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114. A civil action is to be entered under that party to it who is first named on the title-page, with a reference from the other.
In Short (and in Medium and Full, if the report is anonymous) this will be the only entry,—unless the case illustrates some subject, in which case entry or reference under that will be needed. Patent cases furnish the most common examples of subject-entry {57} of trials, but everyone will remember trials in which points of ecclesiastical law, of medical jurisprudence, etc., have been so fully discussed as to compel reference from those subjects.
115. Enter “Review of,” “Remarks on,” “Comments on” under the author reviewed (as a combined subject and subject-word entry), and, if worth while, under the subject of the book reviewed.
116. The distinction between Bibliography and Literary history is, with reference to the books on those subjects, a distinction of more or less; the two classes of books run into each other and it is hard to draw the line between them.
117. Any theological library will probably contain books which treat—
- (1) of the four last things, death, judgment, heaven, and hell.
- (2) of the nature of the life after death, a much more extensive question than (1).
- (3) whether there is any future life, without regard to its nature.
- (4) of the retribution after death for the good and for the evil deeds done in this life.
- (5) whether there is any retribution for evil in a future life.
- (6) what is its nature.
- (7) how long does it last.
Here are seven questions on nearly the same subject-matter, and there are six names for them. (It will be found, by the way, that although there are some books treating of each separately, many of the works overlap as the subjects do, and that the titles are no guide whatever to the contents of the books.) Two main courses are open to the cataloguer:
1st. To make one heading, as Future life, cover the whole, with subdivisions. In this way the catalogue becomes classed to a certain extent. No matter, if that is on the whole the more convenient arrangement;
2d. More consistently, to make four headings: Eschatology (covering the 1st question, four last things, with references to each of them), Future life (its nature, including retribution both for good and evil, 2d and 4th questions), Future punishment (existence, nature, duration, and so including universalism, with references to Purgatory and Hell, covering the 5th, 6th, and 7th questions), Immortality (is there any? 3d question).