[24] This point weakens Lord Mahon's arguments, because the same objection would apply to all the books with authors' names.

[25] I had the privilege of talking over these rules with Mr. Bradshaw for many consecutive days, when I inspected the University Library in 1878.

[26] For useful notes on short titles and booksellers' catalogues, Mr. Charles F. Blackburn's amusing Hints on Catalogue Titles and on Index Entries (1884) may be consulted.

[27] The names of places as they appear in a Latin form are frequently much disguised. A list of some of the most common of these names will be found in the Appendix.

[28] It was this practice which confused a correspondent of the Athenæum, who published his discovery that the first folio of Shakespeare was not a folio at all.

[29] Always use the word see in preference to vide.

[30] This expression is often used, although it can scarcely be considered as English.

[31] See his answer to question 9892, Minutes of Evidence, Commission 1849.

[32] Was it not Christopher North's Shepherd who said, "Open a school and call it an academy"?

[33] Monthly Notices, No. 2.