well illustrated. Appendix B was unfortunate- Of the two, the Oklahoma list seems to be ly misbound in the review copy, but we trust the sounder piece of work. As the foregoing this to be an error not repeated in the rest figures suggest, its proportion of cross refer- of the .—Rudolf Hirsch, University of ences to headings more nearly conforms to Pennsylvania . the terrible necessity of providing catalog ac- cess to government publications. Even more important, it avoids useless proliferation of State Author Headings headings. Author Headings for the Official Publications The Wisconsin list is unrestrained. It strives of the State of Wisconsin. By Ruth Lillian to give a heading for every subdivision of the Whitlock Jackson. Chicago: American Li- main state departments, even though, admit- brary Association, 1954. 21 lp. $5. tedly, subdivision names are seldom estab- lished by law. As a result, it provides 64 dif- Author Headings for the Official Publications ferent forms for each of two headings: WIS- of the State of Oklahoma. Compiled by Ruth CONSIN. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION; and WIS- Fulton Cramer; revised and extended by CONSIN. STATE CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT. The Carolyn Curtis Mohr. Chicago: American heading WISCONSIN, PUBLIC SERVICE COMMIS- Library Association, 1954. ix, 114p. $3.85. SION. ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT has 21 sub- divisions. Most of them transcend the bounds Two volumes have been added to the series of cataloging propriety. What of of state author headings published by the state documents would ever require the head- American Library Association. Earlier lists pro- ing WISCONSIN. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION. AD- vide headings for Alabama (Markley), Loui- MINISTRATION DEPARTMENT. INFORMATION DE- siana (Foote) and Wyoming (Fischer). Like PARTMENT. MAIN OFFICE SECTION? As a prac- the Markley , the new additions are tical matter, few use corporate en- based on theses for the master's degree at the tries in more than three parts unless they University of Illinois Library School. Despite want the heading to wag the card. its belated publication, the Wisconsin list was The compilers of the Oklahoma list wisely the first such compilation to be undertaken chose to exclude headings for "temporary at the school in 1941. bodies appointed to complete a specific func- The theoretical utility of listing author head- tion, as construction of a building, where no ings for official state publications lies in the publications were issued and the agency ob- difficulty of determining the legal form of an viously no longer functions" (p. vi). In the agency name. The compiler of such a list Wisconsin list one finds: seeks to establish agency names authoritative- ly by systematically combing state laws, blue WISCONSIN. AGENT TO PROCURE A BLOCK OF , of state publications, MARBLE OR GRANITE TO BE PLACED IN THE and similar sources. Any cataloger who has NATIONAL MONUMENT AT THE CITY OF scanned the fine print of session laws to verify WASHINGTON. the name of a minor state agency can appre- WISCONSIN. BOARD TO HEAR, TRY AND DETER- ciate the boon of having the task done for MINE COMPLAINTS REGARDING THE FAILURE him. Reference librarians, too, will find use OF RAILROADS TO MAKE CONNECTIONS AT for such tools in their own work. JUNCTIONAL POINTS WITHIN THIS STATE. The Wisconsin list covers agencies of the WISCONSIN. COMMISSIONERS TO PROCURE TO BE territorial government from 1836 to 1848 and PUBLISHED SO MUCH OF THE DOCUMENTARY the state government from 1848 to 1951. It of- HISTORY OF THIS STATE AS HAD BEEN PRE- fers about 1,000 author headings together with PARED FOR PUBLICATION BY WILLIAM R. some 1,500 cross references. The Oklahoma list SMITH. covers agencies of the territorial government We learn that the governor was the block- from 1890 to 1907 and the state government buying agent, that Mr. Smith's was in from 1907 to 1953. It gives some 444 author fact published, but there is nothing to re- headings with approximately 1,270 cross ref- veal whether train service was ever improved. erences. Both lists include numerous see-also All this makes charming , but it seems references. unlikely that these fleeting agencies would

MAY, 1956 273 have issued publications under such top-heavy lectures supplement the author's History of designations. the Cambridge University Press (1921) where This raises the practical point: do such lists the material on early lacked the really make a contribution, or are they mere- information provided by manuscripts since ly the by-products of "busy work"? It may be discovered and where the material on modern argued that even if they are in the latter cat- publishing was, with proper delicacy, subor- egory, theresults are possibly useful and should dinated. Thus, the earlier book discusses works be made available. All well and good, but part published or printed at the beginning of the of the $5.00 price tag on the Wisconsin list eighteenth century with occasional references is due to the padding-out of headings. Each to the curators' minute-books; in the present library must assess the value of these lists for volume, cash accounts are analyzed to show itself, weighing the advantages against the production costs. The "sad story of the pub- drawbacks. Librarians need not be reminded lication of the Suidas Lexicon" (1705), in that, an Oklahoma heading to the contrary, which, unwillingly, "the Curators were for the there is no Santa Claus Commission.—John first time faced with the problems and respon- Rather, School of Library Service, Columbia sibilities of a publisher," is here told in de- University. tail. The master of Pembroke then turns to the nineteenth century, discussing efforts to main- Cambridge Publishing tain the press on a profitable basis before con- The Evolution of Cambridge Publishing. By sidering the important publication projects: S. C. Roberts. New York: Cambridge Uni- Arabia Deserta, the Revised Version, the Pitt versity Press, 1956. 67 p. $2.75. Press series of , the Cambridge Mod- ern History, and lesser works. These are re- Unlike the editors of Webster's Collegiate viewed in a rather cursory fashion; no at- Dictionary, those Cantabrigians who guide the tempt is made to supply detailed information Sandars Lectures in are well about production costs, number of copies aware that bibliography is neither confined sold, or even the editorial policies. Instead, to the history or description of books and emphasis is placed upon the growth of the manuscripts, nor to lists of writings. During publishing business conducted by the press, the past decade, this distinguished lecture ser- citing changes in organization as well as in ies has offered sound and varied fare, in- kinds of books published. cluding studies of manuscripts, incunabula, The final lecture describes "a few, only a and the book trade as well as John Carter's few, features of the development of Cambridge penetrating comments on tendencies in book and publishing in the present cen- collecting. The Evolution of Cambridge Pub- tury." But the few chosen are probably the lishing, the latest to be published, again re- most interesting: the syndics' experience with minds us of this breadth of interest, for it an American promoter in the publication of concerns the history of publishing rather than the eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Bri- the . tannica, the typographical renaissance under Although the university press at Cambridge Bruce Rogers and Stanley Morison, and the has printed books since the sixteenth century, success of the press in publishing textbooks its publishing activities are fairly recent. In as well as occasional best-sellers. When one this volume of the Sandars Lectures for 1954, remembers that, during part of this period, S. C. Roberts, master of Pembroke College the author was secretary to the syndics, it is and formerly secretary to the syndics of the disappointing to find comparatively little press, presents a broad survey of publishing new information. A less objective, more per- at Cambridge. Each of the three lectures is sonal approach might have provided a bet- devoted to a particularly important period: ter insight into the evolution of Cambridge the revival of the press under Richard Bent- publishing at that time. However, now that ley about 1700, the increased attention to this study has been completed, it is to be publishing in the second half of the nine- hoped that an autobiographical account will teenth century, and some significant develop- be prepared. Certainly there is much more to ments of the twentieth century. The first two tell.

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