College and Research Libraries


By C O N S T A N C E M . W I N C H E L L 

Reference Books of 1951-1952 
Miss Winchell is reference librarian, 

Columbia University. 

Introduction 

A S I N P R E V I O U S articles in this series1 

i i this survey is based on notes written 
by members of the Reference Staff of the 
Columbia University Libraries. Because 
of the expressed preference of some reference 
librarians for an annotated bibliography in-
stead of a survey article, the form has been 
changed in this issue. T h e main purpose, 
however, remains the same, to list a selection 
of scholarly and foreign works which seem 
to have special importance for university 
libraries. Therefore, it is not a compre-
hensive and well-balanced list, and with the 
exception of two titles, the sciences and 
technologies have again been omitted. Code 
numbers (such as N 2 5 ) have been used to 
refer to titles in the Guide to Reference 
Books,2 seventh edition. 

Bibliography 

Tremaine, Marie. A Bibliography of Cana-
dian Imprints, i j 51-1800. Toronto, Uni-
versity of T o r o n t o Press, 1952. 705p. 
A full record of what is known of the 

first fifty years of the provincial press. 
Books, magazines, pamphlets, newspapers, 
broadsides, and handbills are listed, in-
cluding those actually issued and those 
known to have been projected. Full biblio-
graphical information is given for each item 
and copies are located in Canadian, Ameri-
can and foreign libraries. Good descriptive 

1 College and Research Libraries, 13:30-36, 234-41, 
J a n . , J u l y , 1052. 

2 Winchell, C. M. Guide to Reference Books, 7th ed. 
Chicago, A L A , 1 9 5 1 . 

notes make this a guide to the society and 
thought of the period. T h e r e is a section on 
printing offices and a good general index to 
the volume. 

Wing, Donald Godard. Short-Title Cata-
logue of Books Printed in England, Scot-
land, Ireland, W ales, and British 
America and of English Books Printed 
in Other Countries, 1641-IJOO. New 
York, Printed for the Index Society by 
Columbia University Press, 1951. v. 3, 
5 2 i p . 
For v. 1-2 see Guide, A302. T h e last 

volume of this important set. 

Index Bibliographicus: Directory of Current 
Periodical Abstracts and Bibliographies; 
repertoire des revues courantes de biblio-
graphies analytiques et signaletiques. 
Compiled by Theodore Besterman. T h e 
Hague, U N E S C O , 1952- . v. 1. Science 
and Technology. 52p. 1st ed., Geneva, 
1925; 2nd ed., Berlin, 1931. (A16) 
T h i s third edition continues the earlier 

work but presents in completely revised 
form bibliographies and abstract journals 
arranged by the Universal Decimal Classi-
fication. T h e first volume covers Science 
and Technology, the second is to cover the 
social sciences, education, and humanistic 
studies. Indication is given of language of 
abstracts, comprehensive or select coverage, 
annual number of entries, address of pub-
lisher, etc. T h e r e are subject indexes in 
English and French and a title index. 

Periodicals and Newspapers 

U . S. Library of Congress. Serial Titles 
Newly Received, 1951- . Washington, 

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Library of Congress, Card Division, 
1952- . Annual vol. $16.50; Monthly 
issues and annual vol. $25.00. 
Published monthly, cumulating annually, 

this is the annual cumulation of the monthly 
issues published during 1951. Form of 
entry in this volume differs from standard 
A L A cataloging rules, but in the 1952 issues 
entry follows A L A rules. Includes titles 
of serials not previously recorded in the 
Library of Congress serial record, but ex-
cludes newspapers, comic books, telephone 
books, and trade catalogs. 

U . S. Library of Congress. Reference De-
partment. Serial Publications of the 
Soviet Union, 1939-1951. A Prelimi-
nary Checklist. Washington, 1951. 3 i 6 p . 
$1.50. 
Special supplement to Monthly List of 
Russian Accessions. 
Titles are transliterated and there is a 

subject index in English. 

U. S. Library of Congress. Slavic Division. 
Preliminary Checklist of Russian, Ukran-
ian, and Belorussian Newspapers Pub-
lished since January I, 1917, within the 
Present Boundaries of the USSR and 
Preserved in United States Libraries. ( A 
working paper) compiled by Paul L. 
Horecky. Washington, 1952. 97p. 
Based mainly on the collections in the 

Library of Congress, with some added loca-
tions for newspapers in other libraries in the 
United States, although coverage is not com-
plete. It is hoped that more extensive 
holdings can be included in a final edition. 

Arranged alphabetically by place of pub-
lication giving for each title, issuing body, 
frequency, and date of establishment, and 
changes in location, title, frequency or is-
suing body. 

Libraries 

American School Library Directory; a Geo-

graphical List of School Libraries with 
Statistical Data. N.Y., R. R. Bowker 
Co., 1952- . Loose-Leaf $15.00. 
P t . 1, Southern States. i68p. 
T o be issued in four parts. T h e first, 

covering the twelve southern states, lists 
6969 school libraries including public high 
schools, junior high schools and elementary 
schools and private and parochial schools. 
Arranged by state and then alphabetically by 
city. For each school attempts to give 
name, mailing address, with data on grades, 
enrollment, number of volumes in the li-
brary and the annual library book budget, 
including both state and local funds. Gen-
eral information about the school library 
system of each state is given at the begin-
ning of each state list. Names and ad-
dresses are given for state, county, and city 
library supervisors but not for school librar-
ians. 

Government Documents 
Moor, Carol Carter and Chamberlin, 

Waldo. How to Use United Nations 
Documents. New York, New York Uni-
versity Press, 1952. 26p. $1.50. ( N e w 
York University Libraries. Occasional 
Paper, No. 1.) 
A manual prepared primarily for use with 

a complete collection of United Nations 
documents, including all unrestricted mim-
eographed, processed, and printed material. 

In four parts: P t . I, a discussion of the 
methods and problems of research; P t . I I , 
a commentary on and lists of the five basic 
tools and guides; Pt. I l l , a list of tools and 
guides by the organs of the United Nations; 
P t . IV, a selected subject guide based on the 
seventeen subject categories used in the 
United Nations Sales Number series. 

Should be useful in any library collecting 
United Nations documents. 

Zinn, Charles J . How Our Laws Are 
Made. [St. Paul, M i n n . ] W e s t Pub. 

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Co. and Edward Thompson Co., 1952. 
4 ° P -

Reprinted from U.S. Code Congressional 
and Administrative Service. 
An excellent brief description of the 

federal legislative process, including a dis-
cussion of bills and resolutions, their intro-
duction to the House and reference to Com-
mittee, hearings, reported bills, calendars, 
consideration by the House, Senate action, 
presidential action, publication as slip laws, 
statutes at large, U.S. Code, etc. 

Should be useful to librarians and to 
students who must trace legislation through 
the Congress. 

Religion 

Garnot, Jean Sainte Fare. Religions 
egyptiennes antiques; bibliographie ana-
lytique (1939-1943). Paris, Presses 
Universitaires de France, 1952. 277p. 
A republication of a series of articles on 

Egyptian religions which appeared in the 
Revue de I'histoire des religions from 1944-
1950, now arranged by subject in one vol-
ume, thus presenting a survey of Egyptian 
religions accompanied by critical references. 
T h e lack of an index will detract from its 
value as a reference work. 

Dictionaries 
Ostermann, Georg F. Manual of Foreign 

Languages for the Use of Librarians, 
Bibliographers, Research Workers, Edi-
tors, Translators, and Printers. 4th ed., 
rev. and enl. New York, Central Book 
Co., 1 9 5 2 . 4 1 4 P . 
3rd ed. 1936, pub. by T h e Government 
Printing Office. 
"All portions of the third edition not 

requiring change have been reproduced in 
this new edition by the photographic proc-
ess. Corrections and minor additions have 
been 'stripped in,' and all new material, set 
in type for the first time, is presented in a 

format approximating as closely as possible 
that used in the third and prior edition." 
Pref. 

Some languages have undergone extensive 
revision, and Estonian has been added. 

Pattermann, Wilhelm. Deutsch-englisches 
Worter- und Phrasenbuch, mit Beriick-
sichtigung des amerikanischen Englisch. 
Wien, Alexa-Verlag, 1949-1952. 2v. 
Lists up-to-date English and American 

equivalents of German words and expres-
sions, under key-word, placing emphasis on 
the shade of meaning implied by use in a 
particular context. Does not list all possible 
translations of individual words nor give 
etymologies. 

Spalding, Keith. An Historical Dictionary 
of German Figurative Usage. Oxford, 
Blackwell, 1952- . Fasc. 1, A-Anfiihlen. 
Records figurative expressions, proverbs, 

quotations, and other established phrases 
appearing in German literature since ap-
proximately 1 7 5 0 ; annotations illustrating 
use and change of meaning are often drawn 
from sources which precede this date. Eng-
lish translations for each entry are equiva-
lent, not literal. A complete list of sources 
is planned for the conclusion of the work. 

Science 

Sarton, George. H o r u s : A Guide to the 
History of Science; A First Guide for 
the Study of the History of Science with 
Introductory Essays on Science and Tra-
dition. W a l t h a m , Mass., Chronica 
B o t a n i c a C o . , 1 9 5 2 . 3 i 6 p . $ 7 . 5 0 . 
T h e first section is composed of three 

lectures on the history of science and the 
second section is a bibliographical summary 
prepared as a guide to students of the history 
of science. P a r t 2 is divided into four main 
sections each subdivided: History, Science, 

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History of Science, Organization of the 
Study and Teaching of the History of 
Science. 

World List of Scientific Periodicals Pub-
lished in the Years 1900-1950. 3rd ed. 
N e w York, Academic Press, 1952. 
1 0 5 8 P . $ 3 7 - 0 0 . 

1st ed., 1925-27; 2nd ed., 1934 ( N 2 5 ) . 
Like the earlier editions, this third edition 

is a finding list of titles in the sciences, 
indicating holdings in British libraries. 
N e w features are the inclusion of data on 
titles not held by any library in the United 
Kingdom, and an English index to subject-
words of International Congresses. Society 
and subject indexes have again been omitted 
for financial reasons. 

Art and Architecture 

American Art Directory, ed. by Dorothy B. 
Gilbert. New York, Bowker, 1952. 
(American Federation of A r t s ) . 373p. 

$ I 7 - 5 0 . 

Formerly appeared as the American Art 
Annual ( Q 2 6 ) , which included Who's 
Who in American Art ( Q 5 9 ) (now pub-
lished separately). T o appear triennially. 

Lists museums, art organizations, univer-
sities and colleges having art departments, 
art schools and classes, in the United States, 
Canada and Latin America. Also lists art 
magazines, newspapers carrying art notes, 
museum publications, traveling exhibitions 
available, etc. T h e index includes subject 
references to museum collections. 

Saylor, Henry Hodgman. Dictionary of 
Architecture. N e w York, Wiley, 1952. 
221 p. il. $4.50. 
Gives concise definitions of terms used 

in the practice and historical reading of 
architecture. Pronunciation is indicated 
by phonetic spelling. 

Music 

Clough, Francis F. and Cuming, G. J . 
The World's Encyclopaedia of Recorded 
Music. London, Sidgwick and Jackson ; 
New York, London Gramophone Corp., 
1952. 89OP. $17.50. 
Based on Darrell's 1936 Gramophone 

Shop Encyclopedia of Recorded Music ( Q 
315). A comprehensive listing of all elec-
trically-recorded music of worth-while in-
terest to J u n e 1951, and of pre-electrical 
recordings of unique value. Information is 
detailed and the arrangement convenient. 
W i l l be indispensable in any collection in-
terested in recorded music. 

Listings of recordings from April 1950-
M a y / J u n e 1951 are given in the First Sup-
plement, p. 725-860. 

Darrell, Robert Donaldson. Schir?ner's 
Guide to Books on Music and Musicians; 
a Practical Bibliography. New York, 
Schirmer, 1951. 402p. $6.00. 
An annotated guide to currently available 

books on music and musicians, omitting 
collections of music itself. Arranged alpha-
betically in dictionary form with many 
cross-references. T h e main alphabet lists 
books in English only, but there are ap-
pendices giving selected lists of books in 
French, German, Spanish, Italian and Lat-
in. Does not usually include out-of-print 
books except in annotations. Full biblio-
graphical information is given under sub-
ject with cross-reference from author. 

Theater 

Granville, W i l f r e d . The Theater Diction-
ary: British and American Terms in the 
Drama, Opera, and Ballet. New York, 
Philosophical Library, [1952] 227p. 
$5.00. 
This dictionary of technical, colloquial, 

and slang speech of the twentieth century 

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stage lists in one alphabet, general, British, 
and American terms, but is done mainly 
from the British point of view. American 
synonyms are frequently given under British 
terms with no main entries or cross-refer-
ences: thus, "bouncer" is not in its alpha-
betical place but under "chucker out," and 
"Annie Oakley" as a free ticket is under 
"brief." Although this arrangement will 
detract from the book's general usefulness 
in American libraries, information not easily 
available elsewhere will be found here about 
some unusual words and phrases. 

Literature 
Adams, Franklin Pierce. F P A Book of 

Quotations: A New Collection of Fa-
mous Sayings, Reflecting the Wisdom and 
Wit of Times Past and Present and In-
cluding the Virtuous, Humorous, and 
Philosophic Commentary on Life by Men 
and Women of Every Age together with 
Riches from the Profound Wells of the 
Bible, Proverbs, and Anonymity. New 
York, Funk and Wagnalls, 1952. 914P. 
$ 5 - 9 5 . 

A new general collection including more 
than 15,000 quotations grouped under top-
ics, and under topic arranged alphabetically 
by author. T h e r e is an index of topics with 
cross-references and an index of authors, 
but no word-index. T h e selection is broad 
with quotations from well-known sources 
as well as from less-known writers, with a 
fair number from modern writers and 
speakers. In some cases references to 
sources are given in full and in others, 
reference is to author and title or author 
only. Dates of birth and death are given 
for authors. 

Hamilton, Robert M . Canadian Quota-
tions and Phrases, Literary and Histori-
cal, with an Introduction by Bruce 
Hutchison. Toronto, McClelland and 
Stewart, 1952. 272p. 

A collection of quotations and phrases 
from Canadian authors and from non-
Canadians on subjects distinctly Canadian. 
Arranged by topic with author index. Ref-
erence is usually, but not always, to exact 
source. 

Halliday, Frank Ernest. A Shakespeare 
Companion, 1550-1950. N e w York, 
Funk and Wagnalls, 1952. 742p. il. 
$8.50. 
Bibliography, p. 720-742. 
Varied aspects of Shakespeareana are 

treated in this alphabetically-arranged hand-
book, including primarily Shakespeare's life, 
his friends and contemporaries; his works; 
the Elizabethan-Jacobean theater, drama-
tists and theatrical companies; and the his-
tory of Shakespeare's work on the stage, 
his printers and publishers, players, editors, 
scholars and critics, etc. A selected bibliog-
raphy and a group of illustrations intended 
to form a pictorial summary follow. 

Dictionnaire des lettres francaises, publie 
sous la direction de Monseigneur Georges 
Grente. Paris, Artheme Fayard, 1951-
Le seizieme siecle. 7i8p. 
T h i s is the first complete volume to 

appear of this scholarly dictionary of French 
literature, although two fascicles, one for 
the Middle Ages and one for the seventeenth 
century, were published before the war. 
No longer to be issued in fascicles, future 
volumes will cover from the Middle Ages 
to the twentieth century, and the set will 
be complete in six volumes. 

Alphabetically arranged, the dictionary 
includes articles varying from a few lines to 
several pages, on persons, academies, uni-
versities and literary subjects. Articles are 
signed and include extensive bibliographies 
of the works of authors, and of materials to 
consult about persons or subjects. 

Topete, Jose Manuel. A Working Bibliog-

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raphy of Latin American Literature, 
published by W a l t e r B. Fraser, Chairman 
of the Inter-American Center of Florida, 
in cooperation with the Inter-American 
Bibliographical and Library Association 
and the School of Inter-American Stud-
ies, University of Florida. St. Augustin, 
Florida, 1952. i62p. (Inter-American 
Bibliographical and Library Association. 
Ser. 1, v. 12). 
A useful guide arranged by country list-

ing: histories of literature, anthologies, bib-
liographies, criticisms, translations, etc. Au-
thor index. 

Biography 

Who Was Who, 1941-1950; a Companion 
to Who's Who Containing the Biogra-
phies of Those Who Died During the 
Decade 1941-1950. London, A. and C. 
Black, 1952. i277p. 
T h e fourth volume in this series. For 

earlier issues see Guide Si30. 

Who's Who in the South and Southwest; 
a Biographical Dictionary of Notezvorthy 
Men and Women of the Southern and 
Southwestern States. Chicago, A. N . 
Marquis, 1952. 85ip. 
One of the series of Marquis's sectional 

Who's Whos. T h i s covers Alabama, Arkan-
sas, the District of Columbia, Florida, 
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, 
North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Caro-
lina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. 

Who's Who in Switzerland, Including the 
Principality of Lichtenstein, 1950/51. 
Edited by H . and E. Girsberger. Zurich, 
Central European Times, 1952. 7 5 2 P -
$12.50. (Distributed by Stechert-Haf-
n e r ) . 
A new Swiss biographical dictionary pub-

lished in English, which includes about 
3300 sketches of Swiss nationals at home 

and abroad, and foreigners residing in Swit-
zerland. Added features are an extensive 
classified list of organizations, associations, 
and institutions with separate word indexes 
in three languages, English, French, and 
G e r m a n ; a list of European abbreviations; 
and an index of Swiss terms. 

Osterreicher der Gegenwart; Lexikon 
schopferischer und schaffender Zeitgenos-
sen. Wien, Osterreichische Staatsdruck-
erei, 1951. 419P. 
Bio-bibliographical data is given on about 

2650 outstanding living Austrians, the term 
Austrian being understood to include per-
sons born in Austria and those born in the 
old monarchy and now living and working 
in Austria; foreigners are included only 
if they have become Austrian citizens or 
are active within the country. M a n y schol-
ars in academic fields, who can be found 
in Kiirschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalen-
der, have been omitted but may be included 
in later editions. 

T h e r e is a listing of persons who died 
while the work was in process, an index by 
profession or field, and a list by key-number 
of periodicals referred to in the bibliogra-
phies. 

Coppe, Paul and Pirsoul, Leon. Diction-
naire bio-bibliographique des litterateurs 
d' expression wallonne, 1622 a 1950. 
Gembloux, Duculot, [1951] 4I5P-
T h i s bio-bibliographical dictionary in-

cludes 1325 sketches and lists some 25,000 
titles of works in the Walloon dialect. 
T h e sketch of each author indicates the 
place and date of birth and death, pseudo-
nym, if any, profession, a concise, critical 
note on the value of his contribution and the 
titles of his works. Bibliographical infor-
mation is brief, usually consisting of title 
and date (in some cases the dates are 
omitted). 

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History 
Billington, Ray Allen. Guides to Ameri-

can History Manuscript Collections in 
Libraries of the United States. New 
York, Peter Smith, 1952. p.467-496. 
(Repr. from Mississippi Valley Historical 
Review, v.38, N0.3, Dec. 1952). 
A listing of guides to manuscript collec-

tions in federal depositories, university and 
public libraries, historical societies, and pri-
vate libraries which are open to the public. 
In two parts: ( 1 ) Federal Depositories, in-
cluding the National Archives and the Li-
brary of Congress; ( 2 ) States arranged ( a ) 
union guides which list collections in a wide 
number of depositories and (b) guides to 
single depositories. 

Published to aid historians until the union 
catalog of manuscript collections projected 
by the American historical Association is 
completed. 

Koray, Enver. Tiirkiye tarih yayinlari 
bibliyografyasi, 1729-1950. Ankara, 
Milli Egitim Basimevi, 1952. 548p. 
A bibliography of Turkish historical 

writings listing more than 4000 items and 
divided into two main sections, 1729-1928 
and 1928-1950, according to the alphabet 
used. Each of the two parts lists, first, 
general works, collections, encyclopaedias, 
etc., followed by books on the history of 
individual countries, and then works in 
related fields such as archaeology, biography, 
and ethnology. Information given for each 
item is very brief, and there are no annota-
tions. T h e index includes titles as well as 
authors. 

Saba, Mohsen. Bibliographie franqaise de 
I'lran. Bibliographie methodique et 
raisonnee des onvrages franqais parus de-
puis 1560 jusqu'a nos jours. 2. ed. rev. 
et augm. T e h r a n , 1951. 297p. 
1. ed. 1936. Covers books and periodical 

articles in all fields. 

Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundet. Swedish 
Archaeological Bibliography, 1939-1948. 
ed. by Sverker Janson and Olof Vessberg. 
Uppsala, Almqvist & Wiksells boktryck-
eri, 1951. 36op. 25 Sw. Cr. 
A survey in English of Swedish archaeo-

logical literature for a ten-year period. It is 
the intention of the Society to continue the 
bibliography, possibly for five-year periods. 

Weber, Shirley Howard, comp. Voyages 
and Travels in the Near East Made 
During the XIX Century; Being a Part 
of a Larger Catalogue of Works on 
Geography, Cartography, Voyages, and 
Travels, in the Gennadius Library in 
Athens. Princeton, T h e American 
School of Classical Studies at Athens. 
1952. 252p. 
T h e Gennadius Library in Athens is a 

rich and unique collection of over 55,000 
books, pictures and maps relating to Greece, 
the Balkans, and the Near East from me-
dieval to modern times. T h i s first part 
of the catalog of the Library to be published 
contains 1206 annotated titles, representing 
only a portion of the material on geography 
and travel in the Library. T h e titles are 
entered by date of publication; a general 
index and a name index of travelers and 
authors are given at the end of the volume. 

Wjacstawk, Jakub. Serbska bibliografija, 
2. rozmnozeny a wuporjedzany naklad; 
Sorbische (Wendische) Bibliographie, 2. 
erw. und verb. Aufl. Jacob Jatzwauk. 
Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1952. 500p. 
(Berichte iiber die Verhandlungen der 
Sachsischen Akademie der Wissenschaf-
ten zu Leipzig. Phil.-Hist. Kl. Bd. 98, 
H f t . 3) 
1st ed. 1929. 
A much enlarged edition of a classified 

bibliography listing all books and articles in 
periodicals and newspapers published in the 
Lusatian (Wendish) language, and all 
books and articles concerning Lusatia. 

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