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New Periodicals of 1960-Part I By GERALDINE KAUFMAN EW PERIODICALS will probably always N be started in the familiar fields as Miss Kaufman is Head of the Serials Sec- for example in education, history, sci- tion, Descriptive Cataloging Division, Li- ence, and technology; but this list in- brary of Congress. cludes some journals with new or unique slants. The "little magazines" and literary reviews sprout like mushrooms. supplements. Ararat is an attempt to re- flect past and contemporary Armenian BIBLIOGRAPHY, LIBRARIES. The "Weekly culture, especially for contemporary Ar- Record" section of Publishers' Weekly menians with a dual heritage; the first is being issued monthly as the American issue is devoted to the short stories and Book Publishing Record, arranged by articles of young Armenians. The emerg- subject (Dewey Decimal Classification) ence of China as a major power demands with the data of the Library of Congress objective analysis and study of its evolve- cards, plus annotations. Public Library ment on the part of the Western na- Abstracts will abstract objective pub- tions, and to this end, The China Quar- lished or unpublished studies which can terly will publish articles by specialists help the operation of, or research in, on contemporary Chinese developments. public libraries. The editor, Herbert One section will give an unbiased docu- Goldhor, has arranged the material by mented account of more or less current author under subject, each item num- major events; later issues will contain bered. book reviews. DDR in Wort und Bild will give a picture of the political, eco- COUNTRIES. One of the most timely new nomic, and cultural life in Eastern Ger- publications is Cahiers d'Etudes Afri- many and of the growth of socialism caines which proposes to present both there. ALASorgan of the Association old and new aspects of the Dark Conti- for Latin American Studies, will be a nent in order to mirror and explain the kind of clearing house for news in writ- great experience taking place there. By ting, teaching, travels, conferences, any means of contributors, technical and activities in the field of Latin American scholarly, outstanding in politics, econ- studies. Accion Liberal is devoted to Co- omy, and literature, the Revue Encyclo- lombia, to orient and to explain, both pedique de I'Ajrique hopes to be an ac- in and out of the country, its social curate and documental reflection of problems and ferment, reforms and Africa in respect to its evolution, its ef- growth; the first issue includes also arti- forts, and its aspirations. The articles, cles on movies, painting, literature, and usually signed, are illustrated, sometimes the theater. Articles are signed and some helpfully by maps. The first issue is ac- are accompanied by portraits. companied by a supplement devoted to the Republic of the Ivory Coast. Sub- EDUCATION, GUIDANCE. American Youth scriptions may be placed omitting the is chiefly for the teenagers, judging by SEPTEMBER 1960 381 the first issue, which has highly illus- Character & Culture of Europe plus edi- trated articles on young people the coun- tions in French, German, and Italian. try wide telling how they earn money, The first issue contains cultural articles how they develop talents, how they have from several countries and a series of won scholarships, plus a page devoted scientific articles "By courtesy of 'The to one question, with answers from Sunday Times'"; and in addition, a young people. The question for Janu- questionnaire for the reader, concern- ary is "Should Teen-Agers Go Steady?" ing the future contents of the journal— Increased resources are enabling the should it contain cultural articles re- School of Hotel Administration at Cor- printed in the reader's own language, nell University to publish The Cornell cultural articles in the original language, Hotel and Restaurant Administration or only information on foundation ac- Quarterly through which it will share in tivities? Forum der Letteren, superseding the education of hotel men by furnishing Museum, will contain general aspects of a forum for serious and scholarly dis- world philology, literature, and history. cussions on pertinent problems or prog- The articles in the first issue, spread ress of the industry. With a subject ar- over these fields, are well documented. rangement Guidance Exchange digests Midway; a Magazine of Discovery in the books, pamphlets, magazine articles, Arts and Sciences will choose scholarly playlets, films, posters, etc., dealing with articles from books and journals pub- guidance literature. Neither scope nor lished by The University of Chicago criteria of what is examined or included Press and will offer them in nontechnical in this publication is outlined in the language for scholars and laymen, all first issue. Happiness is a large-print scholars being considered laymen when magazine for those legally blind who removed from their own fields. The first have a small fraction of vision, written two issues present widely ranging arti- for older teenagers and for adults up to cles: psychology, sociology, economics, thirty or thirty-five years of age. The baseball, patent laws, Sir Arthur Conan contents are stories, some continued, Doyle, poetry, and a story from ancient some articles of general information (one India. The Czechoslovak Society for on names of states), poetry, humor, Eastern Studies has assumed the vast task chiefly with a religious slant. Education of publishing in New Orient articles on by correspondence is very popular in the the "cultural life, history, literature, the United States and is rising in popularity arts, folklore, ethnography, archaeology, in western Europe, Scandinavia, and the philosophy, religion, and the languages Soviet Union. To encourage exchange of all countries of Asia and Africa." The of experiences, to stimulate research, and well illustrated first issue also includes to furnish reliable information the Na- tional Home Study Council is sponsor- book reviews. ing The Home Study Review under the editorship of its executive director, Dr. HISTORY. SOCIAL QUESTIONS. The Cot- Robert Allen. Overview is for all educa- ton History Review contains historical tional executives. It contains articles on sketches of early cotton mills, biogra- educational theory as well as on prac- phies of cotton manufacturers, and arti- tical help. It has also book reviews, sec- cles on the origin or development of the tions on products for schools, personali- industry, in a very readable, nontechni- ties, and news round-up. cal style. Interspersed are small news items or ads which appeared in early newspapers; signed book reviews are in- GENERAL CULTURE. The Fondation Eu- cluded. The contributors are chiefly ropeenne de la Culture is publishing from educational institutions or from 382 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES some phase of industry. The National ple with a "different sense of the soci- Association of Intergroup Relations Of- ety" will enter the discussion, thus se- ficials intends The Journal of Inter- curing "a genuine dialogue between group Relations to be a medium for intellectual and industrial workers." those interested in racial, religious, and The journal includes signed book re- ethnic relationships by exchanging ex- views. periences and knowledge. The first issue has an article on Puerto Ricans in New LAW. The Civil Service Bar Associa- York City and on the part of the gov- tion is seeking "to unite in common pro- ernment in housing, along with the pres- fessional pursuits the corps of municipal entation of other current problems. It career lawyers scattered in different de- includes signed book reviews, briefer no- partments and places in the City of New tations, and annotations of some period- York" through The City Lawyer. The icals. Unique in its field, Labor History first issue contains an article on better will be a scholarly journal devoted to re- municipal government, notes on recent search in the history of American labor cases, and signed book reviews. The In- in all reaches—biography, studies of in- dex to Foreign Legal Periodicals will in- dividual unions, theory, research. There dex the chief legal periodicals in the are signed reviews of books on labor his- fields of comparative, municipal, and tory. In the first issue, all articles and public and private international law of book reviews are by university faculty. all countries aside from the United Beginning with the Spring issue, there States and those members of the British will be included a series of inventories of Commonwealth whose law systems have labor-history materials in university, a common-law basis, thus complement- public, and special libraries. The Louisi- ing the Index to Legal Periodicals. The ana Historical Association in coopera- publication will be a quarterly, the last tion with the Louisiana State University quarter constituting an annual cumu- is issuing Louisiana History, which con- lation, with the hope that at the end of tains, among others, an article on differ- the fifth year the cumulative issue will ent kinds of outdoor ovens in Louisiana, be quinquennial. on foreign slave trade after 1808, and a biographical sketch of a Confederate LITERATURE. The first issue of Arbor soldier of Louisiana, Joseph Carson; the contains short stories, poetry, and a play. authors are faculty members of various The contributors are from general fields. educational institutions. The periodical Bryn Mawr Review contains poetry, also contains a section entitled "Vi- short stories, and sketches, presumably gnettes," and signed reviews of pertinent the work of students and faculty of the books. As indicated by the title, Michi- college, although no attributions are gan Jewish History, official organ of the made. The Carleton Miscellany, edited Jewish Historical Society of Michigan, by Reed Whittemore, contains poetry, contains articles pertaining to the Jews essays, and stories. The contributors to and Jewish incidents in Michigan. The the first issue are chiefly faculty mem- first issue has articles not only on the bers of United States universities and Jews early in Michigan but also an arti- colleges.