College and Research Libraries analytical (often called "historical") bib- liography. The last sentence of the book refers the reader to McKerrow's Introduction to Bib- liography for Literary Students as the source of information on how to become a bibliographer. Willoughby's book, indeed, might well be considered as a sort of pref- ace to McKerrow, giving the prospective student an over-all view of the goals to be achieved if he learns well the lessons about chain lines, signature marks, cancels, and the other not too recondite esoterica of bibilog- raphy.—Oliver L. Lilley, School of Library Service, Columbia University. Research in Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures as Pre- sented in German Doctoral Dissertations 1885-1950. By Hans Flasche. Bonn: H. Bouvier U. Co.; Charlottesville: Biblio- graphical Society of the University of Vir- ginia, 1958. 299p. $7.50. Americans engaged in research on any as- pect of Romance language or literature will find it worthwhile to examine Professor Flasche's Romance Languages and Liter- atures as Presented in German Doctoral Dis- sertations. For librarians and researchers who have found it necessary to search laboriously .through the Jahresverzeichnis der deutschen Hochschulschriften for Romance language materials, this subject bibliography will be particularly welcome. The work forms a companion volume to Richard Mummendey's bibliography of Ger- man university publications in English stud- ies from 1885 to 1950. Approximately 4,030 dissertations on Romance studies from Ger- man universities (including Strassburg to 1918 and Austrian universities from 1938 to 1945) are listed according to a well-designed, detailed subject arrangement and indexed by author and subject. The arrangement is an adaptation of Kuhn's system used in the Bibliographie der Zeitschrift fiir Romanisch Philologie. Multiple listings of dissertations touching on more than one subject greatly increase the work's usefulness, since the lines dividing linguistics, stylistics, and literature are indefinite at best. In his preface the author states that the work is based on the Jahresverzeischnis, on Alker's Verzeichnis der an der Universitat Wien approbierten Dissertationen 1937-44, and on lists submitted by the university li- braries at Graz and Innsbruck covering their publications from 1938 to 1945. Though the first of these sources is generally available, the others are scarce enough to make items listed in them effectively new materials for American scholars. Entries in the linguistics section are ar- ranged by author or writer treated in the study, while in the literary part materials are arranged in broad historical sections by author or subject. Entries include the in- stitution at which the dissertation was ac- cepted, date of acceptance, form if not pub- lished, and, where possible, citations of journals or series in which the dissertation appeared. In addition to university Romance publications, the bibliography includes ma- terials in the fields of philosophy, compara- tive literature, English studies, and German studies which contain sections relating to Romance studies. T o aid English- and French-speaking users, the preface, headings, and abbreviations are all tri-lingual. For American researchers, the English preface contains information on Ger- man interlibrary loan policies, microfilming prices, and suggestions for obtaining the listed materials. Though some entries in the literary sec- tion of this work may be covered in other bibliographies, the linguistic studies cited here are far more difficult to find. The im- portance of earlier German scholarship in philology, structural, or descriptive linguis- tics makes Flasche's work a valuable addition to any university library. It is a careful work, well designed and well printed. Scan- ning its entries reveals names of many men now famous as scholars and writers, both in Europe and America. Item 149, for example, concerns a dissertation accepted at Bonn in 1891, titled Laute und Lautenwicklung der Mundart von Girgenti, by a struggling young doctoral candidate named Luigi Pirandello. —Floyd Cammack, Cornell University. JANUARY 1959 83