College and Research Libraries EUGENE P. SHEEHY Selected Reference Books of 1969-70 INTRODUCTION THIS ARTICLE continues the semiannual series originally edited by Constance M. Winchell. Although it appears under a byline, the list is actually a project of the Reference Department of the Co- lumbia University Libraries, and notes are signed with the initials of the indi- vidual staff members. 1 Since the purpose of the list is to present a selection of recent scholarly and for eign works of interest to refer- ence workers in university libraries, it does not pretend to be either well bal- anced or comprehensive. Code num- bers (such as AA 71, 1EA29) have been used to refer to titles in the Guide to Reference Books and its supplements. 2 LIBRARY CATALOGS Chicago. Center for Research Libraries. Catalogue. Chicago: The Center, 1969- . (In progress) Newspapers, 1v. (176 p.); Monographs, 5v. $211.50 the set. The Center for Research Libraries is an outstanding example of interlibrary coop- eration, and publication of its catalog will not only make known its resources to mem- ber libraries, but will provide a useful bib- liographic aid for research libraries in gen- eral. The complete catalog will comprise seven volumes in three sections: mono- graphs, serials (including newspapers), and newspapers . Each section is available separately to enable libraries to purchase 1 Rita Keckeissen , Georgia Lanzano. Eileen Mc- Ilvaine, Mary Ann Miller, H eidemarie Peterson, Janet Schneider, Nancy Schroeder; School of Library Service, Evelyn Lauer. 2 Constance M. Winchell, Guide to Reference Books (8th ed.; Chicago: American Library Association, 1967) ; Supplement I (Chicago: ALA, 1968); Supple- m ent II (Chicago: ALA, 1970). only those sections needed or to duplicate certain sections without purchasing full duplicate sets. The newspaper catalog includes "all newspaper titles housed at and available through the Center . . . even though some of the titles, such as those included in the ARL Foreign Newspaper Microfilm Project, are not available to members of the Center unless they are also subscribers to that particular project."-Introd. Both original and microfilm holdings cataloged through 1968 are included. Listing is by title, but provision of cross-references un- der city of publication allows a very use- ful geographical approach. Unfortunately the monograph catalog (a main entry listing) does not include certain important collections at the Cen- ter. Omitted are archival materials, chil- dren's books, Chinese books, various col- lections of state, federal, and foreign gov- ernment documents, and-most disappoint- ingly-the nearly 600,000 printed foreign dissertations on file at the Center.-E.S. Deutsches Archaologisches Institut. Ro- mische Abteilung. Bibliothek. Kataloge des Deutschen Archiiologischen I nstituts, Rom. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1969. Auto- ren- und Periodica Kataloge. 7v. $555; Zeitschriften-Autorenkatalog. 3v. $185. Published in the now familiar format, this is the catalog of one of the world's strongest archaeological libraries. Founded in 1830, the library has grown to include some 91,000 volumes in all areas of Eu- ropean and Near Eastern archaeology and philology, from the prehistoric to the By- zantine period. One special strength is the Bibliotheca Platneriana-a collection of books on the history of Italian cities-do- nated to the library in 1879. The Autoren- und Periodica Kataloge contains reproductions of catalog cards representing main entries for monographs and periodical titles, the periodicals being I 269 270 I College & Research Libraries • July 1970 listed separately in v.7, pages 563-816. Form of entry for journals does not con- form to American practice; e.g. , the Amer- ican Journal of Archaeology is entered un- der "Journal American Archaeology." An- other caution : alphabetizing is by key- word; I and I interfile. Of great use to li- brarians and scholars are the analytics for monographic sets provided under the name of the series. Coverage of the Zeitschriften-Autoren- katalog begins with articles published in 1956 in periodicals, F estschriften, and oth- er special publications. Articles indexed are limited to classical archaeology and epig- raphy. A Systematischer Katalog, available from the same publisher ( 3v., $330) , is de- signed to categorize in some 1,200 sub- ject areas the post-1955 works held by the library.-E.M. PRINTING Geldner, F erdinand. Die deutschen In- kunabeldrucker; ein Handbuch der d eutsche n Buchdrucker des XV . ]ahr- hunderts nach Druckorten. Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann, 1968- . (In progress) v.1 , Das deutsche Sprachgebiet. 310p. il. DM120. Intended as an introduction for the re- searcher, for the librarian, the collector, the rare-book dealer, and for anyone who enjoys beautiful old books, this is the first volume of a work concerned with the Ger- man printers of the first century of print- ing. A geographical approach is used: from Mainz, the birthplace of printing, the growth and spread of the art throughout Europe is traced in chronological order. Volume I embraces the work of printers active in German-speaking areas ; a sec- ond volume will portray the work of Ger- man printers in other European countries. For each entry we find the printer's biog- raphy and a description of his characteristic use of tools of the · craft. Extensive foot- note references offer good bibliographical coverage. The author emphasizes that in a work of this kind he could not attempt to settle controversies over the identification of anonymous works of the early print- ers .-H.P. NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY Catalogue des livres disponibles: littera- ture et sciences humaines, 1969- . Par- is: Cercle de la Librairie, 1969- . An- nual? 90F. The first reference work of its kind pub- lished in France, this is a catalog of French-language publications available in the booktrade. It corresponds to Books in Print, and is compiled from publishers' catalogs. This first edition is limited to the humanities and social sciences and is di- vided into three parts : ( 1) a main sec- tion in classified arrangement, ( 2) title in- dex, and ( 3) author index. Only the entries in the classified section provide full infor- mation-author, title, series, pagination, price, edition, and publisher. The classi- fied section is subdivided as "Lith~rature" and "Sciences Humaines ," the former em- bracing belles lettres, philology, and liter- ary criticism, while the latter stands for so- cial sciences in the broadest sense, with philosophy, religion, and history included in this category. Within these two major sections there are further detailed break- downs for specialized disciplines and sub- ject fields , each with its class number. In the alphabetical author and title indexes these class numbers serve as the clue for finding the complete entry. A second Cat- alogue des livres disponibles is in prepara- tion; it will embrace all subjects.-H.P. Magyar konyveszet , 1945-1960; a 'A1agy- arorszagon nyomtatott konyvek szako- sitott jegyzek e. Budapest: [Orszagos Szechenyi Konyvtar] 1965-68. 5v. Primarily a Hungarian national bibli- ography for the publications of the sixteen postwar years, this set also supposedly takes into account works that appeared from 1942 to 1944. (A search did not re- veal any citations with imprint dates of these war years, but their seeming absence may be due to the chaos of that period rather than to editorial discretion.) In ef- fect, it represents a cumulation of the 1945-60 annual volumes of Magyar nem- zeti bibliografia (Guide AA540), with the addition of coverage for 1945. It is a classed listing, using UDC, with cross-ref- I I I ~ I erences from all categories under which a citation might fit. Series and anthologies are analyzed for contents-a real bonus for verification-and each volume has its own subject index to the categories therein. Volume 5, which includes addenda, is an index to the preceding volumes and lists authors, editors, compilers, institutes, and proper nouns in titles; many titles are in- dexed, but not those for belles-lettres. Bibliographically the work ranks with the best of its kind for clarity and detail; it also offers a good typographical quality characterized by sharp print, varying type sizes, and generous spacing between cita- tions.-E.L. Shipton, Clifford K., and Mooney, James E. National Index of American Im- prints through 1800; the Short-title Evans. [Worcester, Mass.]: American Antiquarian Society and Barre Publish- ers, 1969.2v. (1028p.) $45. (69-11248). Although this list is a by-product of and an index to the Readex Microprint edition of Early American · Imprints, it can stand as an independent work because it in- cludes many valuable corrections and re- visions of entries in Charles Evans' Amer- ican Bibliography (Guide AA333) . It is an author (or anonymous title) list of works cited in Evans and in Roger Bris- tol's supplement thereto (Guide AA333a), giving an abbreviated title, place and date, pagination, location of the specific copy photocopied for the microprint series, and the Evans number. Bibliographically the work's value will be for its revisions of Evans' often errone- ous entries. Authors listed by Evans were carefully checked so that those with simi- lar names but different dates have been identified and listed separately. There are title entries for works of assumed author- ship. Evans items that could not be located or positively identified are included in brackets, with an explanatory note indi- cating probable or suggested origin of the entry. Each item was checked to insure that it is a separate work, and that the bibliographic information is correct. For li- braries owning the microprint series this is a virtually indispensable aid (especially for the Bristol additions), but in other li- Reference Books of 1969-70 I 271 braries it will be a useful complement to Evans.-G.L. LIBRARIANSHIP Danton, J. Periam. Index to Festschriften in Librarianship. New York: Bowker, 1970. 461p. $13.50. (75-88796). Compiled by a librarian for the use of others interested in librarianship, this work can serve as a model of completeness and organization for any similar compilation. "The main body of the work is a single alphabetical author and subject index, with cross-references, to articles on libraries and closely related topics-publishing, printing, reading, etc.-appearing in Festschriften honoring librarians, libraries, and library associations. Editors and joint editors of the volumes are also included."-Guide to the User. Altogether there are citations for 3,300 articles in 283 publications from twenty-two countries in sixteen languages, published between 1864 and _1966. Fest- schriften that appeared as special issues of journals are included, but not anniversary library histories. Occasional individual ar- ticles that have nothing to do with li- brarianship are not indexed. Subject head- ings are generously assigned, with some articles having as many as eight; many headings have "see also" references to give the user complete access to all pos- sible citations. Added features of the work are citations to reviews of the Festschriften, biographical references for the honorees, and two tables: one for the number of Festschriften by country of origin and an- other for the number by date of publica- tion. Scholars in this field will be delighted with this well-planned key to the often elusive contents of homage volumes.-E.L. GovERNMENT PuBLICATIONS Congressional Information Service. Index to Publications of the United States Con- gress, v.1, no.l- , 1970- . [Washing- ton, 1970- .] Monthly, with annual bound cumulation in 2v. Priced accord- ing to library budget. Cover title: CIS Index. This new indexing service abstracts con- 272 I College & Research Libraries • July 1970 gressional committee hearings and prints, House and Senate reports, documents and miscellaneous publications, and Senate ex- ecutive reports and documents, with the aim of being "a master index to the con- tents of Congressional publications."-In- tmd. Arrangement is in two parts: ( 1) the "Summary Section," which lists the ab- stracts by committee, with publications is- sued by the House and Senate as a whole in separate categories; and (2) the "Index Section," which has a full index of sub- jects, authors, witnesses, subcommittees, popular names of laws, reports and bills. Four other indexes are lists of bills, re- ports, and documents, each by number, and an index of committee and subcom- mittee chaiimen. Indexes are to cumulate quarterly. The Introduction gives detailed instructions for use. If the publisher main- tains his schedule of publishing the index for one month's documents early in the following month, the work should prove useful to the student, the research worker, and the librarian.-R.K. BIOGRAPHY Dictionary of South African Biography. W. J. de Kock, ed.-in-chief. [Cape Town ] : Publ. for the National Council for Social Research, Dept. of Higher Education by Nasionale Boekhandel Bpk., [1968- ]. v.1- . (v.1, R. 8.00). ( 67-29090). Planned and in progress for many years, this volume marks a seemingly auspicious beginning for a major new biographical dictionary. (Eric Rosenthal's one-volume So,uthern African Dictionary of National Biography, Suppl. 1AJ3, is virtually the only predecessor for this area.) The work is designed to present "the life histories of all those who have since the earliest Euro- pean contact with the southern extremity of Africa made a contribution of impor- tance to the course of South African his- tory."-Introd. Thus, various personalities to be included may never (or only briefly) have visited South Africa, though their po- litical policies or other activities exerted significant influence on South African events. Rather than the familiar alphabetical or chronological arrangements, the editors have chosen to present whatever sketches are available as each volume is prepared for press. Individual volumes will be al- phabetically arranged, and the second and all succeeding volumes will include cumu- lated indexes of names. The initial series will include 2,500 to 3,000 personalities who died before the end of 1950, with supplementary volumes planned for succes- sive decades. Among the 568 biographies in this first volume there is a good repre- sentation of tribal chieftains and native fig- ures along with numerous missionaries, colonial personalities, and the expected po- litical and military leaders. Articles of sub- stantial, but varied length (Olive Schrein- er, three pages; J. C. Smuts, twenty-one pages) are signed with the initials of con- tributors. In addition to a bibliography for each article there are usually some notes on iconography.-E.S. New York Times Obituaries Index, 1858- 1968. New York: New York Times, 1970. 1136p. $45. (72-113422). Countless hours of searching for death dates and obituary notices will be saved by this new publication. "It brings togeth- er, in a single alphabetical listing, all the names entered under the heading 'Deaths' in the issues of the New York Times Index from September 1858 through December 1968, augmented by entries for the years 1907 through 1912 (for which Indexes are still in preparation) and by names from the period 1913 through 1925, not listed in the published Indexes-a total of over 353,000 names."-Introd. Because editorial policy in the indexing of obituaries has varied over the years (e.g., accidental deaths, suicides, and various "front page" accounts were not always included in the "Deaths" listings), there are inconsisten- cies and surprising omissions of some prom- inent names. A fuller note on these in- consistencies would have been welcome. Notices of persons with identical names are indexed chronologically, with no at-· tempt to distinguish them by a descriptive term. References to funerals and estate accountings are frequently included. This promises to be a highly valuable work, frequently useful in situations where ac- tual consultation of the Times obituary is not essential.-E.S. - Who's Who of British Scientists, 1969/ 70- [London]: Longman, [1970- ]. Ed.1- . Annual? (v.1, 974p.) £15. Because of rising production costs the Directo1·y of British Scientists (Guide EA- 186) has had to discontinue publication- at least for the present-after the third edi- tion. This new, one-volume work is ad- mittedly only a partial substitute. It con- centrates on "giving details of the back- ground and careers of the 'top 10,000' of British men and women who are working in the Biological and Physical Sciences or who are enjoying careers of distinction after basic training in a scientific disci- pline."-Intmd. Information was derived from questionnaires completed by the bi- ographees.-E.S. LINGUISTICS Murphy, John D., and Goff, Harry. A Bibliogmphy of African Languages and Linguistics. Washington, D.C.: Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1969. 147p. $4.95 pa. (71-98990). Over two hundred African languages are represented in this international bib- liography, including varieties of Arabic, Hamitic, Malagasy, Afrikaans, and Creoles, as well as the "Negro Mrican" dialects. The majority of the 1,218 monographs list- ed are items pertaining to the indigenous languages south of the Sahara. A general section consisting of entries for bibliogra- phy, press, general studies, regional stud- ies, cartography, phonology and orthog- raphy, language-learning and languages in education precedes the chapters on non-Bantu languages of Northeastern Af- rica, non-Bantu languages of West Africa, Bantu languages, Malagasy, Afrikaans, and Creoles. Unfortunately, within each of the major sections no apparent ar- rangement-alphabetical or chronological- has been followed. Thus the language/ dialect and the author/ compiler indexes are necessary approaches. Names of coun- tries appear in the subject index only if part of a title. Although the compilers ex- amined each work in the bibliography, they neglected to include pagination in Reference Books of 1969-70 I 273 the bibliographic citations. This data would have increased the usefulness of the tool for both librarians and researchers.- ].$. LITERATURE First-line Index of English Po etry, 1500- 1800, in Manuscripts of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Margaret Crum, ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press , 1969. 2v. 1257p. £11, 5s. (72-397656). In 1932 the task of indexing first lines of the English verse in Bodleian manuscripts began, inspired and urged on by Dr. Per- cy Simpson who saw that, in spite of ex- tensive descriptive catalogs, "this material would remain virtually buried until an in- dex of first lines could be provided."- Pref. A card index was completed early in 1961, and poetry in manuscripts acquired after that date is not included in the pub- lished index. The alphabetically arranged entries have the following features: first line of the po- em in modernized spelling, with variant wordings given in brackets; the usual ver- sion of the last line; author's name, title of the poem, and other information from the manuscript; references to printed ver- sions of the poem; and indication of Bod- leian manuscripts in which the poem is found. There are five important indexes: ( 1) Bodleian manuscripts listed by shelf- marks; ( 2) authors; ( 3) names men- tioned in the poems; ( 4) authors of works translated, paraphrased or imitated; and ( 5) references to composers of settings and to tunes named or quoted. (This last in- dex, coupled with the shelf-marks "Mus." and "Mus.Sch." in the first-line entries ought to open new vistas for the student of Renaissance music.) A single reservation about this impres- sive index: failure to include an indica- tion of a poem's line-count. Wouldn't it be helpful to the scholar to know whether a poem has two or two hundred lines? All in all, however, Miss Crum can be proud of her contribution to scholarship in having seen this monumental work through its long years of preparation.-M .M. The New Cambridge Bibliography of En- ,, 274 j College & Research Libraries • July 1970 glish Literature. George Watson, ed. Cambridge, [Eng.]: University Press, 1969- . (In progress) ( 69-10199). v. 3, 1800-1900. 1948 cols., plus index. £10. Partly because the study of Victorian literature has advanced more rapidly and undergone greater changes than that of most other periods, the volume for the nineteenth century was given priority in this reworking of the Cambridge Bibliog- raphy of English Literature (Guide B?- 309) . Basic design of the work remams the same and the task of the more than fifty contributors to this first-published vol- ume "has been to revise and integrate the existing lists of 1940 and 1957, to add ma- terials of the past ten years, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to reshape the whole ac- cording to the new conventions which have been designed to give the Bibliography a clearer and more consistent air."-Pref. Various nonliterary sections (such as those for political and social background, sci- ence, and law) have been omitted as im- practical to update, but those for travel, sport, education, and the press have been retained and revised. Sections on the lit- eratures of certain Commonwealth nations (Anglo- Indian, Canadian, South African, Australian and New Zealand) have been dropped. Individual author listings are now confined to "literary authors native to or mainly resident in the British Isles"; the scope of the listings themselves is largely unchanged. Editors were encouraged to drop outdated or superseded references, but since the history of an author's repu- tation is a recognized area of study, "ar- ticles which represent it memorably have been retained, even where they may have been discredited by later scholarship."- ,Pref. Period divisions for forthcoming volumes will remain the same, with a new, sep- arate volume now in preparation for the "E~rlier twentieth century (1900-1950)"; v .5 wiltoe a detailed index. Provisional indexes giving names of primary authors and selected subrect categories will ap- pear in each volume as published. Al- though it perpetuates certain shortcom- ings (as well as the many virtues) of the earlier edition the NCBEL is to be warm- ly welcomed by scholars, students, and li- brarians. Most of us will want to retain the earlier edition in the reference col- lection even after the new work is com- plete.-E.S. Richardson. Kenneth Riddley, ed. Twen- tieth Century Writing; a Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literature. London: Newnes, [1969]. 751p. 63s. (70-431735). Designed as a guide for the general reader, this work includes information on the major works (novels, plays, collections of poems and short stories) of some 1,200 authors who lived and wrote at least one decade into the twentieth century and pub- lished a substantial amount after 1900. Two-thirds of the material is devoted to English-language writers. Foreign-lan- guage writings are limited to Europe.an languages, and the availability of Enghsh translations was a criterion for inclusion. The scope of the work reflects the interests of the general reader: authors of science fiction and murder mysteries are found with writers of more serious literature. Ar- rangement is alphabetical by author, with a title index and an index by country. Coverage is superficial; biographical and bibliographical material is sparse. Longer articles usually include a complete listing of the author's books , while shorter en- tries list only those the contributor of the sketch considered most important or most popular. The book fulfills its aim as an in- troductory guide for the general reader, but it is of little interest to the scholar.- ].S. Rubin Louis Decimus, ed. A Bibliograph- ical' Guide to the Study of Southern Lit- erature. With an appendix containing sixty-eight additional writers of the co- lonial South by J. A. Leo Lemay. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, [1969]. 351p. $10. (69-17627). Professor Rubin has "brought together compilations of some of the principal schol- arship concerned with a number of the South's writers and some of the more per- vasive themes and areas of investigation having to do with Southern literature."- [ Introd. He has interpreted "the South's writers" broadly, including anyone who was brought up or lived in the South, even those of minor significance. So, be- sides William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Jefferson, we find John Barth (raised in Maryland), Lafcadio Hearn (lived in New Orleans for thirteen years) , and Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth (popular novelist of the 1850s and 1~860s). One could quibble and wish for inclusion of others, such as Arna Bontemps and Hinton Rowan Helper. Arrangement of the bibliography facil- itates its use. The first part contains bib- liographical lists of important works on various periods, themes, and genres of Southern literature; the second part is an alphabetical list of some 140 authors, with citations to important critical and bio- graphical works. For each author, theme, or period a scholar very knowledgeable about the topic was chosen to compile that particular bibliography-thus we have Lou- is B. Wright writing on William Byrd, Louis D. Rubin on James Agee, and Dan- iel Patterson on Southern folklore. The appendix includes colonial authors about whom little has been written, e.g., John Lawson, Richard Henry Lee, William Strachey. For many of them Professor Le- may has indicated areas for needed re- search. Although designed for "the student who would begin work in the field of Southern literary study" (Introd.), this bibliograph- ical guide, due to its thoroughness, can be used by graduate students and scholars in many areas of American literature.- E.M. V erzeichnis der schriftlichen N achliisse in deutschen Archiven und Bibliotheken. Boppard: Harald Boldt Verlag, [1969- 1. (In progress) Bd.2, Die Nach- liisse in den Bibliotheken der Bundes- republik Deutschlands , von Ludwig Denecke. 268p. DM 60. The first published volume of a new series, this catalog of literary remains in West German libraries serves as a guide to source material which is usually hard to find. It includes references to a variety of literary documents in all subject fields: Reference Books of 1969-70 I 215 correspondence, diaries, havel notes, lec- tures, autographs, drawings, musical scores, programs, posters, photographs, reviews, observations of scientific experiments, etc. Listing is alphabetical by personal name; for each entry the collection is briefly characterized as to subject and form, and the manner of storing is indicated (e.g., folders, boxes, packages). Mention is made of collections lost or missing owing to war- time destruction. The work does not at- tempt detailed description; for this the re- searcher must write to or visit the reposi- tory. There is an index of the libraries and institutes represented, together with full citation to printed catalogs of pertinent col- lections. The editor states that similar com- pilations are in preparation for Switzer- land, Austria, the German Democratic Re- public, and Poland. Such diligence in list- ing these collections should throw light on and make accessible much obscure, frag- mentary and elusive, but often valuable research material.-H.,P. DRAMA AND THEATER Gassner, John, and Quinn, Edward, eds. The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama. New York: Crowell, [1969]. 1030p. il. $15. (69-11 830). This is a work ambitiously conceived and imperfectly executed. Its scope is uni- versal but its coverage is superficial in most areas outside Western Europe and North America. Of its 102 contributors, eighty are from the United States, and thirty-three of these from New York State; Europe is scantily represented by only ten contrib- utors; the Middle East and Asia share four. One can allow that writers on a given national literature need not be of that na- tion, but further comparison shows imbal- ance in cultural coverage by depth of ar- ticle, with noticeably greater space de- voted to European and American figures and traditions. Cultural bias aside, the work is, on the whole, readable on the high school or college level and does attempt ·:to provide some suggestions for further reading b y means of brief bibliographies. The subject of the work is drama as literature, not theatre ; thus, there are no entries for ac- 276 I College & Research Libraries • July 1970 tors, troupes, costumes, etc. Entries tend mainly to be playwrights, specific plays, genres, and terminology. A useful feature is the inclusion of an appendix of some "Basic Documents in Dramatic Theory," twenty-four brief essays ranging from Aris- totle to Diirrenmatt.-G.L. Litto, Fredric M. American Dissertations on the D1·ama and the Theatre; a Bib- liography. [Kent, Ohio]: Kent State Univ. Press, [1969]. 519p. $12.50. (71- 76761). A welcome addition to the growing list of bibliographies of dissertations in special subject fields, this volume brings together references to more than 4,500 doctoral dis- sertations "on subjects related to theatre and drama completed in all academic de- partments of American (the United States and Canada) universities." -Pref. The bibliography is arranged by "reference code" number (not alphabetically by au- thor as might appear at first glance), and there are author, keyword-in-context, and subject indexes. Cutoff date is 1965. The compiler proposes to publish annual lists for the years since 1965 and, inasmuch as this is a computer-produced work, to bring out updated editions of the bibliog- raphy at five-year intervals.-E.S. Stratman, Carl Joseph, ed. Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research Bibliography, 1961-1968. Comp. by ed- mund A. Napieralski and Jean E. West- brook. Troy, N.Y.: Whitson, 1969. 241p. $10.50. (75-79626). An annotated bibliography of 1,186 items, this is a cumulation of the seven annual lists from Restoration and 18th Centwy Theatre (formerly 17th and 18th Century Th eatre Research) covering 1961 through 1967. It provides more extensive coverage for the subject than the corre- sponding sections of more general literary annual bibliographies currently published. Included are periodical articles, essays in collections, dissertations and books, the great majority of materials in English. Ar- rangement is by subject term (e.g., acting, prompt books) and names of dramatists, actors, etc., as subjects in one alphabet. The disadvantage of this dictionary ar- rangement is obvious when some sixty en- tries appear under the term "miscellane- ous." There is no list of periodicals indexed, but citations are full. A list of subject headings used would have been helpful in lieu of the table of contents that a classed arrangement would have required. Running heads are lacking so that subject terms, although set in solid caps, are elu- sive. There is an author index.-R.K. Musrc Gerboth, Walter. An Index to Musical F estschriften and Similar Publications. New York: Norton, 1969. 188p. $9.75. (68-12182). Articles in F estschriften are very impor- tant in music scholarship, especially be- cause a scholar often uses them to update or amend his research. Honorary studies, however, are often difficult to find and are seldom indexed. Professor Gerboth has compiled a very useful index and one that is easy to use. The work first appeared in a Festschrift for Gustave Reese (Aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Music. New York, 1966); it has now been expanded to include Festschriften published through 1967, earlier volumes previously omitted, music articles in nonmusical F estschriften, and works published in Slavic languages. In addition, any unpublished Festschrift which could be located was included. The index is divided into three parts: ( 1 ) a list of the F estschriften; ( 2) a sub- ject list of articles in these publications; and ( 3) an index by author and specific subject. Each article is listed only once in the second part, the preferred citation being under the historical period if at all appropriate. There are cross-references to other periods or individuals as needed. The compiler drew his bibliography from music bibliographies and from the catalogs of the New York Public Library, the Li- brary of Congress, and the Columbia Uni- versity Libraries. So, although no locations are indicated, the researcher can usu- ally expect to find a given item in one of these three libraries.-E.M. FouNDATIONS Directory of European Foundations. [Ed. 11 Ed. by Fondazione Giovanni Agnel- li.Torin~ 1969. 550p. $9. Foundation directories having recently appeared for Great Britain (Directory of Grant-making Trusts, 1968; Suppl. 2CA6), Australia (Directory of Philanthropic Trusts in Australia, 1968), and Latin America (Philanthropic Fo,undations in Latin Amer- ica, 1968; Suppl. 2CA8), this new work brings us another step closer to world- wide coverage of organized philanthropic activities. Although it includes only 301 foundations of an estimated total of 250,000 in Europe today, the directory represents a high percentage of those which fall within its stated limits: those having an- nual expenditures of $5,000 or more, or as- sets of at least $100,000. Arrangement is alphabetical within the fifteen counh·y sec- tions; there are indexes of persons and of foundation names. Unfortunately no sub- ject approach by field of activity has been provided.-E.S. SociAL SciENCES Mason, John Brown. Research Resources: Annotated Guide to the Social Sciences. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio Press, 1968- . v.1, International relations and recent history: indexes, abstracts and periodicals. 243p. $7.75. ( 68-9685). Professor Mason has undertaken to pro- vide a guide to the masses of bibliographic material in international relations and re- cent history. This first volume deals with access to books, periodicals, and newspa- pers; the next volume will discuss official publications. The work begins with an an- notated list of indexes and abstracts in all areas of the social sciences and history; then follows a list of important periodicals of interest to researchers in international relations and history. A further section lists materials giving bibliographic access to reference works, with special chapters on guides to reference books, bibliographies of bibliographies, and bibliographies de- voted to individual topics. Then follow lists of special kinds of reference books, Reference Books of 1969-70 I 277 such as biographical dictionaries, encyclo- pedias and atlases, national and trade bib- liographies, and guides to U.S. government publications. The work concludes with a section on the press. There are author and title indexes. For the student who will spend time studying this guide, it will be a valuable introduction to research re- sources in the fields indicated.-E.M. Seidman, Joel Isaac. Communism in the United States; a Bibliography. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, [1969]. 526p. $17.50. ( 69-12427) . Although this bibliography is based on the 1955 Bibliography on the Communist Problem in the United States (Guide CI174), over half of its 7,000 items are not drawn from the earlier work. It at- tempts systematic coverage of the period from the inception of the Communist movement in the United States in 1919 to its decline in the late 1950s; material of unusual interest published before and af- ter these years is included, however. Be- cause the literature relating to the move- ment is so extensive, the author has had to set up strict criteria for inclusion. His title is somewhat misleading, for he emphasizes material by and about the official party and its members to the exclusion, for the most part, of writings of front organiza- tions and on Communist theory. Both monographs and periodical articles (but not newspaper items) are included. Cita- tions are accompanied by brief annota- tions which often give information about the author or the particular significance of the publication. The work might have been easier to use had it been arranged by topic instead of alphabetically by author, especially since the subject index is in- sufficiently detailed. It is basically a val- uable list, however, selecting from a large and frequently evasive body of literature the more important and representative publications.-N.S. Theodoratus, Robert J. Europe: A Select- ed Ethnogt·aphic Bibliography. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files 1969. 543p. $18.50 pa. (75-87851). ' The absence of a general ethnographic bibliography is a lacuna this compilation 278 I College & Research Libraries • July 1970 seeks to fill. All of Europe is included ex- cept for the Caucasus and the Finno-U gric and Turkic peoples; arrangement is by country, then by ethnic group. Emphasis is on the modern period, principally nine- teenth and twentieth centuries. The work is admittedly uneven because standards of selection, high for countries about which there is a wealth of published material, dropped drastically for areas with scant published data "in order to provide a bal- anced coverage." -Pref. There is a list of journals cited, but no index.-R.K. Vesenyi, Paul E. European Periodical Lit- erature in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1969. 226p. $5. (79-7052). Recognizing an increasing need for ways to locate periodical articles in the social sciences and humanities, Vesenyi has made it his objective to list and analyze the growing number of current periodical indexing services published in Europe, thereby enabling research workers to try to catch up bibliographically with in- creased subject specialization. The indexes and abstracts, miscellaneous bibliographies, directories, and union lists which provide access to European periodical literature are here arranged by country of publica- tion (from Albania to Yugoslavia) and there is a thematic index for approaching the lists. The index includes a section of "general bibliographies," which lists multi- disciplinary works, and there is an ap- pendix listing "name bibliographies" (i.e., bibliographies of individual persons) which include references to periodical literature. Each item is briefly described according to a predetermined format, with notes taking care of variations in individual tools.- M.M. HISTORY AND AREA STUDIES Crowther, Peter A., comp. A Bibliography of Works in English on Early Russian History to 1800. Oxford: Blackwell; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1969. 236p. $9.50. (71-9351). The compiler of this bibliography has attempted to provide a comprehensive listing in the fields of Russian general his- tory, foreign relations, and social and eco- nomic history, but has added more selec- tive sections on language and the arts. Both separately published materials and articles in periodicals are included. Ar- rangement is by broad topic~ with an au- thor and subject index. Few of the more than 2,000 entries are annotated, but the more important works are described brief- ly in the chapter introductions, and cita- tions to reviews are given where possible. The work is intended as a companion to David M. Shapiro's A Select Bibliography of Works in English on Russian History , 1801-1917 (Oxford, 1962) .-N.S. The Far East and Australasia, 1969- London: Europa, [1969- ]. £8. An- nual. Subtitle: A survey and directory of Asia and the Pacific. Planned as an annual survey, this new work is designed "to provide a systematic directory of political and economic orga- nization in each country, and to serve as an introduction to the problems that the region in general and each country in par- ticular are encountering in developing vi- able economic, social and political struc- tures."-Foreword. States and territories are discussed in four major units: South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia, and Australasia and the Pacific Islands. A general intro- duction to the religions, development problems, aid and investment, and major commodities is followed by chapters on regional cooperative organizations. The bulk of this latter material (as well as the statistical surveys of the individual countries which follow) is the same as that which appears in v.2 of Europ·a Year Book (Guid e CI37). Also, the information on educational institutions and learned so- cieties duplicates that given in the World of Learning (Guide CB69). However, in- troductory chapters on each nation's phys- ical and social geography, history, and economy have been added, as have bib- liographies. A useful reference section at the end of the volume includes a "Who's Who in the Far East and Australasia."- ].S. Horecky, Paul L., ed. East Central Eu- rope; a Guide to Basic Publications. ... .. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, [1969]. 956p. $25.25. (70-79472). Compiled by a team of scholars as one of the two bibliographies mandated by the survey made by the Subcommittee on East Central and Southeastern Europe of the American Council of Learned Socie- ties and the Social Science Research Coun- cil, this important bibliographical guide to an area not previously covered will prove valuable as a study aid, research tool, and means of developing library resources. It "records basic books, periodicals, and, oc- casionally, articles of special pertinence, on the lands and peoples of Czechoslovakia, East Germany (including . . . the Lusa- tians and Polabians), Hungary and Po- land" (Pref.), principally in the social sci- ences. Selection of materials was made on the basis of scholarly and informational merits and, although emphasis is on re- cent developments, much background ma- terial is included. Annotations are evalua- tive and descriptive. The first chapter lists reference aids and the more general works; succeeding sec- tions are devoted to individual countries with subdivisions for land, people, his- tory, state, economics, society, intellectual history, and the organization of scientific research activities. Entries are serially numbered throughout and give author, title, translation of Slavic language title, imprint, and paging. There is an extensive author-title-subject index.-R.K. Jelavich, Charles, ed. Language and Area Studies: East Central and Southeastern Europe; a Survey. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, [1969]. 483p. $11.50. (72-81222). The purpose of this survey (undertaken by the Subcommittee on East Central and Southeastern Europe appointed by the Joint Committee on Slavic Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council) "is to indicate the strengths and weaknesses , the accomplishments and the failures in American training and scholarship, and to indicate the direction the participants in this project would like to see research and b·aining in this field move in the future." -P1·ef. The area named in the title in- Reference Books of 1969-70 I 219 eludes Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece and, where relevant, European Turkey and East Germany. Two chapters are devoted to graduate training and un- dergraduate instruction in the pertinent area studies. Then follow fifteen essays on as many social science and humanities dis- ciplines (history, political science, litera- ture, linguistics, etc.) which examine the state of American scholarship, give a brief account of its development, its re- cent achievements and present needs, sug- gestions for new areas of research, evalua- tion of graduate training and recommenda- tions for its improvement and expansion. Chapters do not conform to a rigid pat- tern, but usually cover the topics m~n­ tioned. Librarians will appreciate the bib- liographical character of many of the in- dividual essays.-R.K. SCIENCE Akademiia N auk SSSR. Institut N auchnoi Informatsii. M irovaia nauchnaia i tekh- nicheskaia literatura. Annotirovannyi spravochnik periodicheskikh i prodolz- haiushchikhsia izdanii . Moskva, 1968- . (In progress) v.1, Astronomiia, geodezi- ia, matematika, mekhanika. 298p. 1r., 60k. Title also in English (World Scientific and Technical Literature; Annotated In- dex of Periodicals and Serials), German, French, and Spanish. The first volume published in a pro- jected seven-volume set which will even- tually cover all branches of science, this international guide lists periodicals in- dexed in the Academy's series of abstract journals (Guide EA 72). Titles are first listed in six separate alphabets: Cyrillic, Roman, Armenian, Georgian, Chinese and Japanese, and Korean. The main section, classed by subject, includes full biblio- graphic information, price, and the address where the journal may be obtained. A brief paragraph, in Russian, indicates more specifically the subject matter covered by the periodical, the language in which it appears, and the audience for whom it is intended. Official abbreviations and a geo- graphic index are also included.-N.S. • •