College and Research Libraries BOOK REVIEWS East Central Europe; A Guide to Basic Publications. Paul Horecky, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. 956p. $27.50. Dr. Horecky is well known as the editor of important bibliographies in the Slavistic field (Basic Russian Publications, 1962; Southeastern Europe Basic Publications~ 1969), and the announcement of a new book raised very high expectations for a significant new bibliographical tool. These hopes have not been disappointed. With the cooperation of 79 well-selected experts, Dr. Horecky has given to Slavic studies and to libraries a valuable compendium. The book is organized in six chapters: Overview of the East Central European Area; Czechoslovakia; East Germany; Hun- gary; Poland; Sorbians (Lusatians) and Polabians. It lists slightly over 5,000 titles of books and articles grouped under 3,380 bibliographical entries; it closes with an in- valuable index of 144 pages in small print. Obviously, the term "basic publications" does not lend itself to an ironclad definition and cannot be translated into rigid criteria which would have the authority of the Ten Commandments. The following comments should, therefore, not be construed as the "slings and barbs of the critic" but as the expression of the sincere admiration which motivated me to read the book carefully from cover to cover three times and to spend many hours in checking catalogs and bibliographies and in discussing the selec- tions with various experts. Although we ali will basically agree with the emphasis the bibliography gives to se- lected languages, additional attention could have been given to Italian scholarly litera- ture ( especiaily valuable for linguistics) and to Spanish and Portuguese titles. J. Pe- 46 / Recent Publications riam Danton's Index to Festschriften in L i- brarianship (New York: Bowker, 1970 ) appeared too late for consultation but it in- dicates that a number of older festschriften contain notable papers on pertinent li- braries. As an addition to Chapter 1, one could consider F. Tetzner, Die Slawen in Deutschland (Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1902). To Item 116, The Habsburg Mon- archy, one could have a reference to Oscar Jaszi, The Dissolution of the Habsburg M anarchy~ listed under Item 962. Another interesting item would have been Charles Gulick, Austria from Habsburg to Hitler (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948) . Although the main topic of Gulick's book is Austria after 1918, it has many val- uable remarks on Czechoslovakia and Hun- gary. To Wallenstein, in Chapter 2, one could add: Heinrich von Srbik, W allensteins Ende (Salzburg: Muller, 1952); Josef Pekar, Valdstejn., 1630-1634. 2d ed. (Prag: Melan- tricha, 1933-34). 2vols.; Heinz Rieder, Wallenstein (Graz: Styria, 1967); Edmund Schebek, Wallensteiniana (Prag: 1875). Even the shortest list on fourteenth-cen- tury Bohemian painting (Item 1265 ff) should not omit Max Dvorak, Die Illumi- natoren des johann von Neumarkt (Vienna: 1901), reprinted in his Gesammelte Aufs- iitze zur Kunstgeschichte (Miinchen: Pi- per, 1929, pages 74-207), with large bibli- ography. Other important books on Bohe- mian history are: Adolf Bachmann, Ge- schichte Bohmens (Gotha: Perthes, 1899/ 1905); Theodor Linder, Das Urkunden- wesen Karls IV (Stuttgart: Cotta, 1882 ); Julius Lippert, Sozialgeschichte Bohmens (vVien: Tempsky, 1896-98). 2vols. An in- teresting contribution to the life of Bohemi- an immigrants in America is Willa Cather's famous novel My Antonia (Boston: Hough- ton :Mifflin, 1918). As additions to Chapter 3, one could sug- gest some of the following titles: Werner T. Angress, Stillborn Revolution: The Com- munist Bid for Power in Germany (Prince- ton: Princeton University Press, 1963) ; Hans Apel, Spaltung. (Berlin: Voltaire Ver- lag, 1966). (Another title by Apel is listed under 1361.) Hans Apel, Wehen und Wun- der der Zonenwirtschaft (Cologne: Kiepen- heuer und Witsch, 1966); Willy Brandt, The Ordeal of Coexistence (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Pr., 1963); Werner Feld, Reunification and West German-So- viet Relations (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1963); Gerald Freund, Germany Between Two Worlds (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1961); Peter Lust, Two Germanies (Mon- treal: Harvest House, 1966) ; Nor bert M uh- len, The Return of Germany: A Tale of Two Countries (Chicago: Regnery, 1953); Franz von Nesselrode, Germany's Other Half: A Journalist's Appraisal of East Ger- many (London: Abelard-Schuman, 1963); Joachim Peck, Die V olkerrechtssubjektivitiit deT Deutschen Demokratischen Republik ( Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1960) ; David Rodnick, Postwar Germans (New Haven: Yale Univ. Pr., 1948); George Sherman, East Germany: The June Days, 1953 (Ox- ford: St. Antony's College, 1955); Marshall D . Shulman, Beyond the Cold War (New Haven: Yale Univ. Pr., 1966); Hans Speier, Didded Berlin (New York: Praeger, 1961); Kurt P. Tudyka, ed., Das Geteilte Deutschland: Eine Dokumentation der Meinungen (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1965); George R. Urban, Scaling the Wall: Talk- in a to Eastern Europe (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Pr., 1964); James H. Wolfe, Indivisible Germany: Illusion or Reality (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1963); Frieda Wun- derlich, Farmer and Farm Labor in the So- d et Zone of Germany (New York: Twayne, 1958). To Item 1362, Berlin. Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, one could add Aus der ATbeit des Deutschen Staatsbibliothek ( Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1961) ; J oris Vorsti- us , Ergebnisse und Fortschritte der Bib- liographie in Deutschland (Leipzig: Har- rassowitz, 1948). The standard book on the history of the Berlin Academy is still Adolf von Harnack, Geschichte der Koniglich Preussischen Aka- demie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Ber- Recent Publications I 47 lin: Reichsdruckerei, 1900), 4vols. To Chapter 4, one could add: Rev. Ed- ward J. Dworaczyk, The First Polish Colo- nies of America in Texas (San Antonio: Naylor Co., 1936); Louise Llewellyn Jarec- ka, Made in Poland. Living Traditions of the Land (New York: Knopf, 1949); Irene D. Jaworska, Becoming American (New York: Harper, 1950) ; Sister Mary Patria Jurczynska, "A Study of the Participation of the Poles in the American Civil War" (Master's thesis, Saint John College of Cleveland, 1949); Sister Mary Benedicta Kolat, O.S.F., "Father Joseph Dabrowski, The Pioneer Priest and His Significant Con- tribution Toward Catholic American School System" (11aster's thesis, Wayne State Univ., 1950); Stefan Korbonski, Warsaw in Exile, trans. by David J. Welsh (New York: Praeger, 1966); Ks. Waclaw Kruszka, Historja Polska w Ameryce (Milwaukee: Kuryer Publishing Co., 1937); Rom Lan- dau, Ignace Paderewski Musician and Statesman (New York: Crowell, 1934); Jerzy Jan Lerski, A Polish Chapter in Jack- sonian America (Madison: Univ. of Wis- consin Pr., 1958); Ella Lonn, Foreigners in the Confederacy (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Pr., 1940); Ella Lonn, Fo1·- eigners in the Union Army and Navy (Bat- on Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Pr., 1951); Clarence A. Manning, Soldier of Liberty Casimir Pulaski (New York: Philo- sophical Library, 1945); Boleslaw Olsze- wicz, Poland and the Discovery of America (Poznan: . Polnicza Drukarnia i Ksiegarnia Nakladowa, 1931); Peter A. Ostafin, "The Polish Peasant in Transition: A Study of Group Integration as a Function of Symbi- osis and Common Definitions" (Ph.D. dis- sertation, Univ. of Michigan, 1948); Charles Phillips, Paderewski the Story of a Modern Immortal (New York: Macmil- lan, 1934) ; Fr. Ladislas John Siekaniec, O.F.M., "The Polish Contribution to Early American Education, 1608-1865" (Ph.D. dissertation, Western Reserve Univ., 1962); Rev. Karol W. Strzelec, The Burning Bush -Trials and Hope of the Polish People (Chicago: Church Publishing House, 1917); Paul Super, Twenty-five Years with the Poles (Trenton: Paul Super Memorial Fund, Inc. 1947); Wiktor Turek, Sir Casi- mir S. Gzowsk'i (Toronto: Polish Alliance 48 I College & Research Libraries • January 1971 Press, 1957); Frank Julian Warne, The Slav . Invasion and the Mine Workers (Philadel- phia: Lippincott, 1904); F. F. Wassell, "Attitudes of the Various Polish-American Organizations Toward American Foreign Policy Affecting Poland: 1939-1945" (Mas- ter's thesis, Columbia Univ., 1946); Joseph W. Zurawski, Poland: The Captive Satellite. A Study in National Psychology (Detroit: Endurance Pr., 1962). To Chapter 6, one might add: Giese- brecht, Wendische Geschichten (Berlin: 1841-43), 3vols.; Boguslawskii, Historifa serbskeho naroda (Bautzen: 1884). The index, which has been compiled with utmost care, has only one insignificant typing error. Wytrwal is listed under 2586 but indexed under 2585. Another small mis- print on page 67 4 of the text is 2729 in- stead of 2739. Many titles listed above probably had been known to the compilers of the bibliog- raphy but had been rejected for various reasons. Complete unanimity about the use- fulness and quality of over 5,000 titles can- not be reached. Therefore, I have nothing but praise for the work done by Dr. Ho- recky and his colleagues. They have provid- ed us with an extremely useful tool.-Felix Reichmann, Cornell University. California Local History: A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings. 2d ed., rev. and enl. Margaret Miller Rocq, ed. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1970. 611p. $35.00. Having been disenchanted by library as- sociations' preoccupation with housekeep- ing techniques and organizational self- scrutiny, it is reenchanting to note the Cali- fornia Library Association's sponsorship of this substantial reference work. This new edition has been enlarged to include 17,000 items in some 230 libraries, as compared with 5,000 items in 98 libraries. The addi- tions consi.st of items published in 1949'---61, earlier publications previously omitted, and holdings of libraries contributing for the first time. Some representative out-of-state libraries are now included. The format has been improved. The work is set in easily readable typefaces, rather than from typewritten copy. The ar- rangement is by counties, subdivided by towns; regional and statewide works; spe- cial collections; bibliographical references; index and map of the state's 58 counties. The endpapers reproduce the contributing libraries' symbols. It represents an enor- mous achievement by volunteer profession- al labor, and will be greatly useful to work- ers in California. Yet a serious review seeks to render a balanced judgement of a work. Strong as this bibliography is, it has some weaknesses and limitations which must be noted. Although Mrs . Rocq earned her place on the title page by what must have been Am- azonian labors of arranging, checking, de- ciding, and so forth, the work is essentially an uncritical 01nniurn gatherum. This is the result of the method followed in compiling the work. Its "author" is the Northern Di- vision of the Regional Resources Coordinat- ing Committee of the California Library As- sociation, under which functioned the California Local History Sub-Committee, chaired by Editor Rocq. This latter group was headquartered at the California Historical Society in San Francisco, and there held regular Saturday afternoon work sessions over a period of five years. Because the labor was voluntary, in the words of Jane Wilson, chairwoman of the Regional Resources group, "It did not seem feasible to redo much of the work that had already been done." That is to say, the new edition is not, as its title page declares, revised, at least not substantially. Mrs. Rocq states, "Although we exam- ined a majority of the bibliography's titles in the Library of the California Historical Society and other San Francisco Bay Area libraries, time and distance did not allow personal checking of all the items listed." This volunteer, regional method seems to me to indicate the nature of librarians' work in general. Their main efforts are giv- en to collecting, arranging, and servicing materials. Except for a few scholarly bibli- ographers often unorthodox in their educa- tion, they are not, nor are they required to be, familiar with the contents of books. Thus, theirs might be said to be a service and not a scholarly profession. Lacking in the preparation of this other-