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Selected Reference 
Books of 1990-91 
Eileen Mcilvaine 

his article follows the pattern 
set by the semiannual series 
initiated by the late Constance 
M. Winchell more than thirty 

years ago and continued by Eugene 
Sheehy. Because the purpose of the list is 
to present a selection of recent scholarly 
and general works of interest to refer-
ence workers in university libraries, it 
does not pretend to be either well-bal-
anced or comprehensive. A brief 
roundup of new editions of standard 
works is provided at the end of the arti-
cle. Code numbers (such as AD540 and 
CJ331) have been used to refer to titles in 
the Guide to Reference Books (10th ed., 
Chicago: American Library Assn., 1986). 

DICTIONARIES 

Macura, Paul. Elsevier's Russian-English 
Dictionary. Amsterdam; New York: 
Elsevier, 1990. 4v. $307.75 (ISBN 0-686-
28865-3). LC 89-25762. 
This imposing dictionary is the work 

of Paul Macura of the Department of 
Foreign Languages and Literatures at 
the University of Nevada-Reno. With 
some 240,000 entries, it is easily the larg-
est and most comprehensive Russian-
English dictionary available. Along with 
the more standard lexical fare offered by 
its predecessors, it provides broad cov-
erage of scientific and technical termi-
nology and colloquial speech based on 
material gathered in the course of 

Macura's years of work as a translator, 
as well as from surveys of Russian refer-
ence works. The author has also taken 
care to provide as much grammatical 
information as possible, indicating all 
irregular forms and changes in stress 
and consistently listing imperfective and 
perfective forms of the verb together. A 
well-designed and uncluttered layout 
likewise makes the dictionary a pleasure 
to use. 

For its core vocabulary, the dictionary 
appears to draw heavily on the well-
known but smaller Oxford Russian-En-
glish Dictionary (Guide AD669) even 
though that work is nowhere mentioned 
in the introduction or bibliography of 
sources. A comparison of a few parallel 
sections of the alphabet from the two 
works finds most of the Oxford text very 
closely echoed in the Elsevier work, 
down to the wording of definitions, 
choice of idiomatic phrase, use of a given 
word, and even examples. So close is the 
parallel that the Elsevier may almost be 
said to supersede the Oxford. 

The dictionary is aimed at "students, 
researchers, translators, and all who use 
Russian language publications," and it is 
difficult to imagine how any library with 
a significant collection in Russian could 
decide not to acquire this title. At the 
same time, however, its high price and 
multivolume format will no doubt tend 
to make it more an acquisition of institu-

Eileen Mcilvaine is Head of Reference, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, New York 
10027. Although it appears under a byline, this list is a project of the reference departments of Columbia 
University libraries, and notes are signed with the initials of one of the following staff members: Barbara 
Sykes-Austin, Avery Library; James L. Coen, Business Library; Mary Cargill, Beth Juhl, Anita Lowry, 
Robert H. Scott, Sarah Spurgin, and Junko Stuveras, Butler Library; Barbara Kemp, Lehman Library. 

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tions than of individual researchers.-
R.H.S. 

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 

Guide to Official Publications of Foreign Coun-
tries. Westfall, Gloria, ed. Bethesda, Md.: 
CIS, 1990. 359p. $179. LC 90-187873. 
Gloria Westfall is a familiar and re-

spected name in government docu-
ments librarianship, and this guide will 
enhance her reputation. Compiled under 
the aegis of the International Documents 
Task Force of the American Library 
Association's Government Documents 
Round Table, this "highly selective" guide 
"is a ready reference and acquisition tool" 
(lntrod.) to documents produced by for-
eign countries (i.e.( not the United States), 
excluding those with populations of fewer 
than 100,000. 

It lists, alphabetically by country, pub-
lications in seventeen subject areas, in-
cluding guides to official publications, 
bibliographies and catalogs, statistical 
yearbooks, legislative proceedings, de-
velopment plans, censuses, court re-
ports, and so on. Information provided 
for each entry includes the title in both 
the original language and English, acqui-
sition information, and a brief description. 
Unfortunately, though understandably, the 
emphasis is on current documents, so the 
reader cannot learn, for instance, which ear-
lier censuses for a particular country were 
compiled. Even at the price--extraordinar-
ily high for a publication compiled through 
the American Library Association-any li-
brary fielding questions on international af-
fairs will find this useful.-M.C. 

TIME 

The T!me Dimension: An Interdisciplinary 
Guzde. Das, T. K., comp. New York: 
Praeger, 1990. 344p. $45 (ISBN 0-275-
92681-8). LC 90-31137. 
Too often libraries look upon a title 

such as The Time Dimension as a problem. 
Where does a bibliography that treats 
fields as diverse as biology, history, psy-
chology, physics, literature, and manage-
ment belong on the shelf? But reference 
librarians will find this work extremely 
useful in answering readers' queries about 

Selected Reference Books 441 

perceptions and philosophies of time in 
various cultures and fields of research. 

The editor, whose specialty is manage-
ment studies, has compiled approximately 
3,000 citations to books and articles in 
journals or book collections. Disserta-
tions and theses, conference proceed-
ings, and working papers have been 
excluded, as have materials that discuss 
time management and other practical 
applications of time usage. Entries, pub-
lished for the most part from 1960 to 
1988, are arranged alphabetically within 
chapters on topics such as "Anthropology 
and Culture," "Calendars and Clocks," 
and "Sociology." Though the volume does 
include an author index, the lack of a 
subject index makes negotiating some of 
the lengthier · chapters on psychology 
and philosophy difficult. Otherwise, The 
Time Dimension provides a fine biblio-
graphic starting point for many quite 
different fields .-B.J. 

LITERATURE 

The Feminist Companion to Literature in 
English: Women Writers from the Middle 
Ages to the Present. Blain, Virginia, Pa-
tricia Clemens, and Isobel Grundy, 
comp. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. 
Pr., 1990. 1,231p. $49.95 (ISBN 0-300-
04854-8). LC 90-70515 . 
This excellent and comprehensive bio-

graphical dictionary includes more than 
2,700 women writing in English in a 
wealth of national traditions. It includes 
"not only works issuing from and re-
flecting the dominant ideologies of race, 
class, sexual practices; not only the can-
onized genres, but also diaries, letters, 
writing for children, and popular forms 
to which women have been relegated 
and which, often with joy, they have 
claimed" (lntrod.). 

Entries, which are limited to 500 
words, focus on the lives of the writers 
and are well researched and written; in 
many cases they include quotations 
from the author, information about the 
publication and location of author's pa-
pers, and citations to biographical and 
secondary material. Citations to second-
ary literature are remarkably current. 
This is a fine source for information on 



442 College & Research Libraries 

African women writers, and the editors 
have been generous in including authors 
like Mariama Ba, whose work was first 
published in French. 

In addition to the biographical entries, 
nearly 100 topical entries discuss genres 
(e.g., diaries, letters, slave narratives), 
subjects (e.g., suffrage, education, aboli-
tion), criticism, and theory. The Feminist 
Companion is arranged alphabetically. A 
chronological index, listing authors in 
broad categories by birthdate, a list of 
frequently cited works, a· list of the topi-
cal entries, and a list of cross-references 
complete the volume.-S.S. 

Philippides, Dia M. L. Census of Modern 
Greek Literature: Check-list of English 
Language Sources Useful in the Study of 
Modern Greek Literature (1824-1987). 
MGSA Occasional Papers, no. 2. New 
Haven, Conn.: Modern Greek Studies 
Assn., 1990. 248p. $15 (ISBN 0-912105-
01-1). LC 90-6441. 
What a bargain this book is, and what 

a boon to those enthusiasts (who cannot 
read Modern Greek) of the works of Cav-
afy, Elytis, and Kazantzakis. Aimed "not 
at the specialist, but a wide variety of 
readers," this volume represents a 
unique contribution to the bibliography 
of Modern Greek studies, drawing to-
gether several thousand citations to En-
glish-language translations and works 
of criticism. 

Arranged in seven chapters, the main 
body of the census is taken up by an 
alphabetical list of approximately 125 
Greek authors, with citations to works 
by and about them. The other six chap-
ters include bibliographic and reference 
sources; journals devoted to Modern 
Greek studies and special issues of liter-
ary journals that treat specific authors or 
topics; anthologies of both Panhellenic 
and regional literature; volumes of col-
lected essays; and literary history. The per-
sonal names and titles index provides 
alternative transliterations and spellings. 

The study of Modern Greek presents 
so many challenges to students, schol-
ars, and librarians: the lack of a national 
or systematic bibliography, the absence 
of a standard transliteration scheme, and 

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the paucity of U.S. collections of vernacu-
lar writings-all serve to discourage all but 
the most persistent novices. Philippides's 
Census should prove useful to both the be-
ginning student and the advanced re-
searcher.-B .J. 

Proffer, Carl R., and Ronald Meyer. Nine-
teenth-Century Russian Literature in 
English: A Bibliography of Criticism and 
Translations. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, 
1990. 188p. $49.50 (ISBN 0-88233-943-
5). LC 89-18589. 
This work represents the first com-

prehensive, single-volume bibliography 
devoted exclusively to English-language 
translations of and English-language re-
search on the Russian literature of the 
nineteenth century, the golden age of 
Pushkin and Gogol, Turgenev and Tolstoy, 
Dostoyevsky and Chekhov. Begun by the 
noted Slavist and publisher Carl Proffer, 
it was completed after his death in 1984 
by Ronald Meyer, who managed nearly 
to double the amount of material in 
Proffer's original files. 

The book includes publications issued 
between 1890 and 1986, beginning with 
a survey of works of general scope: bib-
liographies, histories, handbooks and 
encyclopedias, monographs, conference 
proceedings, dissertations and articles 
on broad issues, comparative studies, 
anthologies of translations, and so on. 
The second, larger section treats a total 
of sixty-nine major and minor Russian 
writers of the period from Aksakov to 
Zhukovsky, including a few essayists 
and critics, listing translations and then 
critical works, the latter grouped by type 
(bibliographies, monographs, disserta-
tions, and articles) and then alphabeti-
cally by author. 

The translations cited (which include 
items published in journals and anthol-
ogies) are intended largely to supple-
ment rather than supplant the Russian 
material already gathered by Richard 
Lewanski in 1967 for volume two of The 
Literatures of the World in Translation 
(Guide BD35), particularly in the case of 
the better-known authors. Proffer and 
Meyer's assembly in a single volume of 
references to critical writing in English 



on this period is unprecedented, although 
the degree of comprehensiveness natu-
rally varies, with more selectivity shown 
in the cases of such renowned figures as 
Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, who have 
been or would be effectively treated in 
individual bibliographies, and more ex-
haustive coverage employed in the cases 
of less well-known figures. 

The bibliography fills an important 
gap, taking its place alongside such 
treatments of earlier and later periods as 
Anthony Gross and G. S. Smith's Eigh-
teenth-Century Russian Literature, Cul-
ture, and Thought (Guide BD1328) or 
George Gibian's now somewhat dated 
Soviet Russian Literature in English (Guide 
BD1353). In light of the work's breadth 
and comprehensiveness, however, it is 
unfortunate that annotations are not 
provided. More regrettable is the ab-
sence of an index, especially given the 
grouping of entries by genre rather than 
by theme or subject and given the length 
of some of those sections (there are fif-
teen two-column pages of citations to 
articles on Chekhov, for example). None-
theless, this is a book of unquestionable 
value, not only to specialists, but to any 
reader with a more than passing interest 
in Russian literature. It belongs in any 
library supporting the study of Russian 
literature or, indeed, European literature 
in general.-R.H.S. 

Rothwell, Kenneth S., and Annabelle Hen-
kin Melzer. Shakespeare on Screen: An In-
ternational Filmography and Videography. 
New York: Neal-Schuman, 1990. 404p. 
$59.95 (ISBN 1-5557~9-7). LC89-13509. 
Shakespeare on Screen bears witness to the 

current preoccupation of literary scholar-
ship with the problem of intertextuality, 
as well as to the new opportunities pre-
sented to scholarship by the video revo-
lution. The filmography arises out of a 
much larger, National Endowment for 
the Humanities sponsored project di-
rected by Dr. Annabelle Melzer of the 
University of Tel Aviv, aiming ultimately 
at the creation of a comprehensive inter-
national database of film and video perfor-
mances, adaptations, and transformations 
of all dramatic texts. While this volume 

Selected Reference Books 443 

draws to some extent upon her research 
in the film archives of Western Europe, it 
is primarily the work Kenneth Rothwell, 
of the University of Vermont, a Shakes-
peare specialist, and, most appropri-
ately, cofounder of the Shakespeare on 
Film Newsletter. 

While this is by no means the first 
Shakespeare filmography, Rothwell has 
striven for and achieved an unprece-
dented degree of comprehensiveness, pro-
ducing a guide to 750 productions in 
Western and Eastern Europe, the Amer-
icas, and Japan, constituting "a major 
share of the films and videos based on 
Shakespeare's plays that have been pro-
duced since 1899," the principal excep-
tion being a number of no longer extant 
silent films listed in Robert H. Ball's Shakes-
peare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful His-
tory (London: Allen & Unwin; New Yor~: 
Theater Arts Books, [1968]). (Rothwell 
has chosen to list and describe such films 
in his filmography only when he judges 
them to have been of major signifi-
cance or interest, although it seems 
unfortunate, given the overall sweep 
of this work, that at least a simple listing 
of the others was not provided.) The 
work does not limit itself, moreover, to 
actual performances of Shakespeare 
texts, but includes adaptations, modern-
izations, and works loosely inspired by 
one or more of Shakespeare's works or 
containing scenes of a Shakespeare perfor-
mance. Thus, alongside BBC performances, 
one finds here listings for productions of 
Pyotr Tchaikovsky's and Serge Prokofiev's 
Romeo and Juliet ballets, Akira Kurosawa' s 
Throne of Blood, and Cole Porter's Kiss Me, 
Kate. There is also a substantial inven-
tory of major documentary films and vid-
eos about Shakespeare and his times and 
about the staging of Shakespearean works. 

The work opens with an essay by 
Rothwell outlining the major trends in 
film and video performance of the bard's 
work. It is followed by descriptions of 
the individual productions, grouped by 
title and, within each title section, chro-
nologically. A boldfaced heading briefly 
describes the film or video that follows 
and the nature of the work (adaptation, 
excerpt, etc.). Confusingly, this heading 



444 College & Research Libraries 

sometimes applies to a group of entries 
rather than a single entry, making the 
text a little difficult to scan in places. The 
heading is followed by the numbered 
entry itself, which provides the title as 
found on the chief source of information 
and any series statement. Information is 
then furnished, when available, on the 
history and significance of the produc-
tion, highlights of the action, and critical 
reception, including selected quotations 
from and citations to reviews and other 
literature. Next comes a basic material 
description, detailing the medium, whether 
or not there is sound or color, the running 
time, the language or languages of the 
performance, the type of video, and so 

. on. Following this are a listing of mem-
bers of the cast and individuals involved 
in the production, an indication of ar-
chives or distributors where the work 
may be found, and even some current 
rental prices. To be sure, the amount of 
detail varies greatly, depending on 
whether the film was available to 
Rothwell for viewing (he was able to 
screen about half of them, he reports) or 
on the degree of information provided 
by other sources if the film was not. 

Use of the material is facilitated by 
several indexes to cited sequence num-
bers, series and genres, years of produc-
tion, actors and speakers, production 
teams (including producers, directors, cin-
ematographers, composers, scenarists, 
etc.), and authors and critics. Extensive 
additional information enables the se-
quence number index to function as well 
as a detailed table of contents, and the 
chronological index to provide a fasci-
nating overview of the changing focus of 
film and television treatments of Shakes-
peare. In addition, a selected bibliogra-
phy with useful annotations and a listing 
of the addresses of film archives and 
distributors are provided at the end of 
the work. 

This volume is in many ways a model 
reference work, serving both as a guide 
and finding aid to specific works and as 
a thought-provoking overview of twen-
tieth-century trends in the presentation 
and treatment of the central figure in 
English literature. It promises to be a 

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valuable tool for researchers, as well as 
an important resource for teachers, and 
probably belongs in any serious human-
ities collection. Coming years will no 
doubt see an increasing integration of 
different media into scholarship, and 
this work seems to point the way to the 
riches that such encounters will be able 
to produce.-R.H.S. 

Yellin, Jean Fagan, and Cynthia D. Bond. 
The Pen Is Ours: A Listing of Writings by 
and about African-American Women be-
fore 1910 with a Secondary Bibliography 
to the Present. The Schomburg Library 
of Nineteenth-Century Black Women 
Writers. New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 
1991. 349p. $29.95 (ISBN 0-19-506203-
5). LC 90-41447. 
This fine, comprehensive bibliogra-

phy is presented in five parts: writings 
by and about women who produced sep-
arately published works; writings by 
and about women whose dictated narra-
tives or biographies were published before 
1910; women whose works appeared 
only in perfodicals and collections; 
women who were not writers but who 
were the subjects of published writings; 
and a topical listing of items written 
about, but not by, African-American 
women published before 1910. 

The listing of the writings of eighty 
black American women who published 
at least one work before 1910 includes 
books, periodical and newspaper publi-
cations, works published in anthologies, 
reprints, published letters, and works in 
the Black Abolitionist Papers microfilm set 
(New York: Microfilming Corp. of Amer-
ica, 1981). Secondary references include 
biographical directories, essays in peri-
odicals, and books (giving exact page 
numbers when a book is not indexed). 
Manuscript collections are cited but not 
described. Part five lists works about Af-
rican-American women published be-
fore 1910 on a variety of topics, including 
the arts; education; employment; health 
and medicine; literature and journalism; 
marriage, family, and the home; religion; 
reminiscences; and travellers' accounts. 
In addition to searching bibliographies, 
periodical indexes, library catalogs, and 



journals, the compilers have made use of 
the index of Cornell University's Black 
Periodical Literature Project, an ongoing 
project to index poems, stories, and book 
reviews published in nearly 1,000 peri-
odicals.-S.S. 

ARCHITECTURE 

Encyclopedia of Architecture: Design, Engi-
neering & Construction. Wilkes, Joseph 
A., ed.-in-chief; Packard, Robert T., 
assoc. ed. New York: Wiley, 1988-
1990. 5v. $850/set (ISBN 0-471-63351-
8/set). LC 87-25222. 
This work is the single most com-

prehensive encyclopedia on architecture 
and building construction now available 
in these fields. "It includes all aspects of 
architecture and engineering from the 
standpoints of design, education, regu-
lation, and other myriad aspects of the 
profession, as well as the construction 
industry as a whole," (Pref.) including 
technology, law, and economics. 

Published serially in five volumes be-
tween 1988 and 1990, the Encyclopedia of 
Architecture is a major addition to the 
more limited, usually single-volume ref-
erence works that have come before. It 
comprises more than 600 articles on ar-
chitects, architectural and engineering 
firms, building types and components, 
professional associations and activities, 
architectural styles, standards, and spe-
cific disciplines within the field, such as 
acoustical design, lighting, architectural 
photography, historic preservation, and 
architectural literature. 

Signed articles of from one to ten or 
more pages, alphabetically arranged, have 
been contributed by an international 
group of architects, educators, engineers, 
industry representatives, and profes-
sional organizations under the editorial 
guidance of the American Institute of 
Architects. Each volume provides a table 
of contents and a supplement of late en-
tries. Volume 5 includes a full index. The 
subject coverage is very broad and, in 
some respects, inconsistent. For exam-
ple, "Latin American Architecture" and 
"West African Vernacular Architecture" 
are both major articles, but there are no 
entries for "Scandinavian Architecture" 

Selected Reference Books 445 

or for "Vernacular Architecture" for any 
other area in either the index or the ta-
bles of contents. Coverage of architects 
emphasizes the twentieth century, with 
a few important historical architects such 
as Christopher Wren, Andrea Palladio, Al-
berti, and Robert and James Adam, but 
important architectural writers such as 
Ada Louise Huxtable are cross-referenced 
to "Media Criticism." Readers are better 
served in this area by the Macmillan Ency-
clopedia of Architects (Guide BE271 ), which 
lists more than 2,400 biographies of ar-
chitects from ancient times to the present 
and from all geographical regions. 

The technical articles and those on 
building materials, types, and styles are 
well-illustrated with photographs, plans, 
elevations, sections, tables, and dia-
grams. Useful conversion tables and an 
abbreviations list begin each volume. 
Bibliographies of varying lengths con-
clude each entry. Geographic access to 
cities or specific buildings is through the 
index under country, then by city and 
building, with the exception of the 
United States, which is by state, then city 
and building. Only the White House and 
the U.S. Capitol are given individual ar-
ticles. Here too the Macmillan Encyclope-
dia of Architects is more comprehensive 
and has a separate index to individual 
buildings. 

Intended as "an encyclopedia which 
would serve ... as a first source of infor-
mation with sufficient coverage to sat-
isfy the needs of the average reader," this 
work provides sufficient scope, in most 
cases, to meet those requirements, but at 
this price may be out of reach for users 
of any but the most comprehensive col-
lections.-B.S.-A. 

POLITICAL SCIENCE 

Dictionnaire des ministres de 1789 a 1989. 
Sous la direction de Benoit Yvert. 
Paris: Perrin, [1990]. 1,028p. (ISBN 
2262007101). 
While the comprehensive national bi-

ography for France is slowly progressing, 
we have seen a number of specialized bio-
graphical dictionaries coming out. The 
most recent addition to this group of 
biographical dictionaries by profession 



446 College & Research Lib1;aries 

or specialty covers cabinet ministers 
from Jacques Necker, who became min-
ister of finances on July 15, 1789, to 
Michel Rocard, former prime minister. 
Some 1,700 men and women are in-
cluded, with the participation of forty 
contributors. 

The book is divided by historical pe-
riod, such as "Revolution et Empire" 
and "Cinquieme Republique." Within 
each of these seven divisions, biograph-
ical entries are presented in alphabetical 
order by name. The general index is a 
handy list in a single alphabetical se-
quence of all people included in the vol-
ume and the names mentioned in the 
body of biographical entries. 

Each entry, which varies in length, 
contains the minister's full name, place 
and date of birth and death, offices occu-
pied with dates, and, for some entries, 
family and educational background. The 
emphasis is, however, on the political 
career of each minister and his accom-
plishments in office, which makes it more 
of a historical dictionary than a purely 
biographical one. As such, this book 
should be useful for any scholar of French 
history and contemporary politics.-J.S. 

Political Quotations; Baker. Daniel B., ed. 
Detroit: Gale, [1990]. 509p. $39.95 
(ISBN 0-810349295). LC 91-133490. 
This new collection of political quota-

tions offers more than 4,000 entries "rel-
evant to the modern world" (Pref.). The 
statements are drawn from sources 
worldwide and from all time periods, 
with post-World War II citations ac-
counting for more than one-third of the 
total entries. Sources of the quotations 
range from Bill Cosby and George Burns 
to such corporate bodies as UNESCO, 
but the majority are from politicians, 
public officials, and literary authors. 

The numbered entries are arranged 
under very broad subject headings, such 
as "Democracy," "Expressions and 
Phrases," and ''Taxation and Budgets." A 
chronological arrangement within each 
subject heading allows the user to see 
how thought on a topic has changed or 
remained the same over a period of time. 
In addition to the authors of the quota-

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tions, the source document and date are 
provided in the main entry (but not the 
page). Foreign quotations are given in 
English, but the original language quo-
tation also is provided. While the key-
word index gives more detailed access to 
the quotations than do the broad subject 
groupings, not every word in every quota-
tion is listed, nor does every keyword 
entry list all occurrences of a word, which 
poses some difficulty and can lead to 
confusion. Also, the entries in the key-
word index are listed in order by the 
entry number, which requires the user to 
read through all the listings to identify 
possible relevant citations. The author 
index usually gives birth and death dates, 
as appropriate, and a brief description to 
help identify the individual and give some 
context to the quotations. References are 
made to both the subject grouping and 
the entry numbers. 

Despite some of the drawbacks in the 
keyword index and the inevitable over-
lap with other sources of quotations, Po-
litical Quotations is a helpful reference 
tool. With its emphasis on contemporary 
sources and subjects, it should be in most 
general or subject-related reference col-
lections.-B.K. 

SOCIOLOGY 

Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. Dynes, 
Wayne R., ed. Reference Library of So-
cial Science 492. New York: Gar-
land, 1990. 2v. 1,440p. $150 (ISBN 
0-8240-6544-1). LC 89-228128. 
Designed for a wide range of readers, 

from the high school student to the scholar, 
this useful encyclopedia has more than 
770 signed thematic, topical, and bio-
graphical articles, many with brief bibli-
ographies. Both male and female 
homosexuality are covered, and the edi-
tor has attempted to give all sides of 
controversial or disputed areas. No biog-
raphies of living people are included, 
although people still living may be dis-
cussed in a topical article. The articles 
are arranged alphabetically; there is a 
detailed list of "entries grouped by 
major topic and discipline" at the begin-
ning of volume one and a subject index 
that includes references to individuals 



mentioned in the articles. Unfortunately, 
the subject index could use more work; 
the entry for England, for example, lists 
more than 100 page references with no 
further subject breakdown. The deliberate 
neutrality of the encyclopedia often makes 
the writing bland and stilted; nevertheless, 
this set should be a welcome addition to 
any reference collection. For the price, 
though, the publisher could have provided 
a sturdier binding.-M.C. 

AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES 

Black Americans: A Statistical Sourceb9ok. 
Garwood, Alfred N ., ed. Boulder, 
Colo.: Numbers and Concepts, [1990]. 
340p. $47.50 (ISBN 0-929960-03-3). LC 
sn90-2852. 

Statistical Record of Black America. Horton, 
Carrell Peterson, and Jessie Carney 
Smith, eds. Detroit: Gale, [1990]. 707p. 
$89.50 (ISBN0-8103-7724-1). LC90-2242. 
These two welcome works pull to-

gether statistical information from many 
different publications and present . it in 
concise and convenient formats. Black 
Americans, which is intended to be an 
annual, presents data drawn from the 
federal government, for the most part 
Bureau of the Census figures taken from 
the Statistical Abstract of the United States. 
Tables are arranged in eight chapters, 
which cover basic demographic and pop-
ulation information, vital statistics and 
health, education, politics and govern-
ment, crime and law enforcement, labor 
and employment, income, and miscella-
neous topics. Tables provide source infor-
mation, special notes, and some 
explanatory definitions. Especially help-
ful is the glossary at the end of the vol-
ume, which defines terms as basic as 
"mean" and "average" and as special-
ized as "disability day" and "uniform 
crime reporting." A subject index also is 
included. 

Though Black Americans contains 
much historical information, Statistical 
Record of Black America is the more com-
prehensive work. Comprised of 963 ta-
bles, pie charts, and graphs, Statistical 
Record draws on public and private 
sources, including journal articles and 
commissioned studies. The material is 

Selected Reference Books 447 

arranged in nineteen chapters, encom-
passing topics such as education, the 
family, the professions, and sports and 
leisure. Sources are provided for each 
table, and, in cases where data are repub-
lished from a compilation, the primary 
publication is given as well. The volume 
concludes with a bibliography of statis-
tical sources and a subject index. Though · 
some of the information presented here 
has appeared in other recent Gale publi-
cations, the handiness of this Statistical 
Record should make it a valuable ready 
reference tool.-B.J. 

WOMEN'S STUDIES 

Women's Studies: Papers Presented at a Col-
loquium at the British Library 4 April 
1989. Gaur, Albertine, and Penelope 
Tuson, eds. British Library Occasional 
Papers, no.12. London: British Library, 
1990.189p. £24 (ISBN 0-7123-0184-4). 
The twenty-one papers presented at 

this colloquium address subjects rang-
ing from "Suffragettes and Saris: Re-
sources for Women's Studies at the India 
Office Library" to "Women in the Soviet 
Union from 1917 to the Present: Sources 
for Research." Although the focus is on 
the collections at the British Library, pa-
pers addressing the general questions of 
methodology and use of specific types of 
material will be of particular interest to 
American scholars.-S.S. 

Robinson, Jane. Wayward Women: A 
Guide to Women Travellers. Oxford: Ox-
ford Univ. Pr., 1990. 344p. $29.95 (ISBN 
0-19-212261-4). LC 89-39701. 
This engaging guide to firsthand 

travel accounts lists "some four hundred 
writers, all using English as a first lan-
guage, mostly of British extraction, and 
always travelling beyond the frontiers of 
their native land. A biographical sketch 
of each lady is headed by the brief first 
edition details of her travel accounts, in-
cluding the books' titles and imprints, 
pagination, and the number and nature 
of their illustrations" (Pref.). The entries 
are organized into thirteen chapters with 
colorful titles (e.g., "Untrodden Peaks 
and Unfrequented Valleys" and "Unfemi-
nine Exploits"), each with a short intro-



448 College & Research Libraries 

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published heritage of Canada. The 
Library has a vast collection of 
Canadiana dating from Canada's earliest 
days to the present. In order to provide 
access to Canada's published heritage the 
Library has developed various products 
which are invaluable to those with an 
interest in Canadian Studies or research. 

The Library procudes Canadiana, a 
comprehensive bibliography which 
documents the nation's published 
heritage. Canadiana is a valuable aid for 
Canadian Studies and is available in 
printed and microfiche formats and on 
magnetic tape. 

Canadiana authorities lists verified name 
headings of Canadian origin and can help 
in compiling bibliographies and 
answering research and reference 
questions. 

Canadian Theses is a microfiche 
bibliography of masters' and doctoral 
theses accepted by Canadian universities, 
as well as selected foreign theses of 
Canadian authorship or interest. 

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ductory essay. Author and geographical 
indexes and a collection of maps com-
plete the work. 

The author's wit and enthusiasm en-
sure that this will be a useful reader's 
advisor. Unfortunately, it lacks the cita-
tions to reprints and secondary literature 
that would make it invaluable to refer-
ence librarians.-S.S. 

Women's Studies Index. 1989- . Boston: 
G. K. Hall, 1991-. Annual. 502p. $125. 
LC sn90-15083. 
Established in response to the "prolif-

eration of both popular and scholarly 
journals focusing on issues of concern to 
women" (Pref.), Women's Studies Index 
provides access to articles, reviews, and 
creative writing appearing in seventy-
eight periodicals. The titles represent a 
broad spectrum of writing on women 
and feminism from the popular (Family 
Circle) to the scholarly (Journal of Women's 
History), from the general (Signs) to the 
specialized (Camera Obscura), from the 
mainstream (Feminist Studies) to the alter-
native (off our backs). 

Authors' names, personal names as 
subjects, subject terms, and cross-refer-
ences are arranged in a single alphabet 
in the volume. Book, film, music, play, 
and video reviews are indexed under the 
name of the author of the work, the name 
of the reviewer, and appropriate subject 
headings; they are also listed under spe-
cial headings, which include Book Re-
views, Film Reviews, and Music Reviews. 

While considerable overlap exists in cov-
erage between the new Women's Studies 
Index and the long-running Women Studies 
Abstracts (Guide CC502), there are also sig-
nificant differences. Women Studies Ab-
stracts is published quarterly and is more 
current; many of its references have sub-
stantial abstracts; and the fifty women's 
studies journals indexed in the 1989 vol-
ume include more foreign titles but fewer 
specialized and alternative titles, and no 
popular women's magazines. Women's Stud-
ies Index is distinguished by the breadth 
and depth of its periodical coverage; by 
its full indexing of reviews and creative 
writing; and by its arrangement, which 
makes it much easier to use than Women 



Studies Abstracts. This index is a welcome 
addition to collections supporting re-
search in women's studies.-A.L. 

BUSINESS 

The Portable MBA. Collins, Eliza G.C., 
and Mary Anne Devanna, eds. New 
York: Wiley, 1990. 386p. $24.95 (ISBN 
0-471-61997-3). LC 89-27382. 
The authors have designed this book 

as a means of providing the reader with 
many of the benefits of a course of study 
leading to an M.B.A. degree, but it is not 
intended as a substitute for any compo-
nent of an actual program. Some of the 
benefits of studying this book will be the 
ability to speak the language of business; 
a framework for making reasoned busi-
ness decisions and judgments; and the 
opportunity it provides to learn from 
faculty members in a number of major 
M.B.A. programs. 

Fundamental management concepts 
and techniques are explained as they re-
late to managing people, quantitative 
analysis, and managerial economics. The 
major functional areas in operating a busi-
ness-accounting, finance, marketing, 
human resource management, informa-
tion technology, operations management, 
and strategic management-are treated 
in separate chapters by specialists in 
each area. Discussion of essentials is sup-
ported by practical examples in a how-to 
approach. Each chapter ends with sugges-
tions for further reading. 

Presentation throughout is character-
ized by a clear pedagogic style that can 
be easily understood by a reader new to 
the topic, whether one is in business al-
ready or not. A concluding chapter dis-
cusses the role of business in a modern 
democratic society. The Portable MBA is 
recommended for academic and public 
library business or education collections, 
and for any social science library serving 
an active clientele.-J.C. 

HISTORY 

Carper, N. Gordon, and Joyce Carper. 
The Meaning of History: A Dictionary of 
Quotations. New York: Greenwood, 
1991. 374p. $49.95 (ISBN 0-313-26835-
5). LC 90-13977. 

Selected Reference Books 449 

This work aims to reveal"the breadth 
and depth of the continuing search for 
the meaning and value of history" (Pref.) 
by listing approximately 3,000 quota-
tions by some 1,000 authors. Because it 
is arranged by author rather than topic, 
this poorly documented source (dates, 
editions, and pages of sources are not 
provided) is not really browseable. 
Also, some of the inclusions seem ques-
tionable; surely Jane Austen's sentence 
from Pride and Prejudice, "Think only of 
the past as its remembrance gives you 
pleasure," is a personal credo, not a phi-
losophy of history. 

Because the entries are arranged al-
phabetically by author, the author index 
is unnecessary; the subject index, which 
even the compiler calls arbitrary, is inad-
equate. The author writes in the preface 
that he thinks "many people might enjoy 
and find useful the results of one 
person's excursion through the litera-
ture of history." Historians may find it 
enjoyable, but I doubt anyone will find 
it useful.-M.C. 

Fritze, Ronald H., Brian E. Coutts, and 
Louis A. Vyhnanak. Reference Sources 
in History: An Introductory Guide. Santa 
Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, [1990]. 
319p. $49.50 (ISBN 0-87436-164-8). LC 
90-45169. 
Reference Sources in History aims to 

cover "all periods of history and all geo-
graphic areas" and "all of the most im-
portant and generally useful reference 
works for historians" (Pref.). Primarily 
designed for use by English-speaking 
readers, this compilation cites 685 refer-
ence works and related titles, arranged 
in fourteen chapters by type of publica-
tion such as bibliographies, atlases, mi-
croforms, and journals. The work is 
indexed by title and by topic. 

An intended update ofHelenJ. Poulton's 
Historian's Handbook (Guide DA2), the work 
includes items published as currently as 
early 1990 and makes an expressed effort 
to address microforms, online databases 
and CD-ROMs, and core journals. Each 
item has a three-line to half-page annota-
tion, which describes its usefulness and its 
relation to similar reference tools. 



450 College & Research Libraries 

This compilation falls somewhat be-
tween a guide to reference books for li-
brarians, such as Sheehy and Walford, 
and a research guide for historians, such 
as the AHA Guide to Historical Literature 
(Guide DA1), although it does not satisfy 
either audience. It is too general, often 
skimpy in coverage for a given area, and 
the arrangement is problematic. The fact 
that the items treated in this book are 
limited to English-language materials 
with very few exceptions reduces the 
usefulness of the tool for specialists in 
European, Asian, and African history. 
Thus, beginning researchers and librari-
ans will get the most use from this com-
pilation because it offers a starting point, 
a cumulation of useful titles, and a guide 
to building a basic reference collection. A 
researcher might be better served by a 
more coherent bibliographic guide, such 
as the chapter in Modern Researcher by 
Jacques Barzun and Henry F. Graff 
(Guide DA4), until the revised edition of 
AHA Guide to Historical Literature be-
comes available.-J.S. 

HISTORY-GREAT BRITAIN 

Catterall, Peter. British History, 1945-1987: 
An Annotated Bibliography. Oxford: 
Blackwell, 1991. 843p. £100. (ISBN 0-
631-170499). 
This welcome bibliography lists about 

8,500 English-language books, articles, 
and dissertations written from the end of 
World War II through 1989. It concen-
trates on the countries of Great Britain 
(i.e., England, Scotland, Wales, and 
Northern Ireland), but is also useful for 
modern histories of the former colonies. 
Divided into fifteen broad chapters, the 
text covers such areas as political history, 
the legal system, social history, and ex-
ternal relations. Each chapter is then 
given a detailed classified arrangement 
(the table of contents listing the headings 
is twenty-two pages), making the bibli-
ography extremely easy to use. The an-
notations are evaluative and should 
prove useful in guiding readers to ap-
propriate sources. 

There are author and subject indexes. 
The author index includes those men-
tioned in the annotations. The subject 

September 1991 

index is presumably computer gener-
ated and needs some work. For instance, 
the Times and the Economist, among oth-
ers, are listed under "The," while the 
News of the World is listed under "News." 
There is an odd reference to a "3i" in the 
middle of the Ts that refers to a book on 
privatization; privatization is in the 
index, but the book is not listed there. 
Also, an index to modern British history 
with nothing under "Strikes" ·Could use 
some cross-references. 

Nevertheless, even at the price, this 
bibliography should sit next to the Ox-
ford University Press's Bibliography of British 
History (Guide IX231) in any library.-M.C. 

Hines, W. D. English Legal History: A Bib-
liography and Guide to the Literature. 
New York: Garland, 1990. 201 p. (ISBN 
0-8240-4299-9). LC 90-3913. 
The audience for this compilation of 

essays and bibliographies is "from a va-
riety of backgrounds, coming afresh to 
the study oflegal history'' (lntrod.) though 
I can imagine legal scholars wishing to 
review periods or specialties other than 
their own finding the text very useful. 
The volume begins with three biblio-
graphic essays-for the medieval period, 
for 1485-1815, and for criminal justice 
and punishment (including a short sec-
tion on crime literature)-that discuss 
collections of the law, commentaries and 
secondary works, procedures and tradi-
tions, court records, and the legal profes-
sions. The writer "on occasion has indicated 
those places in which there are significant 
gaps in the published work, in the hope 
that research in such areas might be stim-
ulated." 

These essays, which compose about 
half of the book (from page 9 through 
page 112) are followed by two further 
essays: "Periodicals and Periodical In-
dexes," and "Introduction to Bibliogra-
phy." These are very useful surveys of 
reference materials, the most important 
periodicals, and library catalogs, for 
both the librarian and the researcher. Fi-
nally, the bibliography gives complete 
entries for everything cited, mostly 
monographs and collections of essays 
and reference tools, and a few periodical 



articles. This work will be useful to begin-
ning researchers and librarians.-E.M. 

Jones, Barri. An Atlas of Roman Britain. 
Cambridge, Mass.; Oxford: Basil 
Blackwell, 1990. 341p. $49.95 (ISBN 0-
631-13791-2). LC 90-675155. 
As the authors note in the preface to 

this volume, "The amount of effort that 
has been expended on the study of Roman 
Britain in terms of excavation and field-
work probably makes it the most inten-
sively studied province in the Roman 
Empire." Yet in most atlases of classical 
archaeology, only a page or less is de-
voted to that frontier outpost. The au-
thors of this volume have attempted to 
present the richness of recent scholar-
ship on Roman Britain in a series of black 
and white maps, photographs, charts, 
and tables, with extensive textual com-
mentary. 

This Atlas of Roman Britain is arranged 
in nine topical chapters: "The Physical 
Context," "Britain and the Roman Geog-
raphers," "Britain before the Conquest," 
"The Conquest and Garrisoning of Brit-
ain," "The Development of the Provinces," 
"The Economy," ''The Countryside," "Re-
ligion," and "Devolution." Maps treat 
subjects that include the routes of roads 
and sea lanes, the placement of forts and 
other military outposts, mining areas, 
and cult sites. The author makes fre-
quent use of aerial photographs of ar-
chaeological sites, as well as illustrations 
of artifacts. Charts illuminate such com-
plexities as the Roman bureaucracy, from 
the small-town magistrate up to the em-
peror, and the political and ministerial pol-
icies of emperors and their imperial 
governors. The volume, which concludes 
with a bibliography and subject index, 
is handsome despite the lack of color 
illustrations or plates. Although highly 
specialized, it should prove interesting 
to scholars as well as students.-B.J. 

NEW EDITIONS 
AND SUPPLEMENTS 

The Palau y Dulcet, Manual dellibrero 
hispano-americano (Guide AA1083), is is-
suing a new supplement now that the 
main alphabet and the index are com-

Selected Reference Books 451 

plete: Addenda & Corrigenda v.1 (Barcelona: 
A. Palau, 1990. 648p.). This volume covers 
A-Azzawac (entries 1-2,156), with volume 
two to appear in 1992. Many of the addi-
tions include a Spanish library location; 
there are cross-references from pseud-
onyms and anonymous works. 

The second edition of Who's Who of 
Nobel Prize Winners 1901-1990, compiled 
by Bernard S. and June H. Schlessinger 
([Phoenix, Ariz.]: Oryx, 1991. 234p., 
$39.50, 1st ed. 1986), "contains revised 
entries for Nobel Prize laureates from 
1901-1985 and new entries for all indi-
vidual winners from 1886 through 1900 
.... Approximately 80 percent of the 
entries were revised substantively, either 
because additional biographical data be-
came available or because new publica-
tions by or about the laureates were 
published" (Pref.). 

The Dictionary of American Biography 
(Guide AJ63) has published its third cu-
mulative index, comprehensive through 
supplement eight (New York: Scribner, 
[1990]. 1,001 p. $85). It still contains the 
six indexes: subject, for persons about 
whom the articles are written; contribu-
tors, with name of subject; birthplaces, 
by state for the United States and by 
country for the foreign born; schools and 
colleges, in alphabetical order; occupa-
tions; and topics, with some group head-
ings for topics such as ships or 
homesteads and plantations. The first 
index gives volume and page number, 
the next four indexes refer to the name 
in the subject index, and the last refers to 
volume and page (not name). 

About a third of the entries from the 
second edition of Who's Who in the People's 
Republic of China, . compiled by Wolfgang 
Bartke, (Miinchen: Saur, 1991). 2v. 909p., 
$325, 1st ed. 1981 (Guide AJ162), 2nd ed. 
1987, have "not gained entry into this 
third edition" (Pref.). In fact, Bartke in-
cludes a "list of the 1,340 cadres of the 
2nd edition who found no entry into the 
3rd edition," with the official date of 
death, or date of removal from office, or 
date of last known appearance. This 
third edition gives biographical informa-
tion on 4,120 people, most of whom have 
photographs included. 



452 College & Research Libraries 

Women's Studies Encyclopedia, edited 
by Helen Tierney, is continuing with vol-
ume two: Literature, Arts, and Learning 
(New York: Greenwood, [1990]. 381p., 
$59.95). This volume focuses on "women 
as producers of literature, art, and music 
... [as well as on] women's relationships 
to writing and the fine arts and on 
women's education" (lntrod.). As in the 
first volume, the articles are arranged 
alphabetically, with short bibliographies 
at the end of most. 

Joan Reardon compiled a bibliogra-
phy of Poetry by American Women, 1900-
1975 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1979, 
674p.). Now she has issued a supple-
ment, Poetry by American Women, 1975-
1989 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1990. 
232p., $29.50), which adds an additional 
2,880 titles of separately published vol-
umes of poetry by 1,565 women "who 
are citizens of the United States" (lntrod.). 

Poetry Explication (Guide BD653) is 
now being revised, and the first of four 
volumes for English literature has ap-
peared: Guide to British Poetry Explication: . 
Old English-Medieval, compiled by Nancy 
C. and Joseph G. R. Martinez (Boston: G. 
K. Hall, [1991]. 310p., $40). This time the 
poems selected for treatment are allowed 
to have more than 500 lines; thus, epics are 
now included, bringing the total to about 
800 poems with explication from 1925 to 
1989 and a few from 1990. 

Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels 
in Series was first published in 1982 
(Guide BD236). A new edition, compiled 
by Janet and Jonathan F. Husband, adds 
detective fiction to the genres it covers, 
new series created since 1982, and titles 
in continuing series up to 1989 (Chicago: 
American Library Assn., 1990. 577p., 
$35). Another listing of sequels but this 
time for the movies is Motion Picture Se-
ries and Sequels: A Reference Guide by Ber-
nard A. Drew (New York: Garland, 1990. 
416p., $57), which gives the continua-
tions to some 845 films, from the Harlem 
Globetrotters and James Bond to Zorro, 
Three Musketeers, and, of course, the 
Marx Brothers, Harold Lloyd, and the 
Lone Ranger. The film stills should have 
been placed on the same page with the 
series they represent. 

September 1991 

The earlier editions of Critical Analyses 
in English Renaissance Drama: A Biblio-
graphic Guide appeared in 1979 and 1985. 
It is now in its third edition (New York: 
Garland, 1991. 262p., $38). Brownell 
Salomon has increased the number of 
entries to 936 (from 731), added nine 
dramatists to the coverage of "contem-
poraries of Shakespeare in the years be-
tween 1580 and 1642" (Pref.), and 
expanded the analytical subject index. 
Unfortunately, there are still long lists of 
numbers under some headings (e.g., Al-
legory, Gesture). 

J. P. Wearing began his calendar of the 
London Stage with 1890 to 1899 (Guide 
BG87), and his most recent work cov-
ers 1930 to 1939 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scare-
crow, [1990]. 3v., 1,977p., $137.50). This 
fifth compilation lists 4,256 produc-
tions, with the total number of perfor-
mances registered at 140,000. The 
indexes (the third volume) offer both a 
title index and a general index for per-
formers, playwrights, production staff, 
and soon. 

The New Arthurian Encyclopedia edited 
by Norris J. Lacy (New York: Garland, 
1991. 577p., $65), is a much revised and 
expanded edition of the Arthurian Ency-
clopedia, 1st ed. 1986. Many of the articles 
have been revised, with the number in-
creased from 700 to 1,200, and emphasis 
largely on modern Arthurian literature 
in all modern European languages and 
on minor characters. The index is new, 
along with the chronology of Arthurian 
events and works. 

Thomas George Kurian compiled the 
Encyclopedia of the Third World (Guide 
CJ212) to present detailed, comparable 
information about 122 lesser developed 
countries. This has spawned two similar 
publications for other parts of the world: 
Encyclopedia of the First World, (New York: 
Facts on File, [1990]. 1,436p., $145. 2v.), 
"for 26 advanced countries (and six Eu-
ropean ministates)" (lntrod.), from Aus-
tria to the Vatican, and Encyclopedia of the 
Second World (New York: Facts on File, 
[1991]. 614p., $145), for eleven socialist 
countries, from Albania to Yugoslavia. 
One wonders if the two will merge for 
the next edition. 



Barry T. Klein, in his fifth edition of the 
Reference Encyclopedia of the American In-
dian, (Guide CC469) (West Nyack, N.Y.: 
Todd Publishers, 1990. 1,078p., 4th ed., 
1986,3rd ed., 1978, $95), has reorganized 
the chapters, placed the information on 
Canadian Indians in a separate section, 
and has updated and expanded the bib-
liography to 4,500 inprint books (from 
3,500 in the previous edition). The biog-
raphy portion does not supersede that of 
the fourth edition because names and 
information have been omitted while 
new ones have been added. Because this 
portion of the reference work is in a sep-
arate volume, libraries with great inter-
est in the topic may wish to keep the 
older biographical part with the fifth edi-
tion and, for that matter, the separate 
biographical volume of the third edition 
also, as the same practice occurred with 
the fourth edition. 

A Subject Bibliography of the Second World 
War and Aftermath ... 1939-1974 (Guide 
DA201) compiled by A. G. S. Enser, is a 
listing of English-language books ar-
ranged by topics. The 1985 supplement, 
covering 1975 to 1983, is superseded by 
a new bibliography-A Subject Bibliogra-
phy of the Second World War ... 1975-1987 
([Aldershot, Hants., and Brookfield, Vt.]: 
Gower, [1990]. 287p., $59.95)-which adds 

Selected Reference Books 453 

an additional 1,600 titles. Enser also has 
expanded his coverage of World War I in: 
A Subject Bibliography of the First World 
War ... (Guide DA200) to add another ten 
years; the current volume surveys 1914 to 
1987 ([Aldershot, Hants.]: Gower, [1990]. 
412p., $100). 

Robert J. Young has greatly expanded 
his French Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: A 
Guide to Research and Research Materials 
(Guide DC154) (Wilmington, Del.: Schol-
arly Resources, [1991]. 339p., $40, 1st ed. 
1981). The bibliography portion has in-
creased from 1,554 entries to 2,090, the 
chapter on archives has much more de-
tail on the contents of several of the repos-
itories, and the dissertation listing has a 
new section for in-progress papers. 
There are still the partial subject and 
name index and the appendixes giving 
lists of ministers and administrators. 
Three other guides published by Scholarly 
Resources have been revised: German For-
eign Policy, 1918-1945 (Guide DC197), by 
Christoph M. Kimmich (Wilmington, 
Del.: 1991. 264p., $40, 1st ed. 1981: Italian 
Foreign Policy, 1918-1945) (Guide OC388), 
by Alan Cassels (Wilmington, Del.: 1991. 
261p., $40, 1st ed. 1981); and International 
Organizations, 1918-1945 (Guide CK416), 
by George W. Baer (Wilmington, Del.: 
1991. 264p., $40, 1st ed. 1981).