831 - 35, 4 v„ and its companion vol., his Die deutschen Kanzelredner des 18. u. 19. Jahrh., Neustadt, 1830, both give full names and are very useful. Many German theologians are also noticed in Herzog's EncyklopSdie (69), and in the German ed. of Wetzer and Welte (69). Transliteratio n. 74. C. A. Cutter's Rules, p. 23, give brief di- rections for the transliteration of names from languages which do not use the Roman alphabet. The new edition reprints the more elaborate rules given by the A. L. A. transliteration com- mittee in the Library journal, vol. x., p. 302. The preface of Thomas (i) advocates a differ- ent method. Further references will be found in each of these places. Perhaps as good a re- sult will be attained by following implicitly some good authority, ^.^., the Brit. Museum catalogue of printed books (5), as in any other way. Frenchmen and Germans have systems peculiar to their languages. These must be taken into account in dealiflg with names which they trans- literate. Vernacular. 75, Many books, otherwise excellent, fail to give forenames in their vernacular form. In favor of translating such names into the language spoken by their owners it may be urged that the unvernacular name is invariably wrong, and the chances are that translation will diminish rather than increase the sum of the errors. For the purposes of translation the most complete book is Michaelis's WSrterbuch der Taufnamen, Berl., 1856. In spite of its aggravating transposition of the alphabet it is very useful. Graesse's Unsere Vor- und Taufnamen, Dresden, 1875, though not so full as Michaelis's, is reliable, and more convenient. Webster's Diet, (i) also con- tains a list of the commonest names, giving their forms in the more familiar languages, and Thom- as (i) a somewhat completer list. These are preferable to the German boolcs in that they alphabetize under the English rather than the Gernian form of the forename, but they are much~less complete both in the no. of names treated and the no. of languages through which the forms are pursued. Many lexicons, also, in- clude a supplement giving the equivalents of Eng- lish proper names in the other language which the lexicon contains.