College and Research Libraries Selected Reference Books of 1989-90 Eileen Mcilvaine II his article follows the pattern · _-·_ set by the semiannual series ini- - tiated by the late Constance M. Winchell more than thirty years ago and continued by Eugene P. Sheehy. Since the purpose of the list is to present a selection of recent scholarly and general works of interest to reference workers in university libraries, it does not pretend to be either well balanced or comprehensive. A brief roundup of new editions of stan- dard works is provided at the end of the article. Code numbers (such as AD540, CJ331) have been used to refer to titles in Guide to Reference Books (lOth ed., Chicago: American Library Assn., 1986). LIBRARY SERVICE Desmarais, Norman. The Librarian's CD- ROM Handbook. Supplement of Optical Information Systems, 4. Westport, Conn.: Meckler, [1989]. 174p. $24.95 (ISBN 0- 88736-331-8). LC 88-9181. As stated in the introduction the pur- pose of The Librarian's CD-ROM Handbook is to de-mystify the selection, implemen- tation, and evaluation of CD-ROM prod- ucts. The book is, therefore, a broad intro- duction to CD-ROM technology, a practical guide for librarians interested in introducing CD-ROMS to their opera- tions, a source of information regarding the various hardware options, and a direc- tory of available CD-ROM products. The chapters on "Selection," "Hardware,"_ and "Library Applications" are the heart of the work. They contain clear and suc- cinct discussions of issues and options, provide the librarian with a checklist of questions to ask before purchasing hard- ware and software, include a list of CD- ROM drives with pertinent technical and purchasing information, and describe a variety of CD-ROM products presently on the market. There is a bibliography and an index to names and subjects. The Hand- book contains some of the same kind of in- formation as the CD-ROM Directory and CD-ROMS in Print but the products are discussed in the context of acquiring and managing this new technology.-O.dC. RELIGION Religion Indexes on WILSONDISC. (computer-disk) New York: H. W. Wilson, 1989-.Annual. $795. Within the past few months the long- awaited WILSONDISC version of the Re- ligion Index online database has finally be- come available, placing at the disposal of a much broader audience one of this coun- try's most important indexes for articles on church history, Biblical studies, theol- ogy, and the history, sociology, and psy- chology of religion. Like the online database, the compact disk includes indexing from the following four publications of the American Theo- logical Library Association for the periods indicated: Religion Index One: Periodicals (1949-1959,1975- , Guide BB41); Religion Eileen Mcilvaine is Head of Reference, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 10027. Although it appears under a byline, this column is a project of the reference departments of Columbia University Libraries, and notes are signed with the initials of these individual staff members: Mary Cargill, Beth ]uhl, Anita Lowry, Robert H. Scott, Sarah Spurgin, ]unko Stuveras (Butler); Barbara Kemp (Lehman); ]ames Coen (Business); Kathleen Kehoe (Biology); and Olha della Cava (Library Service) . 431 432 College & Research Libraries Index Two: Multi-Author Works (1960- , Guide BB42); Research in Ministry (1981- ); and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (1975- ). Its holdings amount to some 325,000 bibliographic records, with the an- nual addition of approximately 35,000 new citations drawn from approximately 480 journals and 425 selected monographs. A little over half of the entries are in English, but other Western European languages, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Afrikaans are represented as well. The searching procedures are the same as those employed on other WILSON- DISC products, with the options of brows- ing the subject headings; Boolean search- ing of keyword, author, and other indexes; or obtaining direct online access to the latest entries. One special feature here is the capacity to search by Biblical ci- tation. This index differs in other respects from Wilson CD-ROM products. The first is its impressive retrospective sweep, extend- ing back as far as 1949. In addition, the rec- ords contain a great deal more information than is customary for the Wilson data- bases: not only are there generally a greater number of subject headings, but many records include abstracts or listings of contents. While these closely packed, multi-screen entries are somewhat more difficult to scan and no longer pass in full across the screen when the ''Print All'' op- tion is selected, that is a very small price to pay for the wealth of information available and the potential for even greater refine- ment of searching techniques that it af- fords. Yet another, less positive difference is that this disk will be updated only once a year, although the WILSONLINE data- base will be updated quarterly. This pre- sumably means that libraries subscribing to the CD-ROM will find their readers needing to make much greater use of the online option. Clearly, the appearance of this compact disk is a major step forward in the devel- opment of this medium for the humanities and social sciences. As in the case of the MLA index, this CD-ROM version ulti- mately offers a product far superior in flex- ibility, accessibility, and efficiency of use to either the multi-volume paper indexes September 1990 or the online database it represents. It is hard to see how any library with serious coverage of religious affairs can long af- ford to be without this important refer- ence tool. -R.H.S. CLASSICAL STUDIES Briggs, Ward W. and William M. Calder ill. Classical Scholarship: A Biographical Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1990. 534p. $110 (ISBN: 0-8240-8448-9). LC 89- 23294. The editors, both classicists themselves, have compiled fifty biographies of scholars "through whose life and work some idea of the history of classical schol- arship in the modern period could be gained" (Pre£.). By limiting the scope of this Encyclopedia to the modern period (1777-1986), Ward Briggs and William Calder have ensured that enough bio- graphical material existed for each profile to provide a complete and accurate de- scription of an individual's life, thought, and influence. In addition, they only in- cluded scholars for whom they could find and enlist knowledgeable and capable bi- ographers. "We considered a biographer especially worthy if he were a citizen of his subject's country, if he were a known au- thority in some part of his subject's field, and if he knew something about the time in which the subject lived" (Pre£.). Thus, some obvious candidates (e.g., Sir Arthur Evans, Bruno Snell) are omitted because the appropriate biographer could not be located, was unwilling, or unavailable. Fi- nally, only those scholars "whose lives amounted to more than just biblio- graphies" -those who made controver- sial or lasting contributions to the field- are included. As the editor's remark of one potential biographee who was ex- cluded: "His books are useful but his life was dull." The result is a volume of lim- ited scope, but unusual and entertaining depth. Entries, which range between 5-15 pages, are arranged alphabetically and in- clude photographs or portraits, detailed bibliographies of each biographee' s works, and secondary sources. The "In- dex Rerum'' allows the user to locate topi- cal subjects and personages, such as Greek medicine or Juvenal, within the ar- ticles. A chronological list of biographees and a list of contributors complete the vol- ume. The cost of this volume and its narrow focus will limit the audience for Classical Scholarship. But the study of the classics touches on so many disciplines that readers who are looking for certain his- torians (Momigliano), archaeologists (Schliemann), or poets (Houseman) will find this work remarkably complete and helpful. For ·those reference depart- ments with extensive collections in the classics, this volume will provide an ex- cellent biographical companion to Ru- dolf Pfeiffer's History of Classical Scholar- ship (Guide DA130-131).-B.J. LITERATURE Alexander, Harriet Semmes. English Lan- guage Criticism on the Foreign Novel. Ath- ens: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, [1989]. v.[l]:1965-1975. $49.95 (ffiSN 0-8040-0907-4). LC 89-4430. Along with its forthcoming companion volume covering criticism published from 1976 to 1985, this promises to be one of the handiest and most-used bibliographies at any reference desk where students regu- larly ask the question: ''Where can I find articles about [name any foreign novel]- in English?" Harriet Alexander has ex- haustively indexed 277 literary journals and 584 books on foreign literatures and authors in order to produce this volume of approximately 13,000 citations to English- language articles on novels and other longer works of fiction by 1,500 authors from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. In addition, "writers liv- ing in the United States and United King- dom are covered if they wrote in a foreign language (e.g., Samuel Beckett, Isaac Bashevis Singer) or wrote out of their ex- periences in a foreign country before emi- grating from it (e.g., Doris Lessing, V.S. Naipaul)" (Pre£.). Because Alexander has not limited the bibliography to a pre- determined list of major novelists, it is unique in its broad coverage of both well- Selected Reference Books 433 and little-known authors from around the world and from many time periods (though most of them are from the 19th and 20th centuries). The bibliography is arranged alphabeti- cally by authors' names. For each author, nationality and dates are given (where known), as are real names in cases where the author is known by a pseudonym (e.g., Stendhal); the list of general criti- cism on the author is followed by criticism on each novel, including reviews for nov- els published between 1965 and 1975. Lastly, the attractive, easy-to-read layout and typography must be commended, in particular the use of complete periodical titles in the citations and the large bold- faced type that makes the authors' names practically leap off the page.-A.L. Packard, William. The Poet's Dictionary: A Handbook of Prosody and Poetic Devices. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. 211p. $19.95 (ISBN 0-06-016130-2). LC 88- 45899. This dictionary aims to be more than a glossary. Fewer terms are included in com- parison to other dictionaries of literary terms or poetics, but those included have been given fuller explanations with many examples. The book reads like a collection of brief essays on prosody. The intended audience is not the literary scholar but the practicing poet. In a single volume, William Packard, a poet himself, offers the reader/writer of poetry "brief and accurate definitions of the various poetic devices, to- gether with a large overview of the uses of these devices from the entire range of mas- ter poems of world poetry" (Pre£.). Arranged in alphabetical order, the entries are on various types of poetry (epic, dramatic, lyric), forms of poetry (Alexandrine, sonnet, haiku), schools (Romanticism, Surrealism, Symbolism), as well as the techniques of po- etic devices (meter, simile, rhythm, meta- phor). The volume concludes with a bibliog- raphy for further reading in the art of poetry. The appendix, ''How to Submit Manuscripts for Publication," offers practical advice relat- ing to the style of presentation, procedure, and location of appropriate literary maga- zines.-J.S. 434 College & Research Libraries Smith, Hilda L. and Susan Cardinale. Women and the Literature of the Seven- teenth Century: An Annotated Bibliogra- phy Based on Wing's Short-Title Catalogue. Bibliographies and Indexes in Women's Studies, 10. Westport, Conn.: Green- wood, 1990. 332p. $45 (ISBN 0-313- 22059-X). LC 89-28652. Autobiographies, domestic guides, fic- tion, poetry, petitions, and discussions of religious doctrine are among the works described, indexed, and made accessible by this excellent bibliography based on Wing's Short- Title Catalogue (Guide AA818). The authors identified and examined works cited in Wing, and for each work cited provided the author's name, a more complete title than is given by Wing, im- print, pagination, Wing number, and the reel position numbers for both the Early English Books and Thomason Tracts micro- film collections. Annotations describe the work and the author, refer to other related works, and often provide a very brief ex- cerpt. Works not cited in Wing, which were written between 1641 and 1700, but published later, are also included. The entries are divided into two parts. Part one has works by women arranged al- phabetically; Part two includes works by men addressing the role of women in mar- riage, works centering on religion, satires, gynecological textbooks, sermons for women, publications ~bout female crimi- nals, and works of fiction about living or historical female characters. The general index, which includes names and subjects, and the chronological index would have been more useful if the citations had been to item numbers and not to page numbers. However, this is still an excellent bibliography, and one that will be extremely useful to anyone seeking primary source material on women or on the seventeenth century.-S.S. Wittman, Sandra M. Writing about Viet- nam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989. 385p. $35 (ISBN 0-8161-9083-6). LC 89-15553. Similar in scope to John Newman's Viet- nam War Literature (2nd ed., Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1988), this bibliography September 1990 lists materials published between 1954 and 1988 about America's involvement in Vietnam. Emphasis is on literature and journalism; works of history, military or political science, and government docu- ments are excluded. The result is a fairly comprehensive compilation of sources for the study of the image and influence of Vietnam in the creative imagination of American authors. The volume is divided into genre and form subdivisions, such as ''Adventure Novels," "Anthologies," "Short Sto- ries," and "Periodicals." Entries are ar- ranged alphabetically within each sec- tion and most contain brief annotations with plot synopses, critical appraisals, or biographical information. The items listed are for the most part books, though there is a separate sec;tion for dissertations on literary treatments of the war. In both the "Short Stories" and "Literary Criti- cism" sections, periodical articles are listed and book collections are analyzed. Author and title indexes are provided; unfortunately, many book reviews are in- dexed only under the author of the review article, and there are no cross references within the text from the book citation to ci- tations of reviews. A recent search of the MLA database turned up over 133 references to materials on the Vietnam War and literature, so that it is obviously a popular research topic. The recent spate of film adaptations of novels and autobiographies on the war can attest to the importance of the war in the popular imagination, as well. Either the present volume or Newman's would be a helpful addition to the literature refer- ence shelf.- B. f. THEATER Cavanagh, John. British Theatre: A Bibliog- raphy, 1901 to 1985. Mottisfont, [En- gland]: Motley Pr, 1989. SlOp. £65 (ISBN 0-900281-01-4). This sequel to J. F. Arnott and J. W. Rob- inson's English Theatrical Literature, 1559-1900 (Guide BG24) is a classified list of books, pamphlets, and dissertations covering all aspects of the British theater published from 1901 through 1985. The author defines theater as ''those perform- ing arts dependent on a text, either spo- ken or sung on stage by living persons" (Pre£.), and so has included chapters on the music hall, pantomime (in the British sense), and opera. (The opera chapter is quite brief and has a separate section on Gilbert and Sullivan.) There is also a sec- tion on drama, as opposed to theater, which excludes "the more literary aspects of the play [but] covers the history of dra- matic genres and influences, and the lives and work of dramatists" (Pre£.). There are separate subject and author indexes. The classification scheme is based on the earlier bibliography, but has a more de- tailed and useful subject breakdown. The sections on individual theaters within and outside of London are reason enough to buy this bibliography. The indispensable preface explains clearly the coverage of each section. The location of the copy examined is in- dicated, so, although not a union list, this could be used by interlibrary loan to locate obscure publications. Any library with material on the performing arts will want this bibliography.-M.C. Reichenberger, Kurt. Das Spanische Drama im Goldenen Zeitalter: Ein bibliograph- isches Handbuch/ El Teatro Espafiol en los Siglos de Oro: Inventario de Bibliografias. Teatro del Sigl6 Oro. Bibliografias y cat- alogas, 2. Kassel: Reichenberger, 1989. 319p. 180DM (ISBN 3-923593-72-4) . LC 90-145150. The Golden Age of Spanish literature, spanning the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, saw the publication of writers such as Cervantes, Calderon, and Lope de Vega. This classified, annotated bibliogra- phy lists important books and articles written before 1989 discussing Spanish drama of the Golden Age . It begins with a list of bibliographies relating to Spanish literature in general, and continues with chapters covering general discussions of the Golden Age; individual themes in the drama; bibliographies of individual au- thors; theater history; publishing in the Golden Age; and concludes with a list of finding aids for Spanish drama published both separately and in journals in libraries in Europe and the United States. The subject index lists playwrights, in- Selected Reference Books 435 eluding those mentioned in the annota- tions, and titles of plays. There is also an index of authors of the critical works, and one listing libraries with collections of Spanish drama. The bibliography's classified arrange- ment and thoroughness make it much more useful than the long chapter on drama in William Moseley's Spanish Litera- ture, 1500-1700 (Greenwood, 1984), and it should be in every library supporting a Spanish department.-M.C. POPULAR CULTURE Geist, Christopher D., et al. Directory of Popular Culture Collections. Phoenix: Oryx, 1989. 234p. $39.50 (ISBN 0-89774- 351-2). LC 88-28202. The collections described in this direc- tory range from small owner-curated mu- seums like the Blair Museum of Litho- panes and Carved Waxes to well-known repositories including the Library of Con- gress, and the American Antiquarian So- ciety. The format follows that of the Direc- tory of Archives and Repositories in the United States (Guide DB72), with the unfortunate exception that this directory does not cite any published guides or descriptions of the collections. The directory was com- piled by questionnaire, and coverage is uneven: small repositories describe their collections in detail, while barely a page is devoted to the extensive holdings of the Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University. Many of the collections listed here can be found in the standard di- rectories of archives, subject collections, libraries and historical societies, but a few collections, like the Rosemary Wells "Tooth Fairy" Collection are unique to this directory. Libraries with extensive popular culture collections may wish to purchase this directory for the few unique repositories described.-S.S. Griffith, Nancy Snell. Humor of the Old Southwest: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. New York: Greenwood, 1989. 220p. $37.50 (ISBN 0-313-26006-0). LC 89-23272. As the author points out in her introduc- tion, the Southwestern frontier pro- gressed westward in the nineteenth cen- 436 College & Research Libraries tury from the Carolinas through the deep South to the Mississippi, giving birth to "a group of humorists of the tall-tale, half- horse, half-alligator breed who flourished from 1833-1861" (Intro.). This sometimes boastful, sometimes self-deprecating genre of Davy Crockett's ''bar hunter'' and Henry Oay Lewis' "swamp doctor" influenced later authors such as Twain and Faulkner, though it was deemed ''coarse and repellent'' in its own time. Thus, despite the tale-telling and satire in which these authors indulged, this bibli- ography might prove as useful to students of social history as to researchers in the field of literature and folklore. The volume is divided into two parts. The first section covers Old Southwestern humor in general and the second is com- prised of chapters devoted to nine individ- ual authors. The author chapters contain brief biographies, a list of primary works and an annotated list of secondary works drawn from books, journals, and disserta- tions. The lists of primary works are by no means comprehensive, as many popular works went through dozens of editions and often appeared in several newspapers and magazines as well. Secondary sources are for the most part from the twentieth century, though some contemporary eval- uations and reviews appear. An author in- dex and a short subject index follow the text. The subject index is a bit tricky; while there is no entry for "Texas," there are several references to Texas under the en- try for Crockett. . More complete biographical informa- tion on all of these authors can be found in works such as the Dictionary of Literary Bi- ography, v.11: American Humorists, 1800-1950 (Guide, BD416), and Ramon F. Adams, J. Frank Dobie, and Mody C. Boatwright have all produced excellent bibliographies of the life and customs of the "New" Southwest. However, the an- notated list of secondary literature in Hu- mor of the Old Southwest fills a neglected niche.-B.J. Richmond, W. Edson. Ballad Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland Ref- erence Library of the Humanities, 499. New York: Garland, 1989. 356p. $38 (ISBN 0-8240-8932-4). LC 88-48017. September 1990 The author, a professor of English and Folklore at Indiana University, has based this bibliography on one he compiled for his graduate seminar, "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads and Their Conti- nental Counterparts.'' The entries cover- ing the period from 1898 when the Child ballads were published (Guide BD665) through 1986 were "rigorously confined to what scholars have conceived of as bal- lads" (Introd.). Since the author concen- trated on scholarly studies of the ballads, only major collections of the works them- selves have been included. The bibliography is divided into thirteen sections including a list of folklore jour- nals, bibliographies and research tools, and chapters on various aspects of the bal- lad. Items are then arranged alphabeti- cally by author. There is an author index and a detailed subject index, which must be used carefully. For example, there are separate entries for the ballad "Mary Hamilton" and for the "Queen's Maries," with no "see also" references. The reader has to look under "Child 173" to determine that they are referring to the same ballad. A more detailed arrangement of the chapters would also have been helpful. In the first chapter, "Basic Descriptions," the author arrangement means that refer- ences to British ballads, for example, are scattered throughout the chapter, forcing frequent excursions into the subject index. But these are minor drawbacks in a bibli- ography that will prove useful not only for the study of folklore but also for the study of medieval literature in general.-M. C. PROVERBS Whiting, Bartlett J. Modern Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Pr., 1989. 709p. $39.95 (ISBN 0-674-58053-2). LC 89-31520. A chronological successor to his Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases (Guide BD188), Dictionary of American Prov- erbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880 (Guide BD186), and his works on English proverbs, this work collects twentieth- century usage of sayings and proverbs from a wide variety of English-language sources. Some 5,500 proverbs are listed al- phabetically by keyword. The arrange- ment and format of entries are similar to Whiting's earlier collections. Each prov- erb is accompanied by brief citations that include author, short title, date, and sam- ple phrases. The quotations are arranged in chronological order. No meaning of proverbs is given. The bibliography lists collections of proverbs cited, but does not give complete lists of some 6,000 works from which the quotations derive. Many quotations come from mysteries and detective stories, Christie, Stout, and Sayers to name a few. Some are from newspapers and news magazines such as the Boston Herald, Time, and New York Times Magazine. Among literary authors, Joyce's Ulysses is frequently quoted. Proverbs, however, seemingly find greater use in the colloquial style of informal, light litera- ture. The foreword by Larry D. Benson offers entertaining reading about Whiting and his method of compiling the collections of proverbs, his recycling of unused pages of blue books, and index cards reused four times for different collections.-J.S. DEATH Encyclopedia of Death. Robert and Beatrice Kastenbaum, eds. [Phoenix]: Oryx, 1989. 295p. il. $74.50 (ISBN 0-89774- 263X). LC 89-940. The compilers, a professor of gerontol- ogy and a teaching nurse, ergo experts who have done much writing, made their selection of topics and authors by asking the following questions: ''Who would we want to read? Who has played a major role in developing this part of the field? What would our students and colleagues hope to find? ... the general reader? And what neglected or misunderstood topics should be covered?"(Intro.) About 130 subjects ranging from grief, funerals, near-death experience scale, to Concern for Dying, the Hemlock Society, Death Themes through History, and Death Studies have been assigned to those experts who have produced articles which are authoritative, well written, cover the topic thoroughly, and make an effort to give all views. Cross-references and a short bibliography end each article. Selected Reference Books 437 The compilation is indexed though almost too closely, e.g., the only entry for "open casket'' refers to an article on autopsy which states that resistance to an autopsy often occurs because of the fear that an open-casket funeral will not be feasible. This dictionary on the state-of-the-art in the study of death and all its concerns will be very useful for public and academic li- braries as well as for health-care profes- sionals and other caregivers. The only drawback is the cost.-E.M. CHILD ABUSE Clark, Robin E. and Judith Freeman. The Encyclopedia of Child Abuse. New York: Facts On File, [1989]. 328p. $40 (ISBN 0- 8160-1584-8). LC 88-30880. Intended to provide an overall view of child abuse and neglect, this compact vol- ume presents a concise introduction to a very complex group of interrelated issues. The authors point out that there is no ''single, explicit and universally accepted definition of abuse" (Pre£.). This fact, combined with the wide range of disci- plines involved in the study of child abuse (e.g., law, social work, medicine, history, psychology, sociology, criminal justice), have made it difficult to identify and study many aspects of the problem. To present exhaustive coverage of such a complex and changing field would re- quire a much larger volume, perhaps even a multi-volume set. The Encyclopedia of Child Abuse instead focuses on what the authors feel to be issues central to under- standing the maltreatment of children. The alphabetically arranged entries are relatively short but are written in clear lan- guage, free of much discipline-related jar- gon. This makes them very useful to the beginning student or layperson. A de- tailed index and abundant use of cross- references help the user find related infor- mation. Several entries have short bibliographies appended to lead the reader to further research. A separate, ex- tensive bibliography is one of several ad- ditional sections that are quite helpful. Others include an introductory essay which presents an historical and statistical overview of child abuse and neglect, and fifteen short appendixes. The latter gener- 438 College & Research Libraries ally provide lists of helping organizations, statistical, or legal information for various levels of government ranging from the United Nations to individual states and provinces. This handy volume makes an excellent starting point or quick reference guide to an increasingly important topic and as such deserves a place in most reference collections.-B. K. BUSINESS Kuboi, Takashi. Business Practices and Tax- ation in Japan. rev. ed. Tokyo: Japan Times, 1989. 315 p. il. (ISBN 4789- 004708). This work ''enables the reader to make a precise analysis of the most suitable forms of doing business, taking into account the Japanese legal and tax regulations" (Fore- word). In 1988 Japan's taxation system was given a major overhaul, and the origi- nal 1988 edition of this title has been re- written to reflect the changes. The first chapter provides an overview of the economy and the climate for foreign investment. Chapter 2 describes the vari- ous forms of entry available to a foreign company, including the establishment of a branch office, a joint venture, or a sub- sidiary. An example is provided of the no- tification procedure required by the Minis- try of Finance. Chapters on corporate and personal in- come taxes follow, and are very detailed, comprising the major part of the work. Tax treaties are discussed in a separate chapter, as is the taxation of leasing. Ap- pendixes include tax return forms, tax treaties between Japan and the United States and Germany, and standard arti- cles of incorporation. It is written in a style that does not re- quire specialized training for comprehen- sion. An academic library serving an insti- tution offering courses in international business would need to consider this item for purchase. - J. C. POLITICAL SCIENCE Martis, Kenneth C. The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Con- September 1990 gress: 1789-1989. New York: Macmillan, 1989. 518p. $160 (ISBN 0-02-920170-5). LC 88-752270. This is the second volume in a series of works ''designed to elucidate the geo- graphic aspects of the U.S. Congress and American political history" (Pre£.). Whereas the first volume, The Historical Atlas of U. S. Congressional Districts: 1789-1988 (Guide CJ154) concentrated on defining both in black and white maps and in printed descriptions the actual district boundaries for each Congress, the present work uses colored maps and tables drawn from various sources to identify and rep- resent the exact political affiliation of each Senator and Representative from the 1st to the lOOth Congress. The volume is divided into four parts. The lengthy introduction is comprised of five sections: (1) an overview and defini- tion of United States political parties; (2) a detailed history of Congress, with de- scriptions of federal and state election reg- ulations; (3) an analysis of the sorts of his- torical and research sources available for the study of United States political parties; ( 4) a history of party behavior and activi- ties in Congress; and (5) a description and explanation of the construction and for- mats of the maps . A comprehensive bibli- ography concludes this introduction. The maps themselves form part 2. Each map . plate represents an individual Con- gress, and most maps take up an entire plate with membership rosters arranged by state on the facing page. The plates consist of a large, color-coded map for Congressional districts, a smaller Senate map, and a pie chart of the total propor- tional representation of various parties. Parts 3 and 4 are comprised of political party identification tables, with informa- tion drawn from sources such as Congres- sional Quarterly's Guide to U. S. Elections (Guide CJ162), the Official Congressional Di- rectory (Guide CJ141), and the ICPSR Con- gressional Roll-Call Voting Records data file, as well as footnotes to further infor- mation in the cases of individuals for whom there are conflicting or confusing entries in the standard sources. The num- ber and variety of works consulted in every period, from eighteenth-century al- manacs to recent dissertations, is impres- sive. A topical index and an index of Rep- resentatives and Senators follow part 4. With its wealth of documentation and descriptive information, readers and li- brarians will consult this Historical Atlas as often for historical facts and bibliographic citations as for maps and tables. One looks forward with anticipation to the next vol- ume in this series, The Historical Atlas of Critical Votes in the United States Congress: 1789-1989.-B.J. AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES Plunkett, Michael. Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts. Car- ter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies, Charlottesville, Va.: Univ. Pr. of Virginia, 1990. 323p. $35 (ISBN 0- 8139-1252-0). LC 89-16616. According to the historian Prof. Stanley L. Engerman, "about two-fifths of the Afro-Americans in the United States re- sided in Virginia at the time of the first census (about 95 percent of them en- slaved) ... [and] as late as 1860 Virginia still had more Afro-Americans (and more slaves) than did any other state'' (Fore- word) (though Virginia's percentage of the total had declined). Virginia's libraries and archives contain a wealth of primary source materials for the study of pre- and post-emancipation Afro-American his- tory. Among the types of collections in- cluded in this inventory are plantation rec- ords, church records, family Bible records, diaries, travel journals, photographs, medical records, records of black institu- tions (especially educational institutions), autograph letters of prominent Afro- Americans, papers of Virginia politicians and of southern educators, business rec- ords, collections of civil rights groups, pa- · pers of Afro-American authors (which the author notes are sadly lacking in Virginia archives), papers of black families, and stat~ and local government records. Afro-American Sources in Virginia lists 1,038 archival collections held by twenty- three institutions in Virginia, many of them colleges and universities; there is some overlap in coverage with the section on Virginia in the Directory of Afro- Selected Reference Books 439 American Resources (Guide CC417), which Plunkett's work substantially supple- ments but does not supersede. For each collection, the entry includes: title, ap- proximate number of items, range of dates covered, brief indication of relevant mate- rials contained, archive number, and mi- croform number (if it is available in micro- form). The volume has a very good index of names and subjects, further increasing its value as a guide for scholars and gradu- ate students.-A.L. RUSSIAN AND SOVIET STUDIES Dictionary of the Russian Revolution. George Jackson and Robert Devlin, eds. New York: Greenwood, 1989. 704p. $75 (ISBN 0-313-21131-0). LC 88-17771. Unquestionably, the legacy of the Rus- sian Revolution has been one of the leit- motifs of the twentieth century, much as that of the French Revolution was for the nineteenth. But if the revolution as a sym- bol is familiar to a fairly broad audience in this country, there is considerably less fa- miliarity with the complex and sometimes confusing detail of that great historic turn- ing point. It is, therefore, gratifying to see the appearance of this concise and well- written guide to the subject. Arranged in alphabetic dictionary form, it contains ap- proximately 300 articles on many of the major figures, events, institutions, and so- cial groups of those years, along with brief bibliographic citations, a chronology of relevant events from 1898 to 1924, maps, a brief appendix containing census statistics and other information, and name and sub- ject indexes. The list of contributors is most impres- sive, including many of this country's leading specialists on the period, as well as a few others from abroad. Many, if not most, of the pieces have been written by individuals who have done considerable original research on those topics and are often the leading authorities on those questions. Another common feature of the contrib- utors has been their successful effort, over the last two decades or so, to shed new light on the social context and social un- 440 College & Research Libraries derpinnings of revolutionary Russia, shifting the focus of historiographic de- bate away from more conventional politi- cal issues in order to write a history of the revolution from the "bottom up." Thus, one finds many articles here on the condi- tion and behavior of social groups- workers, peasants, Cossacks, soldiers, sailors, industrialists, landowners, or the church-or pieces on education, demogra- phy, the arts, famine, and emigration. Naturally, too, the major events of the rev- olution and Civil War receive their due, as do the bewildering host of political groups, institutions, and gatherings that came bubbling to the surface in the up- heaval. (Arguably, however, in its empha- sis of the new, the dictionary may be faulted for a slight underemphasis of more conventional topics, such as military or diplomatic questions, that, for all their tra- ditionality, are still important for a full un- derstanding of the events of the period.) Considerable attention is given to the bi- ographies of individuals prominent in these events, with understandable em- phasis on Bolshevik, Menshevik, and So- cialist Revolutionary leaders, but a some- what less justifiable underrepresentation of figures to their political right; for exam- ple, one finds no entries for Patriarch Tikhon of the Orthodox Church, or for Hetman Skoropadskii, German-spon- sored ruler of the Ukraine for several months in 1918. Special chapters are devoted to the events of revolution in particular regions of the empire, but the coverage of some of these is strangely spotty and sometimes inaccurate: the article on Cossacks, for ex- ample, places Bogdan Khmelnytsky in the eighteenth rather than seventeenth cen- tury and makes the curious assertion that Cossacks' support of the Whites was due largely to British[!] ineptitude. Likewise, the article on Poland is devoted almost en- tirely to an ideological history of the mi- nority internationalist wing of Polish so- cialism, barely touches upon the assertion of national independence in the former Russian Kingdom of Poland or the Polish- Soviet war in 1920, and makes no mention of Jozef Pilsudski except to imply- incorrectly-that his seizure of power in Poland took place in 1924. September 1990 Such minor qualifications notwith- standing, this is a valuable · compendium, providing authoritative information that would often be difficult for the nonspecial- ist to obtain elsewhere. It is strongly rec- ommended for any college or university li- brary and even for public libraries with serious coverage of European history. While the editor professes to be un- aware of any other ''convenient'' guide to the subject in English, comparisons will inevitably be drawn to The Blackwell Ency- clopedia of the Russian Revolution (Oxford, New York: Blackwell, 1988), a collective work by a group of mostly British histo- rians edited by Harold Shukman. In fact, however, while the two works share a common subject, they differ in ways that enable them to complement as much as to substitute for one another. The Blackwell volume is arranged topically rather than alphabetically and contains a smaller number of essays of greater length, mak- ing it something more of a reference his- tory than a quick-reference handbook. Its historical scope is also somewhat broader, tracing the roots of the revolution and rev- olutionary movements well back into the nineteenth century. Its biographical cov- erage is also somewhat less narrowly fo- cused on Social Democrat and Socialist Revolutionary figures, although the over- all number of individuals discussed is con- siderably smaller than in the Jackson vol- ume. Finally, the Blackwell work contains a wealth of interesting photographic ma- terial, while the Jackson volume is not il- lustrated. In short, libraries that can afford to would do well to consider acquiring both volumes, as each contains a consider- able amount of material not found in the other, and each is likely to be used in a slightly different way.-R.H.S. Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. A Handbook for Archival Research in the USSR. New York: International Research and Ex- changes Board; Washington, D.C.: Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, [1989]. 430p. $19.95 (available from IREX, 126 Alexander St., Prince- ton, N.J. 08540). LC 89-181729. Archival research in the Soviet Union has always been a daunting experience for the foreign researcher, and no doubt, de- spite the changes of the era of glasnost, will long continue to be so. In addition to the red tape and limitations on access, the sheer lack of detailed or comprehensive, published descriptions of the holdings of most repositories has been one of the most serious hindrances to those fortunate enough to win a few months of research time in the official academic exchanges. The key to success has always been a max- imum of advance preparation and knowl- edge of what is available, but that has not always been easy to achieve. During the past two decades, however, the task has been increasingly facilitated by the efforts of Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, whose un- swerving pursuit of the sources has its most visible expression in her multi- volume Archives and Manuscript Reposito- ries in the USSR, (Guide AB155-AB156) a work that has, among other things, brought together vital bibliographical in- formation on such published finding aids as do exist (and, most recently, microfiche copy of many of those finding aids them- selves) for the primary resources for schol- arly research to be found in Moscow, Len- ingrad, the Baltic republics, Byelorussia, the Ukraine, and Moldavia. In addition to her work on this monumental scholarly undertaking, Grimsted has played an im- portant personal role in negotiating the opening of Soviet archives to American re- searchers and in the preparation of many of those scholars for their work there. It is the vast first-hand expertise drawn from these experiences as much as her unparal- leled bibliographic knowledge that is im- parted in this remarkable handbook, pub- lished by IREX and the ACLS, American administrators of the United States-Soviet exchanges and long-time sponsors of her work. The work begins with an outline of the administration and organization of ar- chives in the Soviet Union, followed by a detailed description of the prevailing prac- tices for the arrangement and description of materials in repositories, including a systematic introduction to the specialized Russian terminology employed. Follow- ing this is a useful and wide-ranging dis- cussion of the procedures and prospects for archival access (still largely limited, she notes, despite the promise of glasnost, to Selected Reference Books 441 the institutional exchanges) along with a consideration of the various factors that may bear upon a given individual's failure or success. The remaining chapters offer an outline of the preparation necessary for a successful research visit (notably ways of unearthing citations to archival collections and preparation of the obligatory "re- search plan"), an overview of basic refer- ence aids of value for archival research that is also a useful introduction to Rus- sian reference sources in general, a brief examination of the options for and prob- lems of duplicating and microfilming So- viet materials, and a chapter on research in libraries that includes detailed cover- ages of the facilities of the five most impor- tant libraries in the Russian republic. The book concludes with three appendices listing the major archives and repositories of Moscow and Leningrad, state archives elsewhere in the Russian Republic, and state archives of the other Union repub- lics, accompanied by references to the ma- jor printed guides (and indications of some of the American libraries where these often rare publications can be found). Well-organized, with useful sectional headings and a subject index, the hand- book is an eminently readable synthesis of practical and scholarly information, that complements and brings up-to-date Ar- chives and Manuscript Repositories. Timely as well, it makes a serious effort to assess the impact of glasnost on archival practice and to suggest the possible direction of fu- ture trends. As noted in the preface, this is no doubt the best guide to Soviet archival research available in any language. It be- longs in every library with serious cover- age of Russian and Soviet affairs, and should probably be in the personal collec- tion of any scholar aiming to pursue ad- vanced research in these fields.-R.H.S. HISTORY The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. Israel Gutman, ed. New York: Macmillan, [1990]. 4v. (1,905p.) il., maps. $440 (ISBN 0-02-896090-4). LC 89-13466. An international panel of editors and contributors mostly from Israel but also from the United States, Great Britain, Eu- 442 College & Research Libraries rope, Australia, and South America have compiled this amazing work. ''The list of entries include individual names, major events, the countries involved, the con- centration camps, the ghettos, the exter- mination camps and murder sites, politi- cal movements and trends, and resistance movements" (Pre£.). But the Encyclopedia covers more than just the 1933-1945 pe- riod of Nazi Germany. There are also arti- cles on the antecedents such as Anti- Semitism or the Protocols of the Elders of Zion or Jews in Poland before World War II, and articles on the postwar impact such as Museums and memorial institutes, Yad Vashem, Psychology of Holocaust survi- vors. The 1,000 articles are arranged alphabet- ically, clearly written, signed, . and each concludes with a short bibliography. The preference in these bibliographies is for English-language materials, but other lan- guages are included. The set is well- indexed with a glossary and a chronology and some very informative appendixes, e.g., the sentences resulting from the Nur- emberg trials or a table giving estimates of the number of Jewish victims in each country. The Encyclopedia will be used at every level of study from the general reader to the scholar.-E.M. BIOLOGY Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals. Bernhard Grzimek, ed. New York: Mc- Graw Hill, 1990. 5v. $500 (ISBN 0-07- 909508-9). LC 89-12542. Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals, an expanded, revised, and updated edition of the mammalian section of Grzimek' s Animal Life Encyclopedia (Guide EC187), contains more data than prior editions and incorporates the increased understanding generated by the past fifteen years of re- search in biology and ethology. The encyclopedia covers all mammalian life forms including marine mammals. Each section presents information on evo- lution, phylogeny, anatomy, physiology, ecophysiology, ecology, ethology, pale- ontology, conservation, and endanger- ment. The work is organized taxonomically by September 1990 orders and families. Typical and atypical genus and species are included within the family sections. Summary tables and graphs have been included which permit the reader to visualize the similarities and differences of related species' anatomy, physiology, and habits. The geographical distribution maps in this edition are larger and more readable than those in the ear- lier work. The encyclopedia is lavishly il- lustrated with color photographs, many of which are full or double-page. Often "action photographs" of animals en- gaged in predation, feeding, or move- ment. Morphological features such as dentition, skeletal anatomy, and facial conformation are presented in black-and- white or color photographs. As in the older edition, individual species are de- picted in color drawings. There are numerous animal encyclope- dias, and several devoted to mammals. However, none attempts the comprehen- sive approach taken by Grzimek. This new version of Grzimek' s work is still the best reference work on mammals and the only one which is comprehensive.-K.K. NEW EDITIONS SUPPLEMENTS, ETC. Livres hebdo (AA764) in its issue of 16-21 Novembre 1989 gives addresses of French publishers in Canada, ''Editeurs cana- diens de langue fran<;aise. '' The newest volume of the British Li- brary's short title catalogs to be updated is Catalogue of Books Printed in Spain and of Spanish Books Printed Elsewhere in ~u.rope be- fore 1601 Now in the British Library (Lon- don: British Library, 1989. 294p. £50) :;This second edition not only revises and ex- pands the first edition (1921. Guide AA1091) but also adds indexes for printers, booksellers, and towns. CD-ROMS in Print (Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1987- . $37.50 annual) for 1990 has appeared. The number of entries has doubled which, of course, reflects the trade. This issue also includes an essay giving an overview of CD-ROM publish- ing in Japan. Gale has produced an International Di- rectory of Publications, 1989/90 (Detroit: Gale, 1989. $95), a companion to its U. S. Directory of Publications (formerly Ayer Di- rectory of Publications, Guide AE31-AE32). Based on questionnaires to publishers this new contribution edited by Kay Gill and Darren L. Smith is an ''international guide to more than 4,800 newspapers, maga- zines, and other periodicals circulating primarily outside the United States and Canada" (subtitle). The United States Newspaper Program Na- tional Union List (Dublin, Ohio: OCLC, 1989. $295 for OCLC members, $350 for nonmembers) is in a third edition on 55 microfiche and expands the holdings and coverage of the earlier editions. Volume V of the Wellesley Index to Victo- rian Periodicals 1824-1900 (Toronto: Univ. Toronto Pr., 1989. 923p. $195. Guide AE260) completes the set with an ''Epit- ome and index: dated bibliographies of all identified authors and their contributions to major quarterlies and monthlies of the period with a separate bibliography of identified pseudonyms and initials.'' The volume also offers entries with corrections or alterations to earlier volumes. Now that the Dizionario biografico degli italiani (Guide AJ267) is complete through the letter '' C,'' the editors have issued two supplementary volumes: v .34: Primo sup- plemento A-C (1988. 800p.) which gives new entries for important Italians who died too late for inclusion or were some- how omitted from the earlier volumes, and v.35: Indice A-C (1989. 493p.), an in- dex with cross-references and a table of contributors with the names of the bio- graphical entries each has written. The next volume of Variety Obituaries: v.12, 1987-88 (New York: Garland, 1989) has a very useful index to the whole set that ends the volume, as well as, of course, reprinting the obituaries that were published in Variety during the years 1987 and 1988. Beginning with v.l28, 1990, Contempo- rary Authors (Guide AJ48-AJ50) issues the cumulative index separately with each even-numbered volume, no longer in the back of a volume. This index still covers other Gale publications, e.g., Contempo- rary Literary Criticism (Guide BD43) and the Dictionary of Literary Biography (Guide BD416). The DLB continues apace: v.88: Cana- Selected Reference Books 443 dian Writers 1920-1959, 2nd series, ed. W. H. New· ([1989.] 442p. $98); v.89: Restora- tion and Eighteenth Century Dramatists, 3rd series, ed. Paula R. Backscheider ([1989]. 396p. $98); v.90: German Writers in the Age of Goethe 1789-1832, ed. James Hardin and Christoph E. Schweitzer ([1989.] 435p. $98); v.91: American Magazine Journalists 1900-1960, ed. Sam G. Riley ([1990.] 401p. $98). The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia (New York: Columbia Univ. Pr., 1989. 920p. $39. 95) has been revised and updated with about one-third new entries. It is still one of the most useful one-volume ency- clopedias. Longman's Encyclopedia ([Harlow]: Longman, [1989]. 1178p.) is based on the Concise Columbia, with entries revised and updated for a British audi- ence. In a sequence of nineteen entries, ten were the same, two completely writ- ten, five were deleted or had the headings changed, and two were the same except for the population that was different from the Concise Columbia but cited the same year. Neither gives sources. Another Columbia publishing venture is The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quota- tions compiled by Robert Andrews (New York: Columbia Univ Pr., 1989. 343p. $19.95). This is the same as the Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987. 343p. £12.95). The quotations are given under broad topics with an Index of Subjects. The quote identifies the author but does not give the title and the page though there is an Index of Sources. Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor have revised their delightful and opinionated bibliography of detective fic- tion, A Catalogue of Crime: Fact and Opinion 1748-1988 (New York: Harper & Row, 1989. 952p. $50). Certain features have been dropped, i.e., much of the biograph- ical information, ghost and supernatural stories. The full-length novels, "True Crime," "Sherlock Holmes," and, of course, the secondary sections are much expanded and updated, bringing cover- age to over 5, 000 books. The Modem Language Association has sponsored a sequel to Sixteen Modern American Authors, entitled A Suroey of Re- search and Criticism since 1972, edited by · 444 College & Research Libraries Jackson R. Bryer (Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Pr., 1990. 832p. $57.50). This vol- ume updates the 1973 edition (Guide BD403) through 1985, in some cases through mid-1988, and also incorporates material inadvertently omitted. Some of the same editors did the follow-up essays. Kosch' Deutsches Theater-Lexikon (Bern: Francke Verlag. Guide BG99) has resumed publishing with Leiferung 22: Schleuning-Schutz-Witt (1989. SwFr24) after a hiatus of eighteen years. The 1971 edition of the Annotated Bibliog- raphy of Southern American English by James B. McMillan (Guide BC80) is up- dated with the assistance of Michael B. Montgomery (Tuscaloosa: Univ. Alabama Pr., [1989]. 444p. $25), with expanded cov- erage of the southern United States to in- clude Creole and Gullah, the District of Columbia and other peripheral areas, e.g., Delaware, Oklahoma, the Missouri Ozarks, and studies of migrant or ex- ported Southern speech. The Dictionary of the Middle Ages (Guide DA164) is complete with the publication of v.13 the Index (New York: Scribner's [1989]. 613p.). It indexes persons, places, concepts with a ''thorough system of cross-referencing,'' though the editors warn that the reader must still use the see- also references at the end of the articles. The volume also includes a ''List of Con- tributors" with the titles of the articles each has written and an Errata list for all volumes. Sources in European Political History ex- tends coverage with volume 2: Diplomacy and International Affairs (Basingstoke: Mac- millan, [1989]. 190p. (£35), a description and location of the papers of about 1,000 ''statesmen and ministers, diplomats, am- bassadors and the many others involved in the formation and implementation of foreign policy'' (Intro.) from about 1870 to the end of the Second World War. Unfor- tunately, the volume is not indexed and the arrangement is by personal name. There are several revisions and updates to directories for Great Britain: Janet Fos- ter and Julia Sheppard, British Archives (2d ed. London: Macmillan; New York: Stockton Pr., [1989]. 834p. $100; 1st ed. 1982. Guide DC288) and Gareth Shaw and September 1990 Allison Tipper, British Directories: A Bibli- ography and Guide to Directories Published in England, Wales (1850-1950) and Scotland (1773-1950). (London: Leicester Univ Pr., [1989]. 440p. £47 .50) that extends the bibli- ographies of Norton (Guide CH261) and Goss (Guide CH260) and adds coverage for Scottish directories. La revolution franraise, compiled by Anne and Claude Manceron, described in the previous column, concludes with volume 2: Dictionnaire general ([Paris]: Renaudot, [1989]. 385p). This volume covers topics whereas volume one took a biographical approach. The Osterreichische Historische Bibliogra- phie (Guide DC84) has produced another Fiinf-Jahres Register for the volumes of 1980-1984 (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Clio Pr., 1989) with both an author and a subject in- dex. A new edition that can be greeted with joy is the 5th edition of The Negro Almanac: A Reference Work on the African American, compiled and edited by Harry A. Ploski and James Williams (Detroit: Gale, [1989]. 1622p. $110; 4th. ed. 1983. Guide CC423). Besides updating the articles, the statisti- cal tables, and the bibliography, it ex- pands the sections on jazz, the family, na- tional organizations, and landmarks. Search for Security: the ACCESS Guide to Foundations in Peace, Security, and Interna- tional Relations, ed. Anne Allen (Washing- ton, D.C.: ACCESS, [1989]. 191p. $55) is an updating of the first edition of 1984 and now gives a profile of about 150 private and corporate U.S. foundations, informa- tion on sources of U.S. government funds, and an analysis of grantmaking in 1988 in the field of peace, security, and in- ternational relations. The Preface states the compilation is designed to help ''those interested in peace and security issues find the resources they need.'' Two other new editions relating to American political life are: John E. Find- ling, Dictionary of American Diplomatic His- tory (2d ed. New York: Greenwood, [1989]. 674p. $59.95; 1st ed. [1980]. Guide CJ96) which extends coverage to mid-1988 while Joseph Kane's Facts about the Presi- dent (5th ed. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1989. 419p. $45; 4th ed. 1981. Guide CJ126) adds the Reagan administrations. In 1983 the Historical Office of the U.S. Senate issued a Guide to Research Collec- tions of Former United States Senators 1789-1982 (Guide CJ135). Now this same office has produced Guide to the Records of the United States Senate at the National Ar- chives 1789-1989, compiled by Robert W. Coren et al. (Washington, D.C.: United States Senate, 1989. 356p. Bicentennial publ .' 7. Senate document 100-42). Research on Latin America on the Humani- ties and Social Science in the Universities and Polytechnics of the United Kingdom 1984-88 (London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 1989) is a merger of Theses in Latin American Studies at British Universities in Progress and Recently Completed (Guide DB249) and Staff Research in Progress or Re- cently Completed ... (Guide DB249n). It is to be issued every two years. The thesis literature for Africa and for the Arab world has been extended with two supplements to earlier lists. George Se- lim' s American Doctoral Dissertations on the Arab World (Washington: Library of Con- gress, 1989. 265p.) adds coverage for Au- gust 1981-December 1987 to the earlier compilation (Guide DE61-DE62). The Afri- can Studies Association sponsored Ameri- can and Canadian Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses on Africa, 1974-1987 com- piledbyJosephJ. Lauer, GregoryV. Lakin, and Alfred Kagan (Atlanta: Crossroads Pr ., [1989]. 377p. $75.00) updates Michael Sims and Alfred Kagan's 1976 compilation (Guide DD33). This continuation replaces the interim lists in the ASA News. With the 1985 volume of Annual Egypto- logical Bibliography (published 1989. Guide DD115) a new section of ''Late Reviews'' is added and will continue to be a regular feature in each annual volume. The last compilation of this list, a cumulation of all late book reviews held in the AEB office, appeared in the AEB of 1973 (published in Selected Reference Books 445 1977). Now Brill has separately published a cumulation of all Late Reviews AEB 1947-1984 (Leiden: Brill, [1989]. 74p.) ''presented here by AEB number'' (Fore- word). Myron J. Smith has issued an update to his World War II at Sea (Guide DA207) to cover books, articles, and documents in English, 1974-1987 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Pr., 1990. 394p. $32.50). Also a few articles omitted from the earlier com- pilation are included. American Library History: a Comprehensive Guide to the Literature by Donald G. Davis and John Mark Tucker (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, [1989]. 471p. $95) is a new edi- tion of a similar work by Michael H. Harris and Donald G. Davis, Jr. American Library History: a Bibliography (Austin: Univ. Texas Pr., 1978). Books, articles, essays, theses, research papers published through 1986 are listed following biblio- graphical surveys of the topic. Dropped is the chapter on the book trade but much expanded is the coverage of archives, oral history collections, and the role of women and blacks. The New Jerome Biblical Commentary com- piled by Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmeyer, and Roland E. Murphy (Engle- wood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, [1990]. 1484p. $59.95) is a total revision of the original by the same scholars (1968. Guide BB194) taking advantage of the last twenty years of scholarship to revise the articles. American Theatre Companies, 1931-1986, ed. Weldon B. Durham (New York: Greenwood, [1989]. 596p. $95) is the final volume of the series describing the "resi- dent acting companies in the United States" (Pre£.). The previous volumes covered 1749-1887 and 1888-1930. This one describes the Federal Theatre Project, the regional theaters, resident acting com- panies connected with non-profit com- mercial organizations. The Only Complete Reference QURAN in English with comprehensive commentary and full translation- invaluable to scholars of international studies, world politics, and comparative religions. •This beautiful, five volwne reference set encompasses 1400 years of historic research conducted by western, oriental and middle eastern Islamic scholars. It offers authorita- tive exposition of all key concepts in Islam and their evolutionary environments. "This Commentary of the Holy Quran, written by a \ renowned Islamic Scholar is a vital reference providing a ready source of original research on tracing the roots of Quranic terms and phrases and in the analysis of the cultural and his- torical environment of the origins of Islam in particular, and of Judaism and Christianity in general." "I have used this work myself in my researches on science in Islam. As is well-known, the Holy Quran contains some 740 verses-nearly 118th of the Holy book-which exhorts Muslims to reflect on Allah's creation. This played an impor- tant role in the rise of science within Islam which played an important role towards the continuation of scientific spirit up to the 16th century." Abdus Salam Professor Abdus Salaam The First Muslim Nobel Lanreate in Physics, 1979 "The greater commentary of the Holy Quran is the magnwn opus of Hazrat Mirza Bashcerudin Mahmud Ahmad. It is a most valuable exposition of the nwnberless verities comprised in the Holy Quran and is a great milestone in the history of the exegesis of the Holy Quran. It has drawn superlative encorniwns from scholars of the Holy Quran." Muhammad Zafarulla Khan President of the UN General Assembly 1962 President of the World Court of Justice •This is a complete reference on the Islamic faith containing the complete text of the Quran. The index, concor- dance and bibliography assist readers in understanding Islamic practices and their cultural and historic roots. \. Clear and Functional Forntat PT. 5 AL·NIS}. CH. ~ 588. 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