College and Research Libraries


later, are we as a profession still hesitant 
to declare ourselves unilaterally as open 
storehouses and dispensers of the recorded 
resources of knowledge and information, 
regardless of format? 

The intuitive answer may be that infor-
mation in form other than print is suspect 
as being less than intellectual. Let us look 
a little more closely at some of the mono-
graphs on our shelves, where in the name 
of thoroughness and academic freedom we 
have collected biased, poorly written, out 
of date and occasionally unreadable works. 
And let us -compare these with some of the 
nonprint media which vividly capture in 
sight and sound, history, skill techniques, 
procedures, beauty and ugliness, and en-
gaging entertainment. Our shelves should 
proudly contain the totality of the human 
experience, in all the forms devised by 
mind and technology, providing total access 
for that vitally-concerned segment of socie-
ty which is our clientele. 

Nonbook Materials, The Organization of 
Integrated Collections is a guide and a pre-
cept for those who have accepted this chal-
lenge.-Gloria Terwilliger, Director of 
Learning Resources, Alexandria Campus, 
Northern Virginia Community College. 

Recent Publications I 489 

In Professor Lorenz's biography Hugh 
Caine emerges as a talented and dedicated 
editor who only wanted to print the news 
and make money. However, in those days 
an editor had to ally himself and his pa-
per with a special interest group if he in-
tended to stay in business, and thus C aine 
was forced to change sides frequently in 
the tumultuous years preceding the Rev-
olution in order to ensure his livelihood. 

Caine made a fateful decision when he 
decided to abandon the patriot cause in 
1776, and return to New York to resume 
the publication of his New Y ark Mercury 
in that occupied city. Once he had made 
his choice there was no turning back and 
he soon became one of the most hated and 
maligned Tory editors in Revolutionary 
America. His notoriety was further en-
hanced when he became the subject of 
Phillip Freneau' s long and cutting poem, 
"Hugh Gaines Life." Freneau maintained 
that Caine would: 

Always adhere to the Sword that is 
longest and stick to the party thats 
like to be strongest. . . .. 

Unfortunately, Caine underestimated the 
patriots, and chose to support the wrong 
"party." Nevertheless, he remains a major 

Lorenz, Alfred Lawrence. Hugh Gaine; A figure in the annals of American publishing, 
Colonial Printer-Editor's Odyssey to and Professor Lorenz's balanced, well-writ-
Loyalism. Carbondale and Edwardsville: ten, and timely study should be acquired 
Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. by every library with an interest in the his-
192 p. $6.95. tory of the American Revolution.-Michael 
There have been few serious biograph- H. Harris, Associate Professor, College of 

ical studies done on the major figures in Library Science, University of Kentucky, 
Revolutionary journalism. Edes and Gill, Lexington. 
Rivington, John Holt, James Parker, and 
others still await biographers. Fortunately, yAppleba~m, Edm~nd L., e~. Reader in 
Hugh Caine, one of the most controversial Techn1cal Serv1ces. Washmgton, D.C.: 
and enigmatic of the Revolutionary editors, NCR Microcard Editions, 1973. 
has now been given the careful and un- This seventh in a series of Readers in Li-
biased treatment he has so long deserved. brary and Information Science is a compila-

Professor Lorenz has written an impor- tion of articles covering the whole field of 
tant book. For he has revealed, better per- technical services. In one small sense the 
haps than anyone else, the tremendous ob- title is misleading for in actuality descrip-
stacles encountered by an editor who tive cataloging and classification have been 
wished to remain independent of "special excluded from this volume and covered in 
interest" in a time when emotions ran high another of the series. 
and neutrality was viewed as a traitorous The collection brings together materials 
act. In doing so he shows clearly the rea- of a historical nature, some state-of-the-art 
sons for Caine's erratic editorial course from articles, and some attempts at predicting 
1752 to 1776. the future. One big disadvantage is a "de-