College and Research Libraries Selected Reference Books of 1961-1962 B Y C O N S T A N C E M . W I N C H E L L I N T R O D U C T I O N LIKE THE p r e c e d i n g a r t i c l e s i n t h i s s e m i -a n n u a l s e r i e s , 1 t h i s s u r v e y is b a s e d o n n o t e s w r i t t e n b y m e m b e r s o f t h e staff o f t h e C o l u m b i a U n i v e r s i t y l i b r a r i e s . N o t e s w r i t t e n b y a s s i s t a n t s a r e s i g n e d w i t h i n i t i a l s , 2 a n d f o r t h i s issue w e r e e d i t e d b y E u g e n e S h e e h y . A s t h e p u r p o s e o f t h e list is to p r e s e n t a s e l e c t i o n o f r e c e n t s c h o l a r l y a n d f o r e i g n w o r k s o f i n t e r e s t t o r e f e r e n c e w o r k e r s i n u n i v e r s i t y l i b r a r i e s , i t d o e s n o t p r e t e n d t o b e e i t h e r w e l l - b a l a n c e d o r c o m p r e - h e n s i v e . C o d e n u m b e r s ( s u c h a s A l l , 1 A 2 6 , 2 S 2 2 ) h a v e b e e n u s e d t o r e f e r t o t i t l e s i n t h e Guide3 a n d i t s s u p p l e m e n t s . B I B L I O G R A P H Y Berroa, Josefina. Mexico bibliografico, 1957- 1960. Catalogo general de libros impresos en Mexico. Mexico, D.F., the author, 1961. 189p. (Distribution in U.S.A. by R . R . Bowker Co., New York. $12.) W i t h the appearance of Fichero bibli- ografico . . . (see below) and the work noted here, librarians and booksellers may indeed be encouraged to expect increasingly better access to current Mexican bibliography. Miss Berroa's list includes more than four thou- sand titles published in Mexico during the four-year period. Coverage is primarily of trade items, although there are some titles from other sources. Official government pub- lications and new periodicals are apparently excluded. T h e list is in two parts, the first arranged alphabetically by main entry, with standard bibliographic data and price for each item. In the second half the titles are 1 CRL, J a n u a r y and J u l y issues s t a r t i n g J a n u a r y , 1 9 5 2 . 2 R e f e r e n c e : E l e a n o r B u i s t , R i t a K e c k e i s s e n , E v e l y n L a u e r , E l i z a b e t h J . R u m i c s , E u g e n e S h e e h y , J o h n Neal W a d d e l l . 3 C o n s t a n c e M . W i n c h e l l , Guide to Reference Books ( 7 t h e d . ; C h i c a g o : A L A , 1 9 5 1 ) ; Supplement ( C h i c a g o : A L A , 1 9 5 4 ) ; Second Supplement ( C h i c a g o : A L A , 1 9 5 6 ) ; Third Supplement ( C h i c a g o : A L A , 1 9 6 0 ) . Miss Winchell is Reference Librarian, Columbia University Library. listed under some thirteen hundred subject headings alphabetically arranged. Here bib- liographic information is abbreviated. An ex- tensive list of publishers is included. Format and paper are very g o o d . — J . N . W . Fichero bibliografico hispanoamericano: cata- logo trimestral de toda clase de libros pub- licados en las Americas en espanol. New York, Bowker, 1961- . v. 1- . Quarterly. $5 in Latin America; $7 elsewhere. This new comprehensive bibliography aims to list all new books published in die Ameri- cas in the Spanish language in all subjects and by all publishers. Arrangement is by Dewey decimal classification with an index by authors and titles, followed by a list of publishers and a table of conversion for the moneys of the various countries. Volume 1, no. 0, a preliminary issue list- ing all 1961 books received before October, has been renumbered as vol. 1, no. 1. M I C R O F I L M S Philadelphia Bibliographical Center and Union Library Catalogue. Committee on Microphotography. Union List of Micro- films. Cumulation 1949-1959. Ann Arbor, Mich., J. W . Edwards, 1961. 2v. (xviii p., 2800 cols.) $35. As stated in the Introduction, this "is the final publication of the Union List of Micro- films by the Philadelphia Bibliographical Center and Union Library Catalogue" and some new technological solution is needed for effective bibliographic control of micro- forms in the future. T h i s final cumulation serves as a com- panion to the 1951 edition ( S u p p l e m e n t 1A17) and includes materials (excepting American dissertations) from the 1949-52 and J U L Y 1 9 6 2 3 1 5 1952-55 supplements, plus listings received through July 1959. Additional locations of positive films of previously reported titles have been added only for the more impor- tant manuscripts and early imprints. Li- brarians will want to familiarize themselves with the section of the introduction relating to types of materials omitted.—E.S. D I R E C T O R Y Informator nauki polskiej. 1961. [Warszawa], Panstwowe Wyclawnictwo Naukowe, [1961]. 451 p. 40 Zlotys. F o r first edition see Supplement 3C5. T h i s is a revised and expanded third edition, greatly improved in format and general ref- erence utility. Information as of July 1, 1960, incorporates changes in organization made in the first half of 1960. T h e r e is an index of names of institutions, in addition to the ex- tensive name and address list of Polish scien- tists. T h e T a b l e of Contents is translated into English and Russian.—E.B. E N C Y C L O P E D I A Aschehougs konversasjons leksikon. 4. utg. Redaksjon: A r t h u r Holmesland, Alf Som- merfelt [og] Leif S termer. Redaksjonssekre- tar: J o h n Dahl. Oslo, H . Aschehoug, 1954- 1961. 18v. NKr. 67,00 per vol. An expansion and revision of the diird edition (15v. plus supplement, 1939-52; see Supplement 1D9) of a standard Norwegian encyclopedia. T h e over-all impression is of clear, concise work. Articles vary from one or two lines to many pages; all over six lines are initialed. Bibliographical references are scanty; many small pictures, maps, diagrams, portraits, some in color, are included. Infor- mation and statistics are generally not later than 1950-1955, but some I960 information is included in the later volumes. A supple- ment is planned for 1 9 6 2 . — E . J . R . P E R I O D I C A L S AND N E W S P A P E R S Arndt, Karl J . R . and Olson, May E. Ger- man-American Newspapers and Periodi- cals, 1732-1955; History and Bibliography. Heidelberg, Quelle 8c Meyer, 1961. 794p. $25. (Deutsche Presseforschung. 3) Distri- bution in U.S.A. by Clark University Press, Worcester, Mass. Obviously this volume will prove invalu- able to librarians, scholars, researchers, and students in manifold areas, being a great compilation of information and also suggest- ing many departures for further research. T h e authors spent over twenty years compil- ing the list of some five thousand German- American serials; for each title they give various useful facts including "wherever pos- sible . . . exact dates of changes of titles and names of editors and publishers, followed by a list of all holdings located." (Introd.) Ar- rangement is alphabetical by state and city, with Washington, D. C., first. F o r each state there is a brief descriptive headnote sketch- ing in broad outline German influence in that state and suggesting sources for further details. Locations are given to files in over three hundred United States libraries and historical societies and fifty European li- braries. T h e r e are twelve closely-printed pages of select bibliography, works consulted and used, and an index of titles. T i t l e page, introduction and index headnote are bi- l i n g u a l . — E . J . R . Canadian Index to Periodicals and Docu- mentary Films; an Author and Subject In- dex, 1948-59. Ottawa, Canadian Library Association, 1962. 1180p. $120.? Both the Canadian Library Association and the editors of the volume are to be com- mended for this time- and space-saving twelve-year cumulation. An author and sub- ject index (see Guide E 8 3 for annual volumes and their predecessors) with many cross- references in French, the work includes 101 periodical titles for the period, and the docu- mentary output of 29 film producers.—E.S. Indice general de publicaciones periodicas latinoamericanas. Humanidades y ciencias sociales. Index to Latin American Periodi- cals. Humanities and Social Sciences, v. 1, no. 1- . 1 s t quarter, 1961- . Boston, G. K. Hall, 1962- . Quarterly with annual cu- mulations. $17.50 per yr.; outside U . S., $19.25. Latin America in Periodical Literature, v. 1, no. 1- . Jan. 1962- . Los Angeles, Center of Latin American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 1962- . Monthly. $4 per yr. T h o u g h there will be a certain amount of overlapping in the coverage of these two wel- come new services, they should not be con- 3 1 6 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S fused: the first is an index to periodicals pub- lished in Latin America; the second an index (with abstracts) to articles on L a t i n America appearing in periodicals the world over. Prepared by the Columbus Memorial Li- brary of the P a n American Union and the New York Public Library, Indice general . . . provides " a guide to articles appearing in selected Latin American periodicals in the humanities and social sciences" (Introd.). More than three hundred periodicals are listed, though less than half are given com- plete indexing. T h e index offers both author and subject approach, subject headings ap- pearing in Spanish with an auxiliary list of corresponding English terms. In addition to 1961 issues, indexing includes periodicals published in 1960. Latin America in Periodical Literature, of which seven pilot issues were given limited distribution, is now available on a monthly basis. It aims " t o present in summary form the material relating to Latin America in- cluded in a large number of periodicals of widely varying subject matter, published in this and other countries" (Foreword). T h e list of periodicals includes over two hundred and fifty titles, with plans for adding more. A classed arrangement is used, with author and country indexes in each issue. Abtracts will be numbered consecutively throughout the volume; it is to be hoped that the indexes will be cumulated.—E.S. R E L I G I O N Glanzman, George S. and Fitzmyer, Joseph A. An Introductory Bibliography for the Study of Scripture. Westminster, Md., New- man Press, 1962. 135p. (Woodstock Papers, no. 5) $1.50. Compiled by two Jesuit scripture scholars for their students, but useful to a wide pub- lic, this annotated list of more than three hundred entries is designed to guide the "stu- dent who is beginning theology or the study of Scripture in a serious way . . . to basic titles . . . and . . . the more important sec- ondary works" (Pref.). Some twenty divisions classify the works by form (periodicals, series, lexica, grammars, introductions, dictionaries, bibliography, etc.) or by subject matter (bib- lical theology, archaeology, geography, Dead Sea Scrolls, etc.). Entries give full biblio- graphical information; critical annotations and references to reviews will enhance the value of the work for the student. A list of periodical abbreviations used and an author index are included.—R.K. T H E A T E R Mander, Raymond and Mitchenson, J o e . The Theatres of London. Illus. by Tim- othy Birdsall. London, Hart-Davis, 1961. 292p. 305. Interesting and informative as this volume is today, its usefulness will increase as the years pass and take their toll of London's existing theatres. T h e work contains histori- cal sketches of more than fifty present-day theatres, with notes on their predecessors, de- scriptions of die present structures (usually including accounts contemporary with their openings), and some record of important pro- ductions and long runs at each house.—E.S. Mongredien, Georges. Dictionnaire biogra- phique des comediens frangais du XVII' siecle. Paris, Centre National de la Rech- erche, 1961. 239p. 25 n.f. This concise volume is devoted to bio- graphical information, in some cases very brief, on professional comedians of both sexes in the seventeenth-century French theater. Appended are two listings, one of t h e p r i n c i p a l F r e n c h t h e a t r i c a l t r o u p s (grouped as those under royal patronage and those which were independent), and another of important French and foreign cities with a chronological listing of the French com- panies which visited them. A bibliography of works consulted by the author adds to the value of the work.—E.L. M O V I N G P I C T U R E S Sovetskoe khudozhestvennye fil'my; annotiro- vannyi katalog. V. 1- . Moskva, Gos-oe izd-vo "Iskusstvo," 1961- . (In progress) At head of title: Vsesouiznyi Gosudarstven- nyi Fond Kinofil'mov. Contents: v. 1. Nemye fil'my 1918-1935; v. 2. Zvukovye fil'my 1930-1957. T h i s is a catalog of twenty-five hundred Soviet moving pictures, including animated cartoons, produced between 1918 and 1957. Description covers genre, running time, pro- ducing organization and date, date of first showing, names of scenarists, directors, actors, author and title of book if an adaptation, statement of theme, plot summary, bibliogra- J U L Y 1 9 6 2 3 1 7 phy of reviews and indication if the film is no longer extant. Artistic evaluation is ex- pressly omitted, with the aim of objective de- scription for historians and theoreticians of the film art. Arrangement is chronological in each volume, the first devoted to silent and the second to sound films. A third volume of indexes is planned.—E.B. D I C T I O N A R Y The Kosciuszko Foundation Dictionary: Eng- lish-Polish, Polish-English, by K. Bulas, L . L. T h o m a s and F. J . Whitfield. T h e Hague, Mouton, 1959-61. 2v. (Poland's mil- lennium series of the Kosciuszko Founda- tion) f. 70 the set. (Also distributed by the Kosciuszko Foundation, 15 East 65th St., New York 21; $ 1 0 per volume), v. 1, Eng- lish-Polish, 1037p.; v. 2, Polish-English, 772p. Publication of the second volume com- pletes this substantial and scholarly bilingual dictionary. Volume two omits the dialect, slang and peculiarly British or American words included in the first volume, being "restricted to twentieth century standard Polish" (Foreword). It contains an abbrevia- tions list and a list of corrections and addi- tions to both volumes.—E.B. L I T E R A T U R E Lexikon der Weltliteratur im 20. Jahrhun- dert. Freiburg: Herder, [1960-61]. 2v. DM.84,—. Very comprehensive within its two-volume limit, this work devotes space to every major national literature, although author entries are predominantly Western. Bibliographies at the ends of articles (almost all of which are signed) and an index in volume two to all authors, including those who are men- tioned but do not have individual articles, are among the useful features of the Lexikon. It should be noted that the articles are primarily of a subjective, critical nature so that the usefulness of the work for reference purposes is largely limited to the biographi- cal material and to the bibliographies.—E.L. Mummendey, Richard. Die schdne Literatur der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika in deutschen Vbersetzungen; eine Bibliogra- phic. Bonn, H . Bouvier; Charlottesville, Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1961. 199p'. $12.50. Added title page in English; prefatory mat- ter in English and German. Compiled from German and American publishers' lists, biographical reference works, and library catalogs, this bibliography lists separately-published German translations of literary works of American authors. Entry is by author, with collected editions, if any, fol- lowed by individual works. After original title and date of publication are given the translated title, translator, full imprint, and pagination of the translation. Since for many works there is more than one translation or edition, the actual total is well beyond the 1887 numbered entries. A similar bibliogra- phy for translations appearing in periodicals and collections is contemplated.—E.S. U. S. Library of Congress. Eighteenth Cen- tury Russian Publications in the Library of Congress; a Catalog. Prepared by T a t i a n a Fessenko. Washington, Slavic and Central European Division, Reference Dept., Library of Congress, 1961. 157p. $1. One of the most extensive collections of eighteenth-century Russian books outside the Soviet Union is that of the Library of Congress. Dr. Sergius Yakobson points out in the Preface that the 1316 fully cataloged works in this bibliography compare, for ex- ample, with 2745 in the published catalog of the State Public Library of the Ukraine. T h e person chiefly responsible for their cata- loging, Mrs. Fessenko, " . . . in almost one hundred instances has succeeded in identify- ing the foreign authors of Russian transla- tions which up to now have been listed as anonymous in Russian bibliographies." Other tentative identifications are listed in an ap- p e n d i x . — E . B . Walker, W a r r e n S., comp. Twentieth-Cen- tury Short Story Explication; Interpreta- tions, 1900-1960 Inclusive, of Short Fiction since 1800. Hamden, Conn., Shoe String Press, 1961. 369p. $6. A "bibliography of short story explication published from 1900 through 1960 in books, monographs, and periodicals" in English, except for important articles in a small num- ber of "readily available foreign-language journals" (Pref.). Only interpretive material is listed; studies of sources, biographical and background materials being excluded. Ar- rangement is alphabetical by author treated, then by story title and within this subdivi- 3 1 8 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S sion by author of the interpretation. Full bibliographical details are given in each en- try, widi journal titles abbreviated as in Wil- son indexes. T h e r e is an index of authors treated, made necessary by lack of running heads. Spot checking shows that this volume is somewhat more extensive in coverage dian Jarvis A. Thurston's similar Short Fiction Criticism . . . since 1925 (Denver, Swallow, 1960) which had a closing date of 1958 for stories treated, and confined itself to English- language entries. However, as both compilers have used the same standard sources, many author bibliographies are identical in the two works.—R.K. S P E E C H Mulgrave, Dorothy Irene [and others]. Bib- liography of Speech and Allied Areas, 1950- 1960. Philadelphia, Chilton, [1962]. 184p. $6.50. " T h i s selective bibliography contains a compilation of doctoral dissertations and books that relate to speech and allied areas completed during the years 1950 to 1960. By allied areas is meant fields of research in which the subject matter relates directly to the areas of speech and d r a m a " (Introd.). A subject arrangement similar to that used in the listings of doctoral dissertations in Speech Monographs, but with further subdivisions, is employed. Books and theses are separately grouped. In view of the obvious amount of work which went into this compilation, it is regrettable that either the coverage of disser- tations was not meant to be comprehensive, or that a definite statement regarding selec- tion criteria was not included. Equally re- grettable is the lack of an index.—E.S. B I O G R A P H Y Chambers's Biographical Dictionary, ed. by J . O. T h o r n e . New edition. New York, St Martin's Press, [1962]. 1432p. $15. Newly edited and greatly revised, the new Chambers's contains 15,000 entries of uni- versal coverage in contrast to the 11,000 en- tries of the previous edition. T h e deletion or abbreviation of outdated articles has cre- ated space for both contemporary and his- toric figures who have recently come into their own, while the addition of a cate- gorized subject index makes the dictionary a useful tool for linking the deed with the man. Bibliographical references are much more plentiful than in the old edition.—E.L. Delaney, J o h n J . and T o b i n , James Edward. Dictionary of Catholic Biography. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, [cl961]. 1245p. $18.50; $19.95 thumb-indexed. An alphabetical directory, designed for popular use, of almost fifteen thousand Cath- olics who have made "a significant contribu- tion to the Church" or " t o the many areas of human endeaver" (Foreword). Names are not limited by country or era, but living per- sons are excluded. Entries range in length from one-line identifications to a page. Only accounts of major figures carry bibliographies and these are often limited to a single vol- ume, usually a popular biography. Lists of saints as patrons, saints' symbols in art, and chronological lists of popes and world rulers are appended. T h e text is set in a two- column page of pleasing typeface.—R.K. Segal, Ronald. Political Africa; a Who's Who of Personalities and Parties. London, Stev- ens and Sons, 1961. 475p. 50s. Artique, Pierre. Qiii sont les leaders congo- lais? [Ed. 1961] Bruxelles, Editions Europe- Afrique (49-51 Ave. du Domain), 1961. 375p. (Collections Carrefours Africains, dir. par Jaques Marres). More than half of Political Africa consists of biographical sketches of several hundred persons prominent in African political life. T h e accounts are textual in form, varying in length from a brief paragraph to several pages. Emphasis is on public career and politi- cal activity, and the whole "is not . . . a dic- tionary of politics drained dry of all opin- i o n " (Pref.). In the second section, under country or other political unit, there are de- scriptive accounts of the organization and activities of the various political parties and movements in each. No sources or other bibli- ographical data are cited. T h e second edition (1st, 1960) of Qui sont les leaders congolaisf attempts to provide much the same kind of information for a smaller area. Coverage is much wider, in- cluding not only lesser political figures but many others in related activities. Information for each person is generally brief, with fre- quently only an identifying line or two. Ap- pended are a listing of political parties and J U L Y 1 9 6 2 3 1 9 other public associations, a chronology of Congolese events, and a list of abbreviations. — J . N . W . Who's Who in Soviet Social Sciences, Hu- manities, Art and Government, comp. by Ina Telberg. New York, Telberg Book Co., 1961. 147p. $9.80. Using the third edition of the Malaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia (Supplement 3D 14), the compiler has translated brief biographical data for approximately seven hundred living persons in the fields other than science. " I t is interesting that the professions most success- ful in achieving this distinction are writers, with government V.I.P.'s only slightly ahead of poets. With the exception of the academic groups the W h o ' s W h o includes a much larger number of women and non-Russians than the Who's W h o in Soviet Science and T e c h n o l o g y " (Introd.). An index by pro- fessions, a Russian name index and an index of pseudonyms add considerably to the use- fulness of this volume in comparison widi its companion volume for scientists, and the size of the mimeographed page has been re- duced to a more normal 81/2 X 11 inches. — E . B . G E O G R A P H Y British Association for the Advancement of Science. Research Committee. A Glossary of Geographical Terms. Ed. by L . Dudley Stamp. New York, Wiley, [1961]. 539p. $10. A pioneer effort in the field, this glossary covers physical, human, social, and economic geography. It excludes "ordinary dictionary words" and is "limited to terms used in cur- rent geographical literature written in Eng- lish. Foreign words are only included if diey are in use in their original form, untrans- lated, in works written in English" (Pref.). W h e n there is no doubt as to the meaning, the definition is quoted without comment from the O.E.D. or other standard source. In the case of variant or changed meanings, additional quotations are used, sometimes followed by a comment from a member of the editorial committee. Appendices include a list of commonly used Greek and Latin roots, and lists of foreign language terms absorbed into English geographical literature.—E.S. H I S T O R Y Crick, Bernard R., ed. A Guide to Manu- scripts Relating to America in Great Britain and Ireland. Ed. by B. R . Crick and Miriam Alman under the general su- pervision of H . L . Beales. [London], Pub- lished for the British Association for Amer- ican Studies by the Oxford University Press, 1961. 667p. $13.45. Within a geographical arrangement this guide provides location and brief descriptions for all manuscripts in some three hundred repositories (73 in L o n d o n alone) in Great Britain and Ireland relating to the history and literature, in the widest possible sense, of the American colonies and the United States. T h e volume complements and in general does not incorporate materials listed in the three pre-World W a r I Carnegie Institution volumes ( G u i d e V94); even so, Crick requires 54 pages to list added materials for the British Museum, 40 for the Public Record Office. A tremendous amount of material is noted, and a model introduction, index, valu- able headnotes to various sections, annota- tions, and hundreds of bibliographical foot- note references combine to make this a com- prehensive, scholarly handbook. T h e edi- tors note that occasional lists of addenda may be listed in the Bulletin of the British Asso- ciation for American Studies.—E.J.R. Dumond, Dwight Lowell. A Bibliography of Antislavery in America. Ann Arbor, Uni- versity of Michigan Press, [1961], 119p. $10. T h i s listing of "printed anti-slavery litera- ture written and circulated by diose active in the anti-slavery movement" ranges from the late eighteenth century to the 1860's, and in- cludes materials such as broadsides, serials, speeches, and sermons as well as pamphlets and books. British items widely circulated in the United States are also included. Arrange- ment is alphabetic, with complete imprint given. T h e author states, " I t is believed that no item of major importance has been over- l o o k e d . " — E . J . R . Hale, Richard W . , ed. Guide to Photocopied Historical Materials in the United States and Canada. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell Uni- versity Press for the American Historical Association, [cl961]. 241p. $5. This union list, prepared by the American 3 2 0 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S Historical Association's Committee on Docu- mentary Reproduction, is designed as an aid in locating primary source materials, and supplies "basic bibliographical information on the photocopied manuscripts of interest to historians, which are available in deposi- tories in the United States and C a n a d a " (Pref.). Entries include author or compiler; description; dates; amount and location of originals; type and location of photocopy; "generations" available and information as to whedier or not the photocopy has regen- erative qualities. Over-all arrangement is that of the Association's Guide to Historical Liter- ature, by geographic or political division. Within a subdivision, materials are grouped as government and church records, business and personal papers, and records of institu- tions. About three quarters of the eleven thousand entries are devoted to the United States. A bibliography of finding aids to photocopied materials, and an index are in- cluded.—R.K. Lehmann, R u t h Pauline. Nova Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica; A Bibliographical Guide to Anglo-Jewish History, 1937-1960. Lon- don, Jewish Historical Society of England, 1961. 232p. 30s. Prepared as a supplement to Cecil Roth's Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica (Guide K239), this volume extends the coverage from 1937 to 1960. However, the bibliography "is not intended to be exhaustive and no at- tempt is made to supplement Part II [con- sisting mainly of source material to 1837] of the Magna Bibliotheca, only those sections having a direct bearing on Anglo-Jewish his- tory being brought up to d a t e " (Introd.). Arrangement generally follows that of the earlier work, with the addition of some new subsections. Fully indexed.—E.S. New York. Public Library. Reference Dept. Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1961. 28v. $1,280. Yale University. Library. A Catalog of the Yale Collection of Western Americana. Boston, G. K. Hall, [1961]. 4v. $185. T w o additions to the publisher's list of photographic reproductions in book form of library catalogs, these sets evince the advan- tages and disadvantages more or less common to these publications: the advantage of mak- ing generally available the catalog of a dis- tinguished subject collection, and the dis- advantage of a thoroughly unattractive and sometimes all but unreadable page. T h e New York Public Library volumes con- tain nearly six hundred thousand author, subject, and other entries representing one of the world's best known collections in North and South American history and allied topics. In addition to the holdings of the library's American history division, there are cards for many relevant items from other parts of the library's collections, e.g., biog- raphy, government documents, social sci- ence, etc. Particularly useful are the numer- ous subject cards for periodical articles in- dexed by the library. T h e r e is no preface or other explanatory matter. Cut-off date is presumably 1960. In the Yale set, volumes 1-3 present the complete »uthor-subject catalog of their West- ern Americana Collection; volume 4 repro- duces the shelf-list cards, thereby providing a classed guide to the material. T h e Preface warns that, "although many common books are included, the Collection is primarily a rare-book rather than a complete working collection," and therefore does not pretend to include the vast bulk of Yale's holdings in the field.—E.S. Rosenthal, Eric. Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa. London, Frederick W a r n e and Co., 1961. 600p. 42s. As the "first" encyclopedia on southern Africa this one-volume work should be a welcome addition to materials on that area. It contains five thousand entries, some of which are signed, "ranging from History, Biography and Literature . . . to Geography, Geology, and Natural History" as well as many colloquialisms. Maps and illustrations enliven the format.—E.L. Santschy, Jean-Louis. Manuel analytique et critique de bibliographic generale de l'his- torie suisse. Berne, Herbert Lang, 1961. 250p. 28 Sw. fr. Not a bibliography of Swiss history as such, this work is rather a scholarly and detailed guide to sources and a bibliography of bibli- ographies for use of the specialist in the field. T h e chapter arrangement is intricate, with materials grouped according to form and date. Sources treated are general, ar- chival, periodical, and monographic, with full annotations and explanations of the J U L Y 1 9 6 2 321 nature and potential use of the items listed. Periodical articles and critical reviews are included, and for the more important mono- graphs tables of contents are often given. T h e r e are indexes of main entries and of subjects.—J.N.W. C L A S S I C A L A N T I Q U I T I E S Akademiia Nauk SSSR. Institut Istorii. Drev- niaia Gretsiia i drevnii Rim; bibliografi- cheskii ukazatel' izdanii vyshedshikh v SSSR 1895-1959. Sostavitel' A. I. Voron- kov. Moskva, 1961. 522p. 4 rubles, 38 kopeks. This is a classified bibliography of studies published in pre-Revolutionary Russia and in the Soviet Union between 1895 and 1959, in the Russian, Greek, or Latin languages. Some Byzantine and mediaeval materials are listed when they relate to authors of an- tiquity, transmitting texts. All phases of Greek and R o m a n culture are included, as well as the history of the teaching of classical subjects. T h e r e is an index for modern au- thors, translators, editors, and reviewers.— E . B . The New Century Classical Handbook, ed. by Catherine B. Avery. Editorial consul- tant, J o t h a m Johnson. New York, Apple- ton-Century-Crofts, 1962. 1162p. illus. $15. Designed for the general reader and the student, this work presents in one alphabet much clear and concise information on peo- ple (real and imaginary), gods, legends, places, literary titles, allusions, etc., connected with the classical world. ( T h e r e are very few articles under common nouns.) Sketches vary in length from a few lines to several pages, none signed; nor are there any bibliographies or cross references. Pronunciation is indi- cated. T h e r e are many handsome plates, well reproduced, but placed with no relation to the text and not i n d e x e d . — J . N . W . C l e r i c a l A p t i t u d e . . . (Continued from page 314) has scored high in the test he can be told that if he takes it slowly at first in order to learn the routine, speed will come naturally. If he has scored below average and is hired, he should be told honestly that he need to be careful in his work since he will be prone to error if he at- tempts to speed up beyond his ability. In summary, the measurement of the clerical aptitude of an applicant can enable an administrator to avoid the ex- pense, frustration, and loss of efficiency that will result from hiring unqualified personnel. Use of the Minnesota Clerical Test will provide such information as verbal and number aptitude and the relative speed and accuracy of an appli- cant in each area. T h e inexpensiveness, the simplicity of administration and scor- ing, and the numerous aids to interpre- tation make this test an excellent instru- ment for the detailed measurement of clerical aptitude. However, as is the case with most tests of this type, its usefulness depends ulti- mately on the experience and judgment of the person interpreting it. Only in the cases of very high and very low scores can an administrator give this test extra weight in his final decision. As one's experience in using the test grows, its usefulness will increase and refinements in usage will undoubtedly be discovered by the more imaginative. But even at the outset, the negative value of the test is high. Almost without fail, it will provide the information without which a hope- lessly clerically inept person might have been hired. 322 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S