"I have gone little further than an attempt to trace back our names to their original forms, to clear them from the incrustations of time, and to place each, however misleading in appearance to-day, in its own particular class." Introduction.

"Will always remain a monument of industry and good judgment. He has not only brought together a mass of material and placed it within convenient reach of the student, but his discussion of it is in the main very trustworthy. There must, in the nature of the case, be plenty of doubtful matter in such a volume." Nation, 74:19.

Mackey, Mary Stuart and M. G. Pronunciation of 10000 proper names, giving famous geographical and biographical names, names of books, works of art, characters in fiction, foreign titles, etc. N. Y. Dodd, 1901. 294 p. S. $1.

929.4

A convenient volume for ascertaining pronunciation of proper names which it is so often difficult to find elsewhere; for example, Houyhnhnms.

Swan, Helena. Girls' Christian names; their history, meaning and associations. N. Y. Dutton, Lond. Sonnenschein, 1900. 516 p. S. $1.50. 929.4

Alphabetic arrangement. Poetical selections in reference to each name are given.

Wagner, Leopold. Names and their meaning; a book for the curious. New and rev. ed. N. Y. Putnam, Lond. Unwin, 1892. 330 p. D. $1.50. 422 Contents: The countries of the world; the months and days of the week; creeds, sects, and denominations; tavern signs; royal surnames; national nicknames; birds; religious orders; paper and printing; political nicknames; flowers; the Bible; wines; literary sobriquets; countries of England and Wales; carriages; dances; pigments and dyes; London districts and suburbs; battles; notable days and festivals; textiles, embroideries and lace; literary pseudonyms; counterfeit presentments; London inns and gardens; sobriquets and nicknames; the inns of court; races; London churches and buildings; class names and nicknames; malt liquors; diamonds and precious stones; naval and military sobriquets; money; spirits; London streets and squares. Alphabetic index.

The significance of names. N. Y. Whittaker, 1893. 287 p. D. $1.75.

422

Nicknames of American states and people; things theatrical; titles of honor; the senate; firearms and projectiles; matrimony; schools of philosophy; articles of attire; counties and their subdivisions; insects; education; the sea; music; cordials and beverages; printing types; fishes; lawyers and courts of law; quadrupeds; trees, plants, herbs and barks; poets and poetry; weapons of steel; the church; pet names of American cities; fruits and vegetables; the army.

Yonge, Charlotte Mary. History of Christian names. New ed. rev. Lond. Macmillan, 1884. 476 p. D. $2.50. 929.4

Contains a glossary of Christian names, pref. p. 19143, which gives the meaning of the names and from what language derived and refers to the part in the body of the book where a fuller description will be found.

FLAGS

U. S. Bureau of equipment, Dept. of the navy. Flags of maritime nations, prepared by the Bureau of equipment. Wash. 1899. 7 p. 67 pl. Q. o. p. 929.9

Excellent colored designs of flags, the United States flags first, then other states arranged alphabetically. Also pilot flags. When the coat of arms of a nation appears in the flag, an enlarged reproduction is given.

Among other important books, not strictly reference, but which should be in the reference department, are:

of the United States of America, and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations. 3d ed. Bost. Osgood, 1882 [c 80] 808 p. il. pl. O. $5. 929.9 Illustrations of state seals, arms, flags, and colors, with a few colored plates of flags. A subject index and an index of names. The most comprehensive work on the United States flag.

Harrison, Peleg Dennis. The stars and stripes and other American flags. Bost. Little, 1906. 419 p. pl. O. $3. 929.9 Gives the origin and history of our flags. There are pictures of only eight flags.

Griffin, James. Flags, national and mercantile, for the use of officers of royal navy, mercantile marine and yacht squadron. 3d ed. enl. Portsmouth, Eng. Griffin, 1903. 35 p. 48 pl. O. $3.

929.9

Colored plates of 957 house flags and funnels of the principal ships of the mercantile marine, and 120 national flags and signals. Alphabetic index.

To be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C.

An index to portraits contained in printed books and periodicals. The work includes entries of about 120000 portraits of thirty-five to forty-five thousand Dates of persons. There are 1216 volumes indexed. birth and death and characterizations of the persons whose portraits are indexed are given.

Samuel, Bunford. Index to American portraits. (In Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, 25: 47-70, 228-247, 384-399)

"This index is a selection only from one of a general nature in manuscript covering portraits of all nations. On account of space, even the American ones are selected, and comprise the period from 1732 to 1852." Magazines and books are indexed.

BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chevalier, Ulysse, l'abbé. Répertoire des sources historiques du moyen âge; biobibliographique. Nouv. éd. refondue, corr. et augm. Paris, Picard, 1905. v. 1, Q. 90 fr.

v. 1, A-I.

016.92

Elliott, Agnes M. Contemporary biography; references to books and magazine articles on prominent men and women of the time. Pittsburgh, Carnegie library, 1903. 016.92 171 p. O. 25 cts.

Brief notes are given to explain the character of the articles. Classified list.

Oettinger, Édouard Marie. Bibliographie biographique universelle; dictionnaire des ouvrages relatifs à l'histoire de la vie publique et privée des personnages célèbres des tous les temps et de toutes les nations. Bruxelles, Stienon, 1854. 2v. O. 20 fr. 016.92

Under the names of celebrated persons is given a list of important works relating to their lives.

Second et dernier supplément.

Roux, 1905. 758 col. O.

016.92

Rome,

016.92

Indexes books, parts of books, periodical articles, portraits; gives dates of birth and death.

Bibliographies of individuals are too numerous to be given here. Among examples may be mentioned the sections of the British museum catalogue relating to individuals, The Dante e. g. Shakespeare, Dante, etc. catalogue of the Cornell university library is an elaborate bibliography published in two quarto volumes.

A series of bibliographies published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. includes thus far the following useful volumes: Bibliography of Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Nina E. Browne (1905), of James Russell Lowell, by George W. Cooke (1906), of Oliver Wendell Holmes, by George B. Ives (1907), and of Ralph Waldo Emerson, by George W. Cooke (1908)

The bibliographies appended to the volumes of the Great writers series are excellent for the authors included.

GEOGRAPHY

GENERAL GAZETTEERS Lippincott's new gazetteer; a complete pronouncing gazetteer or geographical dictionary of the world, containing the most recent and authentic information respecting the countries, cities, towns, resorts, islands, rivers, mountains, seas, lakes, etc. in every portion of the globe; ed. by Angelo Heilprin and Louis Heilprin. Phil. Lippincott, 1906. 2053 p. Q. $10 sh. 910.3

First published in 1855. This edition is printed from new type, the text being thoroughly revised.

The most comprehensive American work of its kind, alphabetically arranged, giving description and information of places, with pronunciation and various spellings of names.

Chisholm, George Goudie. Longmans' Gazetteer of the world. New impression 1788 p. (1899) Lond. Longmans, 1902. Q. 18s.

910.3

Knox, Alexander. Glossary of geographical and topographical terms and of words of frequent occurrence in the composition of such terms and of place-names. Lond. Stanford, 1904. 432 p. D. (Stanford's compendium of geography and travel, supplementary vol.) 15s. 910

"Glossary is arranged so that after the geographical or topographical term follows the language or dialect to which it belongs or the locality where it is used, or the name of the tribe in whose vocabulary it is found."

Taylor, Isaac. Names and their histories; alphabetically arranged as a handbook of historical, geographical and topographical nomenclature. Lond. Rivington, N. Y. Macmillan, 1896. 392 p. D. 6s. 910

"Object is to give an account of certain names, especially those of philological interest or geographical importance whose origin or etymology has been ascertained." Preface.

* Continued annually.

Contains large scale maps of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, West Indies, and Cuba, showing in detail the railroad systems, with an index giving the population of places, the express company doing business over each road, and locating all islands, lakes, rivers, etc.; locates branch railroads upon which each station is situated, the nearest mailing point of all local places, etc.

Cram's atlas of the world, ancient and modern. Rev. ed. N. Y. Cram, 1907 [c 1908] 856 p. il. maps, F. $12.50. 912

Cram's standard American railway system atlas of the world. N. Y. Cram, 1908. maps, F4 912

Cram's quick reference atlas and gazetteer of the world; ed. by Eugene Murray-Aaron. N. Y. Cram [c 1907] maps, S.

A good small desk atlas.

* Continued annually.

$1.

912

Johnston, Alexander Keith. Royal atlas of modern geography. With additions and corrections to the present date by G. H. Johnston. With a special index to each map. New ed. Edin. and Lond. Johnston, 1905. 184 p. 56 fold. maps, F3. £6 6s. 912 Stanford's London atlas of universal geography, exhibiting the physical and political divisions of the various countries of the world. 3d ed. rev. and enl. Lond. Stanford, 1904. F5. £12.

First edition published 1887.

912

Poole, Reginald Lane. Historical atlas of modern Europe, from the decline of the Roman empire, comprising also maps of parts of Asia and of the New World connected with European history. Ox. Clarendon press, 1896-1902. 30 pts. in 1 v. 90 $35.25. maps, F. 911 Each map is accompanied by explanatory text. Its special feature is a series of 17 maps illustrating the historical geography of the British Isles.

"The characteristics of the English Atlas, in short, are very notably clearness and fullness, the maps are fortunately of a size not to need folding, and each is preceded by an explanatory note giving authorities, with a running commentary which to the advanced student will prove often of more importance than the