The title "The Iron Cardinal" must be so given, and not as "The iron cardinal," although it may be a fanciful title made use of by this author alone.
Gladstone, William Ewart:
Ap John, L. Gladstone: his life and times.
1887
In arranging the order it is the correct and better plan to put the books by a person before those upon him, and it is an advantage to print the latter in smaller type. The books in the extract from the Manchester catalogue given on pages [11] and [12] would be better arranged in this order:—
Gladstone (W. E.) Gleanings of past years.
— Homer.
— Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture.
Biography of, by Russell.
Biography of, by Smith.
Character of.
Essay on, by Brown.
This meagre, telegraphese style of catalogue can never be satisfactory, so it is not surprising to learn that Mr. C. W. Sutton, the Manchester Librarian, has superseded it by the classified form.
Ireland:
History.
O'Grady, S. The story of Ireland. 1894
Scotland:
Natural History, &c.
St. John, C. Wild sports and natural history
of the Highlands. 1893
Highlands, Scottish. See Scotland.
There is no occasion to give a title-entry for any of these books as they are adequately catalogued as shown. It may be assumed that any person who wants them will remember either the authors' names or the subjects. To give entries under "Stories," "Iron Cardinal," "Story of Ireland," "Short sketches," would be both futile and wasteful.
In the classified catalogue the main-entries given above would be numbered and arranged, the book on songs, 821.04 (English Literature—Poetry—Lyric, Ballads), Richelieu as 923.2 (Biography of Sociology—Statesmen)—rather than 922.2 (Biography of Religion—Cardinals)—and the Gladstone would be the same number, 923.2. It is a convenience in the case of biographies in a classified catalogue to lead off with, and arrange by, the name of the subject of the biography, in which case the entries are changed to this form:—
923.2 Biography of Sociology—Statesmen.
Gladstone, William Ewart: his life and times,
by Lewis Ap John. pp. 329, port. 1887
Richelieu, Cardinal. The Iron Cardinal, by
Joseph McCabe. pp. xii., 389, ports.
1909
It is still more convenient to throw all the works of biography into a single alphabet of the names of the subjects without any sub-division. This enables the consulter of the catalogue to find a biography without having to stop and consider whether the person was a cardinal or a statesman.