College and Research Libraries Review Articles College and University Business Administration College and Unive rsity Business Administra- tion. Compiled by the National Commit- tee on the Preparation of a Manual on College and University Business Adminis- tration. Volume II. Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, 1955. 267p. $4.50. The first volume of this manual was con- cerned with the principles of college and uni- veristy accounting, budgets and budgetary accounting, financial reports, audits, and the allocation of indirect expenditures and de- termination of costs. The current volume is devoted to discussions of purchasing, physical plant, property and liability insurance, in- ventory of plant assets, man agement of auxil- iary enterprises, organized activities and serv- ice departments, student affairs, non-aca- demic personnel, staff welfare, investment management, sponsored research administra- tion, and legal problems. The discussion directly related to the li- brary in this volume is concerned with in- ventory of plant assets. The following state- ment in the volume represents specific sug- gestions regarding equipment: Books are included in the category of equip- ment. New accessions, including microfilms, and the cost of binding periodicals, should be added to the inventory control records at cost and in- cluded in the plant asset accounts, appropriate adjustments being made for books lost or dis- posed of. The general library should maintain a record o£ all books acquired by the institution, regard- less of the source of funds used. The records thus maintained will suffice as a detailed inventory record, and need not be duplicated in the details of the inventory of the physical plant property. Although this is the only statement re- ferring directly to the library, there are many discussions of problems which are of concern to the college or university librarian. For example, the section dealing with "Ethics and Public Relations" under "Purchasing" contains basic suggestions for librarians in JANUARY~ 1957 dealing with agents and others who supply materials. Under "Physical Plant" many of the problems of academic librarians are con- sidered. These include building planning, space utilization, operation and mainte- nance, heating, repairs and decoration , con- trol of keys, fire protection, and similar mat- ters. The section dealing with "Sponsored Re- search Administration" describes various types of con tracts, and notes procedures in- volved in the proposal, negotiation, and im- plementation of agreements. By implication, the urgency for considering the library in any research project is suggested. This probably should have been made more specific, for experience has shown that contractual ar- rangements should designate allotments for library services. In some institutions, special forms which are used in such agreements in- clude specificati~:ms for funds for the library. An extensive bibliography includes a sec- tion, which is not complete, dealing with "Li braries, Museums, and Audio-Visual Depart- ments."-J\.:(aurice F. TauberJ Columbia Uni- v ersity. The American Book Collector The American Book Collector. Published ten times a year at 1822 School St. , Chicago 13, Ill. $5. For six years The American Book Collector (formerly The Amateur Book CollectorJ vol. 1-5) has been publishing interesting and use- ful articles and bibliographical information for book collectors and students of literature. Edited and published by W. B. Thorsen of Chicago, the journal fills the needs of those librarians who never seem to have time to keep up with the many specialized periodi- cals dealing with the varied events in the world of books. In an editorial of the Summer, 1956, issue, Editor Thorsen reported: We have at this writing, after completing six years, exactly 106 library subscribers in the 81 United States out of a total of over 13,000 li- braries. Of bookseller subscribers we have today 153, from a total of approximately 2,000 rare booksellers, antiquarian dealers, secondhand shops and book scouts. To this reviewer, this came as a bit of a shock. Therefore these remarks may serve as a memo as well as a review of the journal and its contents for readers of CRL, who may not have seen copies of The American Book Collector, or who may have neglected to order it for their libraries. Surely there are hundreds of librarians concerned with topics other than statistics, administration and tech- nical studies who would find this periodical with its bookish essays, informative articles and news items of more than casual interest. The library's clientele will find that the pub- lication has considerable appeal for them too. One of the major contributions published during 1954-55 was the work by George Chap- man Singer entitled "Marketing Methods and Channels of Distribution in the Rare Book Trade." Mr. Singer treats the many aspects of buying and selling rare books at auction and through the antiquarian shops, and pre- pared the study as a thesis in marketing at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate Divi- sion. Although this investigation may not offer new information for our librarians who are rare book specialists, this reviewer believes that many of the younger members of the profession, particularly those who have had little experience with special collections and rare books, will find much useful information in Mr. Singer's six exploratory chapters. "The series is an excellent supplement to Storm and Peckham's Invitation to Book Collecting and Carter's Taste and Technique of Book Collecting, which have appeared in recent years. The subjects treated in recent issues of The American Book Collector serve to indi- cate the scope of the journal: "Collecting Science Fiction," "Hans Christian Anderson, 1805-1955," "Bibliographical Essay on Fred- erick Rolfe (Baron Corvo)" and "News and Reviews of Private Presses." There have been brief articles on "Australiana," "Jack Lon- don a~ a Collectible Author," "Eleven Ways to Spot a Forgery," "Benjamin Franklin: American Book Collector, 1706-1956," and numerous others. A regular feature of the magazine is the inclusion of reprints of some lesser known but historically important contributions, such as Thomas A. Jones's]. Wilkes .Booth (Chi- cago, 1893) and The California journal of William Perkins, 1849-1852, which appeared serially with appropriate illustrations. In each issue there are regular columns on Lincoln- iana, Autographs, Auction Sales, and West- ern Roundup, as well as book reviews and classified advertising. The forty-page Sum- mer, 1956, issue contained the First Annual Collector's Directory and a provocative arti- cle on "American Book Burnings" by Walter Hart Blumenthal, author of Bookmen's Bed- lam. Librarians who respect the field of books and want to aid in the support of a publica- tion which provides them with authoritative. well-written articles while keeping them in- formed about sales, collectors and biblio- graphical studies will understand why The American Book Coll.ector deserves a larger list of subscribers in the profession.- H. Richard Archer, R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co. Concepts of Historiography Man on His Past: The Study of the History of H istorical Scholarship. By Herbert Butterfield. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni- versity Press, 1955. 238p. $4.50. Essays in the History of Ideas. By Arthur 0. Lovejoy. New York: George Braziller, 1955. 359p. $3.75. Those noisy proponents of the doctrine that the formal training of librarians must "get back to the book"-by which they usu- ally mean a return to bibliomania or some other manifestation of book madness-would do well to read with care these penetrating lectures presented at the Queen's University in Belfast by the distinguished Cambridge historian , Herbert Butterfield. Man on His Past, though it draws its argument from the field of historiography, specifically the his- toriography of the nineteenth century, is fundamentally a protest against that form of scholarship which is a superficial "spoon- feeding ... with secondhand knowledge." Butterfield is in constant outcry against a 82 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES