COLLEGE and RESEARCH LIBRARIES Types of Material Listed in the Various Trated with Photographs, Drawings, and Subject Sections Include Specialized Encyclo- Graphs

By CONSTANCE M. WINCHELL

Selected Reference Books of 1958-1959

INTRODUCTION graphically complete, and page appearance is good (although the height of 34 cm. may IKE the preceding articles in this semi- well present shelving problems). It is as- Lj annual series1 this survey is based on sumed that there will be annual indexes and notes written by members of the staff of that in due time the monthly issues will ap- the Columbia University Libraries. Notes pear more promtply.—J.N.W. written by assistants are signed with in- itials,2 and for this issue were edited by The British National Bibliography. Cu- Eugene Sheehy. mulated Subject Catalogue. 1951/54. As the purpose of the list is to present London, Council of the British Na- a selection of recent scholarly and for- tional Bibliography, 1958. 2v. £16 16s. eign works of interest to reference work- Represents a cumulation of the material ers in university libraries, it does not appearing in the classified sections of the pretend to be either well-balanced or 1951-1954 annual volumes. Individual en- comprehensive. Code numbers (such as tries from those volumes were cut and ar- All, 1A26, 2S22) have been used to refer ranged in classified sequence, then pasted to titles in the Guide3 and its Supple- up for photo-offset printing. (Material from the 1950 volume was omitted owing to the ments. different format.) The Cumulated Index BIBLIOGRAPHY 1950-54 (Supplement 2A55) serves as the Bibliografia nazionale italiana; nuova key to this work, providing a guide to the classification numbers, the necessary cross- serie del Bollettino delle pubblicazioni references, etc. The Cumulated Index and italiane . . . Anno 1, fasc. 1- . Firenze, • these two volumes bring together in con- Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, 1958- venient form all the information contained . L. 8500 per yr. in the 1951-54 annuals.—E.S. Although the Bollettino (Guide AS94) has long served as the most useful current Catalogo general de la libreria espanola, national bibliography available for Italy, it 1931-1950. Madrid, Instituto Nacional was not without its limitations, particularly de Libro Espanol, 1957- . v.l- . $9 in arrangement and in the promptness of per vol. its listings. The new work, sponsored by the Centro Nazionale per il Catalogo Unico Contents: v.l, A-Ch. delle Biblioteche Italiane e per le Informa- An author listing which continues the zioni Bibliografiche, is a much improved Catalogo general de la libreria espanola e product. Arrangement is by Dewey classifica- hispanoamericana, 1901-30 (Guide A507), tion, entries are standardized and biblio- but includes only Spanish imprints. Biblio- graphical information is again gratifyingly 1 CRL, January and July issues starting January complete, and a compilation spanning so 1952. 2 Reference: Eleanor Buist, Ellin L. Resnick, Eliza- long a period is most welcome. It is, how- beth J. Rumics, Eugene Sheehy, John Neal Waddell. ever, to be regretted that Spanish American 3 Constance M. Winchell, Guide to Reference Books (7th ed.; Chicago: ALA, 1951); Supplement (Chi- publications could not again be included. cago: ALA, 1954); Second Supplement (Chicago: ALA, 1956). —E.S.

Miss Winchell is Reference Librarian, The Indian National Bibliography tno.l] Columbia University Libraries. October-December, 1957- . General

JULY 1959 289 Editor, B. A. Kesavan. [Calcutta] Cen- original citations. The purpose and proce- tral Reference Library, 1958- . Rs. dure as explained in tbe preface indicate 15.50 or 245 per issue. the deficiencies which it is hoped may be overcome in a comprehensive national bibli- The culmination of several years of plan- ography which may perhaps be compiled ning and preliminary work, this new na- by a future generation. tional bibliography represents a tremendous achievement on the part of the compilers Repertorio bibliografico 1958, parte I as well as a notable addition to the librar- (1 gennaio-30 giugno 1958)- . [Issued ian's collection of national bibliographies. by Presidenza del Consiglio dei Min- The first quarterly issue attempts to list istry Roma, Istituto Poligrafico dello all new publications appearing in the four- teen major languages of the country, includ- Stato, 1958- . (Quaderni di libri e ing first issues of new periodicals, but ex- riviste d'ltalia, 1). Semiannual (?). cluding music, maps, and several categories Designed for a wide public generally in- of ephemera. terested in current Italian book trade pro- Fortunately for the foreigner, vernacular duction, this new selective bibliography is scripts have been transliterated into the less comprehensive but for many readers Roman alphabet. The text is in English, potentially more useful than the standard, and the general plan and appearance of fuller lists. Only slightly more than 3,000 the work are similar to those of the B.N.B. titles are included for the half-year cov- The actual bibliography is in two parts, the ered, but since schoolbooks, many juvenile first for general materials, the second for items, prayerbooks, and several other cate- government publications. Primary arrange- gories are excluded, coverage of general ment of each is by Dewey classification, and materials should be reasonably complete. for each of the two parts there is a detailed Arrangement is by simplified U.D.C. list- index of authors, titles, and subjects. In the ing, followed by an index of personal main listing bibliographic information is authors. There is no index of title or cor- full, with additional notations of price, porate entries, nor any publishers' direc- language and Colon Classification number. tory. Typography and paper are excellent. No mention is made of plans for cumula- —J.N.W. tions or annual indexes, which, if possible, will of course increase the reference value of the work considerably.—J.N.W. Zischa, Gert A. Index lexicorum; Biblio- graphic der lexikalischen Nachschlag- werke. Wien, Briider Hollinek [1959] Shaw, Ralph Robert and Shoemaker, 290p. DM 49. Richard H. American Bibliography: a Preliminary Checklist. N.Y., Scare- Embracing a wealth of titles, this is a crow Press, 1958. v. 1-5. (v. 1-5, $27) work of potentially great value, but there $6 per vol. are a number of limitations which must be borne in mind. Contrary to the advance Contents: v.1-5, 1801-1805. advertising of several dealers, it is not a A preliminary checklist "gathered en- bibliography of dictionaries, but, as noted tirely from secondary sources" designed as in the sub-title, is a "bibliography of ency- a first step in filling the gap in American clopedia-like reference books." International national bibliography between 1800 and in scope and particularly strong for Ger- 1820. Each volume covers one year and the man works, the 7,000 titles included are plan is to continue through 1819 with grouped in twenty-one sections, the first author and title indexes to be furnished devoted to general encyclopedias, the fol- when the work is completed. These five vol- lowing to reference works in subject fields. umes include 9,785 entries arranged alpha- (Conspicuously absent is a section on lan- betically by author or anonymous title un- guage dictionaries, e.g., Grimm, Littr£, der each year. Locations of copies are given Murray, etc., nor do these appear elsewhere when this information was included in the under other headings.)

290 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Types of material listed in the various trated with photographs, drawings, and subject sections include specialized encyclo- graphs. There are long, signed articles on pedias and dictionaries, glossaries, hand- broad subjects, many with bibliographies, books, biographical dictionaries, yearbooks, and unsigned, short articles on specific names chronologies, gazetteers, etc. There are, how- and places. Volume 10 includes an atlas of ever, no subject bibliographies, so that one Canada with an alphabetical index.—E.L.R. looks in vain for such landmarks as Goe- deke, or Marouzeau, or Dutcher, or, more Malaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia. Glav. to the point, for unknown titles of a sim- red. B. A. Vvedenskii. Izd. 3. [Moskva] ilar nature. Annotations are usually limited Gos. nauch. izd-vo "Bol 'shaia sovets- to the few most important titles in each cat- egory and are generally quite brief. Pagina- kaia entsiklopediia," [1958- ] v.l- . tion is omitted, and bibliographic data for 35r. per vol. serials, continuations, and revised editions Contents: v. 1-2, A-Gorniak. are often puzzling. The index includes per- A third edition of the shorter Soviet ency- sonal authors and subject headings, but no clopedia, planned in ten volumes, to con- title listings, even for anonymous or com- tain 50,000 articles as compared with 31,000 posite works.—J.N.W. in the second edition of eleven volumes. The second edition appeared between 1933 LIBRARIES and 1947 in various printings, some of which Ash, Lee. Subject Collections; a Guide were re-edited. Designed for the average Soviet reader, there is some emphasis on to Special Book Collections and Sub- terms of non-Russian origin, and world ject Emphases as Reported by Univer- biography. Illustrations and maps are more sity, College, Public and Special Li- numerous than in previous editions, with braries in the United States, the Ter- improved color printing.—E.B. ritories, and Canada. New York, R. R.

Bowker, 1958. 476p. $15. PERIODICALS

"Planned on a triennial schedule as a Pan American Union. Repertorio de companion volume to the American Library publicaciones periodicas actuales lat- Directory," the work lists special collections inoamericanas. Directory of Current under some 500 subjects, plus numerous place and name entries. Special collections Latin American Periodicals. Paris, in the Library of Congress are excluded, UNESCO, 1958. 266p. $3.50. as are local history and local genealogy col- Originally planned as a directory of inter- lections, and various types of professional nationally useful learned or scholarly pub- libraries. Information was drawn from ques- lications, the scope was broadened to "a tionnaires, with resulting unevenness (e.g., full selection covering all divisions dealt the "Rare Books" entry) according to the with by the Universal Decimal Classifica- reporting librarian's interpretation of "spe- tion." With this expansion, budgetary con- cial collection." Usefulness should be greatly siderations made it necessary to eliminate increased in future editions if libraries will an alphabetical title listing, and the direc- strive for greater uniformity in reporting. tory information (complete title, beginning —E.S. date, address, periodicity) appears in a clas- ENCYCLOPEDIAS sified section arranged by U.D.C. number. There is a geographical index and an alpha- Encyclopedia Canadiana. [Editor-in- betical subject index. Elimination of the chief: John E. RobbinS] Ottawa, Cana- title listing has, unfortunately, reduced the diana Co. [1957-58] lOv. Set $129.50. volume's usefulness for rapid verification and bibliographic checking.—E.S. This is a good, popularly written encyclopedia on all aspects of Canada and Cana- dian life, past and present, prepared by a Southern Regional Education Board. A distinguished group of scholars, and illus- Southeastern Supplement to the Un-

JULY 1959 291 ion List of Serials; a Regional Union purposes of arrangement the region has List of Serials Commencing Publica- been divided into nineteen sections, each tion Before January 1, 1950; Supple- subdivided into three parts. Part A includes selected works published prior to 1940; Part menting the Union List of Serials of B aims at complete coverage of publica- the H. W. Wilson Co. Edited by Ed- tions issued between 1940-1954; and Part C ward Graham Roberts. Atlanta, South- consists of data on field research carried out ern Regional Education Board, 1959. during 1940-1954. The third section was 447p. $20. compiled on the basis of questionnaires and does not include the work of some promi- Some 36 college and university libraries nent Indian anthropologists. Entries in in ten states have contributed to this re- Parts A and B are arranged under six broad gional supplement compiled under the subject headings covering the major branches sponsorship of the Association of South- of anthropology; Part C includes field work eastern Research Libraries, the Southeast- in social and cultural anthropology only. ern Interlibrary Research Facility, and the The 5,316 items are, with a few exceptions, Southern Regional Education Board. Al- in western languages and include unpub- though about 25 per cent of the titles are lished dissertations. There is an author in- not found in ULS, "serial" has been given dex. It is hoped that a supplementary bib- a much broader interpretation than the liography for the years 1955-1957 will be ULS definition, and the listing includes issued and that thereafter bibliographies many U.N., federal, state, and municipal on the anthropology of "South Asia" will serial documents. The work will quite nat- be published biennially. In spite of the urally be of most value to libraries in the misleading title and the inconsistent inclu- Southeast, but it should also prove gen- sion of material, this is an ambitious work erally useful for locating regional mate- and a valuable bibliography.—E.L.R. rials and for additional serial locations.—

E.S. SOCIAL SCIENCES

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS London Bibliography of the Social Karachi. University. Institute of Public Sciences. London, British Library of and Business Administration. Publi- Political and Economic Science, 1958- cations of the Government of Pakis- . v.10- . (London School of Eco-

tan, 1947-1957 tcomp. by] George B. nomics and Political Science Studies: Moreland and Akhtar H. Siddiqui. Bibliographies No. 8.) Karachi, 1958. 187p. Contents: v.10, 1950-1955. A-K. 1958. 1099p. Lists and indexes the official publications For earlier volumes see Guide L7, Sup- of the Government of Pakistan from Au- plements 1L4 and 2L1. gust 14, 1947 through December 31, 1957. This new five-year supplement lists "ad- ditions from 1950 to 1955 in all languages, ANTHROPOLOGY and also from 1936 to 1950 in Russian," to the British Library of Political and Eco- Furer-Haimendorf, Elizabeth von. An nomic Science and to the Edward Fry Li- Anthropological Bibliography of brary of International Law. Russian titles South Asia; Together with a Direc- were omitted from the volumes covering tory of Recent Anthropological Field 1936-1950, and are now included in the Work. Paris, Mouton, 1958. 748p. new supplement. Subject headings have in $16.85. some cases been modernized—the relationship of the new to the old will be found in The geographic area here dealt with com- the tables of headings which will appear prises India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhu- in volume XI. Otherwise, the scope and tan, and Ceylon, rather than the whole of form remain much the same as in previous South Asia as indicated in the title. For volumes.

292 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Quezon, Philippines. University of the sion of homophones (words pronounced Philippines. Social Science Research alike but differing in spelling and mean- Center. An Annotated Bibliography ing) is an innovation. Alphabetization is of Philippine Social Sciences. Com- letter by letter. Usually the current meaning is given first, i.e., "the most relevant piled under the supervision of Cecilio or the most general meaning," but the or- Lopez ... by Alejandrino G. Hu- der depends somewhat on the particular fana and Rony V. Diaz. Quezon City, situation. Derivations follow the definitions. Philippines, 1956- . The coverage attempts to include "the established word stock of English and of the Contents: v.l, Economics. rapidly expanding vocabularies of the arts, The first of a series of annotated bibliog- sciences, trades, and professions," and also raphies, this volume is a classified listing includes slang, colloquialisms, regional and of economics materials in the Filipiniana local dialects, etc. section of the University of the Philippines Library. Approximately 3,000 English lan- A list of some 5,000 commonly used ab- guage books, pamphlets, periodical articles, breviations follows the main text. and government documents (and a few This dictionary should be welcome in theses) are grouped under thirty-one head- the home which has neither need nor space ings such as Agriculture, Capital, Currency, for an unabridged dictionary, in the small Labor, Statistics, etc. Each item is anno- library, and as an additional volume in tated; at the least the content is indicated, large libraries. while many have lengthy descriptive (not critical) notes. There is an index of au- Partridge, Eric. Origins; a Short Etymo- thors, titles, and subjects. The bibliogra- logical Dictionary of Modern English. phy's usefulness is considerably limited by London, Routledge and Paul 11958]. the fact that it lists only holdings of this 970p. 905. one library. For example, a quick check shows the absence of a number of book In this concise etymological dictionary titles included in the economics section of the author has "concentrated upon civili- the HRAF Behavior Science Bibliography, zation rather than upon science and tech- Selected Bibliography on the Philippines nology; dialect and cant have been ignored; (c. 1956). Periodical articles come mainly slang is represented only by a very few from Philippine magazines. This indeed in- outstanding examples" (Foreword). Through dicates the chief value of this work for liberal use of cross-references and abbrevia- United States libraries: that of a supple- tions, a very substantial number of words mental listing of local materials not easily has been treated. Three useful appendices found listed elsewhere.—E.J.R. provide separate etymological lists of pre- fixes, suffixes, and compound-forming ele- DICTIONARIES ments.—E.S.

Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary Zaunmtiller, Wolfram. Bibliographisches of the English Language. Interna- Handbuch der Sprachworterbiicher; tional edition. New York, Funk and ein internationales Verzeichnis von Wagnalls Co., 1958. 1506p. il. $24.50. 4,600 Worterbilchern der Jahre 1460- A new "between-size" dictionary, larger 1958 fiir mehr als 500 Sprachen und than a desk dictionary and smaller than an Dialekte. An Annotated Bibliography unabridged, which includes in one alphabet, of Language Dictionaries. Bibliog- words; personal, proper, and geographical raphie critique des dictionnaires lin- names; foreign phrases, etc. Spelling, syl- guistiques. Stuttgart, Anton Hierse- labication, pronunciation have been given mann, 1958. 496 cols. DM 50. the usual full treatment, as well as ety- mologies, synonyms and antonyms, and com- This bibliography of dictionaries pub- bining forms. Special attention has been lished during 500 years in languages rang- paid to grammatical usage and the inclu- ing from "Abasinisch" to "Zutuhil" in-

JULY 1959 293 eludes a far greater number of items than jects) remain much the same, as does the either Collison (Supplement 2M17) or the information given for each title. Layout Library of Congress Foreign Language-Eng- and typography are again clear and attrac- lish Dictionaries (Supplement 2M18), as tive. As the main volume plus supplements its aim is to list all dictionaries published listed nearly 11,000 titles, at least one-fourth during the past century and a selection of of those have been dropped in this edition. those published between 1460-1850. It Contrary to advertisements, then, most li- should be noted, however, that scientific braries will hesitate to discard the original and technical dictionaries are not included. set, which is still useful for identification, In addition to standard language diction- verification, or information about titles now aries the compiler includes dictionaries of out of print or superseded.—E.J.R. pronunciation, abbreviations, place names, style and grammar, etc. Titles are arranged LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE within the alphabetical language group in reverse chronology, most recent first; oc- Bell, Inglis F. and Baird, Donald. The casionally an older but more important English Novel, 1578-1956; a Checklist work is listed at the head of the section. of Twentieth-Century Criticisms. Den- Those judged particularly significant, wheth- ver, Alan Swallow [C1959]. 169p. $3. er for usefulness or historical importance, are starred. Annotations are concise and Limited to twentieth-century criticism of pertinent. An index of languages by con- English novels from Lyly's Euphues to works tinent and one of authors, compilers, trans- of established contemporary novelists, this lators, and editors are included. Although checklist is frankly selective. The editors the title-page is tri-lingual, the body of the state that "approximately 2,000 monographs work and its orientation are German. Never- and the files of over 100 periodicals were theless, its inclusiveness even without scien- searched," though the list of sources from tific titles should make it valuable for veri- which citations were drawn includes only fication and identification and as a handy 66 periodical titles and slightly more than over-view of what has been published for 300 books. Arrangement is alphabetical by a given language.—E.J.R. novelist's name, then by title of the novel. Citations are clear and complete. Though

SCIENCE planned as a companion to George W. Arms and Joseph M. Kuntz's Poetry Explication Hawkins, Reginald Robert, ed. Scien- (N. Y., Swallow, 1950), one suspects that tific, Medical and Technical Books the present volume may prove somewhat Published in the United States of less useful, criticism of specific novels be- America; a Selected List of Titles in ing generally more easily accessible than explication of individual poems.—E.S. Print, with Annotations. 2d ed., Books published to December 1956. Washington [National Academy of Byrd, Milton Bruce and Goldsmith, Ar- Sciences—National Research Council] nold L. Publication Guide for Liter- 1958. 1491p. $20. ary and Linguistic Scholars. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1958. Distributed in the United States by the 146p. $1.95. R. R. Bowker Company, New York. Representing a second edition of the Sets forth editorial "policies and prefer- original main volume (1944) and supple- ences of some one hundred eighty Amer- ments (1948, 1952) (Guide N10, Supple- ican and Canadian journals which publish ment 2N3), this volume contains approxi- literary and linguistic scholarship and lit- mately 8,000 titles. Of these, 3,500, or near- erary criticism." Arrangement is by journal ly half, represent either new editions of title, with a subject index. This should titles previously listed or new titles. Gen- prove a useful guide to how and where to eral standards of inclusion and arrange- submit scholarly manuscripts in the fields ment (i.e., classification under broad sub- indicated.—E.S.

294 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES French VII Bibliography. No. 10 and e.g., people, places, institutions, historical General Index to Volumes I and II. events, etc. In relative length, general form New York, Stechert-Hafner, 1958. and bibliographic content, articles follow the pattern set in the earlier volumes. A Regrettably for both scholar and librar- brief bibliography of background materials ian, this is the last fascicle of a very useful in French literature is appended.—J.N.W. bibliography. Duplication of effort in the MLA annual bibliography, coupled with the problem of finance, forced the decision to Lindsay, Maurice. The Burns Encyclo- cease publication. The long-awaited index paedia. London, Hutchinson f1959] proves somewhat disappointing, since Part 287p. 255. One (Index to author-subjects) refers only Mitchell Library, Glasgow. Catalogue of to fascicle number. Fortunately for the Robert Burns Collection in the Mitch- user, Part Two (Index to authors of books ell Library, Glasgow. [Glasgow] Glas- and articles) makes reference to item numbers.—E.S. gow Corporation Public Libraries, 1959. 217p. 215. Golden, Herbert Hershel and Simches, Commemorating the bicentennial of the Seymour O. Modern Iberian Lan- poet's birth, these two works will be wel- guage and Literature; a Bibliography comed by the Burns specialist. A hand- of Homage Studies. Cambridge, Har- somely printed volume, the Encyclopaedia vard University Press, 1958. 184p. $4. intends "to provide articles in alphabetical Concerned primarily with Catalan, Portu- order about people whom Burns met or guese, and Spanish language and literature referred to in his letters and in his poems," since 1500, this work joins the same au- together with information on places which thors' Modern French Literature and Lan- figured in his life. There are few cross ref- guage (Guide 2R89) as "the second volume erences, but a detailed index more than of a series which will ultimately comprise compensates. bibliographies of homage studies in the Based on the work of James C. Ewing, major languages and literatures of the Ro- the Catalogue provides a key to what is mance field." (Pref.) Part I lists 424 vol- believed to be the world's largest Burns umes of Festschriften published through collection (more than 3,500 volumes). With- 1956, including homage numbers of schol- in two principal sections, "Works of Robert arly journals. Parts II-IV list over 2,000 Burns" and "Burnsiana," there are numer- articles under subdivisions of three main ous subdivisions contributing to efficient use headings: Language; Literature and folk- of the volume. Pagination is not indicated lore; Literary and intellectual relations. for editions of Burns' works, but biblio- There is an author index.—E.S. graphical information is otherwise complete; there are a few brief annotations and an index.—E.S. Harvey, Paul and Heseltine, Janet E. The Oxford Companion to French QUOTATIONS Literature. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1959. 771p. $12.50. Taylor, Archer and Whiting, Bartlett Jere. A Dictionary of American Prov- As with previous volumes in the useful series of "Oxford Companions," authors erbs and Proverbial Phrases 1820- and publisher have again succeeded in pro- 1880. Cambridge, Belknap Press of ducing a first-rate, compact dictionary en- Harvard University Press, 1958. 4l8p. cyclopedia of a national literature. Cover- $9.50. age of authors, titles, characters, allusions, movements, forms, etc., is excellent; in ad- This collection "contains the proverbs dition, there are helpful entries for hun- and proverbial phrases found in a variety dreds of topics not strictly literary, but of of American authors whose works were pub- potential interest to students in the field, lished between 1820 and 1880." The au-

JULY 1959 295 thors were chosen mainly as "representative Prvo izdanje. Beograd tizd. "Sedme of various regions and for their popularity." sile"] 1957. 810p. $6.25. Characteristic American proverbs are included, not merely those having their ori- A "Ko je ko u Jugoslaviji" was published gin in America. The main body of the in 1928 (Guide S221). The present volume, work is preceded by a bibliography of the the first postwar "who's who" for Yugo- texts cited and of reference works used. slavia, includes living persons in a wide The proverbs are arranged alphabetically variety of occupations. The Latin alphabet by what is considered the significant word, is used.—E.B. and the sources follow. Examples of usage by American authors are arranged in chron- ological sequence, followed by parallels or Minchero Vilasaro, Angel. Diccionario variations in the cited reference works and universal de escritores. San Sebastian, in modern literature, arranged according to EdldHe, 1957- . v. 1-2 (In progress), author.—E.L.R. v.l, $10.75; v.2, $14.75.

BIOGRAPHY Contents: v.l, Estados Unidos; v.2, Ar- gentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Institut zur Erforschung der UdSSr. Bio- Cuba, Chile, Dominicana. graphic Directory of the USSR. Com- Since the usefulness of volume 1 in a piled by the Institute for the Study United States library seems dubious, only of the USSR, Munich, Germany. New volume 2 has been examined for this note. York, Scarecrow Press, 1958. 782p. $17. The work is essentially a bio-bibliography, with concise, factual listings and no critical Munich. Osteuropa Institut. 5,000 Sorv- evaluation. Bibliographic citations are brief, jetkopfe; Gliederung und Gesicht generally indicating only title and date. eines Fiihrungskollektivs. Hrsg. von "Escritores" is broadly interpreted to mean Hans Koch. Koln, Deutsche Industrie- authors in virtually all fields except the Verlag tc.l959] 862p. (Biicher des exact sciences and technology. For each deutschen Industrie-Instituts.) DM country there are, unfortunately, two lists, 25.50. "Biografias in extenso" and "Biografias ra- pidas"; the former average around twelve In an attempt to provide the equivalent lines each, the latter only three or four. of a "who's who" for the USSR, two groups Writers of all times are included, although have recently published biographical ref- those of the past hundred years naturally erence works. The first, in English, presents dominate. To check for comprehensiveness short biographies for about 2,000 living per- of coverage, the two lists for Argentina were sons active in "political, educational, re- examined with the Udaondo Diccionario ligious, scientific and cultural life." Some 75 biografico . . . (Guide S58) and the Dic- persons contributed information, derived cionario historico argentino (Supplement from Soviet encyclopedias, magazines, news- 2V33). There are some 1,500 entries in the papers and other printed sources. The sec- two lists of the new work, a large propor- ond work, in German, has brief articles on tion of which do not appear in either of a larger number of people and contains a the earlier dictionaries. However, for those directory of organizations with the names subjects who are included in one of the of leading personnel. Sources mentioned in older sets as well as the new, treatment is the introduction are German-language pub- almost invariably fuller in the former. A lications. It should be noted that the two good deal of supplementary information for directories use different systems of trans- each country is included, the most helpful literation, both of which differ from that being lists of the writers treated, classified used by the Library of Congress.—E.B. by literary form or subject. Publication of four more volumes is planned, to cover Ko je ko u Jugoslaviji; biograjski po- other parts of the Americas, Asia and Africa. daci o Jugoslovenskim savremenicima. —J.N.W.

296 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Munich. Universitat. Slavisches Seminar. In compiling lists of candidates for inclu- Kleine slavische Biographie. Wies- sion, considerable use was made of the baden, Harrassowitz, 1958. 832p. DM Women's Archives at Radcliffe College, as well as of files and lists submitted by nu- 34. merous women's organizations. Although Some members of the University of Mu- there are inevitably some surprising omis- nich's Slavic Seminar have contributed to sions, coverage generally seems good, with a small but comprehensive volume giving individual entries in the familiar abbrevi- biographical sketches, in German, of dead ated form characteristic of Marquis publi- and living persons from the various Slavic cations. A full vocational-geographical in- cultures. Selection has been made among dex is announced for early publication; in writers, artists, musicians, natural and so- the meantime, a preliminary tabulation cial scientists and related professions, ap- shows the largest professional group to be parently omitting persons of primarily po- "Club/Civic/Religious Leaders" (15.7 per litical importance. Aside from the problem cent), followed by writers (8.3 per cent), of transliteration—there are only a few and then various groups of educators and cross references and a "pronunciation guide" teachers. Librarians constitute 4.5 per cent in the introduction—this is a volume which of the total.—J.N.W. would be useful in most general reference collections.—E.B. NAMES

Who's Who in Italy, v.l, 1957/58. Ed- Reaney, Percy Hide. A Dictionary of ited by Igino Giordani and Stephen S. British Surnames. London, Routledge Taylor. Milano, Intercontinental and Paul [1958] 366p. £3 10s. Book and Publishing S.r.l., 1958. This is a book for the etymologist and 1151p. $20. specialist; the more casual user is advised that its purpose "is to explain the meaning A biographical dictionary, in English, of names, not to treat of genealogy and containing about 7,000 biographical entries family history." Although today "surname for prominent people "in and of Italy." It means an inherited family name; originally also contains a directory of 1,400 political, it meant simply an additional name and cultural, religious, economic, trade, sports it is used in this sense in this book." (In- and touring organizations and institutions, troduction) and includes a listing of decorations, of Italian diplomatic missions abroad and of The earliest known form of each name foreign ones in Italy. The volume differs in is given; definitions are briefly stated and no essential way from others in this pub- carefully documented. The work is selec- lisher's series of European who's whos.— tive: only names still in use are included; E.L.R. local names are largely excluded. Origin and development of various types of surnames are treated at length in the introduc- Who's Who of American Women; a tory essay.—E.S. Biographical Dictionary of Notable American Women, v.l, 1958-1959- . HISTORY Chicago, Marquis, 1958- . Biennial. Africa Bibliography Series. Compiled by $23. Ruth Jones. London, International Approximately 19,000 biographical African Institute, 1958- . sketches are included in this welcome addition to the Marquis series. The editorial Contents: West Africa. General, Ethnog- policy has been to include "women out- raphy/Sociology, Linguistics. 116/. £3 15s; standing as women, without regard to their Northeast Africa. General, Ethnography/ So- achievement or positions in relation to ciology, Linguistics. 51/. £1 15s. men," so that the word "notable" in the For over ten years the Library of the In- sub-title bears a somewhat different mean- ternational African Institute, London, has ing from that in Who's Who in America. been compiling a card index to all signifi-

JULY 1959 297 cant works relating to the Institute's fields Europeans and others are included. Schol- of study. A Ford Foundation grant has ars in other disciplines will need to make made possible the editing of the cards and similar comparisons with the existing sur- the publication of these first volumes culled veys, abstracts, or annual bibliographies.— from the card index. Publication of volumes E.B. on other regions of Africa, other subject sections, and supplements is anticipated. Borba de Moraes, Rubens. Biblio- In each volume material (books and peri- graphia Brasiliana; a Bibliographical odical articles) is grouped by geographical Essay on Rare Books about Brazil heading (Gambia, Nigeria, Senegal, Ethi- Published from 1504 to 1900 and opia, Eritrea, etc.) which is then subdivided into General, Ethnology/Sociology, Linguis- Works of Brazilian Authors Published tics. References are printed very legibly on Abroad Before the Independence of one side only of the double-column over- Brazil in 1822. Amsterdam, Rio de size pages. Complete imprint and inclusive Janeiro, Colibris Editora, Ltda., 1958- pagination are given, and there are some . v.l- . il. $30. concise annotations. A list of abbreviations, an index of ethnic and linguistic names, Contents: v.l, A-L. 427p. and an author index are included. Judging A bibliography, giving detailed descrip- from these samples, the completed Africa tions with annotations in English, of rare Bibliography Series will be an extremely books about Brazil or by Brazilian authors comprehensive and useful reference work. printed outside of Brazil. Brazilian imprints -E.J.R. are included only in exceptional cases. As much coverage as possible is given for works published from the sixteenth through the The American Bibliography of Slavic eighteenth centuries with less for the nine- and East European Studies. 1956- teenth, particularly the late nineteenth cen- Bloomington, Ind., 1957- . Annual. tury. There are many facsimiles of title-pages (Indiana. University. Publications. which enhance the value of the bibliograph- Slavic and East European series, v.9 ical descriptions. Bibliographia Brasiliana [etc.].) is especially rich in descriptions of works of early voyages, and should be of interest Having commenced with language, lit- to the scholar, the collector, and the dealer erature, folklore, and pedagogy in the first in rare books. issue, for 1956, the Bibliography for 1957 has dropped those words from its title and expanded to include the social sciences. Commission internationale d'histoire ec- Books and articles published in America, clesiastique comparee. Bibliographie or by Americans anywhere, are classified de la reforme, 1450-1648: ouvrages under eleven major headings, such as his- parus de 1940 a 1955. Leiden, Brill, tory, political science, and linguistics. There 1958- . fasc. 1- . is an index of authors. A committee of eighteen collaborators reports articles to the Contents: Fasc.l, Allemagne; Pays-Bas. editor, J. T. Shaw, who is responsible for Issued under the sponsorship of the In- the books listed. Thus Russian and East ternational Committee of Historical Sciences, European area studies are embarked on an this new bibliography on the period of the interdisciplinary annual bibliography, lim- Reformation is designed to list books, dis- ited to American contributions. It should sertations, and periodical articles published be noted that the Modern Language As- from 1940 through 1955. The first fascicle sociation's Annual Bibliography (formerly contains 1,745 items published in East and American Bibliography) became interna- West Germany and 1,031 published in the tional in 1956. Its section on East European Netherlands. Future fascicles are planned languages and literatures will be larger, for Belgium, Denmark, Spain, the United presumably, than the corresponding part States, Ireland, Italy, and Norway, with of the new annual because publications of others to follow.

298 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Edwards, E. I. Desert Voices; a Descrip- ville, Department of Reference and tive Bibliography, with Photographs Bibliography, University of Florida and Foreword by Harold O. Weight. Libraries, 1958, 247p. (Florida. Uni- Los Angeles, Westernlore Press, 1958. versity, Gainesville. Libraries. Biblio- 215p. $12.50. graphic series 4.) This is a most colorful annotated bibliog- In this, "the first comprehensive bibliography of California deserts. Mr. Edwards, raphy devoted solely to the Kingdom of a booklover and an authority on this area, Thailand," the authors have gathered some prefaces the bibliography with an inter- 2,300 references to varied aspects of Thai pretive essay on desert literature. He then life. The listing of material in nine west- attempts to list and comment on all known ern languages ranges from very popular to books, including novels, and a few repre- scholarly, from exotic accounts of early trav- sentative magazine articles essentially re- elers to present-day studies on flood control lated to the subject. Newspaper items are and public health. excluded. Three appendices make the work The first group of references to books and more comprehensive: a checklist of books dissertations is followed by a brief section containing only casual or non-essential ref- on Thai language studies and dictionaries erence to California desert regions; a par- and then by a section of periodical articles. tial record of journals, diaries, etc., of pio- A list of English-language papers published neers crossing the deserts; and a checklist in Thailand is appended. Full imprint and of scientific and technical items relating to inclusive pagination are given, and very the area.—E.L.R. brief non-critical annotations are supplied for perhaps half the items. The section on Humphreys, Robin Arthur. Latin Amer- dictionaries in particular would have bene- ican History; a Guide to the Litera- fited greatly by fuller critical notes. Unfor- ture in English. New York, Oxford tunately the usefulness of the bibliography University Press, 1958. 197p. $4. is considerably reduced by the total lack of a subject approach; arrangement within "Issued under the auspices of the Royal each section is strictly alphabetical by au- Institute for International Affairs." thor.—E.J.R. An expansion of the author's earlier (1949) Latin America: a Selective Guide to Publications (Guide V368), this concise Mullins, Edward Lindsay Carson. Texts handbook lists some 2,000 books and peri- and Calendars; an Analytical Guide odical articles of interest or value to the to Serial Publications. London, Offices university student or general reader. Ar- of the Royal Historical Society, 1958. rangement is by large topics such as Bibli- 674p. (Royal Historical Society Guides ographies and Guides, General Histories, and Handbooks, no.7.) 50s. Spanish Empire in America, South Amer- ican Republics since 1830, etc.: material This useful bibliography lists several thou- for each section is further subdivided by sand items "relating to English and Welsh more specific aspects. A running commen- history issued in general collections or in tary links the text and supplies annotations. series by a public body or private society." Full imprint, but not pagination, is given Publications in eighty-seven such collections for books; inclusive pagination is supplied are included, and as is to be expected most for all magazine articles. The material of the material is of medieval or very early listed is up-to-date (1957 imprints are in- modern content. Arrangement is by issuing cluded) and avoids a British bias. A bio- body, individual items under each being graphical index and an index of authors, listed numerically in order of publication. editors, and translators enhance the value Many items are briefly annotated. The value of this useful little book.—E.J.R. of the lists themselves is enhanced by a lengthy and fully analytic index, which in- Mason, John Brown and Parish, H. Car- cludes not only personal and place names, roll. Thailand Bibliography. Gaines- (Continued on page 329)

JULY 1959 299 list of the organizations with which his com- able. This publication includes a complete mittee has established relations. recapitulation of the abstracts for Nos. 1 Mr. Ellsworth reviewed the problem of through 99 as they have appeared in CRL the relationship of the law library of a uni- and an author and subject index. Mr. versity with its general library and gave an Tauber's report noted that he had reached encouraging report on the work of his com- the end of a term as editor of CRL and of- mittee. fered his resignation to the Board. This Mrs. Toth was the only one of the three proffer was vehemently rejected and Mr. ACRL editors who was able to be at this Tauber was reappointed to the editorship. meeting, but a report was available from President Branscomb brought the meeting each of them. A gratifying item in the re- to a close with his thanks to his fellow port of the ACRL Microcard Series is the officers for their work during a successful fact that No. 100 in this series is now avail- year.

Selected Reference Books of 1958-1959 (Continued from page 299) but subject and form headings as well.— authors, editors, translators, compilers, and J.N.W. many cross-references, but not titles.—E.J.R. Pearson, J. D., comp. Index Islamicus Newberry Library, Chicago. A Catalogue 1906-1955. A Catalogue of Articles on of Printed Materials Relating to the Islamic Subjects in Periodicals and Philippine Islands 1519-1900 in the Other Collective Publications. Com- Newberry Library. Compiled by Doris piled by J. D. Pearson with the assist- Varner Welsh. Chicago, The New- ance of Julia F. Ashton. Cambridge,

berry Library, 1959. 179p. $6. W. Heffer and Sons Ltd. [C1958] 897p. £5 5s. Appendix: "Supplement to the checklist of Philippine linguistics in the Newberry Seventy-seven closely printed double-col- Library," pp. 153-158. umn pages of author index are required for Herewith is completed the published de- the more than 26,000 references presented scription of the holdings of the Newberry in this book—a vivid indication of its comprehensiveness. Compiled at the Library of Library in Philippine history and ethnol- the School of Oriental and African Studies ogy; earlier publications comprise Doris V. of the University of London, this catalog Welsh, Checklist of Philippine Linguistics of articles and Festschriften in Western lan- (Chicago, 1950) and Paul S. Lietz, Calen- guages, including Russian, defines the Is- dar of Philippine Documents in the Ayer lamic world as "the whole terrain conquered, Collection (Chicago, 1956). The present penetrated and permeated by Islam," and volume is a classified checklist of about 1,900 includes material on India, Pakistan and additional titles on the history of the Philip- North Africa as well as Turkey, Persia, etc. pine Islands in the pre-Spanish and Spanish Articles are arranged under broad subject, periods. A general reference section (i.e., i.e., Bibliographies, Religion, Law, Ethnol- bibliographies, encyclopedias, periodicals) is ogy, Art, Language, Education. Inclusive followed by sections on political, ecclesias- pagination is given. Pure science and tech- tical, economic, social and cultural, and lo- nology alone are excluded. Printed supple- cal history. Brief explanatory annotations ments every five years are planned for this are given for most items. A detailed index tremendously inclusive yet admirably com- to the main listing and appendix includes pact volume.—E.J.R.

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