College and Research Libraries


EUGENE P. SHEEHY 

Selected Reference Books of 1964-1965 

THIS ARTICLE continues the semi-annual 
series1 originally edited by Constance M. 
Winchell. Though it appears under a by-
line the list is actually a project of the 
reference department of the Columbia 
University libraries, and notes are signed 
with the initials f the individual staff 
members. 2 

Since the purpose of the list is to pre-
sent a selection of recent scholarly and 
foreign works of interest to reference 
workers in university libraries it does not 
pretend to be either well balanced or 
comprehensive. Code numbers (such as 
All, 1A26, 2S22) have been used to refer 
to titles in the GuideS and its supple-
ments. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books. 
General Catalogue of Printed Books: Ad-
ditions, 1963- . London: Trustees of the 
British Museum, 1964- . ( 1963 in 5v.) 
84s a yr. 

In this first of the annual supplements 
which will list "entries added each year to 
the General Catalogue of Printed Books in 
the British Museum" (Pre£.) most of the 
entries are of recent date, but there are, of 
course, many older imprints. No annuals 
for tpe years 1956-1962 (the gap now ex-
isting between the photolithographic edition 
of the Catalogue and the present publica-
tion) are planned, but a decennial cumula-
tion of additions for 1956-1965 will even-
tually be issued so that the record will be 
complete. Style and format are those of the 
photolithographic edition.-R.K. 

1 CRL, January and July issues starting January 
1952. 

2 Carol Anne Bondhus, Marilyn Goldstein, Rita 
Keckeissen, Evelyn Lauer, Carol Learmont, Sarah 
Ropes, Charlotte Smith. 

8 Coruhance M . Winchell, Guide to Reference Books 
(7th ed. ; Chicago: ALA, 1951) ; Supplement ( Chica-
go: ALA, 1954); S econd Supplement (Chicago: ALA, 
1956) ; Third Supplement (Chicago: ALA, 1960) ; 
Fourth Supplement (Chicago: ALA, 1963). 

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Musiker, Reuben. Guide to South African 
Reference Books. 4th rev. ed. Cape Town 
and Amsterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1965. 
110p. 

Previously a mimeographed publication, 
the Guide in this fourth edition appears as 
a compact, well printed volume. Purpose 
and scope remain the same: to list the im-
portant reference works on South African 
topics, the selection being limited largely 
to books published in the Republic of South 
Africa. Arrangement of the work has been 
revised and improved, and most of the an-
notations have been rewritten or expanded. 
-E.S. 

Musso Ambrosi, Luis Alberto. Bibliografia 
de bibliografias uruguayas. Montevideo: 
1964. 102p. $3. 

This is ·a welcome addition to the rel-
atively small group of well executed South 
American bibliographies. Compiled under 
the guidance of the director of the National 
Library, the work is a comprehensive over-
view of bibliographies published in or about 
Uruguay, from all periods of that country's 
history. Uruguayan government-published 
bibliographies are also included. Citations 
are arranged by subject field, and there is 
an author index. The editor hopes to con-
tinue the work through supplements.-
C.A.B. 

Nachdruckverzeichnis von Einzelwerken, 
Serien und Zeitschriften aus allen Wis-
sensgebieten (Reprints). Renate Ostwald, 
ed. Bd.1- . Wiesbaden: Nobis, 1965-
$25. 

Here is a kind of "books in print" for the 
burgeoning reprint trade. Reprint editions 
of books, journals, and other serial pub-
lications, regardless of method of reproduc-
tion, are included, and more than a hun-
dred European and American publishers 
are represented. Arrangement is by author 
or other main entry, with cross references 
from editors, variant titles of journals, etc. 



Selected Reference Books of 1964-1965 I 45 

Information includes original publication 
date when known, plus place, publisher, and 
(usually) date of the reprint. Series notes 
are given when applicable, and there is an 
appendix providing references from reprint 
series to the main entry. Although the editor 
felt obliged to omit prices, the work should 
be a great timesaver in both acquisitions 
and reference work. One hopes that it will 
appear on a regular basis.-E.S. 

National Union Catalog: Register of Ad-
ditional Locations. Washington, D.C.: 
Library of Congress, June 1965- . In-
cluded in NUC subscription. 

To be published in a cumulative pattern, 
this new monthly supplement notes ad-
ditionallocations of titles included in earlier 
issues of the National Union Catalog re-
ported after publication of annual or quin-
quennial cumulations. The first issue sup-
plements the 1958/62 list and notes prin-
cipally books represented by Library of 
Congress cards printed from 1956 through 
1959. The Register contains two lists, the 
first (and considerably longer) by Library 
of Congress card number, the second by 
main entry. The latter represents titles sub-
mitted to National Union Catalog by other 
libraries. Coverage will increase with suc-
cessive issues, and by 1968 is expected to 
be on a current basis. Together with Na-
tional Union Catalog 1952-1955 Imprints 
(Suppl. 4A12), this new publication greatly 
increases the scope of the National Union 
Catalog.-R.K. 

BooK REVIEws 

Book Review Index. Detroit: Gale Research, 
1965- . v.1- . Monthly, cumulating 
quarterly. $24. 

Now that the Index to Book Reviews in 
the Humanities has been reduced to an an-
nual, this new publication fills a gap, listing 
book reviews appearing in a wide range of 
current periodicals. More than two hun-
dred English-language (mostly United 
States) periodicals of general circulation 
and specialized periodicals which have 
"substantial circulation among libraries, 
scholars, and others having a great interest 
in books" are indexed. Specialized scientific 
and technical periodicals are excluded. Ar-
rangement is alphabetical by author of the 

book reviewed; citations include names of 
reviewers when known. The first cumulation 
listed thirteen thousand five hundred cita-
tions of nine thousand five hundred books; 
periodicals added since the first issue have 
been indexed retroactively through January. 
The great number of periodicals indexed, 
the short time lag involved, and the inclu-
sion of books reviewed only once make this 
a practical, useful tool.-C.L. 

PuBLISHING 

Publishers' World. Sally Wecksler, ed. New 
York: Bowker, 1965- . Annual. $15. 

Intended to provide a place for the ex-
change of information and ideas in inter-
national bookselling and publishing, this 
new yearbook contains much information 
valuable to librarians. Short articles in Eng-
lish or in French with English summaries 
are arranged under general headings, 
"About Best Sellers" being of special in-
terest to librarians. Following these are sec-
tions containing facts and statistics, some of 
the more useful being: UNESCO standards 
for publishing statistics, international lists 
of libraries and the size of their holdings, 
international literary prizes, holidays in all 
countries, and an index to advertisers classi-
fied by country and subject. There is no 
general index, but the Contents are full and 
annotated. This is a handy yearbook, al-
though somewhat expensive for its size 
( 335p. in the 1965. volume) .-S.R. 

DIRECTORY 

Unesco Handbook of International Ex-
changes. v.1- . Paris: UNESCO, 1965- . 
861p. $12. 
Title and introductory matter also in 
French, Spanish and Russian. 

Intended to provide "information on the 
aims, programmes and activities of national 
and international organizations, and on 
agreements concluded between States, con-
cerning international relations and ex-
changes in the fields of education, science, 
culture and mass communication" (In trod.), 
this volume supersedes UNESCO's Directory 
of Cultural Relations Services ( 1959; Suppl. 
4C5) and its Index of Cultural Agree-
ments ( 1962). It includes information on 
272 international organizations and about 
five thousand governmental and nongovern-



46 I College & Research Libraries • January, 1966 

mental agencies and institutions. Some in-
formation previously appearing in Study 
Abroad and Travel Abroad has been trans-
ferred to this new publication. The work is 
in three main parts: I, Introductory articles; 
II, International organizations: aims and 
activities; III, National organizations and 
activities. The latter section is arranged by 
country, with organizations grouped there-
under by field of interest. There is a country 
and organizational index.-E.S. 

PERIODICALS AND NEWSPAPERS 

Catalogue collectif belge et luxembourgeois 
des periodiques etrangers en cours de 
publication, redige sous la direction de 
A. Cockx. . . . Brussels: Culture et Civi-
lisation, 1965. 2v. 2.400 FB. 
Title and introductory matte:t: in French 
and Flemish. 

Although it will have limited use (chiefly 
as a verification tool) even in very large 
American libraries, this first Belgian union 
list of serials in thirty years merits attention. 
It provides a finding list in libraries of Bel-
gium and Luxemburg of periodicals cur-
rently published outside those areas. (Bel-
gian publications are listed in Julien van 
Hove's Repertoire des periodiques parais-
sant en Belgique and its three supplements, 
Suppl. 1E6.) Scope and arrangement are 
carefully detailed in the introduction; Amer-
ican librarians will need to keep in mind 
that annual reports, bulletins, etc., are en-
tered by title rather than under issuing 
body. Some four hundred libraries reported 
holdings, and the list of these forms a use-
ful directory indicating accessibility, hours, 
and special services.-E.S. 

U ,S. Library of Congress. Slavic and Cen-
tral European Division. Newspapers of 
East Central and Southeastern Europe in 
the Library of Congress. Robert G. Carl-
ton, ed. Washington: 1965. 204p. $1. 

This guide to the Library of Congress 
collection of east central and southeast Eu-
ropean newspapers published from 1918 to 
date is especially useful because of the very 
complete data on specific holdings. Both 
bound volumes and microfilm are included 
in an alphabetical arrangement by c0untry, 
then by city of publication. Most entries 
also include information on frequency, date 

of establishment and the issuing body, pub-
lisher, or editor. Separate indexes for place 
of publication, language, and title make all 
the information readily available.-S.R. 

Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory; 
a Classified Guide to a Selected List of 
Current Periodicals, Foreign and Domes-
tic. 11th ed., ed. by Eileen C. Graves. 
New York: Bowker, 1965- . v.l- . $15 
per v. 
Contents: v.l, Scientific, technical and 
medical. 484p. 

Publication of a new Ulrich's is always 
something of an event, and certain features 
of this new edition invite notice here. "In-
ternational" has been added in the title to 
emphasize the broader scope of coverage: 
though limited to titles in Roman alphabet 
or with subtitles and abstracts in English, 
there is a greater inclusion of foreign titles 
than formerly. Some twelve thousand titles 
of scientific, technical, and medical period-
icals are included in volume 1. (The sec-
ond volume, covering the arts, humanities, 
business and social sciences, is promised 
for publication in early 1966.) Arrangement 
follows that of the previous edition, with 
eight new subiect classifications added. New 
appendixes offer a reprint of the "American 
Standard for Periodical Abbreviations" and 
a "Subject Guide to Abstracting and Index-
ing Services." There is also a list of period-
icals which appeared in the tenth edition, 
but which are known to have ceased pub· 
lication.-E.S. 

RELIGION 

M¢ller-Christensen, Vilhelm and J¢rgensen, 
K. E. J ordt. Encyclopedia of Bible Crea-
tures. Trans. by Arne Unhjem. Philadel-
phia: Fortress Pr. , 1965. 302p. $6.75. 

Originally published in Danish (Copen-
hagen, 1952), this work now appears in 
English translation with certain additions, 
and with most Bible quotations taken from 
the Revised Standard Version. Instead of 
a straight dictionary arrangement, the book 
is divided into sections on mammals, birds, 
insects, and fish, etc., with entries for in-
dividual species arranged alphabetically 
within sections. This arrangement, as well 
as the tone of the text itself, are conducive 
to casual reading, but the index with its 



Selected Reference Books of 1964-1965 I 47 

entries for both popular and zoological 
names makes for easy reference use. In ad-
dition to general information on the in-
dividual species and ancient customs relat-
ing to them, attention is drawn to special 
characteristics which make the scriptural 
references particularly apt. Where called 
for, account is taken of disagreement among 
Biblical scholars regarding identification of 
the animal named.-E.S. 

HYMNOLOGY 

McDormand, Thomas Bruce and Crossman, 
Frederic S. Judson Concordance to 
Hymns. Valley Forge, Pa.: Judson Pr., 

0 1965. 375p. $7.50. 

Almost two thousand four hundred hymns 
are indexed in this simply arranged con-
cordance. The keyword of any line in a 
hymn can be looked up in the «Line In-
dex" where a reference number guides the 
user to the first line of the hymn. From 
there the hymn can be found in the in-
dex of the user's hymnal. Hymns were se-
lected from twenty-seven hymnals of major 
American and Canadian denominations, but 
no references are made to particular books. 
Clear instructions make t4is reference book 
very easy to use.-S.R. 

SociAL SciENCES 

Congressional Quarterly Service. Congress 
and the Nation, 1945-1964; a Review of 
Government and Politics in the Postwar 
Years. Washington: 1965. 1784, 231p. 
$~7.50. 

Congressional Quarterly Service here of-
fers in one volume a comprehensive review 
of United States government and politics in 
the twenty postwar years. The CQ Alma-
nacs served as the basis of the compilation, 
but additional material was derived from 
other reference sources. The major part of 
the volume treats chronologically every 
area of legislation with its background and 
political significance, the discussions often 
incorporating tables and charts. The second 
section comprises a directory of persons and 
events, with materials ranging from a bio-
graphical index to Congress for this period 
to a glossary of legislative terms. There is a 
detailed table of contents, an index, and a 
system of useful cross references. Well orga-

nized, the book is news research in a re-
fined form and is highly suited to quick ref-
erence and fact-finding needs.-M.G. 

Lystad, Robert A., ed. The African World; 
a Survey of Social Research. New York: 
Praeger, 1965. 575p. $15. 

Prepared for students and scholars other 
than subject specialists, this review of recent 
and current social research studies and tech-
niques in the Mrican field includes each 
of the major areas touching man's social de-
velopment-law, );listory, education, lin-
guistics, etc. Eighteen social scientists con-
tributed chapters on the state of research 
in their individual fields, reporting on 
achievements, theories, and trends in re-
search, and indicating areas for future 
study. Students should benefit from the dis-
cussions of the technical aspects of the in-
vestigating methods, and certainly the ex-
cellent bibliography will be of value to those 
interested in African affairs.-C.A.B. 

ReQua, Eloise G. and Statham, Jane. The 
Developing Nations; a Guide to Informa-
tion Sources Concerning Their Economic, 
Political, Technical and Social Problems. 
Detroit: Gale Research, 1965. 339p. 
$8.75. (Management Information Guide, 
5.) 
Largely a bibliography of .. scholarly 

books, documents published by govern-
ments and international organizations, and 
articles appearing in a variety of journals" 
(Foreword), this guide includes only English 
language materials from the holdings of the 
Library of International Relations in Chica-
go. Though selective, the work should be 
very useful to both scholars and business-
men. Eight chapters cover special topics, 
and five list general reference sources, bib-
liographies, directories, and agencies and in-
stitutions administering development. En-
tries are annotated, and the work is indexed 
by author and title. It is an excellent guide 
to hitherto scattered and somewhat elusive 
information.-C.L. 

Urquhart, M. C., ed. Historical Statistics of 
Canada. Cambridge: The University 
Pr.; Toronto: Macmillan, 1965. 672p. 
$15. 

Compiled under the joint sponsorship of 
the Social Science Research Council of Can-



48 I College & Research Libraries • January, 1966 

ada and the Canadian Political Science As-
sociation, this volume offers a wide range 
of statistical time series with descriptive in-
formation on Canadian economic, social, 
and political affairs. In general, the period 
covered is 1867-1960. Patterned after His-
torical Statistics of the United States, the 
work is divided into twenty-one subject 
areas, each commencing with notes on 

· sources, derivations, and attributes of the 
data included; series of consecutively num-
bered tables then follow. Figures are taken 
generally from published sources, and are 
mostly annual and national in scope. The 
detailed table of contents and the compre-
hensive subject index aid in finding material 
quickly and easily. A pioneer work, this 
should be highly useful as a starting point 
for the research scholar interested in statis-
tics for Canada, particularly in the area of 
the social sciences.-M.G. 

ABBREVIATIONS 

Kramer, Alex A. Abbreviations in Soviet 
Publications. Trenton, N.J.: Scientific Rus-
sian Translating Service, 1965. 396p. $10. 

Some nineteen thousand five hundred 
Russian abbreviations and acronyms are 
listed here with their full Russian com-
ponents and English translations. Also in-
cluded are the "meanings of various signs 
and symbols from the Greek and Latin al-
phabets used in the USSR." Although heav-
ily weighted toward scientific and technical 
terms, this should prove a welcome supple-
ment to a regular dictionary, particularly 
for those engaged in translation or dealing 
with contemporary Soviet affairs.-E.L. 

ENGLISH USAGE 

Bernstein, Theodore Menline. The Careful 
Writer; a Modern Guide to English 
Usage. New York: ·Atheneum, 1965. 
487p. $7.95. 

Bernstein, a New York Times editor, has 
illustrated his new guide to good written 
English usage with examples drawn chiefly 
from newspapers. His aim is to promote co-
herent communication as well as originality 
and adroit phrasing: the result is delightful 
reading. In spite of a dictionary arrange-
ment, the book lends itself to .leisurely pe-

rusal rather than quick reference. Articles 
such as "Atomic flyswatters" (on the Amer-
ican tendency to overemphasize) or ··Lo, 
the poor idiom" (which appears under "L") 
would be hard to locate in a hurry, but they 
are useful discussions and cross references 
aid in finding them. The volume offers sen-
sible advice on current usage.-S.R. 

LITERATURE 

American Literary Scholarship, 1963-
Ed. by James Woodress. Durham, No. 
Car.: Duke Univ. Pr., 1965- . Annual. $6. 

Seventeen scholars have contributed bib-
liographical essays on American literature to 
this first volume of a proposed annual sur-
vey similar to The Years Work in English 
Studies. The new annual obviously allows 
for more detailed coverage than the single 
chapter allotted to American literature in 
The Years Work, though the contributors 
were permitted to choose between selectiv-
ity and inclusiveness: "Some have pre-
ferred to cover as much ground as possible, 
discussing many articles and books briefly; 
others have reviewed in more detail only 
the items regarded as the most important" 
(Foreword) . The first eight essays treat of 
major individual authors or pairs of authors; 
the others deal with American literature to 
1800, fiction and poetry by period, the 
drama, and a miscellaneous section. Some 
chapters include citations to earlier publica-
tions, but for the most part discussion is 
confined to those of 1963. This deserves to 
become an established series; it also de-
serves-even requires-the addition of an 
index in future volumes.-E.S. 

Balasova, Olga. Bibliografie ceske liteu£rn£ 
vedy, 1945-1955; prace 0 ceske literature. 
Praha: Statni pedagogicke-nakl., 1964. 
692p. 33 kcs. 

Czech works dealing with Czech literary 
history and criticism are listed here in two 
general sections. The first section lists books 
and articles on literary theory (e.g., aesthet-
ics, criticism, translation) while the second 
is devoted to items concerning literary his-
tory. The balance of the work, and by far 
the largest part of it, consists of bibliog-
raphies arranged alphabetically by names 
of the authors about whom the items are 

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Selected Reference Books of 1964-1965 I 49 

written. A chronological survey of authors, 
a personal name index of authors as sub-
jects, and an author index for the writers 
of the critical works complete the volume. 
It is to be hoped that this guide will be 
continued for other decades.-E.L. 

' Bateson, Frederick Wilse. A Guide to Eng-
lish Literature. Carden City, N.Y.: An-
chor Books; Chicago: Aldine Pr., 1965. 
258p. $1.25 paper; $5 cloth. 

Designed as "a bibliographic labor-saving 
device," this guide "lists the editions and 
commentaries to go to first" (Pre£.). In-
dividual authors and works of literature, as 
well as general books about the literature, 
are treated, and the coverage is wider than 
the size of the volume would indicate. Ar-
rangement is chronological by four main 
periods (Medieval, Renaissance, Augustan, 
and Romantic) with additional chapters for 
literary criticism and research. Before each 
of the period sections is an interchapter 
which serves as a brief but scholarly intro-
duction to the period. The period sections 
consist of reading lists in essay form cover-
ing materials through 1963, with some 1964 
titles. These lists are not conducive to 
quick checking, and the brief index is little 
help in this matter. That, however, is a 
minor flaw, and students will find the work 
a useful companion to the Cambridge Bib-
liography of English Literature.-C.S. 

Kunisch, Hermann. Handbuch der deuts-
chen Gegenwartsliteratur. Miinchen: 
Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, 1965. 
781p. $17.70. 

The purpose of this work is to present a 
compact guide to contemporary German lit-
erature and literary criticism. It includes 
poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, scholars, 
publishers, and cultural innovators, especial-
ly if their influence has been widespread. 
The volume is divided into two parts, the 
first and most sizable being alphabetically 
arranged articles on individual authors and 
their works, together with author bibliog-
raphies and citations to selected works of 
criticism. The second part is a collection of 
scholarly essays on such diverse subjects as 
Expressionism, German literature in ex-
ile, 1933-1947, poets and poetry of Na-
tional Socialism. A detailed name index 

makes all references to a given person im-
mediately accessible, whether described in 
a separate article or in one of the essays.-
E.L. 

Wilgat, Janina. Literatura polska w swiecie; 
bibliografia przeklad6w, 1945-1961. 
Warszawa: Penclub, 1965. 286p. zl. 60. 

Nearly twenty three hundred items 
ar.e listed in this bibliography of translations 
into other languages of Polish literary writ-
ings. Entry is by author, with a special sec-
tion of anthologies arranged by language. 
There is an index of translators and editors 
of anthologies, as well as a geographical 
index which enables the user to identify 
the translations published in each of some 
forty countries.-E.S. 

DRAMA 

Cumulated Dramatic Index, 1909-1949; a 
Cumulation of the F. W. Faxon Com-
pany's Dramatic Index .... Boston: G. K. 
Hall, 1965. 2v. $490. 

Like the Cumulated Magazine Subject In-
dex recently noted in these pages, this pub-
lication provides easy access to contents of 
a long series of annual volumes not pre-
viously cumulated. Entries from the original 
forty-one annual volumes of the Dramatic 
Index (Guide R135) have been interfiled 
under uniform headings in the main body 
of the work, and each of the three ap-
pendixes (author list of books about the 
drama; title list of published play texts; 
Author list of published play texts) has 
been cumulated also. The resulting con-
venience to researchers and librarians is 
obvious and welcome.-E.S. 

BIOGRAPHY 

Who's Who in Europe; Dictionnaire biog-
raphique des personnalites europeennes 
contemporaines. Ed. by Edward A. De-
Maeyer. Ed. 1- , 1964/65- . Bruxelles: 
Editions de Jeniks, 1965- . 2680 p. $40. 

Too limited in coverage to serve the 
small library as an all-purpose biographical 
dictionary for Europe, this work may have 
some value in the large reference collection, 
chiefly for its listings of personalities from 
small European states such as Andorra and 
San Marino which do not appear in the 



50 I College & Research Libraries • January, 1966 

standard "who's whos." Only twenty-five 
countries and states are represented, all ex-
cept Turkey being in western Europe. 
Biographees represent most professions and 
industries; entries are fairly standard, with 
rather more space allotted to hobbies and 
memberships in social clubs than is the case 
in most works of this kind.-C.S. 

HISTORY 

Belder, J. de and Hanes, J. Bibliographie 
de l'histoire de Belgique, 1865-1914. 
Louvain: Nauwelaerts, 1965. 301p. (Cen-
tre interuniversitaire d'histoire contem-
poraine. Cahiers, 38.) 

This volume continues the s~quence be-
gun with Paul Gerin' s bibliography for the 
period, 1789-1831 (Suppl. 4V9I). (A vol-
ume by S. Vervaeck covering the interven-
ing period, 1831-1865, is announced as no. 
37 in the series, but has not been received 
at this writing.) As with the Gerin work, 
this bibliography covers all aspects of Bel-
gian history and follows the classed arrange-
ment with author and subject indexes. Of-
ficial publications and biographical works 
are largely omitted in view of existing bib-
liographies of these materials in the Cahiers 
series.-E.S. 

Chandler, M. J. A Guide to Records in 
Barbados. Oxford: publ. for the Univer-
sity of the West Indies by Blackwell, 
1965. 204p. 63s. 

The department of history of the Uni-
versity of the West Indies, aided by the 
Rockefeller Foundation, is undertaking a 
survey of records of the English-speaking 
Caribbean territories. This first volume to 
be published lists and briefly describes var-
ious collections in Barbados as they existed 
in 1961. Records are classified as those of 
central government, local government, semi-
public, ecclesiastical, private, and manu-
script collections. Within classes, records 
are listed by repository, and the entries in-
clude useful historical notes on the various 
departments and agencies responsible for 
the record-keeping. This, and the other vol-
umes promised, should provide the key to 
large resources of primary materials for his-
torians and other scholars working in this 
area.-C.L. 

Commission Internationale pour l'Enseigne-
ment de l'Histoire. Les deux guerres mon-
diales; bibliographie selective. Bruxelles: 
Editions Brepols, 1965. 246p. $9. 
Added title-page: The two world wars. 
... London, New York: Pergamon Pr., 
1965. 

The editors note that this is a selective 
bibliography, the purpose of which is to act 
as a guide for history teachers. Of the 246 
pages in the book, however, only a mere 
eighty are giv~n over to actual bibliography, 
the rest consisting of a long background ar-
ticle on "July 1914" with a French resume, 
and two introductory articles in both French 
and English. The bibliographies (separate 
ones for each of the two World Wars and 
for the interwar period) are annotated in 
French and English. Altogether they list 
about a thousand titles in classed arrange-
ments which include documents, mono-
graphs, bibliographies, and collections of 
principal photographic and film libraries. A 
serious omission is that of an index.-E.L. 

Fuentes, J ordi and Cortes, Lia. Diccionario 
hist6rico de Chile. Santiago de Chile: Ed-
itorial del Pacifico, 1965. 329, r35 1p. 
$12.50. 

Although the articles in this new diction-
ary run heavily to biographical materials, 
there are numerous entries for political 
events and organizations, historic sites, and 
significant battles in Chilean history. The 
whole range of the country's history is 
covered. An asterisk serves as a see refer-
ence to alternate form of an entry, and as a 
see also reference within articles. There is a 
four-page bibliography at the end of the 
volume, but bibliographies are not provided 
with individual articles.-E.S. 

News Dictionary, 1964- . New York: Facts 
on File, 1965- . Annual. $6.75. 

Designed as an "inexpensive reference 
work ... for those who lack immediate 
access to other research services or the time 
to use them" (Pre£.) , this could be a useful 
desk-reference tool for the student or the 
small library; existence of the many other 
yearbooks and news services limits its use-
fulness for the large reference collection. In 
this first volume the major news events of 

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Selected Reference Books of 1964-1965 I 51 

1964, the workings of international orga-
nizations, and selected topics such as sports 
and education are covered-some quite ex-
tensively. Since certain of the articles are 
over twenty pages long, an index should 
have been provided for easier access to facts 
and dates, even · though the arrangement is 
alphabetical and cross references are liberal. 
-C.S. 

Wainwright, M. D. and Matthews, Noel. 
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whole of Southern Asia" that are contained 
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public and private, in Great Britain and 
Ireland" (Pre£.) with the exception of the 
India Office library. Subject coverage is all-
embracing, including history, literature, sci-
ence, social science, and humanities. The in-
formation was compiled from catalogs, cal-
endars, indexes (whether published or in 
manuscript), from information given by 
archivists and librarians, and from personal 
inspection of documents. Short descriptions 
are given for materials which are listed 
chronologically in appropriate subdivisions 
under the depository entry which, in turn, 
is found in a topographical arrangement. A 
full index of names and subjects draws to-
gether all items pertaining to one topic.-
R.K. •• 

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