College and Research Libraries EUGENE P. SHEEHY Selected Reference Books of 1973-7 4 INTRODUCTION THIS ARTICLE CONTINUES the semiannu- al series originally edited by Constance M. Winchell. Although it appears under a byline, the list is actually a project of the Reference Department of the Co- lumbia University Libraries, and notes are signed with the initials of the indi- vidual staff members.1 Since the purpose of the list is to pre- sent a selection of recent scholarly and foreign works of interest to reference workers in university libraries, it does not pretend to be either well balanced or comprehensive. A brief roundup of new editions of standard works, contin- uations, and supplements is presented at the end of the column. Code num- bers (such as AA 71, 2BD89) have been used to refer to ti ties in the Guide to Reference Books and its supplements. 2 LmRARY REsOURCEs Downs, Robert Bingham. British Library Resources; a Bibliographic Guide. Chi- cago, Amer. Lib. Assoc.; London, Man- sell, 1973. 332p. $25.00. Intended as a "bibliographical guide to the resources for advanced study and re- search in the libraries of the United King- dom and Eire," this guide lists published library catalogs, checklists, calendars of manuscripts and archives, articles descrip- tive of library collections, guides to indi- vidual libraries and their holdings, library 1. Laura Binkowski, Patricia Clark, Diane Goon, Rita Keckeissen, Anita Lowry, Eileen Mcilvaine, Doris Ann Sweet; School of Li- brary Service Library, Evelyn L. Kraus. 2. Constance M. Winchell, Guide to Reference Books (8th ed.; Chicago: ALA, 1967); Sup- plement I (Chicago: ALA, 1968); Supple- ment II ( Chicago: ALA, 1970); Supplement III (Chicago: ALA, 1972). directories, union lists, and "any other rec- ords descriptive, analytical, or critical, that may guide the scholar, research worker or advanced student in finding significant ma- terials" (Introd.). It covers all types of li- braries, but does omit, of course, as the au- thor points out, those (notably the new uni- versity libraries) whose holdings lack pub- lished descriptions. Arrangement, as in American Library Resources (Guide AB 79), follows Dewey, with a few exceptions. The 5,000 entries are listed alphabetically by main entry within the appropriate sec- tions, with full bibliographical information. There is an index of authors, editors , com- pilers, institutions, subjects, and a few ti- tles. In addition to its stated audience, the reference librarian should find the volume useful-most likely for the manuscript cata- logs, archival descriptions, and local his- tory entries.-R.K. MICROFORMS International Microforms in :Print, 1974/ 197 5- ; a Guide to Microforms of Non-United States Micropublishers. Ed. by Allen B. Veaner and Alan M. Meck- ler. Weston, Conn., Microform Review, 1974- . $10.00. 74-4810. Monographs, serials, newspapers, and archival materials available from 41 non- United States micropublishers are listed in this useful guide. Entries are usually as sub- mitted by the publisher, with some subject cross-references. Titles are used, with cross- references to the main entry, in the case of "obscure material" (archives, theses, etc.); Archives of British Men of Science, how- ever, is listed only under its editors. Major international microform publishers ( partic- ularly British and Canadian) are well rep- resented, but others listed in the editors' Microform Market Place are not represent- ed here (e.g., the important French news- paper publisher, ACRPP). Perhaps with the next edition the work will be more in- I 61 62 I College & Research Libraries • January 1975 elusive, for this is certainly a worthwhile effort.-D.G. Microform Market Place, 1974/1975- an International Directory of M icropub- lishers. Ed. by Allen B. Veaner and Alan M. Meckler. Weston, Conn., Microform Review, 1974- . $8.00. 74-4811. This is the first issue of "an international buyer's guide for the microform purchaser" (Introd.) which is organized in eight sec- tions: a directory of micropublishers, in- cluding reprographic services of university and national libraries; an index of micro- publishers listed under broad subject cate- gories of their micropublications; a list of institutional mergers and acquisitions; a very brief list of microform jobbers; ad- dresses and personnel of microform organi- zations which concentrate on the use of mi- croforms in libraries; an annotated bibliog- raphy of titles useful to a librarian dealing with microforms; and a ''names and num- bers" section listing personal and corporate names (usually abbreviated), with ad- dresses and telephone numbers. The direc- tory does not include equipment and supply manufacturers, these being covered in vari- ous publications of the National Microfilm Association.-D.G. AssocrA noNs Directory of Associations in Canada. Rep- ertoire des associations du Canada. Prep. under the direction of Brian Land. [To- ronto, Univ. of Toronto Pr., 1974]. 393p. $35.00. Introduction and explanatory matter in French and English. Brief directory information (name, ad- dress, principal officer) for about 7,000 Ca- nadian associations is provided in this new directory. "Association" is defined as "a vol- untary non-governmental, non-profit organi- zation composed of personal or institutional members, . . . formed for some particular purpose or to advance a common cause" (Introd.), and the directory includes a wide range of societies, institutes, clubs, and unions. The alphabetical list of asso- ciations is preceded by a very detailed "Subject index to associations" which lists pertinent associations under the English subject headings; a "Guide to the subject index" offers cross-references from both English and French forms of related terms -a bit cumbersome, but possibly as good a solution to the bilingual indexing prob- lem as any other.-E.S. DICTIONARIES Rohrich, Lutz. Lexikon der Sprichwortlichen Redensarten. Freiburg im Breisgau, Her- der, 1973. 2v. il. DM 190. 73-364707. This attractive dictionary lists and de- fines German proverbial phrases or pic- turesque turns of speech which have be- come accepted as standard ways of achiev- ing emphasis; they are differentiated from true proverbs in that they may be altered grammatically to fit into any sentence. The author, a professor of German philology and folklore, has written clear, concise def- initions for these phrases and provided many cross-references to related entries. Also included are bibliographic citations to further readings, and there are illustrations from works of art. Volume 2, in addition to containing a detailed index, has a thirty- seven-page bibliography of textual and pic- torial sources used in the compilation of the dictionary. Although scholarly in its design and apparatus, the dictionary has a suffi- ciently popular tone to make it useful to the layman as well as the scholar.-E.L.K. GovERNMENT PuBLICATIONs France. Commission de Coordination de la Documentation Administrative. Reper- toire des publications periodiques et de serie de l' administration franr;aise. [Paris, La Documentation Fran9aise, 1973] 368p. 40F. In an effort to make known what official publications exist, to point up gaps in the dissemination of public information, and to avoid duplication of effort, this inventory of serial publications (including annuals) of the various French administrative de- partments was prepared by a specially ap- pointed commission. Some 850 periodicals and series are listed under the sponsoring ministry or issuing body. Full information necessary for acquiring a publication is pro- vided, together with a descriptive statement for each item (except for some few for Selected Reference Books of 1973-7 4 I 63 which a single note is used to describe sev- eral closely related series) . Information was current in 1972. Both title and subject in- dexes are provided.-E.S. DISSERTATIONS Allen, George R. The Graduate Students~ Guide to Theses and Dissertations; a Practical Manual for Writing and Re- search. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1973. 108p. $7.75. 73-3774. Only in the subtitle of this book, "a prac- tical manual for writing and research," is the true nature of Mr. Allen's work re- vealed. He contends that through proper planning and systematic organization the graduate student ready to begin his disser- tation can minimize fruitless effort and waste of time. This guide presents an over- view of the process in an effort to visualize the research activity from beginning to end. The book is organized in chapters corre- sponding to seven major steps of graduate research: ( 1) selecting a topic; ( 2) choos- ing a research committee; ( 3) preparing a proposal; ( 4) collecting data; (5) analyz- ing data; ( 6) writing the final report; and ( 7) defending the thesis. In each section the question-answer format is used to high- light the various problems and issues. There is a short, selective bibliography of publica- tions dealing with academic research pro- cedures and general source material cover- ing a wide range of disciplines. A brief sub- ject index concludes the guide. Although every dissertation is unique, the author tries to preserve a tone of gen- eral applicability in his presentation; it is an early mastery of the basic routines of collecting and analyzing any kind of data that can save a student time and energy which should be directed to sharpening the focus of his research. One may agree, as Mr. Allen maintains, that the scientific methods outlined here do not preclude cre- ative thinking and writing. Some may ob- ject, however, to his statement that "the student who uses the material and sugges- tions in this book from the beginning of his doctoral program should be able to com- plete his dissertation within one academic year after his comprehensives are com- pleted.~' Despite such a claim, the guide should be useful to graduate students who may tend to isolate the steps of their re- search methodology without ever getting a good overview of the complete process.- L.B. BIOGRAPHY Bidwell, Robin Leonard, comp. and ed. Bidwell's Guide to· Government Minis- ters. [London], Cass, [1973-74]. v.1-3. (In progress) Contents: v.1, The Major Powers and Western Europe, 1900-1971. 297p. £9; v.2, The Arab World, 1900-1972. 124p. £ 8; v.3; The British Empire and Successor States, 1900-1972. 156p. £9. Intended for "the researcher in interna- tional history" (Introd.), this useful chro- nology, when complete, will cover countries throughout the world, listing the ministers of posts that have dealings with foreign na- tions. Volume 4 is to cover Africa, 1900- 73; volume 5, Asia and the Far East for the same period; and volume 6, Latin America. Listed in the chronological tables for each country are heads of state; heads of government; ministers of foreign affairs, war, interior, finance, navy, trade, colonies; and United Nations representatives. For each minister are given full name and date of assuming office. Since information for groups of countries is given in parallel col- umns, a glance across the page gives com- parable information for many nations; read- ing the columns vertically gives the suc- cession of incumbents in a post in a particu- lar country. Material was compiled from contemporary newspapers, international yearbooks, official gazettes and diplomatic sources. The work should prove useful for the college and university library in sup- port of research in international affairs.- R.K. Lazic', Branko M. Biographical Dictionary of the Comintem ... in collaboration with Milorad M. Drachkovitch. Stanford, Calif., Hoover Inst. Pr., 1973. 458p. $15.00. (Hoover Inst. publ. 121) 72- 187265. This supplement to the author's Lenin and the Comintern (v.1, Stanford, 1972) has the stated purpose of "imparting to the 64 I College & Research Libraries • January 1975 reader some small notion of the vast accom- plishments of the Comintern and a better un- derstanding of the events in which it was involved" (Introd.). This is achieved through 718 biographical sketches ranging from several lines to several pages. With no geographical or time limitations, inclusion is based solely on the individual's role in the Communist International. Thus, while those who were unknown because of their undercover activities are included, persons exclusively concerned with such movements as the Zimmerwald Left or the Spartacus League are omitted. Each sketch gives gen- eral biographical and political data; em- phasis, of course, is placed on Comintern- related activities. As extra aids to the read- er, the authors have included a guide to abbreviations, a list of biographees, and a list of pseudonyms. Because much of the information included in this dictionary was collected from people who wish to remain anonymous, sources are not given. De- spite the fact that one is not referred to more detailed sources, the work should prove invaluable to those looking for infor- mation about persons who played little- publicized roles in the Communist Interna- tional.-P.C. RELIGION Mitros, Joseph F. Religions; a Select, Clas- sified Bibliography. N.Y., Learned Pubis., 1973. 435p. (Philosophical questions, 8) $17.50. 77-183042. The purpose of this work, according to its author (an associate professor of theol- ogy at Fordham University), is "to provide a student of religion with a handy guide in his research while he is preparing a paper, an examination, a lecture, a course, writing a book or conducting a seminar" (Introd.). Part I discusses the history and methodol- ogy of the seminar in religious research; Part II lists general reference books; Part III deals with non-Christian religions; Parts IV and V treat Christianity, with particu- lar reference to Patristic studies; Part VI focuses on the Scriptures; Part VII lists rel- evant journals. Citations include primary and secondary materials in books, period- ical and encyclopedia articles, symposia, and Festschriften, with a cut-off date of 1972. Title selection was made on the basis of "value . . . and availability" and "the best . . . have been briefly [and critically] annotated." An author index concludes the book. On the whole, this is an excellent bibli- ography-not for the general "student of religion," but for the advanced student of Western religious history. Its focus is re- flected in the nearly 200 pages devoted to Christianity, Patristic studies, and Jewish and Christian Scriptures, as opposed to about sixty pages on all non-Christian re- ligions. Titles in the latter section, while basically good, do not approach the sophis- tication of titles in the main body of the work. The basic high quality of the work suggests that certain improvements could make a new edition truly indispensable: e.g., Part I, which provides little informa- tion not readily available elsewhere, might be omitted; similarly, Part II should either be omitted or subjected to more careful editorial scrutiny; the non-Christian reli- gions section, particularly the chapter on primitive religions, should be strengthened; title and detailed subject entries should be provided in the index (without a subject index, more cross-references should have been provided within the text) .-D.G. LANGUAGE Mackey, William Francis. Bibliographie in- ternationale sur le bilinguisme. I nterna- tional Bibliography on Bilingualism. Que- bec, Presses de l'U niversite de Laval, 1972. 337p. 209p., 204p. $32.40. 73- 358929. Published for the International Center for Research on Bilingualism. Introductory and explanatory matter in French and English. More than 11,000 items-books, period- ical articles, theses-are listed in this inter- national bibliography "devoted to bilingual- ism, biculturalism, and related phenomena." Citations are presented in an alphabetical author listing with detailed subject indexes in French and in English. Titles are given in the original language (or transliteration) with French or English translation of all titles not originally in one of those lan- guages. Many citations are derived from Selected Reference Books of 1973-7 4 I 65 secondary sources rather than from exami- nation of the originals. The volume is essen- tially a computer printout (the data base is at Laval University) with indexing de- signed for automatic retrieval. Although the long lists of references under numerous sub- ject headings seem formidable at first glance, the descriptors thereunder effec- tively limit the search for very specific top- ics.-E.S. CINEMA Hochman, Stanley, comp. and ed. Amer- ican Film Directors. [N.Y., Ungar, 1974] 589p. $18.25. 73-92923. American Film Directors focuses on "65 American directors whose reputations had been established by the mid-1960's" and who were chosen as representative of an "overall picture" of American filmmaking. Therefore, European directors who made films in the United States which were "in- fluential" in the American movie scene are included, while directors (both American and foreign) not established in the main- stream of American movie production are excluded. A major portion of the work con- sists of excerpts from reviews selected from a variety of sources, including newspapers, general magazines, film journals, fan maga- zines, and books. Ranging in length from a short paragraph to a page, these excerpts can provide a basic overview of critical re- action to a director's work (emphasizing his best known films). For the reader with a relatively unsophisticated interest in film, these out-of-context excerpts may constitute a satisfactory commentary on a director or film. For the serious film student or scholar, however, the book provides little more than an initial insight into the vicissitudes of a director's reputation and public reception of his work, together with a very limited bibliography of materials for further re- search. The filmographies attempt to be complete unless otherwise noted, and indi- cate such useful information as alternate titles, co-directors, failure to complete a film, service films later exhibited publicly, and films never released.-A.L. SociAL SCIENCE Abler, Thomas; Weaver, Sally M. [and others]. A Canadian Indian Bibliography, 1960-1970. [Toronto], Univ. of Toron- to Pr., [1974]. 732p. $35.00. This multidisciplinary annotated bibliog- raphy, prepared by lawyers and anthropolo- gists, includes social, economic, legal, polit- ical, anthropological, and historical materi- als of scholarly interest concerning Indians and the Metis of Canada. While the books articles, documents, theses, and unpub~ lished reports of the bibliography date from the 1960s, the "case law digest" included covers the much longer period of 1867- 1972. The almost 2,800 items of the bibliogra- phy are split into two sections. The first is arranged by topic (such as demography, Indian administration and government pol- icy, history, religion, social organization, etc.) after a long section of general and comparative studies and a valuable list of pertinent bibliographies. The other section is ordered by tribal name within large ge- ographic groupings. In both parts, entries with full bibliographical information ap- pear in alphabetic order according to au- thor. Separating the two parts is the case law digest, some 250 summaries with de- cisions, arranged according to the province, court, and date. Entries are numbered seri- ally throughout; there are separate subject indexes to the bibliography and to the case law digest.-R.K. Sessions, Vivian S., ed. Directory of Data Bases in the Social and Behavioral Sci- ences. [N.Y.], Science Associates/In- ternational, [1974]. 300p. $35.00. 72- 86759. Responses to direct-mail questionnaires provided the information for listings in this international directory of data bases in the social and behavioral sciences. Although the preponderance of entries is for the United States, institutions in about forty other countries are listed. Except for holdings of 1970 census data, comprehensive coverage of United States federal data bases was not attempted. Arrangement is alphabetical by name of the "host institution," then by name of the data center. Entries include names of senior staff, major subject field, file title (with geographic and time limita- tions), data sources, storage media, hard- 66 I College & Research Libraries • January 1975 ware and software, output media, access, publications, etc. Not all data bases includ- ed were in machine-readable form at the time of reporting. Indexes by ( 1) major categories and keywords, (2) personnel, and ( 3) geographic location of the base are provided.-E.S. STATISTICS Great Britain. Department of Employment and Productivity. British Labour Statis- tics: Historical Abstract, 1886-1968. London, HMSO, 1971. 436p. £7. 75- 860907. Statistical tables published in various publications of the Department of Employ- ment and Productivity since 1888 have been cumulated in this volume. The fore- word gives an extensive definition of what is included in "labour statistics": wage rates, earnings, hours of work, retail prices, employment, unemployment, vacancies, family expenditures, industrial disputes, membership of trade unions, industrial ac- cidents, labor costs, output per head, etc. Arrangement of the tables is topical, with a subject index. Eighteen eighty-six is not an absolute beginning date because many of the published tables included earlier in- formation, and some of the tables have been reworked so that new statistics are given. Certain tables were not considered appropriate for inclusion in this volume (e.g., registration for national service, dis- abled persons, government-sponsored train- ing, foreign workers), but reference to sources for omitted statistics can be located through Guides to Official Sources, no.1: Labour statistics (rev. ed. 1958; Guide CG104). It is good to have this information brought together in one readily accessible source. To supplement the cumulation, the department now issues the British Labour Statistics Year Book (beginning with 1969), which presents all labor statistics relating to a calendar year.-E.M. MAPs & ATLASES International Maps and Atlases in Print. London & N.Y., Bowker, [1974]. 864p. il. $39.50. 73-1336. An outgrowth of the 1969 Stanford Ref- erence Catalogue (which listed the stock of Edward Stanford Ltd. and other items readily procurable through that London firm), this new work "has been designed as a practical user's guide to currently avail- able world mapping" (Pref.). It is an im- pressive listing of maps and atlases pub- lished throughout the world, giving descrip- tio.ns (including size, scale, publisher, pnce) of atlas volumes, collections or se- ries, and single maps. Arrangement is by world region and country notation of the Universal Decimal Classification, with a country index. Although the immediate use is as an "in print" record, the volume promises to have continuing value as a de- tailed record of map publication at this par- ticular period.-E.S. HISTORY Freidel, Frank, ed. Harvard Guide to American History. Rev. ed. . . . with the assistance of Richard K. Showman. Cam- bridge, Mass., Belknap Pr. of Harvard Univ. Pr., 1974. 2v. ( 1290p.) $45.00. 72-81272. Publication of a new edition of the Har- vard Guide after so long an interval is something of an event. While there is much that is familiar about the new work, there is a very great deal that is different in addi- tion to the two-volume format: bibliograph- ic citations are no longer run on in para- graph form; "summary" paragraphs at the beginning of the bibliographic sections have been eliminated; and there are separate in- dexes of names and of subjects. Endpaper pointers on "How to use the Guide" are convenient and generally helpful, though the first of these might have been more ex- plicit: "Entries in volume I are topical, in volume II, they are chronological. Thus a book covering the entire history of the American economy appears in volume I; another, covering only the colonial period, appears in volume II." While the arrange- ment of volume II is indeed chronological, it is important to note that there is a de- tailed topical breakdown within each chron- ological period. Full tables of contents and extensive indexes make for ease of use. In- troductory chapters on research methods and materials are again furnished. Cut-off Selected Reference Books of 1973-7 4 I f57 date for new books and articles was June 30, 1970, with occasional exceptions; about a third of the entries are new to this edi- tion.-E.S. Halstead, John P. and Porcari, Serafino. Modern European Imperialism: a Bibli- ography of Books and Articles, 1875- 1972. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1974. 2v. $76.00. 73-19511. Contents: v.1, General and British Em- pire; v.2, French and other empires. Some 33,000 of the more important books, articles, documents, and essays pub- lished between 1875 and 1972 concerning the history of European imperialism have been selected for this bibliography. Al- though the compilers concentrated on sec- ondary sources, selected documents, mem- oirs, and collections of correspondence are cited to indicate the kinds of materials available. All facets of the colonial experi- ence in a country are included: e.g., "Cul- ture contact and race relations," "Economic and financial," "Fiction and literary com- ment," and "Missions and religion." Writ- ings on former colonies after independence or dominion status was achieved are exclud- ed, unless the study also relates to the co- lonial period. Arrangement is topical under name of the colony, with books and articles cited in separate groupings. Although the arrange- ment sounds complex and there is no index, the table of contents is very detailed and the volumes are relatively easy to use. One note of caution-with few exceptions, works are cited only once, and an item treating two or more aspects of imperialism will be found under the more general head- ing. The beginning student or teacher, as well as the experienced researcher in his- tory, political science, or anthropology, should be grateful to Professors Halstead and Porcari for bringing together citations to so much useful material.-E.M. Petrovich, Michael Boro. Yugoslavia; a Bib- liographic Guide. Wash., Library of Con- gress, 1974. 270p. $2.60. 72-11512. The Slavic and Central European Divi- sion of the Library of Congress has issued this as the fourth volume of its bibliograph- ic series on central Europe; previous vol- umes covered Romania, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia. Like the others, this guide is in two sections: Part I is a bibliographic survey or essay; Part II is an alphabetical listing of the 2,500 titles cited, with Li- brary of Congress call numbers (or Nation- al Union Catalog symbols for titles located only at libraries other than the Library of Congress) . The work is principally a selec- tion of book titles written before 1968 (the text was completed in 1970, but production difficulties delayed its appearance). The au- thor, a professor of history ·at the Universi- ty of Wisconsin, indicates that history is an area in which the guide "aspires to cover- age in some depth"-i.e., 66 pages of the 155-page bibliographic essay. He has tried to emphasize basic, standard works, but ad- mits that the user ignorant of Yugoslav lan- guages may be somewhat dismayed by the great majority of Yugoslav titles; English and major European language materials are included, but are relatively few. Users may wish to compare this guide with Paul L. Horecky' s Southeastern Eu- rope ( Suppl. 3DC4). Horecky' s chapter on Yugoslavia is about as long as Petro- vich's guide and includes much of the same material; its cut-off date is also 1968. The Horecky format is more attractive and his author-title-subject index easier to use than the classified arrangement of the Library of Congress publication. However, the lat- ter is certainly a great bargain and will be well worth the price for libraries support- ing advanced research in the area, particu- larly in the historical and social science fields.-D.G. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Dean, Genevieve C. Science and Technol- ogy in the Development of Modern Chi- na; an Annotated Bibliography. [Lon- don], Mansell, 1974. 265p. £6.95. 74- 76296. "The specific nature of the problems and precise goals of development vary from country to country. Nevertheless, it is pos- sible to define development ... in terms broad enough to encompass both the objec- tives of development policies in the Peoples' Republic of China and in countries with widely differing social, economic and po- 68 I College & Research Libraries • January 1975 litical structures" (p.vi). This bibliography, then, while concentrating on the Chinese experience will also have utility for the study of science policy and development in other developing countries. The work is in five main sections: (1) Technology and growth; (2) Technology policy; (3) Sci- ence policy; ( 4) Scientific activities; and ( 5) Technology in China. Appendixes list writings on modern science and technology in China before 1949 and on traditional Chinese science and technology. Entries are annotated, some at considerable length. The division of the author index according to primary, secondary, and tertiary materi- als seems an unnecessary refinement.-E.S. ENVIRONMENT Onyx Group, Inc., comp. and ed. Environ- ment U.S.A.; a Guide to Agencies, Peo- ple, and Resources. Glenn L. Paulson, Advisory Editor. N.Y., Bowker, 1974. 451p. $15.95. Many kinds of information useful for stu- dents and workers in environmental fields are incorporated into this new directory. Lists of federal agencies, state agencies, and private organizations give full directory information: name, address, telephone, principal officer and, usually, statement of purpose. Consultants, with specialties; en- vironmental officers of corporations; and major national unions active in the field form three more lists. There are chapters on environmental employment, educational programs, library resources, fund raising, environmental law, and a list of 1974 con- ferences. Two bibliographical sections list pertinent films (with source, price, rental cost, and short description) , and more than 1,000 books, articles, and reports of recent date, with full bibliographical details. A glossary and two indexes, one of federal agencies in classed order, the other (alpha- betically arranged) of government and pri- vate organizations, consultants, and con- sulting firms, add reference value. Period- ical updating is planned, but no schedule is mentioned.-R.K. NEW EDITIONS AND SuPPLEMENTS Words into Type (2d ed. 1964; Guide AA255), based on studies by Marjorie E. Skillin, Robert M. Gay, and other author- ities, has appeared in a "third edition, com- pletely revised" (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1974. 585p. $12.50) under the general editorship of Catherine B. Av- ery. There has been considerable rearrange- ment of the contents in an effort to enhance the usefulness of this now standard style manual. Mary Anne Ferguson's Bibliography of English Translations from Medieval Sour- ces, 1943-1967 (N.Y., Columbia Univ. Pr. , 1974. 274p.; Records of Civilization; Sour- ces and Studies, no.88. $15.00) is a supple- ment to Farrar and Evans' bibliography of the same title ( 1946; Guide BD4). It fol- lows the principles and arrangement of the earlier work, and includes 1,980 annotated items, with index. The 1968 List of National Archives Mi- crofilm Publications has been superseded by a new publication of the U.S. National Archives and Records Service, Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications (Wash., 1974. 184p.). Format has been en- larged, the index is now computer-pro- duced, and in the Appendix ("Numerical list of microfilm publications") an asterisk indicates new films prepared since the 1968 catalog was issued. A second edition of The Oxford Diction- ary of the Christian Church, edited by F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (London, Ox- ford Univ. Pr., 1974. 1,518p. $35.00), shows general revision and updating (of bibliogra- phies as well as in textual matter) and the insertion of a number of new articles. Spe- cial attention was given to fuller treatment of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Well es- tablished as a handy reference source for the student of the Bible, the Oxford Bible Atlas, edited by Herbert G. May, has ap- peared in a revised second edition (Lon- don, Oxford Univ. Pr., 1974. 144p.) and is available in hard cover at $9.95 or in pa- perback at $3.95. Publication of volume 1, covering the period 600-1660, brings The New Cam- bridge Bibliography of English Literature near completion (i.e., a general index re- mains to be published) . Like the previous- ly published volumes 2--4, this truly king- size volume (Cambridge, Univ. Pr., 1974. Selected Reference Books of 1973-7 4 I 69 2,476 col. plus index) adheres to the plan of the 1940 CBEL (Guide BD309). "Apart from the historical aids which appeared in 1940 as Social and Political Background, no section has had to be dropped" (Pref.). Sixteen Modern American Authors; a Sur- vey of Research and Criticism, edited by Jackson R. Bryer (Durham, N.C., Duke Univ. Pr., 197 4. 673p. $10.00), is a revised and expanded edition of Fifteen Modern American Authors ( Suppl. 3BD36). A bib- liographical essay on William Carlos Wil- liams has been added to the original fifteen, and a supplementary section is appended to each of the earlier contributions, bring- ing the record down through 1971, with some items as late as 1973 noted. An indispensable work for student, teach- er, and music librarian, Vincent H. Duck- les' Music Reference and Research Materi- als (Guide BH1) is now available in a third edition (N.Y., Free Pr., 1974. 526p. $10.95). The new edition includes more than 1,900 annotated entries. A revised edition of The Negro Hand- book ( 1966; Suppl. 1CC16) appears under the title The Ebony Handbook (Chicago, Johnson, 1974. 553p. $20.00). In addition to general updating, there has been exten- sive rearrangement of the sections, and much of the text is new or revised. "Black" is now used throughout, rather than "N e- gro" as in the earlier edition. A series of bibliographical articles cover- ing books published 1967-72 comprises the major portion of the supplementary volume (Toronto, Oxford Univ. Pr., 1973. 318p. $18.50) to The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature ( Suppl. 2D B 14) . Prepared under the general edi- torship of William Toye, the work also in- cludes a few new topical entries (e.g., "children's books," "translations") and some new or revised entries for Canadian writers. -E.S. CORRECTION Imre T. Jarmy, head, Microform Publica- tions, Catalog Publications Division, Li- brary of Congress, reports a correction in the description of Newspapers in Micro- form, described in C&RL 35:250 (July 197 4) . The statement that both volumes cover the period 1948-1972 is incorrect. Mr. Jarmy writes: "The dates 1948- 1972 in- dicate that this is a cumulative edition of reports received during the period 1948- 1972. Our policy is to publish all microform reports regardless of when the newspaper existed." Only a time machine could give you a better picture of America's past. Short of time travel, primary sources best portray the events amoience of the ,past.