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CURIOUS CATALOGUING.


 Queer Errors Which Librarians Make.
 "He;ne's scngs' and "Hen's Lays"
 The whole world has heard by this time of the BUstonian's claim to hays seen book catalogue containing this entry;
 .F3scuyi US. Pros,ethe,ls (uubound) Which, he adds, is quite as good in its ways ;ls the entries, Mil oa the Floss
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 and the excerpt from the catalogue Of a country library:
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 The French binders error in label ing two volumes of Uncle Toms Cabin, ''L'Oncle, Tome l." and "LOncle Tome II, is also historical, but hardly more deservedly so than that of the c3talogucr wtO entered "ueine's Songs" as ''Hens Lays"
 Celebrated Criminals Bound in Morocco" appears to indicate that a just retribution has overtaisen a body of nefarious persons among whom ii would be a pleasure to number the printer who caused the types to make mention of Professor Beers Thank less Muse as the 'The Thankless Nurse"
 French Cathedrals, by Wrinkles, , is possibly a correct entry, but "by Wrinkles" sounds unpleasantly like substitute for profanity.
 We can appreciate the feelings of the catalAguer who wrote One Hua- dred and Fifty Choice Masterpieces" and failed to observe in reading his proofs that it had been set up as One Hundred and Fifty Choice Mantel- pieces.
 Poems by Chaucer very scarce" states an undoubied fact; but when set of Sterne is entered as having the authors signature in nine volumes" to enhance its value one is disposed to suspect that some one has been imposed Upon.
 There is a perfect Daniel come 10 judgment in the north of England lis entry of Brough's ''Falstalf'' illus trated by Cruikshank, as "Cruik- shank's Falstaff,' written up by Trough, is eminently just.
 The author of "50 Salads" would be glad to see the volume referred to as ''57l Paines, even though 1t should turn out that the works of Paine were numbered 511 in the catalogue, and were given a companiOnab!e sound by the oversight of the proof reader and the cussedness of the typesetter.
 It is easy to picture the consterna- ton of the librarian who found under the classification of Works on the French Capital the volume Parish Register of Kirkbarton County, York an error which finds it's parallel in the entry of Paul and Virginia" under Americana as Virginia Q2aul and) :" nor can we exclude here the classif- cation of ''Horati Flacci Opera" under operatic works. .Thc propriaties were certainly observed when, as we learn from a recent catalogue, life of Peter the Great was bound in Russia, which certainly cannot be said of the binding of "Burton's Anatomy of the Melancholy" in full Salmon Mo rocco"
 One cannot but reflect that the au- thor would be very angry were he to see his work alluded to as "Fleming's Rabies, " nor can it be gainsaid that the probably mythical error. "Bing Ham sandwich Islands, fopL L.sspI2iillaAasEass. spI2i Sandwich Islands would have pIuiig ed its author into a gulf of dark de spair.
 Another probably mythical SID is the entry of Miciaelis' ''Ancient Mar bles' under the head of sport; but .Ide Emperor Napoleon slightly soiled'' $ bona lide.
 The Manual Of Chirosophy, wei thumbed," " "Cowes, in haIf calf, aid Jack Sheppard, with gilt edges, ars mistakes heard of but not seen; but the allusion to Mrs. Bceton's Cook Book, extra illustrated with iine, plates, is in existence.-J. K. Bangs in Harper's Weekly.