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access to this volume therefore becomes of 
utmost importance to most scholars. The 
absence of place maps ^nd regional maps is 
a disadvantage, too, but considering overall 
size and comprehensiveness, this omission can 
be overlooked on the grounds that the volume 
is large and expensive as it is. 

The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer un-
doubtedly will be the standard English lan-
guage gazetteer for many years. As such, it 
is and will be an indispensible library refer-
ence tool in geographical, historical, and many 
related fields of investigation.—Merle C. 
Prunty, Jr., Department of Geography, Uni-
versity of Georgia. 

English Literature 1660-1800 
English Literature 1660-1800: a Bibliography 

of Modern Studies compiled for Philologi-
cal Quarterly. By Ronald S. Crane, Louis 
I. Bredvold, Richmond P. Bond, Arthur 
Friedman, and Louis A. Landa. Vol. I : 
1926-1938. Vol. I I : 1939-1950. Prince-
ton: Princeton University Press, 1950-52. 
Vol. I, $5.00; Vol. II, $7.50. 
The compiling of annual period bibliog-

raphies within the field of historical and 
literary research is a noteworthy phenomenon 
of the last generation in America. Since 1916, 
when the first one was started, nearly every 
field with some overlapping has acquired its 
own special bibliography, usually with the 
blessing or active sponsorship of a correspond-
ing research group of the Modern Language 
Association. Neither the annual cumulations 
nor such a collection as the present can ever 
supersede in general library usefulness such 
comprehensive bibliographies as the Cam-
bridge Bibliography of English Literature, but 
scholars have found the annual period bibliog-
raphy the most useful guide to recent publica-
tion; even when a comprehensive bibliography 
is new, the period bibliography records (and 
often assesses) all publications too recent to 
have been incorporated in the proofs of the 
larger work. Now, since the task of search-

ing year by year through the annual volumes 
of the Philological Quarterly has grown in-
creasingly burdensome, the Princeton Press 
has made this series conveniently available to 
libraries and scholars by reprinting it photo-
graphically. T o the reprint Professor Landa 
has prefixed a brief "Foreword," and an Index 
(to both volumes) in Vol. I I . 

Since the entries of the first volume are 
more or less incorporated in the Cambridge 
Bibliography, the second volume (1939-1950) 
with the consolidated index will be more used. 
T h e index of some sixty pages is not exhaus-
tive, but it is the most significant addition to 
the- reprint. Included in a single alphabet 
without analysis are page references to the 
names of scholar-authors of books and articles, 
the names of eighteenth-century figures dis-
cussed, and some references to selected topical 
entries like Booksellers, Gothic, Plato, Primi-
tivism, the Spectator, and Voyages. Not 
much duplication is allowed in the topical 
entries; e.g., Straus's Curll is indexed under 
Straus and under Curll but not under Book-
sellers; Professor Jones's Ancients and 
Moderns under Ancient-Modern Controversy 
but not under Bentley, Swift, or Idea of 
Progress; and Professor Landa, who himself 
reviewed Professor Fairchild's Religious 
Sentimentalism in the Age of Johnson, de-
clines to index it under Sentimentalism. The 
index, therefore, is no substitute for a search 
through the critical comments on books and 
articles of interest to the inquirer. A fuller 
subject index would prove useful, and sixty-
five page references under Shakespeare will 
prove tedious to inquirers asking what has 
been written concerning Shakespeare by 
scholars dealing with later authors, but no 
extension of the index seemed feasible within 
the plan of this reprint. 

Regrettably, no space has been found to 
record significent errors or omissions dis-
covered in this quarter-century cumulation, 
save for one page of embarrassing but harm-
less misspellings of personal names.—A. T. 
Hazen, Columbia University 

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