To further illustrate this point it may be said that a book like
Brewer, J. S.
The reign of Henry VIII. 2 v. 8o. 1884
is better treated in the reverse way and entered under the name of the monarch, in common with other books of a strictly historical nature dealing with a particular reign. In the first case the book is thought to be more usefully catalogued as a contribution to the larger subject of “English literature,” and in the second the book is looked upon as being more particularly concerned with Henry VIII. than with “English history”—hence the difference in the treatment. In this last instance the safe-guarding cross-reference is
English History.
For the histories of particular reigns see under the names of monarchs, as Charles I., Henry VIII., Victoria.
92.—The following group is given (in brief form) in order to show the difference of treatment of books apparently alike in subject:
Farrar, F. W., Dean (Ed.) With the poets.
James, Henry. French poets and novelists.
Johnson, Samuel. Lives of the English poets.