s or
descriptive works of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, followed in
each county by a list of town histories or topographical works. The
arrangement under each town is chronological. Its only want is a
collation of the books. British genealogy, or the history of families, is
treated bibliographically in G. W. Marshall's "The Genealogist's Guide,"
London, 1893, which gives an alphabet of family names, with references in
great detail to county and town histories, pedigrees, heralds'
visitations, genealogies, etc., all over Great Britain, in which any
family is treated.

The wide field of foreign bibliography, by countries, cannot here be
entered upon, nor can I now treat of the still more extensive range of
works devoted to the bibliography of various subjects.

INDEX.

Access to shelves, 215-225
Accuracy, rarity of, 254-257
Adams (O. F.) Dictionary of American authors, 490
Adams (W. H. D.) Dictionary of English literature, 499
Administration, faculty of, 249
Advertising, library, 353-356
Aids to readers, 190-214
Alexandrian library, 107, 289
Allibone (S. A.) Critical dictionary of English literature, 494-495
Alphabeting titles, 380, 388-389
American book prices, current, 1895-99, 498
American catalogue, 1876-1899, 481-484
American Library Association
catalogue of 5,000 books, 25, 371
foundation of, 499
list of novelists, 22
on open shelves, 223
on size-notation, 390
Americana,
bibliographies of, 472-493
rare, 454-456
what are, 473
Anderson (J. P.) book of British topography, 500
Arabic figures, 81
Art of reading, 171-189
Art, lesson from, 24
Assistants in libraries
appointment of, 337-339
qualifications of, 242-274
regulations for, 341-345
Astor library, N. Y., 35, 306
mutilation in, 137, 140
Auction sales, 38-40, 45-47, 457
Authorship, 271-2

Bad books, 20-24, 281-2
Bartlett (J. R.) catalogue of J. Carter Brown library, 493
Bay Psalm book, 455
Beckford library sale, 74, 457-8
Beecher (H. W.) on books, 15
Bibliography, 459-500
accessibility of, 463-464
bibliographies of, 469-471
classification of, 464-5
definition of, 459
earliest American, 478
early works in, 465
no full American, 475
of American publications,