College and Research Libraries shelf, the Snead Reflector, the solid con- crete floor, and efforts to develop new tech- niques for ventilating libraries. Baumann is not so explicit in tracing the history of li- brary architecture up the twentieth century. He merely provides a background. The reader should not hesitate to read other sources for a more comprehensive treatment of the history of library architecture. One of Baumann's themes does emerge quite early and that is the "eroding of the stack form" by merging readers and books. Baumann takes this theme, the "eroding of the stack form," and develops it by sum- marizing Macdonald's 1933 article "A Li- brary of the Future" which spelled out Macdonald's theory of modular design for libraries. The term "modular" would be used much later. Macdonald saw libraries with lower ceilings, lounge furniture in stack areas, complete access to books, elimination of interior dividing walls, flexible units of space nine feet by nine feet, and ccsoftly glowing tubes on the ceiling." It's a shame that Baumann interjects that sixty-seven lines had to be cut from the festschrift ver- sion of the article so that it could be ac- commodated in two issues of Library Jour- nal. However, such irrelevant data does not harm an otherwise smooth transition the au- thor makes to the State University of Iowa where Ralph Ellsworth suggests to Macdon- ald that spaces be on 20' by 1 0' centers or to a 1955 article in which Macdonald rec- ommends 27 foot square modules. The reader is made very aware that the modular concept in library design is actually a very recent development. Baumann uses the subtle technique of re- lating many seemingly isolated events in Macdonald's life which, as a composite, il- lustrate just how broad was the scope of the activities of Macdonald and Snead and Company. The author views Macdonald as a catalyst who was in touch with his time and took full advantage of every opportuni- ty to promote his ideas on library construc- tion and to promote the business interests of Snead and Company. The author leads the reader to an under- standing of how the current methods of li- brary construction came about. Those preju- diced against modular construction as ugly will be happy to read that even Macdonald always included some two story space in his Recent Publications I 167 designs to break up the monotonous lines of a modular building. As effective as the author is in bringing about this understand- ing, the reader must be aware that such a thoroughly documented account can be very boring reading. The reader who stays with it will get a fairly good picture of the evolu- tion of the modular concept and its effect on library design. A scant index is a drawback. The illustra- tions are pertinent but lack clarity. There is a Library Building Survey, 1930--1960, of public and academic libraries indicating use of fixed stacks, requirement for interior reading spaces, use of fluorescent lighting, air conditioning, modular construction, and column spacing and also a listing of Snead and Company bookstack installations from 1887 to 1952 throughout the world. A twenty page selected bibliography is ap- pended.-John K. Mayeski, Planning Assist- ant, University of Washington Library-, Seat- tle, Washington. Goulart, Ron. Cheap Thrills: An Informal History of the Pulp Magazines. Arling- ton House, 1972. $7.95. In the bleak years of the Great Depres- sion, millions of stay-at-home readers found vicarious adventure and romance in the pages of pulp magazines. Printed on the cheapest paper and priced at ten or fifteen cents an issue, pulpwood magazines first ap- peared on the American scene in the late nineteenth century, but their peak popular- ity came during the 1920s and 30s when more than 200 were sold on newstands. The authors of these lurid tales range from such respected writers as Tennessee Williams, Harold Lamb, and Erie Stanley Gardner, who began their careers as contributors to the pulps, to Edgar Rice Burroughs and the legendary Robert E. Howard. H. L. Menc- ken founded a pulp called The Black Mask in 1920, and Sinclair Lewis worked for a time as an editorial assistant on Adventure, ccthe aristocrat of cheap magazines." A wide range of subjects were represent- ed in this flamboyant literature-crime, sports, science, adventure at sea, in the air, and in the American West. "In the decades between the two World Wars," Goulart points out, c'the pulps became one of the major packagers of fiction heroes." Although their lurid cover illustrations depicting the 168 I College & Research Libraries • March 1973 exploits of cowboys, explorers, or tough de- tectives shocked middle class prejudices, most authors followed a story line in which virtue always triumphed over evil. They also tried to instill in their readers a strong sense of patriotism, and it was no ac- cident that A. J. Hoffman, a pulpwood pub- lisher, played a key role in the formation of the American Legion. The importance of this proletarian literature to the historian of ideas and social attitudes has long been rec- ognized, but their troublesome format and poor quality paper has discouraged librar- ians from collecting pulps in quantity. Only a few large research libraries have built ex- tensive collections for researchers. There is a real need for an objective his- tory of pulp publishing which will assess its contribution to our national culture. Unfor- tunately, this book fails to fill that need de- spite the author's obvious familiarity with this literature. His book is essentially a scis- sors and paste job, consisting of generous extracts from the stories, references to the works of other historians, and extensive quo- tations from the oral reminiscences of pulp fiction greats. It lacks an index, a bibliogra- phy, and bibliographic footnotes. It may prove to be a useful introduction to this lit- erature and its authors, however, for those librarians who are becoming involved in the acquisition of popular culture for the re- search library.-]ack A. Clark, University of Wisconsin Library School, Madison, Wis- consin. OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST TO ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS Bennett, Frederick. Cataloguing in Practice. Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String Press, Inc., 1972. 74p. $4.50. (ISBN: 0-208-01181- 1). Cass, Francis Michael Bernard. Librarians in New South Wales, A Study. Ade- laide: Libraries Board of South Austra- lia, 1972. 176p. $6.90. (ISBN: 0-7243- 0033-3). Clark, Jane. Reference Aids in Canadian History. University of Toronto Library, Reference Series No. 14, 1972. $5.00. Clifford, Martin. Handbook of Electronic Tables. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1972. 224p. $4.95. (72-87458). ( SBN: 0-8306-1125-8) . Conrat, Maisie and Richard. Executive Or- der 9066, The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans. California Historical Society, 1972. 120p. $3.95. (70-178278). Cunha, George Martin and Cunha, Dorothy Grant. Conservation of Library Materials. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1972. $11.00. 428p. (77-163871). (ISBN: 0-8108-0525-1) . Enright, B. J. New Media and the Library in Education. Hamden, Conn.: Linnet Books, 1972. 162p. $7.50. (ISBN: 0-208- 01175-7). Francis, Sir Frank. Bibliographical I nfor- mation in Manuscript Collections. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Graduate School of Library Service, 1972. 28p. $1.00. Gallup, Dr. George H. The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion, 1935-1971. Vols. I, II, III. By the founder and chairman of American Institute of Public Opinion. New York: Random House, 1972. 2,500p. $95.00. ( 3-vol. set). (77-39867). (ISBN: 0-394-4 7270-5). Greeley, Andrew. Unsecular Man: The :Per- sistence of Religion. New York: Schocken Books, 1972. 280p. $7.95. (72-79446). Grose, B. Donald. The Antiquarian Book- trade: An International Directory of Subject Specialists. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1972. 176p. $5.00. (72-6996). (ISBN: 0-8108-0544-8). Herner, Saul and Vellucci, Matthew J. Se- lected Federal Computer-Based Informa- tion Systems. Washington, D.C.: Infor- mation Resources Press, 1972. 215p. $24.95. (72-85016). (ISBN: 0-87815- 007-2). Hoadley, Irene Braden, and Clark, Alice C. eds. Quantitative Methods in Li- brarianship. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1972. 272p. $11.00. (73-149- 962). (ISBN: 0-8371-6061-8). Hunter, Eric J. Anglo-American Catalogu- ing Rules. Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String Press, Inc. 1972. $6.00. (ISBN: 0-208- 00882-9). International Literary Market Place, 1973- 1974. New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1972. 262p. $15.50. (65-28326). (ISBN: 0-8352-0585-1) . International Publication Service. Interna- tional Publications, An Annual Annotated Subject Bibliography, 1972!73. New \ ,·