College and Research Libraries of dedicating, in October, 1953, the James Ford Bell Room of the University of M i n n e - sota L i b r a r y which houses the great Bell Collection of rare books and maps on discovery and exploration. T h e five essays, all brief, contribute facets to the general theme of scholarship's debt to discriminating collectors. T h e first paper by T h e o d o r e Blegen, dean of Minnesota's G r a d u a t e School, nicely introduces the theme, puinting out the distinguished American com- pany of great collectors with whom M r . Bell's name is linked: Huntington, Folger, M o r g a n , M c C o r m i c k , N e w b e r r y , Clements, A y e r s , Lenox, Chapin, John C a r t e r B r o w n , C l a r k , Arents, John G . W h i t e , C o e . M r . Blegen gives us a thumbnail sketch of M r . Bell, the man, f o l l o w i n g with some detail on the genesis of the Bell Collection and its final scope. James F o r d Bell's own remarks, en- titled " B o u n d Fragments of T i m e , " state his credo as a collector and reveal the w a y in which his deep interest in trade provided him the key to collecting. T h i s happy choice of a theme led him to the search f o r records which reveal the evolution of W e s t e r n institutions during their spread and interplay w i t h other civilizations throughout the world, especially the western hemisphere, as it w a s discovered and explored. In the third essay Stanley Pargellis neatly analyzes the rare book in terms of the essen- tial factors—importance, demand, scarcity. W i t h the force and conviction which has en- deared M r . Pargellis to his colleagues in re- search libraries, he insists upon the scholarly value of the genuine article, the rare book itself as contrasted with the reprint or fac- simile. Colton Storm, in " T h e Specialized Collection" and L o u i s B. W r i g h t , in " A m e r i - can Book C o l l e c t o r s " return, in specific terms, to the theme of the scholar's debt to the great American book collectors—those whose collec- tions have been added as integrated special collections to important research libraries, and those whose collections have been established as separately housed libraries for the use of the public. T h e little volume, Book Collecting and Scholarship, is much like the one called Rare Books and Research which w a s published by the U C L A L i b r a r y in 1951, and there have been others recently. T h e one before us is not a monograph reporting new discoveries; it is not a handbook to guide library c u r a t o r s ; it really has in it little that is new, except as it places a description of the James F o r d Bell Collection into the setting of which is it w o r t h y . O n the other hand, it is always good to listen to men w h o know w h a t they are talking about and w h o talk about important matters. M a n y of us w i l l appreciate the trouble which the University of Minnesota has taken to include us in the audience.—Andrew H. Horn, University of North Carolina Library. R e c e n t Foreign Books on the Graphic A r t s , Bibliography, and Library Science Joseph G r e g o r , f o r many years curator of the noteworthy theatre collection of the A u s t r i a n N a t i o n a l L i b r a r y , is the editor of a new w o r k that w i l l be unusually useful in all reference collections. It is entitled Der Scliau- spielfuhrer, and, like Der Romanfiihrer, is being published by the Hiersemann V e r l a g of Stuttgart. T h e first volume ( 1 9 5 3 ; 375 pages) deals with G e r m a n drama f r o m the M i d d l e A g e s to about 1930 and contains me- ticulous and thoughtful resumes of 274 plays, ranging f r o m the Tropus von Bamberg (tenth century) and ending with C a r l Sternheim's Der Snob (1920). T h e second volume ( 1 9 5 4 ; 355 pages) covers modern G e r m a n drama and the first part of the section on drama in the Romance literatures. In the second volume, there are resumes of 89 modern G e r m a n plays, of which the great m a j o r i t y w e r e written since W o r l d W a r I ; 41 Italian plays from the M i d d l e A g e s to P i r a n d e l l o ; 60 Span- ish, Portuguese and South American plays, ranging from R o j a s ' La Celestina to the middle of the nineteenth century, with only one twentieth-century title; and French drama f r o m the M i d d l e A g e s to around 1910. T h e third volume, which is scheduled for the spring of 1955, w i l l include modern French drama, G r e e k , Roman, Scandinavian and D u t c h drama, and the older English and American drama. T h e fourth volume w i l l cover recent English and American drama. JULY, 1955 315 Slavic and B a l k a n drama w i l l be represented by the fifth and last volume. In both volumes published thus f a r each resume is signed by initials which are identi- fied at the beginning. T h e sub-sections within each volume are introduced by brief, pertinent comments placing the dramatic literature of the age in the proper perspective from the standpoint of general cultural history. Each entry includes f u l l title, dates of first per- formance and first printing (if in print, f o r G r e g o r wisely includes a f e w significant pieces available only in manuscript), the number of roles (male and f e m a l e ) , the setting, and fre- quently a note on the idea of the play. T h e resumes f o l l o w the structure of the plays in detail. Each complete entry averages about one page. T h e r e are indexes of authors, titles, subjects (i.e., dramatic f o r m s ) , first printed editions, and one- and two-act plays. In the first volume, G r e g o r reveals a broad understanding of the various periods of G e r - man literature in his selections as w e l l as in the treatment of individual titles. T h e r e are thirteen sections corresponding to the im- portant periods of G e r m a n dramatic history. G e r m a n drama is given more space than that of any other language, but this is a natural and understandable lack of proportion in a w o r k edited by an A u s t r i a n and published in W e s t G e r m a n y . In the second volume, the problems of selec- tion w e r e even more difficult, and there could be differences of opinion with regard to plays which have been excluded. F o r example, stu- dents of the modern Spanish stage may w e l l be annoyed to find nothing since Breton de los H e r r e r o s and Hartzenbusch. O n the other hand, it must be recognized that the European drama is such an enormous field that the spa- tial limitations of five volumes of the size of the first t w o make it possible to include only bonafide classics. T h e judgment of such an authority as Joseph G r e g o r is as valid as that of any dramatic critic or historian alive today. L i k e Der Romanfiikrer, Der Schauspiel- filhrer w i l l be an indispensable title in the reference collection of any college or univer- sity library and of most l a r g e r public li- braries as w e l l . I t is the most comprehensive guide to dramatic literature of its type and quality that is available today. T h e fifth volume of Der Romanfiikrer ( S t u t t g a r t , Hiersemann, 1954; edited by li- brarian Johannes Beer of Bochum, pp. 621- 1019; D M 26) concludes the series on mod- ern G e r m a n fiction, w i t h entries f r o m F r a n z N a b l ' s Der Odhof to Stefan Z w e i g ' s Schach- novelle. T h e five volumes of the w o r k that have appeared thus f a r , t w o on G e r m a n fiction from the baroque to naturalism and three on modern G e r m a n fiction, are an invaluable companion to all studies in G e r m a n litera- ture. T h e meticulously detailed and accurate signed resumes are by teachers, scholars, li- brarians, and book dealers w h o stand high in their respective professions. In addition to basic bibliographical infor- mation, each entry contains notes on subse- quent editions, setting, period (in the case of historical fiction), and type of fiction (i.e., historical, psychological, biographical, etc.). A t the end of each summary or group of summaries is a list of the more important publications of the author. A u s e f u l f e a t u r e of this last volume on G e r m a n fiction is an author index to all of the first five volumes and a title index to the last three volumes. A title index to the first t w o volumes appears at the end of the second volume. I t might be w e l l f o r librarians to note that each volume in Der Romanfiikrer as w e l l as in Der Schauspielfiihrer may be purchased separately. Universitas Litter arum ( B e r l i n , W a l t e r de G r u y t e r , 1953-) is a conspectus of all the sciences by authorities in the various fields represented. Edited by W e r n e r Schuder, a Berlin librarian, there w i l l be twenty-seven m a j o r articles on as many broad fields of learning and seven articles on the organiza- tion of knowledge, edited by Robert T e i c h l of Vienna. Six fascicles have appeared thus f a r , covering all of the physical and biological sciences, sociology, public relations, technology, agriculture, history, and political science. T h e w o r k w i l l be complete in eight fascicles, probably early in 1955. Each fascicle sells f o r D M 6 . 5 0 . Each article is divided into three m a j o r sections, viz., definitions and position of the subject under discussion among the other sciences, methods, objectives, and present state of research in the subject, and the history of the subject. A t the end of each section is a highly selective bibliography in all languages. T h e w o r k , when complete, w i l l be a useful 316 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES reference f o r scholars, librarians, students, booksellers, and others in learned and bookish occupations. T h e various articles offer quick orientations into m a j o r fields of learning, a need frequently felt by those of us w h o must deal with many different subjects. T h e last seven essays may w e l l prove to be the most interesting of all to librarians, since they w i l l cover the f o l l o w i n g subjects: academies of sciences, by W i l f r i e d O b e r h u m m e r ; scientific research institutes, by Rudolf G e i s s l e r ; li- braries, by Robert T e i c h l , museums, by A u g u s t von L o e h r ; universities, by F r i t z von Reinohl; and the study of the book, by W i e - land Schmidt. T h e linguistic incompetence of most A m e r i - can scholars and librarians is notorious. P e r - haps the most iniquitous aspect of the situation is that librarians w h o do bother to learn another language rarely choose Latin, even though L a t i n is the one key through which all other western European languages may be learned easily. M o r e o v e r , the supreme im- portance of L a t i n for intelligent bibliographi- cal studies is obvious to anyone w h o goes beyond the housekeeping details of librarian- ship. F o r G e r m a n librarians w h o w a n t to im- prove their Latin, H e r m a n n Fuchs has edited Aus Theorie und Praxis der Bibliotheken ( H a m b u r g , Eberhard Stichnote, 1952; 147 pages; D M 8 . 5 0 ) . It contains selections f r o m twenty-two L a t i n authors w h o have dealt w i t h libraries and librarianship, beginning with V i t r u v i u s and ranging through Isidore, Richard de B u r y , and Cardinal Bessarion to G a b r i e l N a u d e and even two nineteenth cen- tury authors. T h e selections themselves are often de- lightful purple patches f r o m the literature of librarianship. Pliny's note on illustrated books, Ammianus M a r c e l l i n u s on the destruc- tion of the Bibliotheca Palatina in Rome, Isidore's etymology of bibliotheca, Bessarion's letter of 1469 to the Venetian Senate founding the M a r c i a n a and Naude's ideas on acquisi- tion and cataloging should be part of every librarian's education. If material of this type is not bait enough to make every employee of college and reference libraries w a n t to im- prove his Latin, then the advocates of lan- guages for librarians w i l l have f e w other arguments. T h e r e are detailed notes for each selection, and anyone familiar with the paradigms and the basic syntax w i l l have little trouble in using this text. In addition, there is a f u l l glossary which gives the special meaning of many words not in the dictionary of classical Latin. F r o m the same publisher comes another use- f u l little reference w o r k for librarians, O t t i G r o s s ' Library Terms, Fachausdriicke des Bibliothekswesens und seiner Nachbargebiete, English-Deutsch und Deutsch-English ( H a m - burg, Eberhard Stichnote, 1952; 163 pages, D M 7 . 2 0 ) . T h e compilation of specialized glossaries in any field is a difficult job, and it is a rare w o r k of this sort that makes every- one happy. T h e American librarian in par- ticular should approach the G r o s s book with these facts in mind. W h i l e it is oriented to English librarianship it is still generally useful f o r American librarians, especially acquisition librarians and catalogers. L i k e most other glossaries, this one should be considerably im- proved in a second edition if the compiler has had the benefit of criticism f r o m those w h o use it. T h e first number of the "Veroffentlichungen des Holderlin A r c h i v s " ( a branch of the Wiirttembergische Landesbibliothek located at Schloss Bebenhausen) is the Holderlin- Bibliographie, 1938-1950 ( S t u t t g a r t , Landes- bibliothek, 1953; 103 pages; D M 10), edited by M a r i a K o h l e r and A l f r e d Kelletat. T h e great interest in Holderlin, intensified during the last two decades, is readily obvious from this bibliography. It is absolutely compre- hensive, covering all editions of Holderlin's w o r k s (except selections in anthologies pub- lished in G e r m a n y ) and all critical and bio- graphical notes without regard to value. W h i l e the last volume of the Stuttgart Holderlin edition (now in progress) w i l l con- tain a bibliography of the more important w o r k s about Holderlin, the Holderlin- Bibliographie w i l l be an essential tool f o r any serious student of Holderlin. T h e bibliography is in t w o parts. T h e first covers writings by Holderlin, including first editions, collected editions, partial editions, except editions of individual works, letters, translations, and selections in G e r m a n anthologies published abroad. Everything, even propagandistic use of Holderlin's w o r k s is included. P a r t I I contains the critical w o r k about Holderlin, arranged chronologi- cally by years and alphabetically under each year. Reviews are cited with the pertinent JULY, 1955 317 entry. T h e r e are indexes of persons, subjects, and periodicals cited. A n enlightening look into E a s t G e r m a n librarianship and bibliography is afforded by the series of "Schriften zum Bibliotheks- und Biichereiwesen in Sachsen-Anhalt," edited f r o m the University of H a l l e L i b r a r y (now officially the Universitats- und Landesbibli- othek H a l l e ) and published by the O t t o H a r r a s s o w i t z division of the V E B Bibli- ographisches Institut in L e i p z i g . T h r e e numbers are devoted to personal bibliog- raphies, viz., the w o r k of t w o noted librarians: N o . 2, C a r l W e n d e l , by H o r s t K u n z e , and N o . 4, Bernhard Weissenborn, by W i l l i G o b e r ; and one philologist, N o . 5, G e o r g Baesecke, by G e r t r a u d W i i s t l i n g of H a l l e . T h r e e titles deal w i t h scientific subjects: N o . 7 by W e r n e r D u b e , a checklist of articles in G e r m a n on the w o r k of Ivan Petrovitch P a v l o v , the g r e a t Russian physiologist; N o . 8 by O t t o Riibesame, a list of publications on the petroleum geol- ogy of the north G e r m a n plain; and N o . 9, by M o n i k a M i i l l e r , a checklist of monographs on pest control which have been published in G e r m a n since 1930. T h e three most interesting titles in the series describe the administrative procedures of the University of H a l l e L i b r a r y , which suffered very little damage during the w a r . N o . 1 is a general description of the H a l l e L i b r a r y and its contents by H o r s t K u n z e , and no. 3 is a guide to the use of the library by K u r t Roepke. In both pamphlets a w e l l - developed administrative organization is re- flected, but it is clear that the totalitarian regime in East G e r m a n y has had a definite effect on certain aspects of library service. T h e most valuable number in the entire series is perhaps no. 6, D i e t e r V o g e l ' s study of photographic w o r k in H a l l e . F r o m this little document American librarians interested in photographic reproduction can get some v a l u - able information on equipment and practices in E a s t G e r m a n y . T h e price of the various numbers in this series ranges f r o m fifty pfennig to D M 2 . 7 5 . T h e first number ap- peared in 1949, and others have been issued at irregular intervals. A n o t h e r series published by H a r r a s s o w i t z in L e i p z i g is entitled "Bibliothekswissen- schaftliche Arbeiten aus der Sowjetunion und den Landern der Volksdemokratie in deutscher U b e r s e t z u n g . " T h i s series can prove to be unusually useful in providing access to the rich library literature of the U . S . S . R . and other satellite Slavic nations, especially P o - land and Czechoslovakia. T h e first number in the series, is a translation important to all students of classification, under the G e r m a n title of Klassifikation fur die Bibliographien der Buchkammer der Sowjetunion mit me- thodischen Anleitungen zu ihrer Anwendung. T h e second is an exceptionally interesting statement of propagandistic use of bibliog- raphy in the U . S . S . R . , L . A . L e w i n , Die Klassiker der Marxismus-Leninismus in empfehlenden Bibliographien. Both w e r e pub- lished in 1953. I t w i l l be a great service to librarianship if more Slavic-language essays on librarianship are made available on a simi- lar basis. A new annual has been initiated by P a l l e Birkelund, director of the Royal L i b r a r y in Copenhagen, f o r essays on some of the un- usual riches of this collection. T h e title is Fund og Forskning, of which volume I ( 1 7 8 pages) appeared last year under the imprint of the library. T h e r e are many illustrations, and for each article there is a fully adequate English summary. O f special interest to us is M r . Birkelund's essay on John Eliot's Indian Bible, of which the Royal L i b r a r y owns a copy of the third variant purchased f o r one silver shilling in 1789 by the celebrated Danish collector O t t o T h o t t . T h e Royal L i b r a r y also has a copy of the second edition of 1685. T h e remarkable collection of H e b r a i c a in Copenhagen, which is equal or superior to those in Cincinnati and N e w Y o r k , provides for R. Edelmann material f o r an essay on a fourteenth-century illumi- nated manuscript of Maimonides' More Nebuchim. T h e fine collection of bindings in the R o y a l L i b r a r y includes three remark- able examples of the w o r k of Nicolas and Clovis Eve, and H . P . Rohde analyzes the reasons f o r attributing these bindings to the Eves and their association w i t h H e n r i I I I . O t h e r essays deal with the early history of the library, sixteenth-century Danish printing, some w o r k s by the Danish anatomists B a r - tholin and W i n s l o w and the rare polemical tracts of Nicolas Steno (bought recently from the collection of the medical historian V . M a a r ) , Danish literature in D u t c h transla- tion, the first book printed in Greenland (at Godthaab, in 1 7 9 3 ) , some eighteenth-century Danish silhouettes, and the reception of K a r l A u g u s t T a v a s t s t j e r n a ' s w o r k in D e n m a r k . 318 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES A l t h o u g h Frederick Lange Grundtvig, bans Dag og Daad (Copenhagen, Rosenkilde og Bagger, 1954; 86 pages) is not bibliography or library science, it would be improper f o r the c u r r e n t v o l u m e o f COLLEGE A N D RESEARCH LIBRARIES not to mention it, f o r the author is one of America's most distinguished senior librarians: Jens Christian Bay. It w a s w r i t - ten in commemoration of the centennial of the birth of the great Danish-American pastor and scholar, 15 M a y 1954. A n o t h e r anniversary volume celebrates the tenth birthday of the G r a f i s k a Institutet in Stockholm, Grafiska Institutet 1944-1954: Minneskrift (Stockholm, G r a f i s k a Institutet, 1954; 117 pages). I t is of special interest in this country inasmuch as the rector, B r o r Zachrisson, has been a visiting professor at Carnegie Institute of Technology. O f the several essays in the volume C a r l H u l t e n - heim's richly illustrated " E n studie i tradi- tion" is especially valuable. Hultenheim ex- amines in some detail the continuity of the A n g l o - A m e r i c a n typographical tradition and draws a significant moral that modern printers should " w o r k in the company of master- printers down the ages" ( H o l b r o o k J a c k s o n ) . V a l t e r F a l k , another distinguished Swedish bookman, is the author of Nutida typsnitt, uppkomst och utveckling (Stockholm, B r o - derna Lagerstroms forlag, 1954; 174 pages), a series of studies on the most significant modern type faces in use in western Europe in the twentieth century. Introductory chap- ters discuss the origin of the alphabet and certain pre-twentieth-century types that have had influence in our own day. Subsequent chapters deal with the main lines of modern typographical tradition in G e r m a n y , S w i t z e r - land, the Netherlands, France, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Spain, England, the United States, and Sweden. T h e title page is richly illustrated and deserves a place even on the shelves of typographical collections in libraries w h e r e the language is not generally read. F e w business firms have played such a vital role in N o r w e g i a n cultural as w e l l as com- mercial life as the firm of J. W . Cappelen. T h e f u l l story of the crucial early years is told in Einar Boyesen, J. W. Cappelen., 1805- 1878; noen blad av Norsk bokhandels og norsk kulturkamps historie ( O s l o , J . W . C a p - pelen F o r l a g , 1953; 561 pages, kr.42.00). W h e n J0rgen W r i g h t Cappelen, a young theological student, decided to go into the publishing business in O s l o in 1826, he took a step that w a s to have significant conse- quences for his native land. H i s subsequent biography w a s as much a part of N o r w a y ' s cultural history as it w a s his own life. C a p - pelen's association w i t h the leading literary men of his day in freeing N o r w a y f r o m the domination of the Danish book trade is very important. O f special value to us are the several chap- ters on Cappelen's efforts to sell N o r w e g i a n books to N o r w e g i a n - A m e r i c a n s . Several little- known facts about the frontier book trade are uncovered and should be exploited by f u t u r e historians of American bookselling. A n important bibliographical w o r k that has been in progress f o r almost a half a century is the catalog of manuscripts of the University of Leiden. A l t h o u g h the most recent part of this catalog w a s issued as f a r back as 1948, the entire w o r k ought to be reviewed in view of the fact that further parts are expected soon. T h e Leiden collections of manuscripts are so rich and extensive that this catalog is a necessary part of the equipment of any academic library which supports classical, ori- ental or G e r m a n i c studies. O u r attention may be concentrated here on the classical manuscripts. T h e Leiden L i b r a r y divides its western manuscripts into three main groups, viz., those named f o r the previous owner (Codices V o s - siani, Scaligerani, Vulcaniani, Hugeniani, Perizoniani, Lipsiani, Papenbroekiani, Petri Cunae, Prosperi M a r c h a n d , Burmanniani, Gronoviani, Oudendorpiani, Hemsterhusiani, Ruhnkeniani, Ioannis in de B e t o u w , W y t t e n - bachiani, and Guilielmi M . d ' A b l a i n g ) ; the Codices Bibliothecae Publicae G r a e c i ; and the Codices Bibliothecae Publicae Latini and M i s - cellanei. T h e first fascicle of the Leiden catalog of manuscripts appeared in 1910 and w a s devoted to the manuscripts of Bonaven- tura Vulcanius, acquired by the University of Leiden shortly a f t e r Vulcanius' death in 1614. T h e second fascicle also appeared in 1910 and listed the manuscripts of J. J. Scaliger, w h o died in 1609 and willed virtually all of his manuscripts to the library. T h e third fascicle appeared in 1912 and listed the Codices Bibli- othecae Publicae Latini. A f t e r a lapse of thirty-four years K . A . de Mey'ier's catalog of the manuscripts of Jacobus Perizonius ( V o o r - broek) w a s published. D r . de M e y i e r w i l l JULY, 1955 319 soon complete his catalog of the Vossius C o l - lection of G r e e k manuscripts. A f e w notes on the Perizonius collection w i l l serve to indicate the general nature of the Leiden catalogs. Perizonius died in 1715, and he willed not only the manuscripts but also many rare books and an endowment of 20,000 florins to the University. T h e manu- scripts include G r e e k and L a t i n authors as w e l l as later commentaries. Some w e r e de- scribed in the rather imperfect catalog by Jacob G e e l ( 1 8 5 2 ) , and others are described first by de M e y i e r . T h e physical characteristics of each manu- script are noted in detail, and there are, of course, titles and incipits. T h e r e are also notes on provenance, editions, and other publi- cations pertaining to each manuscript. Entries are arranged in shelf order (folio, quarto, o c t a v o ) . T h e r e are indices of paleographical information, age, illumination, bindings, scribes, place of origin, f o r m e r owners, au- thors, incipits of anonymous w o r k s , addressees of letters and persons to whom significant reference is made, and a subject index. T h e Leiden manuscript catalogs deserve the care- f u l attention of librarians as models of the genre. A t the main entrance of the Lenin L i b r a r y in M o s c o w stands a lady police officer w i t h a grim-looking automatic stuck in her belt. A guide told a N o r w e g i a n visitor recently: " W e do not underrate our enemies. W e know the enormous significance of this library f o r the cultural and economic life of our country. T h e Americans also know that, and w e know very w e l l w h a t the results might be if an American agent could get into this library. A n incendiary pencil could be enough to send this cultural treasure up in flames." T h i s is part of a travel report on Soviet libraries by John B r a n d r u d in the third vol- ume of the Norsk arbok for bibliotek og forskning ( 1 9 5 4 ) , published by the N o r s k e Forskningsbibliotekarers Forening w i t h head- quarters in the University of O s l o L i b r a r y . B r a n d r u d ' s essay, the leading article, reveals many interesting facts about the Lenin L i - brary in particular. Apparently only a small proportion of the 16,000,000 volumes in the Lenin L i b r a r y are unduplicated titles, f o r the Lenin L i b r a r y serves as a popular library as w e l l as a re- search collection. B r a n d r u d takes some in- teresting samples of the Lenin L i b r a r y ' s hold- ings, and it w o u l d seem that the actual re- search strength of the collection is not much greater, if any greater, than that of any one of the m a j o r middle-western university li- braries. O t h e r essays in this volume deal with in- dexing, the manuscript division of the U n i v e r - sity of O s l o L i b r a r y , the Statistical C e n t r a l B u r e a u ' s library in Oslo, periodicals in refer- ence libraries, cooperation between libraries and schools, bookmobiles in N o r w a y , the Bib- liographical C e n t e r in Denver, the community library service for municipal administrators in Sweden, public documents, post-war bind- ing problems, circulation systems in public libraries, English county libraries, and the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des T e x t e s in Paris. T h e r e is an English summary at the end of each article. In addition, there is a short review section and a section listing selected library literature in 1953-54. A sup- plement listing N o r w e g i a n authors, 1881- 1920, by W . P . Sommerfeldt w i l l prove v a l - uable to catalogers. T h e fourth volume of the Jahrbuch der Auktionspreise fur Biicher, Handschriften und Autographen ( H a m b u r g , D r . E r n s t H a u s - wedell, 1954; 442 pages; D M 48), covering I953» appeared in the autumn of the year f o l l o w i n g the one for which auctions w e r e reported. In the f u t u r e it is expected to have each volume in print in the spring f o l l o w i n g the year for which auctions are reported, thus increasing the value of the w o r k con- siderably for librarians, dealers, and col- lectors. T h e main part of the w o r k is divided into three sections, viz., auction prices f o r printed books, f o r historical and literary manuscripts, and f o r holographic manuscripts (including letters, texts, and other significant personalia). In addition, there are other u s e f u l features — a list of auctions in 1953, a table of mone- tary exchange rates, a list of abbreviations, a list of professional associations of anti- quarian booksellers in all countries, special fields of booksellers in all countries (alpha- betically by s u b j e c t ) , and the addresses of booksellers included in the specialty list and the advertisements. T h e r e is also a short bibliographical guide to the literature of bookbinding history excerpted f r o m volume I of H e l m u t H e l w i g ' s recently published Hand- buch der Einbandkunde. 320 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES O n e of the most instructive uses of the Jahrbuch der Auktionspreise is a comparative study of the prices with those reported for England and the United States. In general, rarissima and books running into four figures and more command about the same prices as they would anywhere else in the w o r l d . O n the other hand, it would seem that A m e r i - can libraries might w e l l find it to their ad- vantage to bid more extensively than they do at present at European auctions for books ranging from ten to around t w o or three hundred dollars. A sample check of twenty-five pieces of A m e r i c a n a in the current Jahrbuch indicated an average difference of 30 per cent between European and American prices. I t w o u l d be w o r t h w h i l e f o r a detailed study of the comparative price situation to be made every five or six years as a matter of information to American reference libraries. Outside of the English-speaking world, the field of jurisprudence, as an academic disci- pline, includes many fields normally assigned to the social studies in our universities. A s a result, the fifth edition of W i l h e l m Fuchs' now almost classic Juristische Biicherkunde ( G o t t i n g e n - G r o n e , A u g u s t Schonhutte, 1953; v. I, "Geschichte und System der juristischen Fachbibliographie," 506 pages; D M 34.20) is a basic reference w o r k not only for students of l a w , but also for social scientists in gen- eral. Fuchs goes into every aspect of legal bib- liography. T h e first part of this volume is devoted to a history of the development of legal bibliography f r o m the invention of printing up to the middle of the twentieth century. T h e second part, which accounts f o r about 90 per cent of the text, covers the theory and technique of legal bibliography and gives a critical list of references in nar- rative rather than enumerative form. Fuchs' bibliographical citations are, in gen- eral, meticulously correct with a minimum of typographical errors in non-German titles, and his critical comment indicates a direct personal acquaintance w i t h his material. Some of the chapters are good introduc- tions to other broad fields of bibliography. F o r example, the chapters on public docu- ments, manuscripts and incunabula, anony- mous and pseudonymous literature, and the bibliography of academy publications, serials, university publications indicate that Fuchs is as w e l l acquainted w i t h the special problems of these genres as he is with legal bibliog- raphy. In addition to his broad interpretation of jurisprudence and his listing of pertinent ref- erence works, Fuchs also has special chapters on auxiliary disciplines, viz., history, philol- ogy, religion, philosophy, social studies, and medicine. A comparison with earlier editions indi- cates clearly that the present edition of Fuchs is a complete revision. N u m e r o u s books and serials that appeared as late as 1952 are dis- cussed, and supplements to and new editions of older books are noted. W h e n H e i n z O t t o B u r g e r ' s Geschichte der deutschen Literatur ( S t u t t g a r t , M e t z l e r , 1952; 882 pages; D M 10) appeared in 1952, it w a s recognized at once as one of the best available histories of G e r m a n literature. In the same year K . H . Halbach published the supplement to B u r g e r , V ergleichende Zeittafel zur deutschen Literatur geschichte {ibid.; 52 pages; D M 4.50). L a s t year a second sup- plement appeared, O t t o O l z i e n ' s Bibliographie zur deutschen Literatur geschichte {ibid., 1953; 156 pages; D M 1 5 ) . A l t h o u g h all three parts f o r m a single inseparable r e f e r - ence w o r k of considerable value, O l z i e n ' s contribution is the one that w i l l interest li- brarians in particular. O l z i e n has made no effort to provide a definitive bibliography of Germanistic studies, and his w o r k supplements rather than rivals the important Bibliographisches Handbuch des deutschen Schrifttums ( B e r n , Francke, 1949; third edition; 644 pages) by Josef K o r n e r . O l z i e n lays special emphasis on the most recent critical literature, especially that pub- lished between the closing date for K o r n e r and 1952. O n the other hand, many periods of G e r m a n literature are inadequately covered by post-war scholarship, and there- fore O l z i e n has frequently had to refer to earlier works, especially f o r w r i t e r s of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. T h e r e are three m a j o r sections, the gen- eral one (including bibliographies, reference works, periodicals, critical and historical series of texts, methodology, general histories, regional histories, histories of genres), the chronological one including studies of whole periods or aspects of periods, and individual authors (alphabetical). T h e special value of this bibliography f o r librarians lies in its use- JULY, 1955 321 fulness as a guide for checking library hold- ings in G e r m a n literature and as a ready reference w o r k . I t does not, however, sup- plant K o r n e r and Goedeke, nor does it pre- tend to do so. H a n s V o l z ' Hundert Jahre Wittenberger Bibeldruck, 1522-1626 (Gottingen, V e r l a g D r . L u d w i g Hantzschel, 1954; 168 pages; D M 10), is the first in a new series edited by K a r l Julius H a r t m a n n under the general title of "Arbeiten aus der Staats- und Universitatsbib- liothek G o t t i n g e n . " T h i s series succeeds the old " H a i n b e r g s c h r i f t e n " issued at Gottingen. V o l z , w h o has been closely identified w i t h the g r e a t W e i m a r edition of L u t h e r ' s works, is one of the best informed of all students of Reformation bibliography. In this study he gives the first comprehensive survey of Bible printing in the first century of the Reformation in L u t h e r ' s own headquarters, W i t t e n b e r g . I t has long been widely known that the University of Gottingen L i b r a r y ( n o w offi- cially known as the Niedersachische Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek) has the most ex- tensive holdings of L u t h e r imprints in W e s t G e r m a n y . M u c h of the strength of G o t t i n - gen in this field may be attributed to the re- markable O s k a r M u l e r t Collection. Supplementing the material available at Gottingen w i t h information garnered f r o m questionnaires sent to all m a j o r G e r m a n re- search libraries, V o l z has composed a com- prehensive study of the textual history, de- sign and illustration, printing, distribution, re- printing, size of editions, and prices of the W i t t e n b e r g Bibles. H e includes Bibles in both H i g h and L o w G e r m a n . Supplements give a tabular bibliography of the various Bibles printed during the period under con- sideration, a checklist by printers, and a chart of the printing history of W i t t e n b e r g during the period. V o l z ' thorough knowledge of the period w i t h which he w a s dealing and his ability to coordinate the history of printing and pub- lishing w i t h general cultural history give this study a special significance. It w i l l prove as useful to students of political and religious history as to librarians and bibliographers. In 1896 E r i k T h y s e l i u s published a bibliog- raphy of official reports of Swedish govern- ment committees entitled Forteckning ofver komitebet'dnkanden afgifna under aren 1809- 1894., a n d I 9 ° 4 he published a supplement under the same title covering the years 1895- 1904. In 1944, the Swedish Riksdagbibliotek (library of parliament) decided to bring T h y s e l i u s up to date and include printed and manuscript committee reports, departmental memoranda, and certain Riksdag reports. T h e volume finally appeared a f t e r almost a decade under the title Forteckning over statliga utredningar 1904-1945 ( N o r r k o p i n g , Ostergotlands tryckeri, 1953; 1405 pages). O f the 5,206 numbers in the bibliography, some 1,900 w e r e compiled by f o r m e r Riksdag librarian I v a r B e s k o w . T h e j o b w a s com- pleted by Beskow's successor, A n d e r s L i n d - berger. T h e arrangement is by government depart- ment and chronologically under each depart- ment. T h e r e are indexes of personal names and subjects and a chronological index. Some 1,150 of the documents recorded in this bib- liography are in manuscript. M a j o r document bibliographies of this sort are especially needed in many countries w h e r e there has not been a continuing tradition of document bibliography over a long period. A good many other parliamentary libraries in smaller countries throughout the w o r l d could perform an important service to li- brarianship and bibliography by issuing simi- lar compilations. A v a r i a n t approach to the bibliographical problem represented by the Index Transla- tionum may be seen in the new Bibliographie der Ueberstzungen deutschsprachiger Werke, issued by the Deutsche Biicherei in L e i p z i g . T h e first number, which appeared in 1954, begins w i t h translations of G e r m a n - l a n g u a g e books into foreign languages that w e r e pub- lished in 1951. I t is planned ultimately to issue the bibliography quarterly, but it w i l l appear more frequently until the listings be- come current. T h e new Zeitschrift fur Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie, of which volume one, num- bers one and t w o appeared in 1954, is in- tended to be the W e s t G e r m a n counterpart to the Zentralblatt fur Bibliothekswesen. A l t h o u g h the ZfB still maintains a high quality of scholarship in its main articles and bibliographical sections, there is some annoying evidence of Volksdemokratie in al- most every issue at one point or another. O n e can hardly blame the W e s t G e r m a n li- brarians f o r starting a new j o u r n a l in the light of this circumstance. 322 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES T h e n e w ZBB (if w e may coin this ab- breviation on the model of the time-honored ZfB) is edited by H . W . Eppelsheimer of F r a n k f u r t , G . H o f m a n n of M u n i c h , and H . T i e m a n n of H a m b u r g . E d i t o r i a l c o m m u n i - cations should be addressed to D r . H . M i d - dendorf a t the B a y e r i s c h e Staatsbibliothek in M u n i c h . T h e publisher is V i t t o r i o K l o s t e r - mann of F r a n k f u r t , and f o u r issues per annum c a r r y a subscription price of D M 33-50. A r t i c l e s in the first issue are by Eppels- heimer on libraries and documentation and by F . A . S c h m i d t - K u n s e m u l l e r on planned periodical acquisition by the D e u t s c h e F o r s - chungsgemeinschaft. I n the second number C . K o t t e l w e s c h w r i t e s on problems of inter- l i b r a r y loan in G e r m a n y , K . L e l b a c h on the B o n n student l i b r a r y , H . F u c h s on the l a t e H u g o A n d r e s K r i i s s , and Eppelsheimer on the c u r r e n t status of G e r m a n l i t e r a r y bib- liography. In each issue there is a checklist of c u r r e n t bibliographical l i t e r a t u r e w h i c h may w e l l t u r n out to be c o m p a r a b l e in scope and extent to that in the ZfB. T h e r e are, of course, r e v i e w s and n e w s notes. C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S e x t e n d s a cordial w e l c o m e to the ZBB into the f a m - ily of l i b r a r y periodicals and w i s h e s it the same distinction attained by the old ZfB.— Lawrence S. Thompson, University of Ken- tucky Libraries. Communication of Specialised Information The Communication of Specialized Informa- tion. Papers Presented before the Seven- teenth Annual Conference of the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago August 11-15, 1952. Edited by M a r g a r e t E . E g a n . C h i c a g o : A m e r i c a n L i b r a r y A s - sociation, 1954. I28p. $4.00. The Papers Presented before the Seven- teenth Annual Conference of the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago August 11-15, 1952, previously published in American Documentation I V , nos. 3 and 4, 1953) are n o w a v a i l a b l e in a monograph edited by M a r g a r e t E . E g a n . E x c e p t f o r a p r e f a c e by M i s s E g a n , the content of the papers is identical w i t h their first appearance in Ameri- can Documentation. T h e topic of the C o n f e r - ence w a s the communication of specialized i n f o r m a t i o n f r o m w h i c h the book takes its title. B y this term is meant those research records, articles, essays, and the like w h i c h u s u a l l y appear in n e a r - p r i n t f o r m a t in re- stricted editions, p a r t i c u l a r l y as to distribu- tion or use, and w h i c h take significance because of their timeliness and are especially v a l u a b l e to s u b j e c t specialists in technical fields of k n o w l e d g e . T h i s m a t e r i a l , the l i f e - blood of the highly specialized l i b r a r y , f r o m the t r a d i t i o n a l l i b r a r y point of v i e w , is con- sidered ephemeral. O t h e r w o r d s w h i c h have been used to describe this kind of i n f o r m a t i o n and its o r g a n i z a t i o n are documentation and technical i n f o r m a t i o n . T h e titles of the papers of the participants in the conference w h i c h f o l l o w , indicate the v a s t area in com- munications w h i c h this type of i n f o r m a t i o n encompasses: " T h e P r o b l e m of Specialized C o m m u n i c a t i o n in M o d e r n Society," V e r n e r W . C l a p p . " N e w P a t t e r n s in Scientific R e s e a r c h a n d P u b l i c a t i o n , " E u g e n e W . Scott. " T h e D i s t r i b u t i o n - A c q u i s i t i o n P r o b l e m in T e c h n i c a l R e p o r t i n g , " E u g e n e E. M i l l e r . " O r g a n i z i n g a n d S e r v i c i n g U n p u b l i s h e d R e - p o r t s , " D w i g h t E. G r a y . " R e s t r i c t e d D i s s e m i n a t i o n of I n f o r m a t i o n a n d I t s Social I m p l i c a t i o n s , " R o b e r t T u m b l e s o n . " I m p l i c a t i o n s f o r P r o f e s s i o n a l O r g a n i z a t i o n a n d T r a i n i n g , " M o r t i m e r T a u b e . " C o n t e m p o r a r y T r e n d s in t h e P r o d u c t i o n a n d U s e of Social D a t a , " M o r r i s B. U l l m a n . " T h e U s e of Social D a t a by Business, F i n a n c e , a n d I n d u s t r y , " M a r g a r e t E. E g a n . " I n d u s t r i a l R e l a t i o n s — A C a s e Study of Spe- c i a l i z e d C o m m u n i c a t i o n I n v o l v i n g S e v e r a l G r o u p s , " F r e d e r i c k H . H a r b i s o n . " E m e r g e n c e of a N e w I n s t i t u t i o n a l S t r u c t u r e f o r the D i s s e m i n a t i o n of Specialized I n - f o r m a t i o n , " J e s s e H . S h e r a . A s seen at once, the conference posed seri- ous questions f o r the l i b r a r y profession. T h e v e r y n a t u r e of the m a t e r i a l under considera- tion, its handling and o r g a n i z a t i o n , challenges the traditional techniques and practices in use in libraries today. B u t there is too much here to attempt to a n a l y z e in detail. T h e papers are all w o r t h r e a d i n g and should become an essential p a r t of professional l i b r a r y l i t e r a - t u r e . T h e f o r m a t of this monograph, h o w e v e r , distributed by the A m e r i c a n L i b r a r y A s s o c i a - JULY, 1955 323