College and Research Libraries Selected Reference Books of 1959-1960 BY CONSTANCE M. WINCHELL I N T R O D U C T I O N LI K E T H E P R E C E D I N G A R T I C L E S in this semi-annual series1 this survey is based on notes written by members of the staff of the Columbia University libraries. Notes written by assistants are signed with initials.2 As the purpose of the list is to present a selection of recent scholarly and foreign works of interest to reference workers in uni- versity libraries, it does not pretend to be either well-balanced or comprehensive. Code numbers (such asA34, 1A26, 2S22) have been used to refer to titles in the Guide3 and its Supplements. B I B L I O G R A P H Y Bibliografija jugoslovenskih bibliografija, 1945-55 Beograd, Bibliografski Institut F N R J , 1958. 270p. Bibliographies on all subjects published in Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1955, either sepa- rately or as parts of articles or books, are recorded here in classified arrangement, with author and subject indexes. Similar to the series now ap- pearing as part of the national bibliography in a number of countries, often in the form of an- nuals, this first postwar compilation for Yugo- slavia may also be utilized as a key to the more serious studies and publications contributed by that country in all fields of knowledge. Entries are in Latin characters, with the indication " d r i l " if the work cited is in the Cyrillic alpha- bet. Presumably a continuation is planned.—E.B. Die Bibliographie in den europaischen Landern der Volksdemokratie; Entwicklung und gegen- wartiger Stand, von Todor Borov [et al.] Leipzig, VEB Verlag fiir Buch- und Biblio- thekswesen, 1960. 165p. DM21.30. (Biblio- thekswissenschaftliche Arbeiten aus der Sow- jetunion und den Landern der Volksdemokratie in deutsche Ubersetzung. Reihe B, Band 3) This work will be useful as a guide in a west- ern language to bibliography in Albania, Bul- 1 C R L , J a n u a r y a n d J u l y issues s t a r t i n g J a n u a r y 1 9 5 2 . 2 R e f e r e n c e : E l e a n o r B u i s t , R i t a K e c k e i s s e n , E l i z a - beth J . R u m i c s , E u g e n e S h e e h y , J o h n N e a l W a d d e l l , S u z a n n e F . W e m p l e . E n g i n e e r i n g : J a m e s D . R a m e r . 3 C o n s t a n c e M . W i n c h e l l , Guide to Reference Books ( 7 t h e d . ; C h i c a g o : A L A , 1 9 5 1 ) ; Supplement ( C h i c a g o : A L A , 1 9 5 4 ) ; Second Supplement ( C h i c a g o : A L A , 1 9 5 6 ) ; Third Supplement ( C h i c a g o : A L A , 1 9 6 0 ) Miss Winchell is Reference Librarian, Co- lumbia University Library. garia, Poland, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. For each country an introductory essay by a native specialist reviews the major develop- ment of its bibliography up to 1944. In a second section of each chapter there is a list of titles, with full entry, for the period after 1945, ar- ranged under such headings as: bibliography of bibliography, general retrospective bibliography, current national bibliography and book selection lists; bibliography of periodicals and newspapers; indexes to periodical and newspaper articles, biographical dictonaries, and general encyclope- dias. There is a selection of the more important subject bibliographies published since 1945. For the type of information which one might seek in Malcles (Supplement 1A101, 3A75) and perhaps up-date by means of UNESCO'S Bibliographical Services Throughout the World (Supplement 2A29) this well-organized survey provides an ad- ditional approach for a complex area undergo- ing rapid change.—E.B. Impex Reference Catalogue of Indian Books. New Delhi, Indian Book Export & Import Co., [1960] 236p„ 468p. Rs 40. An in-print list of Indian books in the Eng- lish language, arranged in two sections. Part I lists some 45 broad subjects with entries alpha- betical by author within each subject; part II is an alphabetical listing of books entered by author, title, catchword title and sometimes by subject. Author entries in this section include reference to the subject classification used for the book in the first section. Subject headings do not conform to any standard list. Entries should include "author, title, sub-title, number of pages, price, year of publication, classification [used in Section 1], and publisher" (title page), but many are incomplete. Some government publications are listed in a separate section.—R.K. New York. Public Library. Rare Book Division. Checklist of Additions to Evans' American Bibliography in the Rare Book Division of the New York Public Library. Compiled by Lewis M. Stark and Maud D. Cole. New York, New York Public Library, 1960. llOp. $3.50. J A N U A R Y 1 9 6 1 53 As the title indicates, this is "an attempt to bring together in one listing the record of 'not- in-Evans' titles" in the New York Public Li- brary's Rare Book Division. Arrangement of the checklist is chronological, and the style of entry similar to that in volume 13 of Evans (Supple- ment 2A36). T h e 1289 items include numerous photostats and facsimiles, with location of the original indicated when known. A few revisions and corrections of Evans are noted, and refer- ences to standard imprint bibliographies are frequently provided. There is an index by item number.—E.S. Tanghe, Raymond. Bibliography of Canadian Bibliographies. Toronto, Published in associa- tion with the Bibliographical Society of Can- ada by University of Toronto Press, 1960. 206p. •If 10. Added title page in French. Limited to bibliographies of subjects "wholly or principally Canadian (person, event, place, etc.)," this volume is based on the McGill Li- brary School's 1930 publication of the same title (Guide A190). Although bibliographies included in monographs or periodical articles are largely excluded, the work includes many unpublished dissertations, masters' essays, student compila- tions, and some items "in preparation." Biblio- graphical information is complete, with frequent explanatory notes in English or French accord- ing to the language of the work considered. En- tries appear under 29 subject divisions; listing within each class is alphabetical by compiler. Bio-bibliographies are grouped in a single sec- tion, "Author bibliographies," regardless of field. Some initial confusion may result from the three separate indexes: one of compilers, a bilingual subject index, and an "author" index to the bio- bibliography section.—E.S. E N C Y C L O P E D I A S Grand Larousse encyclopedique, en dix volumes. Paris, Librairie Larousse, [1960- ] v.l- (In progress) $17.50 per vol. Contents: v.l, A-Bauernfeld. A wide public should welcome this newest link in the long chain of Larousse encyclopedias (see Guide D27, D28, D29), not merely for its intrinsic merits, but because it is the first usable general French encyclopedia to appear in thirty years. (The Encyclopedie frangaise, Guide D31, what- ever its scholarly excellence, cannot, because of its arrangement, be considered an easily con- sulted reference source.) T h e first of the ten projected volumes of the new work presents much that is admirable. Un- mistakably a "Larousse" product in both content and arrangement, it, like its predecessors, is a dictionary as well as an encyclopedia; articles tend to be brief and entries very specific, so that there are often fifteen, twenty, or more entries on a single page. Although many of the articles are based on those in one of the older sets, many others are entirely new or largely rewritten, easily justifying the publisher's claim that it is a new work. According to the prefatory text there is increased attention to contemporary affairs, especially in scientific and technical matters. Bibliographies, consisting primarily of French works, seem well up-to-date, although they are inconveniently located not after the relevant articles but grouped together under subjects in a separate section at the end of each volume. Paper and illustrations are well above Larousse standards, although margins are so narrow that rebinding will be difficult. Inevitably, as new materials are added, others have been with- drawn, so that the custodian of a large reference collection will retain the earlier sets while grate- fully receiving the new.—J.N.W. Uj magyar lexikon [Az akademiai kiad6 lexikons- zerkesztosege] Budapest, Akademiai kiad6 [1959- ] v.l- (In progress) Contents: v.l-2, A-F. This is the first Hungarian encyclopedia pub- lished under the communist regime. Its avowed aim of providing a Marxist-Leninist interpreta- tion is evident both in the selection of facts and in their interpretation. Intended for the general public, the brief, dictionary-type articles are un- signed, and only the longer ones have biblio- graphies; maps and illustrations are included. Although it will not replace the older, standard work, Revai nagy lexikon (Guide D45), it will be particularly useful for identification of Eastern European figures since it contains biographical sketches of both living and deceased persons.— S.F.W. B O O K R E V I E W S An Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities, v.l, no.l [Mar. 31, I960- ]. Detroit 6, Mich. (P. O. Box 606), Phillip Thomson, 1960- Quarterly. $7.50 per yr„ $8 outside U.S.A. T h e first issue of this welcome new tool lists reviews of approximately thirty-five hundred titles from nearly three hundred periodicals. "Humanities" is used to include almost all cat- egories of adult books except scientific and tech- nical, and the periodicals list is correspondingly broad, including the popular, the scholarly, and the specialized. Foreign language journals are not indexed, but foreign language books re- viewed in English language periodicals, (e.g., Books Abroad and other journals devoted to foreign literatures) are included. Individual list- 54 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 ings are brief and probably apt to confuse the novice. Periodical titles are represented by num- bers, so that reference must then be made to the master list. Reviewers' names are given, but in- clusive pagination is not, nor is there any other indication of the length of a review. Neverthe- less, the enterprise appears to be a worthy one, and it is hoped that sufficient financial support will assure its continuance.—J.N.W. D I S S E R T A T I O N S Altick, Richard Daniel, and Matthews, William R. Guide to Doctoral Dissertations in Victorian Literature, 1886-1958. Urbana, Univ. of Illinois Press, 1960. 119p. $2.25. Stucki, Curtis W. American Doctoral Disserta- tions on Asia, 1933-1958; Including Appendix of Master's Theses at Cornell University. Ithaca, N. Y., Southeast Asia Program, Dept. of Far Eastern Studies, Cornell Univ., 1959. 131p. (Cornell Univ. Dept. of Far Eastern Studies. Southeast Asia Program. Data paper no. 37) $2. Lists of dissertations in specific subject fields make welcome additions to the reference collec- tion. Of the two lists here considered, the Altick Guide deals with the more clearly defined sub- ject and is somewhat more comprehensive, cover- ing a longer period and being international in scope. It compares favorably with the Woodress list for American literature (Supplement 3R40) and is arranged on similar lines, though it does not include works in progress. The Stucki volume lists only American dis- sertations, but attempts to cover the whole range of doctoral studies on Asia in the fields of the social sciences and humanities. Arrangement is by country, then by subject, with an author in- dex. An appendix lists Cornell master's theses on Asia for the 1933-58 period—E.S. D I R E C T O R Y Directory of University Research Bureaus and Institutes. 1st ed. Detroit, Mich., Gale Research Company, [1960] 199p. $20. This list includes college and university spon- sored research organizations of the United States and Canada which have been "set up on a per- manent basis, carrying on a continuing research program and formally identified by a specific or distinctive title." (Introd.) The entries are ar- ranged by broad subject fields and, within each section, alphabetically by sponsoring institution. Information includes the sponsoring institu- tion, the name, address, and foundation date of the institute, name of the director and the num- ber of permanent staff members. A short descrip- tion of activities follows and, for some, principal serial publications and special conferences spon- sored. There is an index arranged by sponsoring university and another arranged geographically by state and city.—R.K. F O U N D A T I O N S New York. Foundation Library Center. The Foundation Directory, Ed. 1, Ann D. Watson and F. Emerson Andrews, Editors. Marianna O. Lewis, Assistant Editor. New York, Pub- lished for the Center by Russell Sage Founda- tion, 1960. 817p. $10. The Foundation Library Center has utilized the records of the Russell Sage Foundation as well as extensive files purchased from the Ameri- can Foundation Information Service, publisher of American Foundations and their Fields, VII (1955) (Supplement 2L9), in the compilation of this new directory which lists 5502 nongovern- mental, nonprofit foundations. Organized in the same manner as the earlier work, the arrange- ment is alphabetical under states, except for New York City which has a special section. In most cases, information given is for 1958 and includes name, address, date of establishment, donor, purpose and activities, financial data, officers, and trustees. There are indexes by subject fields, per- sons, and names of foundations. A lengthy introduction defines the types of foundations treated and discusses their assets and expenditures, geographical distribution, fields of activity, etc. The advent of this useful directory is most welcome and it is hoped that it will be revised regularly and often. S O C I A L S C I E N C E Eldridge, Hope Tisdale. The Materials of Demog- raphy: a Selected and Annotated Bibliog- raphy. Published by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population and Pop- ulation Association of America. [New York, Co- lumbia University Press] 1959. 222p. This volume supplements The University Teaching of Social Sciences: Demography . . . edited by David V. Glass ([Paris] Unesco, 1957). Compiled with the needs of the teacher of demography in mind, this selective listing of re- cent significant English-language materials for population analysis includes some four hundred books and articles, well annotated. A section on general works, which also lists useful serial pub- lications in the field, is followed by eight more specific sections, e.g. "problems and methods of demographic analysis;" "statistical compendia." In large part the titles were culled from the Population Index's quarterly bibliographies. Cut- off date was 1958. Comparable bibliographies of demographic literature in French, Italian, and Spanish respectively are planned.—E.J.R. J A N U A R Y 1 9 6 1 55 E C O N O M I C S Kish, George. Economic Atlas of the Soviet Union. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1960. 96p. maps. $10. In this atlas the U.S.S.R. is divided into fifteen regions, with four maps for each region: A, agri- culture and land use; B, mining and minerals; C, industry; D, transportation and cities. Maps of the country as a whole show vegetation, major administrative divisions, air transportation, and population distribution. There is one page of text for each region, a bibliography of Russian sources, and an index to the 60 regional maps. The typography is excellent, and added clarity is achieved by limiting the amount of informa- tion on each map.—E.B. D I C T I O N A R Y Academia espanola, Madrid. Diccionario historico de la lengua espanola. Seminario de lexico- grafia: Director, Julio Casares; Subdirector, Rafael Lapesa Melgar; Redactor Jefe, Salva- dor Fernandez Ramirez. Madrid, 1960- . (In progress) 225 pesetas per fasc. Contents: Fasc.l, A-abolengo. The preface states that this dictionary will dif- fer in many aspects from the one of the same title (Guide M430) which the Academy began to publish in 1933, but never finished. Compiled on the historical method, the meanings of each word are traced from the earliest times to the present. Whenever possible, each meaning is il- lustrated by fifteen quotations: five from sources earlier than 1500; five from works written 1500 to 1700; and five from works published after 1700. The quotations are from both Spanish and Latin American authors. Variants in orthography are given, often with references to other diction- aries. When completed, this will be a monu- mental work, useful not only as an historical dictionary of the Spanish language, but for the identification of quotations as well.—S.F.W. A B B R E V I A T I O N S Plamenatz, Uija P. Yougoslav Abbreviations; a Selective List. Washington, Slavic and Central European Division, Reference Dept., Library of Congress, 1959. 185p. $1. Abbreviations, with expansions and English translations of the names "of government institu- tions and official bodies, industrial and trade establishments, and the more important news- papers and periodicals" (Introd.). Cyrillic char- acters are transliterated, and official designations appear in the three official languages, Serbo- Croatian, Slovenian, and Macedonian. This is a welcome addition to two previous reference aids published under Library of Congress auspices: Czech and Slovak Abbreviations (Supplement 3M22) and Polish Abbreviations (Supplement 3M92).—E.B. S C I E N C E McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Tech- nology. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1960. 15v. $175.' Statistics are impressive for this fifteen volume encyclopedia: 9300 pages, 9336 illustrations, 7224 articles alphabetically arranged, and a 100,000 entry index in the last volume. Five Nobel Prize winners are among the 2015 authorities who are identified in the "Key to Names of Contribu- tors," v.15, p. 1-14. Articles are written at the level of the intel- ligent layman, not the specialist in the field. An introductory article generally provides a broad survey of each branch of science and technology, and separate articles cover the main subdivi- sions and more specific aspects. Cross references guide the reader to related topics. Biographical and historical articles are ordi- narily excluded, as are all but the pre-profes- sional aspects of the behavioral and medical sciences. Bibliographies follow most of the longer articles and appear up-to-date and well chosen. Typography and format are excellent. A yearbook, beginning in 1962, and "continuous revision" are planned to keep the information current.—J.D.R. M U S I C Lawless, Ray McKinley. Folksingers and Folk- songs in America. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce [1960] 662p. $10. This is a kind of omnibus volume on the col- lecting and singing of folksongs and ballads in the United States and parts of Canada. The main sections of the work present biographical sketches of singers of ballads and folksongs, an annotated bibliography of collections of these songs (in- cluding information on archives and biblio- graphical sources), and checklists of folksong titles and discography. In addition, there is a chapter on folk-music instruments and one on folklore societies and folk festivals. Convenient arrangement of materials within the sections, bibliographical footnotes, and indexes of names, subjects, and titles combine to make this a useful and easy-to-use reference book.—E.S. L I T E R A T U R E Dizionario universale della letteratura contem- poranea. [Milano] Mondadori [cI959- ] v.l- . (In progress) il. $88. 56 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 Contents: v.1-2, A-K. These are the first volumes of a new encyclo- pedia of world literature written by Italian scholars under the general editorship of Alberto Mondadori. T o be in four volumes, the Dizionario is to contain some 6000 entries covering 1870 to 1960. The arrangement is alphabetical and items include authors, literary movements, important periodicals, prizes, national literatures, etc. Not only literary men, but some artists, scientists, sociologists, and political figures are included for their literary works with the purpose of in- tegrating literature and social movements in a single panorama of modern civilization. Articles range in length from a paragraph to several pages; bibliographies include works by and about an author. Photographs of authors, events and places discussed, and colored reproductions of works of art serve as illustrations. Analytic in- dices and chronological tables are to appear in volume four—R.K. Goethe-Bibliographie 1912-1950, hrsg. von Her- bert Jacob. [Goedeke, Karl. Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung aus den Quellen. 3.Auflage: Band IV/5. Berlin, Aka- demie Verlag, 1957-1960.] 997p. Continues the register of Goethe studies to 1911 which appeared in Goedeke, Grundriss, 3. Aufl. Band IV/3 (Dresden, 1912) (R505). Con- tinued by the annual Goethe bibliography in Goethe; vierteljahresschrift der Goethe-Gesells- chaft. Awe-inspiring in its comprehensiveness, this international classified listing of monographic and serial publications about Goethe includes such a range of topics as editions of Goethe's works, translations, dramatizations, parodies, musical settings, illustrations, and critical studies (with reference to reviews); studies about Goethe, his family, his times, his writings, his influence; comparative studies (e.g., Werther and Emilia Galotti, Mann's Doktor Faustus, Iphigenie in Euripides, Racine, Goethe); a chronological listing of Goethe celebrations, etc. Organization of the sections is excellent; the detailed table of contents and the index (triple column, p. 881- 997) make location of specific sub-topics or in- dividual items easy. Essential for Goethe studies, this can also be of real value in research in less obvious fields such as modern German literature and comparative literature.—E.J.R. Jahresbericht filr deutsche Sprache und Literatur, bearb. unter Leitung von Gerhard Marx. Ber- lin, Akademie-Verlag, 1960- Bd. 1- (Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Institut fiir deutsche Sprache und Literature). 979p $16.80. Bd. 1, Bibliographie, 1940-1945. For the use of scholars and librarians there have been available for many years two excellent annual surveys of current scholarship in Ger- manic language and literature, the Jahresbericht iiber die Erscheinungen auf dem Gebiete der germanischen Philologie and the Jahresbericht iiber die wissenschaftlichen Erscheinungen auf dem Gebiete der neueren deutschen Literatur. (For earlier changes in title, records of years covered and years of publication, see Guide R491, Supplement 2R74 for the former and Guide R509, R510, Supplement 3R74 for the lat- ter) . For various good reasons explained in a lengthy preface, the two lists have now been combined, and the present title constitutes the first volume of the new series. It is essentially a comprehensive bibliography of scholarly works on Germanic language and literature of all periods. Books, periodical articles, disserta- tions, and, helpfully, parts of books are all included, with the major European languages, except Slavic, represented. The two principal sections, language and literature, are logically divided by periods, which are further divided under appropriate sub-headings, including list- ings for individual authors. A briefer third section lists works on Friesian and Dutch sub- jects. There are separate, detailed author and subject indexes and a third index of words which are the subjects of linguistic treatment.— J.N.W. Klapp, Otto. Bibliographie der franzosischen IAteraturwissenschaft. Bd. 1, 1956-1958. Frank- furt am Main, 1960. 428p. DM58. Although this new current bibliograpiij, to be a companion to Eppelsheimer (Supplement 3R72) is published in Germany with a German title, it has also a French title page and the work itself is in French. Interpreting French litera- ture in a broad sense, the intention is to list books, articles, and these published during the period covered, dealing with various aspects as well as with individual authors. After an initial chapter of "Gen^ralites," the arrangement is by century from "Le Moyen Age" to the "Vingti£me Siecle," with indexes by name and by subject. In this volume some 400 periodicals, primarily from Europe and North America, and more than 100 miscellaneous collections have been analyzed. Spot checking with the French VII Biblography (Supplement 3R92) naturally shows some dupli- cation although there would seem to be articles in each not found in the other, but, because of different arrangement and because French VII does not include a list of periodicals indexed, it is difficult to make a satisfactory comparison. It would seem probable that this new Bibliographie has more comprehensive coverage, particularly from European countries, but that both will continue to be useful. Bd. II, 1959-1960, is an- nounced for spring 1961. J A N U A R Y 1 9 6 1 57 Molinaro, J . A., Parker, J . H., and Rugg, Evelyn. A Bibliography of "Comedias Sueltas" in the University of Toronto Library. Toronto, Uni- versity of Toronto Press, 1959. 149p. $3.50. " T h e Spanish suelta, approximately 15 by 20 centimetres in size, was published as a separate and integral unit during the eighteenth century and has now all but disappeared from circula- tion." (Preface). This bibliography lists the sueltas in a special collection presented to the University and in- cludes principally 18th century editions of over 700 Spanish plays, from 1703-1825. The arrange- ment is alphabetical by title with indexes by author, and by publishers and booksellers. Vulpius, Wolfgang. Schiller Bibliographic 1893- 1958. Weimar, Arion, 1959. 568p. (Weimar. Nationale Forschungs- und Gedenskstatten klassischen Literatur. Bibliographien, Kataloge und Bestandsverzeichnisse.) $8.00. This well-organized bibliography, an outgrowth of the Schiller celebration in 1955, is an impres- sive international selection of works by and about the German author. Some 1800 citations for Schiller's works (indicating editions, transla- tions, text editions, etc.) are followed by more than 5500 listings for books, parts of books, news- paper and magazine articles, and some disserta- tions, ranging in subject from Schiller himself and aspects of his work to the cultural back- ground of his time, Schiller societies, etc. Natur- ally the emphasis is on continental scholarship; a particular effort was made to list East Euro- pean and Slavic materials, and some Oriental items are also included. Marginal headings, an- notations, cross-references, and an author index add to the ease with which the bibliography can be used.—E.J.R. BIOGRAPHY Bol'shaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia. Biografiche- skii slovar' deiatelei estestvoznaniia i tekhniki. Otv. red. A. A. Zvorykin. Moskva, 1958. 2v. ports. As is acknowledged in the introduction, the publishing of biographical dictionaries in Soviet Russia has lagged behind other types of reference material in recent years. The editors of the So- viet encyclopedia, in collaboration with the In- stitute for the History of Science and Technology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, have helped to remedy the situation with two volumes containing approximately forty-five hundred articles. The biographees are historical and con- temporary persons, of all nationalities, prominent in scientific and technical fields including medi- cine and agriculture. The articles are based on those in the second edition of the BSE, with some revision and updating. There is a supple- mentary alphabet in v. 2, p. 427-442 for addi- tional changes. A final section reviews biographi- cal reference material, Russian and foreign. The articles have short "by and about" bibliographies, usually longer than in the BSE.—E.B. Leningrad. Publichnaia biblioteka. Russkie sovet- skie pisateli-prozaiki; biobibliograficheskii uka- zatel'. Leningrad, 1959- . v. 1- . 20r. Contents: v.l, Avdeenko-Zhestov. A group of bio-bibliographical reference books for Russian authors of the Soviet period com- mences with the first volume of a series on prose writers, living and dead. For each author there is a one or two page biographical note, followed by a substantial bibliography. The bibliography is intended to be comprehensive for the author's publications in literature, and literary and art criticism, and selective for any writing as pop- ularizer of science, or as publicist. Movie scripts and dramatizations are included, as well as books, articles, and dissertations about the author. The selection of authors to be included in the series was made by the directors of the Union of Writers of the R.S.F.S.R., and the names of compilers, with the authors assigned to them, are also given. The first volume includes 51 writers whose names fall within the first seven letters of the Russian alphabet. According to the introduction similar works are in preparation for dramatists, poets, and authors of children's books.—E.B. Sovetskie pisateli; avtobiografii v dvukh tomakh. Moskva, Gos. izd-vo khudozhestvennoi lit-ry, 1959. 2v. ports. 44r 35k. Using a somewhat unusual approach for a biographical dictionary or reference work the editors have compiled two volumes consisting of autobiographical sketches by 130 Soviet writers. The emphasis is on the "older" generation whose creative work began in the nineteen twen- ties or earlier. Living authors have contributed sketches for the collection. For those who have died, the editors have selected from ten to twenty pages of autobiographical material previously published, supplementing these in most cases with later information. There is no attempt at bibliography. The list of authors appears to differ considerably from the list selected for the first volume of the bio-bibliographical series.— E. B. Who's Who in Soviet Science and Technology, compiled by Ina Telberg. New York, Telberg Book Co., [1960] 119 1. $12.80. Selecting about 1,000 living Soviet scientists from the Biograficheskii slovar' deiatelei es- testvoznaniia i tekhniki (see above) the compiler has translated into English the basic information 58 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 as to date of birth, education, major positions, and awards. Additional description of the sci- entists' work has been compressed to a sentence or two and in many cases bibliography is omitted. An average entry contains about ten typewritten lines of information. The mimeographed format of this example of the Telberg "experiment in small circulation translation" is serviceably bound and legible, although somewhat awkward in size. A companion volume of biography in the humanities and social sciences is in preparation. —E.B. G E O G R A P H Y Harris, Chauncy Dennison and Fellmann, Je- rome D., comps. International List of Geo- graphical Serials. Chicago, University of Chi- cago, 1960. 194p. (Chicago. University. Dept. of Geography. Research paper 63) $4. " T h e fundamental purpose of this list is to provide a comprehensive inventory of all known geographical serials, both those currently being published and those no longer active." (Introd.) Arrangement of the 1637 entries is by country of origin, then alphabetically by serial title or other main entry. Titles in Oriental languages and non-Latin alphabets are provided in their original form in an introductory listing preceding the transliterated entries. Bibliographical infor- mation is complete, and addresses are given for current publications. Page references to Union List of Serials, New Serial Titles, and the British Union Catalogue of Periodicals are provided for locating files. The introduction appears in Eng- lish, French, German, and Russian. There is an index of titles and cross-references. Although referred to as a third edition, the present work actually represents a second change of title as well. It does not wholly supersede the compilers' "second edition" (A Union List of Geographical Serials, 1950), since the latter indi- cated locations in certain French libraries which are not noted in the new list.—E.S. H I S T O R Y Blaudin de The, Bernard. Essai de bibliographie du Sahare franfais et des regions avoisinantes. [2. ed.] Paris, Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1960. 258p. This classified bibliography of 9301 items, books and periodical articles, is divided into two main sections, (1) Les Territoires du sud de I'Algerie and (2) . . . Bibliographie du Sahara frangais et des regions avoisinantes, followed by a combined author index. Both parts are re- visions of earlier published bibliographies and list works of the 19th and 20th centuries (up to December 31, 1958) with occasional publications of earlier dates, and while predominantly French in coverage, include some materials in other languages. Blegen, Theodore C. and Nydahl, Theodore L. Minnesota History; a Guide to Reading and Study. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press [1960] 223p. $5. Based on Dean Blegen's study outline, Minne- sota, Its History and Its People (1937), this new guide is intended particularly for the use of teachers, students, and study clubs. The twelve chapters covering the period from pre-pioneer days to the present are sub-divided, with each of the 42 sub-sections treating a specific phase of Minnesota's political, economic, social, cultural, or religious history. Each sub-division presents a topical analysis of historical events, followed by a series of questions and suggestions for study, and a list of references. Although the lists are not intended as exhaustive bibliographies, they in- clude both books and periodical articles, and many entries are annotated. Lack of an index seriously impairs the usefulness of the volume. —E.S. Carman, Harry J . and Thompson, Arthur W. A Guide to the Principal Sources for American Civilization, 1800-1900, in the City of New York: Manuscripts. N.Y., Columbia University Press, 1960. 453p. $10. The first of two proposed volumes (the second is to treat printed materials), this useful hand- book is designed to provide for the 19th century what the Greene and Morris Guide . . . (Supple- ment 2V13) does for earlier periods. Basic ar- rangement of the resources described is topical, similar to the manuscripts section of Greene and Morris; details of scope and treatment are ex- plained in the preface. A voluminous first sec- tion entitled "General and Political," chronologi- cally subdivided, is followed by a number of subject chapters ranging alphabetically from "Architecture" to "Theatre." In each major sec- tion national materials are presented first, fol- lowed by listings by individual state. Within each division items are listed by date. Individual no- tations are concise, but clear and to the point, although it has been obviously impossible to provide any substantial analysis of specific items in many of the larger subject collections. A useful list of libraries and depositories, with summary descriptions of relevant holdings, precedes the text, and an index of some five thousand names follows it.—J.N.W. Ellis, John Tracy. A Guide to American Catholic History. Milwaukee, Bruce Publishing Com- pany [cl959] 147p. $2.50. A classified, annotated bibliography of some 800 items designed to serve as a guide to Ameri- J A N U A R Y 1 9 6 1 59 can Catholicism. Chapters cover guides, manu- script depositories, general works, diocesan and parish studies, biographies, religious communi- ties, education, special studies, periodicals, and historical societies. Books, articles, pamphlets, masters' and doctoral theses are included. Ar- rangement within a category is alphabetical by author. Introductory notes to each subdivision indicate the nature and limitations of the items listed and the strength and weakness of the lit- erature in the particular field. Critical annota- tions make the work a valuable guide; a full au- thor-title-subject index facilitates its use.—R.K. Lamer, Hans [et al.] Dizionario della civilta classica. Traduzioni di Roberto Fertonani [et al.] [Milano] II Saggiatore, [1959] 821p. il. (La Cultura. 5) A translation, with minor revisions, of the au- thor's Worterbuch der Antike, Leipzig, 1933. Articles cover such obvious categories as personal and place names, institutions, phrases, customs, art forms, etc. Most of them are brief and with- out bibliographies; more important topics, e.g., "Ateneo," "Grecia," "Latino," are generally longer and have brief bibliographies, mostly Italian. Format is attractive, and plates are nu- merous and handsome, although placed with little relevance to the accompanying text.— J.N.W. The Louisiana Union Catalog. Baton Rouge, Louisiana Library Association, 1960. 912p. $30. Originally issued in 1959 for distribution to the contributing Louisiana libraries, this catalog has been reprinted with a few corrections, but without additions. The Louisiana holdings of 60 libraries within that state are represented, with some out-of-state locations for items gleaned from the American Imprints Inventory of the Histori- cal Records Survey. "In addition to . . . books by Louisiana authors and books about Louisiana (adult and juvenile), the Union Catalog also con- tains . . . sheet music, brochures, leaflets, pro- grams, periodicals, unpublished theses, and maps." (Pref.) Format and page appearance are similar to that of the Library of Congress cata- log. A card file at the Louisiana State Library will continue the catalog, and printed supple- ments at two-year intervals are proposed.—E.S. Ramos, Roberto. Bibliografia de la revolucion mexicana. [2 ed.] Mexico, D.F. (Av. Dos No. 226, San Pedro de los Pinos, Mexico 18), the Author, 1959-60. 3v. $5.25. Contrary to the implication contained in a sales letter from the author, this is not entirely a new edition, as the first two volumes, contain- ing 3,130 entries, are merely new printings of the originals of 1931 and 1935 {Guide V378). Volume three is considerably expanded, listing nearly 2000 items published since 1935. Volume contents are by period of publication; arrangement within each is alphabetical by main entry, usually with quite full bibliographic information. There are some brief annotations and a rudimentary sub- ject index for each volume. With such an im- pressive amount of material, it seems unfortu- nate that the entire work was not re-edited, with items arranged in one alphabet and with a really useful subject index.—J.N.W. U. S. Library of Congress. General Reference and Bibliography Division. A Guide to the Study of the United States; Representative Books Re- flecting the Development of American Life and Thought. Prepared under the direction of Roy P. Basler . . . Washington [U. S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1960. 1193p. $7. The Guide is intended as "an introduction to representative books that reflect the develop- ment of life and thought in the United States. In no sense is it a source of information about every conceivable facet of that life; nor has it any completeness as a catalog or compilation of Americana." (Introd.) Despite its necessary se- lectivity, the volume is somewhat staggering in aim and achievement. The 32 chapters include such headings as: literature; geography; general, diplomatic, military, intellectual, and local his- tory; science and technology; education; religion; economic life; politics, etc., with numerous sub- divisions for each. There are nearly 6500 num- bered entries, most of which are annotated. Many annotations include citations and evaluative notes for related works not given numbered en- tries. The terminal date for some sections is 1955; others list items published through 1958. There is an index of authors, subjects, and titles. An important reference tool in its own right, the Guide does not (nor is it intended to) replace the Harvard Guide or the bibliography of the Literary History of the U.S., but will serve as a supplement to both. It should prove particularly useful at institutions offering programs in Amer- ican studies.—E.S. 60 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