A Library The Boston Letter from ufthenteum

No. 99 JUNE 1992

Corvus brachyrynchos (A thent£us)

N his beautifully illustrated A 1nerican Ornithology ( 1811), Alexander Wilson has the following unpleasant words to say about the American crow: "This is perhaps the most generally known, and least beloved, of all our land birds; having neither melody of song, nor beauty of plumage, nor civility of manners to recommend him; he is branded as a thief and a plunderer; a kind of black-coated vagabond. [He is] hated by the farmer, and watched and persecuted by almost every bearer of a gun, who all triumph in his destruction." These words were received by Athenreum staff members with some indignation, for we have become quite attached this spring to a handsome pair of crows who chose to build their sturdy nest in a Granary Burying ground tree not ten feet from the eastern bank of windows on the third floor. We watched them build, and lay their eggs. Of five eggs laid, two survived to hatch, and after several weeks the parents broke open the eggs themselves, and we were treated to a delivery room view of the emergence into the world of two featherless, but healthy, baby crows, who now, after ten days, are covered with black fluffy fuzz and nearly crowding out of the nest. We are all awaiting the flying lessons as if we were their great aunts and uncles, and Mr. Wilson's anti-crow testimony has been banished to the locked room, with none of us believing a word he wrote.

Fourth of July Holiday

Since the Fourth of July falls on a Saturday this year, the Athenreum will be closed on Monday, July 6, to commemorate the holiday. 2 ~ A Word of Thanks Records Officer Eileen Higgins wishes to thank all ticket holders who responded to her suggestion that those holding tickets as guests on another's share might wish to become members in their own right. It is still possible to make this upgrade in mem­ bership, should anyone desire to do so.

Tours We have been asked to remjnd all readers of this library letter that guided tours of the Athenreum are given on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at 3:00 p.m. There is no charge, but a reservation should be made by calling ( 617) 227-0270. Guides come from the knowledgeable ranks of our volunteers, and, we are told, there is al­ ways something new to learn about what's in the Athenreum, where it came from, how it got there, and what history surrounds it. (What, for example, is the story of Mrs. McKinley's shoes?)

Successful Orientation Talks Director of Development Joan Bragen reports that we had a full house for the series of orientation talks for members, offered on two Saturday mornings in April. Most talks were held in the departments of staff speakers, which made it possible to present highlights from some of our special collections not usually on view, and to show how various departments function within the Library as a whole. Stephen Nonack, Head of Reference, Sally Pierce, Curator of Prints and Photographs, Michael Wentworth, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, John Lannon, Head of Ac­ quisitions, and Anne Pelikan, Paper Conservator, gave lively and informative pre­ sentations about the Library's special collections, how to find and access them, and how they are cared for and preserved. The talks were a great success, and we hope to repeat the series. In the Gallery The exhibition "Rebuilding Boston: Public Works as Civic Catalysts" will be in the Gallery through July 31. This fascinating exhibition displays photographs, draw­ ings and models of past and future municipal projects and their impact upon the city. From June 1 through June 12 the special focus will be the Boston Harbor, and a panel on Thursday evening, June 4, will discuss "Reinventing the Harbor: Why Are We Cleaning It Up?" From June 15 until the exhibition closes the special focus will be on the new federal courthouse to be built on Fan Pier. On Thursday evening, June 18, Henry N. Cobb, architect for the project, will discuss his design. All evening programs begin promptly at 6:00p.m., and reservations are required. The reserva­ tion number is (617) 227-8112. The final summer musical evening, Tuesday, July 7, will feature a program of songs and spirituals by American composers, sung by popular Boston baritone Robert C4~ 3 Honeysucker. This program will begin at 6:00 p.m., and reservations may be made by calling (617) 227-8112. Assistant Gallery Director Angela Smalley has passed along a list of "Reserva­ tion Tips," which she hopes \vill make life easier for Gallery scheduling and those wishing to attend events.

1. When calling the reservation line, please remember to speak clearly and slowly, and kindly spell your last and first names. 2. Please leave a telephone number where you may be reached during the day, in case there is a problem with the reservation or some change in Athenreum scheduling. 3. However, reservations are not confirmed by telephone. If an event has been closed, this information will be announced on the reservation tape. You vvill be telephoned only if there is a problem with your reservation, or if there is additional information you need to know. 4. Please do not leave a reservation for an event for which reservations have been closed. 5. If you decide you cannot attend an event for which you have made a reser­ vation, please let us know by calling the reservation line. This courtesy may allow another member to atttend. 6. Tickets are not issued for events. Reservations are placed on a list which is checked at the Security Desk at the entrance to the building. Thanks to everyone for helping to keep the events schedule running smoothly.

Echoes from the Archives (The Athenreum Catalogues, Part II) Athenreum Archivist Trevor Joy Johnson continues his ruminations on Athenreum catalogues: Charles Ammi Cutter, Assistant Librarian of the Harvard College Library, suc­ ceeded William Frederick Poole as Librarian of the Athenreum in 1869. He took over the incomplete catalogue project when Charles Russell Lowell died in 1870. His first decision was to expand the project, in order to create not only a subject catalogue, but also the first "dictionary" library catalogue, one which included in a single alphabet, author, subject, and title entries. At that time, this \Vas an unprecedented approach. In retrospect, it seems peculiar that this idea was considered "novel," but the innate conservatism of the library community had always prevented such innovation through­ out its history. Cutter's dictionary catalogue of the Athenreum, published in five volumes in 187 4, revealed the ineffectiveness of earlier cataloguing systems, and the high level of praise this work received encouraged him to publish his Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue in 4 ~ 1876. This work provided progressive librarians with the necessary tools to create similar catalogues for their local libraries. Cutter was acknowledged as one of the greatest librarians in America. It soon became apparent, however, that enhanced subject access merely empha­ sized the shortcomings of the shelf mark system. Though books within Cutter's twelve categories could now more easily be located, the sequential shelf mark system still kept books on the same subject by the same author separated by the number of books on the same subject that were acquired, or accessioned, between them. Also, twelve categories were a woefully inadequate number in a system that was to include the divisions of all human knowledge. Cutter decided that thirty-five categories, which included all of the letters of the alphabet plus the numbers one to nine, would more closely approximate the number of natural categories in the fields of general scholar­ ship. Later the librarian at Amherst College, Melville Dewey, moving backwards, at­ tempted to squeeze all knowledge into only ten classes. Both of these systems were superseded in 1901 by the system developed by our national library, the Library of Congress, whose classifications are based on the order devised by Cutter in his Expanded Classification. The new system, now known as the "L.C.," or Library of Congress Classification System, has been in use at the Athenreum since May 1, 1978. Cutter developed the "Athenreum" or "Cutter" system of classification, converted the catalogue, and re-marked the books at the Athenreum between 1870 and 1892. He then departed to become Librarian of the Forbes Library at Northampton, Massachu­ setts, and spent the few remaining years of his life developing his "expansive classifi­ cation" scheme. The final stage of the evolution of the Athenreum catalogue, as we now know it, was taken in 1905 by Charles Bolton, Cutter's successor, who directed that the two sets of the Athenreum book catalogue of 1874 be cut up, pasted on cards, and filed in drawers in a cabinet, a notion that was just then becoming fashionable in library cir­ cles. Thus, the card catalogue, a recent innovation in the long run of library events, came into being, between the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth. A century later, innovation in catalogues has again caught up with the ever stodgy library world. This time, the electronic catalogue bids fair to replace the card cata­ logue, even though the latter has only been in general use for less than a century. The electronic catalogue can replace a room full of card cabinets with a database the size of a shoebox. The reader or researcher types in the name of an author, and/or the title of a book, and the screen displays a familiar image that looks precisely like the card it has replaced. The two largest Boston-area libraries, the Boston Public and the Harvard College libraries, are well along with converting their catalogues from card to electronic. Sim­ mons College, including the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, has also set an example of future practice by adopting the electronic catalogue. It has obviously become the accepted modern standard, especially since the Library of Congress has also "gone electronic." Who kno\,·s how long it will be before the Athc­ nccum, always in the forefront of library progress, will join thcn1?

The Fairbanks Portrait Charles Bullard Fairbanks, whose miniature portrait was recently acquired for the Athenreum, is the subject of these notes by Michael Wentworth, Curator of Painting and Sculpture. This is not the first article on Fairbanks to appear in A thentfuJn I terns: Walter Muir Whitehill's "Assistant and Acolyte," an account of a small day book Fairbanks kept at the Athenreum which is now part of the manuscript collection, ap­ peared in lten1s (no. 38), in November 1946. The miniature is currently on display in a case in the Reading Room; the portrait given by Mrs. Hill, mentioned below, hangs in the stairwell just above the third floor gallery level.

The A thenreum has recently purchased a miniature portrait of Charles Bullard Fairbanks ( 1827-1859), Assistant Librarian here from 1847 to 1853, which was consigned to the Skinner Auction Galleries in January 1991, by one of his collateral descendents. From the apparent age of the sitter, the likeness may have been taken during his tenure at the Athenreutn, although it is traditionally said to have been painted in France towards the end of his short life. It joins an oil portrait in which he looks more mature, confident, and (somewhat inexplicably) healthier, given to the collection by Mrs. Arthur B. Hill in 1953. Fairbanks worked at the Pearl Street Athenreum until he was twenty-six years old, when what appears to have been a combination of ill health, a growing sense of reli­ gious purpose, and a promising career as a journalist combined to bring his employ­ nlent to an end. His essays and travel pieces appeared in the Evening Gazette, the Transcript, and The Pilot, under the pseudonyms "Aguecheek" and "Malvolio" and were collected in a volume under the title Aguecheek the year he died. But Fairbanks would not have chosen to be known primarily as an author. By the time he left the Athenteum, he had already passed through a crisis of faith that had carried him from the Unitarianism of his birth straight through Episcopalianism and into the Church of Rome. He was preparing for the priesthood when he died, and his posthumous Memorials of the Dead: A Series of Short Lives of Saints is the only work which ap­ peared under his own name. For this reason, perhaps, he is less familiar than he might be, and so it is an added pleasure to find that his writing is still fresh, distinguished. and agreeable after the passage of nearly a hundred and fifty years. In a remarkable essay on Paris, Fairbanks was drawn irresistibly to comparisons with the Boston of his childhood. This frail but spirited Yankee continually found himself testing new in1pressions against youthful recollections that usually left them Miniature Portrait of Charles Bullard Fairbanks ( 1827-1859) ~s 1 wanting: "Those beautiful architectural wonders that pierce the sky at Strasburg and Antwerp," he wrote, "will bear no comparison, in point of height, \Vith the steeple of the Old South as it exists in my memory." Fairbanks' memories of the Athenreum will be of interest to our readers: '"I have visited libraries which antedated by centuries the discovery of America . . . but I have never yet been impressed with anything like the awe which the old Athenreun1 in Pearl Street used to inspire in my boyish heart. Pearl Street in those days was as innocent of traffic and its turmoil as the quiet roads around 1amaica Pond are now. A pasture, in which the Hon. Jonathan Phillips kept a cow, extended through to Oliver Street, and the handsome old-fashioned private houses with gardens around thcn1 occupied the place of the present row of granite warehouses. The Athen~um, sur­ rounded by horse-chestnut trees, stood there in aristocratic dignity and repose, which it seemed almost sacrilegious to disturb with the noise of our childish sports. There \vere a few old gentlemen who used to frequent its reading-roon1, whose \\:hite hair (and some of them even wore knee breeches and queues and powder) always stilled our boyish clamour as we played on the grass plots in the yard. To some of these old men our heads were often uncovered- for children were politer in those days than now-and to our young imagination it seemed as if they were sages, who carried about with them an atmosphere of learning and the fragrance of academic groves. They seemed as much a part of the mysterious old establishment as the books in the library, the dusty busts in the entries, or the old librarian himself. Sometimes I used to venture into those still passages, and steal a look into that reading-room whose quiet was never broken, save by the wealthy creak of some old citizen's boots, or by the long breathing of some venerable frequenter of the place, enjoying his afternoon nap. In later years I came to know the Athenreum more familiarly; the old gentlemen lost the character of sages and became estimable individuals of quiet tastes, who were fatiguing the Massa­ chusetts Hospital Life Insurance company by their long-continued perusal of the Daily Advertiser and the Gentleman's Magazine, but my old impression of the awful mystery of the building remains to this day." Fairbanks, surely like many others now forgotten, regretted the move to Beacon Street. His lament for the unassuming peace of the old building mixes nostalgia with the timeless knowledge that the business of libraries and the pleasures of reading are solitary, silent pursuits. Although we have come to treasure the palazzo in Beacon Street, one suspects that he still articulates the thoughts, no\v unfashionable enough to rank as heresy, of many modern readers: "I mourned over the removal to the present fine position, and I seek in vain amid the stucco-work and white paint of the new edifice for the charm which enthralled me in the old home of the institution. Some people, carried away by the utilitarian spirit of the age, may think that it is a great improvement, but to me it seems nothing but an unwarrantable innovation on the established order of things, and a change for the worse. Where is the quiet of the old place? Younger and less reverential men have risen up in the places of the old, and have rendered the old library respectable. The 8 ~ good old times when Dr. Bass, the librarian, sat on one side of the fireplace, and the late John Bromfield (with his silk handkerchief spread over his knees) on the other, and read undisturbed for hours, have passed away. A hundred persons use the library now for one who did then; and I am left to feed upon the memory of better times, when learning was a quiet, comfortable, select sort of thing, and mutter secret maledictions on the revolutionary spirits who have made it otherwise." The summer reading list is shorter than one might expect, since we did have a March I terns. N evertbeless, there is much here to please, so gather your summer read­ ing needs from this list of

NEW BOOKS OF INTEREST SELECTED FROM THE FULL LIST OF ACCESSIONS

Art and Architecture

ALCOLEA I BLANCH, SANTIAGO. The Prado. JONES, PETER C. The Changing Face of Amer- • ASHTON, DoRE. Noguchi East and West. I Ca. ASHTON, GEOFFREY. Catalogue of Paintings at KORNHAUSER, ELIZABETH MANKIN. Ralph the Theatre Museum, London. Earl: The Face of the Young Republic. BAILEY, CoLIN B. The Loves of the Gods: LOUIS I. KAHN. WRITINGS, LECTURES, IN­ Mythological Painting from Watteau to David. TERVIEWS. BERGESEN, VICTORIA. Majolica: British, Con- LUDINGTON, TowNSEND. Marsden Hartley: tinental, and American Wares, 1851-1915. The Biography of an American Artist. THE BOOKS OF ANSELM KIEFER, 1969-1990. MARCILHAC, FELIX. Jean Dunand. BORSI, FRANCO. Victor Horta. MARTIN, PETER. The Pleasure Gardens of Vir­ BOURNE, JoNATHAN. Lighting in the Domestic ginia: From Jamest own to Jefferson. Interior: Renaissance to Art Nouveau. MAURIES, PATRICK. Fomasetti, Designer of CATALOGUE OF THE WADDESDON BE­ Dreams. QUEST IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. MAYER, MusA. Night Studio: A Memoir of COHN, MARJORIE B. A Noble Collection: The Philip Guston. Spencer Albums of Old Master Prints. MELLER, SusAN. Textile Designs: Two Hun­ CUNNINGHAM, MICHAEL R. The Triumph of dred Years of European and American Patterns Japanese Style: 16th-Century Art in Japan. for Printed Fabrics. DRAWING, MASTERS AND METHODS: MYERS, ,MARY L. French Architectural and Or­ RAPHAEL TO REDON. nament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century. ETLIN, RICHARD A. Modernism in Italian Archi­ NAVAL PRINTS FROM THE BEVERLEY R. tecture, 1890-1940. ROBINSON COLLECTION. EUROPEAN DECORATIVE ARTS IN THE PENN, IRVING. Passage: A Work Record. ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO. POLCARI, STEPHEN. Abstract Expressionism and FORD, EDWARD R. The Details of Modern Ar­ the Modem Experience. chitecture. PRATT, MICHAEL. The Great Country Houses of FORRER, MATTHI. Hokusai: Prints and Draw- Central Europe . mgs.• SHARP, DENNIS. Twentieth Century Architec­ FREEMAN, JoHN. Moscow Revealed. ture: A Visual History. FRIEDRICH, Orro. Olympia: Paris in the Age SOUTHWORTH, MICHAEL. Ornamental Iron­ of Manet. work. GILBERT, CHRISTOPHER. English Vernacular UN AGE D'OR DES ARTS DECORATIFS, 1814- Furniture 1750-1900. 1848. GLASS PAPERWEIGHTS IN THE ART INSTI­ VIVIAN, FRANCES. The Consul Smith Collec­ TUTE OF CHICAGO. tion: Masterpieces of Italian Drawing from the HECKSCHER, MORRISON H. American Rococo, Royal Library, Windsor Castle. 1750-1775. WHISTLER, JAMES A. ,McNEILL. Pastels. HOLMES, MARY TAVENER. Nicolas Lancret, 1690-1743. ~ 9 Belles Lettres, Poetry, and Criticism

BERCOVITCH, SACVAN. The Office of the Scar­ MORRISON, ToNI. Playing in the Dark: White­ let Letter. ness and the Literary Imagination. BY ATI, A. S. Passions of the Mind: Selected A NEW HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE. Writings. THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF SEVEN­ CARDWELL, Guv. The Man Who Was Mark TEENTH CENTURY VERSE. Twain. THE OXFORD BOOK OF THE SEA. CATHER, WILLA. Stories, Poems, and Other PALLING,. BRUCE. India: A literary Compan- Writings. IOn. DIDION, JoAN. After Henry. PEARSON, MICHAEL. Imagined Places: J oumey~ FABRE, MICHEL. From Harlem to Paris: Black into Literary America. American Writers in France, 1840-1980. PRITCHETT, V. S. The Complete Essays. THE FIELD DAY ANTHOLOGY OF IRISH RABELAIS, FRAN(OIS. The Complete Works. WRITING. SCHENKEVELD, MARIA A. Dutch Literature in GATES, HENRY LOUIS. Loose Canons: Notes on the Age of Rembrandt. the Culture Wars. SEARS, ELISABETH. Shakespeare and the Tudor GOLDENSOHN, LoRRIE. Elizabeth Bishop: The Rose. Biography of a Poetry. STEGNER, WALLACE EARLE. Where the Bluebird HORWITZ, HowARD. By the Law of Nature: Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Form and Value in Nineteenth-Century America. Writing in the West. HUMPHRIES, RoLFE. Poets, Poetics, and Poli­ WAUGH, EvELYN. The Letters of Evelyn Waugh tics: America's Literary Community Viewed and Diana Cooper. from the Letters of Rolfe Humphries, 1910-1969. WHITEMAN, RoBIN. The Cadfael Companion: JOHNSON, SAMUEL. Letters. The World of Brother Cadfael. LEVINE, PHILIP. What Work Is: Poems. WILDER, LAURA INGALLS. Little House in the MICHELSON, BRUCE. Wilbur's Poetry: Music Ozarks: A Laura Ingalls Wilder Sampler. in a Scattering Time. YOURCENAR, MARGUERITE. That Mighty MONTAIGNE, MICHEL DE. The Essays. Sculptor, Time.

Biography

ALSOP, JosEPH. "I've Seen the Best of It": Mem- FISHER, CLIVE. Noel Coward. OlrS.• GRAFTON, DAVID. The Sisters: Babe Mortimer ARMSTRONG, KAREN. Muhammad: A Biogra­ Paley, Betsey Roosevelt Whitney. Minnie Astor phy of the Prophet. Fosburgh: The Life and Times of the Fabulous BELL, WILLIAM GARDNER. Commanding Gen­ Cushing Sisters. erals and Chiefs of Staff, 1775-1991. GUERRIER, EDITH. An Independent Woman: BENNEIT, DAPHNE. Emily Davies and the Lib­ The Autobiography of Edith Guerrier. eration of Women: 1830-1921. GUPTE, PRANAY. Mother India: A Political BIRD, K.AI. The Chairman: John J. McCloy, the Biography of Indira Gandhi. Making of the American Establishment. HALL, EDWARD TwiTCHELL. An Anthropology of BONNER, ELENA. Mothers and Daughters. Everyday Life: An Autobiography. BRESEE, CLYDE. How Grand a Flame: A Chron­ HANSARD, LUKE JAMES. The Auto-biography icle of a Plantation Family, 1813-1947. of Luke Hansard: Printer to the House 17 52- BROOK-SHEPHERD, GoRDON. The Last Em­ 1828. press: The Life and Times of Zita of Austria­ HARRIS, FRANCES. A Passion for Government: Hungary, 1892-1989. The Life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. BULLOCK, ALAN. Hitler and Stalin: Parallel HECKSCHER, AuGUST. Woodrow Wilson. Lives. JONES, NIGEL. H. Through a Glass Darkly: The CARRET, PHILIP L. A Money .Mind at Ninety. Life of Patrick Hamilton. CLIFFORD, DEBORAH PICKMAN. Crusader for KANIGEL, RoBERT. The Man Who Knew Infin­ Freedom: A Life of Lydia Maria Child. ity: A Life of the Genius, Ramanujan. COLES, RoBERT. Anna Freud: The Dream of KEMP, WoLFGANG. The Desire of My Eyes: The Psychoanalysis. Life and Work of John Ruskin. COLLINS, JoHN. The Two Forgers: A Biogra­ LACOUTURE, JEAN. De Gaulle, The Ruler, phy of Harry Buxton Forman & Thomas James 1945-1970. Wise. LAMONT, CoRLISS. A Lifetime of Dissent. COOK, BLANCHE WIESEN. Eleanor Roosevelt. LEAMING, BARBARA. Bette Davis-A Biography. DILIBERTO, GIOIA . Hadley. ?vfARR, DAVID. Patrick White: A Life. 10 ~ McCARTHY, MARY. Intellectual ,Memoirs: New SPOTO, DoNALD. Laurence Olivier: A Biog­ York 1936-1938. raphy. McCULLIN, DoN. Unreasonable Behavior: An STERLING, DoROTHY. Ahead of Her Time: Autobiography. Abby Kelley and the Politics of Anti-slavery. MELLON, PAUL. Reflections in a Silver Spoon: SYMONDS, CRAIG L. Joseph E. Johnston: A A Memoir. Civil War Biography. MOSES, WILSON JEREMIAH. Alexander Crum­ TALESE, GAY. Unto the Sons. mell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent. WAKEFIELD, DAN. New York in the Fifties. MYRDAL, JAN. Childhood. WATTS, JILL. God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father PEARCE, EDWARD. The Quiet Rise of John Ma- Divine Story. • ]Of. WAUGH, AUBERON. Will This Do? The First PETIINGILL, OLIN SEWALL. My Way to Orni­ Fifty Years of Auberon Waugh. thology. '\IVOLFF, KURT. Kurt Wolff: A Portrait in Es­ PUTNAM, WILLIAM LowELL. A Yankee Image: says & Letters. The Life and Times of Roger Lowell Putnam. WORTHEN, JoHN. D. H. Lawrence. SALISBURY, HARRISON EvANS. The New Em­ YOURCENAR, MARGUERITE. Dear Departed. perors: China in the Era of Mao and Den g.

Children's Books

ACKERMAN, KAREN. I Know a Place. HORTON, BARBARA SAVADGE. What Comes in BAUMGART, KLAUS. Anna and the Little Green Spring? Dragon. INKPEN, MICK. Kipper. BRUCHAC, JosEPH. Thirteen Moons on Turtle's JOHNSON, ANGELA. One of Three. Back: A Native American Year of Moons. JOOSSE, BARBARA M. Mama, Do You Love Me? CECH, JoHN. My Grandmother's Journey. KALMAN, MAIRA. Ooh-la-la. CLIMBING JACOB'S LADDER: HEROES OF KELLER, HoLLY. Furry. THE BIBLE IN AFRICAN-A,MERICAN KENNEDY, JIMMY. Michael Hague's Illustrated SPIRITUALS. The Teddy Bears' Picnic. CRAIG, H ELEN. Angelina's Baby Sister. KIRSTEIN, LINCOLN. Puss in Boots. FRASIER, DEBRA. On the Day You Were Born. LESLIE, CLARE WALKER. Nature All Year Long. FRENCH, FIONA. Anancy and Mr. Dry-Bone. LIONNI, LEo. A Busy Year. GIBBONS, GAIL. Recycle!: A Handbook for PARKS, RosA. Rosa Parks: My Story. Kids. POLACCO, PATRICIA. Chicken Sunday. GOBLE, PAUL. Crow Chief: A Plains Indian PROVENSEN, ALICE. Punch in New York. Story. PRYOR, BoNNIE. The Beaver Boys. GREENE, JACQUELINE DEMBAR. What His SAY, ALLEN. Tree of Cranes. Father Did. STEVENSON, JAMES. Rolling Rose. GROSSMAN, VIRGINIA. Ten Little Rabbits. WADDELL, MARTIN. Farmer Duck. HAMILTON, MoRSE. Little Sister for Sale. WAD DELL, MARTIN. Sailor Bear.

Fiction

ANSHAW, CAROL. Aquamarine. GILES, JEFF. Back in the Bluehouse. BAKER, NICHOLSON. Vox. GREEN, JuLmN. The Distant Lands. BARTLETT, RoBERT MERRILL. The Obstinate HOFF!vf..AN, ALICE. Turtle Moon. IllusiOn: A Historical Novel of China and HOWATCH, SusAN. Mystical Paths. America, 1920-1950. JUST, WARDS. The Translator. BINCHY, DAN. The Neon Madonna. KURZWEIL, ALLEN. A Case of Curiosities. CALDWELL, JosEPH. The Uncle from Rome. LODGE, DAVID. Paradise News. CARR, PHILIPPA. The Gossamer Cord. MAcNEIL, RoBERT. Burden of Desire. CHADWICK, ELIZABETH. The Running Vixen. MAHFUZ, NAJm. Sugar Street. CRICHTON, MICHAEL. Rising Sun. MATTISON, ALicE. Field of Stars. CUSSLER, CLIVE. Sahara. MAXWELL, WILLIAM. Billie Dyer and Other DARLING, DIANA. The Painted Alphabet: A Stories. Novel Based on a Balinese Tale. McCAULEY, STEPHEN. The Easy Way Out. DAVIS, THULANl. 1959. McMURTRY, LARRY. The Evening Star. DEW, Roas FoRMAN. Fortunate Lives. MERWIN, W. S. The Lost Upland: Stories of DILLARD, ANNIE. The Living. the Dordogne. DRABBLE, MARGARET. The Gates of Ivory. MIDDLETON, STANLEY. Beginning to End. GARCIA, CRISTINA. Dreaming in Cuban. MORRISON, ToNI. Jazz. 11

MORTON, BRIAN. The Dylanist. STONE, RoBERT. Outerbridge Reach. OATES, JovcL CAROL. Black Water. SWIFT, GRAHAM. Ever After. PELLETIER, CATHIE. The Weight of Winter. SYMONS, JULIAN. Portraits of the 1\fissing: Im­ PETERS, DANIEL. The Incas. aginary Biographies. PHILLIPS, CARYL. Cambridge. TALES OF TEARS AND LAUGHTER: SHORT PINCKNEY, DARRYL. High Cotton. FICTION OF .MEDIEVAL JAPAN. PRICE, REYNOLDS. Blue Calhoun. WANG, Jo-wANG. Hunger Trilogy. PROSE, FRANCINE. Primitive People. \VARNER, MARINA. Indigo, or, Mapping the PROULX, ANNIE. Postcards. Waters. QUINN, DANIEL. Ishmael. WELDON, FAY. Life Force. ROUAUD, JEAN. Fields of Glory. WILHELM, KATE. And the Angels Sing. SHADBOLT, MAURICE. Monday's Warriors. WILLIAMS, TH0'\1AS. Leah, New Hampshire: SIMPSON, MoNA. The Lost Father. The Collected Stories of Thomas Williams.

Mysteries and Thrillers

BALLARD, RoBERT. Bright Shark. LANDRUM, GRAHAM. The Famous D.A.R. BEATON, M. C. Death of a Prankster. Murder Mystery. BOYLAN, ELEANOR. Murder Machree. MARON, MARGARET. Bootlegger's Daughter. BREIT, SIMON. Corporate Bodies. MARTIN, LEE. Hacker. BURDEN, PAT. Bury Him Kindly. MURPHY, HAUGHTON. A Very Venetian Mur­ BUTLER, GwENDOLINE. Coffin on Murder der. Street. PALMER, FRANK. Testimony. DICKINSON, PETER. Play Dead. PAUL, BARBARA. You Have the Right to Remain FERRARS, E. X. Danger from the Dead. Silent. FREEMANTLE, BRIAN. Little Grey Mice. RENDELL, RuTH. Kissing the Gunner's Daugh­ FYFIELD, FRANCES. Deep Sleep. ter. GILL, BARTHOLOMEW. The Death of Love. ROWLAND, PETER. The Disappearance of Ed- GRAFTON, SuE. "I" Is for Innocent. win Drood. GRIMES, MARTHA. The End of the Pier. RUELL, PATRICK. The Only Game. GRISHAM, JoHN. The Pelican Brief. RUSSELL, ALAN. The Forest Prime Evil. HALL, ADAM. Quiller Solitaire. TAPPLY, WILLIAM G. Tight Lines. HAMMOND, GERALD. In Camera. TINE, RoBERT. Black Market. HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. Ripley under Water. UNDERWOOD, MICHAEL. The Seeds of Murder. WILLIAMS, DAVID. Treasure by Post.

History

ABRAMS, HERBERT L. "The President Has Been BURLATSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH. Khruschev Shot": Confusion, Disability, and the 25th and the First Russian Spring: The Era of Amendment in the Aftermath of the Attempted Khruschev through the Eyes of His Advisor. Assassination of Ronald Reagan. CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY. POR­ ANTWERP-RESHAPING A CITY. TRAIT OF AN ARMY. ASLUND, ANDERS. Gorbachev's Struggle for CHOICE WHITE PINES AND GOOD LAND: Economic Reform. A HISTORY OF PLAINFIELD AND MERI­ AUNG SAN SUU KYI. Freedom from Fear, and DEN, NEW HAMPSHIRE. Other Writings. CIRCA 1492: ART IN THE AGE OF EXPLORA­ BERENSON, EDWARD. The Trial of Madame TION. Caillaux. CLARK, JUDITH FREEMAN. America's Gilded BLACK, JEREMY. A System of Ambition?: Age: An Eyewitness History. British Foreign Policy, 1660-1793. CLEMENTS, KENDRICK A. The Presidency of BLACKBURN, JULIA. The Emperor's Last Is­ Woodrow Wilson. land: A Journey to St. Helena. CLIFFORD, NICHOLAS RoWLAND. Spoilt Chil­ BRITAIN AND JAPAN 1859-1991. THEMES dren of Empire: Westerners in Shanghai and AND PERSONALITIES. the Chinese Revolution of the 1920s. BROWNING, CHRISTOPHER R. Ordinary Men: CODRESCU, ANDREI. The Hole in the Flag: A Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solu­ Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolu­ tion in Poland. tion. BUMKE, JoACHIM. Courtly Culture: Literature COLDHAM, PETER WILSON. Emigrants in and Society in the High Middle Ages. Chains: A Social History of Forced Emigration 12 ~ to the Americas of Felons, Destitute Children, ROBINSON, ENDERS A. The Devil Discovered: Political and Religious Non-conformists, Vaga­ Salem Witchcraft 1692. bonds, Beggars and Other Undesirables, 1607- ROBINSON, JoHN J. Dungeon, Fire and Sword: 1776. The Knights Templar in the Crusades. DOWD, GREGORY EvANS. A Spirited Resistance: ROCKWELL, DAVID. Giving Voice to Bear: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, North American Indian Rituals, Myths, and Im­ 1745-1815. ages of the Bear. DUBY, GEORGES. France in the Middle Ages ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. FDR's Fireside 987-1460: From Hugh Capet to Joan of Arc. Chats. ELLIS, RICHARD. Men and Whales. ROUSSO, HENRY. The Vichy Syndrome: History FAIRBANK, JoHN KING. China: A New His­ and ,Memory in France Since 1944. tory. SACHAR, Howard Morley. A History of the FERGUSON, LELAND G. Uncommon Ground: Jews in America. Archaeology and Early African America, 1650- SCHULTZ, DUANE P. Over the Earth I Come: 1800. The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862. FUKUYAMA, FRANCIS. The End of History and SEAGRAVE, STERLING. Dragon Lady: The Life the Last Man. and Legend of the Last Empress of China. GAILEY, HARRY A. Bougainville, 1943-1945. The SEVERIN, TIMOTHY. In Search of Genghis Forgotten Campaign. Khan. GOODRICH, TH. Bloody Dawn: The Story of SHAW, BENJAMIN. The Family Records of Ben­ the Lawrence Massacre. jamin Shaw, Mechanic of Dent, Dolphinholme HARRIES, MEIRION. Soldiers of the Sun: The and Preston, 1772-1841. Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army. SIMMONS, JAcK. The Victorian Railway. HUGHES, RoBERT. Barcelona. SMITH, JEAN EDWARD. George Bush's War. IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST: ESSAYS SMITH, WAYNE S. Portrait of Cuba. IN HONOR OF FRANK MANUEL. SWORD, WILEY. Embrace an Angry Wind: The KEAY, JoHN. The Honourable Company: A His­ Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Frank­ tory of the English East India Company. lin, and Nashville. KINZER, STEPHEN. Blood of Brothers: Life and TEMPERLEY, HoWARD. White Dreams, Black War in Nicaragua. Africa: The Antislavery Expedition to the River KURLANSKY, MARK. A Continent of Islands: Niger 1841-1842. Searching for the Caribbean Destiny. THOMPSON, E. P. Customs in Common. LEWIS, NELLY CusTIS. George Washington's TICKNOR, BENAJAH. The Voyage of the Pea­ Beautiful Nelly: The Letters of Eleanor Parke cock: A Journal. Custis Lewis to Elizabeth Bordley Gibson, 1794- ULAM, ADAM BRUNO. The Communists: The 1851. Story of Power and Lost Illusions: 1948-1991. McCONKEY, JAMES. Rowan's Progress. VENTURI, FRANco. The End of the Old Regime McGOWAN, WILLIAM. Only Man is Vile: The in Europe, 1776-1789. Tragedy of Sri Lanka. WEIR, ALISON. The Six Wives of Henry VIII. MILLER, EDWARDS. War Plan Orange: The U.S. WERNER, WALTER. Wall Street. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945. WHY THE CONFEDERACY LOST. MOONEY, JAMES. The Ghost-Dance Religion WILLIAMS, STEPHEN. Fantastic Archaeology: and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890. The Wild Side of North American Prehistory. MORRISON, REG. Australia: The Four Billion WITCOVER, JULES. Crapshoot: Rolling the Dice Year Journey of a Continent. on the Vice-Presidency. NEW ENGLAND HOMEFRONT, WW II. WITKIN, ZARA. An American Engineer in Stal­ NEWMAN, JOHN M. JFK and Vietnam: Decep­ in's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932- tion, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power. 1934. NEWMAN, RoBERT P. Owen Lattimore and the WOOD, GoRDON S. The Radicalism of the Amer­ "Loss" of China. ican Revolution. PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE. The Delibera­ WOODWARD, C. VANN. The Old World's New tions of the Council of Four (March 24-June 28, World. 1919.) WOODWARD, SANDY. One Hundred Days: The PELLEGRINO, CHARLES R. Unearthing Atlan­ Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Com­ tis : An Archaeological Odyssey. mander. PUGLISI, MICHAEL J. Puritans Besieged: The WRIGHT, RoNALD. Stolen Continents: The Legacies of King Philip's War in the Massachu­ Americas through Indian Eyes Since 1492. setts Bay Colony. 13 Music

FOR A COWBOY HAS TO SING; A COLLEC- OPERA C0\1PANIES OF THE \VORLD: SE­ 1 ION OF SIXTY ROMANTIC COWBOY LECTED PROFILES. AND WESTERN SONGS. PROKOFIEV, SERGE\'. Soviet Diary 1927; and GREENFELD, H owARD. Caruso: An Illustrated Oth{;r Writings. Life. ~ACHS, HARVEY. Reflections on ToscJ.nini.

Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion

ASHTON, JoHN. Understanding the Fourth Gos­ GOLDSTEIN, Juonu S. Crosc;ing Lines: Histor­ peL Ies of Jews and Gentilec:, in Three Communities. BARLOW, PHILIP L. Mormons and the Bible: HALPERN, SuE. Migrations to Solitude. The Place of the Latter-Day Saints in American JOHNSON, SALLY B. The Cobra Godde~s of Religion. Ancient Egypt. BYRNES, TIMOTHY A. Catholic Bishops in LEFEBVRE, HENRI. Critique of Everyday Life. American Politics. r..1ARTIN, MICHALL. The Cac;e against Christian­ CLEMENT. Stromateis Books 1-3. ity. DAVIES, P. C. W. The Mind of God: The Scien­ McLOUGHI IN, WILLIAM GERALD. Soul Liberty: tific Basis for a Rational World. The Baptists' Struggle in New England, 1630- FERRIS, TIMOTHY. The Mind's Sky: Human In­ 1833. telligence in a Cosmic Context. PLATO. The Symposium. FOX, RoBIN. The Unauthorized Version: Truth STEIN EM, GLORIA. Revolution from Within: A and Fiction in the Bible. Book of Self-Esteem. FUNDAMENTALISMS OBSERVED. VLASTOS, GREGORY. Socrates, lronist and Moral GOLDMAN, ARI L. The Search for God at Har­ Philo5opher. vard.

Social Issues, Education, Government, Law

BRAUER, CARL M. Ropes & Gray: 1865-1990. t\fcLAURIN, MELTON ALONZA. Celia, A Slave. CWIKLIK, RoBERT. House Rules: A Freshman POWERS, RoN. Far from Home: Life and Loss Congressman's Initiation to the Backslapping, in Two American Towns. Backpeddling, and Backstabbing Ways of Wash­ SCHOR, JULIET. The Overworked American: ington. The Unexpected Decline of Leisure. FRANK, BARNEY. Speaking Frankly: What's SIZER, THEODORE R. Horace's School: Redesign­ Wrong with the Democrats and How To Fix It. ing the American High School. GALBRAITH, JOHN KENNETH. The Culture of TERKEL, STUDS. Race: How Blacks and Whites Contentment. Think and Feel about the American Obsession. HAMBURG, DAVID A. Today's Children: Creat­ THUROW, LESTER C. Head to Head: The Com­ ing a Future for a Generation in Crisis. ing Economic Battle among Japan, Europe, and KAHLENBERG, RICHARD D. Broken Contract: America. A l\tfemoir of Harvard Law School. WISE, DAVID. Molehunt: The Secret Search for LABOR IN MASSACHUSETTS: SELECTED Traitors that Shattered the CIA. ESSAYS.

Miscellaneous

BARBOUR, SPIDER. Wild Flora of the Northeast. and Present State of the Victorian and Edward­ BAULIEU, ETIENNE-EMILE. The "Abortion ian Cemetery. Pill": RU-486, A Woman's Choice. BUDIANSKY, STEPHEN. The Covenant of the BEARD, GEOFFREY W. Attingham: The First Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication. Forty Years, 1952 to 1991. THE CAMBRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OR­ BEARMAN, FREDERICK A. Fine and Historic NITHOLOGY. Bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Li­ COREN, STANLEY. The Left-Hander Syndrome: brary. The Causes and Consequences of Left-Handed­ BEHR, EDWARD. The Artful Eater: A Gourmet ness. Investigates the Ingredients of Great Food. CRINGELY, RoBERT X. Accidental Empires: BROOKS, CHRIS. Mortal Remains: The History H ow the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Mil- lions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't THE MODERN BEGINNINGS OF SUBARCTIC Get a Date. ORNITHOLOGY: NORTHERN CORRE­ ELDREDGE, NILES. The Miner's Canary: Un­ SPONDENCE WITH THE SMITHSONIAN raveling the Mysteries of Extinction. INSTITUTION, 1856-1868. FOULKES, RICHARD. The Calverts-Actors of MORRIS, JAN. 0 Canada: Travels in an Un­ Some Importance. known Country. GOLD, HERBERT. Best Nightmare on Earth: A PALMER, THOMAS. Landscape with Reptile: Life in Haiti. Rattlesnakes in an Urban World. GOLENBOCK, PETER. Fenway: An Unexpur­ PETERSON, WILLIAM S. The Kelmscott Press: gated History of the Boston Red Sox. A History of William Morris's Typographical GUTHKE, KARL SIEGFRIED. The Last Frontier: Adventure. Imagining other Worlds, from the Copernican PRESERVING THE GLOBAL ENVIRON­ Revolution to Modem Science Fiction. MENT: THE CHALLENGE OF SHARED HARRIS, DAVID. Calligraphy: Inspiration, Inno- LEADERSHIP. vation, Communication. PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN: THE FOR­ JAMES, JEREMY. Vagabond. MATION, ORGANISATION AND DISPER­ KEATES, JONATHAN. Tuscany. SAL OF THE PRIVATE LIBRARY, 1620-1920. KENNEY, CHARLI:S. Riding the Runaway Horse: ROBERTSON, NAN. The Girls in the Balcony: The Rise and Decline of Wang Laboratories. Women, Men, and the New York Times. LANGLOIS, GILLES-ANTOINE. Folies Tivolis ct SOKOLOV, RAYMOND A. Why We Eat What Attractions. We Eat. LYTHGOE, J. N. Fishes of the Sea: The North THOMAS, LEWIS. The Fragile Species. Atlantic and Mediterranean. TULLY, MARK. No Full Stops in India. MAYLE, PETER. Expensive Habits. WALKER, ANN. A Season in Spain. McGOWAN, CHRISTOPHER. Dinosaurs, Spitfires, \VlLLAN, ANNE. Great Cooks and Their Reci­ and Sea Dragons. pes: From Taillevent to Escoffier.