College and Research Libraries By C O N S T A N C E M . W I N C H E L L Selected Reference Books of 1957-1958 I N T R O D U C T I O N Like the preceding articles in this semi-annual series1 this survey is based o n notes written by members of the staff of the C o l u m b i a University Librar- ies. Notes written by assistants are signed with initials.2 As the purpose of the list is to present a selection of recent scholarly and for- eign works of interest to reference work- ers in university libraries, it does n o t pretend to be either well-balanced o r comprehensive. C o d e numbers (such as All, 1A26, 2S22) have been used to refer to titles in the Guide3 and its Supple- ments. M A N U A L S Malcles, Louise-Noelle. Les sources du travail bibliographique. T . 3 , Biblio- graphies specialisees (Sciences exactes et techniques). Geneve, Droz; Paris, Minard, 1958. 575p. 100 Fr.s.; $24. For v.1-2 see 1A101 This long-awaited third volume complet- ing Mile. Malcles' excellent bibliographical manual deals with materials in the natural and technical sciences. International in scope, it lists bibliographies, dictionaries, treatises and manuals, yearbooks, periodicals, etc., in the various scientific and technical fields including medicine. Aided by scholars in special subjects, Mile. Malcles has pro- 1 CRL, January and July issues starting January 1952. 2 Reference: Elizabeth Bryce (E. B r . ) , Eleanor Buist ( E . B . ) , Elizabeth J. Rumics, Ellin L. Resnick, Eu- gene Sheehy, John Neal Waddell. Business: Ben C. Driver. 3 Constance M . Winchell, Guide to Reference Books (7th ed.; Chicago: A L A , 1951); Supplement (Chicago: A L A , 1954); Second Supplement ( C h i c a g o : A L A , 1956). Miss Winchell is Reference Librarian, Columbia University Libraries. vided the librarian and research worker with a clearly arranged, well-selected, and very usable introduction to reference materials. The whole work in its concept and achieve- ment is an outstanding contribution. Murphey, R o b e r t W . How and Where to Look It Up; a Guide to Standard Sources of Information. N e w York, M c G r a w - H i l l , 1958. 721p. $15. Primarily for the "occasional or frequent users of reference sources to whom the in- tricacies of library science are largely a mys- tery," this tool is suggestive in design of Hirshberg's Subject Guide to Reference Books (Guide A568). Preliminary chapters treat the characteristics and evaluation of reference works, use of libraries, techniques of term paper research, etc. These are fol- lowed by the two principal sections: one is devoted to "basic types" of reference mate- rials, such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, pe- riodical guides, etc.; the second, headed "Specific Sources of Information," is a list- ing of reference books under a vast number of subjects alphabetically arranged, e.g., "Advertising," "Bible," "City Planning," etc. Finally, there is a lengthy index, partially analytical of the contents of the works in- cluded, as well as alphabetical by title and general subject. Although there is a wealth of titles in- cluded, the work will perhaps be most help- ful to the inexperienced librarian or the professional lay researcher, for the seasoned reference librarian will rarely need it, and the occasional reader will doubtless con- tinue to ask the librarian for help. In addi- tion to errors of fact and judgment, refer- ence librarians will be taken aback at a number of naive suggestions of procedure, as well as at unorthodox bibliographic prac- tices. Most glaring among the latter is listing by title rather than author, even in the in- dex. (Thus, to find Mencken's quotation book, one must remember to look under JANUARY 1959 17 the word "New.") Finally, for any level of reference work beyond the most elementary, it is more than surprising to find no refer- ence to any national bibliographies, except partial coverage for the United States.— J.N.W. L I B R A R I E S L a n d a u , T h o m a s , ed. Encyclopaedia of Librarianship. L o n d o n , Bowes and Bowes; N e w York, Hafner, 1958. 334p. $ 1 0 . Compiled with the assistance of numer- ous specialists, the work is intended as a "comprehensive quick reference book, cov- ering all aspects of librarianship." Alpha- betically arranged entries vary in length from a few words to signed articles of sev- eral pages. Orientation is almost exclusively British and, as the Introduction states, "fol- lows fairly closely the syllabus of the Library Association p r o f e s s i o n a l examinations." While the volume provides much useful in- formation, coverage is uneven, and there are some curious omissions: e.g., there is no entry for "Interlibrary loan" (though the articles on "National Central Library" and "Library cooperation" touch on the sub- ject); nor any for "Microfilm" (though one for "Photocopy"—without reference to a longer article on "Documentary reproduc- tion"). The "see also" and cross references suggest careless editing: e.g., a reference to "Sheffield Scheme" turns out to mean the "Sinto" entry; there is no cross reference from "Bookmobile" to "Mobile library"; and a blind reference to "C.I.C.R.I.S." may prove completely frustrating to an Amer- ican librarian.—E.S. A S S O C I A T I O N S M e t r o p o l i t a n Research Co. Association Index: a Source-List of Directories and Other Publications Listing Asso- ciations. Los Angeles 55, Calif., B o x 5345 M e t r o p o l i t a n Station, 1958. 122p. $7. An alphabetical bibliography of 1,083 di- rectories which list non-governmental associ- ations, with an index giving subject, associa- tion names and abbreviations, publication titles, authors, etc. D I S S E R T A T I O N S Index to American Doctoral Disserta- tions, 1956-57. C o m p i l e d for the As- sociation of Research Libraries. A n n A r b o r , Mich., University Microfilms, [October j 1958, 209p. (Dissertation abstracts, X V I I , no. 13.) The first volume in this new series was noted in this column in January, 1958 (v. 19, no.l, p.26). The present note is written to alert all librarians regularly using this index to the severe inadequacies of the current volume. The most striking of these are: (1) tardiness in publication date—some eight months later in the year than the Wilson lists regularly appeared; (2) the difficulty of finding sub-headings on a page because of the very slight differentiation in type size and the lack of running headings; and, most important, (3) an inefficient and often point- less subject classification. For example, under "Language and Literature" there is no area subdivision, so that it is impossible to find quickly the work done, for instance, in French, or American literature, or whatever. A particularly inane classification is "Biog- raphy," under which appear the only list- ings for seven dissertations in nearly as many different subject fields. It is to be hoped that the protests to the Association of Research Libraries and to University Microfilms will be numerous and effective.—J.N.W. P S Y C H I A T R Y American Psychiatric Association. Bio- graphical Directory of Fellows and Members . . . as of October 1, 1957. N.Y., Pub. f o r the A P A by Bowker, 1958. 488p. $25. Includes biographical sketches of more than ten thousand psychiatrists, arranged alphabetically, with a geographical listing by state and city. R E L I G I O N Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca. 3. ed. mise a j o u r et considerablement aug- 18 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES mentee par Francois Halkin. Bruxelles, Soci£t£ des bollandistes, 1957. 3v. (Subsidia hagiographica. no.8a) £ 6 . A second revision of the work of this title which first appeared in 1895 (2d. ed„ 1909) under the editorship of Hippolyte Delehaye. It not only brings up to date the listing of Greek hagiographical manuscripts and doc- uments, but includes numerous items and early editions not previously listed. Item numbers from the 1909 edition have been retained, new items being inserted in proper sequence and distinguished by letter suffixes. Volume three contains a special supplement of saints not previously included. The work brings together material heretofore scat- tered through the Analecta Bollandiana and other sources, and should prove invaluable to scholars in the field.—E.S. S O C I A L S C I E N C E S International Bibliography of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Bibliographie Internationale d'anthropologic sociale et culturelle. v . l , 1955- . Paris, Unes- co, 1958- . v . l - . (International so- cial science bibliographies) $5.50. The International Committee for Social Sciences, with Unesco support, is attempting to supply each social science discipline with an annual bibliography. This new addition joins those already started in Sociology, Po- litical Science, and Economics, each one of which has become a most useful annual rec- ord of publications. The International Bibliography of Social and Cultural Anthropology covers books, periodical articles, and occasionally multi- graphed papers published during 1955 in all countries and in all languages. In this respect it is general, but it is selective in that from the large amount of material col- lected, the editors have tried to choose those titles which represent a distinct contribu- tion to the science of anthropology. A special classification scheme has been devised and this together with indexes by author and subject should make the mate- rial easily findable. As the headings through- out are given in both English and French, there is a subject index in each language. International C o m m i t t e e for Social Sciences Documentation. Etudes des bibliographies courantes des publica- tions officielles nationales; guide som- maire et inventaire. A Study of Cur- rent Bibliographies of National Of- ficial Publications; Short Guide and Inventory. Redacteur: Jean Meyriat. [Paris] Unesco [1957] 260p. $3. The results of a preliminary survey of government publications throughout the world are presented here in two main parts. Part One, "Summary Guide," sets forth rel- atively modest recommendations for the es- tablishment in a country of a current bibli- ography of official publications. Part Two, "Inventory by Countries," describes the present situation. Although the information was compiled in most cases from replies to questionnaires and is lacking in detail, it is nevertheless a valuable summary. It may be used to supplement Current National Bibli- ographies (Guide 2A31) for the important and complex subdivision of that subject which concerns government publications. The Inventory makes it possible to ascertain the titles of the principal lists, catalogs, or bibliographies in a given country, and its major legislative, administrative, and judicial publications.—E.B. W i l d i n g , N o r m a n , and Laundy, Philip. An Encyclopaedia of Parliament. L o n - d o n , Cassell and C o m p a n y , 1958. 705p. 635. Compiled by two parliamentary librarians, this encyclopedia was expanded from a working file of reference questions. The work covers colonial parliaments as well as the Parliament at Westminster, and with its extensive bibliography, could serve as a convenient, one-volume guide to further re- search in the field. The material is arranged in alphabetical order with parliamentary history broken up into short sections under the name of the reigning monarch. Little biographical ma- terial has been included. Thirty-three appendixes provide a chron- ological list of parliaments, ministers, secre- taries, clerks, etc., and a most useful twenty- JANUARY 1959 19 five page bibliography on various aspects of parliament, including much recent material. —E.Br. B U S I N E S S Wall Street Journal Index. N e w York, Dow-Jones, Inc., 1958- . Single issues: $5.00; monthly issues: $50 a year; yearly index: $50; c o m b i n e d monthly and yearly: $88. An index which is divided into two parts: General News Section and Corporate News Section. The Corporate Section is the fuller index, and the user seeking information about a particular company or firm will find this part more useful than will one whose approach is through the General Section. The General Section indexes news items under a very few general headings, too lim- ited in number to insure locating desired material, and items indexed in the Cor- porate Section are not usually repeated in the General Section. The indexing is done for the New York edition only (this is the one being micro- filmed by Yale University). Since the Chi- cago, Dallas, and San Francisco editions dif- fer from the New York edition in paging and content (the same news item may ap- pear on different pages or even in another day's issue in these other editions), a pur- chaser of the index will need to maintain a file of the New York edition for perma- nent reference.—B.C.D. D I C T I O N A R I E S A l o n s o , Martin. Enciclopedia del idioma; diccionario histdrico y moderno de la lengua espanola (siglos XII al XX) etimologico, tecnologico, regional e hispanoamericano. M a d r i d , Aguilar, 1958- . v . l - (In progress). $24.25 per vol. Contents: v.l. A-Ch. While serving as an editor of the Aca- demia Espanola's Diccionario histdrico . . . (Guide M430), the author conceived the idea of a dictionary to be less detailed in treat- ment of individual words but more com- prehensive in number of words listed than that scholarly work still in progress. The new work was also to be far broader in scope than the Academia's Diccionario de la lengua espanola (Guide M429, 18. ed., 1956), the dictionary of approved literary usage. The present volume, the first of three of the new project, attempts to include all words in Spanish usage for the period and in the categories noted. The publisher claims, for example, 34,000 words under the letter " A " alone, compared with 64,000 for the whole of the Academia's standard dic- tionary. For many words there is extremely full treatment, including etymology, morphology, all definitions with citations of usage through the centuries, examples of phrasal combi- nations, and dates of appearances in early dictionaries. Many other words, however, are listed with little or no information be- yond a brief definition. As explained in the preface, for words for which there are no new or specialized meanings, the stand- ard definitions from the Academia's Dic- cionario are used verbatim or nearly so. Ty- pography and paper are good.—J.N.W. Castillo's Spanish and English Technical Dictionary. N.Y., Philosophical Li- brary, 1958. 2v. $45. v.l, English-Spanish. 161 lp.; v.2, Span- ish-English. 1137p. "Only the fields of engineering technology are included, and the physical, chemical and biological sciences are excluded, except for those words which are of importance to en- gineers." Abbreviations are given at the beginning of each letter. Important commercial and le- gal terms are included, as well as some words of importance in everyday language. The words selected are in current usage and not obsolete terms and "the language used is that of Spain and Latin America in the Spanish language and of England and the United States in the English language." There are no definitions except in cases of ambiguity. Doke, Clement Martyn. English-Zulu Dictionary. C o m p i l e d by C. M . Doke, D. M c K . M a l c o l m c and] J. M . A . Sika- kana. Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University Press, 1958. 572p. $6. "The English-Zulu Dictionary is intended 20 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES as a companion to the Zulu-English Diction- ary (Doke 8c Vilakazi) which first appeared in 1948."—Prefatory note. Emphasis is on current usage, with con- siderable inclusion of slang, colloquialisms, and idioms. Pronunciation is indicated in phonetic alphabet. Whenever the Zulu equivalent has been coined from English or another foreign language, that fact is indi- cated by an asterisk.—E.J.R. Pukui, Mary K., and Elbert, Samuel H . Hawaiian-English Dictionary. H o n o - lulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1957. 362p. $15. The most comprehensive Hawaiian-Eng- lish dictionary yet published, this book lists current Hawaiian usage under some 25,000 entries, with many phrases clarifying or illus- trating use. Since one Hawaiian word may have three, four, or more English equivalents, the actual number of words included is much larger. Proper names are omitted ex- cept for those in very common use, such as names of the islands, major gods, etc. An introductory section on Hawaiian grammar discusses pronunciation; a bibliography of important works consulted in compiling the dictionary is appended. Originally visualized as a revision of the Andrews-Parker Hawaiian dictionary (rev. ed., 1922; 14,000 entries), the degree and quality of revision were such that a com- pletely new dictionary resulted. The format is clear and easy to follow. The cloth bind- ing seems durable—fortunately, as a narrow inner page margin makes rebinding question- able.—E.J.R. S C I E N C E Baranowski, Henryk. Bibliografia Koper- nikowska, 1509 1955. Warszawa, Paris- twowe wydawnictwo naukowe, 1958. 448p. Some 3,750 items are listed in this bibli- ography of the works of Copernicus and of writings on his life and theory. Separately published works, periodical articles, and parts of books are included. Works of Copernicus are entered chronologically, with a title index; a classed arrangement is used for the other nine sections of the bibliog- raphy. Although a high percentage of entries is in Polish, the compilation aims to be uni- versal in scope. It also aims at completeness without becoming too involved in peripheral works. A preface in French as well as in Polish will prove valuable to users not famil- iar with the latter language. An author index and a detailed table of contents complete the volume.—E.S. S C I E N T I F I C C O N G R E S S E S A N D P E R I O D I C A L S Akademiia nauk S S S R . Fundamental'- naia biblioteka obshchestvennyk nauk. Nauchnye s'ezdy, konferentsii i so- veshchaniia v S S S R 1946-1953; bibli- ograficheskii ukazatel'. Moskva, 1958. 222p. 12r. This bibliography lists the publications of, and articles about, scientific congresses and conferences held in the Soviet Union between 1946 and 1953. Although mathe- matics and the natural sciences, technology, agriculture, and medicine predominate, a section headed social sciences includes phi- losophy, history, economics, law, literature, folklore, linguistics, art, and pedagogy. A continuation is planned.—E.B. Akademiia nauk S S S R . Institut nauchnoi informatsii. Ukazatel' sokrashchen- nykh i polnykh nazvannii nauchnoi i tekhnicheskoi literatury. Moskva, 1957. 236p. Errata sheet. 20r. The abbreviations of 12,250 titles of peri- odicals utilized in the series of abstract journals (Referativnyi zhurnal po ) are brought together in this index to the full titles. The abstracts are selected from the world's literature in science and tech- nology. The compilers state that in choosing abbreviations they have taken into considera- tion the international code presented by the International Organisation on Standardiza- tion. The major portion of the index is arranged in two "base" alphabets, Russian and Latin. Journals with titles in Armenian, Georgian, Chinese and Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Hindi, and Siamese are listed in separate alphabets with cross ref- erences from transliterations in the Russian list. Each of the ten linguistic divisions has its supplementary list of titles added after JANUARY 1959 21 the main lists were prepared for publication. This is of course unfortunate from the point of view of rapid reference. No bibliographi- cal information is given other than country or origin of the periodical.—E.B. National Research C o u n c i l , Canada. Li- brary. Union List of Scientific Serials in Canadian Libraries. Ottawa, 1957. 805p. $25. This union list of serials contains over twenty-one thousand entries in the general field of science, technology, and related sub- jects. It represents the holdings of 140 Cana- dian libraries "as reported up to 1954, with additions made to the later sections through- out 1955 and 1956." The latest form of dis- tinctive serial title or the name of the spon- soring body is used as the entry, with refer- ences from earlier or variant forms. The libraries' facilities for lending serials and supplying photocopies or microfilms are in- dicated.—E.L.R. A G R I C U L T U R E Lauche, R u d o l f , ed. Internationales Handbuch der Bibliographien des Landbaues. World Bibliography of Agricultural Bibliographies. Hrsg. i m Auftrag des Land- u n d forstwirtschaft- lichen Forschungsrates mit Unterstut- zung der deutschen Forschungsgemein- schaft. M u n c h e n , Bayerischer Land- wirtschaftsverlag, 1957. 41 l p . More than 4,100 agricultural bibliogra- phies and bibliographical sources (including books, parts of books, periodical articles, and serial publications) ranging in date from 1596 to 1957 are here listed in a classified arrangement. In general, citations are grati- fyingly complete; annotations (in highly abbreviated form) are given for most items; and locations in German and Austrian li- braries are usually indicated. There is an author-title index, plus subject indexes in both German and English. The wide range of topics in the latter listings suggests a much greater usefulness for the volume than is, perhaps, implicit in the title.—E.S. Music C o o p e r , Martin. The Concise Encyclo- pedia of Music and Musicians. N.Y., H a w t h o r n Books, 1958. 516p. il. $12.95. Originally published in England this is a handsomely illustrated volume primarily for the layman. In alphabetical order, in- cludes biographies, treatment of the various forms of musicology, instruments and the orchestra, compositions, technical terms, etc. In the main, articles are short but some longer sketches on such subjects as History of Music, Opera, Song, etc. are included. A useful one-volume compilation with a British slant. Duckies, Vincent, Nicewonger, Harriet and Elmer, M i n n i e . Guide to Refer- ence Materials on Music. 3d ed. Ber- keley, Univ. of California, 1957. 69p., 6p. (Univ. of California syllabus series. Syllabus no.344) $1.65. Prepared especially for use in a library where graduate study in music is carried on. Lists 649 items, with additions in a Supple- ment, arranged by form: dictionaries and encyclopedias, histories and chronologies, yearbooks, guides to historical musicology, bibliographies of music literature, bibliog- raphies of music, catalogs of important li- braries and collections, histories and bibli- ographies of music printing and publishing, discographies, bibliographies of bibliogra- phies. An annotated edition is in preparation. C I R C U S Stott, R a y m o n d T o o l e . Circus and Al- lied Arts; a World Bibliography, 1500- 1957. Derby, England, H a r p u r and Sons, 1958- . v.l- . 55s per vol. This first volume of a proposed set of three covers books and pamphlets dealing with circus history and biography. While it does not claim to be exhaustive, the scope of the bibliography is broad, as its title im- plies, and writings in many European lan- guages are included, as are parts of works where these make an important contribu- tion to the literature. The Introduction gives a survey of the existing literature of the circus, and inci- 22 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES dentally serves as a summary of circus his- tory and points up many of its highlights. A few plates are to be found at the end of the text.—E.Br. L I T E R A T U R E A N D L A N G U A G E Hall, R o b e r t Anderson. Bibliografia della linguistica italiana. 2. ed., riv. e aggiornata. Firenze, Sansoni Antiqua- riato, 1958. 3v. (Biblioteca bibliografia italica, 13-15) $64.50. This major revision of the author's 1941 work (Guide R656) contains 6,900 items, approximately twice as many as in the orig- inal edition. General plan and arrangement remain the same, i.e., chronological within a classified scheme. The several detailed in- dexes of authors, titles, words, dialects, and general subjects constitute most of the third volume. Despite the excellence of the work, the price seems unreasonably high, and the cost of binding the three paperback volumes is yet to be added.—J.N.W. Tarybine lietuviu literatura ir kritika. Bibliografija. 1945/55. Vilnius, 1957. (At head of title: Lietuvos T S R M o k - slu akademija, Lietuviu) 235p. A bibliography of Soviet Lithuanian lit- erature and criticism in three main sections. The first is devoted to belles lettres, with listing by author, followed by reviews and lists of critical works (both books and arti- cles) on the authors and their writings. A second section lists books of general literary criticism (including dissertations); and the final section, articles on various literary questions grouped by genre. There is an index of authors of reviews and articles. The journals from which the latter were drawn are enumerated in the preface.—E.S. Vsesoiuznaia knizhnaia palata. Litera- turno-khudozhestvennye al'manakhi i sborniki; bibliograficheskii ukazatel'. Moskva, 1957- . v . l , 1900-1911. 29r, 65k; v.2, 1912-1917. 26r. The All Union Book Chamber, the or- ganization responsible for current national bibliography in the USSR, also conducts a program in retrospective bibliography. The present volumes analyze bibliograph- ically the contents of 1,103 Russian literary almanacs and related works of multiple authorship published during two decades of social and political upheaval. The basis of selection is clearly defined in the introduc- tion. The main entries are arranged chrono- logically. Four indexes make it possible to approach the contents through titles of the almanacs or collections, authors' names, places of publication, and titles of anony- mous articles.—E.B. Yale University. Library. Yale Collec- tion of German Literature. German Baroque Literature; a Catalogue of the Collection in the Yale University Library by Curt von Faber du Faur. N e w Haven, Yale University Press, 1958. 496p. il. (Bibliographical series f r o m the Yale University Library Col- lections) $15. The German Baroque period covers roughly 1575 to 1740 and this excellently printed bibliography is ". . . an attempt to present an outline of literary history based on a catalog of a collection of books" for this era. The collection was acquired and augmented by the Yale University Library; in general only literary works have been included, although this has been inter- preted broadly to include writings by phi- losophers, historians, philologists, and theo- logians when they might be considered to have literary merit and were not addressed only to fellow specialists. Bibliographical in- formation is detailed with running com- mentary and notes interspersed. References are given freely to Goedeke's Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung and oth- er bibliographies. B I O G R A P H Y Dictionary of American Biography, Pub- lished Under the Auspices of the American Council of Learned Soci- eties. . . . V o l . X X I I , Supplement two. R o b e r t Livingston Schuyler, editor; Edward T . James, associate editor. N e w York, Scribner's, 1958. 745p. $15. Presenting 585 biographies of persons who JANUARY 1959 23 died during the period 1936-1940, inclusive, this second supplement "carries forward the original plan of presenting a continuing series of scholarly, authoritative biographical articles on persons who have made signifi- cant contributions to American life." Biog- raphies were contributed by 451 scholars and specialists, and exhibit a remarkable range of professions and fields of endeavor, whether statesman, educator, financier, musi- cian, scientist, churchman, magician, or swindler.—E.S. Die Grossen Deutschen: deutsche Bio- graphie. Herausgegeben v o n H e r m a n H e m p e l , T h e o d o r e Heuss, r u n d ] Ben- n o R e i f e n b e r g . Berlin, Propylaen- Verlag, 1957-58. 4v.; Erganzungsband. Cloth, D M 39; half-leather, D M 45 per vol. Attractively printed and bound, this is the new edition of the 1935-37 set edited by Willy Andreas. Like the old, the new edition presents in chronological order biographical essays for about 170 major figures in German history—cultural, religious, military, etc. The new edition is printed in Roman type. Essays are brief—twenty pages at most— with no bibliographies. Each volume has numerous illustrations and an index; a general index to all volumes appears in vol- ume 5. Some biographies in the older edi- tion have been dropped (e.g. Konigen Luise, Melancthon), some reprinted with minor changes (Kepler, Mozart), and some new biographies have been added (Einstein). Not essential reference material, the set could be an attractive supplementary acqui- sition.—E.J.R. Wer ist wer in der SBZ? [Sowjetische Besatzungszone] Ein biographisches Handbuch. Berlin, Verlag fur Inter- nationalen Kulturaustausch [1958] 307p. D M 12. Because the coverage of both Wer ist wer (Guide 1S21) and Who's Who in Ger- many (CRL, Jan. 1957) is so predominantly of Western Germany only, the publishers present here a brief but useful who's who of the Soviet controlled parts of Germany. The total number of persons listed is only around fifteen hundred, and each entry is rather brief and in tabulated form; even so, the work is a useful addition to current Ger- man biographical sources.—J.N.W. G E O G R A P H Y A N D A T L A S E S Bibliotheca Cartographica . . . Bibliog- raphy of the Cartographical Literature . . . hrsg. v o n der Bundesanstalt fiir Landeskunde, in V e r b i n d u n g mit der Deutschen Gesellschaft fiir Karto- graphie . . . Remagen, 1957- H e f t 1/2- D M 3.50. The Bundesanstalt fiir Landeskunde which is publishing this bibliography feels that cartography may be considered a sepa- rate science, distinct from geography and geodesy, and therefore has started what it is hoped will be a semi-annual listing of the writings on cartographical subjects appear- ing in periodicals or in monographic form. The first issue combines both numbers for 1957 and includes materials from several countries of Europe, South Africa, South America, and the United States. Israel. Surveys Dept. Atlas of Israel; Car- tography, Physical Geography, His- tory, Demography, Economics, Educa- tion. Jerusalem, 1956- . Looseleaf. $55. When completed, the atlas will offer a cartographic representation of the physical geography, history, demography, economics, industry, cultural facilities, and social serv- ices of Israel. While some maps are restricted to Israel, Palestine is represented wherever reliable information is available. Published in Hebrew, the one hundred double sheets of the atlas will appear in ten to twelve folders at the rate of two per year. Maps are handsomely printed in as many as fifteen colors, with explanatory texts overleaf. A cloth binder is provided, and there is an English translation of the table of contents. —E.S. U.S. Library of Congress. M a p Division. A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress. V o l . 5 [titles 5325- 7623] c o m p i l e d by Clara Egli LeGear. 24 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Washington, Govt. Prtg. Off., 1958. 666p. $5.25. A card file was maintained in the Library of Congress for atlases acquired by the Li- brary after 1920 (the closing date for v. 1-4, Guide U164), with the intention of regu- larly supplementing the original set. This volume, the first supplement to appear, de- scribes 2,326 world atlases acquired between 1920 and 1955. Generally the original ar- rangement is followed, i.e., special subject atlases followed by general atlases in chrono- logical sequence. The full table of contents is given for each atlas listed. The index rec- ords areas, subjects, maps, authors, engrav- ers, publishers, etc., and atlas titles having distinctive words. Volumes covering Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas are planned, as well as an integrated author list and index for the complete work.—E.J.R. H I S T O R Y A d i r o n d a c k M o u n t a i n Club. Bibliog- raphy Committee. Adirondack Bibli- ography: a List of Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Articles Published Through the Year 1955, c o m p . by the Bibliography Committee of the A d i - rondack M o u n t a i n Club, D o r o t h y A . Plum, Chairman, Lynette L. Scribner, Vice-Chairman. Gabriels, N.Y., A d i - rondack M o u n t a i n Club, Inc., 1958. 354p. (Distrib. by N e w York Univ. Press) $10. A detailed and carefully compiled bibli- ography of 7,500 items, this work covers the "region included in the Adirondack State Park and the western Champlain Valley," (pref.) with a few additional nearby areas. The material is arranged by an easily usable scheme of classification under fourteen gen- eral headings—History, Geography, Natural History, Social and Economic History, Rec- reation, etc., each further subdivided. Indi- vidual entries are bibliographically clear and apparently complete, and there is a full author and subject index. Annual supple- ments are planned for the club's magazine, to be cumulated later.—J.N.W. The Australian Encyclopaedia, in Ten Volumes. [East Lansing, M i c h . ] Michi- gan State University Press [1958] lOv. illus., maps. $125. An important new reference set for the area, this is a national encyclopedia devoted to Australia and its territories, treating all aspects of Australian life: history, biography, geography, natural history,.etc. Though pub- lished in the United States, it is the work of Australian scholars and writers working in cooperation with numerous governmental and private agencies. There are brief bibli- ographies for many articles, but they are considerably fewer than might be expected or desired. The volumes are admirably print- ed and illustrated; volume 10 is an index. Supplements at two- or three-year intervals are planned to keep the set up to date.—E.S. Gran enciclopedia argentina; todo lo argentino ordenado alfabeticamente, geografia e historia, toponimias, bio- grafias, ciencias, artes, letras, derecho, economia, industria y comercio, insti- tuciones, flora y fauna, folklore, lexico regional f p o r ] D i e g o A . de Santillan. Buenos Aires, Ediar, 1956- . v . l - (In progress). $15 (?) per vol. Contents: v.1-3, A-Gw. A national rather than a general ency- clopedia, this work attempts to treat all those aspects of Argentine life included in the subtitle. If it is as substantially the work of a single author as it appears to be, the ac- complishment is indeed remarkable. Even so, it seems probable that the enterprise would have benefited from further collaboration; too many of the articles are unduly brief, or superficial, or both, and bibliographies are too often inadequate or lacking. Biograph- ical entries are numerous and include both living and deceased subjects. Illustrations are abundant, in color as well as black and white. There is, quite naturally, considerable duplication of the content of the recently published Diccionario historico argentino (Guide 2V33); even with their limitations, the two works together provide a large body of reference information not easily avail- able heretofore.—J.N.W. Historische W.P. encyclopedic. H o o f r e - dactie: Ph. de Vries [Oil] T h . L u y k x . Uitgegeven o n d e r auspicien van de JANUARY 1959 25 W i n k l e r Prins stichting. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1957- . v . l - . il. Contents: v.l, A-Cze. T o be in three volumes, this new histori- cal encyclopedia in Dutch endeavors to cover the political history of the world from earli- est times to the present day. Arranged alpha- betically, the articles cover periods, events, geographical divisions, persons, etc. The longer articles are signed and in some cases have brief bibliographies, the biographical articles include living persons, genealogical charts of royal families are given, the illus- trations while not numerous are pertinent and well-reproduced and there are historical maps showing various countries at different periods. In this first volume there is an introduc- tory section with chapters on chronology, archaeology, numismatics, epigraphy, her- aldry, etc., and the historiography of several countries with brief bibliographies. H o w a r d University, W a s h i n g t o n , D.C. Library. M o o r l a n d Foundation. A Cat- alogue of the African Collection in the Moorland Foundation, Howard Uni- versity Library. C o m p i l e d by students in the Program of A f r i c a n Studies. Ed- ited by D o r o t h y B. Porter. Washing- ton, H o w a r d University Press, 1958. 398p. $6. "It is the purpose of this publication to provide a list of the materials relating to Africa . . . in the Moorland Foundation . . . received prior to June, 1957."-—Preface. The first grouping of 1,313 book titles, on Africa in general, is sub-arranged under sub- ject—i.e., bibliographies, biographies, educa- tion, folklore, language, animal life, etc. The remainder of the 4,865 titles, divided by individual country under broad geographical areas (Northern, North-eastern, Western, Central, Eastern and Southern Africa), is followed by an alphabetical list of period- icals and a geographical list of newspapers. A general index, primarily of authors, com- pletes the book. Unfortunately there are few cross-references from alternate spellings of names; for instance, Nasser appears only as 'Abd al-Nasir. Full imprint and pagina- tion are given for each item, but there are no annotations.—E.J.R. M o s c o w . Gosudarstvennaia publichnaia istoricheskaia biblioteka. Bibliografiia russkoi bibliografii po istorii SSSR; annotirovannyi perechen' bibliogra- ficheskikh ukazatelei, izdannykh do 1917 goda. Moskva, Izd-vo Vsesoiuznoi knizhnoi palaty, 1957. 195p. 6r 40k. Bibliographies published prior to 1917 on the subject of Russian history have been selected and listed in this bibliography issued by the State Public Historical Library of the RSFSR. The thoroughly descriptive an- notations include references to reviews at the time of publication. The first four chap- ters treat general bibliographies, bibliogra- phies of sources, bibliographies on special subjects (such as military history, religion and church) and bibliographies for specific chronological periods. Other chapters deal with bibliographies of society publications, indexes to historical journals and to his- torical articles in general journals, and bio- bibliography of Russian historians. The work is intended to complement the USSR Academy of Sciences' index Istoriia SSSR (in progress, see CRL, July 1958, p.304) which includes bibliographies on Russian history published during the Soviet period. —E.B. U.S.S.R. Glavnoe arkhivnoe upravlenie. Gosudarstvennye arkhivy Soiuza SSR; kratkii spravochnik. Moskva, 1956. 507p. 15r 50k. Of the state archives to which this book is a general guide, nine are central or fed- eral archives of the USSR. Most of the other archives described bear the names of the union republics and other political subdivisions throughout the Soviet Union. Name, address, and brief historical note on each archive are followed by a general de- scription, averaging about two pages, of the type and extent of documentary material, its chronological limits, and the names of some individuals whose papers are included. There is a list of thirteen "archives omit- ted" from the guide, a bibliography of pub- lications between 1941 and 1956, and a name index.—E.B. 26 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES