College and Research Libraries Selected Reference Books of 1961-1962 INTRODUCTION THIS ARTICLE continues the semiannual se- riesl edited by Constance M. Winchell over the past several years. As is generally known, Miss Winchell has recently retired from her position as reference librarian at Columbia, and librarians will be pleased to learn that she is currently engaged in preparing an eighth edition of the Guide to Reference Books, tentatively scheduled for publication in 1965 (a fourth supplement to the seventh edition will appear early this year). Though it appears under my name, the list is actually a project of the reference de- partment of the Columbia University li- braries, and notes are signed with the initials of individual staff members.2 The purpose of the list remai~s the same: to present a selec- tion of recent scholarly and foreign works of interest to reference workers in university li- braries. It does not pretend to be either well- balanced or comprehensive. Code numbers (such as All , IA26, 2S22) have been used to refer to titles in the GuideS and its supple- ments. BIBLIOGRAPHY U.S. Joint Publications Research Service. ]PRS Catalog Cards in Book Form, July 1957-De- cember 1961. Annapolis, Research Microfilms, [1962]. 2v. $75. "The United States Joint Publications Re- search Service (JPRS) was established in 1957 to service the various units of the federal govern- ment with translations of unclassified foreign documents, scholarly works, research reports and other selected source materials ... . " (Introd.) A partial aid toward bibliographic control of this vast body of mimeographed materials is now available. The two volumes contain photo- reproductions of catalog cards (reduced to 1 Y2 x 2Y2 inches) for the translations, arranged in 1 CRL , January and July issues starting January 1952 . 2 Evelyn Allen, Eleanor Buist, Valerie Hallor, Rita Keckei ssen , Elizabeth J. Rumics, John Neal Waddell. 3 Constanc e M. Winchell, Guide to Reference Books (7th ed.; Chicago: ALA, 1951); Supplement (Chicago : ALA, 1954); Second Supplement (Chicago: ALA, 1956); Third Supplement (Chicago: ALA , 1960). JANUARY 1963 Bv EUGENE . P. SHEEHY Mr. Sheehy is a member of the reference staff of the Columbia University libraries. sequence by JPRS number. By normal library standards the amount of cataloging on each card is limited. For translations of single journal ar- ticles there is usually the abbreviated journal title, year and number (without pagination), but many cards contain only a brief descriptive title in English, such as "Selected Economic Translations on Eastern Europe" without any indication of date or source. Fifteen thousand eight hundred and one cards are reproduced. This compares with approximately ten thousand JPRS items entered in the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, according to the information in the introduction. There is no in- dex. Full size (3 x 5) cards may be purchased "for area files, subje,ct files and contract number files." Contract number .series provide a certain amount of subject control.-E.B. PERIODICAL INDEXES B ritish Humanities Index. v.l- . Jan.-Mar. 1962- . London, Library Association, 1962- . £10 4s per year (subscription to include three quarterly issues and one bound annual cumu- lation). With the 1961 annual volume, the Subject Index to Periodicals (Guide E75) ceases publica- tion and is superseded by separate indexes cov- ering particular subject fields: the British Edu- cation Index (with a retroactive volume for Aug. 1954 to Nov. 1958 published in 1961) 1 the British T echnology Index and the British Humanities Ind ex . The first quarterly issue of .the last- named publication, listing some two hundred and seventy-five journals, continues as a subject index carrying forward the indexing of perti- nent titles from the older series, together with many new titles. This first issue contains no in- troductory note, but it is assumed that the in- dexing of many of the magazines is highly se- lective.-E.S. Index to Selected Periodicals Received in the Hallie Q. Brown Library. Decennial Cumula- tion 1950-1959. Ed. by Charlotte W. Lytle. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1961. 50lp. $35; · This is a cumulated index of authors and sub- 31 jects in one alphabet covering quarterly issues of ten years. Citation is to periodical , with title abbreviated, and gives volume, date, and inclu- sive paging. Form headings group book reviews, poems, etc. Spot checking shows that more jour- nals are cited than those in the "List of Periodi- cals Indexed" and, while the Foreword points out that coverage of titles has necessarily changed during the ten-year span of the cumulation, there is no indication of which volumes and dates of a periodical have been indexed. The work is set in a double-column page , photo- offset from typed copy with type size consider- ably reduced.-R .K. Pan American Union. Columbus Memorial Li- brary. Index to Latin American P eriodical Literature, 1929-1960. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1962- . v.1- . $350 the set. Contents: v.l -4, A-Large, C. Employing the publisher's now familiar for - mat of photo-reproduction from catalog cards, this set (to be in eight volumes) is compiled from index cards prepared at the library of the Pan American Union and will include "approxi- mately 250,000 entries of authors, subjects and other secondary entries. Until 1951 ... only entries by subject were made, except for well- known authors and authors of articles having literary value." (Pre£.) Indexing was on a broad, selective basis from an estimated three thousand different periodical titles mainly of Latin Amer- ican origin. While subject coverage is wide, " ar- ticles in the economic, political, governmental, social and cultural fields have been given pref- erence," and in general are "related to a~pects and activities concerning Latin America and to contributions by Latin American authors." (Pre£.) -E.S. DISSE'R.TATIONS Dissertation Abstracts. Cumulated Subject and Author Indexes . to Vol. XXII, 1961-1962. Ann Arbor, University Microfilms, 1962. (Disserta- tion Abstracts, v.22, no.l2, pt.2, July 1962). Since July 1961 the monthly issues of Disserta- tion Abstracts have carried a subject index, list- ing each dissertation "under one or more sub- ject headings as assigned by the Library of Con- gress from an examination of the abstract." (Introd.) This issue represents a cumulation of the monthly author and subject indexes for volume 22. Much as one may admire the idea behind, and the execution of, the subject index, one can but lament its limitations: i.e., the fact that it is merely an index to Dissertation Abstracts, not a subject index to the annual list of American doctoral dissertations. Graduate students (the one group which can be expected to make most intensive----~se of the -index) must, therefore, be clearly warned that this does not provide a com- prehensive guide to completed doctoral research, and that the annual lists must still be scanned title-by -title for the dissertation output of sev- eral of our largest degree-granting institutions. -E.S. PHILOSOPHY Foulquie, Paul and Saint-Jean, Raymond. Dic- tionnaire de la langue philosophique. Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1962. 776p. 50 n.f. Arranged like a thesaurus, this dictionary lists words in groups under a main root-word head- ing with cross references to that heading from derivative forms. For example, when looking up "existensialisme" one finds "existence et der[iv- atifs:r-voir Etre III." Each entry contains the etymological origin of the word, definitions labeled according to the area of usage, and ap- propriate illustrative quotations from literature. The definitions seem clear and well constructed ; the dictionary should prove useful to both the layman and the scholar.-E.A. Martinez G6mez, Luis. Bibliografia filos6fica espanola e hispano-am ericana . (1940-1958). Barcelona, J. Flors, 1961. 500p. (Libros "Pen- samiento." Serie: Difusi6.n,- 1 ). Based larg~ly on the bibliographic listings in the periodical Pensamiento, this is a bibliogra- phy of writings on philosophy by Spanish and Spanish-American authors, and by others writ- ing on Spanish philosophical themes. It lists some ten thousand books, pamphlets and peri- odical articles (the list of abbreviations includes sixty-seven journal titles) for the period indi - cated. The work is in two sections: Parte His- t6rica and Parte Sistematica. The first is ar- ranged chronologically by historical period , with subdivisions for countries and for individual philosophers. The second part has separate sec- tions for logic, metaphysics, ethics, etc. There is an author index.-E.S. RELIGION The New Testament Octapla; Eight English Ver- sions of the New Testament in the Tyndale- King ]ames Tradition. Ed. by Luther A. Wei- gle. New York, T. Nelson, [1962]. 1489p. $20. Similar to The English Hexapla (Guide K63), but without the Greek text, the Octapla "con- tains on facing pages the full text of eight Eng- lish translations of the New Testament, from Tyndale to the Revised Standard Version. It is designed to exhibit the development of the Tyn- dale-King James tradition, both in the succes- sion of translations from 1525 to 1611 and in the revisions from 1870 to 1960." (Introd.) Versions represented are Tyndale's final revision pub- 32 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ' lished 1535; the 1540 edition of the Great Bible (Coverdale); the second edition, 1562, of the Geneva Bible; the 1572 revision of the Bishops' Bible, published 1602; the Rheims first edition, 1582; the critical edition of the King James ver- sion published 1873; the American Standard ver- sion of 1901; and the Revised Standard version as published in 1960.-E.S. Encyclopaedia of Buddhism. Ed. by G. P. Mala- lasekera. Colombo, Government Press, 1961- Fascicle 1- . (In progress). $3 per fasc. Contents: Fasc.l, A-Aca. Designed as a scholarly and definitive work and produced under the aegis of the govern- ment of Ceylon, "the Encyclopaedia aims at giv- ing a comprehensive account of the origins of this World-Religion and of the developments that have taken place during a period of more than 25 centuries." (Pre£.) It is expected that when complete, hopefully within ten years, the work will comprise some fifteen thousand pages. Arrangement is in dictionary form with arti- cles on all aspects of Buddhist thought, history, and civilization, including personal and place names, literary titles, and, especially, religious and moral concepts. Articles vary in length; many of the longer ones are signed in full, oth- ers with initials only. For some, bibliographies are appended, but in many others references are cited only within the text. Cross references are employed, especially to refer from a common English term to the more precise colloquial word.-J.N.W. The New Bible Dictionary. Organizing ed., J. D. Douglas; consulting eds., F. F. Bruce, R. V. G. Tasker, J. I. Packer, D. J. Wiseman. Grand Rapids, Mich., Wm. B. Eerdmans, [1962]. 1375p. $12.95. More scholarly than popular in tone, "this is not in any sense a revision of any older work. Each of its 2300 articles has been specifically written for this volume." (Pre£.) The range of articles (which vary from two lines in length to several pages) includes names mentioned in the Bible and topics relevant to Biblical study, e .g., archaeology, geography, chronology, phrases, objects, ideas. "No attempt has been made, how- ever, to impose a rigid uniformity ... or to exclude the occasional expression of different viewpoints." (Pre£.) Pronunciation is not given. Each article is initialed; a bibliography follows the longer articles. There is a list of contribu - tors, many illustrations, tables, indexes, and maps. Similar in approach and arrangement to Allmen's Companion to the Bible (Supplement 3K29) and Harper's Bible Dictionary (Supple- ment 1K15), its more extensive coverage resem- JANUARY 1963 bles the Catholic Biblical Encyclopedia (Supple- ment 3K33).-E.J.R. FOLKLORE Akademiia nauk SSSR. Institut russkoi literatury. Russkii fol' klor; bibliograficheskii ukazatel', 1945-1959. Sostavila M. lA. Mel'tz. Leningrad, 1961. 40lp. Texts and research in the field of Russian folklore published in the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1959 are arranged in a classified bibli- ography, with references to reviews. :There are indexes of personal names, geographical names, and periodical sources.-E.B. SociAL SciENCES Osterroth, Franz. Biographisches Lexikon des Sozialismus . Band 1: Verstorbene Personlich- keiten. Hannover, Dietz, [cl960]. 368p. DM. 29,80. Briefly sketched herein are the lives of some four hundred nineteenth and twentieth century German politicians, poets, editors, workers, in- tellectuals, etc., associated with socialistic move - ments in Germany. Most entries are brief (one- half to one column), with somewhat longer en- tries for such personages as Luxemburg, Kaut- sky, Marx. Information given includes dates, chief political affiliation, and relative impor- tance in social movements. Few bibliographic references are given. A section of about one hundred and twenty-five portraits at the end of the volume helps to show what manner of men -and women-these were. The volume will, of course, be of greatest use in identifying the more obscure names. No information is given as to contents of the proposed second volume.-E.J .R. STATISTICS Kendall, Maurice G. and Doig, Alison G. Bibli- ography of Statistical Literature, 1950-1958. New York, Hafner, 1962. 297p. $10. This is the first of a series of projected vol- umes to include "papers (mostly in Western languages) on statistical method, statistical the- ory and probability from the sixteenth century up to the end of 1958." (Pre£.) The next sched- uled volume is to cover the years 194Q-49. The work is international in scope, but no books are included, only articles. Titles of articles in non- Roman alphabets (and sometimes those in lan- guages other than French or German) are given only in translation, with indication of the origi- nal language. Arrangement is by author only, with no classification and no subject index.- J .N.W. 33 DICTIONARIES Muret, Eduard. Der neue Muret-Sanders Lan- genscheidts enzyklopiidisches Worterbuch der englischen und deutschen Sprache. Vollige Neuarbeitung 1962. Herausgegeben von Otto Springer. v.l- . New York, Barnes and Noble, [1962- 1• $17.50 per volume. Contents: Vol. I, pt.l · (A-M), English-German. Long considered one of the best bilingual dic- tionaries available, Muret-Sanders has its repu- tation enhanced by this latest edition. It is an entirely new dictionary both in format and con- tent, having abandoned the Gothic type faces of the former edition for legible, modern print, and having provided new definitions for all 180,000 entries. The editors pride themselves on their com- pilation of an "encyclopedic dictionary" of Brit- ish and American English usage, presenting the grammatical context, levels of usage, and the colloquial idioms related to each word. The vocabulary, which includes many recently-coined terms, has been selected from all aspects of practical life and all branch«;!s of science. In ad- dition, Volume II is to contain a list of com- monly-used British and American abbreviations, as well as English proper names and their pro- nunciations. Despite an unfortunate revision which has removed the conjugation and irregular verb charts that are so valuable to the student, and has placed verbal peculiarities with the defini- tion, Muret-Sanders is still an extremely useful aid for any combined study of English and Ger- man.-E.A. Reynolds, Barbara. The Cambridge Italian Dic- tionary. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1962- . v.l- . $25 per volume. Contents: v.l, Italian-English. 899p. Long awaited, this dictionary is a major con- tribution to Italian studies. Its primary aim is "inclusiveness and elucidation" of vocabulary both for the literary scholar and the student of the spoken language. Obsolete and rarely used words (which are marked as such) are present in abundance, as well as many terms from spe- cialized vocabularies. In the interest of offering the most current and correct translations, the editors have relied heavily on the advice and assistance of subject specialists in the construc- tion of definitions and in the selection of Eng- lish equivalents. Since stress is on usage, many definitions include illustrative phrases where simple word-for-word translation would be am- biguous . In addition, explanations for cultural concepts peculiar . to Italy are frequently in- cluded. Although etymology is not usually given, etymologically-related words are often arranged I in groups with cross references from the regular alphabetical listings. There may be some objec- tion to this grouped arrangement which requires somewhat more time of the reader in his search for definitions. The dictionary is, however, an excellent linguistic achievement and we look forward to the publication of the companion volume .-E.A. Roget's International Thesaurus. 3d ed. New York, Crowell, [cl9621. 1258p. $5.95. "A complete revision and resetting of the New Edition o£ 1946" (Pref.) which, while following the traditional Roget arrangement of grouping words according to ideas, has expanded the orig- inal thousand categories by forty, introduced modern scientific and technical terminology, dropped outmoded words, omitted the quotation section, and enlarged the index to include many more words and phrases. In all, "this edition contains about 30 per cent new material." (Pre£.) New features include designation of parts of speech in both index and text, and lists of spe- cific objects within a general category, e.g., names of trees, languages, etc . Boldface type in- dicates throughout the text the most commonly needed words. A variety of type marks divisions and subdivisions on a well printed, double- column page.-R.K. LITERATURE Boisdeffre, Pierre de, ed. Dictionnaire de littera- ture contemporaine, 1900-1962. Paris, Editions universitaires, 1962. 679p. 30 n.f. A collective effort of ten notable French liter- ary critics, this selective dictionary of the con- temporary intellectual scene is divided into two parts. The first part comprises nine critical eval- uations of twentieth century trends in French literature; the second constitutes a biographical dictionary of 130 French writers. Ranging in length from ten lines to ten pages, these ana- lytical studies include bio-bibliographical infor- mation as well as succinct observations on the writer's style and influence in the over-all pic- ture of contemporary literature. Articles are signed, portraits are included, and the general index lists all literary figures mentioned in the first, historical, part as well as those writers given attention in depth in the second. Unfor- tunately, the work appears to be useful prima- rily as a ready reference tool since the collabora- tors have limited themselves to writers already figuring prominently in other reference works for this field.-V.H. Clarke, Ignatius Frederick. The Tale of the Fu- ture from the Beginning to the Present Day. London, The Library Association, 1961. 165p. 34 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES • il. (Library Association Bibliographies, no. 2) 20s. About a thousand prose fiction works set in an imaginary future period and published in the United Kingdom from 1644 to 1960 are included in this chronological checklist. Each entry gives year of publication, author's last name and ini- tial, title, publisher and paging. A short de- scriptive annotation follows. English transla- tions of foreign books are included, with trans- later indicated when known. Author and title indexes, a short bibliography of sources and an addenda list (of titles for which information was received while the book was in press) complete the volume.-R.K. Dictionnaire universe[ des lettres, publie sous la direction de Pierre Clarac. Paris, S.E.D.K, [1961 1. 952p. 68 n.f. At head of title: Laffont- Bompiani. In some respects this is a kind of epitome of the publisher's Dictionnaire des oeuvres ... , Dictionnaire biographique des auteurs ... , and Dictionnaire des personnages, since a high per- centage of the articles represents condensation or reworking of 'entries in those volumes. It is also a companion to them, including as it does articles on literary terms, etc., not treated in the other volumes, and sometimes adding up-to-date information. Selectivity has been exercised to allow fuller treatment rather than more entries with mere identifications. Many articles (chiefly biographical sketches) carry brief bibliographies. Articles on foreign works are entered under the French form without cross reference from the original title except as it appears in the author article. Plates are placed, not in relation to the text, but more or less chronologically according to the period or literary movement illustrated, and the "Index des illustrations" is simply a list of the contents of the plates, not a true index. -E.S. The Harvard Classics. The Idexicon; a Guide to the Great I de as of the Eastern and Western Worlds. New York, Crowell-Collier, [cl961 1• 470p. $20. This is an alphabetical index listing ideas, au- thors, titles, events, persons, fictional characters, places, and things examined or mentioned in The Harvard Classics. Citation is to volume, page and, where applicable, numbered para- graph. A "Poetry Guide," giving first lines of poems, songs, etc., and lists of selections in the compilation which are suitable reading for chil- dren of various grade levels are also included. The book's subtitle is misleading, for the Idexicon is virtually useless outside its applica- tion to The Harvard Classics . ....:...R.K. JANUARY 1963 BIOGRAPHY American Architects Directory. Published under the sponsorship of American Institute of Ar- chitects. New York, Bowker, 1962. 919p. $25. As in the 1955 edition (Supplement 2Q28) cor- porate members of the American Institute of Architects are listed, together with nonmembers of established reputation, biographical sketches being included for a high percentage of the list- ings. This edition "represents an increase of about forty per cent in listings and over fifty per cent in biographical sketches." (Pref.) Some changes in format have been made in the inter- ests of more convenient use, and a necrology of A.I.A. member biographees from the first edi- tion is appended. There is again a geographical index.-E.S. Contemporary Authors; the International Bio - bibliographical Guide to Current Authors and Their Works. Ed. by James M. Ethridge. v.l~ . Detroit, Gale Research Co ., 1962- Quarterly. $25 per year. The first issue of this new service includes ap- proximately nine hundred biographical accounts of current authors, and although some well known persons are included, the emphasis is on "information about new and relatively unknown authorS-the first time novelist, the provocative essayist, or the academician-who may be just coming into prominence." (Pre£.) Most of the persons included are Americans, representing a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction writers. Authors of scientific, medical, and technical works (except popular accounts) are, however, excluded. I11formation is in summary form, grouped urtder several headings: "Personal," "Career," "Writings," and "Sidelights." Each issue is to include new names only, with indexes cumulat- ing quarterly and annually. As coverage expands with successive issues, this should become an in- creasingly useful tool, especially to reference li- brarians and catalogers .-J.N.W. The Dictionary of National Biography. The Concise Dictionary, Part II, 1901-1950, Being an Epitome of the Twentieth Century D.N.B. down to the End of 1950. London, Oxford University Press, 1961. 528p. 42s. The original edition of the Concise D.N.B. (Guide SI23), prepared as an abridgment of the basic set to 1900, has well served two particular groups: libraries possessing the complete set, for whom the Concise D.N .B. has been a quick referenc·e · source, and those small libraries and many individuals whose budgets have not justi- fied expenditure for the full set. The present volume will be potentially even more useful, as it will serve as an index to the entries in the 35 five decennial volumes published since 1900, as well as an abridgment of their contents. In plan and arrangement the new work is similar to its predecessor, with articles arbitrar- ily reduced to approximately one-twelfth of their original length. Information is summary in form, largely factual and limited to signifi- cant events in careers and achievements. Names of parents and spouses are often omitted, as are exact dates of birth and death. There are no bibliographic references. A "select subject in- dex" is appended, an alphabetical listing of sev- eral hundred topics and events with reference to the appropriate biography in which they are treated.-J.N .W. Ewen, David, ed. Popular American Composers, from Revolutionary Times to the Present; a Biographical and Critical Guide. With an in- dex of songs and other compositions. New York, H. W. Wilson, 1962. 217p. il. $7. Similar to the author's earlier volumes on musical figures (Guide Q251, Q252, Supplement 2Q54), this new biographical dictionary includes sketches of "130 of the foremost American popu- lar composers of the past and present. ... Ap- proximately two thirds of the composers repre- sented ... belong to the past; only one third are still alive .. " (Introd.) Much of the information for the living composers was obtained from or verified by the biographees. A portrait accom- panies a high percentage of the sketches, and references to books and periodical articles about the composer are often appended. This should prove a useful volume, and the index of songs offers a further aspect of reference utility.-E.S. Institute for the Study of the USSR Research Section. Key Officials of the Government of the USSR and Union Republics. Munich, 1962. lllp. (mimeographed) (Series II, No. 81) $1. This is a directory of Soviet officials in office as of February 1962. An historical feature, how- ever, is contained in the section on the USSR where a chart starting with 1917 gives names of officials holding principal posts. Beginning with 1941, exact dates are given for appointment and termination of office. There is a name in- dex.-E.B. Kuhn, Heinrich. Biographisches Handbuch der Tschechoslowakei bearbeitet von Heinrich Kuhn und Otto Boss. Mtinchen, R. Lerche, 1961. 640p. (Veroffentlichungen des Collegium Carolinum [14?]). DM 45,-. This is a German-language "who's who" for Czechoslovakia, published under the auspices of the Collegium Carolinum in Munich, and com- piled on the basis of information gathered from periodicals and other publications of Czecho- slovakia. A 120-page directory precedes the main biographical section, listing personnel in party, government, scientific, and cultural or- ganizations. A second edition is planned.-E.B. Liudi russkoi nauki; ocherki. o vydaiuschikhsia deiateliakh estestvoznaniia i tekhniki. Mate- matika, mekhanika, astronomiia, fizika, khi- miia. Pod. red. I. V. Kuznetsova. Moskva, Gos. izd-vo fiziko-matematicheskoi lit-ry, 1961. 599p. 2 rubles. The first of a series, planned as four "inde- pendent" volumes or parts, which will comprise a biographical dictionary of major Russian sci- entists. The volume for the fields of mathe- matics, mechanics, astronomy, physics, and chem- istry contains articles on fifty-six scientists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. No living persons are included. Articles are signed and include bibliographies of principal works and additional biographical and scientific references. Planned volumes are: second, geology and geography; third, biology, medicine, and agri- cultural sciences; fourth, technology and archi- tecture.-E.B. Who's Who in the USSR. 1961/62- . Montreal, Intercontinental Book and Pub. Co., 1962- $21. Compiled by the Institute for the Study of the USSR, Munich. Ed. by Heinrich E. Schulz and Stephen S. Taylor. With this volume the continental "who's who" series includes the Soviet Union for the first time. It contains "about 4000 biographies of prominent personalities in the Soviet Union" (Title Page). This compares with two thousand in the Biographical Directory of the USSR (Sup- plement 3S37) prepared by the same institute. Some names in the earlier publication do not appear in the new work. There is an appendix in the form of a directory, entitled "Key Per- sonnel of Major Party, Government, Military, Scientific and other Organizations."-E.B. HISTORY Balys, Jonas. Lithuania and Lithuanians; a Se- lected Bibliography. New York, Published for the Lithuanian Research Institute by F. A. Praeger, · rl961 1• 190p. (Studia Lithuanica. 2) $5. Slowly the problems presented to librarians who suddenly must deal with areas and lan- guages outside the familiar borders are being lessened by guides such as this one. Within twelve categories, e.g., general reference aids (in- cluding a list of general periodicals), education, history, religion, arts, language and literature, are cited 1,182 Western European and Lithuan- ian books and articles, many with brief but valu- 36 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES able annotations. An author and title index fol- lows. Of considerable value, in addition to the convenience of this selection of titles, is the in- clusion of a library location (usually Library of Congress) for almost every item. By way of com- parison, the new American Historical Associa- tion Guide to Historical Literature has about a dozen items relating specifically to Lithuania. Three of these do not appear in this bibliog- raphy which, however, offers over two hundred others.-E.J .R. Carman, Harry J. and Thompson, Arthur W. A Guide to the Principal Sources for American Civilization, 1800-1900, in the City of New York: Printed Materials. New York, Columbia University Press, 1962. 630p. $15. A companion volume to the same authors' guide to manuscript materials for American studies for the same period, the present work follows, in general, the alphabetical, topical ar- rangement employed in the earlier volume. Thus, after a substantial chapter on general and political materials, there are sections on archi- tecture, boundary controversies, cookery, de- scription and travel, etc., through the alphabet to vital statistics. Two especially useful sections not appearing in the previous volume are "Printed Guides to Manuscripts" and "Public Records." Each section is logically subdivided, when appropriate, by form, subject, and geo- graphical region. It is important that the li- brarian and the student realize the scope of the work., i.e., that it is a locating guide for sources, not a bibliography of the significant studies in the field, so that its emphasis is on bibliogra- phies, collected works, documents, correspond- ence, personal accounts and narratives, corporate records and similar materials. Individual items are not annotated and bibliographic information is generally brief. There is a lengthy index of personal names.-J .N .W. London. University. Warburg Institute. Library Catalog. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1961. 2v. $280. "The Warburg Institute promotes research on the survival and revival of classical antiquity in European civilization." (Introd.) Accordingly, its library of some one hundred thousand volumes is broad in scope, including pertinent materials in the humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. The catalog here reproduced (from a typed copy done for Michigan State University in 1952), including many analytics and periodical articles as well as monographs, could be ex- pected to constitute a strong subject bibliogra- phy, or a series of such bibliographies. Unfor- tunately its use appears to be severely limited, because of its intricate, classed arrangement and little or no editing for publication. There is no approach to the materials cataloged except two JANUARY 1963 tables of contents, one skeletal and without page references, the other non-alphabetical. There are no running heads, and as yet no author in- dex, and although three volumes were originally announced by the publisher, no mention has been made of an index.-J.N.W. Maxwell, Robert, ed. Information U.S.S.R.; an Authoritative Encyclopedia about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. New York, Perga- mon Press, 1962. 982p. il., ports., maps. (Coun- tries of the world. Information series, v. 1) $30. "It will be a principle of this series that the articles in each volume will be written by ex- perts who are nationals of and resident in the relevant country." This statement and others in the Editor's Preface are important for an under- standing of the scope and intent of the series. The first volume contains a 763-page translation of volume fifty of the Bol'shaia sovetskaia ent- siklopediia, 2d ed. (Supplement 3Dl2), originally issued in 1957. Brief comparisons indicate some revision of figures in the text, and changes in bibliographies. Front pages contain a notice that the Pergamon Institute offers to provide transla- tions of any articles referred to bibliographically. Of the five appendixes, the first is a translation of a popularly-oriented statistical annual, SSSR v tsifrakh v 1960 godu, which includes compara- tive data from 1913. Appendix II provides "Ad- dresses of Universities and Establishments for Higher Education ... " with some indication of their major departments not given in the com- parable section of the World of Learning. Ap- pendixes prepared by the editor include "Trad- ing with the Soviet Union: Information for the Guidance of Firms ... "; a resume of the "Com- munist Party Programme" adopted at the twen- ty-second Party Congress of 1961; and a selected bibliography of books in English. There is a name index with birth and death dates, and a subject index. The work is authoritative in the sense that it is clearly identified source material with useful reference features. The high price is compensated to some extent by good quality paper and strong binding.-E.B. Meyers Handbuch ilber Afrika. Mannheim, Bib- liographisches Institut, rl9621• 779p. $5.15. Unfortunately, the sharp rise of interest in Africa was not immediately accompanied by adequate, up-to-date reference materials. That situation is being rapidly remedied by the pub- lication of such excellent guides as Meyers Handbuch, a one-volume work providing con- cise information on the whole African continent through a combination of text, maps, and pho- tographs. The handbook is in two parts, the first dealing with Africa as a unit and describ- ing its geographical characteristics, its peoples, 37 history, economics, art, and languages, and in- cluding a section on European and Asian mi- norities in Africa. Part II consists of two alpha- betical listings: one of individual nations, giving brief statistical and historical information; the other listing living African leaders, and accom- panied by photographs. A bibliography and in- dex enhance the reference value of the book.- E.A. U.S. Dept. of the Army. Communist China; Ruthless Enemy or Paper Tiger. A Biblio- graphic Survey. Washington, 1962. 137p. Maps. (DA pamphlet 20-61). This classified list of several hundred books and articles has been "prepared to fill the in- creasing need for information about Communist China." (Foreword) Political, military, economic, and social affairs are covered, with items for both specialist and layman. Most titles are in English and are generally well annotated, and a number of them represent a viewpoint not un- friendly to the present regime . There are sev- New Depository Library Law eral appendixes, including a bibliography on the Korean war, charts of Chinese government or- ganization, and a number of maps .-J.N.W. Wales. University. Board of Celtic Studies. His- tory and Law Committee. A Bibliography of the History of Wales. 2d ed. Cardiff, Univer- sity of Wales Press, 1962. 330p. $5. First issued in 1931 (Guide V322) with about sixteen hundred items, this bibliography soon became a standard and valued guide to the vari- ous aspects of Welsh history-political, eco- nomic, social, literary, and religious. The chro- nological-topical arrangement and the well an- notated entries indicating source as well as sec- ondary materials made for ease of use. These qualities have been retained, while the quantity has been more than doubled, 3574 book and serial references now being listed. Some rearrange- ment has been made, and the period covered pushed beyond the end of the nineteenth cen- tury to 1914, making this a welcome revision.- E.J.R. •• IN AuGUST the President signed into law H.R. 8141, the Depository Library Act of 1962 (Public Law 87-579), culminating several years of effort by libraries and sympathetic Congressmen. In 1956 the. House Special Subcommittee to Study Federal Printing and Paperwork began a cooperative study with the Public Documents Committee of ALA, and held extensive hearings that demonstrated the imidequacies of the depository system. Bills were introduced in the Eighty- fifth and Eighty-sixth Congresses, but failed to pass both houses. The Act as now passed increases the authorized number of depositories, and provides that Senators and Representatives may each designate an additional one. This will enable a deserving institution to achieve depository status even though a docu- ments collection already exists in the district. Also, regional depositories within each state may be designated to receive and keep all government publications and to provide service to libraries throughout the region; a substantial savings can result now that libraries are no longer liable for postage on depository shipments; and all government publications, whether or not produced at the Government Printing Office, are available for selection by depositories unless they are for official use only, or classified for rea·soris of national security. This entitles depositories to draw on the vast output of .departmental and field print- ing plants. Under the new arrangement, the Superintendent of Documents is to issue a classified and annotated list of publications for selection by depositories . •• 38 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES