musical compositions, etc.
In long titles nouns and pronouns are capitalized always; verbs,
participles, and adverbs usually; articles, prepositions and
conjunctions never.
_Standard Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases_, _Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures_, _Lincoln's Gettysburg Address_,
_Paradise Lost_, _Measure for Measure_, _A New Way to Pay Old
Debts_, _The Coronation of Charles VII at Rheims_, _the Moonlight
Sonata_.
The word "the" is capitalized when it forms an actual part of the title
of a book but not otherwise.
_The Printer's Dictionary_. _The Life and Times of Charles V._ _the
Review of Reviews_, _the Laacoon_, _the Fifth Symphony_.
32. Dedications; headings of parts and chapters; headings of many
important minor parts of a book.
_To All Who Love Good Printing._
_Chapter Twenty-Seven._
_Part Three._
_The Invention of Movable Types._
_The Practical Value of Gutenberg's Invention._
(These last as sections of a book on the origin of printing).
33. In foreign languages the usage is somewhat different. The following
rules will be found useful:
a. Always capitalize the first word.
b. In Latin capitalize only proper nouns and adjectives derived
therefrom.
_Commentarii Caesaris de bello Gallico._
c. In French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Norwegian, capitalize
proper names but not adjectives derived therefrom.
_La vie de Ronsard_; _Histoire de la litterature francaise_,
_Novelle e racconti popolari italiani_, _Antologia de poetas liricos
castellanos_.
d. In German capitalize all nouns and all adjectives derived from the
names of persons but not those derived from other proper nouns.
_Geschichte des deutsches Reich_
_Die Homerische Frage_.
e. In Danish capitalize all nouns.
f. In Dutch capitalize all nouns and all adjectives derived from proper
nouns.
34. Titles of ancient manuscripts.
_Codex Alexandrinus._
35. In titles of books, etc. all nouns forming parts of hyphenated
compounds should be capitalized.
36. In side heads capitalize the first word and proper nouns only.
37. Personal titles as follows:
a. Titles preceding a name and so forming part of it.
_King George V._
_Pope Benedict XV._
_Duke William of Aquitaine._
But not otherwise.
_Woodrow Wilson_, _president of the United States_, _the emperor of
Germany_, _the present king of Spa
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