College and Research Libraries Selected Reference Books of 1993 Eileen Mcilvaine his article follows the pattern set by the semiannual series initiated by the late Con- stance M. Wmchell more than thirty years ago and continued by Eugene P. Sheehy. Because the purpose of the list is to present a selection of recent scholarly and general works of interest to reference workers in univer- sity libraries, it does not pretend to be either well balanced or comprehensive. A brief roundup of new editions of standard works is provided at the end of the article. Code numbers (such as AD540 and CJ251) have been used to refer to titles in the Guide to Reference Books, 10thed. (Chicago:ALA,1986)and the Supplement ... Covering Materials from 1985-1990 (Chicago: ALA, 1992). ENGLISH LANGUAGE Berg, Donna Lee. A Guide to the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1993. 206p. $19.95 (ISBN 0-19-869179-3). LC 91- 41383. The author, who is affiliated with the Centre for the New Oxford English Dic- tionary and Text Research at the Univer- sity of Waterloo (the body responsible for computerizing the second edition of the OED), has written this handbook to guide users, both scholarly and casual, through the printed OED (Guide AD27- AD28, Suppl. AD6). The first half of the book describes the various parts of a typical dictionary entry as the reader would encounter them: headword, pro- nunciation, part of speech, etymology, definition, quotations, etc., with many examples from the dictionary (presum- ably from the second edition, but this is not specified). Part II, ''A Companion to the OED," is essentially an encyclopedia with one-to- two paragraph entries defining the terms and identifying the people and institutions associated with them. It is unfortunate, given the author's affili- ation with the University of Waterloo, that the computerized versions of the OED are ignored; even the term lemma, which caused so much confusion for us- ers of the CD-ROM version of the first edition, is not defined. And nowhere is there any discussion of the differences between the first and second editions. Frequent users of the OED should read the extensive comparison of the two edi- tions which appeared in the Review of English Studies, n.s.41:76-88 (Feb. 1990). This guide should be useful in an- swering questions about OED entries and libraries will want to have it; how- ever it is not all-you-ever-wanted-to- know-about-the OED.-M.C. BIOGRAPHY Acker!, Isabella, and Friedrich Weissen- steiner. Osterreichisches Personen Lexikon. Wien: Ueberreuter, 1992. 552p. 05497 (ISBN 3-8000-3464-6). LC 93-116283. Oesterreichisches Personen Lexikon pro- vides brief (one or two paragraphs) bio- graphical entries for Austrians, living and dead, who have played a role in the cultural, political, or intellectual milieu from 1918 to the present (no Hitler, though). The entries, some with photo- graphs, include brief biographical infor- Eileen Mcilvaine is Head of Reference and Collections, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027. Although it appears under a byline, this list is a project of the Reference Departments of Columbia University Libraries, and notes are signed with the initials of one of the following staff members: Paula Gabbard, Katherine A. Keller, Barbara Sykes-Austin, Avery Library; James L. Coen, Business Libran;; Man; Cargill, Olha della Cam, Robert H. Scott, Sarah Spurgin, and ]unko Stuveras, Butler Library. 242 mation and in many cases references to other sources. Although much of this information is available in other sources, this is a very useful single-volume com- pilation, especially rich in cultural fig- ures.-M.C. Victorian Biography: A Checklist of Contem- porary Biographies of British Men & Women Dying between 1851 and 1901. Compiled by Peter Bell. Edinburgh: Peter Bell (Bookseller), 1993. 193p. (ISBN 1-871538114). This checklist of contemporary biog- raphies of British men and women who died between 1851 and 1901 was com- piled in order to facilitate the work of scholars interested in researching indi- viduals living in the Victorian era. It goes beyond the "greats," to include the "far from great'' (Pref.) and cites biographical material, however minor, which might prove to be of use to scholars. Working in a field already rich in bio- graphical sources, Peter Bell, the com- piler, has tapped existing sources, such as Frederic Boase's Modern English Biog- raphy Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons Who Have Died be- tween the Years 1851-1900 (Guide AJ222), for his material, while being careful not to duplicate them. The result is a compilation that briefly identifies over 2,000 English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish men and 400 women who died between 1851 and 1901 and cites references to one or more bio- graphical works published within a short period of the subject's death. Most of the works cited are either biographies, memoirs, reminiscences, or recollec- tions, many written by family members and printed for private circulation. Where possible, the citations include verification information in library cata- logs. Excluded from this compilation are autobiographies and diaries, as these are already well covered in such works as William Matthews' British Autobiogra- phies: An Annotated Bibliography of British Autobiographies Published or Written be- fore 1951 (Guide AJ239), and his British Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Brit- ish Diaries Written between 1442 and 1942 Selected Reference Books of 1993 243 (Guide BD672), and in John Burnett's The Autobiography of the Working Class: An Annotated Critical Bibliography (Guide CH648, Suppl. CH270). Nor does it in- clude funeral sermons and memoirs pre- fixing literary works. Clearly this compilation has its niche and within that niche it fulfills its stated purpose well.-O.d.C. PHILOSOPHY Fetzer, James H., and Robert R Almeder. Glossary of Epistemology/Philosophy of Science. New York: Paragon House, 1993. 149p. $17.95 (ISBN 1-55778-558- 9). LC 92-22762. There are many things to commend this little glossary: it is selective, it ex- plains concepts rather than defining words, and it uses plain English rather than scholarly jargon. The glossary limits itself to about 300 terms and twenty or so individuals-key concepts and persons in the study of the nature of knowledge. It explains each term in a context of related terms: "Knowing that vs. knowing how'' and "Historical possibility I necessity I impossibility'' are typical entries. Rather than attempting to trace the origins of these concepts, the compilers have contented themselves in simply presenting them as they are cur- rently understood by scholars working on philosophical problems. As these concepts are not simple, this glossary, besides enlightening the curi- ous layman, can serve as an invaluable reference tool for students and teachers of courses in epistemology and the phi- losophy of science.-O.d.C. MYTHOLOGY Reid, Jane Davidson. The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300- 1990s. New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1993.2 vols. (1310p.) $195 (ISBN 0-19- 504998-5). LC 92-33537 4. ~pired by Andor Pigler's Barockthe- men: eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts (Guide BE195), Jane Davidson Reid has taken on an even more ambitious project: to compile a dictionary of Greek and Ro- man mythology listing in chronological 244 College & Research Libraries order (from 1300 to the 1990s) mytho- logical characters and stories as they ap- pear in the arts, including painting, sculpture, classical music, dance, and lit- erature. Film is only included if it is a revision of an already cited work by the same artist, as in Jean Cocteau's Orphee. (Marcel Camus' celebrated Brazilian film Black Orpheus, for example, is not included.) Reid has tried to be as exhaus- tive as possible, realizing from the start the quixotic nature of such a project. She immediately warns the reader that she did not incorporate Pigler into her work because it would be redundant and points out that incorporating the stand- ard print catalogs,like Bartsch, Le Peintre graveur and its Supplements (Guide BE363) was not possible given her pub- lication deadline. This work recalls Her- bert Hunger's Lexikon der griechischen und romischen Mythologie, mit Hinweisen auf das Fortwirken antiker Stoffe und Mo- tive in der bildenden Kunst, Literatur und Musik des Abendlandes bis zur Gegenwart (Guide CF29), but it is more exhaustive, more current, and has a 191-page index of all artists cited. Reid explains in her introduction that she chose to use Greek names of classical gods and goddesses with cross-refer- ences from Roman to Greek, and she points out the differences between simi- lar Greek and Roman deities within each entry. A brief description of the myth begins every entry and is followed by the major classical sources for the sub- ject. Selective citations for further read- ing are often included. Reid frequently divides an entry into subentries: for ex- ample, the entry for Aphrodite has the subentries "General List," "Birth of Aph- rodite," "Cythera," "Isle of Aphrodite," "Aphrodite and Anchises," "Girdle of Aphrodite," "Worship of Venus," "Ve- nus Frigida," ''Venus and Satyrs," "Statue of Venus," and ''Tannhauser and the Venus berg." Obviously, some suben- tries have no classical source but are widely depicted postclassical themes. "See also" references appear prior to the list of artworks. Each citation of an indi- vidual artwork provides the birth and death dates of the artist, the title of the May1994 work, its genre or medium, the date of the work, and where appropriate, per- formance data, publisher, location of work, versions, revisions, other works related to the original, and source refer- ences. It is unfortunate that sound re- cordings are not cited. Jane Davidson Reid has compiled an immensely valuable resource for all scholars interested in postclassical de- pictions of classical subjects. -P.G. LITERATURE Dictionary of British Literary Characters. Edited by John R. Greenfield. New York: Facts on File, 1993. Vol. 1. 655p. $SO (ISBN 0-8160-2178-3). LC 90-3998. (In progress; to be in 2 vols., $95.) The first volume, subtitled 18th and 19th Century Novels, is an alphabetical list of characters in novels by authors whose important work appeared before 1890 (so that Hardy and Kipling appear in Volume 1); Volume 2 (forthcoming) will be subtitled 20th Century Novels. The characters in Volume 1, all11,663 of them from 486 novels, include a brief description of their role in the novel. There is an index of characters arranged by author, then title. The novels ana- lyzed include all those by major writers, as well as representative examples of more unfamiliar authors; the compilers have consciously tried to include works by women writers. The novels have been exhaustively mined for characters, al- most to the point of uselessness in some cases. Chrysal: or, The Adventures of a Guinea by Charles Johnstone, for exam- ple, accounts for some 175 entries, with such characters as Author, Bishop, Lord --, Rake, etc. Looking through the characters included for Emma, a novel I have read many times, I see names I don't recognize; there seems to be much unnecessary padding. In fact, it is hard to know who might need this book. The main characters of the major novels are listed in other char- acter indexes, and brief plot summaries are available in various guides, as well as the inevitable Masterplots (Guide BD74, BD75, Suppl. BD97). Unless, of course, someone wants to know about the character "Puppy" from Alice in Wonderland, in which case this book will come in handy.-M.C. Hopster, Norbert and Petra Josting. Lit- eraturlenkung im Dritten Reich: eine Bib- liographie. Hildesheim and New York: G. Olms, 1993. Vol. 1, 500p. DM 138 (ISBN 3-487-09686-2). (In progress; to be in 2 vols.) LC 93-222833. Volume 1 of this outstanding and imagi- native bibliography of the literary climate of the Third Reich is divided into two parts. The first is a bibliography of material writ- ten during 1933-45; the second, smaller half, lists scholarly studies, including dis- sertations, written after 1945. Sources appear to have been thor- oughly examined (despite the modesty of the Introduction), and the researcher can find references to subjects as varied as book production, lending libraries, theater productions, textbooks, popular literature, as well as to more formal lit- erary criticism written in Germany be- tween 1933 and 1945. Especially impressive is the detailed list, including locations and record group numbers, of archival holdings related to publishing in the Third Reich, including official records on censorship, propaganda, etc. The bibliography has a detailed, though somewhat confused, classified arrange- ment. If a researcher, for instance, were interested in drama in the Third Reich, he would find material in the section (1) ''Literaturkritik-Rezeption der deut- schen Gegenwartslitera tur-Dramatis- che Formen" (this includes a citation to an annual listing of productions); (2) the section "Ideologisierung der Lit- erature-Programmatik/Theorie-Dra- matische Formen," and (3) the section "Literaturgeschichte, allgemein-Dra- matische Formen," in addition to refer- ences to post-1945 studies located only through the subject index (which does not refer to the 1933-45 entries-these I found looking through the detailed Ta- ble of Contents). But the effort is well worthwhile, and researchers interested in the culture of Nazi Germany would do well to begin with this indispensable bibliography. Selected Reference Books of 1993 245 Volume 2 will be an annotated list of bibliographies of bibliographies and of book catalogs and lists. -M.C. Jackson, J. R. de J. Romantic Poetry by Women: A Bibliography, 1770-1835. Ox- ford: Clarendon Pr., 1993. 484p. $72 (ISBN 0-19-811239-4). LC 92-35190. Readers sometimes come to the refer- ence desk with the assignment to locate a women writer who has not been col- lected in a modern anthology and argue for her inclusion in future anthologies. These readers, as well as those engaged in upper-level and graduate research on the English Romantic period, will be well served by this bibliography listing the printed volumes of verse of nearly 900 women writers. The bibliography is arranged alphabetically by writer, and each entry provides a brief biography of the author before listing chronologically all of her books having at least seven pages and published between 1770 and 1835. Entries include publisher, date, di- mensions of the title page, pagination, author as given on the title page, and the reference on which the entry is based. Verse translations into English are also included. Separate indexes list authors, ti- tles, and publishers, by name and location. A chart showing the annual rate of pro- duction of all editions and first editions, with a graph demonstrating the phenome- nal surge in publication in 1808, complete the bibliography. Although there is no chronological index, many, but not all, of the authors are included in Jackson's An- nals of English Verse 1770-1835 (Suppl. BD243). Recommended to all libraries sup- porting research in English and American literature. -S.S. CINEMA Art on Screen: A Directory of Films and Videos about the Visual Arts. Compiled and edited by the Program for Art on Film, Nadine Covert, editor. New York: Program for Art on Film; Boston: G.K. Hall, [1991]. 283p., 32p. of plates. $65 (ISBN 0-8161-7294-3). LC 91- 34548. As the Preface indicates, this directory contains 914 films and video titles culled 246 College & Research Libraries from the 17,000 entries in the Art on Film computer database. Compiled by the Program for Art on Film, a joint venture of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Trust, the database pro- vides detailed information about interna- tional film and video productions covering the fine arts (painting, drawing, sculp- ture), architecture, archaeology, photogra- phy, decorative arts, and related topics. To obtain information from the database, researchers may apply directly to the Program for Art on Film. This directory is intended as a guide for film programmers,librarians, educa- tors, art historians, and filmgoers who are concerned with the making or use of audiovisual programs on the visual arts. The art lover could also use this direc- tory as a guide to the array of videos on art which are now available. In addition to the directory, Art on Screen includes five essays to provide context for the individual film listings and to stimulate thinking about the issues concerning the presentation of art on film. A filmogra- phy and a directory of resources for film programmers are included. The work is intended to continue two out-of-print directories: the 1977 Films on Art, compiled and edited by theCa- nadian Centre for Films on Art for the American Federation of Arts, published by Watson-Guptill; and the 1952 Films on Art, edited by William M. K. Chapman, published by the American Federation of Arts. A third directory that may be of interest to this audience is From Muse- ums, Galleries and Studios: A Guide to Art- ists on Film and Tape (Suppl. BE76). Art on Screen is arranged in two sec- tions: Documentaries with 709 entries and Features with 205. The preface out- lines the following selection criteria for the Documentary section: films and vid- eos released between late 1975 and 1990 that are in distribution in the United States and have been favorably re- viewed by the Program for Art on Film staff, or by evaluation panels, or recom- mended by advisory panels, or honored by film festivals. Art on Screen is aimed at an adult audience. Films and videos on photography are excluded because May1994 they are covered by Films and Videos on Photography, published in 1990 by the Program for Art on Film. Architecture and landscape architecture will be treated in Architecture on Screen an- nounced for spring 1994. Arrangement of both sections is alphabetical by title, usually in English unless the work is better known by its original title. Each annotated listing includes the following components: title, series title, running time, color, format, date(s), country, lan- guage, edition/ version, producing agency, credits (producer, director, ex- ecutive producer, writer, camera, art consultant, and, for the Features sec- tions, cast), distributor, synopsis, evalu- ation, comments (by the staff of the Program for Art on Film or the Metro- politan Museum's Media Center), re- views, and awards. The indexes include a separate subject index for each of the two sections, Fea- tures and Documentaries, director index for the Features section, name index (art- ists, critics, art historians, and others who figure prominently) for both sec- tions; series title index with individual titles listed under each series title; and a source index with names, addresses, and phone/ fax number of distributors. Despite weaknesses such as the type- faces and design, the inexplicable lack of a director index for documentaries and of birth and death dates for names, and inconsistency in the use of headings in the listings, Art on Screen provides essen- tial information for large public libraries and film and art collections.-K.A.K. ARCHITECfURE Curl, James Stevens. Encyclopaedia of Ar- chitectural Terms, with Illustrations by the Author and John J. Sambrook. Lon- don: Donhead, 1993 (1992). 352p. il. £45 (ISBN 1-873394-04-7). There are a great many encyclopedias, dictionaries, and glossaries of architec- ture and its vocabulary to choose from, varying in scope or generality, size, his- torical coverage, and intended audience (Guide BE258-BD277, Suppl. BE122- BE124). This latest example most resem- bles the works of Cyril M. Harris in his Dictionary of Architecture and Construc- tion (Guide BE266, 2d ed. 1993), and his Historic Architecture Sourcebook (Guide BE269) in their line drawings and con- cise definitions; Jill Lever's and John Harris' Illustrated Glossary of Architecture 850-1830 (Guide BE267) and Curl's ear- lier English Architecture: An Illustrated Glossary (Guide BE262, 2d rev. ed. 1986) for their coverage of British architectural terms, the subject of this work. The Encyclopaedia of Architectural Terms offers 348 pages of definitions ranging from two words to four pages in length, with line drawings or photographs on al- most every page. All examples are from British buildings, which makes this often dense work one most suited to specialized collections. A four-page select bibliog- raphy follows the glossary and supple- ments the works cited in the Preface. The contents can often be very de- tailed; e.g., the term Symbol has 19 col- umns ofhagiological symbols represented in and on churches and other buildings. Styles, such as Gothic, Gothick, and Gothic Revival are both described and illustrated, again in a British context. Building materials, ornamental details, elements, building types, and physical attributes are covered. The definitions are often thick with cross-references, sig- nalled by arrows, which can make com- prehension difficult. In other instances more guidance on locating the illustra- tion of a built form is needed than an entry provides (e.g., the definition is un- der hip-roof but the illustration is under roof>. There are no biographical entries; for these the author refers the reader to Colvin's Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 (Guide BE294), again reflecting the British focus of the work. The book will be of most use to the serious scholar of British, European, and Classical architectural history -B.S.-A. WOMEN'S STUDIES Encyclopedia of Childbearing: Critical Per- spectives. Edited by Barbara Katz Roth- man. Phoenix: Oryx, 1993. 446p. $74.50 (ISBN Q-89774-648-1). LC 92-14975. This useful interdisciplinary encyclo- pedia treats some 250 topics related to Selected Reference Books of 1993 247 childbearing. Entries are well-written, with a strong feminist orientation. Top- ics range from discussions of childbear- ing in different countries, to feminist analyses of motherhood, explanations of medical procedures and drugs, and presentation of a variety of statistics. Al- though the majority of entries refer to issues relating to contemporary child- birth in the United States, entries also discuss goddess imagery, the language of birth, childbirth in science fiction, bib- lical and Talmudic images of pregnancy, and histories of all aspects of childbirth. Each signed entry includes a selective scholarly (three to ten items) bibliography of additional references. Arranged alpha- betically with cross references and a good subject index. Recommended for all li- braries supporting research on women, in spite of the fact that the encyclopedia chooses to sidestep the issue of surro- gate motherhood, while including en- tries on open, closed, intercountry, and tran.sracial adoption; birthmothers; and induced lactation. -S.S. The History of Women and Science, Health and Technology: A Bibliographic Guide to the Professions and the Disciplines. Ed- ited by Phyllis Holman Weisbard and Rima D. Apple. 2d ed. Madison, WISe.: Univ. of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian, 1993. lOOp. Free. This selective bibliography was first published by Susan Searing in 1988 to "aid colleagues in both designing new gender-centered courses ... [and to] make the history of women in the pro- fessions more accessible to practitioners in the various branches of science, medi- cine, and technology." -Pref. This new edition nearly doubles the size of the first, including citations to more than 2,500 books and periodical articles pub- lished through 1992. There are six chap- ters treating women in the scientific professions, health and biology, home economics/ domestic science, technol- ogy, children and young adult litera- ture, and a section o.f general over- views. Each chapter is further subdi- vided by topic; the chapter on technol- ogy, for example, includes sections on 248 College & Research Libraries reference works, individual engineers and technologists, and reproductive technology. Annotations are provided "in cases where titles are not fully ex- pressive of content, or to call attention to specific sections of the work," and an author index allows one to trace the work of specific scholars. The bibliog- raphy is free while supplies last and available from the University of Wis- consin System Women's Studies Li- brarian, 430 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. In late January the bibliography will become available via the Internet. For more information, please contact wiswsl@macc.wisc.edu.-S.S. Huls, Mary Ellen. United States Govern- ment Documents on Women 1800-1990: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1993.2 vols. $79.50 (ISBN 0-313-29016-4). LC -92-38990. Contents: Volume 1: Social Issues; Vol- ume 2: Labor. Congressional hearings, reports and documents, as well as publications of government agencies and commissions, and other public documents are listed chronologically within broad subject categories in this annotated bibliog- raphy. Among the twenty-one topics in the first volume are suffrage and politi- cal participation, homemaking and home economics, health, educational eq- uity, divorce and child support, retire- ment and survivor benefits, violence against women, and female offenders. The chronological arrangement within topics is useful for tracing government activity (or lack thereof) across time. Topics included in Volume 2 range from employment discrimination, affirmative action and pay equity, to war work, the Women's Bureau, and child care and eldercare. Although government docu- ments are relatively easy, if time-con- suming, to identify and locate, this cumulative bibliography with its brief annotations, subject arrangement, and topical indexing will considerably help readers seeking material on topics re- lated to women. There are no title or corporate author indexes so this may not May1994 be the place to verify an incomplete cita- tion quickly.-S.S. STATISTICS Horn, Robert Victor. Statistical Indicators for the Economic & Social Sciences. Cam- bridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1993. 227p. il. $17.95 (ISBN 0-521-41333-8). LC 92-23005. This text provides a description of all the major indicators used in the presen- tation, application, and analysis of statis- tical data in the social sciences. Although written by an Australian academic, the content focuses on current practice in Brit- ain, North America, and the Western world in general. Considered semantically as metadata, these indicators are the inter- mediaries that link statistical observations with social or other phenomena; i.e, they bring the data to life. Initially, the author provides a histori- cal outline of indicators and describes their uses. Following this, the major techniques are explained in detail; in- cluded are ratios, scaling, correlation and regression, time series, and multi- variate analysis. Each operation is placed in a comparative or historical context as appropriate. Subsequently the development, eco- nomic, and social application of indica- tors are treated in separate chapters. Development indicators explained are those typically reported by various agen- cies of the United Nations, the Interna- tional Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. The economic indicators are those characteristic of the more advanced econo- mies, e.g., measurements of securities and financial markets' activities, business cy- cles, and international comparisons. Un- der social applications are included those for health, the environment, culture, war, and peacetime use. There are no footnotes to the text, but there are references throughout to a sub- stantive bibliography that may be used for expanded reading. Highly recommended for social science collections.-J.L.C. HISTORY Diccionario Biogrdfico e Hist6rico de Ia Revoluci6n Mexicana en el Estado de Mexico. Coord. Roberto Blancarte. Zi- nacantepec: El Colegio Mexiquense; . Toluca: Institute Mexiquense de Cul- tura, 1992. 298p. il. (ISBN 9686341277). The Diccionario Biognifico e Hist6rico de Ia Revoluci6n Mexicana en el Estado de Mexico is an elaboration of one section- the section for the state of Mexico-of the seven-volume Diccionario Hist6rico y Biogrtifico de Ia Revoluci6n Mexicana pub- lished between 1990-92, in Mexico City by the Institute Nacional de Estudios Hist6ricos de la Revoluci6n Mexicana. This latter work is a state-by-state inven- tory of biographical and historical infor- mation pertaining to the Mexican Revolution dating from the period 1890- 1920, including information regarding battles, military campaigns, political groups, official congresses and meet- ings, publications, laws and legal tracts, political manifestos and popular songs. For each state the arrangement of infor- mation is the same: a short historical overview followed by dictionary entries on all the above categories arranged in one alphabetical sequence, and conclud- ing with a chronology of events, a list of governors, a bibliography, and a list of archival repositories. For the present work, the coordinator of the above project, Roberto Blancarte, has taken the section on the state of Mex- ico and enhanced it. To locate entries more easily, he has arranged them by categories; he has added illustrations in the form of historical photographs and reproductions of printed documents; and he has expanded coverage to in- clude information about persons who participated in revolutionary activities in the state of Mexico but who were not natives of the state. The result is a well researched, clearly and attractively pre- sented reference tool. For those Mexican Revolution schol- ars whose research focuses on the state of Mexico and for those libraries that have little call for a seven-volume defini- tive biographical and historical diction- ary of the Mexican Revolution, the Diccionario biogrtifico e hist6rico de Ia Revoluci6n Mexicana en el Estado de Mexico is a most useful title.-O.d.C. Selected Reference Books of 1993 249 Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, Jacob Ernest Cooke, editor-in-chief. New York: Scribner, 1993. 3 vols. $280 (ISBN 0-684-19269-1). LC 93-7609. The editor-in-chief, Ernest Cooke, rec- ognizing that coverage of colonial America has often focused solely on the English colonies, has made a great effort to include the Dutch, Spanish, French, and occasionally Russian ones. Thus in the discussion of taxation, noted schol- ars write essays on taxation in each: the British, the Spanish borderlands, the French, and the Dutch colonies. The dif- ficulty with the Russian colonies in Alaska and California appears to be the unavailability of source material al- though there are general articles on the Russian colonies in the Encyclopedia. The appearance, layout, and arrange- ment are very similar to Scribner's Ency- clopedia of American Social History (see the September 1993 column). The 274 topi- cal and thematic essays by 193 contribu- tors strive to present a "comprehensive coverage and a comparative analysis of the settlements ... , [incorporating] re- cent changes of scholarly emphasis on the spatial, demographic, cultural, eco- nomic and social aspects of the colonial past."-Pref. The essays are arranged within broad topics: The American con- text, Old World expansion, Colonial set- tings, Government and law, Economic life, Labor systems, Racial interaction, War and diplomacy, Social fabric, Folk- ways, Families and the life course, Life of the mind, Science and technology, The arts, Education, Religion, Toward inde- pendence. Within a topic, for example under Families and the life course, there are shorter essays, such as Family struc- ture, Sexual mores and behavior, Mar- riage, Childhood and adolescence, Old age and death, Native American families and life cycles; within these headings separate entries cover the British colo- nies, the Dutch colonies, the French colo- nies, and the colonies of the Spanish borderlands. The arrangement is all spelled out in the Table of Contents. Each article is signed, well-written, has copious cross-references to other essays as well as to maps (there are thirty-two --- - ------------------------------------------------------- 250 College & Research Libraries maps), and always a bibliography of ma- jor studies mostly published within the last twenty years. The index is detailed with "see also" references, and the larger headings are broken down by subhead- ings; the major articles are identified by boldface type and the tables by italic type. The Chronology runs from 985 and Erik the Red to 1867 when Russia sold its North American possessions. The list of contributors includes the titles of the ar- ticles that each wrote. And how does this work compare with The Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America. John Mark Faragher, general editor (New York: Facts on File, [1990]. 484p.)? The Faragher has an emphasis on the English colonies, has short articles, has maps and portraits, only occasional bibliog- raphies at the ends of the articles, and a subject index. There are "Topic Guides" which accompany major articles in order to identify shorter articles related to them; for example, the topic guide with the article for Frontier lists about thirty- five general articles and thirty bio- graphical entries. For ready reference the Faragher would be a quicker starting point but for in-depth research, scholars will be very glad to have Cooke's Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies.-E.M. Epstein, Catherine. A Past Renewed: A Cata- log of German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933. Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1993. 386p. $54.95 (ISBN 0521- 44063-7). LC 92-568. Catherine Epstein has compiled a bio- bibliography of "historians of modern Europe ... , historians of Jewish and other religions' histories, historians of economics and law, historians of medi- cine, and historians of Oriental and an- cient people" (In trod.) who emigrated to the United States between 1933 and 1940 from one of the German-speaking parts of Central Europe. To be included these scholars must have received formal training and have embarked on a career in Germany or the Austro-Hungarian May1994 Empire, taught history after their arrival in the United States, and have enough information available for Epstein to be able to reconstruct their careers. For each scholar brief biographical in- formation is given (birth, death, year of emigration, citizenship, education, pro- fessional work), a bibliography of works by the subject and also works about him (only five women appear), references to any published bibliographies for the person, and a note locating the archives. Appendixes give a bibliography of general works on German-speaking refugee historians and a discussion of the historians for which little data can be found. The topical index is carefully done with boldface type for the individ- ual entries; it includes references for the institutions with which the subjects were affiliated either in Europe or the United States. This compilation will be extremely useful, of course, to the historiographer but also for the student just looking for biographical information on an author.- E.M. Favier, Jean. Dictionnaire de Ia France Medievale. Paris: Fayard, 1993. 982p. 750 FF (ISBN 2-213-03139-8). This dictionary of medieval France is based on Jean Fa vier's considerable eru- dition as a scholar and archivist. He is the director of the Archives Na tionales and author of a number of books for specialists and for general readers. The dictionary covers some ten centuries of the history of the French people, roughly spanning from the fourth to fifteenth centuries. Here the geographic bounda- ries are of secondary importance: from England to the Middle East, whether it be a crusade or the house of Lusignan in Cyprus, the book will take us wherever the French were active. Concise and informative articles cover all aspects of medieval French society from the Church and the royal govern- ~ent systems to daily life such as cloth- ing items and food. Each article ranges from a few lines to more than ten pages. The author omits on purpose any bibli- ography that he considers to have a lim- ited utility because it would become ob- solete rather quickly and most people are unlikely to have access to a special- ized research collection. Good cross-ref- erences are throughout. Attractively illustrated with numerous monochrome photographs and thirty-two pages of color plates.-J.S. Historical Atlas of the Middle East. G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.144p. 30cm. $55 (ISBN 0-13-390915-8). LC 93-9294/map. There are surprisingly few up-to-date historical atlases of the Middle East. Some are more like picture books than atlases, others are limited to Biblical or Islamic history. The Historical Atlas of the Middle East is, therefore, a welcome ad- dition to any collection of historical at- lases in school and home libraries. The work is intended for the general reader but would serve well for college libraries. Arranged chronologically, the 113 maps cover the period from earliest historical times to the present and treat the Middle East in the context of the Mediterranean world and beyond, rang- ing from Spain and Morocco to Afghani- stan. One of the maps presents the percentage of Muslims in the total popu- lation for the countries of the world. The information is presented in dou- ble-page spreads with maps on the right- hand pages in shades of gray and green accompanied by commentaries on the left pages which summarize the histori- cal background. With a detailed table of contents, bibliography, and an index which includes cross-references to vari- ant place names, it will prove very useful for scholars and for students.-} .S. Slavic Studies: A Guide to Bibliographies, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks. Com- piled and edited by Murlin Croucher. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Re- sources, 1993. 2 vols. (986p.) $150 (ISBN 0-8420-2374-7). LC 92-28912. This impressive survey of more than 5,200 reference sources for the study of Slavic countries and cultures is clearly destined to become a classic. Reflecting many years of work, it lists major bibli- Selected Reference Books of 1993 251 ographies, catalogs, directories, diction- aries, encyclopedias, gazetteers, hand- books, and various other reference works in English, French, German, and the Slavic languages. All works were ex- amined by the author, and most entries include useful annotations concerning contents and the place of a work in the broader context of reference sources. Two initial sections entitled "Area Studies" and "Eastern Europe and the Balkans" include works that treat the region as a whole (the first including the former Soviet Union, the second exclud- ing it). Then follow individual sections devoted to Bulgaria, the former Czecho- slovakia, Poland, the former Soviet Un- ion, and the former Yugoslavia. At the end is a listing of general reference works that contain import ant rna terial of relevance to Slavic studies, followed by author and subject indexes. Croucher has done an outstanding job of assembling the key reference works in the field. Inevitably, as with any bibliog- raphy of this kind, each user will find one or two additional titles that she or he might have included. This reviewer, for example, would have added Alfonsas Se~plaukis' s Lituanica Collections in Euro- pean Research Libraries: A Bibliography (Suppl. DC162), Christoph Schmidt's Ausgewiihlte Bibliographien und Bibliotheks- katalog zur russischen Sozialgeschichte, 1861-1917 (see March 1993 column), and the eight-volume srownik Starozytnosci SlOwiariskich (Wrocaw: Ossolineum, 1961-91), although only the last of these omissions could be described as a major oversight. Amore serious problem is the compli- cated arrangement of entries, which are filed in alphabetical order of subject headings within each country chapter, much as in a card catalog and, within a given heading, in a kind of chronologi- cal order that is not always easy to follow. This, combined with an absence of cross references in the text or index, makes the work somewhat difficult to scan and hinders quick look-ups of known items. A reader looking for the Polish literary bibliography, perhaps best known as "Nowy Korbut" (Guide 252 College & Research Libraries BD1304) for example, will not find it under that entry in the index even though the work is included in the bib- liography. A user scanning the Lithu- anian entries in the former Soviet Union section could easily miss Patricia Grim- sted's Archives and Manuscript Reposito- ries in the USSR: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Belorussia (Guide AB155), since it is listed elsewhere as a multitopic work, and no cross-reference is provided. In short, to make the best use of this work, one must study it carefully, but the result is sure to be rewarding for schol- ars seeking to identify the tools needed to begin their research or to chase down a particular citation. It is likewise certain to prove a valuable tool for librarians in assessing the completeness of their Slavic reference holdings. A work of this high quality and com- prehensiveness invites comparisons with Paul Horecky's standard bibliog- raphies of basic publications for Rus- sian, East Central European, and Southeast European studies (Guide DC530, OC25, OC26 respectively). Like those works, it belongs in every library supporting research relating to the Slavic field, even ones without extensive Slavic collections of their own.-R.H.S. NEW EDITIONS AND SUPPLEMENTS The fifth edition of the Columbia Ency- clopedia, edited by Barbara A. Chernow and George A. Vallasi (New York: Co- lumbia Univ. Pr.; sold and distributed by Houghton Mifflin, [1993]. 3048p., $99; 4th ed., 1975, Guide AC9) has been up- dated to late 1992. The publisher esti- mates that 40 percent of the articles are revised. So a cursory look reveals that Bill Clinton and the Commonwealth of Independent States have entries; I. The Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English begins with a Catalogue of Sources (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993, 186p. $53), compiled by Margaret Laing. It "aims to list all the potential sources May1994 for LAEME, that is, any surviving text written down in English between ca. 1150 and 1300 .... [It can also serve] as a useful reference book for any study of English at this period whether its prime concerns be linguistic, textual, literary or historical" (Introd.). The arrangement is by repository and the annotation in- cludes references to indexes, antholo- gies, further editions, other studies, and published facsimiles. Richard Combs and Nancy R. Owen have revised the 1971 Authors: Critical and Biographical References, 2d ed. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1993. 478p., $49.50; 1st ed. 1971, Guide BD116). They have increased the number of authors from 1,400 to 3,317 and the number of books analyzed from 500 to 1,158 titles. Literatur Lexikon: Autoren und · Werke deutsche Sprache, edited by Walther Killy, is now complete in fifteen volumes (Giit- tersloh and Munich: Bertelsmann, 1988- 93. 15 vols., 2520 DM). Volumes 1-12 treat German-speaking authors and anonymous titles, while volumes 13-14 concentrate on themes, methodology, movements such as humanism, farce, psychoanalysis and literature, and the Weimar Republic. The last volume is an index for personal names, anonymous titles, and topics. Another German set now complete is the second edition of Gerhard Dunnhaupt's Personalbibliographien zu den Drucken des Barock (Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1990-93. 6 vols. 4723p. 2000 DM per vol- ume). This set provides a bibliography of original writings and translations for 200 major German seventeenth-century authors. Volume 6 completes the alpha- bet and has the indexes: name, pseudo- nym, publisher, anonymous title, place of publication, and topic. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Po- etry and Poetics, edited by Alex Premin- ger and T.V. F. Brogan (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Pr., 1993. 1383p., $125) has totally revised the enlarged edition (1974, Guide. BD314) adding "all those movements in recent criticism and liter- ary theory that bear on poetry, ... [as well as] increased coverage of emergent and non-Western poetry" (Pref.). The bibliography has been much updated, there are more cross-references, and the editors have labored for a very clear prose style. Coverage of the period 1625-1700 is now complete for the Index of English Literary Manuscripts, compiled by Peter Beal, with the volume for Nathaniel Lee-William Wycherley (London: Man- sell, 1993. 672p. $500; for other parts of the title which have been published, see Guide BD546). Beal states that he hopes to issue an index for 1450-1700 with sec- tions for titles, first lines of poems, per- ·sonal names, manuscripts by location and which will also include supplementary entries and information gained since 1980. The Concise Companion to Classical Lit- erature (Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1993. 575p., $18.95) is really a revised and abridged version of the Ox- ford Companion to Classical Literature edi- tion of 1989 (Suppl. BD366) shortened by about one-third by omitting a few ob- scure mythological figures, "dropping or radically shortening the long general entries that are not specific to litera- ture-such as agriculture, architecture, and army-and by recasting in pithier form those on the history, political and topographical background" (Pre[.). Geoffrey Parker, editor of the fourth edition of the Times Atlas of World History (London: Times Books; Maplewood, N.J.: Hammond, 1993. 360p., 37cm., $95; 3d ed., 1989, Suppl. DA30) has examined all the maps with particular attention to the prehistoric and post-1945 sections. Also revised is the twelve-page chronol- ogy which now covers from around 9000 B.C. to 1991-92. Contrary to the usual practice, the lat- est cumulative index for the National Un- ion Catalog of Manuscript Collections (Guide DA64) covers only four years, 1986 through 1990 (Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String, 1992. 597p.) because in 1986 a national database of archives and manuscripts was begun on RLIN. Thus we should all keep the 1985 annual in- dex. NUC-MC has broadened its defini- tion and now covers oral histories, sound recordings, audiotapes, paintings, video recordings, playbills, and screenplays. Selected Reference Books of 1993 255 Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography, 1900-1991, compiled by Joseph C. Miller (Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus, 1993, 576p., $90) is a major updating. The 19,351 entries are double that of the 1983 edition of 5,117 entries and more than six times as extensive as the 1977 (Guide CC381) which had 1,645. The bibliography now includes "secon- dary, scholarly works, written from the perspective of any academic discipline, reflecting directly on slavery or on the slave trade anywhere in the world and published in a Western European lan- guage, ... substantial reviews and re- view essays, unpublished conference papers, encyclopedia articles of more than routine significance, articles in scholarly periodicals, popular history magazines, and serious journalism, chapters in multi-authored, edited col- lections, and books and monographs, translations and reprints .... " (Introd.). Barry Klein's Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian now in its sixth edi- tion (West Nyack, N.Y.: Todd Publica- tions, 1993. 679p., $125; 5th ed. 1990, ~ ·~ CHRISTIAN - PERIODICAL INDEX •!• Over 90 Index covers a Titles •!• Beginning broad spectrum of in 1956 knowledge from •!• Published an evangelical Three Christian Times a perspective. Year 256 College & Research Libraries Suppl. CC226) is in four parts: (1) Source listings, which is a directory of relevant organizations, agencies, tribal authorities, etc., with a new chapter on arts and crafts shops and cooperatives; (2) Canadian listings; (3) bibliography of approximately 4,500 books in print presented by broad top- ics with a publishers index; ( 4) bio- graphical sketches of 2,500 important Native and non-Native Americans prominent in Indian affairs, business, arts, professions, history. Lionel V. Lorofia is again editing the supplement to Gropp's A Bibliography of Latin American Bibliographies (Guide AA77), this time the fifth, for bibliog- raphies published 1985-89 (Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1993. 314p., $39.50) plus a few items missed in the earlier supple- ments. This volume is arranged by broad topics subdivided by country with sub- ject and author indexes and includes a list of serial titles cited/ examined. Scarecrow Press has begun another se- ries of dictionaries of the history of a country: European Historical Dictionaries and they are leading from strength with Volume 1: Historical Dictionary of Portugal by Douglas L. Wheeler (Metuchen, N.J.: May1994 1993. 288p., $37.50). Wheeler covers all facets of Portuguese history up to about 1990 with articles mostly about indi- viduals, places, organizations, including a few longer survey articles under such topics as colonial empire or relations with other countries. But the real joy is the very extensive bibliography of Por- tuguese and English materials. The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, edited by Ephraim Stern (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. 4 vols., 1552p., $295; 1st ed., 1976-78, Guide BB187) updates the coverage of the sites to 1991 and adds new ones, with signed articles by scholars, a bibliography, and an index of people and places. The Stern ency- clopedia is, of course, the source for discussion of specific sites. For inter- pretation and extrapolation, one ref- erence to which the reader will turn is the Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land, edited by Avraham Negev, 3d ed. (New York: Prentice Hall, 1990, 419p.; 1st ed. 1972, Guide BB188) for its articles on daily life, culture, technology, etc. Unfortu- nately Negev is not indexed nor does it have any bibliography.