=Scotland=: _Natural History, &c._ St. John, C. Wild sports and natural history of the Highlands. 1893
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.
The story of Ireland is 941.5 (History--Ireland), it being a general history, and not one upon a particular period. The book on the Highlands deals with the fish, birds, and animals, and is therefore allocated to 591.941 (Science--Zoology--Geographical Distribution--Scotland).
Fitz-Gerald, S. J. A. Famous songs. 821.04 Songs and Ballads (Literature) 821.04 McCabe, J. Iron Cardinal (Richelieu) 923.2 Richelieu, Cardinal, 923.2 Ap John, L. Gladstone, 923.2 Gladstone, William E. (biographies) 923.2 O'Grady, S. Story of Ireland, 941.5 Ireland (History), 941.5 St. John, C. Wild sports of the Highlands, 591.941 Scotland (Zoology), 591.941 Highlands, Scottish (Zoology), 591.941
Other prefixes, mostly of foreign origin, as De, De la, Le, Van, become the entry-word when attached to British surnames, as in the following examples:--