4. To lay out courses of reading for that numerous class who are desirous of “improving their minds,” and are willing to spend considerable effort and time but know neither where to begin or how to go on.
5. To state what is the practice of the catalogue in the entry of the publications of Congress, Parliament, Academies, Societies, etc., the notes to be made under those words.
F. REFERENCES.
202. In references use the word See when there is no entry under the heading from which the reference is made; See also when there is one.
Ex.
Death penalty. See Capital punishment.
Horticulture. LINDLEY, J. Theory of H.
See also Flowers;—Fruit.
Not Vide; the language of an English catalogue should be English.
203. References must be brief.
Yet the convenience of the public must not be sacrificed to brevity. If, for instance, several authors had used the same pseudonym, the titles of their respective works should be given in the references that the reader may know under which of the authors he will find the work he is in search of, and not have to turn to all three.