College and Research Libraries 564 I College & Research Libraries • November 1979 in which the party is the interpreter of the political ideology. Krupskaia ' s efforts contributed sig- nificantly to the emergence of the library as the instrument for the indoctrination of the masses , resulting in the "Bolshevization" of librarianship. Since another responsibility of libraries is to raise the cultural and technical level of the masses, the study illustrates in addition the role libraries have played in the process of national cultural and eco- nomic development of the Soviet Union. The extensive bibliography cites predom- inantly primary Russian-language sources, archival material , periodicals, and mono- graphs, many on loan to the author from the Lenin Library in Moscow and therefore not easily accessible. The work thus provides a rich and unique source of information for all interested in librarianship in Eastern Europe. It constitutes a major contribution to comparative librarianship and is thor- oughly documented , well organized, and very readable. It should be required read- o , . ..,~ NIJHOFF ~LIBRARY ~SERVICES For supply of ANY books and ANY journals from ANY country in the world, try NIJHOFF for fast and dependable service. MARTINUS NIJHOFF BOOKSELLE RS AND SUBSCRIPTION AGENTS P .O. Box ')ff) 250I AX The Hague, The Netherlands Liaison office: 160 Old Derby St., Hingham MA 24043, U.S.A . ing in library school courses dealing with the library as a social institution in general and in comparative librarianship in particular. -Mathilde V. Rovelstad, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Kraus , Joe W . Messrs. Copeland & Day, 69 Cornhill, Boston, 1893-1899. Philadel- phia: George S. MacManus Co., 1979 . 179p. $37.50. Most publishing house histories written by American scholars have tended to be primarily literary history , cultural history, or economic history (in that order) , or some combination of those several types. The present volume, however , while not es- chewing those concerns, addresses first and foremost the aesthetic qualities of the physi- cal volumes produced by the fin de siecle Boston publishing firm of Copeland & Day. The young Herbert Copeland, late of Harvard College , was already an experi- enced editor and budding literary figure when in 1893 he allied himself with the more artistic, moneyed , and somewhat flamboyant Fred Holland Day to publish books with greater aesthetic merit than was then generally available in the United States . Although inspired by the contempo- rary private-press vogue in England, Cope- land & Day were a commercial house throughout their six-year existence. Day's ample capital, however, enabled the firm always to cover losses incurred by any of its publications , which, despite handsome for- mats , found only limited markets. It was an avant-garde press. Numbered among its au- thors were the young Bliss Carman, Louise Imogen Gurney , Oscar Wilde, Richard Garnett , Stephen Crane, Richard Burton, Walter Pater, and Richard Le Gallienne. Good art work, careful printing, and exten- sive use of laid paper were hallmarks of the imprint. Joe Kraus is a thorough and disciplined scholar, and he writes well. He has re- searched his subject widely for almost four decades, says the preface, and the book is certain to stand the test of time . In accord with its subject matter, this volume is done in handsome format, with fine illustrations , generous white space, good type selection, and appropriate binding. 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This volume consists of seven papers read at the eighteenth conference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of ACRL in Toronto, June 14-17, 1977. In his preface William Matheson of the Library of Con- gress states that this is only the fifth occa- sion for which conference papers have ap- peared in book form. The topic for the 1977 conference was "Aspects of the Book Trade in England and America ," and five of the participants chose the aspect of popular lit- erature, mostly British , but with some American titles, and featuring many women writers. "Publishers of Victorian Children's Litera- ture " was the topic of Judith St. John , curator of rare children's books at the To- ronto Public Library. She traces the rise of didactic stories, climaxed by the pheno- menal popularity of the American Peter Par- ley books and their many British imitators. This was followed by a reaction resulting in more fantasy , folklore , and less obvious moralizing. To reduce the cost of books to readers from the poorer classes, innovative pub- lishers started selling books in cheap in- stallments, like magazines, through charis- matic "canvassers " hard-selling books piecemeal throughout the country. The en- tertaining story of this "numbers trade" is told by Mihai Handrea of the Pforzheimer Library of New York . An even cheaper method of marketing popular literature was serially in newspa- pers. Michael Turner of the Bodleian relates how the Tillotson family of Lancashire, owners of a chain of newspapers , developed their Fiction Bureau that syndicated popular novels to newspapers all over England and abroad. These novels were also very popular in book form, but of the thousands published