College and Research Libraries arate list under such headings as Book Re- views, H o m e Economics, History, and Physics have now been divided into the five major cat- egories of the books and are listed alphabet- ically at the end of all the subdivisions of each category. T o this reviewer, the one major criticism of this very useful work is the failure to subdivide the periodical lists, placing, for example, the chemistry periodicals after the reference works on chemistry and the history periodicals after the reference works on his- tory, leaving, as before, for the general section those which belong in no subject grouping. Under the present arrangement it is necessary to read through 195 titles in the social science group to locate the ten or twelve sociology periodicals. A new feature in this edition is the nota- tion of the sources of periodical indexing, an addition placed immediately in error by the many changes i n t h e International Index. This only emphasizes the great difficulty of keep- ing lists of reference books and periodicals up to date, for the closing compilation date here was October, 1954. In spite of a number of typographical er- rors and the loss of the Biographical Directory of the American Congress among the biblio- graphical entries, the index is greatly improved, placing this time in a single alphabet the au- thors and titles of the reference works and, in italics, the periodical titles. Once more the editor warns against the use of the list as an acquisitions guide or for ac- crediting purposes without consideration of local needs and recognition that other titles might serve as well. These are valid warnings to be heeded in the use of any standard list and detract not at all from the value of this one as "a reasonably effective measurement for improving the quality of college libraries in the S o u t h . " — W i n i f r e d Linderman, Colum- bia University. The First Cambridge Press The First Cambridge Press in its European Setting. By E. P. Goldschmidt. T h e Sandars Lectures in Bibliography, 1953. N e w York: Cambridge University Press, 1955. x, 99 p. $3.75. The First Cambridge Press (1521-1522) which the author describes in his preface as a story of the "literary characteristics of the pub- lishing venture of Siberch (i.e., John Laer of Siegburg) . . . in comparison with similar en- terprises in other university towns on the Con- tinent" is a fascinating and intriguing study. Even those who may not always agree with the theses of the late E. P. Goldschmidt will admire anew his tremendous fund of knowl- edge and his mastery of intellectual history. T h e first chapter deals with the connections between Siberch and the Greek scholar Rich- ard Croke, Henry Bullock, Bishop John Fisch- er (the chancellor of Cambridge University), and other more or less famous contemporar- ies. It analyzes in detail the ten books now cred- ited to the first Cambridge press, among them Bullock's welcome to Cardinal Wolsey, the first edition of Lucian's Dipsades (in Latin), the first edition of Erasmus' De Conscribendis Epistolis, Galen's On the Temperaments, and the anonymous allegory Hermathena. T h e second chapter serves to connect Eng- land's first humanist press with parallel de- velopments on the Continent; it is in fact a concise and very useful history of Greek stud- ies around the year 1500. It contains, besides a wealth of information on the spread of clas- sical knowledge, some rather thought-provok- ing observations. Here is one example: T h e magnificent effort of the Aldine editions of the Greek authors marks the end, not the be- ginning, of humanism in Italy. T h e y are the culmination of the endeavours and wishes of a whole century; but their sequel is negligible in Italy. T h e y bear their fruit beyond the Alps. Chapter three is entitled "Continental Schol- ar-Printers" and deals with Siberch's Roman type and with the humanist presses in Erfurt, Wittenberg, Leipzig, Cracow, Vienna, Basel, Louvain, Paris, Caen, Toulouse and some few other towns. T h e three chapters (originally planned as lectures) are accompanied by an equal num- ber of appendices of which one will prove particularly useful. Appendix B, "Renaissance Translations from the Greek," lists in tabular form the first Greek printing and the first Lat- in translations of Greek authors and texts produced during the Renaissance. This com- pilation alone will serve as a monument to the erudition of the scholar-bibliographer- bookseller E. P. Goldschmidt. T h e book is most pleasingly produced and 272 C( . L E G E AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES well illustrated. Appendix B was unfortunate- ly misbound in the review copy, but we trust this to be an error not repeated in the rest of the e d i t i o n . — R u d o l f Hirsch, University of Pennsylvania Library. State Author Headings Author Headings for the Official Publications of the State of Wisconsin. By Ruth Lillian Whitlock Jackson. Chicago: American Li- brary Association, 1954. 21 lp. $5. Author Headings for the Official Publications of the State of Oklahoma. Compiled by Ruth Fulton Cramer; revised and extended by Carolyn Curtis Mohr. Chicago: American Library Association, 1954. ix, 114p. $3.85. T w o volumes have been added to the series of state author headings published by the American Library Association. Earlier lists pro- vide headings for Alabama (Markley), Loui- siana (Foote) and Wyoming (Fischer). Like the Markley volume, the new additions are based on theses for the master's degree at the University of Illinois Library School. Despite its belated publication, the Wisconsin list was the first such compilation to be undertaken at the school in 1941. T h e theoretical utility of listing author head- ings for official state publications lies in the difficulty of determining the legal form of an agency name. T h e compiler of such a list seeks to establish agency names authoritative- ly by systematically combing state laws, blue books, bibliographies of state publications, and similar sources. Any cataloger who has scanned the fine print of session laws to verify the name of a minor state agency can appre- ciate the boon of having the task done for him. Reference librarians, too, will find use for such tools in their own work. T h e Wisconsin list covers agencies of the territorial government from 1836 to 1848 and the state government from 1848 to 1951. It of- fers about 1,000 author headings together with some 1,500 cross references. T h e Oklahoma list covers agencies of the territorial government from 1890 to 1907 and the state government from 1907 to 1953. It gives some 444 author headings with approximately 1,270 cross ref- erences. Both lists include numerous see-also references. Of the two, the Oklahoma list seems to be the sounder piece of work. As the foregoing figures suggest, its proportion of cross refer- ences to headings more nearly conforms to the terrible necessity of providing catalog ac- cess to government publications. Even more important, it avoids useless proliferation of headings. T h e Wisconsin list is unrestrained. It strives to give a heading for every subdivision of the main state departments, even though, admit- tedly, subdivision names are seldom estab- lished by law. As a result, it provides 64 dif- ferent forms for each of two headings: WIS- CONSIN. P U B L I C SERVICE C O M M I S S I O N ; a n d WIS- CONSIN. S T A T E CONSERVATION D E P A R T M E N T . T h e heading WISCONSIN, P U B L I C SERVICE C O M M I S - SION. ADMINISTRATIVE D E P A R T M E N T h a s 2 1 s u b - divisions. Most of them transcend the bounds of cataloging propriety. What collection of state documents would ever require the head- i n g WISCONSIN. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION. AD- M I N I S T R A T I O N D E P A R T M E N T . I N F O R M A T I O N DE- P A R T M E N T . M A I N O F F I C E SECTION? As a prac- tical matter, few libraries use corporate en- tries in more than three parts unless they want the heading to wag the card. T h e compilers of the Oklahoma list wisely chose to exclude headings for "temporary bodies appointed to complete a specific func- tion, as construction of a building, where no publications were issued and the agency ob- viously no longer functions" (p. vi). In the Wisconsin list one finds: WISCONSIN. A G E N T T O PROCURE A BLOCK O F M A R B L E OR G R A N I T E T O BE P L A C E D IN T H E N A T I O N A L M O N U M E N T A T T H E C I T Y O F WASHINGTON. WISCONSIN. BOARD T O HEAR, T R Y AND DETER- M I N E C O M P L A I N T S REGARDING T H E F A I L U R E OF RAILROADS T O M A K E CONNECTIONS A T J U N C T I O N A L POINTS W I T H I N THIS S T A T E . WISCONSIN. COMMISSIONERS T O PROCURE T O BE PUBLISHED SO M U C H O F T H E D O C U M E N T A R Y HISTORY O F THIS S T A T E AS HAD BEEN PRE- PARED FOR P U B L I C A T I O N BY W I L L I A M R. S M I T H . We learn that the governor was the block- buying agent, that Mr. Smith's book was in fact published, but there is nothing to re- veal whether train service was ever improved. All this makes charming reading, but it seems unlikely that these fleeting agencies would MAY, 1956 273