College and Research Libraries 54 I College & Research Libraries· January 1971 ings and conclusions, with enough tables to reveal her evidence. After an introduc- tion and general chapter on interlibrary dis- tribution, the material is arranged by spe- cific problem areas : the readers who re- quest interlibrary loans; staffing or interli- brary loan services; photocopies in lieu of loans; restrictive lending policies; language, country, and publication dates of requests; bibliographic citations, their accuracy and verification; locating of items wanted; suc- cess of interlibrary loan requests; and the increasing volume of interlibrary loans. The fifteen appendices include several tables as well as copies of the questionnaires and list- ings of the cooperating libraries. It closes with a three-page selective bibliography. Any library that borrows via interlibrary loan from academic libraries will find Chap- ter 14 extremely useful, "Increasing . the Proportion of Interlibrary Loan Requests Filled." It also has excellent recommenda- tions of procedure fo r the academic lending libraries. The other chapter of particular usefulness to the practicing interlibrary loan librarian is Chapter 5 on photocopy substi- tution. This publication in no way replaces Dr. Thomson's Interlibrary Loan Procedure Man-ual, which should be owned and an- notated by every in terlibrary loan unit in the country, but it gives forceful data for the necessity of some of the recommended procedures in that Manual. To read this ACRL Monograph takes concentration and study, but it is well worth the time spent. -~tf.,rs. Margaret D . Uridge, University of C alifomia, Berkeley . A Bibliography of Works in English on Early Russian History to 1800. Peter A. Crowther, comp. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1969. 236p. $9.50. In compiling this bibliography, Peter A. Crowther has perfom1ed a valuable service for historians and for librarians wishing to build basic collections on Russian history. His work and David ~1. Shapiro's, A Select Bibliography of W arks in English on Rus- sian History, 1801-1917 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1962) no w provide a survey of English-language mate rials on Russian his- tory from the beginnings to the Soviet Rev- olution. Crowther gives 2,081 entries in the body of his book along with an appendix of 83 items which appeared during the time the book was at press. The conception and execution of this work are generally excellent, but a few problems crop up. One wonders, for exam- ple, why the compiler chose a modified form of the Library of Congress system of transliteration rather than using that sys- tem without modification. Perhaps only a pedant would insist on this point, but on the other hand a bibliography should have almost pedantic accuracy. The thorough- ness with which Mr. Crowther has done his work is also commendable; this reviewer was able to find virtually no significant omissions. Two borderline cases are articles by Soviet scholars on historiography: Alek- sandr E. Presniakov, "Historical Research in Russia during the Revolutionary Crisis," American Historical R eview, for which (January 1923); and Boris D. Grekov and Evgenii V. Tarle, "Soviet Historical Re- search," Science and Society 7:217-32 ( Summer 1943). There is one less account- able omission: the regular bibliographical section, "Other Recent Publications" in the American Historical Review, for which Robert V. Allen of the Library of Congress edits the section on the Soviet Union. On the other hand, Basic Russian Publications, edited by Paul L. Horecky (Chicago: Uni- versity of Chicago Press, 1962) is men- tioned in the introduction although not Jist- ed in the body of the book. A few entries appear unnecessarily exotic, e.g., no. 1969, John Frampton, A Discovery of the C oun- tries of Tataria, Scithia and Cataya (Lon- don: 1580) of which Crowther says, "The only known copy extant is kept in the Lam- beth Palace Library." The compilation of bibliographies is a t edious, thankless business in which per- fection is always to be sought and virtually never to be achieved. Mr. Crowther has done praiseworthy service by producing a comprehensive work which has surprisingly few omissions or typographical errors. How- ever, the next logical step would be a com- b ination of Crowther's and Shapiro's bibli- ographies, updated, and made perhaps a little more selective, covering the entire l ! span of Russian history.-]ames Cobb Mills, Jr., Utica CoUege of Syracuse Univer- sity. Nicknames and Sobr·iquets of U.S. Cities and States. 2d ed. By Joseph Nathan Kane and Gerald L. Alexander. Metuch- en, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, 1970. 456p. $10.00. What's in a name? Would a rose by any nickname really smell as sweet? Apparently Americans think so because you name it and we have a nickname for it. If there is a city without a nickname, the public re- lations agent will quickly devise one for it. When Joseph Nathan Kane in 1938 pub- lished the first edition of his now famous fact book, he included in it a few nick-· names of cities. In 1951 the Special Li- braries Association published Nicknames of American Cities, Towns, and Villages (Past and Present), compiled by Gerald L. Alex- ander. The friendship of these two men re- sulted in a joint effort published in 1965. Five years of additional research has pro- duced an expanded second edition includ- ing many additions and corrections. The book is arranged alphabetically by states and subdivided by cities; under the name of each city are listed all known nick- names, sobriquets, and even publicity slo- gans which have been applied to that city. Following this is an alphabetical nickname index. There is a similar arrangement for the fifty states. Separating the city and state listings and given in alphabetical sequence are the All-American Cities so designated since 1949 by the National Municipal League and Look magazine. It is explained that the use of this sobriquet is authorized only for use one year following the presen- tation of the award. The compilation should prove useful as a ready reference tool. Unfortunately, it is not a scholarly work such as Shankle's American Nicknames (H. W. Wilson, 1955). No som·ces are given. It would be interesting to learn the source of •'The Friendly City" and "The City of Friendly People" as sobriquets for New York. Occa- sional parenthetical explanations of the nicknames are included, such as "Elkhart (Ind. ) The Band City (produces over 60 Recent Publications I 55 percent of band instruments)." Others are too brief to be meaningful as "Pullman (Ill.) The City of Brick (part of Chicago ) ." On the other hand about five times as many cities are included as in Shankle, and many more nicknames are given for most cities and states. However, many of the nick- names included seem more like contrived publicity slogans than familiar epithets nat- urally ascribed. The book is printed by offset press in a clear, legible, although unattractive, type. A few typographical errors and omissions escaped the proofreaders, but in general, editing seems to have been carefully done. It is to be hoped that the authors have preserved their sources and their notes on the origins and the use of the nicknames in- cluded so that a futur e edition can be a full , scholarly contribution to work on American names.-Paul H. Spence, College of Gen- eral Studies Library, University of Ala- bama, Birmingham. rndex to American Little Magazines 1920- 1939. Stephen H. Goode, comp. Troy, N.Y.: \Vhitston Publishing Co., 1969. 346p. $12.50. If we accept the maxim that half a loaf is better than none, it follows, perhaps, that a partial index such as Stephen Goode's In- dex to American Little Magazines 1920- 1939 is better than no index at all. This is, as Mr. Goode indicates, an index of a "se- lected list" of thirty-three little magazines. What Mr. Goode fail s to indicate, and it is a significant failing, is the basis for his se- lection. One is always grateful for an index to any previously unindexed material how- ever meager it may b e; yet that gratitud e cannot help but be tempered by a disap- pointment that a less arbitrary selection of magazines to be indexed would have been enormously more interesting and valuable. The period 1920-1939 was unquestion- ably, in Mr. Goode's words, part of "the golden age of little magazines." It is the age of The Little Revie w at its height, This Quarter, Laughing Horse, Dynamo, Th e Measure, Chicago Literary Times, The Transatlantic Review, American Spectator, Direction, The Booster, S 4 N, the b egin- ning of Furioso, and many more. Yet of