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Dut- ton [ 1 9 4 1 ] 523P- 25pl. $3.75. Theatre Arts M. 25:320, A p r . 1941. An i n t r o d u c t o r y manual including an index of musical compositions and bibliography and glossary of ballet terms. Biichen, Ernst. Worterbuch der Musik. Dieterich, 1940. 487P. RM6.25. (Sammlg. Dieterich, Bd. 20.) Ford, I r a W . Traditional Music of America. Dutton, 1940. 48op. $5. Gives scores, calls, and directions f o r early dance tunes. Classified index. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians . . . supplementary volume. Macmillan, 1940. 688p. $5. Wilson Lib. Bui. A p r . 1941; R.I. 1:13, M a r . 1941. Hall, David. T h e Record Book. Smith, Durell, 1940. 77 ip. $3.50. Wilson Lib. Bui. 15:587, M a r . 1941. 266 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Hughes, Anselm, comp. Liturgical Terms for Music Students. McLaughlin, Reilly [1940] 4op. 50/ (pamphlet). Moore, Elizabeth C. An Almanac for Music-lovers. Holt [1940] 382P. $2.50. Includes anecdotes, quotations, musical curiosa, and a musical calendar. Stengel, Theo, and Gerigk, Herbert. Lexi- kon der Juden in der Musik. Mit eine Titelverzeichnis jiid. Werke. Hahnefeld Verlag, 1940. 38op. RM4.80. (Verof- fentlichungen d. Instituts d. N S D A P zur Erforschg. d. Judenfrage.) % Work, John W . American Negro Songs. Howell, Soskin, New York [ 1 9 4 0 ] 2 5 9 P . $3-50. 230 folk songs, religious and secular. 800 Literature Bandeira, Manuel, ed. Antologia dos Poetas Brasileiros da Fase Parnasiana. 2a. ed. Ministerio da Educagao e Saude, Rio de Janeiro, 1940. 294P. $8 (Bra- zilian). Includes biographical and critical notes. Bandeira, Manuel, ed. Antologia dos Poetas Brasileiros da Fase Romatica. 2 ed. Ministerio da Educagao e Saude, Rio de Janeiro, 1940. 379p. $8 (Bra- zilian). Contains "biographical and critical notes. Bateson, Frederick N. W., ed. The Cam- bridge Bibliography of English Literature. Macmillan, 1941. 4v. $32.50. Notes and Queries, 18:89-90, Feb. 1, 1941; T.L.S. 2029:648, Dec. 21, 1940; 2030:660, Dec. 28, 1940. Brenner, Rica. Poets of Our Time. H a r - court, Brace, 1 9 4 1 . 4 2 3 P . $ 2 . 5 0 . Sketches of nine poets ( A u d e n , Eliot, Stephen Vincent Benet, MacLeish, Lindsay, Spender, Teas- dale, Wylie, Yeats) with critical evaluations and bibliographies. Bruncken, Herbert. Subject Index to Poetry. A.L.A., 1941. 20ip. $3.25. A subject index to the poems contained in 215 anthologies, which will also be u s e f u l in identifying poems when only a f r a g m e n t of a line is known. Canfield, Arthur G., and Patterson, W . F., eds. French Poems. Holt, 1941. 699P. $2. " A revised and enlarged edition of French Lyrics." Combs, Homer C., and Sullens, Zay R. A Concordance to the English Poems of John Donne. Packard and Co., Chicago, 1940. 4i8p. $7.50. P.W. 139:851, Feb. 15, 1941. Donovan, Frank Pierce. The Railroad in Literature; a Brief Survey of Railroad Fiction, Poetry, Songs, Biography, Essays, Travel, and Drama in the English Lan- guage, Particularly Emphasizing Its Place in American Literature. Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, c/o Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Bos- ton, 1940. I38p. $3; $2 to members. Ehrsam, Theodore G., comp. A Bibliogra- phy of Alfred Edward Housman. Faxon, 1941. 44P. $1.25. (Useful Reference Series, No. 66.) P.W. 139:935, Feb. 22; 1236, M a r . 15, 1941. " I n a c c u r a t e , incomplete and without pretense to proper bibliographical f o r m . . . Gives an imposing a r r a y of material written about H o u s m a n . " C. A. Stonehill. English Institute Annual, 1939. Columbia University Press, 1940. 164P. $2. F i r s t collection of papers of the institute whose " p r i m a r y purpose is to consider essential problems of literary and linguistic r e s e a r c h . " P a r t i a l c o n t e n t s : Choosing a Topic f o r Research, by Carl Van D o r e n ; Biography in America, by Townsend S c u d d e r ; The Search f o r English L i t e r a r y Documents, by J a m e s M. Osborn. Fifty Years of German D r a m a ; a Bibliogra- phy of Modern German Drama, 1880- 1930; Based on the Loewenberg Collection in the Johns Hopkins University Library. Johns Hopkins Press, 1 9 4 1 . I 2 0 p . $ 3 . 7 5 . P.W. 139:1055, M a r . 1, 1941. Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James, comp. The Ox- ford Book of Spanish Verse, Eighteenth Century-Twentieth Century; 2d ed., by J . B. Trend. Oxford University Press, 1 9 4 1 . 5 7 6 P . $ 3 . Goedeke, Karl. Goedekes Grundriss zur Geschichte der Deutschen Dichtung; herausgegeben von G. Minde-Pouet. Lfg. I [for period 1830-1880] Ehlermann, 1940. i-2o8p. Apply. Gove, Philip B. The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction; a History of Its Criticism and a Guide for Its Study, With an An- JUNE, 1941 267 notated Check List of Two Hundred and Fifteen Imaginary Voyages from 1700 to 1800. Columbia University Press, 1941. 4 5 6 p . $ 3 . 5 0 . Grieve, Christopher M . The Golden T r e a - sury of Scottish Poetry. Macmillan, 1 9 4 0 . 456p. 8s6d ( $ 2 . 5 0 Toronto). T.L.S. 2037:78, Feb. 15, 1941. Harbage, Alfred B. Annals of English Drama 9 7 5 - 1 7 0 0 ; an Analytical Record of All Plays, Extant or Lost, Chrono- logically Arranged and Indexed by Au- thors, Titles, Dramatic Companies, etc. (Published in cooperation with the Mod- ern Language Association of America.) University of Pennsylvania Press, Phila- delphia, 1940. 264P. $3. Should prove to be of more general use than Greg's Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration because of longer period covered and excellent a r r a n g e m e n t of material. T h e infor- mation on latest modern edition should make it a u s e f u l buying guide. A title by title check with Greg f o r the letters A through C discloses no omis- sions in H a r b a g e . Index to Early American Periodical Litera- ture, 1 7 2 8 - 1 8 7 0 . P a r t I. The List of Periodicals Indexed. Pamphlet Dis- tributing Co., 1941. I2p. Single copy 350; 10 or more io0 each. Jackson, Daniel, comp. Anthologie de Poesie; an Anthology of European Verses, Classic and Modern, in the Original; with French Translations. Stechert. 582p. $4. Jenyns, Soame, tr. Selections from the Three Hundred Poems of the T'ang Dynasty. Dutton, 1 9 4 1 . I i 6 p . $1.25. (Wisdom of the East Series.) Jong, Dirk de. Onze Letterkundigen. Bio-en bibliographisch woordenboek der Nederlandsche, Vlaamsche en Zuid- Afrikaasche letterkundigen van 1 8 8 0 - 1 9 4 0 . Brill, 1941. 15 guilders. Miller, Edmund M . Australian Literature; a Bibliographical and Descriptive Survey of Books Published by Australian Authors from 1795 to 1935 in the Class-divisions of Poetry, Fiction, Drama, Essays, Criti- cism and Anthology; and Including Bio- graphical and Literary Sketches. . . . (Melbourne University Press) Stechert, 1 9 4 0 . 2 v . $ 1 2 . 5 0 . O'Neill, Edward H . A Description and Analysis of the Bibliography of American Literature . . . Prepared by Edward H. O'Neill. Pennsylvania Historical Survey, Harrisburg, Pa., 1941. 25p. Free. Rogers, Paul P. The Spanish Drama Col- lection in the Oberlin College Library; a Descriptive Catalogue. Oberlin College, 1 9 4 0 . 4 6 9 P . $ 4 . 5 0 . P.W. 139:262, J a n . 18, 1941. 7400 dramatic works covering period 1675 to iga^, listed with exact recording of title-pages a n d place and date of first p e r f o r m a n c e . Sola, Otto d'. Antologia de la Moderna Poesia Venezolana. Impresocres Unidos, 1940. 2v. Apply. I n c l u d e s biographical notes. 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