College and Research Libraries


EUGENE P. SHEEHY 

Selected Reference · Books of ' 1969-70 

lNTRODUCfiON 

THIS ARTICLE CONTINUES the semian-
nual series originally edited by Con-
stance M. Winchell. Although it appears 
under a byline, the list is actually a proj-
ect of the Reference Department of .the 
Columbia University Libraries, and notes 
are signed with the initials of the indi-
vidual staff members. 1 

Since the purpose of the list is to pre-
sent a selection of recent scholarly and 
foreign works of interest to reference 
workers in university libraries, it does 
not pretend to be either well balanced or 
comprehensive. Code numbers (such as 
AA 71, 2BD89) have been used to refer 
to titles in the Guide to Reference Books 
and its supplements. 2 

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Bibliografia venezolana. Afio 1, no.1- , 
Enero/Marzo 1970- . Caracas, Bibli-
oteca Nacional, Centro Bibliografico Ven-
ezolano, 1970- . Quarterly. 
Publication of this bibliography repre-

sents Venezuela's first major effort to re-
gain bibliographic control since the last is-
sue of Anuario bibliogrdfico venezolano 
(Guide AA732) covering through 1954. 
Books, pamphlets, government publications, 
and periodical articles published in Vene-
zuela, plus materials about Venezuela or by 
Venezuelan authors published abroad are 
arranged according to Dewey classification. 
Detailed citations are provided, generally 
including full name of author, complete 
title, place, publisher, date, pagination, and 
series. 

To complete bibliographic coverage since 
1954, the Biblioteca N acional has pro-
posed a series of retrospective bibliogra-
phies to be published according to the fol-

36/ 

lowing schedule: 1967_:_68, 1969, 1955-60, 
1961-66, and then, 1970. Presumably, 
quarterly issues of Bibliografia venezolana 
will be superseded by annual cumulations. 
If this goal is achieved, a valuable refer-
ence series will be available for .librarians 
~J?.d scholars.-].S. 

British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books. 
A Short-Title Catalogue of French Books, 
1601 - 1700, in the Library of the British 
Museum, by V. F. Goldsmith. Folke-
stone, Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1969-

. Fasc.1- . (In progress) 70-76327. 

Contents: Fasc.1, A-B. £5. 
Although appearing in a different for-

mat, this work continues chronologically 
the Museum's Short-Title Catalogue of 
French Books 1470- 1600 (Guide AA462). 
Basi~ally an author catalog, the completed 
work will contain about 35,000 entries for 
seventeenth-century books "written wholly 
or partly in French, no matter where pub-
lished" and those "in no matter what lan-
guage, published or printed at any place 
which today forms a part of metropolitan 
France."-Foreword. It lists works appear-
ing in the General Catalogue of the Mu-
seum (Guide AA67), works acquired since 
1955, a.nd some earlier accessions not found 
in the printed catalog. In addition, three 
extensive collections of "Mazarinades" are 
here ·fully listed for the first time. Nine 
more fascicles are planned for publication 
over the next two and a half years, the 
final part to include extensive indexes.-
E.S. 

Mashkova, Mariia Vasil'evna. Istoriia rus-
skoi bibliografii nachala XX veka (do 
oktiabria 1917 goda). Moskva, Kniga, 
1969. 492p. 1r., 2k. 70-457301. 

As the author indicates in her introduc-
tion, this is the first comprehensive history 
of Russian bibliography of the beginning 
of the twentieth century. It is intended as 



Selected Reference Books of 1969-70 I 31 

a continuation of Nikolai V. Zdobnov's Is-
toriia russkoi bibliografii do nachala XX 
veka (3d . ed., Moscow, 1955). The work 
covers in great detail such topics . as con-
temporary and retrospective bibliographies 
of both books and periodicals; bibliogra-
phies of suppressed writings and of the 
output of the many political organizations 
of the period; the achievements of several 
important Russian bibliographers; and the 
development of bibliographic organiza-
tions. An index of names is provided. Im-
pressive in the thoroughness of its scholar-
ship, the volume is an important contribu-
tion to the study of Russian bibliography. 
-N.S. 

Short-title Catalog of Books Printed in 
Italy and of Books in Italian Printed 
Abroad, 1501-1600, Held in Selected 
North American Libraries. Boston, G. K. 
Hall, 1970. 3v. $95. 

An American finding-tool for books from 
a historical period of great interest to 
scholars, this is a very welcome addition to 
Italian bibliography. Scope is defined in 
the title; format is that of the British Mu-
seum's Short-title Catalogue of Books Print-
ed in Italy (Guide AA561). Arrangement 
follows that of the British Museum work, 
listing entries primarily by author, and add-
ing some items not in the earlier catalog. 
Forty-two American and Canadian libraries 
reported locations, but unfortunately Har-
vard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, The Uni-
versity of California, and Huntington li-
braries are absent from the list. The index 
of printers and publishers is an indispensi-
ble adjunct to a work of this kind, with 
entries chronologically arranged under each 
name. On the whole, this is a scholarly 
work, carefully edited, and of great inter-
est to academic libraries.-G.L. 

ENCYCLOPEDIAS 

Bol' shaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia. Tret' e 
izd. Glav. Red. A. M. Prokhorov. Mosk-
va, Izd-vo <CSovetskaia Entsiklopediia," 
1970- . v.1- . 5r. , 50k. per v. 

With careful editing and the use of a 
smaller typeface, this third edition will be 
complete in 30 volumes-21 less than the 
previous edition ( Guide AD60) . A com-

parison of this first volume with that of the 
second : edition indicates that only the size 
of the encyclopedia will have diminished, 
not its relative quality. Of course this is 
necessarily a subjective judgment, since 
any socialist-and especially a Soviet-en-
cyclopedia is extremely biased in its pre-
sentation of material, and accuracy and bal-
anced content cannot be used as standards. 
The preface states that special emphasis is 
placed on achievements in communist-
dominated areas and on those subjects 
(i.e~, philosophy, economics, political sci-
ence, sociology) which support the spread 
of socialist ideology. 

. The encyclopedia is compiled by a large 
team of scholars. Articles are signed, al-
phabetically arranged, and wherever pos-
sible, the headings kept broad, with a gen-
erous . use of subheadings for specificity. 
In the many cases where the headings are 
not proper names but nouns or adjectives, 
there is some ambiguity in form of entry. 
Bibliographic references, some of them 
dated as recently as 1969, appear at the 
end of many articles, and the additional 
heavy use of graphs, charts, drawings, pho-
tographs, maps, and plates will make this 
a handsome as well as useful reference set 
for the reader prepared for its limitations. 
No mention is made of an index, but since 
the previous edition has a two-volume in-
dex published after the appearance of the 
rest of the set, we can probably assume 
that this will be the case here also.-E.L. 

DICTION ARIES 

Dizionario delle lingue italiana e inglese. 
Vladimiro Macchi, ed. Firenze, Sansoni, 
[1970- ]. Pt.1, v.1-

Contents: Pt.1, v.1 , Italiano-Inglese, A-
L. 759p. 20,000 L. 

Added title page in English; introduc-
tory matter in Italian and English. 

About 100,000 entries are to be includ-
ed in the Italian-English part of this new 
dictionary which is being published by Har-
rap in London as well as by Sansoni in 
Florence. Vocabulary is meant to embrace 
not only current, everyday · usage (with 
careful attention to variant meanings), but 
terms from classical and modern literature, 



38 I College & Research Libraries • January 1971 

regionalisms, neologisms, and a consider-
able number of technical terms. Personal 
and place names are included with the 
normal lexical enh·ies. Despite a relatively 
small typeface on a large, two-column 
page, effective employment of boldface 
type makes for easy use. This promises to 
be a topflight bilingual dictionary.-E.S. 

PERIODICAL INDEXES 

Alternative Press Index. v.1, no.1/ 2- , 
July /Dec. 1969- . Northfield, Minn., 
Radical Research Center, 1970-
Quarterly. $30 per yr. 

Subtitle: An index to the publications 
which amplify the cry for social change 
and social justice. 

The Village Voice, Ramparts, and the 
New York Review of Books, as well as 
many less familiar radical and under-
ground press titles are indexed in this new 
subject guide to about 75 periodicals. Few 
of the publications are indexed elsewhere. 
Subject headings are detailed and up to 
date, and still further refinement is prom-
ised. The value of this unique and in-
dispensible index will be enhanced if the 
publishers are able, as they hope, to pro-
vide a reprint service for all items listed, 
since few libraries have strong collections 
of underground press publications.-N.S. 

DISSERTATIONS 

Chatham, James R. and Ruiz-Fornells, En-
rique. Dissertations in Hispanic Lan-
guages and Literatures; an Index of Dis-
sertations Completed in the United 
States and Canada, 1876-1966. [Lex-
ington, Ky.], Univ. Pr. of Kentucky, 
[1970]. 120p. $12.50. 70-80093. 

Lunday, G. Albert. Sociology Dissertations 
in American Universities, 1893- 1966. 
Commerce, East Texas State Univ. ,. 1969. 
277p. $4.95 pa. 74-630565. 

Selim, George Dimitri. Amet·ican Doctoral 
Di<ssertations on the Arab World, 1883-
1968. Washington , Library of Congress 
( distr. by Supt. of Docs.), 1970. 103p. 
$.55 pa. 79-607590. 

Cumulated lists of dissertations in specif-

ic fields, providing information on com-
pleted research and implicit indications of 
undeveloped topics, are always welcome to 
the graduate student and the reference li-
brarian. The three works noted here are 
compiled from standard dissertations lists 
and university records. 

The Chatham and Ruiz-Fomells volume 
is a classified list of wide coverage of dis-
sertations accepted not only in romance 
departments, but also in comparative lit-
erature and applied linguistics because of 
their "obvious interest to researchers in His-
panic languages and literatures."-Pref. A 
general index of subjects, authors as sub-
jects, and authors of dissertations adds ref-
erence value. 

The Lunday work, computer-compiled 
and printed, is divided into 26 subject 
areas with listings for almost four thou-
sand dissertations accepted in sociology de-
partments of United States universities. 
An author index is provided. 

Selim's compilation is an author list of 
approximately one thousand dissertations 
of United States and selected Canadian 
universities. Geographic coverage includes 
Arabic-speaking countries of the Near East 
and North Africa, all communities where 
Arabic is spoken, and Islam as a religion re-
gardless of location. Subjects included are 
science, technology, humanities , and social 
sciences. An index of major subjects and 
key words in titles provides subject ap-
proach.-R.K. 

BIOGRAPHY 

Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Charles 
Coulston Gillispie, ed.-in-chief. N.Y. , 
Scribner's, [1970- .]. v.1- . $35 per 
v. 69-18090. 
Contents: v.1-2, Abailard-Buys Ballot. 
Projected for twelve volumes, this new 

biographical set aims to present the his-
tory of science through scholarly articles 
describing the achievements of scientists 
from all periods and all countries. There 
are three limitations of inclusion: no living 
scientists are included; only the most im-
portant scientists of the twentieth century 
are chosen; and few of the scientists of 
early India, China, and Japan are treated. 



Selected Reference Books of 1969-70 / 39 

These last two limitations indicate gaps in 
scholarship; therefore, the last volume of 
the set will include a supplement with ar-
ticles on the various schools and traditions 
of ancient Oriental and Near Eastern as-
tronomy and natural science. 

Each article stresses the scientific career 
and influence rather than the purely per-
sonal aspects of the man's life. An excellent 
bibliography concludes each biography, 
pointing out important editions, locations 
of manuscripts, and noteworthy critical 
and descriptive works. A detailed index 
will round out the series-detailed in order 
that the scholar can trace "the evolution 
of problems, concepts and subjects through 
articles about persons who contributed to 
their development." -Pref. The work 
achieves a high quality of scholarship and 
is very readable. One is surprised, however, 
at some of the inclusions: St. Augustine 
and Abelard, for example, who have evi-
dently been added to explain the contri-
bution of the humanistic attitude toward 
the freedom of scientific investigation.-
E.M. 

Miguel i Verges, Jose Maria. Dicciona1·io 
de insurgentes. Mexico, Editorial Por-
rua, 1969. 623p. il. 200 pesos. 

i\1ore than 4,000 biographies of insur-
gents in the Mexican War of Independence 
have been incorporated into this diction-
ary. The sketches, which vary in length 
from a few lines to eleven pages (for Mi-
guel Hidalgo y Costilla), involved twenty 
years of exacting research, and the work 
is published posthumously. The term "in-
surgent" has been interpreted broadly to 
include previously unknown figures who 
were killed , imprisoned, or exiled during 
the years 1810-1822, as well as the rec-
ognized leaders and commanders of the 
fight for independence. Military and pub-
lic officials who fought against indepen-
d ence and those who joined the struggle in 
its last few months have also been in-
cluded. The thoroughness of the author's 
research is complemented by his inclusion 
of bibliographies; the addition of plates 
provides the final touch .-].S. 

T he National Faculty Directory, 1970-
D etroit, Gale Research Co., [ 1970- ] . 

Annual? $47.50. 76-114404. 
Subtitle: An alphabetical list, with ad-

dresses, of 320,000 faculty members at jun-
ior colleges, colleges, and universities in 
the United States. 

The subtitle tells all. This is in effect a 
"who's where" for the academic world, 
listing names of faculty members with de-
partment and institutional affiliation, but 
with no indication of faculty rank or other 
information. The directory was generated 
from a data bank which is being constant-
ly updated from new college catalogs and 
bulletins.-E.S. 

Valentine, Alan. The British Establishment, 
1760-1784; an Eighteenth-Century Bi-
ographical Dictionary. Norman, Univ. of 
Oklahoma Pr., [1970]. 2v. $19.95. 69-
16734. 

This compilation of "skeleton biogra-
phies" will be welcomed by the student of 
late eighteenth-century history and poli-
tics. The period covered, which begins 
with the accession of George III and ends 
after the Peace of Paris, was chosen be-
cause it is of "special interest to both Brit-
ish and American historians, because it has 
a remarkable ... unity in its problems and 
its leading characters, and because its 
contemporaty source materials are studded 
with the names of men seldom satisfactorily 
identified ... . "-Foreword. It is these less-
er names which constitute the bulk of the 
three thousand, alphabetically arranged 
sketches of members of the court, govern-
ment, army, navy, church, legal and finan-
cial professions, and society. Almost half 
of them do not appear in the DNB. 
Sketches usually give genealogy, education, 
and career; membership in Parliament is 
always noted. In the case of well-known 
persons, tl1e reader is directed to standard 
sources for more complete information. 
Sources are not indicated in entries, but 
the leading 'British depositories of archival 
materials are mentioned in the foreword 
as having been important to the author's 
research.-R.K. 

RELIGION 

Brandon, Samuel George Frederick, ed. 
A Dictionm·y of Comparative Religion. 



40 I College & Research Libraries· • January 1971 

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson~ [19701• 
704p. $17.50. 76-111390. . . ". 

Twenty-eight British scholars, under the 
general direction of S. G. F. Brando·n., Pro-
fessor of Comparative Religion at the Uni-
versity of Manchester, have contributed to 
this volume designed "to meet the increas-
ing demand for information, reliable · and 
current, about the religious beliefs and 
practices of mankind" and "to treat the 
various religions proportionately to their 
significance in the history of human cul-
ture."-Pref. It attempts to update the 
venerable Encyclopaedia of Religion ·and 
Ethics (Guide BB12) and to correct the 
Christian imbalance of Die Religion in 
Geschichte und Gegenwart (Guide BB17). 

The main body of the Dictionary is. an 
alphabetical arrangement of articles cover-
ing subjects as diverse as: anthropology, 
butterfly, existentialism, the "Honest to 
God" debate, Karl Marx, and the Scandi-
navian School of the history of religion. 
Articles on specific terms are often only 
one or two sentences in length, while those 
on more general topics (e.g., creed, ethics, 
festivals) may be five or more pages, sub-
divided by appropriate religious groups. 
The "lesser" religions (e.g., North Amer-
ican Indian, Parthian) are described in 
single articles; the major faiths are included 
in the "Synoptic Index" where all articles 
relevant to each are listed alphabetically. 
All articles are signed, and most include a 
bibliography. This is a fascinating "brows-
ing" book and should be valuable for the 
study of religion as a social phenomenon. 
Articles are clear and concise, with many 
cross-references. The bibliographies, both 
general and specific, seem particularly well 
chosen and up to date.-D.G. 

O'Brien, Thomas C., ed. Corpus Diction-
ary of Western Churches. Washington, 
Corpus Publications, [1970]. 820p. 
$17.50. 78-99501. 

"Churches that have developed through-
out the history of Western Christianity" 
are the central concern of this new, ready 
reference work, with special attention be-
ing given to "North American Churches in 
the Western tradition that are of either 
historical or contemporary significance, par-

ticularly those reported in the National 
Council of Churches' Year book of Amer-
ican Churches."-Pref. Entries for subsidi-
ary materials range from events and per-
sonalities in church history , through docu-
ments, doctrines, practices, and theolog-
ical themes. The approximately 2,300 con-
cise~ unsigned a1ticles represent contribu-
tions of more than one hundred scholars 
and specialists of many . faiths. Although 
edited under Roman Catholic auspices, the 
work is ecumenical in intent, offering the 
Christian reader "an understanding of 
Churches other than his own and of his 
own in relation to others." Bibliographical 
references are usually provided, and the 
work is generously cross-referenced.-E.S. 

LITERATURE 

Albrecht, Gunter and Dahlke Gunther. 
Internationale Bibliographie ' zur Ge-
schichte de1· deutschen Literatur von 
den Anfiingen bis zur Gegenwart. Miin-
chen, Verlag Dokumentation, 1969- . 
v.1- . (To be in 2v.) 76-430568. 
Contents: v.l, Von den Anfangen bis 

1789. 1045p. . 
This ambitious bibliographic undertak-

ing is a product of "socialist cooperation" 
and is published under joint auspices of 
East German scholarship and the Academy 
of Sciences of the USSR. Other contribut-
ing countries are Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, 
Yugoslavia, Poland, Rumania, and Hun-
gary. The work is planned as a compre-
hensive, though selective bibliography for 
study and research. Publications in all 
forms and all languages are considered, 
and represent all aspects of German litera-
ture. A general section lists studies on lit-
erary history, theory and form; a chrono-
logical part lists editions and criticism of 
works in the field of German philology 
from all periods. Studies in other fields-
history, political science, sociology, music, 
architecture, etc.-are considered for their 
influence on literature. The work is clearly 
based on an ideological plan stressing the 
progressive tradition in literature; neverthe-
less, it constitutes a valuable reference tool 
because of its inclusiveness.-H.P. 

Cioranescu, Alexandre. Bibliographie de 



Selected· Reference Books of 1969-70 I 41 

la litterature franQaise du dix-huitieme 
siecle. Paris, Centre National de Ia Re-
cherche Scientifique, 1969. 3v. 340F. 70-
453192. 

Following remarkably closely on his vol-
umes for the sixteenth and seventeenth 
centuries (Guide . BD665 and Suppl. 1BD-
71), this is the third and last of the au-
thor's series of bibliographies of French 
literature. As in the previous compilations, 
the general section is a selected list of 
sources for the study of the historical, so-
cial, and cultural background of the peri-
od. The individual author bibliographies 
list significant editions of a writer's works, 
and books and articles about him published 
before 1961. A sentence or two of bio-
graphical information is often provided. In-
dexing is thorough, if occasionally inaccu-
rate. While this bibliography lacks anno-
tations, its comprehensiveness assures it a 
place of first importance among bibliogra-
phies of eighteenth-century French litera-
ture.-N.S. 

The Critical Temper; a Survey of Modem 
Criticism on English and American Lit-
erature from the Beginnings to the Twen-
tieth Century. Martin Tucker, gen. ed. 
N.Y., Ungar, [1969]. 3v. $45. 68-8116. 

Intended as a supplement to Moulton's 
Library of Literary Criticism (Guide BD-
339), this work is arranged chronologically 
by period, then alphabetically by author. 
For most authors there is a biographical 
headnote, mention of the standard biogra-
phy, then excerpts of criticism culled from 
critics of "commonly acknowledged reputa-
tion."-Foreword. Criticism under each au-
thor is arranged by individual work and 
then chronologically to enable the reader 
to ascertain the changing currents of opin-
ion. Critical excerpts for the eight periods 
covered were assembled by eight individu-
al scholars. The amount of space given to 
an author is based essentially on how many 
critical approaches are made to his work; 
thus, the quantity of work on John Donne 
based on one critical premise has resulted 
in a shorter section than the one for Lord 
Byron whose works have been approached 
from many critical viewpoints. The various 
schools of criticism of this century are re-

fleeted: the "new school" of the early 30s 
that discussed authors within the frame-
work of their lives and times; the "struc-
tural" school that analyzed each work line 
by line; the "archetypal'' school that saw 
recurring and eternal patterns in dissimilar 
works. A major drawback is that no men-
tion is made of controversial critics or, as 
the editor says, critics about whom there 
are "differences of opinion among experts"; 
this eliminates many new and valuable in-
sights. There is an index of critics in the 
last volume. Bibliographies would be use-
ful, but this would add an entirely new 
dimension to the work's scope. The com-
pilation is valuable for acquainting new 
readers with the tenor of modern criticism . 
-G.L. 

Foster, David William and Foster, Vir-
ginia Ramos. Research Guide to Argen -
tine Literature. Metuchen, N.J., Scare-
crow Pr., 1970. 146p. $5. 70-9731. 
Here is an attempt to compile for the 

student of Argentine literature a working 
bibliography of book and journal titles 
which will serve as a guide to a growing 
body of literary criticism. Part I lists im-
portant bibliographic sources; Part II, jour-
nals publishing research in the field; Part 
III is an extensive topical listing of general 
works of criticism. A final section deals 
with individual literary figures, presenting 
lists of critical works on 43 authors; the 
criteria for selection were qualitative. 
There is an index to critics.-M.M. 

Myers, Robin. A Dictionary of Literature 
in the English Language, from Chaucer 
to 1940. Comp. for the National Book 
League. Oxford, [etc.] Pergamon Pr. , 
[1970- ]. v.1- . il. 
More a bibliography than a dictionary, 

this work offers biographical and biblio-
graphical information on about 3500 au-
thors writing in English, whose first work 
was published before 1940. There are a 
few brief entries for literary magazines 
and for literary clubs and groups; some 
nonliterary writers of merit are included. 
Biographical information is sketchy, and 
the bulk of the work is devoted to lists of 
individual writers' works with publication 
dates. Author entries include "a iist of bib-



42 I College & Research Libraries • January 1971 

liographical sources us ed in compilation or 
suggested for furthe r study" (Pref .), b ut 
unfortunately standard sources such as 
.. C BEL" and "Spiller" predominate here, 
with relatively little attention given to sin-
gle-author bibliographies. A second volume 
is to provide a title-a uthor index of the ap-
proximately 60,000 works cited, and this 
pro mises to be the most useful feature of 
an otherwise fairly u ndistinguished work. 
-E .S. 

MonoN PicTuREs 

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sci-
ences. Who Wrote t he Movie and What 
Else Did He Write? An Index of Screen 
W riters and Their Film Works, 1936-
1969. Los Angeles , The Academy and 
the Writers Guild of America, West, 
1970. 491p. $45. 

Although the material indexed here will 
be of undoubted interest to researchers 
in the growing field of film studies , there 
are some serious drawbacks in the compila-
tion. The work attempts to provide infor-
mation about authorship of screen plays 
and source material from which screen 
plays were drawn. Information is arranged 
by writer and by film , with an additional 
index by awards . Except in the Awards 
Index, the scope of the movies included is 
nowhere indicated. Are all American films 
indexed? There is a scattering of foreign 
fil ms, but one can only surmise that the 
presence or absence of a title is due to its 
dis tribution (or lack of it) by an American 
distributor. Under a n individual writer's 
name one finds all m ovies with which he 
was associated, but no attempt is made 
there to distinguish p recisely what his con-
nection was. One mus t turn to the Film Title 
Ind ex for an indication of the type of 
screen credit. In a tool with such varied 
and complex symb ols it is regretted that 
the type of credit w as not included in the 
Writers Index as welL 

The beginning d a te of the index was 
evidently chosen fo r the convenience of 
the compilers (since 1936 was the begin-
ning of the Academy's Writer-Producer 
Basic Code of Agreement which codified 
writer-collaborator contributions) , but un-
fortuna tely, movie made before 1936 are 

currently under serious study also . The 
work falls far short of the scholarly tool it 
might have been, but because of the vari-
eties of approach it will be useful nonethe-
less.-G.L. 

SOCIOLOGY 

Glenn, Norval D., Alston, Jon P. and Wei-
ner, David. Social Stratification: a Re-
search Bibliography. Berkeley, Calif., 
Glendessary Pr. , [1970]. 466p. $14. 74-
104325. 
Concerned with a specialty that has at-

tracted growing attention among sociolo-
gists and anthropologists in recent years, 
this long bibliography is addressed to stu-
dents and scholars in the social sciences 
and practitioners in many applied fields. 
Listing books, parts of books, and journal 
articles in English, it covers (widely, but 
selectively) publications chiefly from 1940 
to early 1968. Part I is entitled "Social 
stratification" and Part II, "Social mobility 
and the correlates of stratification." Each is 
u b divided into some thirty specific topics 

under which entries are arranged alpha-
betically by author. Enb·ies do not carry 
annotations or other indications of impor-
tance or quality. There is an author index; 
th e table of contents serves in lieu of one 
by subject. Although journals outside soci-
ology were not searched so intensively as 
those in the field , spot -checking shows some 
citations to the leading journals in anthro-
pology, demography, and p olitical science. 
-R.K. 

Porter, Dorothy Burnett. The N egro in the 
United States; a Selected Bibliography . 
W ashington, Library of Congress ( distr. 
by Supt. of Docs.), 1970. 313p. $3.25. 
7 8-606085. 

--. A Working Bibliog1·aphy on the N e-
gro in the United States. [Ann Arbor, 
Mich.], Xerox, University Microfilms, 
1969. 202p. $8 .25. 68-55572. 
Most college and university libraries will 

probably acquire both of these items, but 
if a choice must be made, opt for the L i-
brar y of Congress publication. Not only is 
it a bargain at the low price, but, while it 
includes fewer entries ( 1781 as opposed to 
1996, each work listing some items not 



Selected Reference Books of 1969-70 I 43 

found in the other), it has the advantage of 
a detailed subject approach through the 
author-subject index whereas the Working 
Bibliography has only an author index. 
Both bibliographies employ a classed ar-
rangement with similar subject categories. 
The stated purpose of the two works is 
fairly similar: the Working Bibliography is 
intended to facilitate book selection "for 
public, private and university collections 
of Afro-Americana" (Introd.), while the oth-
er is "designed to meet the current needs 
of students, teachers, librarians, research-
ers, and the general public for in troduc-
tory guidance to the study of the Negro 
in the United States" (Pref.). Miss Porter 
is Librarian of the Negro Collection at 
Howard University.-E.S. 

FoLKLORE 

Briggs, Katharine Mary. A Dictionary of 
British Folk-Tales in the English Lan-
guage, Incorporating the F. ]. Norton 
Collection. London, Routledge & 
K. Paul; Bloomington, Indiana Univ. 
Pr., [1970- ]. Pt.A, v.1- . (In prog-
ress; to be in 4v.) 70-97241. 
Contents: Pt.A: Folk narratives, v.1, 

Fables and exempla; Fairy tales; v.2, Jocu-
lar tales; Novelle; Nursery tales. £ lO,lOs ; 
$28. 

"Dictionary" seems almost a misnomer 
for this work which is actually a collection 
of transcriptions and summaries of folk tales 
in English. To be sure, the main sections 
are alphabetically arranged, and within 
sections the tales are arranged alphabeti-
cally by title. However, since many of the 
tales have no real titles, since some titles 
vary in different collections, and since dif-
ferent tales sometimes have the same title, 
access is most likely to be through the "In-
dex of Tale-types" according to numbers of 
the Aarne-Thompson tale- type index, or by 
scanning the index of titles. Tales were 
drawn from a wide range of sources as in-
dicated by the impressive list of books 
quoted, cited and consulted. Part B is to 
deal \vith "Folk legends" (tales once be-
lieved to be true) as opposed to "Folk nar-
ratives" (tales told for edification or amuse-
ment) .-E.S. 

GEOGR<\PHY 

Lock Clara Beatrice Muriel. Modern 
Maps and Atlases; an Outline Guide to 
Twentieth Century Production. [Lon-
don], Bingley; [Hamden, Conn.], Arch-
on, [1969]. 619p. $15. 70-6153. 

Deploring the lack of coordinated work 
on "recent and current world, nation and 
thematic mapping" (Introd.) as opposed to 
the extensive literature on historical cartog-
raphy, the author has here assembled a 
vast amount of information on methods 
and means of mapping, and on national 
and international cartographic agencies, 
their development and production. Chap-
ters deal with 1) techniques of modern 
cartography; 2) international maps and at-
lases; 3) national and regional maps and 
atlases; 4) thematic maps and atlases; and 
5) map librarianship. Chapters 2 and 3 
are of special interest to the reference h-
brarian for the historical and critical notes 
on outstanding world atlases and on the 
national cartographic departments and 
their published output. Bibliographic refer-
ences are liberally offered, and there is a 
very detailed index.-E.S. 

HISTORY 

Dupuy, Richard Ernest and Dupuy, Tre-
vor N. The Encyclopedia of Military 
Histm·y; from 3500 B.C. to the Present. 
N.Y., Harper & Row, [1970]. 1406p. il. 
$20. 7 4-81871. 

After fifteen years of research, a father 
and son team noted for their treatises on 
American military history have produced 
a work long desired by historians. Whether 
or not this single volume fulfills the need 
depends on what the reader is looking for; 
written for the layman, the work is not 
intended as a military history of the world, 
but as a quick reference source it may be 
invaluable to the general researcher and, 
in particular, to the student of war. Orga-
nized into twenty-one chapters arranged 
chronologically into arbitrarily chosen time 
periods, the volume is easy to use and has 
copious cross-reference . Each chapter is 
divided into three sections offering 1) a 
very basic introduction to the militar y 
trends of the period (leadership, we~pon-

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44 I College & Research Libraries • January 1971 

ry , strategy, tactics, theory, etc.); 2) a 
chronological narrative of the era's princi-
pal conflicts; and 3) a discussion of the 
military affairs of "major geographical 
areas." 

Emphasis is cle~rly upon western military 
affairs, especially those areas of the authors' 
specialization: the American Revolution 
and Civil War, and the two world wars. 
Land warfare is heavily favored over na-
val, as are American conflicts over those 
of Europe, not to mention the lack of ma-
terial on the East and even imperial Rus-
sia. Also, nearly 45 percent of the text is de-
voted to the nineteenth and twentieth cen-
turies. Any work of this magnitude has its 
strengths and weaknesses, and this is no 
exception. While the table of contents 
needs greater subdivision (as in Langer's 
Encyclopedia of World History), the three 
indices (general, battles and sieges, and 
wars ) are superb-by far the best feature 
of the volume. Unfortunately, the weakest 
point of the compendium is its maps and 
diagrams-things so necessary to the com-
prehension of military affairs. 

Factually the work is extremely accurate, 
but this advantage is diluted by a naive 
view of diplomacy, politics, and other war-
related fields, and by concluding commen-
taries that are often simplistic or laden with 
unnecessary moral judgments. A complete 
bibliography for such an immense field 
could scarcely be expected, but the one 
provided is indeed a paradox. The general 
background works cited offer a good sur-
vey of the art of war, and the selective 
bibliographies are adequate for the non-
sp ecialist. On the other hand, only one 
foreign source is cited, and the inclusion 
of some works and the omission of others 
is altogether mystifying.-M.S. 

Du Rietz, Rolf. Bibliotheca Polynesiana. 
Oslo, Privately publ. (for sale by Alm-
qvist & Wiksell), 1969. 455p. Sw.Kr. 
400. 
Subtitle: A catalogue of some of the 

books in the Polynesiana collection formed 
by the late Bjarne Kroepelien and now in 
the Oslo University Library. 

The aim of the Kroepelien collection 
was "to bring together as many editions, 
impressions, issues and states as possible of 

each book or pamphlet in .any way relat-
ing to, or printed in, French Polynesia." 
Despite acknowledged gaps, it is a most 
impressive collection. About a third of the 
total collection is listed and described in 
some detail in this author catalog of more 
than 1350 items. The ' editor admits to 
somewhat arbitrary selection, with relative 
completeness in only limited areas. Never-
theless, this is sure to become an important 
reference source for Pacific scholars.-E.S. 

Henige, David P. Colonial Governors from 
the Fifteenth Century to · the Present; a 
Comprehensive List. Madison, Univ. of 
Wisconsin Pr., 1970. 461p. $12.50. 73-
81320. 

Professor Henige prefaces his volume 
with thanks to a large number of archivists 
and librarians from all over the world . 
The cooperation of these men, plus Hen-
ige' s unravelling of various government 
documents and his searching of reference 
works have provided scholars and librarians 
with a very valuable reference tool. The 
aim is to "present lists of the governors of 
the European colonies from 1415 to the 
present time."-Pref. Although the United 
States doesn't think of its territories as col-
onies, enough features exist "to make the 
United States along with Japan, a non-
European example of imperial expansion" 
(p.354) , and both nations are included. 
The author has arranged the book's con-
tents under thirteen imperial systems, list-
ing the colonies alphabetically under each. 
Within each colony section he lists the 
governors chronologically. Each list begins 
with a short description of the history of 
the imperial system or the position of the 
colony in the system. Concluding each list 
is the major source of information used. 
The general index is very detailed and, 
when one becomes accustomed to the au-
thor's system of referring to colony num-
bers, quite easy to use . There is also an 
index of governors' names.-E .M. 

Johnson, Donald Clay, comp. A Guide to 
Reference Materials on Southeast Asia 
Based on the Collections in the Yale and 
Cornell University Libraries. New Haven, 



Selected Reference Books of 1969-70 I 45 

Yale Univ. Pr., 1970. 160p. $8.75. 75-
104616. 
The compiler of this bibliography has at-

tempted to provide a "comprehensive 
guide to reference materials that deal with 
Southeast Asia."-Pref. The first criterion 
for inclusion was that each title be avail-
able in the library at Yale or Cornell (or in 
both) . Since these libraries have significant 
holdings in the field , Mr. Johnson has been 
able to produce an extensive list .of sepa-
rately published works, including govern-
ment publications, which deal exclusively 
or primarily with Southeast Asia. The work 
is divided according to form, such as bib-
liographies, published catalogs, and gener-
al statistics, and by subject; it is then sub-
divided into general works and works per-

taining to a particular country. Because the 
index is of authors only, a more detailed 
table of contents would have made this 
timely bibliography more useful.-].S. 

REFERENCES 

1. Diane Goon, Rita Keckeissen, Georgia 
Lanzano, Eileen Mcilvaine, Mary Ann 
Miller, Heidemarie Peterson, Janet 
Schneider, Nancy Schroeder, Michael 
Sesit; School of Library Service, Evelyn 
Lauer. 

2 .. Constance M. Winchell, Guide to R ef-
erence Books (·8th ed.; Chicago: ALA, 
1967); Supplement I (Chicago: ALA, 
1968 ) ; Supplement II (Chicago: ALA, 
1970).