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Excerpt from Appletons' Library Manual: Containing a Catalogue Raisonné of Upwards of Twelve Thousand of the Most Important Works in Every Department of Knowledge in All Modern Languages; Part I. Subjects Alphabetically Arranged; Part II. Biography, Classics, Miscellanies, and Index to Part I Tm: object of the Publishers of the following pages has been to present, in a collected form, indications of the most important works in every department of literature, arranged in such manner as admits of the most easy reference. Part 1. Consists of subjects, alphabetically arranged, with the exception df Mathematics, Medicine, and Theology; all the subjects of these divisions are collected under those general heads, in preference to scattering them through the body of the work. Part II. Comprises Select Biography, Classics, Collected Works, and an Index of Authors whose works appear in Part I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.