In this case I found her biography sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea fishes.
In his early days he had devoted himself with fond enthusiasm to the agreeable study of biology, and a brief monograph on the Embryology of the Microscopic Holothuria had formed his first contribution to the belles lettres.
So for instance, if I write a little monograph on my view of the world, you read it asynchronously at some point and you're like, wow, Peter, this is great.
However, if you care to read the appendix to Payne Knight's monograph, you will find that the true Sabbath was something very different, though the writer has very nicely refrained from printing all he knew.
Now, we know a lot about this debate because Sallust, who wrote a monograph on the Catilinarian conspiracy, includes towards the end of it an enormous account of the debate in the Senate.
Their abundance is of the sort that we find alluded to in Joseph Pieper's monograph Leisure, The Basis of Culture, even though the great philosopher did not provide a proper definition.