Do not write Mrs. Judge Smith, or Mrs. Dr. Jones.
Use the indefinite article, as Frank Smith, a plumber; William Jones, a barber. Use the definite article in naming persons of distinction, as William Dean Howells, the writer; Sarah Bernhardt, the actress.
The surname is written first among the Chinese. Sun Yat Sen is Dr. Sun. Li Hung Chang is Mr. Li. Chinese is a monosyllabic language and all names should be written with each syllable capitalized, but hyphens are used with geographical names, as, Yang-Tse-Kiang, Ho-Hang-Ho, except Pekin, Nankin, Shanghai, Hankow and Canton. Drop unnecessary letters in Chinese names whenever possible, as Pekin(g), Yuan Shi(h) Kai, Ho(w)-Hang-Ho.
Write a man's name as he writes it. It is not A. H. Frazer; it is not Allan Frazer; but Allan H. Frazer. It is not F. H. Croul or Frank Croul, but Frank H. Croul.
It is the King of the Belgians, not the King of Belgium.
Writing of a knight, be sure that you use his first name with the title Sir. He is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, not Sir Conan Doyle. Never write Sir Doyle. The wife of a knight, however, is addressed as Lady Blank, not necessarily Lady Mary Blank.
JEW AND HEBREW
The proper use of the words "Hebrew" and "Jew" has been explained by the American Jewish Committee, as follows: "Although no hard and fast rules can be laid down, the word 'Hebrew' has come to have a purely racial connotation. It refers to a race and to the language of that race. Thus we hear of a 'Hebrew Christian,' meaning a person of Hebrew descent who has been raised in or adopted the Christian religion. The word 'Jew,' although often used for denoting a member of the Hebrew race without reference to religion or nationality, has come, in the best usage, to have two restricted meanings—a national and a religious meaning. It used to mean a person who was a subject of the Kingdom of Judah, in the southern part of Palestine, and later it was also applied to those who were subjects of the northern Kingdom of Israel. Under Roman domination Palestine was called 'Judea' and its inhabitants 'Jews.' The word Jew has the same sense now among those who believe that the dispersion of the Jewish people and the fact that they possess no territory of their own has not deprived them of their character as a nation or nationality. The other meaning of 'Jew' is any one who professes the religious principles laid down in the Old Testament as interpreted in the Talmud. Thus, a Gentile who adopts the Jewish faith may be called a Jew, but may not be called a Hebrew, because he does not descend from that sub-class of the Semitic race from which the Hebrews are reputed to come. Up to the last quarter of the nineteenth century the Jews rarely applied the term 'Jew' to themselves, as it was used as a term of opprobrium and as a contemptuous epithet. The Jews preferred to call themselves 'Hebrews' or 'Israelites.' Since about 1880, however, the Jewish people have come to adopt this name more and more generally, and it has begun to lose its derogatory meaning. The word 'Jew' is always a noun, and its use as an adjective in such cases as 'Jew boy' and 'Jew peddler,' etc., is as ungrammatical as it is vulgar."
Don't use Jew as a verb, as, I jewed him down to a dollar.