EUGENE P. SHEEHY

Selected Reference Books of 1978-79

THIS ARTICLE continues the semiannual se­ comprehensive works, with some older ma­ ries originally edited by Constance M. Win­ terials included to illustrate development in chell. Although it appears under a by-line, certain subjects. Inclusion depends on "use­ the list is a project of the Reference De­ fulness for information, study, or research" partment of the Columbia University Li­ (Introd.), and selection varies "from on~ braries, and notes are signed with the ini­ section to another, depending primarily tials of the individual staff members. 1 upon the availability of sources." Where Since the purpose of the list is to present Western-language works were lacking or a selection of recent scholarly and general where supplementary information was works of interest to reference workers in needed, Chinese and Japanese works were . university libraries, it does not pretend to listed. be either well balanced or comprehensive. Arrangement is in two parts of ten chap­ A brief roundup of new editions of standard ters each, with subdivisions (for language, works, continuations, and supplements is subject, type of material) as appropriate. presented at the end of the article. Code Part I, "General and Special Subjects," cov­ numbers (such as AE213, DB231) have ers ~ference books, collective works, peri­ been used to refer to titles in the Guide to odical lists and indexes, library catalogs, Reference Books. 2 rare books, etc. Part II, "Subject Bibliog­ raphies," consists of chapters for classics and BIBLIOGRAPHY philosophy, religion, history, geography, so­ cial sciences, language, literature, art and Tsien, Tsuen-hsuin. China: An Annotated archaeology, sciences, agriculture, and Bibliography of Bibliographies. Boston, technology. Citations give full biblio­ G. K. Hall, [1978]. 604p. $45. LC 78- graphical information and a descriptive an­ 5541. ISBN 0-8161-8086-5. notation; occasionally a critical comment is Title also in Chinese. added. Chinese and Japanese titles appear Intended for both "specialists in Chinese in Oriental characters, romanization, and studies and [for] students with a general translation. The detailed table of contents, interest" (Introd.), this comprehensive work the list of Chinese and Japanese serials on "all aspects of Chinese life and civiliza­ cited, and the author, title, and subject in­ tion" lists more than 2,500 bibliographies dexes, together with a lucid, succinct intro­ and bibliographical essays whether pub­ duction, all serve to guide the reader and lished separately, in periodicals and serials, facilitate the search.-R.K. or in monographs. Materials are chiefly in English, Chinese, and Japanese, with a ARCHIVES small percentage in European languages. Emphasis is on recent (through 1977) and Directory of Archives and Manuscript Re­ positories. Washington, National Archives and Records Service, 1978. 905p. $25. 1. Paul Cohen, Rita Keckeissen, Anita Lowry, Eileen Mcllvaine, Mary Ann Miller; Lehman LC 78-23870. Library: Laura Binkowski, Diane Goon. It has been four years since the National 2. Eugene P. Sheehy, Guide to Reference Books Historical Publications and Records Com­ (9th ed.; Chicago: American Library Assn., mission began work on the revision of Philip 1976). Hamer's Guide to Archives and Manuscripts

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(19(>1; Guide DB49). Questionnaires were arts education, education of minorities, and sent to 3,200 archives and repositories textbook authors. The appendixes have use­ throughout the country, and the data con­ ful geographical, chronological, and profes­ tained in the replies of the 2, 700 respon­ sional breakdowns, and the lengthy general dents are presented here. Anxiously awaited index provides an additional guide to the (since Hamer's Guide is now almost twenty entries.-P.C. years old), the resulting work does not supersede its predecessor but does provide Biographical Dictionary of Japanese His­ an updated companion. tory. Seiichi Iwao, supervising ed., Bur­ A great deal of information is supplied in ton Watson, trans. Tokyo, Kodansha each entry. In addition to such useful in­ International/USA Ltd., 1978. 655p. il. formation as hours of opening, terms of ac­ $39.50. LC 76-9359. ISBN 0-87011-274-0. cess, and holdings of repositories, there are The International Society for Educational descriptions of collections and biblio­ Information has set itself the task of correct­ graphical references. The latter include, not ing errors of fact about Japan and Japanese only citations to Hamer's Guide and the Na­ culture found in foreign textbooks and ref­ tional Union Catalog of Manuscript Collec­ erence works, and this dictionary is one of tions, but also to library catalogs, brochures, its efforts to prevent the continuing spread checklists, bibliographies, and articles that of misinformation. (Already published is the describe various individual collections. Ar­ Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Litera­ rangement is geographical, and a long ture [1976], and work has begun on a third names/subject index-almost 125 pages­ volume concerned with notable figures in provides an indispensable guide to the en­ the fine arts.) tries. Anyone looking for historical manu­ Happily, we are given much more than scripts should certainly begin the search just the facts in this beautifully produced with this directory.-P.C. volume. Each short biography endeavors to convey the essence of the subject's charac­ BIOGRAPHY ter as well as the vital statistics and accom­ plishments. Thus through the lives of these Biographical Dictionary of American carefully chosen "prime movers" and prom­ Educators. Ed. by John F. '6hles. inent citizens we are afforded an interesting Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pr., 1978. view of Japan's political, social, religious, 3v. (1,666p.) $95. LC 77-84750. ISBN and scientific life from the age of myth and 0-8371-9893-3. legend through the modern period. This dictionary offers 1,665 short biog­ Entries are arranged by period-"An­ raphies of American educators from the sev­ cient," "Medieval" (1185-1572), " Early enteenth to the twentieth centuries, the modern" (1572-1868), and "Modern" earliest representative being John Eliot, the (1868- ). The whole is indexed by name famous missionary teacher. Over 400 con­ and subject. For the user's orientation in tributors, most of them professors of educa­ the social and political background of the tion, participated in creating the work. The biographies there are seventeen appendixes result is a handy, three-volume compilation, concerning such matters as family lineages, the chief virtue of which seems to be the shogun lineages, Buddhist sects, bureau­ convenience of having biographical data on cracy and shogunate organizations, military so many educators in one place. As the bib­ actions, army and .navy cliques, political liographical references at the end of each parties, and cabinets. Finally, there is a bib­ sketch readily indicate, most of those writ­ liography offering from one to six references ten about here are more fully-and in most for each individual included in the cases, more satisfactorily-treated in other dictionary. -M.A. M. biographical dictionaries. However, this is not always the case: educators in certain Lewytzkyj, Boris, and Stroynowski, Juliusz. special areas not generally included in the Who's Who in the Socialist Countries. standard compilations are represented in New York, K. G. Saur, 1978. 736p. $99. this work. For example, here one finds bio­ LC 78-4068. ISBN 0-89664-011-6. graphical data on the leaders in industrial As the subtitle says, this is a "biographical Selected Reference Books I 347

encyclopedia of 10,000 leading personalities· The concise entries, none more than a in 16 Communist countries." Although page in length, give dates, alternate spellings those sixteen countries are nowhere listed of names, biographical information, history in the volume, they are: Albania, Bulgaria, of a saint's cult in England, artistic associa­ Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, tions (with reference to specific English Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union, Yugo­ works of art), and feast day. Bibliographies slavia, Cambodia, China, Korea, Laos, conclude the accounts, giving citations to Mongolia, Vietnam, and Cuba. The Soviet official sources, the best hagiographical Union and Eastern Europe receive very studies, and sometime~ to popular works. thorough coverage for all fields of endeavor, There is a short appendix of entries for per­ including politics, party activities, econom­ sons not formally canonized but for whom ics, the sciences and social sciences, the there is evidence of a popular cult in En­ military, the arts, literature, history, philos­ gland at some period. An index of places in ophy, and religion. Cuba and the Asian Great Britain and Ireland associated with countries, on the other hand, are repre­ particular saints will please readers in­ sented primarily by government and party terested in British local history and litera­ r' officials and diplomats. Although this work ture. The introduction is an interesting is meant to be a dictionary of basic bio­ essay on English hagiography and the his­ graphical information on living persons, it tory of the cult of saints.-R.K. also includes a number of important people who died during the past few years. For the Flake, Chad. A Mormon Bibliography, most part, emigres are excluded; dissidents 1830-1930. Salt Lake City,_ Univ. o£ Utah and others in official disfavor who remain in Pr., 1978. 825p. $75. LC 74-22639. ISBN Communist countries are included. 0-87480-016-1. The compilers acknowledge the problems The tumultuous first century of caused by the necessity of working from Mormonism has produced a large and fas­ official sources (including newspapers), as cinating literature, the very richness of well as the difficulties of reconciling conflict­ which has created a formidable task for its ing accounts and of obtaining accurate, up­ bibliographer. Chad Flake of Brigham to-date information. The amount of data Young University has spent many years provided varies from one entry to the next, preparing this bibliography and has com­ . but this is an extremely valuable source for piled a work of more than 10,000 entries . information that is not available elsewhere Included are broadsides, pamphlets, books, in one place, and often not available and newspapers relating in some way to elsewhere in English.-A.L. Mormonism. Some items have only a page or two on the subject, while others are RELIGION wholly concerned with it; works of ~ction are also included. Farmer, David Hugh. The Oxford Dictio­ Items are arranged by main entry, and nary of Saints. Oxford, Clarendon Pr.; copies (and variant editions) have been lo­ New York, Oxford Univ. Pr., [1978]. cated in some 200 libraries. Flake has also £7.50; $17.50. LC 78-40445. ISBN 0-19- supplied historical and bibliographical notes 869120-3. for many of the entries. Collations are in­ Accounts of about a thousand saints of cluded, but unfortunately these are not English origin, saints of foreign origin who given by signatures as one would expect in died in England, and those who were a work that is otherwise so thorough. known and venerated there make up this Nevertheless, this is altogether a remarka­ dictionary. All saints in the Book of Com­ ble bibliography with attractive facsimile mon Prayer, the Sarum rite, and the title pages at the beginning of each modern Roman calendar are included, as section.-P.C. are representative saints of Ireland, Scot­ land, and Wales, and a few others important LITERATURE in the Christian church or in calendars other than the three mentioned. Byzantine Arbour, Romeo. L'Ere baroque en France; saints are, in general, excluded. Repertoire chronologique des editions de 348 I College & Research Libraries • july 1979

textes litteraires. Premiere partie, 1585- manuscripts, and letters. Writings about an 1615. Geneve, Droz, 1977. 2v. (Histoire author are grouped as biography (or au­ des idees et critique litteraire, V .165) tobiography) and as criticism (divided by F460. genre). Focus is on the state of the art of Broadly interpreting the term "literary," the bibliography, biography, and criticism of the compiler of this bibliography has assem­ the writers, e.g., the changing favor of Phil­ bled references to more than 7, 900 editions lis Wheatley's work in the eyes of scholars; of literary texts published in France and the difficulty of dating and locating the slave French literary texts published abroad dur­ narratives; the elusiveness of Baraka' s out­ ing the first half of the "baroque era." Scope put published in obscure and unconven­ extends to foreign-language works published tional sources. And each essay is generous in France as well as to French translations with specific factual information. For any of foreign literary works. Within the year­ student or scholar interested in the black by-year arrangement, listing is alphabetical American writers here considered, these by author or anonymous title, and there are rigorously selective historical/critical essays indexes of names of persons, of editors, and are indispensable.-M.A.M. of places of publication. Library locations (including many American institutions and Libman, Valentina A. Amerikanskaia European libraries outside France) are literatura v ru.sskikh perevodakh i kritike; given whenever possible; source of the cita­ bibliografiia 1776-1975. Moskva, tion is provided when there is no known lo­ "Nauka," 1977. 451p. 2r., 94k. cation. The completed work (the intention, Now updated and enlarged from its origi­ presumably, is to extend coverage through nal form (1964) in the collection Problemy 1640 at some future date) should prove use­ istorii literatu.ry SShA of the Akademiia ful to researchers in various areas of Nauk' s Institut Mirovoi Literatury (a publica­ seventeenth-century studies, not to the spe­ tion better known to American readers in cialist in French literature alone.-E.S. the 1969 translated edition, Russian Studies of American Literature; see Guide BD273), Black American Writers: Bibliographical this is a long bibliography of primary and Essays. Ed. by M. Thomas Inge, Maurice secondary works reflecting the Russian Duke, and Jackson R. Bryer. New York, interest in American literature over a long St. Martin's Pr., 1978. 2v. V.1, $12.95; period of time. V.2, $14.95. LC 77-85987. ISBN 0-312- In addition to the Russian translations of 08260-6. 230 American authors' works, there are in­ These two modest volumes succeed ad­ cluded books, articles, reviews, and mirably in providing thorough, in-depth scholarly commentaries of research value by analyses of "the best biographical and criti­ Russian, Soviet, and foreign authors of the cal writings" (Pref) about twenty-four semi­ nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The nal black writers, not counting those repre­ first section consists of two lists (each sented in the section on "slave narratives." chronological by publication date): one on Volume 1 begins with three eighteenth­ literary periods, the other on problems and century writers and includes the slave nar­ themes in American literature. Then follows ratives, polemicists, early modern writers, a short section on collections of American the Harlem Renaissance, and Langston authors. The heart of the book is the third Hughes. Volume 2 is devoted to four major part, "Personalia," an alphabet of American twentieth-century authors: Richard Wright, authors, with the Russian translations of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri their works and Russian-language critiques. Baraka (LeRoi Jones). The editors acknowl­ Not only full-length books, but short stories edge that other important writers have and poems appearing in Russian journals are come to prominence since the latter four, cited. Full bibliographical information is but they have imposed a chronological limit given; there is a names/titles index.-R.K. because of the perspective needed for this kind of work. Marken, Jack W., comp. The American In­ Each essay opens with discussion of the dian: Language and Literature. Arlington subject's bibliography, published editions, Heights, Ill., AHM Publ. Corp., [1978]. Selected Reference Books I 349

205p. $12. 95; $8.95 pa. LC 76-4624. broad range of Spanish literary topics. Al­ ISBN 0-88295-569-1. though more closely limited to authors and Marken has produced a typical bibliogra­ specific works than other "Oxford compan­ phy in the Goldentree series: judiciously ions" (i.e., some literary terms are defined, selected entries, balanced coverage of all but historical and political references are aspects of the topic, yet not exhaustive de­ largely excluded), its geographic coverage is spite the compiler's wish "to list all major unusually wide: because "a great deal of lit­ and minor collections in an attempt to make erature in Spanish has been written beyond this the best and most comprehensive bibli­ the geographical confines of Spain, . . . this ography available" (Pref.) of the literatures necessitates the inclusion of entries on the and languages of the Indians of North more important authors and books" (Pref.) America (excluding Indians of Mexico and of the Central and South American coun­ Central America and the Eskimo). Writings tries (but not Brazil and Portugal). As might by American Indians are featured, although be expected, entries are accorded critics, standard scholarly works are included as are historians, philosophers, etc., as well as the secondary materials on non-Indian authors strictly creative writers. A particularly wel­ who wrote on the Indian (e.g., James Fen­ come feature .is the inclusion of more bib­ imore Cooper, Thomas Jefferson). Entries liographic information than is generally are presented geographically following the found in· the "Oxford companions."-E.S. order in Murdock's Ethnographic Bibli­ ography of North America (Guide CD28). CINEMA with general sections of bibliographies, au­ Shale, Richard. Academy Awards. New tobiographies, general literature, and gen­ York, F. Ungar, 1978. 615p. $24.50. LC eral language. An asterisk beside an entry 78-4296. ISBN 0-8044-2819-0. points up importance; a dagger indicates the This is not just another coffee table book availability of a paperback edition. The with many glossy photographs and few facts. index is primarily by personal or tribal Rather, it is a serious reference work pro­ name, with some subject entries (which viding a great deal of information on the might profitably have been expanded to in­ Academy Awards from 1927/28 through clude jokes and riddles, songs, etc.). 1977. Not merely the winners, but all the There are a few omissions and mistakes nominees in all categories are listed here, as that should be corrected for any future edi­ well as the recipients of the special a~ards tion, and the compiler might consider the such as the scientific or technical awards, usefulness of some kind of chronological list­ honorary awards, etc. In addition to the lists ing of literary works by American Indians. of nominees and winners (together with the All in all, however, this is a useful bibli­ citations for nomination) short historical ography for both the beginning student and notes trace the establishment, development, the advanced researcher-easy to use, and and other significant features for each award with a wide range of sources cited.-E.M. category; for example, the many changes in the awards for special effects are clearly Ward, Philip. The Oxford Companion to explained. The work is in two main sec­ Spanish Literature. Oxford, Clarendon tions, a "Listing by Academy Award Pr., 1978. 629p. $27.50. LC 78-40098. Categories" and a "Chronological Index of ISBN 0-19-866114-2. Academy Awards," so that full information Students and librarians with little or no can be found either by type of award or by Spanish who needed a ready reference year. (The chronological listing also gives source for Spanish literature have long had the date that the nominations were an­ to make do with the limited coverage of nounced, the date and location of the Newmark's Dictionary of Spanish Literature awards ceremony, and the M C for each (Guide BD866) or glean what they could year.) from the entries in the Diccionario de The volume begins with a historical sur­ literatura espanola (Guide BD865). This vey of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts new addition to the "Oxford companion" se­ and Sciences and the awards and ends with ries, therefore, will be welcome as an three useful appendixes ("Academy Found­ English-language handbook covering a ers," "Academy Presidents," and "Directors · 350 I College & Research Libraries • july 1979 of Best Picture"), a selected, annotated bib­ almost impossibly broad ("Africa: questions liography, and an excellent index of names, of antecedents and influences," covering titles, and subjects. Such thorough and ac­ almost two pages of entries). However, sub­ curate information on the first fifty years of ject headings are subdivided by geograph­ "Oscar" should be welcome in many ical division when appropriate, and numer­ libraries.-A.L. ous cross-references are provided. Although the cutoff date (through 1973) is disappointingly early, academic libraries will FOLKLORE find this a useful addition to reference col­ Szwed, John F., and Abrahams, Roger D. lections in anthropology and black Afro-American Folk Culture: An Anno­ studies.-D.G. tated Bibliography of Materials from North, Central and South America and STATISTICS the West .Indies. Philadelphia, Institute for the Study of Human Issues, [1978]. International Encyclopedia of Statistics. Ed. 2v. (American Folklore Society, Pubis.: by William H. Kruskal and Judith M. Bibliographical and_ Special Ser., V.31- Tanur. New York, Free Pr., 1978. 2v. 32) $48. LC 77-16567. ISBN 0-915980- (1,350p.) $100. LC 78-17324. ISBN 0-02- 80-0. 917960-2. Contents: Part 1, North America; part 2, For this compilation the editors have The West Indies, Central and South used as a basis all the articles relating to America. statistics from the International Encyclope­ The thesis around which this bibliography dia of the Social Sciences (Guide CA44) and was assembled is that "Afro-American cul­ have added some twenty-two new articles tures exist, cultures which are neither en­ dealing with statistics in the broadest sense. tirely African nor Euro-American in origin, Thus besides articles bearing directly on but which contain elements of both, plus statistics, such as "Errors," "Life Tables," the inevitable developments attendant upon etc., there are biographies of "statisticians enslavement, the plantation experience, Na­ and others important in the development of tive American contact, poverty and racism, statistics" and "a considerable number of ar­ as well as the vigor and creativity of human ticles about fields in which statistical meth­ beings."-I ntrod. In support thereof, the ods are significantly applied, for example, authors cite almost 7,000 published works epidemiology, public policy .. ."-Introd. on the values, symbols, language, and cul­ In order to update the articles from the tural expression of Afro-Americans, to be parent work, each original author was given used with other bibliographies more con­ the option of rewriting his or her article, cerned with the history, economics, and so­ amending it, or adding a postscript; each cial organization of black people. Entries are author was requested to update the bibli­ grouped by linguistic or political division ography. Only a few of the articles are (e.g., English-speaking and French-speaking exactly as they appeared in the 1968 work. West Indies) and within each division, al­ Bibliographies have been updated to about phabetically by author. Most entries have 1973/74 and are designed to "contain very brief annotations unless the titles are explicit suggestions for further reading, self-explanatory. sources for further bibliography, sources for The complete index appears in both vol­ historical and current data, and the titles of umes and consists of a general subject index journals concerned more or less exclusively and a locale index (excluding those areas with the topic of the article." References in listed in the tables of contents). The authors the bibliographies to articles in the lESS admit that indexing has not been easy be­ seem an unnecessary addition. cause of the variance in detail of the annota­ The articles and postscripts are well­ tions and the problem of generic classifica­ written, beginning with a general, nontech­ tion of tales, songs, etc. As a result, the nical summary and proceeding to a thor­ user will find detailed subject headings ough discussion of the topic. Indexing is (e.g., "com-shucking activities," with four­ very detailed, and scholars' names cited in teen entries) and subject headings that are the text are included. This is a carefully Selected Reference Books I 351 edited compendium, useful to the student This is the latest addition to the series of or researcher at any level.-E.M. bibliographies sponsored by the Interna­ tional Commission for the History of Towns. lbe 3,331 items relating to urban history in POLITICAL SCIENCE the Netherlands include books, periodical Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy: articles, and academic dissertations. Basic Studies of the Principal Movements and arrangement is by province, subdivided by Ideas. Ed. by Alexander DeConde. New specific city or town; thereunder, items ap­ York, Scribner, 1978. 3v. (1,201p.) $99. pear in a topical arrangement according to a LC 78-5453. ISBN 0-6841-5503-6. scheme outlined in the prefatory pages. This three-volume collection of essays, There are indexes of place-n~mes and of written and signed by scholars in the field, authors.-E.S. is organized alphabetically by topics ranging .- from "Alliances, Coalitions and Ententes" to Horak, Stephan M. Russia, the USSR, and "Unconditional Surrender." Enlightening Eastern Europe: A Bibliographic Guide to and highly readable, the articles focus on a English Language Publications, 1964- conceptual analysis of major themes, 1974. Ed. by Rosemary Neiswender. Lit­ theories, doctrines, and distinctive policies tleton, Colo., Libraries Unlimited, 1978. in the history of American foreign relations, 488p. $25. LC 77-20696. ISBN 0-87287- tracing ideas with consistency and con­ 178-9. tinuity. Specific events are mentioned only Students, researchers and librarians, to when they relate to the broader discussion. whom this volume is addressed, will wel­ Coverage is selective, but at times, very come it as a ten-year extension of Paul imaginative-for example, the articles on Horecky' s basic bibliographies, Russia and "Ethnicity and Foreign Policy," "Missionary the Soviet Union (Guide DC361), East Cen­ Diplomacy," and "Protection of American tral Europe (Guide DC17), and Southeast­ Citizens Abroad." Each essay concludes ern Europe (Guide DC18). Although origi­ with a short bibliography and a list of nally undertaken as a revision of the com­ cross-references to related articles; there is piler's Junior Slavica (Guide DC359), it a detailed index. serves effectively as a selective updating of An added feature is a biographical section the Horecky titles, listing about 1,600 of over 500 entries on prominent persons in English-language monographic works in the the history of American foreign policy: pres­ social sciences and humanities for almost all idents, diplomats, politicians, journalists, the subject areas of those volumes. There and other public figures. One must virtually are three main divisions: (1) general works stumble upon this section since it is not on the USSR, Eastern Europe, and Com­ mentioned in the table of contents or the munism; (2) more specific topics concerning preface, and the entries are not keyed into Russia to 1917, the Soviet Union, the non­ the index. Although this factual information Russian Soviet republics, and Jews in the is useful, its inclusion appears to be a last USSR; (3) Eastern Europe. Each section is minute padding by the publisher in order to appropriately subdivided by topic C:-f' coun­ stretch the work to three volumes. Librar­ try. Although non-Slavic Eastern Europe ians and readers alike would have been just (East Germany, Hungary, Romania, and Al­ as pleased with a solid two-volume collec­ bania) is included "for geographic and polit­ tion of valuable essays and a less expensive ical reasons" (Introd.), Greece, which had a price tag. -L. B. chapter in Southeastern Europe, is excluded, as is the historical Byzantine Em­ pire. Parts 1 and 2 constitute about three­ HISTORY &: AREA STUDIES quarters of the list, with more than 1,200 Herwijnen, G. van. Bibliografie van de entries. Each entry gives full bibliographic stedengeschiedenis van Nederland. information and carries a descriptive and Leiden, Brill, 1978. 355p. fl.80. ISBN critical annotation excerpted from a signed 90-04-05700-5. book review in a leading Slavic studies At head of title: Acta collegii historiae ur­ journal. There is an author/title index and banae societatis historicorum internationalis. one of subjects.-R.K. 352 I College & Research Libraries • july 1979

Witherell, Julian W. The United States and presented in fourteen principal sections, Africa: Guide to U.S. Official Documents and the explanatory text that follows is simi­ and Government-Sponsored Publications larly arranged. Section I is designated as on Africa, 1785-1975. Washington, Li­ "the physical stage," section II as "prehis­ brary of Congress, 1978. 949p. $14.75. tory." Sections III-IX deal with significant LC 78-1051. ISBN 0-8444-0261-:3. historical periods, the emphasis in these Witherell has here compiled a bibliogra- sections being on political history, but with phy of selected publications issued by or for some attention to social and cultural pro­ the United States government relating to cesses. Sections X-XI are concerned with any part of Africa (with the exception of social, cultural, economic, and demographic Egypt), including the islands of the south­ evolution; section XII is devoted to the east Atlantic and western Indian Ocean. rural and urban settlement pattern of India; The first four sections-covering 1785-1819, section XIII is intended as an aid to detailed 1820-1862, 1863-1920, 1921-1951--are regional study; and the final section offers a "limited primarily to congressional and pres­ "geopolitical analysis." Maps (nearly all in idential documents, commercial reports, color) are mainly at the scale of diplomatic treaties" (Pref.) and are sub­ 1:12, 700,000; and two overlay maps, one divided geographically. A few National Ar­ indicating physiography, the other adminis­ chives microfilms are included for the first trative divisions as of 1975, are found in the period. pocket at back (along with three folded The final section, 1952-1975, adds to the chronological charts). . listing of the above types of government A general bibliography is provided at the publications "translations issued by Joint end of the introduction to each section of Publications Research Service and printed text, with references to sources and spe­ and mimeographed studies concerning cialized bibliography following individual American assistance programs prepared by subsections. The main bibliography (p.267- or for federal government agencies" (so long 304), a classified listing of some 4,000 items, as they are unclassified). This part, compris­ is in itself a substantial -reference source. ing about 80 percent of the entries, is also The detailed index lists not only regions, arranged geographically and further sub­ places, movements, and other mappable divided by broad topic. Library of Congress features shown in the atlas but includes call numbers are given for most entries; for names of persons mentioned in the text and those not available at LC, location symbols the major subject headings.--E.S. for other libraries are given. Indexing is by topic, main entry, and issuing body.--E.M. The Times Atlas of World History. Ed. by Geoffrey Barraclough. Maplewood, N.J.: Hammond, [1978]. 360p. 37cm. $50. LC HISTORICAL ATLASES 78-5403. ISBN 0-8437-1125-6. A Historical Atlas of South Asia. Ed. by Departing from the more usual approach Joseph E. Schwartzberg. Chicago, Univ. in the presentation of history through maps, of Chicago Pr. , 1978. 352p. 41cm. il., Barraclough and his contributors have maps. (Assn. for Asian Studies. Reference shifted from a political and Europe-centered Ser., no.2) $150. LC 77-81713. ISBN view to an emphasis on change, on eco­ 0-226-74221-0. nomic and social history, and on interna­ Many years in planning and preparation, tional movements, thus presenting "a view this atlas is indeed an impressive publica­ of world history appropriate to the age in tion. It '·'seeks to provide a comprehensive which we live."--Introd. Each map is origi­ cartographic record of the history of South nal and is accompanied by commentary, Asia from the Old Stone Age to the present densely packed with data, written by a spe­ day" (Introd.), with history taken to mea~ cialist. Although the maps are informative, "not merely the recounting, analysis, and handsome, and generally clear, two reser­ interpretation of political events, but also vations may be noted. In a few maps the the consideration of cultural, social, demo­ variations in color are not distinct enough, graphic, and economic developments." e.g., the yellows on the map on p.72-73, or The 149 pages of maps and plates are the browns on p.99. The other reservation Selected Reference Books I 353 concerns the absence of reference to scale; The publication gap in the Bibliotheque lines indicating latitude and longitude ap­ Nationale's Catalogue general ... (Guide pear on some maps, hut a note on conver­ AA105) has been closed with the appearance sion of latitude/longitude to miles or ofV.214 (Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1978. kilometers would have been useful. 2v.), which is devoted to Voltaire. In order Maps and commentary cover every period to provide a useful and up-to-date bibli­ from "Hunters and Gatherers" to "The ography of Voltaire's writings, a departure Eurasian World in 814" to "'f.he World in was made from the established rules for the 1975: Rich Nations and Poor Nations." Catalogue: rather than the 1959 cutoff'date There is a world chronology that lists major observed since V.189, some editions of his events in regional columns, with a separate works published up to 1978 have been in­ column for cultural events (including de­ cluded. Moreover, 239 pages of indexes (of velopments in science and technology). A titles, of incipits of works in verse, of trans­ glossary of names "of individuals, peoples, lations and adaptations, of pseudonyms, of events, treaties, etc., which . . . received names cited, of illustrators, etc.) precede only brief mention on the maps and accom­ the 1,824 columns of catalog entries in this panying texts" is separate from the index of impressive compilation. geographical names. Some 69,650 titles published throughout The volume seems well made, lies flat the world through 1974 are listed in the when opened, and should not need rebind­ third edition of Eleanora A. Baer' s Titles in ing soon-which is fortunate, since there Series (Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Pr., are many double-page maps with little or no 1978. 4v. $95). In addition to all works in­ inner margin. -E. M. cluded in earlier editions (Guide AA90) and titles in newly published series, some older NEW EDIDONS, SUPPLEMENTS, ETC. series have been added for the first time. The second edition of Books in Series in Described as the "third and last" supple­ the United States (New York, Bowker, 1979. ment to the British Museum's General 3,273p. $62.50) "provides access to some Catalogue of Printed Books (Guide AA100), 113,154 titles issued by some 1,270 pub­ the Five-Year Supplement, 1971-1975 (Lon­ lishers and distributors in some 10,837 don, publ. for the British Library by British series."-Pref. It cumulates the information Museum Pubis. Ltd., 1978- . To be in from the first edition (1977) and its 1978 13v.) will include nearly 600,000 entries supplement, together with additional entries (about 400,000 main entries plus added en­ providing both current and retrospective tries and references) for works cataloged coverage (i.e., date of publication is no 1971-75. Later information about the li­ longer a criterion for inclusion); future edi­ brary's holdings is to be made available tions will close gaps in retrospective listings through the "products and services" derived and also add data for new and ongoing se­ from the British Library data base of ries. machine-readable records. Changes in Anne Lyon Haight's Banned Books, 387 cataloging procedures (designed to bring en­ B.C. to 1978 A.D. has appeared in a fourth tries nearer to conformity with Anglo­ edition updated and enlarged by Chandler American cataloging rules) were gradually B. Grannis (New York, Bowker, 1978. 196p. introduced during the period of coverage $13. 95). Besides the addition of about sixty and are reflected in the Supplement­ items, there is a new introductory essay, particularly in regard to entries for serials "Censorship in America: The Legal Pic­ and anonymous books. Thus some serials ture," by Charles Rembar. are entered by title, while others are About 6,500 periodicals are annotated and grouped under the heading "Periodical Pub­ evaluated in the third edition of Magazines lications" according to the older practice. for Libraries by William A. Katz and Berry Reduction in the size of entries and use of a G. Richards (New York, Bowker, 1978. three-column page has resulted in a smaller 937p. $37.50). As in earlier editions, "titles number of volumes and a lower cost for the have been selected to include (1) some gen­ set, but the text is legible and the pages at­ eral, nonspecialist periodicals of interest to tractive despite the small print. the layperson; (2) the main English-language 354 I College & Research Libraries • July 1979

research journals sponsored by distin­ of topical essays on aspects of the history of guished societies in the United States, science in India, Mesopotamia, ancient Canada, and Great Britain; and (3) some Egypt, and Japan, plus an essay on "Maya high-quality commercial publications com­ Numeration, Computation, and Calendrical monly found in academic/special Astronomy." An index to the full set has yet libraries."-Pref. About 95 percent of the to appear. annotations from previous editions (see The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bib­ Guide AA419a) were edited and revised for liography has begun a new series (Philadel­ this edition. phia, American Society for Eighteenth- Numerous revisions and changes, as well Century Studies, 1978- . n.s.V.1- as general updating, characterize the second $25) and is no longer issued as part of edition of Joe Morehead's Introduction to Philological Quarterly (see Guide BD16). United States Public Documents (Littleton, The first volume covers. publications of 1975 Colo., Libraries Unlimited, 1978. 377p. and continues the broadened coverage insti­ . $17.50). One significant change is that tuted when the annual bibliography "En­ "chapters on the publications of the several glish Literature 1660-1800" (Guide BD396) departments, agencies, and independent es­ adopted the new title in 1971. The bibli­ tablishments now emphasize categories of ography covering 1973 (published 1974) was materials rather than a lengthy recital of in­ the last to appear in P.Q. dividual titles and series" (Pref.) as in the French 17 (Fort Collins, Colo., Colorado 1975 edition. State Univ., 1978- . no.26- . $2.25 Walter L. Newsome's New Guide to pa.) represents a change of title for the Bib­ Popular Government Publications for Li­ liography of French Seventeenth Century braries and Home Reference (Littleton, Studies (Guide BD730). Published for the Colo., Libraries Unlimited, 1978. 370p. Seventeenth Century French Division of $18.50) is a revised and updated edition of the Modern Language Association of Linda C. Pohle's Guide to Popular Gov­ America, the new series continues the ernment Publications (1972; Guide AG12). coverage of the earlier annual and assumes Arrangement remains basically the same, its numbering. but annotations have been rewritten. "Cur­ Esther Spring Arata's More Black Ameri­ rency or long-term popular interest has can Playwrights (Metuchen, N.J., Scare­ been the primary selection criterion for the crow Pr., 1978. 321p. $13.50) forms a sup­ approximately 2,500 titles in this plement to her Black American Playwrights. edition."-1 ntrod. "Approximately 490 playwrights appear in Informatio~ on approximately 39,000 cur­ this bibliography, of which 190 appeared in rently active scholars in the humanities the 1976 edition." -Pref. (4,700 appearing for the first time) is pro­ Although it bears a different title, Safire's vided in the seventh edition of the Direc­ Political Dictionary by William Safire (New tory of American Scholars (New York, York, Random House, 1978. 845p. $15.95) Bowker, 1978. 4v. $165). Division into vol­ is presented as the "third edition" of The umes is the same as for the previous edition New Language of Politics (Guide CJ49), (1974); there is a geographic index in each considerably enlarged and updated. of the four volumes, and a combined index The fifth and final volume of Sources in of scholars in volume 4. British Political History, 1900-1951 , com­ The promised supplement to the Dictio­ piled by Chris Cook and Jeffrey Weeks, is nary of Scientific Biography has been pub­ entitled "A Guide to the Private Papers of lished as V.15 of the set (see Guide EA225). Selected Writers, Intellectuals, and Publi­ Approximately two-thirds of this new vol­ cists" (London, Macmillan, 1978. 221p. ume (N.Y., Scribner, 1978. 818p.) is an al­ £20). It lists, locates, and briefly describes phabetical arrangement of biographical an interesting array of relevant collections in sketches of persons from all periods (refer­ numerous United States repositories as well ences to many of these articles having ap­ as those in Great Britain and other Com­ peared in the main sequence of volumes); monwealth nations. -E. S. the balance of the work comprises a series we've put together a new What does CBD cover? international directory . .. 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