College and Research Libraries


issue, that it would add greatly to the cost 
of the undertaking. W h a t one misses 
even more is a guide to the length of the 
reviews which ought not to be pro-
hibitively expensive either from the edi-
torial standpoint or production costs. 

I n spite of its modest format and the 
brevity of its entries, the Review Index 
should prove to be a useful and inexpen-
sive addition to the bibliographical ap-
paratus of college, university, and the 
larger public libraries.—Harold Russell, 
University of Minnesota Library. 

Guide to Bibliographies of Theses, United 
States and Canada. T h o m a s R. Pal-
frey and H e n r y  E. Coleman. A.L.A., 
Chicago, 1940. 54p. $1.25, paper. 
T H E S E C O N D E D I T I O N to the Guide to 

Bibliographies follows closely in scope and 
arrangement the first edition of 1936. 
P a r t I is again a short list of those Ameri-
can bibliographies which are not restricted 
to one institution or field of interest (7 
titles) ; P a r t  I I is a very brief list (65 
entries) arranged by subject or "field." 
I t is hard to understand the erratic choice 
of subject headings, the termination of the 
list with "Speech," and the uneven inclu-
sion of titles found later in P a r t I I I , but 
for practical purposes the last part is the 
more important section, and we proceed 
to that. 

In the division called "Institutional 
Lists" there are approximately 330 entries. 
Twenty-five per cent, which consist of 
references to college catalogs and presi-
dents' reports, have not been investigated. 
A n additional 12 per cent refer to manu-
script lists which must also be passed over. 
An inconsistency in the form of entry 
used for supplements, and a confusion be-
tween checklisting technique and catalog-
ing practice result in the cumbersome 

inclusion of another 8 per cent of entries. 
Of the remaining 150 titles, 11 were out 
of date last August. These a r e : Clark 
University, George Washington Univer-
sity, University of Florida, Louisiana State 
University, Ohio State University, Penn-
sylvania State College, Southern Metho-
dist University, Stanford University, 
University of Southern California, T u l a n e 
University, and Vanderbilt University. A 
few omissions of old titles were noted. In 
the series called " M a s t e r s Essays" for 
Columbia University, 1934, 1937, and 
1938 are strangely missing. T h e Wiscon-
sin Abstracts of Theses, v. 1, 1917, is 
omitted. A consistent practice for the 
arrangement of series notes and for the 
use of brackets would have been helpful 
since most of the outright errors were 
apparent in that connection. Obviously, 
the Guide is useful, but it is a great pity 
that such a compilation was not made to 
conform to the professional standards for 
either order, cataloging, or reference de-
partments.—Isabel Howell, Vanderbilt 
University Library. 

Geschichte der Bibliotheken in Grossbri-
tannien und in den Vereinigten Staaten 
von N ordamerika. Albert Predeek. 
O t t o Harrassowitz, 1940. From the 
Handbuch der Bibliothekswissenschaft, 
I I I , pp. 855-975. 
T H E M O N U M E N T A L Milkau-Leyh 

Handbuch der Bibliothekswissenschaft 
was completed last year with the publica-
tion of the third volume, which is devoted 
to library history. T h e consummation of 
this invaluable work represents the crown-
ing effort of continental librarians to en-
dow their profession with the status of a 
science standardized by its indispensable 
Handbuch. Petzholdt, Graesel, and Dahl 
had attempted the task with a degree of 

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