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258 secondly ascribed them to one year, especially when it appeared more convenient to characterize several works in common than to consider the content and worth of each separately. Under the first classification they are numbered continuously, while afterwards, when they are mentioned according to the year of publication, only the name of the author is given and a further reference is made to the former numerals. In order to make such a reference intelligible, information is given with the first number as to how far it extends, e.g., "241-291: Reinhold," whereupon "241) Reinhold, C. L.: Letters, etc." begins the series as R.'s earliest work. In the case of such works, mentioned under another year than that of their appearance, the order of bibliographical data is as follows: Size of volume; place of publication; year; publisher; number of pages (Arabic numerals indicate the pages of the text, Latin numerals those of the preface, which could not always be ascertained). In the case of works cited according to the year of their publication, the date is always omitted from 1784 on. Instead of this, it is placed first on a separate line and under it the writings of that year are chronologically arranged. Anonymous writings are cited by the first substantive of the title as catch-word, the place of the latter being then indicated by a dash, e.g., B: No. 310) "On the Axioms, by ... rn " is cited thus: "Axioms, On the —, by ... rn." Exception is made, when several works of one author, belonging to different years, are mentioned in one place. Then, in the case of anonymous writings, the name of the author precedes, enclosed in brackets, the title following with its original wording.

My remarks on the content and worth of the works will naturally vary in length. The content of minor writings, themselves valueless and insignificant, I have often given more in detail than would appear necessary, in order – at least in many cases – to make a future reading of them unnecessary. While in the case of whole systems (e.g., Moral Philosophy, Logic) I have most often indicated only briefly the writer's point of view. Had I attempted to do such systems even partial justice, at least three times as much space would have