College and Research Libraries the University of Virginia, 1955. 217 p. $20.00 ($10.00 to members.) T o his constantly useful Index to the P o l - l a r d - R e d g r a v e Short-Title Catalogue, printed in 1950 by photo-offset, D r . M o r r i s o n has now added a similar Index to the 80,000 entries in W i n g . O n e could wish to revive a useful old w o r d to praise such "indicular" devotion: countless hours of patient listing have pro- duced a tool that younger scholars w i l l soon be taking f o r granted. B u t the tool here provided w i l l assuredly continue f o r a f e w years to seem to older w o r k e r s almost mi- raculous in the ease with which it now makes possible any search for books of a known printer or bookseller: in the dull columns now laid before us is a quick identification of any English book that contains the name Abington or Y o u n g in its imprint, or any name in between, and then one can continue to study the publishing history of that man. Even the arrangement by years under each name has a distinct convenience. O n e immediate value of this Index w i l l be its capability of correcting or supplementing the information in the T e r m C a t a l o g u e s and Plomer's lists as to the span of years during which the different booksellers remained active; in fact, this w i l l make the needed re- vision of Plomer almost easy. E v e r y book here recorded under a man's name may pos- sibly add to the sum of knowledge concerning his activity. (Some caution w i l l be required because D r . M o r r i s o n has purposely com- bined t w o or more men of the same name into one list, e.g., B a r k e r and D a n i e l . ) N o doubt some errors have crept in dur- ing the indexing, transcribing, setting in type, and proofing of such a staggering mass of numbers. B u t the w o r k seems steadily ac- curate, and any errors can be readily cor- rected in use. A f e w false dates have been l e f t uncorrected, for example, whether or not W i n g corrected them, to produce slightly startling entries with dates earlier than 1641, as under John Bill, John Crouch, Leonard Lichfield, W i l l i a m M a r s h a l , and H e n r y T w y - ford. Somewhat oddly, D r . M o r r i s o n apolo- gizes in his preface for two strange entries in the Index, each of which could have been verified or corrected, to judge by the loca- tions in W i n g , by a single inquiry addressed to an American l i b r a r i a n . — A . T. Hazen, Columbia University. Recent~Foreign Books on the Graphic A r t s , Bibliography, and Library Science Shortly before W o r l d W a r I, O . W i l l - mann and E. M . Rohloff edited an important Lexikon der Pddagogik in five volumes. In 1930-32 this w o r k w a s supplemented and brought up-to-date by the Lexikon der Pddagogik der Gegenwart, edited by the Deutsches Institut f u r Wissenschaftliche Padagogik in M u n s t e r , W e s t p h a l i a . I m - portant as these seven volumes w e r e , it w a s out of the question to attempt to issue further supplementary volumes. O n l y a completely new edition could be satisfactory and this is what the Deutsches Institut in M u n s t e r and the Institut f u r Vergleichende Erziehungs- wissenschaft in S a l z b u r g have given us in the new Lexikon der Padagogik ( F r e i b u i g : H e r d e r , 1952-55; 4 vols.; D M 224. f o r the s e t ) . In the very beginning one important point should be emphasized about this great r e f e r - ence w o r k : although the publisher is a lead- ing Catholic firm, and although the sponsor- ship and orientation of the w o r k is basically Catholic, the breadth and bona fide objectivity of the Lexikon lend it a significance that reaches f a r beyond any sectarian limitation. In many respects the Catholic orientation is positively a virtue, for example, in the ade- quate treatment of the history of education in the M i d d l e Ages. M o r e o v e r , in the absence of any Protestant or non-sectarian encyclo- pedia of education, the Lexikon must be recognized as the one definitive recent w o r k of its type. T h e complete w o r k contains contributions by over 700 authorities. T h e r e are 3,950 articles and references. T h e exhaustive in- dex at the end of the fourth volume contains some 16,500 entries. Every aspect of the his- tory, practice, and theory of education is represented f o r the new Lexikon proposes to be absolutely comprehensive in its field. Each article is signed by the name of the author. Contributors are identified in a list at the beginning of each volume. T h i s list is followed by an alphabetical list of articles with page numbers to serve as a sort of table of contents. Comparatively f e w abbreviations ( f o r a w o r k of this magnitude) are used, but OCTOBER, 1955 40 7 they are consistent and may be quickly identi- fied in a table at the f r o n t of each volume. T h e r e is a selected bibliography at the end of each article, and the f a c t t h a t many r e f e r - ences bear a date only shortly b e f o r e press time is indicative of the alertness of the edi- tors. In the case of biographical articles there are lists of the subject's main w o r k s as w e l l as of articles and books about him. Biblio- graphical references are given in all languages, but there is a n a t u r a l predominance of G e r - man. U n f o r t u n a t e l y there are some r e f e r - ences to articles in relatively obscure periodi- cals not generally available in this country, but that is no f a u l t of the editors. P e r h a p s one of the most striking aspects of the Lexikon is its breadth and t r u l y interna- tional character. I t represents the one tradition in G e r m a n education, the C a t h o l i c one, that the N a z i s w e r e never able to exile or destroy. I t is a tradition that is j u s t as s t r o n g today in the relatively f e w centers of Catholicism in E a s t G e r m a n y , w h e r e the regime is an even more implacable f o e of religion than N a t i o n a l Socialism w a s . T h u s , in the Lexi- kon w e find impressively accurate evaluations of m o r a l r e a r m a m e n t , R . M . Hutchins, or the idea of " f a i r p l a y " (entered under the E n g - lish w o r d s ) . T h e Lexikon is bringing to G e r m a n y ideas t h a t w e r e excluded f o r a decade and a h a l f , but in doing so it is o r - g a n i z i n g the w h o l e corpus of modern pedago- gical k n o w l e d g e so t h a t it w i l l be in a u s e f u l reference f o r m f o r educators e v e r y w h e r e . T h e Lexikon has the happy v i r t u e of com- bining the ready reference function w i t h the encyclopedic. A r t i c l e s and cross references are organized so that essential information is available at a glance, but there are also many detailed surveys of certain key sub- jects. N e a r l y all articles are w e l l w r i t t e n , and f e w are burdened w i t h the oppressively erudite style of most specialized G e r m a n encyclopedias. F o r the librarian, either in a popular or reference collection, the potential v a l u e of the Lexikon is high. T h e relationship of philoso- phy, psychology, sociology, and even theology to education are much the same as to librarian- ship. T o take but a couple of examples of articles of g r e a t e s t v a l u e to librarians, r e f e r - ences may be made to those on the history of universities and to those on adult education. T h e n e w Lexikon der Pddagogik is a r e f e r - ence w o r k of prime importance. B o t h the f o u r v o l u m e s of the set and a volume en- titled Pddagogik im Bilde, a sort of a pic- torial supplement announced f o r early publica- tion by H e r d e r , w i l l have a basic place in any reference collection in college and uni- versity libraries and in many public libraries as w e l l . A new title in M a r t i n u s N i j h o f f ' s distin- guished list of bibliographical titles in the Bibliotheca catholica neerlandica impressa, 1500-1727 ( T h e H a g u e : N i j h o f f , 1 9 5 4 ; 669 p a g e s ; fl. 40). I t is a short-title c a t a l o g u e of 18,754 titles printed in the L o w C o u n t r i e s ( N e t h e r l a n d s and B e l g i u m ) f r o m 1500 to 1727. A l l books relating to any aspect of C a t h o l i c i s m that appeared in the L o w C o u n - tries d u r i n g this period w e r e included insofar as they w e r e identified. A l t h o u g h most of the titles are in D u t c h or L a t i n , the basic cri- terion f o r inclusion w a s the place of printing r a t h e r than the l a n g u a g e . T h e a r r a n g e m e n t is chronological, but there is an alphabetical author and title index. T h e bibliography w a s compiled by several hands and f r o m v a r i o u s sources, including books and periodicals, c a t a l o g s of libraries and antiquarian book dealers, biographies as w e l l as bibliography. A source is given f o r every title in the bibliography. N o e f f o r t w a s made to consult the texts. N e i t h e r w a s every source used compared to ascertain loca- tions once a title w a s identified, and many of the entries f o r which no location is given may be in D u t c h or B e l g i a n libraries. Sci- entific w o r k s and those relating strictly to in- terconfessional controversy w e r e omitted. T h e basis of the w o r k w a s laid by W . P e r - quin in 1944 w i t h several thousand slips. B e - t w e e n 1946 and 1950 R e v . L . V e r s c h u e r e n and ten c o l l a b o r a t o r s expanded the file. In 1950 R e v . A . v a n D i j k of L o u v a i n began to edit the w h o l e body of m a t e r i a l and prepare it f o r publication. In spite of the history of the compilation, the finished w o r k s h o w s a high degree of ac- c u r a c y . C o m p a r i s o n w i t h such sources as the N i j h o f f - K r o n e n b e r g Nederlandsche Biblio- graphie van 1500 tot 1540 shows that there are f e w errors. A s a reference w o r k the bibliography is essential to all students of gen- eral and religious history of E u r o p e during the period of R e f o r m a t i o n and C o u n t e r - R e f - ormation. In this sesquicentennial year of H a n s C h r i s t i a n A n d e r s e n ' s birth a flood of A n d e r - 428 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES sen literature is appearing. L a r g e numbers of Scandinavian g i f t books have been issued, and there is a very substantial volume of critical literature. In the second volume of Fund og Forsk- ning, the annual published by the Royal L i b r a r y in Copenhagen, there are three A n - dersen articles. T h e most memorable, per- haps, is that of E r i k D a l on the Royal L i - brary's acquisition of the magnificent A n d e r - sen collection of H o l g e r L a a g e - P e t e r s e n , w i t h some 4,500 books, 400 letters by Andersen, and numerous other Andersen items. M a n y photographs of Andersen w e r e taken by H e n - rik T i l e m a n n , and some of them are in the L a a g e - P e t e r s e n collection. B j 0 r n Ochsner at- tempts to identify and date the Andersen photographs. A third Andersen article is by H . Tops0e-Jensen on the recent acquisition of the first half of the manuscript of " L i t t l e Ida's F l o w e r s " by the Royal L i b r a r y . T h e first half w a s in the Collin collection, long in the ownership of the Royal L i b r a r y . A l l but one of the essays in V o l u m e I I of Fund og Forskning are in Danish with de- tailed English summaries. T h e most interest- ing of all, however, is in English with a Danish resume. It is the exciting story of the acquisition of a rare collection of T i b e t a n books for the Royal L i b r a r y by Prince Peter of Greece and D e n m a r k . Another fascinating story of the library's orientalia is in L e o Buschardt's essay on the Balinese correspond- ence of M a d s Lange, nineteenth century Danish sailor and East India traveller. T y c h o Brahe is the subject of t w o articles, one by H a r a l d Mortensen on Brahe's library and another by Edv. G o t f r e d s e n on the ac- counts of Brahe's last illness and death. Svend D a h l , retired director of the Royal L i b r a r y , has made a valuable contribution to the history of library administration with his essay on A d a m W i l h e l m Hauch, appointed head librarian in 1829. M o g e n s Haugsted has w r i t t e n on early Danish printers' and publishers' marks, Jean A n k e r on J. E. C . W a l t e r s ' illustrated book on Scandinavian birds ( 1 8 4 1 ) , Henning Einersen on the twenty-two incunabula acquired by the li- brary since 1938 when M a d s e n ' s catalog listed some 4,300 pieces, R. Paulli on an eighteenth century silver filigree binding, the earliest Danish dedicated books, and the appreciation of H o l b e r g ' s Nicolai Klimii Iter Subter- raneum abroad. F e w libraries can boast of equally stately collections as the Danish Royal L i b r a r y , and f e w that can have such a hand- some and useful publication as Fund og Forskning. T h e second edition of Johann Schlem- minger's Fachworterbuch des Buchwesens; Deutsch-Englisch-Franzosisch ( D a r m s t a d t : F a c h v e r l a g D r . N . Stoytscheff, 1954; 367 pages; D M 14.80) is the best recent glossary of the book. I t contains three alphabets, viz., ( 1 ) German-English-French, ( 2 ) English- G e r m a n ; and ( 3 ) F r e n c h - G e r m a n . I t covers all aspects of book production, the book trade, and peripheral fields. T h e new edition has superseded the earlier edition completely. I t has some 6,000 techni- cal words and phrases as against 3,500 in the first edition. A l t h o u g h there w e r e relatively f e w errors in the French and English sections of the first edition, virtually all have been eliminated by unusually c a r e f u l proofreading in the second edition. T h e r e are relatively f e w abbreviations, but they are clear and con- sistently used. A n especially useful feature is the indication of the gender of the G e r m a n words. T h e Fachworterbuch des Buchwesens has no exact counterpart among any of the three m a j o r languages of the w o r l d . T h e r e are specialized encyclopedias of bibliography and librarianship, there are glossaries of single fields of the book arts, and there are smaller glossaries of the book. H o w e v e r , none of these reference w o r k s combine in a single vol- ume so many w o r d s and phrases relating to the book in English, French and G e r m a n . A m a j o r new biographical reference w o r k is the Osterreichisches biographisches Lexikon, of which the first two fascicles, carrying the alphabet through Engelbert D o l l f u s s , ap- peared in 1954 in the Hermann Bohlau V e r - l a g ( G r a z - V i e n n a - C o l o g n e ) . Each fascicle is sold to subscribers for D M 6.50. T h e r e w i l l be some five or six volumes, each consisting of about five fascicles. A t present it is hoped to issue at least three fascicles a year. M o s t of the sketches are fairly short, oc- cupying at the most a single column (e.g., such prominent Austrians as D o l l f u s s or E d - w a r d von B a u e r n f e l d ) . T h e sketches are un- signed but obviously have been subjected to rigid editorial standardization. F o l l o w i n g each biography there is a list of the biog- raphee's main w o r k s and a list of critical and biographical w o r k s about him. OCTOBER, 1955 40 7 T h e origins of the Osterreichisches bio- graphisches Lexikon go back to A n t o n Bettel- heim, and O s w a l d Redlich, w h o planned a comprehensive biographical dictionary of all prominent A u s t r i a n s f r o m 1815 to 1918. F r o m 1923 to 1935 eight volumes of Ausge- wahlte Lebensbilder w e r e published by the A m a l t h e a V e r l a g , and a second series of shorter sketches w a s planned as a sort of a revision of W u r z b a c h . In 1946 the Oster- reichische A k a d e m i e der Wissenschaften es- tablished a "Kommission z u r A u s a r b e i t u n g eines osterreichischen biographischen L e x i - kons" under the chairmanship of L e o Santi- faller, head of the Institute for A u s t r i a n Historical Research. T h u s this w o r k arose. T h e scope includes all A u s t r i a n s w h o re- sided on territory within the A u s t r i a n juris- diction between 1815 and 1950. A l l branches of activity are included. T h u s the whole broad geographical area of the old D a n u b e monarchy is included in this w o r k . I t is not difficult to uncover much of the motley color of old A u s t r i a in reading some of the sketches, despite the strictly scholarly methods of the editors. T h e Osterreichisches biographisches Lexi- kon is a model w o r k in every sense. It is conceived and executed according to the best standards of historical scholarship. A b o v e all, however, it covers a part of the w o r l d that has not ceased to have a m a j o r significance in international affairs despite political splinter- ing. In every reference collection a basic his- tory of each m a j o r country or m a j o r period has a place. T h e best example of such his- tories are perhaps the w e l l known C a m b r i d g e histories. In G e r m a n y Johannes Biihler has brought out a m a j o r Deutsche Geschichte, now in its fifth volume ( B e r l i n : W . de G r u y - ter, 1954; 518 pages; D M 3 2 ) , covering the late eighteenth century and the nineteenth cen- tury through the Franco-Russian w a r . Replete w i t h selective bibliography and in- dex in each volume, Biihler's w o r k has a high value as a quick reference tool. O n the other hand, Biihler is a fluent w r i t e r and a skillful interpreter of the historical past. H i s g r e a t w o r k is good reading as w e l l as a useful desk companion. Biihler is particularly significant f o r tread- ing the middle of the road path somewhere between the N a z i historians and the extreme revisionists who feel that the events of 1932- 1945 require a totally new interpretation of G e r m a n history. Biihler is cautious, perhaps excessively so at times, but caution and modesty are the hallmarks of great historical writing. Biihler's w o r k is perhaps more ur- gently needed because of G e r m a n historical w r i t i n g rather than because of G e r m a n his- tory. H e brings to libraries and scholars the best comprehensive G e r m a n history published in the last quarter of a century. T h e second edition of A r t h u r L u t h e r ' s Deutsches Land in deutscher Erzahlung appeared in 1937, and the second edition of his Deutsche Geschichte in deutscher Erzah- lung appeared in 1943. Both bibliographies w e r e unique reference w o r k s and enjoyed a useful life. W h e n a third edition w a s con- sidered, it w a s deemed most feasible to com- bine the t w o books into a single volume, Land und Leute in deutscher Erzahlung ( S t u t t - g a r t : Hiersemann, 1954; 555 pages; D M 2 8 ) . T h e new edition had the dual pur- pose of including all pertinent material a f t e r 1937 and 1943 and of providing those w h o did not own the earlier w o r k s with a selec- tion of their main content. T h e r e has necessarily been a reduction in volume of the material in the earlier w o r k s , but the selection has been judicious. T h e entries for places under 20,000 inhabitants w e r e omitted unless the localities in question had some special historical or cultural signifi- cance. F r o m the Deutsche Geschichte it w a s decided to include only those titles which dealt with a definite personality in G e r m a n history, and much fiction dealing only w i t h historical events w a s dropped. Nevertheless w e have a stately number of titles. T h e first part of Land und Leute includes 430 places w i t h about 8,000 titles of literary w o r k s using these places as a setting. T h e second part lists 680 individuals with some 2,200 titles of biographical fiction and short stories. M e m o i r s , autobiography, juveniles, and cheap literature are omitted. T h e r e are indexes of places arranged geo- graphically, of persons arranged chrono- logically, and of authors. Land und Leute is a useful reference w o r k f o r students on all levels of investigation. It has been found to be useful as a guide f o r undergraduate term papers as w e l l as f o r graduate theses. Its reference value is obvi- ous for any library with even a small collec- tion of G e r m a n literature. 430 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Existing reference books in the field of music are generally unsatisfactory in their treatment of music and musical instruments in antiquity and the early middle ages. Illus- trations of instruments are isolated in out-of- the-way serials and are not available for quick reference. T h i s gap in reference ma- terial has been filled by Friedrich Behn with his Musikleben im Alter turn und friihen Mittelalter ( S t u t t g a r t : Hiersemann, 1954; 180 pages, 100 plates; D M 3 5 ) . Behn surveys the history of music and musical instruments in twelve chapters of text followed by 100 plates containing 217 illustrations. T h e illustrations consist of photographs and drawings of the instruments, photographs of models, ancient mural paint- ings, statues of musicians, and reproductions of illuminated manuscripts. E v e r y necessary detail of the instruments is shown. W h i l e the illustrations lend a special value to Behn's w o r k , the text is also valuable. Based on Behn's extensive research in arch- aeology and pre-history, the eleven chapters of the text cover not only G r e e c e and Rome but also the ancient N e a r East, the non- Roman Italic peoples, the ancient G e r m a n i c and Celtic peoples, and the early middle ages up to the Carolingian period. Behn's w o r k w i l l be useful not only for gen- eral music reference, but also as a tool for an- cient historians, archaeologists, ethnologists, art historians, and literary historians. T h e research on which Behn has based his w o r k is meticulous and dependable, and the book w i l l be accepted by scholars in many fields. In our day it is possible to single out a f e w librarians whose influence has been broad and enduring in every sense. Scholars as w e l l as administrators, practical men as w e l l as visionaries, such personalities as W i l l i a m W a r n e r Bishop, H e r b e r t Putnam, W i l h e l m M u n t h e , Svend D a h l , A r u n d e l Esdaile, and G e o r g L e y h have given the real substance to librarianship in our era. M r . Bishop has given us fragments of autobiography, and the same thing would be more than welcome f r o m his surviving contemporaries. G e o r g e Leyh has given us a stately volume of fifteen essays selected by him as representative of nearly a quarter of a century of leadership in the library w o r l d . I t is entitled A us vierzig Jahren Bibliotheksarbeit; kleine Schriften ( W i e s b a d e n ; O t t o H a r r a s s o w i t z , 1954; 261 pages; " B e i t r a g e z u m Buch- und Bibliotheks- wesen," I I I ) . It is hardly possible to do f u l l justice to each one of the essays in this volume, and only a f e w may be singled out f o r special mention. " D a s D o g m a von der systemati- schen A u f s t e l l u n g , " a truly noteworthy essay in the Zentralblatt fur Bibliothekswesen for 1912 is the first in this volume. Classified shelving has been more of a religion than a dogma with us, but the time has now come when a f e w American librarians are recon- sidering this religion. Leyh's essay must be essential reading f o r them. Essays on F r i t z M i l k a u , F . A . Ebert, and Richard Pietsch- mann commemorate three of the truly great G e r m a n librarians and extract broadly valid principles f r o m their careers. Studies on the history of the University of Gottingen L i - brary, on older administrative practices, and basic points of library history yield a histori- cal perspective that may be valuable to all of us. A n essay on professional ("wissenschaft- l i c h " ) librarians and the middle service and their respective duties show keen insight into personnel problems. A f t e r the catastrophe of W o r l d W a r I I and retirement, L e y h w a s more active than ever. H e not only undertook the tremendous jobs of surveying w a r damage to G e r m a n libraries and editing the new edition of the Handbuch, but he also continued his research in other fields, his library historical studies (e.g., on G o t t i n g e n ) , and his theoretical specu- lative essays (e.g., " D e r Bibliothekar der Z u - k u n f t " ) in the Zentralblatt. T h e last essay, which appears here for the first time, is on " D e r junge Jacob B u r c k h a r d t . " It presents the results of a lifetime of study of the great art historian and the fruits of an astonishing activity as a collector. N o other private col- lector has a B u r c k h a r d t collection that can approach Leyh's. T h e s e fifteen essays permit us to come close to the heart of L e y h ' s thinking. I t is a system of thought which has had a profound influence on the library world on both sides of the ocean. Joris Vorstius, editor of the Zentralblatt fur Bibliothekswesen, is the honoree of the Festschrift Joris Vorstius zum 60. Geburtstag: Bibliothek, Bibliothekar, Biblio- thekswissenschaft ( L e i p z i g : H a r r a s s o w i t z , 1954; 440 pages; D M 2 4 ) . In addition to a list of V o r s t i u s ' publications f r o m 1917 to OCTOBER, 1955 40 7 I953> there are thirty-one essays divided into three m a j o r sections, ( i ) bibliography and the theory of knowledge, ( 2 ) library administra- tion and techniques and ( 3 ) the history of books and libraries. T h e most prominent li- brarians in all the G e r m a n i e s have joined in giving homage to Vorstius, and the contribu- tors include such w e l l known names as G e o r g L e y h , D o n k e r D u y v i s , and Ilse Schunke. I t would be difficult to do f u l l justice to all the important essays that have been printed in this volume. T h e fact that the book w a s edited in East G e r m a n y f o r an East G e r m a n has brought such essays as one by T o d o r Borov, director of the Bulgarian Bibliographi- cal Institute, on the primary national bibli- ography of B u l g a r i a , Frantisek H o r a k , direc- tor of the Ceskoslovenska A k a d e m i e V e d . Zakladni Knihovna in P r a g u e , on the library of the C z e c h A c a d e m y of Sciences, and O t h - mar Feyl, librarian of the University of Jena, on the classification scheme f o r the bibliogra- phies of the book chambers of the U . S . S . R . L e y h ' s little essay entitled "Bibliographisches" is another useful contribution to library his- tory. F r i t z Redenbacher's study of the build- ing problems of the University of Erlangen L i b r a r y is instructive f o r any librarian w h o wrestles w i t h spatial issues. Ilse Schunke's notes on library history in Dresden are based on her study of bindings. W i l l i G o b e r , di- rector of the old University of Berlin L i b r a r y (to be distinguished f r o m the new F r e e U n i - versity L i b r a r y ) , reviews the old problems of centralization versus decentralization, show- ing a strong tendency to the former in the present day. H u g o A l k e r reviews the history of subject cataloging in the University of V i - enna L i b r a r y for the past t w o centuries. D o n - ker D u y v i s w r i t e s on the international signifi- cance of the Index Bibliographicus. F O L K W A Y S R E C O R D S World's leading producer of AUTHENTIC folk music on RECORDS, including THE ETHNIC FOLKWAYS LI- BRARY which contains an unusual selection of the music of over 200 peoples, recorded on location by native orches- tras and vocal groups; each Long Play Record is accom- panied by extensive notes by famous collectors and recog- nized authorities . . . 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Economical Cataloging: A Reply In the article " H o w L i t t l e C a t a l o g i n g C a n Be E f f e c t i v e " (c&RL, A p r i l , 1954), M r . W y l l i s W r i g h t states that author dates shall not be recorded except to distinguish between authors of the same name represented in the catalog. I t seems to me that it adds to the understanding of a book to know at w h a t period of an author's lifetime a particular book w a s written. O n l y author dates in re- lation to the date of publication can tell whether a book w a s an early w o r k , or w r i t t e n at the prime of the author's life, or shortly before his death. A f u r t h e r simplification suggested by M r . W r i g h t is to omit all translator notes, except on cards for those standard authors w h e r e a variety of translations may be expected. I feel as long as w e trace and give credit to editors, joint editors, compilers, etc., w e should trace f o r translators, too. In my opinion, translators make a greater contribu- tion to a book than editors. T o translate requires not only a strict conformity to the original text, it means also to recreate the original movement of thought, and in case of the translation of poetry, to recast the rhythm and rhyme inherent in the original line of the poem. A s to the omission of editor notes, one may be of the opinion that one person's use of the editor information (e.g. a candidate f o r a P h . D . degree using this item) may make up for its lack of use by other students. I t seems to be very difficult to establish a criterion of usefulness of the cataloged information, because the use of the items on the catalog card is a value difficult to estimate in terms of figures and percentages.—Lucy Selig, Cataloger, Dayton (O.J Public Library. 432 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES