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Books Received 
Bibliotechnaya Texnika. By A. V. Klenov. 5.-e 

izdanie, nepravlennoe i dopolnennoe. Moskva; 
Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Kul-turno-Proc-
vetitel'noi Literatury. 1955. 398p. 

Bluegrass Cavalcade. Edited by Thomas D. Clark. 
Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky 
Press, 1956. 376p. $5. 

Chemical Engineering Practice. Under the gen-
eral editorship of Herbert W. Cremer. Manag-
ing editor, Trefor Davis. New York: Academic 
Press, 1956- . (To be published in 12 vols. Vol. 
1: General, 494p. 1956. Subscription price for 
vol. 1, $13 .30. Non-subscription price, $17.50.) 

. Copy of a Letter of the King of Portugal Sent to 
the King of Castile Concerning the Voyage and 
Success of India. Translated by Sergio J. Pa-
cifici. (A Publication from the James Ford 
Bell Collection in the University of Minnesota 
Library.) Minneapolis: University of Minne-
sota Press, 1955. 24p. $5. 

Czech and Slovak Abbreviations, a Selective. List. 
Ed. by Paul L. Horecky. Washington: Library 
of Congress, 1956. Paper. $1.25. (For· sale by 
the Card DivisiOn.) 

Dictionary of Poisons. By !bert Mellan and 
Eleanor Mellan. New York: Philosophical Li-
brary, 1956. 150p. $4.75. 

Documents on American Foreign Relations, 
1955. Ed. by Paul E. Zinner. New York: Pub-
lished for the Council on Foreign Relations 
by Harper & Brothers, 1956. 487p. $6. 

Everyman's United Nations, 1945-1955. 5th edi-
tion. New York: United Nations Department 
of Public Information, 1956. 444p. Paper. 
$1.50. 

From Lisbon to Calicut. Translated by Alvin E. 
Prottengeier. Commentary and notes by John 
Parker. (A Publication from the James Ford 
Bell Collection in the University of Minnesota 
Library.) Minneapolis: University of Minne-
sota Press, 1956. 40p. $5. 

The Great Folio of 1623: Shakespeare's Plays in 
the Printing House. By John W. Shroeder. 
Hamden, Conn.: Shoestring Press, 1956. 125p. 
$4.25. 

A Guide to Bibliographic Tools for Research in 
Foreign Affairs. Comp. by Helen F. Conover. 
Washington: Library of Congress, 1956. 145p. 
Paper. $1.10. (For sale by the Card Division.) 

The Guinness Book of Superlatives. New York: 
Superlatives, Inc., 1956. 224p. $2.95. 

Handbook of Commercial, Financial and Infor-
mation Services. 5th ed. Comp. by Walter 
Hausdorfer. New York: Special Libraries As-
sociation, 1956. 229p. Paper. $5. 

Index Mathematischer Tafelwerke und Tabellen 
aus allen Gebieten der Naturwissenschaften. 

Ed. by Dr. Karl Schuette. Muenchen: Verlag 
R. Oldenbourg, 1955. 143p. DM 14.50. 

International Dictionary of Physics and Elec-
tronics. Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand, 
1956. 1,004p. $20. 

Issues Before the Eleventh General Assembly. 
(International Conciliation, No. 510, Novem-
ber, 1956.) New York: Carnegie Endowment 
for International Peace, 1956. 256p. 25c. 

Katalog Prvotlaci; Vedeckej Kniznice Mesta 
Bratislavy. Catalogus Incunabulorum Biblio-
thecae Scientificae Civitatis Bratislavensis. 
Comp. by Dr. Imrich Kotvan. Bratislava: 1956. 
55p . 

Museums and Our Children. By Charles Russell. 
New York: Central Book Company, 1956. 338p. 

Our United States; Its History in' Maps. By Ed-
gar B. Wesley. Chicago: Denoyer-Geppert 
Company, 1956. 96p. (Adapted from Our 
America Wall Maps, edited by Edgar B. Wes-
ley, and The American History Wall Maps, 
edited by Albert Bushnell Hart.) 

Portrait of a Philadelphia Collector: William 
Mcintire Elkins (1882-1947). By Ellen Shaf-
fer. With a Check-List of the Elkins Ameri-
cana, 1943-1869, now in the Free Library of 
Philadelphia, comp. by Howell J. Heaney. 
Philadelphia: Free Library of Philadelphia, 
1956. 56p. $1.25. . 

Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and 
Influence on Mankind. 2 vols. Berkeley: Pub-
lished for the Zoological Society of San Diego 
by the University of California Press, 1956. 
$17.50. 

Russia and America; Dangers and Prospects. By 
Henry L. Roberts. New York: Published for 
the Council on Foreign Relations by Harper 
& Brothers, 1956. 25lp. $3.50. 

Short Story Index. Supplement, 1950-1954. Comp. 
by Dorothy E. Cook and Estelle A. Fidell. New 
York: H. W. Wilson, 1956. 394p. $5. 

Stephen Crane (1871-1900). An Exhibition of his 
Writings held in the Columbia University Li-
braries September 17-November 30, 1956. Ar-
ranged and described by Joan H. Baum. With 
Appendixes Contributing to the Bibliography 
of Stephen Crane. New York: Columbia Uni-
versity Libraries 1956. 61p. Paper. $1.50. 

Thomas Paine: A Bibliographical Check List of 
CoMMON SENSE, with an account of Its Publi-
cation. By Richard Gimbel. New Haven: Yale 
University Press, 1956. 124p. $7 .50. 

The United Nations in World Affairs, 1954. By 
Richard P. Stebbins and the Research Staff of 
the Council on Foreign Relations. New York: 
Published for the Council on Foreign Rela-
tions by Harper and Brothers, 1956. 498p. $6. 

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