College and Research Libraries EUGENE P. SHEEHY Selected Reference Books of 1978-79 THIS ARTICLE continues the semiannual se- ries originally edited by Constance M. Win- chell. Although it appears under a byline, the list is a project of the Reference De- partment of the Columbia University Li- braries, and notes are signed with the ini- tials of the individual staff members. 1 Since the purpose of the list is to present a selection of recent scholarly and general works of interest to reference workers in university libraries, it does not pretend to be either well balanced or comprehensive. A brief roundup of new editions ·of standard works , continuations , and supplements is presented at the end of the article. Code numbers (such as AE213 , DB231 ) have been used to refer to titles in the Guide to Reference Books. 2 NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY Levesque , Albert. Contribution to the Na- tional Bibliography of Rwanda , 1965- 1970. Contribution a la bibliographie du Rwanda. [2d ed.] Boston , G . K. Hall , [1979]. 542p. $40. LC 78-23423. ISBN 0-8161-8296-5. Prefatory matter in English and French; subject headings in French. An earlier edition (1974) had limited cir- culation. Choosing a period not systematically cov- ered by earlier bibliographies, the editor of- fers this volume as "a contribution to the fu- ture Bibliographie Nationale Rwandaise " (Introd.) as well as a supplement to the 1. Paul Cohen, Rita Keckeissen, Anita Lowry, Eileen Mcilvaine, Mary Ann Miller; Lehman Library: Lama Binkowski, Diane Goon . 2. Eugene P . Sheehy, Guide to Reference Books (9th ed. ; Chicago: American Library Assn., 1976). 54/ compilations of Clement (Guide DD96) and Heyse (Guide DD112) and to Marcel Wal- raet's Les sciences au Rwanda, 1894-1965 (1966). Although the intention was to list all works published in Rwanda during 1965-70, together with writings about Rwanda pub- lished abroad , there is an admitted failure to achieve exhaustiveness owing to such drawbacks as lack of a copyright law and difficulty of locating ephemeral materials. Even so, some 4,500 items (books, peri- odical articles, government publications, etc. ) are listed in classed arrangement with author/subject and title indexes. Library lo- cations in Rwanda are indicated. -E. S. Whitby, Thomas J., and Lorkovic , Tanja. Introduction to Soviet National Bibli- ography. Littleton, Colo. , Libraries Un- limited, 1979. 229p. $25. LC 79-4112. ISBN 0-87287-128-2. The first section of this two-part work is a sixty-page essay designed "to trace briefly the development of Soviet national bibli- ography from its beginnings under tsarism to the present time, and . . . to describe the current activities of the All-Union Book ~hamber, the Soviet national bibliographic center" (Pref.), bringing up to date the work that forms the second part of the book. The latter is an English translation of the 1967 publication Gosudarstvennaia bibliografiia SSSR, edited by I. B. Gracheva and V. I. Frantskevich (Guide AA870), which de- scribes in detail the various publications of the Soviet national bibliography. Librarians with a limited knowledge of Russian will appreciate the descriptions and explanations of the different Russian and provincial bib- liographic publications included. It is a complete translation of the original text, al- though the illustrations of the covers of the various publications that appear in the Rus- sian edition are not reproduced here.-R.K. LIBRARIES & ARCHIVES Grow, Michael. Scholars' Guide to Wash- ington, D.C., for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Pr., 1979. 346p. (Scholars' Guide to Washington, D.C., 2) $19.95. LC 78-21316. ISBN 0-87474- 486-5. Published for the Latin American Pro- gram of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. This is the second in a series of "Scholars' Guides" to the resources of Washington, D.C., produced by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The first, which ·appeared in 1977, gave descriptive information on materials in Russian/Soviet studies; the new volume, compiled by a George Washington University professor, is devoted to Latin American and Caribbean materials. As in its predecessor, contents of this volume are presented in two general categories. The first consists of collections: libraries, archives, museums, and data banks. A great deal of information is given for the almost 120 collections described. In addition to addresses, hours, and conditions of access, there are sometimes lengthy de- scriptions and evaluations of the collections themselves: holdings, size, special subjects, and bibliographic aids. The second half of the guide is devoted to organizations, and this is particularly useful because of Washington's importance as a center for n~tional and international associa- tions, agencies, embassies, and research centers. Descriptions here include pro- grams, activities, and publications of the various groups as well as their library hold- ings. The appendix gives further informa- tion, such as a list of bookstores, while the bibliography and indexes provide a handy guide to the book itself. By issuing such thorough guides to one of the most important research centers in the world, the Woodrow Wilso'n Center is pro- viding a valuable service for scholars all over the world. Forthcoming volumes in the series should therefore receive warm recep- tions from researchers in other fields. -P. C. Spalek, John M. Guide to the Archival Ma- terials of the Germf}n-speaking Emigra- Selected Reference Books I 55 tion to the United States after 1933. Ver- zeichnis der Quellen und Materialen der deutschsprachigen Emigration in den U.S.A. seit 1933. Charlottesville, pub- lished for the Bibliographical Society of the Univ. of Virginia by the Univ. Pr. of Virginia [1978]. 1,133p. $27.50. LC 78- 10847. ISBN 0-81390-749-7. In 1933 great numbers of German- speaking professionals began emigrating to the United States, including Hannah Arendt, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Breuer, Al- bert Einstein, Erik Erikson, Karen Horney, Thomas Mann, Arnold Schoenberg-to cite a few of the names bespeaking the inesti- mable contribution to our society of this group of immigrants. Forty years after the first immigrants arrived, Spalek began to make a comprehensive survey of their ar- chival materials. He and his collaborators, Adrienne Ash and Sandra Hawrylchak, dis- covered so much material that the antici- pated ~o-year project took four years and ultimately covered a list of 700 prominent individuals selected for their achievement both from an American and from a Euro- pean point of view. Two hundred libraries and hundreds of private collections were found to contain pertinent material. (Indeed, at the outset 40 percent of it was in private hands, but this figure is diminishing as material is gradually turned over to libraries and archives.) The compilers' careful entries give a satisfying reflection of each collection. First, there is a brief summary indicating the circ~mstances, status, and physical location of the mate- rials; then they are listed and described by means of thirty-seven coded categories. Ap- pendixes give "Additional Information on Individuals Not Included in the Guide," "Recent or Expected Changes in Locations of Collections Listed," and a "Bibliography of Handbooks." There are name and loca- tion indexes.-M.A.M. PERIODICALS Aman, Mohammed M. Arab Periodicals and Serials: A Subject Bibliography. New York, Garland, 1979. 252p. (Garland Ref- erence Library of Social Science, V.57) $30. LC 78-68242. ISBN 0-8240-9816-1. Obviously a great deal of work has gone 56 I College & Research Libraries • January 1980 into this compilation, but with fairly mixed results . The volume offers a subject listing of "serials and periodicals in Arabic, En- glish, French and other European languages published in the Arab countries or in the Western hemisphere."-Introd. Subject categories (such as agriculture, art and ar- chitecture, biological sciences, business and industry, children and youth, economics, general periodicals, Middle East studies, public administration) are arranged alpha- betically, with serial titles entered alpha- betically thereunder. The approximately 2, 700 items include both current publica- tions and some that have ceased; daily and weekly newspapers, irregular serials and annuals, and numerous government- sponsored series are listed along with the expected monthly and quarterly magazines. Information on individual titles ranges from very full (e.g., beginning date, address, fre- quency, subscription price, changes of title, etc.) to minimal (frequency and city of pub- lication). Lack of a title index seems a seri- ous fault.-E.S. Moon, Brenda Elizabeth. Periodicals for South-East Asian Studies: A Union Catalogue of Holdings in British and Selected European Libraries. London, Mansell (dist. in U.S. by Merrimack Book Service, Salem, N.H.), 1979. 610p. £30; $60. LC 79-313989. ISBN 0-7201-0730-X. At head of title: South-East Asia Library Group. Originally undertaken as a union catalog of British library holdings of Southeast Asian periodicals and "a means of identifying and making good inadequacies of coverage" (Pref. ), the published checklist extends to periodicals for which no holdings were re- ported ·and includes not only British re- sources but also those of a number of librar- ies in France, Germany, and the Nether- lands. The catalog attempts "to include all periodicals, both current and extinct, of Asian or East Asian interest if they are con- sidered to be of substantial value for South-East Asian studies, whether pub- lished in South-East Asia or outside these areas."-p.ix. Thus it serves as a useful complement to G. R. Nunn's Southeast Asian Periodicals (London, 1977), which empha~izes United States and Southeast Asian library holdings and concentrates on periodicals published in Southeast Asia. Arrangement is by title (or issuing body in the case of bulletins, etc.); publications in nonroman scripts are entered in romanized form. Periodicals of all frequencies are in- cluded, but those appearing irregularly or less than annually are not comprehensively covered. -E. S. Victorian Periodicals: A Guide to Research. Ed. by J. Don Vann and Rosemary T. Van Arsdel. New York, Modern Language Assoc. of America, 1978. 188p. $17. LC 77-94918. ISBN 0-87352-256-7. Scholars and students of Victorian studies have in this volume yet another valuable aid to research. Joining the previously pub- lished res·earch guides to various aspects of Victorian literature by Faverty (Guide BD483), De Laura (Guide BD402), Steven- son (Guide BD471), and Ford, this new work concentrates on resources and special problems in the study · and use of Victorian periodicals . Chapters by specialists gener- ally take the form of bibliographic essays; they discuss the rationale for work in the field, bibliographic control, finding lists, biographical sources, histories of the press (including the newspaper press) , and iden- tification of authors. There is a special chap- ter on circulation and the stamp tax. As in the other M LA research guides the con- tributors have identified areas where further research and bibliographic work are needed.-E.S. BIOGRAPHY Lipschutz, Mark R. , and Rasmussen, R. Kent. Dictionary of African Historical Biography . Chicago, Aldine, [1978]. 292p. $19.50. LC 76-54537. ISBN 0-202- 24144-0. Making no claim to having produced a definitive work, the compilers offer this as "a handbook for the field of sub-Saharan, or black, African history as it is generally taught in high-school and college-level courses. The material included ... is drawn from the best available specialized sources, but as a whole it reflects the biases and omissions found in regional histories and general survey texts, that is, those books typically read in introductory courses."- lntrod. Most of the approximately "800 en- tries are biographical sketches, but there are some entries for lists of rulers (e.g. , "Gold Coast, Governors of") and expla- nations of native titles. Abbreviated biblio- graphical citations at the end of the bio- graphical sketches are keyed to the com- plete citations in the bibliography at the end of the volume (p.259-80). There is a subject index and an "Index of Supplemen- tary Information: Variant Spellings and Forms of ·Names, and Names of Figures Cited under Entries."-E.S. RELIGION Melton, J. Gordon. Encyclopedia of Ameri- can Religions. Wilmington, N.C., McGrath, 1978. 2v. $135. LC 78-78210. ISBN 0-8434-643-7. This comprehensive survey "explores the broad sweep of American religions and de- scribes 1,200 churches" (lntrod. ), i.e., churches, denominations, sects, and cults known to have been established in the United States by 1976, with information on new groups formed as recently as 1978 added during the final editing. The only ex- clusions stated are religions of North Ameri- can Indians and of gypsies. Religions treated are grouped into seventeen "families" whose member bodies are related historically, theologically, or geographically. These "families" include not only the well-known traditions (such as Lutheran, Pietist- Methodist, etc.), but also those groups less well known and often difficult to find in- formation on: the cults of witchcraft, neopaganism, and satanism (grouped as the "Magick Family"); occult orders and flying saucer groups, etc. (grouped as the "Psychic and New Age Family"); the Jesus people, mail-order denominations, etc. (grouped as "New Unaffiliated Religious Bodies"). A general essay covering the heritage, theology, and life-style introduces each "family"; descriptions of member groups fol- low, and usually include history, important names, principal location, related institu- tions, and statistics. Bibliographical foot- notes (at the end of each volume) provide good sources for more complete informa- tion. Each volume has its own index.-R.K. Selected Reference Books I 51 Morrison, Clinton. An Analytic Concor- dance to the Revised Standard Version of the New Testament. Philadelphia, Westminster Pr., [1979]. 773p. $45. LC 77-26210. ISBN 0-664-20773-1. Designed to "help the English reader to exercise the optimum precision and dis- crimination in the study of Scripture" (p.xi), this concordance relates the English of the second edition of the RSV New Testament to the underlying Greek text and can be readily used by the reader who knows little or no Greek. The work is based on the orig- inal Greek and includes every Greek word in the New Testament except the four most common ones usually translated as the, and, but, and it. The concordance is an alphabetic ar- rangement of the English words and phrases of the RSV. Each entry is followed by a definition of the Greek original and the word in Greek and in transliteration. The uses of the word are then listed, in contex- tual lines, with identification of book, chap- ter, and verse. Further information often is incorporated by a system of symbols. The "Index-Lexicon," which serves as an index to the concordance, is a list of the translit- erated Greek words of the original text showing all the translations used in the RSV (i.e., of the words that form the concor- dance itself). Thus the work can be used both from the starting point of the English translation, and of the Greek original. Good explanatory notes as well as a pleas- ing, legible, double-column page with headwords in boldface caps make for ease of use.-R.K. LITERATURE Dictionary of Italian Literature. Peter Bon- danella and Julia Conway Bondanella, coeditors. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pr., [1979]. 621p. $35. LC 78-4022. ISBN 0-313-20421-7. As the first English-language reference guide to Italian literature, the Bondanellas' Dictionary provides a handbook for those with little knowledge of the Italian lan- guage. It is also more up to date than any similar dictionary available only in Italian. The 362 entries include many biographical essays on major and minor writers from the 58 I College & Research Libraries • january 1980 twelfth century to the present; other essays cover a range of literary subjects-genres, periods, and movements. Each entry is signed and is followed by a bibliography that includes works in both Italian and En- glish (with English translations of books in Italian also cited when available). In addi- tion to these bibliographies there is a useful list of "Reference Aids" to various aspects of Italian literature, and here the needs of the English-speaking reader are kept in mind as much as possible. Cross-references are em- ployed throughout, and these, along with the index and the appendix (which consists of a "time line" and special subject and chronological groupings), make this a useful and convenient guide. The volume is com- parable in size to the "Oxford Companions" to important literatures, but since there is no "Oxford Companion to Italian Litera- ture," the compilers have here produced a work that was much needed.-P.C. Harner, James L. English Renaissance Prose Fiction, 1500-1660: An Annotated Bibli- ography of Criticism. Boston, G. K. Hall, [1978]. 556p. $42. LC 78-2902. ISBN 0-8161-7996-4. This long bibliography (more than 3, 000 items) should prove a welcome addition to the body of reference works on English lit- erature. Listed are "editions and studies (published between 1800 and 1976) of prose fiction in English-both original works and translations-written in England from 1500 to 1660. "-Introd. All those predecessors of the English novel that can be "classified as novelle, romances, histories, anatomies, or jest books (or some combinations of these)" are included. There is a list of bibliographies, another of anthologies .of renaissance texts, and a third of general studies. A fourth section, "Authors/Translatorsfritles," constitutes the bulk of the work. Each subdivision therein for author/translator or anonymous title has up to three parts: bibliographies, editions, and studies. Books, parts of books, journal articles, and dissertations are cited. Short descriptive annotations are a useful feature. -R. K. Huddleston, Eugene L., and Noverr, Doug- las A. The Relationship of Painting and Literature; A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit, Gale, [1978]. 184p. $22. (American Studies Information Guide Se- ries, V.4) LC 78-53436. ISBN 0-8103- 1394-4. Huddleston and Noverr have sifted through writings from more than 350 years to compile this bibliographic record of the relationship between painting and literature in America, and it is a fascinating guide to a world we knew existed, but for lack of bib- liographic direction could not easily explore. The introduction discusses the ut pictura poesis tradition in American art, explaining why it has especially flourished in this coun- try and why poets respond so intensely to paintings and so rarely painters to poems. Section I, "Checklist of Analogous Ameri- can Paintings and Poems," is the major and most revealing part of the book, grouping pairs of poems and paintings according to six major periods of American intellectual development and analyzing them for close- ness of relationship. The 237 items provide interesting clues "that suggest previously unexplored paths of American cultural and artistic history." -Pref Sections II through VI include: American poems on paintings, on painters, and on unspecified paintings, painters, and related subjects ; sources on the relationship of poetry and painting; and sources on the relationship of American fic- tion and painting. There are indexes of au- thors; painters; paintings, books, poems; and first lines of poems.-M.A.M. Magill, Frank Northen. Magill's Bibliogra- phy of Literary Criticism: Selected Sources for the Study of More Than 2,500 Outstanding Works of Western Lit- erature. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Salem Pr., [1979]. 4v. $200. LC 79-63017. ISBN 0-89356-188-6. Librarians should find this ~a boon for the undergraduate inquirer-a kind of one- stop-shopping place for the student wanting critical studies of works of fiction, drama, and poetry, bringing together citations simi- lar to those found in more specialized works such as Kuntz's Poetry Explication (Guide BD486), Palmer's European Drama Criti- cism (Guide BD182), and Adelman and Dworkin's Contemporary Novel (Guide BD326). Arrangement is by literary author, then by individual work, with critical studies listed alphabetically by author. A title index appears in volume 4. "There are 613 authors represented, 2,546 literary works covered, and 36, 137 individual citations listed. Major novels and plays usually have about twenty-five sources listed, while minor works average about a dozen." -Pref. Works of all literary periods are included, as are foreign-language works available in En- glish translation (thus Homer is flanked by James Hilton and Gerard Manley Hopkins). Sources were selected with the undergradu- ate student and general reader in mind, and the neophyte researcher's path is further smoothed by the absence of abbreviations: periodical titles are given in full, as are cita- tions to books. -E. S. PERFORMING ARTS Klotman, Phyllis R. Frame By Frame-A Black Filmography. Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Pr., 1979. 700p. $25. LC 78-20403. ISBN 0-253-16423-0. "For many years it was assumed that Afro-Americans and other black peoples of the world had little or nothing to do with the art of filmmaking .... However, serious scholars are now giving their attention to black participation in a medium that has profoundly influenced attitudes over the years, from before The Birth of a Nation to the present time. Because of such efforts to acknowledge the contribution of Blacks to film ... it is important to have a research tool to facilitate serious study." -I ntrod. Klotman has undertaken to produce just such a comprehensive and reliable research tool. Her work encompasses American and Third World films that have "black themes or subject matter-even before Blacks acted in them; films that have substantial partici- pation by Blacks as writers, actors, pro- ducers, directors, musicians, animators, or consultants; and films in which Blacks ap- peared in ancillary or walk-on roles ."- p.xiii. More than 3,000 feature films, shorts, documentaries, etc., made from 1900 to 1977 are listed alphabetically by title; each entry describes the film and its subject mat- ter, identifies the black participants, and, when possible, provides a location for the film (either a distributor or archive). There Selected Reference Books I 59 are indexes of the black performers and filmmakers involved and a short bibliogra- phy. Although this is certainly the most com- prehensive black filmography yet published, it is not indexed or arranged in such a way as to enable a researcher easily to find films of a particular genre, type, time period, or na- tional origin easily. -A. L. Sheahan, Eileen. Moving Pictures; An An- notated Guide to Selected Film Litera- ture, with Suggestions for the Study of Film. South Brunswick, N.J., A. S. Barnes, 1979. 146p. $9.95; $4.95 paper. LC 78-55576. ISBN 0-498-02296-X. It may come as something of a surprise that the reference literature of film is exten- sive enough to merit a guide. But there is an ever-growing body of filmographies, bib- liographies, indexes to reviews, and other reference resources that provide information about film and film research. Sheahan has selected, annotated, arranged, and indexed these resources in order to facilitate their use by students, scholars, film buffs, and the librarians who help them. The guide emphasizes English-language materials (though some major foreign- language sources are listed) and also in- cludes a number of general reference works that have film-related information or cita- tions. The annotations are detailed and in- formative, but not evaluative (and thus do not indicate the rather considerable var- iations in quality among film reference books). Works are grouped broadly by type, and each section is introduced by expla- natory notes that briefly discuss the nature and use of the different types of sources. There is a good subject index to aid the user in finding appropriate reference re- sources. An author/title index completes the volume.-A.L. Who Was Who in the Theatre, 1912-1976. Detroit, Gale, [1978]. 4v. (Gale Compos- ite Biographical Dictionary Series, no.3) $160. LC 78-9634. ISBN 0-8103-0406-6. Subtitle: A Bibliographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Directors, Playwrights, and Producers of the English-speaking Theatre, Comp. from Who's Who in the Theatre, Volumes 1-15 (1912-1972). 60 I College & Research Libraries • january 1980 As the subtitle indicates, this compilation derives from early volumes of Who's Who in the Theatre (Guide BG68} rather than from new research. Reproduced here is the latest biographical sketch for any person "dropped from Who's Who in the Theatre because of death or inactivity in the theatre." -Pre f. Death dates through 1976 have been added for individuals known to be deceased, al- though this aspect of the work seems not to have been thoroughly researched. The set comprises about 4, 100 entries and should be particularly useful in libraries not having a full run ofWho's Who in the Theatre.-E.S. WOMEN'S STUDIES The Women of England from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present: Interpretive Biblio- graphical Essays. Ed. with an introduc- tion by Barbara Kanner. Hamden, Conn., Archon Books, 1979. 429p. $25. LC 78- 32166. ISBN 0-208-01639-2. Here is a wonderful collection of biblio- graphical essays that identify important source material for the study of women in various periods of British history. These evaluative essays are seen as a first step in developing new approaches and frameworks "to bring to light the relationship between the roles and experiences of the still com- paratively obscure female population and the development of English society."-Pref. For periods in which little bibliographical work has yet been done, each essay covers a broad span of years (e.g., "Women in Nor- man and Plantagenet England," by Kath- leen Casey, and "Women under the Law in Medieval England," by Ruth Kittel). Inas- much as Kanner compiled detailed biblio- graphical essays for the previously published collections, Suffer and Be Still (Bloomington, 1973) and A Widening Sphere (Bloomington, 1977), concerning British women of 1815-1914, the essays for this pe- riod here focus on specific problems and techniques, e.g., "Demographic Contribu- tions to the History of Victorian Women," by Sheila Ryan Johansson and "Women in the Mirror: Using Novels to Study Victorian Women," by Patricia Otto Klaus. Not only are the contributors highly qualified and knowledgeable about their subjects, but the resulting essays are thorough, critical, and-best of all-a pleasure to read. -E. M. POLITICAL SCIENCE Bryson, Thomas A. United States/Middle East Diplomatic Relations, 1784-1978: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Pr., 1979. 205p. $10. LC 78- 26754. ISBN 0-8108-1197-9. "This bibliographic guide is designed to provide students, scholars and librarians with a working checklist of books, articles, documents and dissertations that relate to the American diplomatic experience in the Middle East." -Pre f. The term American dipl011J{ltic experience has been interpreted broadly: one not only finds entries dealing with the official U.S. foreign policy-making establishment but also items on various other interest groups (e.g., missionaries, educators, philanthropists, military person- nel) that have helped shape American dip- lomatic relations. For the purposes of this bibliography the "Middle East" consists of the Arab-speaking states of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the