College and Research Libraries EUGENE P. SHEEHY Selected Reference Books of 1980-81 THIS ARTICLE continues the semiannual se- ries originally edited by Constance M. Win- chell. Although it appears under a by-line, the list is a project of the reference depart- ments of Columbia University's Butler and Lehman libraries, and notes are signed with the initials of the individual staff members . 1 Since the purpose of the list is to present a selection of recent scholarly and general works of interest to reference workers in uni- versity libraries, it does not pretend to be ei- ther well balanced or comprehensive. A brief roundup of new editions of standard works, continuations, and supplements is presented at the end of the article. Code numbers (such as AE213, CJ34) have been used to refer to titles in the Guide to Reference Books and its supplement. 2 ARcHIVES & MANUSCRIPTS Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR , Es- tonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Belorussia. Princeton, N.J., Princeton Univ. Pr., [1981]. 929p. (Studies of the Russian Insti- tute, Columbia University; Harvard Ukrainian Series) $40. LC 79-15427. ISBN 0-691-05279-4. Like the author's Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR , Moscow and Len- ingrad and its Bibliographical Addenda (1972-76; Guide AB117, Suppl. AB29), this monumental compilation is designed as a starting point for the scholar planning a re- search trip: it provides a mass of valuable information on the development and organi- zation, as well as on the holdings and pub- lished finding aids of 71 repositories-state 1. Paul Cohen, Rita Keckeissen, Anita Lowry, Eileen Mcilvaine, Mary Ann Miller; Lehman Library: Laura Binkowski, Diane Goon. 2. Eugene P. Sheehy, Guide to Reference Books (9th ed.; Chicago: American Library Assn., 1976); Supplement (Chicago: American Li- brary Assn ., 1980). 68 I and city archives, archival collections in li- braries, academies , museums , institutes- in the Baltic states and Belorussia. In sections lettered H to M (continuing the A-G sequence of the Moscow-Leningrad vol- ume) the work offers first a chapter on gen- eral archival bibliography and reference aids applicable for the whole region, then a- sec- tion on each of the republics included. Each chapter is introduced by a historical survey of archives, and is followed by a general bibli- ography of archival reference aids and a di- rectory of repositories, for each of which is given a survey of holdings and lists of pub- lished general descriptions, specialized de- scriptions, and catalogs. Entries, models of bibliographical description, are followed by translated title and a summary of contents. Valuable appendixes cover access and work- ing conditions; geographical names; charts and maps of administrative territorial divi- sions; archival terms; and a preliminary bib- liography of descriptions of relevant archival collections outside the USSR. There is an author-title index. Most of the finding aids described are available on microfiche. - R.K. U.S. Library of Congress. Manuscript Divi- sion. Members of Congress: A Checklist of Their Papers in the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Comp. by John J. McDonough. Washington, Library of Congress, 1980. 217p. il. $9. LC 78- 606102. ISBN 0-8444-0272-9. The personal papers of some 894 senators and representatives- plus delegates to the Continental Congress - are listed in this work; it brings together the Library of Con- gress' manuscript holdings of those who have served in Congress during all periods of the country's history right down to the 95th Con- gress. Representatives from nearly all of the states are accounted for among the 1,109 al- phabetically arranged entries. Each entry gives brief data on the person and then a short description of the kinds of manuscripts held. For a few, there is nothing more than an autograph; frequently a partic- ular collection has only a single item or a few letters .. For some, however, there are exten- sive holdings: Henry J. Allen's papers require 214 containers, even though he was a senator from Kansas for only two years; Daniel P. Moynihan's still-growing collection already contains 425,000 items. The checklist also in- cludes references to microforms held by the Library of Congress of manuscript collec- tions at other institutions. Two appendixes provide guides to the members of Congress themselves: one is a listing by state of those represented in the collection; the other is ar- ranged by the Congresses in which they served. -P.C. BIOGRAPHY Makers of Modern Culture. Ed. by Justin Wintle. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul; New York, Facts on File, [1981]. 605p. £12.50; $34.95. LC 80-20199. ISBN 0-87196-493-7. Arranged as a biographical dictionary, this is an attempt to treat modern culture through its originating individuals and their ideas. Figures included are "people who have initi- ated cultural change in the period covered [i.e., from about 1914], whose names occur most frequently in the critical press, and whose achievements seem the most significant.,.- Introd. The more than 500 signed sketches follow no set pattern, but concentrate on the biographee's innovative . ideas, achievements ("not always positive,.), and influence on successors in the person's own or related fields. Inevitably, the selec- tion of names will not satisfy all users, but the range is unquestionably broad, covering phi- losophers, psychoanalysts, linguists, paint- ers, composers, dramatists, novelists, poets, critics, film directors, anthropologists, soci- ologists, historians, etc. A brief bibliography is appended to each article; the "Index of Names and Key Terms,. includes references to individuals mentioned in the text but not nec- essarily accorded a separate entry. Although this may not be an essential purchase, it does offer a fascinating collection of articles and should prove useful in both public and aca- demic libraries. Browsers will love it. -E.S. Selected Reference Books I 69 PHILOSOPHY Stein, Gordon. Freethought in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth; A De- scriptive Bibliography. Westport, Conn., GreenwoodPr., [1981]. 193p. $35. LC 80- 1792. ISBN 0-313-20869-7. The free-thought movement in England is defined as including "atheism, rationalism, secularism, deism, agnosticism,.- ideologies of groups "in opposition to organized religion.,.- Pref. Stein points out that since the movement's organizations were primar- ily interested in education and propaganda, he can best present its history by describing the publications of those organizations. He has tried to exclude publications that were purely political as opposed to those that were antireligious or free-thought. The work is ar- ranged by historical periods (1624-1760, 1760-1860, 1860-1915, 1915 to the present), each with a narrative section followed by a bibliography of the publications cited. The essays are detailed and give much biographi- cal information. A glossary of terms is very helpful and prevents repetition, but it might have been more usefully placed at the begin- ning of the volume instead of near the end. Appendixes cover the free-thought move- ment in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and India. Though very brief, this presenta- tion is much the same as in the body of the text. Other appendixes indicate libraries with major holdings in this field, and a list of mas- ter's theses and dissertations. There are au- thor, title, and subject indexes. -E.M. RELIGION Elliott, John M. The Near East/Biblical Peri- odical Index 1960/69- . Naperville, Ill., NEBPI Pr., 1981- . Looseleaf. 1960/69: $20. A preliminary edition of this new periodi- cal index was issued in 1976. The present compilation analyzes thirty-five journals (chiefly biblical and archaeological) that are published in Middle Eastern or Western countries, half of which are now covered by existing biblical or religious indexing or ab- stracting services. Arrangement is "topical and regional,,. using the geographical bound- aries that existed between the two world wars-thus "Palestine,. instead of "Israel, .. etc. Under each region or country, topics are 70 I College & Research Libraries • January 1982 subdivided into sections for places, history, material culture, social studies , and lan- guage. Entries give bibliographical informa- tion and sometimes a short contents note. The "organizational outline" serves as a helpful detailed table of contents. There are indexes of place names and of subjects .. The work should prove useful for readers who do not have access to the wider indexes, which it duplicates in part. Publication plans call for a 1970-83 vol- ume (to be interleaved with the present work) , annual or biennial updates, and a ret- rospective volume for 1945- 59. -R.K. Walsh, Michael J. Religious Bibliographies in Serial Literature: A Guide. London, Mansell; Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pr., [1981]. 216p. $39.95. LC 81-312. ISBN 0-313-22987-2. Compiled on behalf of the Association of British Theological and Philosophical Li- braries , this guide lists and describes some 178 serial sources- indexes, abstracting ser- vices , bibliographies of current literature published in scholarly journals - which pro- vide bibliographic references on various as- pects of religion. Works listed are those that include a separate religion section or a subject heading such as "Religion ," "Theology, " "Is- lam," etc., and that list at least a score of items annually. Numerous general, social sci- ence, and interdisciplinary sources have been included along with the more specialized ones for religion itself. Each entry is anno- tated at some length, with notes on arrange- ment, coverage, special features , and evalua- tive comment. Title and subject indexes complement the alphabetical arrangement of entries. The introduction to the volume offers an interesting overview of some of the prob- lems and techniques of bibliographic search- ing in the field of religion and singles out var- ious nonserial and related sources of particular usefulness in such searching.- E.S. LITERATURE Historical Rhetoric: An Annotated Bibliogra- phy of Selected Sources in English. Wini- fred Bryan Horner, ed. Boston, G. K. Hall , [1980]. 294p. $35. LC 80-21947. ISBN 0- 8161-8191-8. Murphy, James Jerome. Renaissance Rheto- ric: A Short-title Catalogue of Works on Rhetorical Theory from the Beginning of Printing to A.D. 1700, with Special Atten- tion to the Holdings of the Bodleian Li- brary, Oxford. New York, Garland, 1981. 353p. (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, V.237) $50. LC 80-8501. ISBN 0-8240-9487-5. The first of these bibliographies is an "at- tempt to trace the tradition of rhetoric through its long history from ancient Greece to its evolution within the English-speaking world" by offering a long list of both primary and secondary works considered by the con- tributing scholars to be "the basic studies of rhetoric from all periods and from many disciplines."- Gen. Introd. Five sections, by as many specialists, cover the classical pe- riod, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. Each chapter has a short introductory survey and is divided into two lists: primary sources, arranged chronologically; and secondary works (both books and articles), listed alpha- betically by author. Annotations, usually a paragraph in length, summarize contents or indicate a work's significance or point of view. The volume will be appreciated by stu- dents not only for its identification of pri- mary works, but also for its indication of good English translations of Latin and Greek texts. Murphy's compilation, on the other hand, is devoted to the Renaissance only (i.e., from ca. 1455 to 1700) , and lists primary sources published in that period that "offer precep- tive advic~ for the preparation and delivery of future discourse. " - Introd. Its primary in- tent is "to idE:ntify authors and their works and to locate at least one copy available for further study." Not only Renaissance authors of both England and the Continent appear, but also those classical authors whose works were printed during the years covered. Works are listed alphabetically by author, then chronologically, with short title, place and date of publication and, in symbol, a location for each printing or edition. A select bibliography of secondary works concludes the volume. -R.K. PERFORMING ARTs Variety International Showbusiness Refer- ence. Mike Kaplan, ed. New York, Gar- land, 1981. 1135p. (Garland Reference Li- brary of the Humanities, V.292) $75. LC 81-2329. ISBN 0-8240-9341-0. This volume brings together diverse facts and figures about "show business"- movies, television, theater, recordings- drawn from the files of Variety. The information is essen- tially of three kinds: biography, credits lists, lists of award winners or top money-makers. The biographical section is particularly use- ful for its notes on people associated with the business or technical aspects of the entertain- ment industry, as well as on directors, pro- ducers, and performers. The lists of film credits (U.S. and foreign), TV credits, Broad- way play credits, overseas play credits (mostly British and Australian) cover only January 1, 1976, to December 31, 1980, but provide a substantial amount of information, including the date of a review or notice in Variety; since that periodical's reporting is quite extensive in its coverage, these lists are valuable sources of information not only on the best-known films, plays, or television shows, but also on many lesser-known works. As befits a reference source dedicated to the entertainment industry, there are a number of "blockbuster" lists, including the winners of Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Pulitzer Prizes (for plays), and Grammys, not to mention the hits whose popularity can be measured by the number of people who have watched, at- tended, or bought them: "100 All-Time Rental Champs," "Top 50 Nielsen-Rated TV Shows," "55 Longest-Running Broadway Plays," and "Platinum Records." A necrology for 1976-80 and a directory of festivals, mar- kets, and conventions complete the volume. -A.L. Welch, Jeffrey Egan. Literature and Film: An Annotated Bibliography, 1909-1977. New York, Garland, 1981. 315p. (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, V.241) $40. LC 80-8509. ISBN 0-8240- 9478-6. Ever since the early days of the movies, the relationship between film and literature has been much considered and debated. The de- velopment of the terms of that debate-e.g., the pros and cons and complexities of adapta- tion, the comparison of film and literature as narrative arts, or of film and theater as dra- matic arts- is chronicled by this bibliogra- phy in a year-by-year arrangement of Selected Reference Books I 71 English-language books, articles, and disser- tations. It is a selective, well-annotated list- ing of substantive, critical sources; the major- ity of cited sources were published in the last fifteen years, and the excellence of this bibli- ography can only make one regret that 1977 is the closing date of its coverage. There is an appendix listing literary authors with brief information on film adaptations of their works, as taken from the sources cited in the bibliography. (Both the appendix and the in- dex should be consulted to locate all refer- ences to a literary author.) A very good name/title/subject index adds to the bibliog- raphy's usefulness for the many students and scholars who are interested in some aspect of the relations between film and literature. - A.L. EDUCATION Weinberg, Meyer. The Education of Poor and Minority Children: A World Bibliog- raphy. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pr., 1981. 2v. $95. LC 80-29441. ISBN 0-313- 21996-6. "The subject matter of this work is school- ing as it is affected by the social, economic and political forces revolving aroupd it."- Pref. The scope of the bibliography is world- wide, but only a quarter of the 40,000 entries refer to studies of areas outside the United States. The introduction presents a brief sur- vey of educational research up to now, point- ing out its vagaries, biases, and gaps, and of- fers this bibliography as an indicator of the new and more urgent directions the research should be taking. One of the author's aims was to list as many as possible of the "non- establishment" sources of information that contain the minorities' views or which are generally overlooked: investigative journalis- tic reporting, the black press, black journals in education and the social sciences, legal proceedings, government documents (espe- cially hearings), and references to boycotts, lawsuits, and lobbying. Although the bibliography is massive and there is an author index, retrieving citations on a particular subject may be difficult ow- ing to the lack of a subject index and because some very general categories appear in the table of contents (e.g., "The American Scene" or "Social Conditions"). In the cate- gory "History-Study and Teaching," there 72 I College & Research Libraries • january 1982 are only twenty-two entries concerning the way history is taught in U.S. schools, a doubtful few. Even with its shortcomings, however, this is an admirable work, which could only have been created with great ef- fort and selflessness. -M.A.M. WoMEN's STuDIES Barrow, Margaret. Women 1870-1928: A Select Guide to Printed and Archival Sources in the United Kingdom. London, Mansell, 1981. 249p. £17.50. ISBN 0- 8240-9450-6. This is one of those well-realized reference books that manages to create a palpable sense of the time, place, and events on which it focuses. Partly responsible for this is the thoughtful introductory matter explaining the background, dates, and subjects of cover- age. 1870 was the year the "Married Women's Property Acts" were passed, mark- ing the beginning of the decade in which Brit- ish women achieved major steps toward equality; and the 1914-28 period is one that has been neglected by women's studies, even though it was a time of conflict and struggle because the opportunities afforded women out of necessity during the war were in dan- ger of being rescinded in peacetime. But the entries and their annotations tell the story best. They represent minutes of meetings, legislation, pamphlets, diaries, oral histories, etc. -the documents reflecting the social and economic affairs of British women in this pe- riod. Included are all the issues, campaigns, and movements women were involved in or that affected them, whether or not suffrage per se was being addressed. Women in litera- ture and the arts, and the interpretation of their lives in literature, are not covered. The book is in four parts: archives; printed works; nonbook material; and libraries and record offices. No attempt is made to offer a comprehensive listing in each section, but the selections indicate the scope of material available. Each part has its own introduction and detailed table of contents, and there are subject, author, and selected title indexes.- M.A.M. PoLITICAL SciENCE DeLancey, Mark W. African International Relations: An Annotated Bibliography. Boulder, Colo., WestviewPr., 1981. 365p. $27.75. LC 80-21254. ISBN 0-89158-680- 6. This work contains references to books, parts of books, journal articles, reviews, and pamphlets on all aspects of African foreign affairs; documents and ephemera are not in- cluded. Although there are no stated limita- tions on the languages of the items selected for inclusion, the majority of the 2,840 en- tries are in English. Coverage is thorough from 1960 through 1978, with some listings as current as 1980. Citations (accompanied by brief descriptive annotations) are ar- ranged alphabetically by author in eleven broad subject categories, including chapters on the foreign policies of individual African states, inter-African conflicts, subcontinental regionalism, African unity, the United Na- tions and international law, southern Africa, Mrica and the rest of the world, and an im- portant section on the economic factors of M- rican international relations. Countries of sub-Saharan Africa are better represented than those of North Africa, and southern Af- rica receives the most exhaustive treatment of all. The detailed subject index of topics, place-names, and persons facilitates access; however, one regrets the absence of an au- thor index. An added feature is the eight- page list of abbreviations and acronyms com- monly used in African international affairs. This is a valuable addition to the already im- pressive list of information sources available to scholars and students of Africana. - L. B. Shoup, Paul. The East European and Soviet Data Handbook: Political, Social, and De- velopmental Indicators, 1945-1975. New York, Columbia Univ. Pr., 1981. 472p. ta- bles. $40. LC 80-25682. ISBN 0-281- 04252-3. What was the rural infant mortality rate in Poland in 1946? In 1966, how many house- wives were members of the Soviet Commu- nist Party? What was the decrease in the Gypsy population of Romania between 1930 and 1977? The answers to these and thou- sands of other questions involving basic social-science data are found in this fine handbook, the first to present data for all the Communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Since one of the compiler's major objec- tives was "to give an overview of social change and elite development in Eastern Eu- rope and the Soviet Union since World War II, with the data presented in such a way as to facilitate comparisons" (Gen. Introd.), tables are grouped by subject in eight main sections: (1) population; (2) party membership; (3) na- tional and religious affiliation; (4) educa- tional attainment; (5) classes; (6) party leaders; (7) occupations; (8) developmental indicators and the standard of living. Uni- form criteria have been used as far as possi- ble. Each section consists of a brief introduc- tion followed by fifteen to thirty-seven tables, with explanatory notes; sources for in- dividual tables are identified. With the ex- ception of national income data, economic statistics have been excluded, since they are available elsewhere; emphasis is on subjects that have been inadequately covered in other sources, such as party membership, social classes, occupations, levels of educational at- tainment, and backgrounds of party leaders. Appendixes provide useful data on dates of censuses and party congresses, and the guide- lines and classifications used by various coun- tries in defining educational levels, economi- cally active populations, etc. The lengthy introductory essay on the availability and re- liability of Soviet and East European statis- tics (p.1-35) and the extensive bibliography (p.455-66) are clear indications of the careful and diligent scholarship involved in the com- pilation of this volume. It is recommended as an essential purchase. -D. G. Smith, Harold. The British Labour Move- ment to 1970: A Bibliography. (London], Mansell, [1981]. [250]p. £30. LC 81- 670087. ISBN 0-7201-0924-8. Smith has identified almost 4,000 books, essays, pamphlets, and periodical articles published between 1945 and 1970, which dis- cuss the British labor movement of any pe- riod. These he has assembled into an ex- tremely useful bibliography for any researcher of British history and politics. The work is oriented toward broad topics or pe- riods such as "Early Radicalism" or "Labour Governments, 1929-1931," rather than to- ward specific issues such as the workweek or child labor. The "General" section has some very helpful subdivisions: .. Autobiographies, biographies, memoirs, obituaries" lists col- lective works and also cites studies (including DNB articles), autobiographies, and obitu- Selected Reference Books I 13 aries for individual names; .. Sources for re- search, study and teaching" is a bit of a hodgepodge, but it does cite discussions of archival and library resources, state-of-the- art studies, and statistical compendiums. The list of bibliographies (p.xv-xviii) cites works published through 1978; these citations are not indexed, however, nor do sections of the main work refer to pertinent citations in this list. These comments are not meant as serious criticisms, but rather as cautions in using the book. Two exclusions should be noted: books on industrial relations, because they are in- cluded in Bain and Woolven's Bibliography of British Industrial Relations (Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1979); and government publica- tions that are listed in HMSO indexes. The index is primarily of names, but includes some subject headings. The compiler hopes to issue a supplement for 1971-80 in 1982 and, in due time, a second ten-year bibliography. We look forward to this continuing effort.- E.M. HISTORY AND AREA STUDIES Adams, Thomas Randolph. The American Controversy: A Bibliographical Study of the British Pamphlets about the American Disputes, 1764-1783. Providence, Brown Univ. Pr.; New York, Bibliographical So- ciety of America, 1980. 2v. (1,102p.) $60. LC 77-76348. ISBN 0-87057-150-8. Between 1764 and 1783, more than 1,400 pamphlets were published in Great Britain discussing that country's American colony. Adams, already well known for his American Independence: A Bibliographical Study of American Political Pamphlets (Guide DB50), has now traced a parallel route in this study of controversial pamphlets showing the British side of the question. He has described each pamphlet in painstaking detail and identified American pamphlets later pub- lished in Great Britain, as well as American and Continental editions of works originat- ing in England. In all, there are 2,300 entries with collations, appropriate bibliographical and historical information, references to ap- pearances in contemporary advertising, bib- liographical citations, and locations of copies in the United States. Adams has also provided two useful ap- pendixes. The one on .. Pamphlet Exchanges" 74 I College & Research Libraries • january 1982 makes it possible to follow a debate through several pamphlets: Richard Price's Observa- tions, for example, inspired no less than thirty-two other pamphlets, and these are all cited, along with pamphlets disputing some of the responses. The other appendix lists publishers and the pamphlets issued from their presses. Separate title and subject in- dexes offer useful guides to this work, which was twenty years in progress and which will be of continuing importance to our under- standing of the American Revolution.- P. C. Boyce, Gray Cowan. Literature of Medieval History 1930-1975: A Supplement to Louis John Paetow 's A Guide to the Study of Me- dieval History. Millwood, N.Y., Kraus In- ternational, 1981. 5v. $495. LC 80-28773. ISBN 0-527-10462-0. "Sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America." -t.p. A revised edition of Paetow's Guide with errata and an addendum, published 1980, was previously noted in these pages. These new volumes, as the subtitle clearly states, form a supplement to Paetow's work (Guide DA108), not a new edition thereof. More- over, while following the basic plan of Paetow, "the accent here is placed more on the needs of advanced students and scholars." -Pref. The resulting compilation is a fairly staggering international listing of book and periodical references. The time pe- riod for the "Medieval Culture" section has been extended to the year 1500 instead of ending at 1300; English history as such is still excluded except as systematically treated with events and developments on the Conti- nent. Book-review citations follow many of the entries, and there are occasional evalua- tive comments or notes indicating content. There is an index of authors' names and per- sonal names as subjects, but for topical sub- ject access one must rely on the table of con- tents and the "List of Subject Headings" (p.xlix-civ), which details the chapter sub- heads and therefore offers mainly a topo- chronological approach rather than an al- phabetical one. -E.S. Coletta, Paolo Enrico. A Bibliography of American Naval History. Annapolis, Na- val Institute Pr., [1981]. 453p. $16.95 pa- per. LC 80-24864. ISBN 0-87021-105-6. For this bibliography, American naval his- tory is defined very broadly and includes dip- lomatic, political , economic, and social his- tory as well as the history of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard for the period when it was part of the Navy Department. The range of publishing is cor- respondingly broad , with 4,822 articles, es- says, books, theses, government publications, and oral history interviews represented. Only English-language works are cited; the cutoff date is December 31, 1979. Materials are ar- ranged within a chronological framework subdivided by type of publication. Following an introductory section, "Selected Biblio- graphic Aids and Reference Works," the chapters cover "The European Heritage" through "Sea Power for the 1980s." The sub- ject index is extremely helpful, but a little complicated. For example, there are no en- tries under specific naval battles or cam- paigns, but one finds them under the rubric "Battles, naval." ' This work will not replace Myron Smith's volumes on the American navy in the various wars, of course, but it complements them with its more general, interdisciplinary approach. -E.M. The Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations. Arthur Cotterell, ed. New York, May- flower Books, [1980]. 367p. il. $29.95. LC 79-28366 . ISBN 0-8317 -2790-X. The compiler has selected a group of some thirty-eight specialists to write on various peoples and their cultures in order "to pro- vide a comprehensive view of ancient history through the study of its civilizations."- Prej. Thus we are given Ignacio Bernal writing on the Olmecs, Wendy O'Flaherty on Hindu- ism, Colin Renfrew on the emergence of civi- lization. Each section devoted to a particular early culture focuses on its "emergence, de- velopment, interaction, and decline." Obvi- ously the period of coverage varies from area to area; for example, that on Egypt covers from 3000 B.C. to about A.D. 500, while the period for the Americas runs from about 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1000. The essays are brief (about six or seven pages in length), well written, and have good illustrations and fre- quently good maps. A surprising amount of detail is presented, but this is still a volume for the general reader. A selected bibliogra- phy and an index conclude the work. - E .M. Research Guide to Andean History: Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru. John J. Te- Paske, coordinating ed. Durham, N.C., Duke Univ. Pr., 1981. 346p. $18.75. LC 80-29365. ISBN 0-8223-0450-3. A project of the Andean Studies Commit- tee of the Conference on Latin American His- tory, this guide comprises a collection of con- tributed articles (a few of them in Spanish), each of which describes an individual ar- chive, a group of archives in a specific area, or repositories having materials relating to a particular historical period or topic (e.g., "El Archivo Mariscal Santa Cruz," "The Ar- chives and Libraries of Guayaquil," "Sources for the Study of Chilean Labor History," "Research on Peruvian History: 1870- 1930"). Articles are grouped by country. In- asmuch as the contributing editor for each country section was allowed to develop his own framework, there is considerable varia- tion in the presentation of information, but the overall result should prove very valuable to the historian. As noted in the preface, not only are there descriptions of archival hold- in~s and their organization, but one may find "l~tings of fresh topics for innovative re- search; practical suggestions for getting the most from one's research time in the field"; and names and addresses of archives and ar- chivists. A subject index to complement the geographical index of archives would have been a welcome addition to this guide.- E.S. Steiner, DaleR. Historical journals: A Hand- book for Writers and Reviewers. Santa Barbara, ABC-Clio, [1981]. 213p. LC 80- 26215. ISBN 0-87436-312-8. As the subtitle indicates, this is a guide for prospective contributors to historical jour- nals, not a selection guide for the periodicals librarian. Like Gerstenberger and Hen- drick's Fourth Directory of Periodicals Pub- lishing Articles on English and American Lit- erature and Language (Guide BD60), it offers an alphabetical list of journals, with directory information concerning each and a summary of the journal's policies and regula- tions regarding submission of manuscripts for Selected Reference Books I 75 articles and book reviews. Uniform presenta- tion of the information makes for easy scan- ning, and a subject index groups journal titles by specialty or field of principal interest. Two brief introductory essays offer advice on preparing articles and on book reviewing for historical journals. -E. S. NEW EDITIONS, SuPPLEMENTS, Ere. The jamaican National Bibliography, 1964-1974 (Millwood, N.Y., Kraus Interna- tional, 1981. 439p. $95) prepared at the Insti- tute of Jamaica, Kingston, supersedes the 1964-70 cumulation of the same title (1973; Suppl. AA132), adds 1963 Jamaican publica- tions not previously covered, and includes works by Jamaicans published abroad as well as works about Jamaica published elsewhere. Arrangement is by broad subject category with an index of authors, editors, corporate bodies, and titles. There is a separate list of Jamaican periodicals and newspapers. Publishers' Trade List Annual Index 1903-1963 (Westport, Conn., Meckler Pub- lishing, 1980. 142p. $49.50) was prepared as a finding aid for Meckler's microfiche edition of PTLA, but it can also be used effectively at the reference desk or with the paper copy. That is, while its primary purpose is to indi- cate the fiche number (and position on the fiche) of the catalog of a given publisher for a given year, it also shows at a glance the years in which an individual publisher's offerings were included in PTLA and whether the list- ing is in the main alphabetical sequence or in the supplement. The second edition of The Library of Con- gress Main Reading Room Reference Collec- tion Subject Catalog (Washington, D.C., Li- brary of Congress, 1980. 1,236p.; for sale by U.S. Govt. Print. Off. $28) provides a subject approach to the 17,315 titles (13,385 mono- graphs; 3,930 serials) that constituted the col- lection on August 15, 1980. Like the 1975 edition (Suppl. AA80), it is arranged by sub- ject heading, then by main entry. Katherine Ann Gardner is again the editor. Book Review Index: A Master Cumulation 1969-1979 (Detroit, Gale, 1980. 7v. $375) cumulates the approximately 960,000 review citations from the annual volumes of the in- dex (Guide AA412) for the 1969-79 period. 76 I College & Research Libraries· January 1982 Although a title index has been a feature of the annual volumes only from 1976, this cu- mulation provides title indexing for the full period. Norman W. Schur's English English (Es- sex, Conn., Verbatim, 1980. 332p. $24.95) is a revised and expanded edition of his British Self-taught (1973; Guide AD63). Like the earlier edition, this volume gives American equivalents of British terms and expressions, together with explanatory notes for many of the entries. The long-awaited second volume of The Cambridge Italian Dictionary has finally ap- peared. Under the continued editorship of Barbara Reynolds, the English-Italian vol- ume (Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1981. 843p. $165) corresponds to the earlier part (Guide AD450) in that the material was "selected and arranged to the maximum advantage of the English-speaking user."- Introd. Ameri- canisms are sparingly included; specialized vocabulary was selected "primarily with the aim of meeting the requirements of transla- tors from English into Italian." Equally welcome is the English-French portion of Harraps New Standard French and English Dictionary by J. E. Mansion, as revised by R. P. L. Ledesert and Margaret Ledesert (London, Harrap, 1980. V.3-4. £35). This is a thorough reworking and up- dating of the portion of the dictionary that first appeared in 1939 (see Guide AD277 for the French-English part), with particular at- tention having been given to scientific, tech- nical, and industrial development, as well as good representation of colloquial and idiom- atic expressions. Serials in the British Library (London, The British Library, June 1981- . Quarterly. £33 per year, overseas) is the successor to the quarterly British Union Catalogue of Period- icals (Guide A£147), which ceased with the cumulation for 1980. The new publication lists (and provides full cataloging informa- tion on) serial titles newly acquired by the British Library, together with locations, holdings, and additional titles reported by a small number of other British and Irish li- braries "selected on account of their geo- graphical location or the significance of their collections." -Prej. An annual cumulation will be available only on microfiche (£18 overseas). The third and final volume of The German Language Press of the Americas (Guide AF18) by Karl J. R. Arndt and May E. Olson is entitled "German-American Press Re- search from the American Revolution to the Bicentennial" (Munchen, K. G. Saur, 1980. 838p. DM240). It consists mainly of reprint- ings of "research publications dealing with the German-American press that have long been out of print" (Prej.), plus some new con- tributions by the editors to the history of the German press in America. Benjamin C. Nangle's Gentlemans Maga- zine Biographical and Obituary Notices, 1781-1819 (N.Y., Garland, 1980. 422p. $55) was originally prepared some forty years ago and maintained as a card file in the Yale U ni- versity Library. Now published as volume 212 in the "Garland Reference Library of the Humanities," the work provides indexing for the period following the 1731-80 segment prepared by the Index Society (Guide AJ184). As in the earlier index, an identifying word or phrase is given with most names. Beginning with the volume covering 1979, The Romantic Movement: A Selective and Critical Bibliography appears as a separately published volume rather than a supplement to the journal English Language Notes (see Guide BD18). Under the continued editor- ship of David V. Erdman, the 1979 volume (N.Y., Garland, 1980. 333p. $35) forms vol- ume 211 of the "Garland Reference Library of the Humanities" and future volumes are to be part of that series. Intended "to cover a 'movement' rather than a period," the var- ious sections of the bibliography cover differ- ent time spans, with the English section now focusing on the 1789-1837 period. One hopes that an index will be added in later volumes. Bibliographies of Studies in Victorian Lit- erature for the Ten Years 1965-1974, edited by Ronald E. Freeman (N.Y., AMS Pr., 1981. 876p. $37.50), reproduces the annual bibliographies for those years as published in the periodical Victorian Studies and adds a cumulated index, an errata list, and an intro- duction by Freeman. It continues the series of similar compilations with this title by Tem- pleman, Wright, and Slack (Guide BD400-BD400b). Plots, themes, and central theses of "the most important books of all types and genres published during the last thirty years" (In- trod.) are summarized in Thesaurus of Book Digests, 1950-1980 by Irving Weiss and Anne de la Vergne Weiss (N.Y., Crown, 1981. 531p. $14.95). The work serves as a supplement to the 1949 compilation of simi- lar title by Haydn and Fuller (Guide BD54). European Political Facts 1789-1848 by Chris Cook and John Paxton (London, Mac- millan, 1981. 195p. £20) forms a chronologi- cal predecessor to the compilers' publications of similar title covering 1848-1918 (publ. 1978) and 1918-1973 (Suppl. CJ34). Like the earlier volumes, it offers lists, chronologies, statistical tables, etc., on the countries of Eu- rope "from the Iberian kingdoms in the west Selected Reference Books I 11 to the Tsarist and Ottoman empires of the east."- Prej. With the appearance of volumes seven and eight, the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (Washington, D.C., Naval History Center, Dept. of the Navy, 1981. V.7-8. $16, $15) is now complete. In prog- ress for more than twenty years (see Guide CJ305), the set provides descriptions and his- tories "of the almost 10,000 ships which have served the United States Navy and its fore- bear, the Continental Navy." -Foreword. A revised and updated edition of volume 1 is already being planned. -E. S.