College and Research Libraries Selected Reference Books o£1983-84 Eugene P. Sheehy his article continues the semi- annual series originally edited by the late Constance M. Win- chell. Although it appears un- der a byline, the list is a project of the refer- ence departments of Columbia University's Butler and Lehman libraries, and notes are signed with the initials of the contributing 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 college and university libraries, it does not pretend to be either well balanced or com- prehensive; neither should it be consid- ered strictly a list of ''best'' books. 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, CJ34) have been used to refer to titles in the Guide to Refer- ence Books and its supplements} ARCHIVES Nauman, Ann Keith. A Hf!:ndbook of Latin American & Caribbean National Archives. Guia de los archivos nacionales de America Latina y el Caribe. Detroit, Blaine Ethridge, [1983]. 127p. $9.50. LC 83- 15837. ISBN 0-87917-088-3. Although this is a modest publication, it should prove a useful one for the Latin Americanist planning a research trip. In- tended for ''the potential first-time user of archival collections in Mexico, Central and South America, the Outer Islands and na- tions of the Caribbean,'' it provides brief information concerning "what the user may expect to encounter in the way of ma- terials and services, and what, if any, re- quirements and restrictions apply.''- Introd. There are also notes on the history of the archives and on the catalogs and in- dexes available. For the most part, infor- mation was derived from questionnaires completeq at the respective national ar- chives, but a few descriptions were sup- plied by recent visitors to the archives or compiled from published sources. Ar- rangement is by country, information be- ing first provided in English, then in a sep- arate Spanish-language section. A select bibliography at the end of the work is also arranged by country.-E.S. DICTIONARIES World Dictionaries in Print 1983: A Guide to General and Subject Dictionaries in World Languages. New York, Bowker, [1983]. 579p. $99.50. ISBN 0-8352-1615-2. Nearly fourteen thousand titles of word- books of all kinds-language dictionaries, vocabularies, and glossaries; technical and specialized dictionaries; monolingual and multilingual dictionaries; slang, · rhyming, and dialect dictionaries; concor- dances and dictionaries of individual authors-are presented here in four sec- tions: (1) a subject index using Library of Congress subject headings, (2) a title in- 1. Butler Library: Mary Cargill, Anita Lowry, Eileen Mcilvaine, Louise Sherby, Junko Stuveras; Lehman Library: Laura Binkowski. 2. Eugene P. Sheehy, Guide to Reference Books, 9th ed. (Chica.go: American Library Assn., 1976); Sup- plement (Chicago: American Library Assn., 1980); Second Supplement (Chicago: American Library Assn., 1982). 287 288 College & Research Libraries dex, (3) an author-editor-compiler index, and (4) a language index. Full biblio- graphic .information, including price and ISBN number (but often lacking pagina- tion) appears in both the subj.ect and title sections. Cross-references are liberally provided in the subject section. Some 238 languages are represented in publications originating in approximately one hundred countries. Much of the information was collected directly from publishers throughout the world; the balance was de- rived from Bowker's databases for Books in Print and Associations' Publications in Print. Although there is clearly a need for more careful editing of what the computer pro- vides (e.g., the Biographical Dictionary of American Mayors and the Lexikon Deutsch- sprachiger Schriftsteller are included de- spite the prefatory note that biographical dictionaries are excluded; various library catalogs with dictionary in their titles are listed; and there are unexplained entries, such as R. Wilcox's Dictionary of Costume under the subject entry for Jean Froissart), this should prove a useful tool for both ref- erence and acquisitions work.-E.S. PERIODICALS British Literary Magazines. Ed. by Alvin Sullivan. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pr., 1983-. [v.1-]. (In progress.) LC 82- 21136. ISBN 0-313-22871-X. Contents: v .1, The Augustan Age and the Age oflohnson, 1698-1788, $55; v.2, The Ro- mantic Age, 1789-1836, $59.50. When completed, this four-volume set will offer historical sketches of more than 320 individual British literary magazines published from 1698 to the 1980s. Within each chronological volume, titles are ar- ranged alphabetically, and each magazine is accorded a "profile" or brief essay by a contributing scholar offering information on the history, content, contributors, and significance of each publication. In addi- tion, bibliographic references to sources of further information, notes on reprints (in- cluding microform availability) and in- dexes, library locations, and publishing details (title changes, frequency, editors, etc.) are provided in a uniform arrange- July 1984 ment. Selection of titles was meant tore- flect the range and variety of reviews, journals, essay periodicals and illustrated magazines published during the period in question. Appendixes offer chronological lists of additional titles, and each volume has its own index. Further volumes will cover the Victorian and Edwardian age (1837-1913) and the modern age (1914-82). This promises to be a valuable reference source on many counts, and an interesting compilation in its own right.- E.S. JOURNALISM Paneth, Donald. The Encyclopedia of Ameri- can Journalism. New York, Facts on File, [1983]. 548p. il. $49.95. LC 81-12575. ISBN 0-87196-427-0. In his introduction, Paneth expresses several concerns that influence in a very positive way the content of this encyclope- dia: the importance of "the idea and the ideal of freedom of the press" and the need to regard journalism in a more pro- found and integrated way. Thus he has tried to cover any area which might be of interest for the field: "the history, person- ages, styles, principles, issues and tech- nology of each form" of journalism (i.e., newspapers, magazines, radio, televi- sion, photography, newsreels, documen- tary film) of the seventeenth through twentieth centuries; focus, however, is primarily American. Several examples will serve to show the range of articles: a historical survey of broadcasting, the defi- nition of broadside, a short description of "ABC's Wide World of Sports," any number of awards lists, biographies of Ja- cob Riis, Abigail Van Buren, and Frank McGee. One wishes that some of the defi- nitions were a little longer: "friend of the court" as a definition of amicus curiae doesn't explain its significance for journal- ism. Short bibliographies are included at the end of most articles, and there are sep- arate entries for certain notable books (e.g., Price's Literature of Journalism). Although the volume is arranged alpha- betically with liberal use of cross- references, there is a subject index that .. lists articles under broad headings such as "Computer," "Definitions,, "Freedom of the Press," "Muckrakers." The work will be of great interest to all kinds of libraries-high school, public, and academic-but will the price deter its purchase?-E.M. BIOGRAPHY Biographical Dictionary of Internationalists. Ed. by Warren F. Kuehl. Westport, Conn., GreenwoodPr., 1983. 935p. $75. LC 82-15416. ISBN 0-313-22129-4. Some fifteen hundred internationalists of various persuasions are included in this dictionary, which covers deceased per- sons who lived since 1800. Leadership po- sitions in societies or associations promot- ing the concept of world organization, public recognition as exponents or origi- nators of plans for international coopera- tion, and efforts to promote transnational- ism in nonpolitical areas were among the criteria for inclusion. Persons treated are predominantly academics and political figures from the United States, England, and Canada, but also included are such ·obvious choices as Robert Schuman and Dag Hammarskjold as well as Charles de Gaulle. Each sketch, about two pages in length, contains biographical data (dates and places of birth and death, education, and positions held), a discussion of major con- tributions to internationalism, and a three-part bibliography listing works by and about the biographee and indicating the location of personal papers. All entries are signed, and many were written by spe- cialists or earlier biographers of the subject (e.g., Brian Urquhart on Dag Hammarsk- jold); the authors are identified in the list of contributors. There are listings of biog- raphees by country and by profession, and a chronological table of major events from 1815 (the Congress of Vienna) to 1979 (the first general election for the European Parliament) gives a historical perspective of internationalism. A useful general in- dex of names, topics, and selected titles of works cited completes the volume. The publisher's forthcoming Biographical Die- Selected Reference Books 289 tionary of Modern Peace Leaders will be a companion work, and see references to that compilation have been provided.- J.S. RELIGION Guide to Islam. Ed. by David Ede [and oth~ ers]. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1983. 261p. $57.50. LC 83-6134.1SBN 0-8161-7905-0. ''The purpose of this bibliography is to introduce the English-language reader to significant publications on Islam as a reli- gion and a civilization."-p.xiii. With this succinct statement of purpose, the editor begins the preface to this selected, anno- tated bibliography of books and journal articles on all aspects of Islamic civiliza- tion. The bibliography is divided into seven broad categories-"Historical De- velopment,'' ''Religious Thought,'' ''Re- ligious Practices," "Sacred Places," "In- stitutions, II II Art and Architecture, II "Research Aids" -and each category is further divided by topic; for example, the section on institutions includes such top- ics as the army, guilds, the bureaucracy, the city, education, the law, slavery, taxa- tion, and women. In addition, there are a detailed subject index and an author in- dex. The excellent annotations are both in- formative and evaluative. The value of this bibliography is enhanced by the avail- ability of many of the harder-to-find mate- rials, in microform, from the Institute for Advanced Studies of World Religions, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Unfortunately, the bibliography includes few sources published after 1976; however, a supplemental volume is in preparation.-A.L. The New International Dictionary of Biblical Archaeology. Edward M. Blaiklock, R. K. Harrison, gen. eds. Grand Rapids, Mich., Regency Reference Library, Zon- dervan Publ. House, [1983]. 485p. il., maps. $24.95. LC 82-13552. ISBN 0-310- 21250-2. Intended for the informed layperson, the student, and the professional scholar, this volume offers concise articles on per- sons, places, deities, and terms relevant to 290 College & Research Libraries the study of biblical archaeology . Except for some brief definitions of terms, articles are signed with the initials of the contribu- tors; most articles have bibliographic ref- erences appended; and citations to the Bi- ble, classical sources, and various reference works are frequently given in the text. Pronunciation is indicated for en- try words other than English words or well-known biblical terms. Cross- references are provided from alternate terms and variant spellings . Illustrations are numerous and carefully captioned. A section of thirty-three colored maps on unnumbered pages has its own index. Keeping in mind that ''the purpose of bib- lical archaeology is to reCover material re- mains of man's past, not to 'prove' the ac- curacy or historicity of the Bible" (Pref. ), the editors and their group of contributing scholars have concentrated on presenting basic facts : "Those who use the book must, for the most part, draw their own theological conclusions.''-E. S. LANGUAGE Idioms and Phrases Index. Laurence Ur- dang, ed .-in-chief. Detroit, Gale, [1983]. 3v. (1,691p.) $150. LC 83-17192. ISBN 0-8103-1547-5. Subtitle: An unrivaled collection of idi- oms, phrases, expressions, and collocu- tions of two or more words which are part of the English lexicon and for which the meaning of the whole is not transparent from the sum of the meanings of the con- stituent parts, also including nominal, verbal, and other phrases which exhibit syntactic and semantic character peculiar to the English language, the entries gath- ered from more than thirty sources, each described in the bibliography provided, with all items arranged alphabetically both by first word and any significant words. The subtitle leaves little to be said, but it might be well to stress that this is an index to the sources of information on idioms and phrases (i.e., to a variety of dictio- naries of phrases, idioms, slang, and spe- cial subject terms), not a dictionary as such. Indeed, in the case of one of the sources, Words and Phrases Index (Guide - - - - -~------ July 1984 AD110), it is an index to an index, necessi- tating a check of WPI to obtain a reference to the publication in which the term is de- fined or discussed. When the source work does not follow a strict alphabetical ar- rangement, a page reference or entry word is given to facilitate finding the term. This compilation could prove a time saver for librarians and researchers alike, but the very substantial price must be weighed against probable frequency of use and against the likelihood of all (or at least a strong majority) of the source works being in a given library's collection.-E. S. LITERATURE Arksey, Laura; Pries, Nancy; and Reed, Marcia. American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Published American Diaries and Journals. Detroit, Gale, [1983-]. v .1-. (In progress; to be in 2v.) $68 per v. LC 83-8860. ISBN 0-8103-1800-8. Contents: v.l, Diaries written from 1492 ·to 1844. Although this is a revised and expanded edition of William Matthews' American Di- aries (Guide BD347), the changes and addi- · tions are sufficiently great as to warrant special mention here. Not only is the pe- riod of coverage being extended (v.2 will bring the record down to 1980), but the definition of American has been expanded to include Alaskan, Hawaiian, and much Spanish-American material omitted by Matthews; moreover, many diaries have found their way into print since the Mat- thews work was compiled. The new edi- tion is, however, firmly based on Mat- thews: it includes all diaries listed therein "with the exception of a few Canadian di- aries containing no evidence of any Amer- ican content" (Introd. ), a few foreign dia- ries for which no English translation could be found, and a few items cited in Har- riette M. Forbes's New England Diaries, 1602-1800 (1923), of which no copy could be located. Attention has been given to making citations more complete biblio- graphically (adding titles of periodical arti- cles, series notes, etc.), and there is occa- sional elaboration or clarification of earlier annotations. As in Matthews, arrange- ment is by beginning date of the diary, then by name of diarist; unfortunately there are no running heads to indicate the dates. Useful subject and geographic in- dexes have been supplied in addition to a name index. This is a welcome updating of a standard work.-E.S. The Cambridge Guide to English Literature. Michael Stapleton, comp. Cambridge and New York, Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1983. 992p. il. $29.95. LC 83-1967. ISBN 0-521-26022-1. . This somewhat misleadingly titled book aims ''to provide a guide to the literature of the English-speaking world" (Fore- word), including Great Britain, the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Nigeria, and the West In- dies. All entries, with the exception of two essays on the English language and the Bi- ble in English, were prepared by the com- piler. Impressive as Stapleton's knowl- edge is, it is inevitable that some areas are slighted. He appears most interested in medieval and Victorian literature, and the book reflects that bias. Any work of this size purporting to cover one thousand years of literature in English will of course have gaps, but a plot summary for JC?hn Galt's 1823 novel The Entail and no entry for Edna St. Vincent Millay? Entries for characters in Mrs. Gaskell's Wives and Daughters, but nothing on Stephen Vin- cent Benet? A detailed genealogy of Sir Gawain, but no entry for Barbara Pyrn? More space given to Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh than to Athol Fugard? Most of the entries are specific, that is, under either author or title. There are few general summaries of major themes or trends-no discussion, for example, of Af- rican literature in English. Stapleton writes clearly and is not afraid to summa- rize an author's worth (or lack of it) in a sentence. He cannot resist plot summaries for many obscure Victorian novels, often making this seem less a work of ready ref- erence than one of ''suggestions for fur- ther reading." An entertaining, not an in- dispensable, work.-M.C. The · Oxford Companion to Canadian Litera- ture. William Toye, gen. ed. Toronto Selected Reference Books 291 and New York, Oxford Univ. Pr., 1983. 843p. $45. ISBN 0-19-540283-9. This new volume in the Oxford Com- panion series attests to the recent growth and vitality of Canadian literary culture, as well as to its increas_ing importance abroad. No longer need students, scholars, and librarians .turn to the Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Litera- ture (Guide DB135) or the Oxford Companion to American Literature for information on Canadian literature; indeed, the new fifth edition of the latter (see note below) omits entries on Canadian writers. Under the general editorship of William Toye, the volume combines "useful infor- mation and thoughtful and illuminating (though succinct) literary discussions" (p. vii) on Canadian authors, genres, titles, and other topics relating to creative writ- ing and literary criticism. Both English and French literary cultures are covered. The author entries consist of a paragraph or two of biographical information, fol- · lowed by a critical discussion, frequently a half-page or more in length; many entries . include a short bibliography of major criti- cal studies. Writers of the twentieth cen- tury, especially the last forty years, pre- dominate, although important or representative figures from earlier periods are also included. Many of the survey arti- cles on such topics as "Novels in English" or "Indian Literature" are quite extensive and include short bibliographies of sec- ondary sources. Each entry is signed by one of the 192 contributors.-A.L. FINE ARTS Riggs, Timothy A. The Print Council Index to Oeuvre-catalogues of Prints by European and American Artists. Under the spon- sorship of the Print Council of America. Millwood, N.Y., Kraus International Publications, [1983]. 834p. $120. LC 82- 48986. ISBN 0-527-75346-7. An oeuvre-catalogue is defined by the . compiler of this work as ''any listing of the artist's total output in prints or some dearly defined section of that output'' (Note to User) and is here -extended to in- clude bibliographies of illustrated books by the artist. Artists selected for inclusion 292 College & Research Libraries in the index are from North and South America, Europe, and former colonial countries following a European artistic tradition (e.g., Australia); excluded, how- ever, are printmakers who specialized in maps or {:alligraphy. Artist here may also mean publisher, so there is a listing for Bauhaus, for example. Artists are cited alphabetically, with the ca-talogs listed chronologically thereun- der. Each entry includes a great deal of . condensed information: author, title, . place and date of publication; library loca- tion if the catalog is in manuscript or hard to find; indication of inclusion of measure- ments, descriptions, or illuslrations; indi- ·cation of wbether a bibliography of refer- ences appears for each print; and wh-ether or not differing states of prints are dis- cussed. The appeal-of the work seems mainly to art libraries, since the 191'2 cutoff date for publications will limit its useful- ness and tile price r.enders it somewhat ex- pensive for private collectors and gal- leries. Inasmuch as many important artists are not well represented by oeuvre- catalogs.~ researchers se-eking to fill lacu-: nae should find this volume of great inter- . est, although the ear1y cutoff date reduces its otherwise extensive coverage. One hopes that a supplement may be on the way.-E.M. SOCIOLOGY Hirschfe1der, Arlene B.; Byler, Mary Gloyne;..ana Dorris, Michael A. Guidelo R-esearch on North Ameriean Indians . "Chi- cage, Ameri-c-an Library Assn . .~ 1983. 330p. $75. L-c 82-22787. ISBN 0-8389- 0353-3. -Basically an annotated bibliography of mat-erials usefulior-the study-of American Indians, this work aims "to present a se.c . lection Df scholarly ma-terials" (Pref.} rather than comprehensive coverage ~I each topic treated. Arranged in four parts ('./Introductory Material"; ''Hister_y and Historical Sources"; " ·Economic .and -so- cial Aspects".:; and ~-~Religion, Arts, and -Literature"), lhe vo1ume -includes only English--language -materials on native Americans 1n the United Stat-es (including Alaska), plus the most important works July 1984 on Indians of Canada, Central and South America, and Mexico. Each part is divided into topical chapters, and each chapter in- cludes a brief introductory essay followed by annotated listings of. general sources, works treating the topic in specific geo- graphic areas, and bibliographies related to the topic. Materials excluded are eth- nographies of particular groups, nonprint and unpublished materials (including dis- sertations), and materials considered diffi- cult to obtain. Although the work will be useful in -many collections of literature on native Americans, the price and the lack of .currency (with few exceptions, the cutoff date is 1979) mean it is not an essential purchase except for large collections.- L.S. . POLITICAL SCIENCE Congressional Districts in the 1980s. Wash- ington, D.C., -congressional Quarterly, 1983. -632p. $90. LC 83-18988. ISBN U- 87187-264-1. Congressional Districts in the 1980s presents an excellent overview -of the en- tire redistricting process that took place following the 1980 U.S. census and the im- pact of that reclistricting on the 1982 e1ec- tions. Arranged alphabetically by state and within each state by con_gressional district, the volume provides a u-seful pro- file of each districl. Each--stale :entry~­ eludes statistical tables for age of popula- tion. income and oc-cupation, education.~ and housing ·and residential pattern-s, with figures .f.or the slate as a whole and for individual congressional -districts; there is also a map showing the district boundaries_ Each district profile gives brief information on the district, together wlth election results from 1976 to 1982 for president, Senate, House, and governor. Various demographic indicators such as -educationa1 institutions, newspapers., telev=ision stations, military facilities, nu- elear power plants7 and major industries are noted for each distr1tt. The appendix offers a histoncal essay on the topic -of re- apportionment and redistricting, plus lists of the members .of the House of R-epre- -sentatives from the ninety-fifth to the ninety-eighth Gongresses.-L.S. ., . I ' Dictionary of Marxist Thought. Ed. by Tom Bottomore. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ. Pr.; Oxford, Blackwell Reference, 1983. 587p. $35. LC 83-50. ISBN 0-674- 20525-1. This dictionary is an excellent guide to the concepts, individuals, and schools of thought that have formed a body of Marx- ist ideology, interpretation, and criticism. An international roster of compilers have contributed very informative, well- written entries from "Abstract labour" to "Young Hegelians." Because each entry tries to be complete in itself, with cross- references and suggestions for further reading, the dictionary is especially valu- able to a nonspecialist audience seeking a brief but complete discussion of a Marxian idea or personality. And the inclusion of entries such as "Eurocommunism" and "Dependency theory" reflects the fact that Marxism is still an actively evolving system shaping modern institutions and ideas. Two bibliographies, one of writings by Marx and Engels and one of all other works cited in the dictionary, are in- cluded. A general index completes the volume. This important title should be a high-priority acquisition for all academic and large public libraries.-L.B. McCrea, Barbara P.; Plano, Jack C.; and Klein, George. The Soviet and East Euro- pean Political Dictionary. Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-Clio, 1983. 367p. (Clio Dic- tionaries in Political Science, no.4.) $20.75. LC 83-6418. ISBN 0-87436-333-0. Students and other nonspecialists are the intended audience of this dictionary, which focuses on the major institutions, ideas, movements, and terminology relat- ing to the political systems and situations of the Soviet Union and the Communist party states of Eastern Europe. The entry for each term in the dictionary consists of a factual definition followed by a short in- terpretive essay that analyzes its historical background and general significance. In- stead of being arranged simply in alpha- betical order, the entries are grouped into eight broad categories: "Historical Per- spectives"; "Ideology and Theory"; "Communist Party Structure and .['ro- cesses"; "Governmental Structures and Selected Reference Books 293 Processes"; "The Economic System"; "The Legal System"; "Citizen and State"; and "Foreign Policy." Liberal see also references, a detailed index, and an in- dex to countries facilitate the location of information.-A.L. HISTORY & AREA STUDIES Blanco, Richard L. The War of the American Revolution: A Selected Annotated Bibliogra- phy of Published Sources. New York, ·Gar- land, 1984. 654p. (Wars of the United. States, v .1; Garland Reference Library of Social Science, v.154) $60. LC 82- 49168. ISBN 0-8240-9171-X. The first volume in a new series of bibli- ographies on wars of the United States, this work contains over thirty-seven hun- dred entries for materials on the Revolu- tionary War. Directed towards a "popu- lar" audience, particularly students, the work is an excellent source for finding cita- tions on a specific topic relating to the war and its background. Divided into fourteen sections covering all major aspects of the war, most sections are then subdivided into specific topics (e.g., "Women in the Revolution,'' ''Religious Factors'') or geo- graphic divisions (New York, Rhode Is- land, etc.). The annotations are brief, and evaluative when appropriate. Primary source materials, as well as items that were considered to be polemical in nature, have been excluded. Author and subject indexes complete the volume. Even though the cutoff date for inclusion is 1980, the work will be useful in any library serving students who do term papers on American history topics.-L.S. Crosby, Everett Uberto; Bishko, C. Julian; and Kellogg, Robert L. Medieval Studies; A Bibliographical Guide. New York, Gar- land, 1983. 1,131p. (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, v.427) $80. LC 83-11647. ISBN 0-8240-9107-8. The purpose of this compilation is to present ''an annotated reference work to the major collections ·of sources and the secondary literature considered to be of basic importance for the history and cul- ture of the western European Middle Ages, Byzantine, and medieval Islamic 294 College & Research Libraries civilization . . . dealing with the period from the third century A.D. to the sixteenth. 11 -Introd. Despite its nine thou- sand entries, the volume will not replace Paetow' s Guide to the Study of Medieval His- tory (Suppl. 2DA20) and Boyce's Literature of Medieval History (Suppl. 2DA21), but it will help to update them and offer a basic listing of primary and secondary books and monographs published through 1980. Arrangement is topical under headings (called chapters) such as ''The Middle Ages as a Periodic Concept and the Idea of Europe, II "Medieval Libraries," "Migra- tions and Settlements." Each chapter in- cludes, as available, sections for bibliogra- phy, reference works , collections of sources, and general works, subdivided if there is a large number of citations. Anno- tations are usually limited to one sentence-often a comment on the book's usefulness. The volume ends with an au- thor and editor index and an ''Index of Topics," which is merely an alphabetical list of the chapters.-E.M. Gilmore, William J. Psycho historical In- quiry.: A Comprehensive Research Bibliog- raphy. New York, Garland, 1984. 317p. (Garland Reference Library of Social Science, v.156) $49. LC 82-49165. ISBN 0-8240-9167-1. Since 1972 the author of this work has prepared annotated bibliographies for the Newsletter (now the Psychohistory Review) of the Group for the Use of Psychology in History, making him the ideal person to compile the first, and so far the only, book-length bibliography covering this new and controversial field which he de- fines as "the study of human personality, individual and collective, in the past. II- Introd. The bibliography contains "over 4000 books, chapters in essay collections, articles, dissertations, and papers pre- sented at scholarly meetings over the past century" and attempts to be comprehen- sive for works in English through 1981; foreign-language entries are selective. The first third of the bibliography deals with methodology and approaches to the field, including a few criticisms of the dis- cipline. Many of the entries are exten- sively annotated, and this section will be July 1984 invaluable to anyone needing information about this new field. The rest of the bibli- ography lists individual psychohistorical studies arranged by geographic, then chronological, categories. Unfortunately, the work's usefulness is limited by lack of a subject index . For instance, someone looking for psychohistorical approaches to the history of witchcraft has to look un- der the general heading ''European Civilization-General Works to 1500" and skim through seven pages of entries cov- ering ancient Greece and Rome, the Mid- dle Ages, and the Renaissance. The poten- tially useful sections of psychobiography are also weakened by that same lack: al- though works about some major figures, from Alexander the Great to Jimmy Carter, are listed by subject category, Gilmore enters most of the biographical studies under the rubric "General Works." The heading "U.S. Civiliza- tion-Psychobiograph y-1900-General Works" (with citations arranged alpha- betically by author) is the only access point to studies of such diverse figures as Mari- lyn Monroe, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Floyd Dell. There is an author index, but the next edition would be greatly strengthened by including a subject index.-M.C. · Sugnet, Christopher L., and Hickey, John T. Vietnam War Bibliography, Selected from Cornell University's Echols Collection. Lexington, Mass., Lexington Books, [1983]. 572p. $40. LC 83-16172. ISBN 0- 669-06680-X. The Echols Collection at Cornell was es- tablished in 1953 to concentrate on collect- ing materials from and about Southeast Asia. The compilers of this bibliography have selected some four thousand books, government publications, manuscript and archival sources, audiovisual materials, maps, and titles of newspapers and maga- zines (but not articles) "on the United States' involvement in Vietnam and the Vietnamese response." -Introd. Al- though the coverage of the bibliography begins with the 1940s, the .collection is es- pecially strong in the period of the late 1950s to 1973. Most of the materials are in English, Vietnamese, or French, but other ... ,. 1 1 1 Western European languages are repre- sented. All items are listed in alphabetical order by title, with bibliographic details and notes, as needed, to clarify the content of a work or to summarize it if the title is not in English. The index is comprehensive, in- cluding subjects, authors, translators, sponsors, forms of materials (maps, pho- tographs, document collections, etc.). An appendix provides cross-references from "non-authorized" forms of names, in- cluding acronyms. Much useful informa- tion is included. The only problem is that, in order to keep the volume affordable, the type used in the index is · greatly re- duced, making a difficulty for tired eyes. That aspect apart, research libraries will welcome this compilation.-E.M. The London Encyclopaedia. Ed. by Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert. Lon- don, Macmillan, 1983. 1,029p. il. £24. ISBN 0-333-32556-7. Inspired by Peter Cunningham's Hand- book for London (1850) and H. B. Wheatley's London Past and Present (1891), The London Encyclopaedia is a blend of history and guidebook for items of interest concerning Greater London. Entries are generally brief and are primarily factual, although anecdotes are sometimes included to en- hance an entry. The volume is arranged al- phabetically by first word of the place or event treated; addresses of places, houses, etc., are given when appropriate. There are see references to alternate forms of entry, and the use of all capital letters for a place-name or term within an article indicates that that term has its own entry elsewhere in the text. Black-and-white il- lustrations accompany many articles. Some entry words appear in Old English type, a point which is not explained but which appears to designate places that no longer exist as such (e.g., Pancras Wells). A list of contributors is included, but the individual articles are not signed.-L.S. NEW EDITIONS, SUPPLEMENTS, ETC. Publication of the Index to Volumes 1-31 of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (New York: Selected Reference Books 295 Macmillan, 1973-83; Guide AC73) brings to a close a massive translation project. It will be remembered that the work was translated and published on a volume-by- volume basis as soon as possible after the appearance of the individual volumes of the third edition of the Bol 'shaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia (1970-78, 30v.; Guide AC72), thus assuring greater timeliness for the English-language edition than would have been possible if the English entry words were to be arranged in a single al- phabetical sequence. The new index, of course, supersedes the earlier indexes, which cumulated at five-volume intervals while the translation was in progress. 9,000 Words; A Supplement to Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1983; 218p., $10.95) is essentially the" Ad- denda" section of the 1981 printing of Webster's Third. It includes most of the en- tries found in 6,000 Words (Suppl. AD16), plus new material added for 1981 and some new terms not found in the 1981 ad- denda, as well as many illustrative quota- tions not included therein. More than fifty-five thousand entries are included in the fourth edition of Le- land G. Alkire's Periodical Title Abbrevia- tions: By Abbreviation (Detroit: Gale, 1983; 1, 137p., $110). As with the previous edi- tion (1981), there are two companion parts: Periodical Title Abbreviations: By Title (i.e., v.2, $120) and two forthcoming in- teredition supplements designated by the publisher as "v.3" and entitled New Peri- odical Title Abbreviations ($82). Each part may be purchased separately. Biographical sketches of the more than 270,000 American scientists included in the first through fourteenth editions of American Men and Women of Science (Guide EA222) are now easily located through the set's new Cumulative Index (New York: Bowker, 1983; 847p., $125). Reference is given to edition number and to section or supplement number as applicable. A New Dictionary of Christian Theology, edited by Alan Richardson and John Bow- den (London: SCM Pr., 1983; 614p., £19.50) represents a thorough revision and reworking of Richardson's 1969 Dic- tionary of Christian Theology (Guide BB51) . 296- College & Research Libraries Biographical entries have been dropped, and the new work focuses II on theological thinking against a-.._ historical background rather than on historical events or figures.'' -Pref. Teaching English as a Second Language 2, by Wallace L. Goldstein (New York: Gar- land, 1984; 323p., $37), is a supplement rather than a new edition of the compiler's earlier annotated bibliography of similar title (Suppl. BC10). It lists some 935 items (mainly from the 1975-82 period) in classed arrangement with an author in- dex. The year 1983 was a banner year for Ox- ford Companions, no less than three of those standard works-on theater, music, and American literature-having ap- peared in new and revised editions in the closing months of the year. Of the three, Phyllis Hartnoll's Oxford Companion to the Theatre (4th ed. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1983; 934p., $49.95) was perhaps subject to the most stringent editorial restraints. Committed to retaining the single-volume format, the editor concentrated on "what is known as the 'legitimate' theatre throughout its history" (Pref. ), giving lit- tle attention to popular genres such as vaudeville and omitting ballet, other dance forms, and opera; nor was any at- tempt made to provide extensive treat- ment of advanced technology as applied to theater buildings and staging. Virtually every article shows reworking or updating (contributed articles are no longer signed) and there are many new entries. The New Oxford Companion to Music (Oxford: Ox- ford Univ. Pr., 1983; 2v., $90), on the other hand, has been expanded to an additional volume and is essentially a new work: only the occasional definition is carried over from the tenth edition (1970; (Guide BH88) with little or no change. Prepared under the general editorship of Denis Arnold, the work still has the general reader as its intended audience, but it is now more truly international in scope even though comprehensive coverage of non-Western music is not attempted. There is much rearrangement of material; many articles are signed by contributors; there are frequent suggestions for further reading; and illustrations are placed with July 1984 relevant text. Fully revised and reset, the fifth edition of James D. Hart's Oxford Companion to American Literature- (New York:· Oxford Univ. Pr., 1983; 896p., $49 .95) boasts a new format-a slightly larger page allowing more characters per line in the two-column arrangement. In addition to revision and updating of exist- ing articles, there are many new entries and a number of deletions (e.g., Canadian writers are now omitted in view of the new Companion for Canadian literature). Cross-references within the articles are now indicated by a symbol. The ''Chrono- logical Index'' of literary and social history has been extended through 1982. Expanded to five volumes, the second edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984; 5v., $295) now includes numerous articles on national and ethnic theater tra- ditions and on theater in individual coun- tries or areas. Whereas the earlier edition (1972; Guide BD185) was concerned almost exclusively with playwrights and the liter- ature of the theater, the new articles often emphasize performance-related topics and there are new entries for theater com- panies and for anonymous plays. An ex- tensive glossary of terms is found in v.5, p.215-64. A New Reader's Guide to African Litera- ture, by Hans M. Zell, Carol Bundy, and Virginia Coulon (London: Heinemann; New York: Africana Publishing, 1983; 553p., $16; $9.50 paper) constitutes a "2d completely revised and expanded edi- tion" of the 1971 guide compiled by Zell and Helene Silver (Guide BD1071). More than three thousand literary works by black African authors south of the Sahara writing in English, French, and Portu- guese are listed and annotated; excerpts from reviews are sometimes included. As in the previous edition, there is a list of children's books, an annotated list of mag- azines, and directories of publishers, book dealers, and libraries. American Working Class History: A Repre- sentative Bibliography, by Maurice F. Neufeld, Daniel J. Leah, and Dorothy Swanson (New York: Bowker, 1983; 356p., $29.95), is a revised and greatly ex- panded edition of Neufeld's 1964 publica- ' ( tion, A Representative Bibliogmphy {)f Ameri- -can Ltibor History (Guide CH411). It lists nearly sev-enty-three hundred items pub- lished through January 1983 (including books, periodical articles_, .certain g9vem- -ment publications~ and films) in classed arra11gement with a detailed table of .con- tents and an au-thor index. Some 2,270 entries are presented in -classe-d arrangement in C-lyde E. Brown- ing~ s ,Biblio_graph_y _of Dissertations in Geogra- phy: -1969 to 19.82, American arid Canadian Universities (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Univ. of North Carolina, Dept. of G:eogr-aphy, 1983; 145p; Studies in Geography, no.18., $19.50}. It forms a_sqpplemenfto Brown- ing's publication of similar title cover:ing 1901-69 {Guide CL33). The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia _and Laos_, 1'945-1982: A -Bibliographic Guide, by-Rich- ard Dean ~urns and Milton Leitenberg (Santa ~arbara, -caiit: ABC-Clio, 1984; 29Qp. $5-B.SO; War/P-eace Bibliography se- Selected Reference Books 297 ries, no.18), constitutes a revised and up- dated edition of the same compilers' Viet- nam Conflict{1973; Suppl. DE64).1t-offers a t-opically arranged, selective guide to "im- portant con.t-emporaty and retrospective books, dissertations7 research papers and :essaysH (p.3), including periodical articles and some government documents. Among the new additions to the ABC- Clio Research Guides series, edited by Gail Schlachter (Santa Barbar-a, Calif.: ABC-Gio) are -no.4, The Great B.epression {1984; 260p., $25.50~; ~no_ lO, The Third Reich, 1933-1939 (1984; 239p., $28.50); and · no.15., The American Presidency {1984; 376p_, $6{)). Each is a topicaHy arranged bibliography uf periodical -arfides pub- lished 1973-.82, with abstracts, drawn from the database of the ABC-Oio Infor- mation Services {fr-om_which America: His- ·tory~and life and Hist-orical Abstr.acts are de- rived) . .Each volume has a detailed subject index and an-autbor jndex.-:-E.S. Early English · Newspapers A rare, comprehensive collection on microfilm, by title. Now, the combined collections of Dr. Charles Burney, the Bod- leian Library, and major American sources are available for the study of the social, intellectual, and political history of Europe from 1622 to 1900. Encompassing thousands of volumes preserved on 35mm microfilm, this collaboration of early English newspaper col- lections has been- for the first time- completely catalogued by title with an accompanying bibliography/reel index for accuracy. Based on The British Library's Burney collection, this microfilm collection is available in units consisting of approximately 50 reels each. Units 1-24 may be ordered at the standing order price of $1,600. per unit and units 25 onward for $2,000. per unit. Prices slightly higher outside the U.S. and Canada. To place an order or for more information, contact: Research Publications Outside No. & So. America 12 Lunar Drive, Drawer AB Ip Research Publications Woodbridge, CT 06525 P.O. Box 45 . 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