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the great bulk of the entries. These chap-
ters include the Presidencia da Republica, 
the sixteen ministries (ranging alphabetical-
ly from aeronautics to transportation), and 
the Getlllio Vargas Foundation; further-
more, at the end of entries for each minis-
try's publications are those for related au-
tonomous agencies: such important bodies 
as the Conselho N acional de Pesquisas, Bib-
lioteca N acional, Banco do Brasil, Instituto 
Brasileiro do Cafe, and the regional coordi-
nating and planning authorities (SUD AM, 
SUDENE, SUDESUL, and SUDECO)-
to name just a few examples. 

Each chapter begins with a review of the 
basic legislation affecting the overall en-
tity (e.g., ministry) and provides an out-
line of the agencies subordinated or ad-
ministratively attached to it. Similar data 
for agencies within the chapter give the 
names under which the entity has been 
known, together with dates and titles of 
legislation which caused those changes. As 
a consequence, the volume can greatly as-
sist those seeking to understand the struc-
ture of Brazilian federal government orga-
nization. 

The entry for each serial consists of an 
annotation with most of the following ele-
ments: contents (describing the nature of 
the serial whose title is not self-explana-
tory); variation in title; frequency, or bib-
liographical history, complete since 1961 
and less detailed for the earlier period; 
numbering irregularities where required; 
cross-references to other related titles in 
the guide; mention of indexes, both those 
of the serial itself and indexing services 
which include it (notably those issued by 
the Instituto Brasileiro de Bibliografia e 
Documenta9ao) ; and finally citations to 
other bibliographical works which provide 
additional information or location of copies 
in American or British libraries. 

A three-part appendix follows the text: 
( 1) a list of libraries and archives in Bra-
zil (principally in Rio de Janeiro and Bra-
silia) whose holdings and serial records 
were consulted; ( 2) the three American in-
stitutions (Indiana University, UCLA, and 
the Los Angeles County Law Library) 
which played a similar role in this country; 
and ( 3) a bibliography of publications con-
sulted in the preparation of the guide. 
Pages 367 to 445 contain a detailed index 

to both titles and issuing agencies, with 
very ·helpful cross-references from initial-
isms and acronyms. 

Only those who have themselves under-
taken the compilation of library guides, bib-
liographies, union lists, and similar biblio-
graphical tools can fully appreciate the 
myriad details they contain and the amaz-
ing number of questions and discrepancies 
(apparent or real) which must be resolved. 
It is a pleasure to report that the Lombardi 
volume shows careful attention to detail; 
indeed typographical errors and similar 
shortcomings are exceedingly rare. In sum-
mary, Ms. Lombardi has given Brazilianists 
a very useful tool, one which certainly will 
be heavily used by students of Brazilian 
government and which will probably be-
come "the bible" of librarians concerned 
with the acquisition and cataloging of Bra-
zilian federal documents.-WiUiam Vernon 
Jackson, George Peabody College for 
Teachers and Vanderbilt University, Nash-
viUe, Tennessee. 

Madison, Charles A. Irving to Irving: Au-
thor-Publisher Relations, 1800-197 4. 
New York: Bowker, 1974. 279p. $9.95. 

Writing, not the least such serious writ-
ing as the literary novel, poetry, and the 
philosophical essay, is probably viewed by 
more readers than not today as an absolute 
activity, to be approached in terms only of 
itself and not, certainly, with regard to 
what porridge, or what publisher, the au-
thor had. 

Insofar as the publisher is indeed unduly 
neglected as a factor in the total creative 
equation, to that degree we must be grate-
ful to Charles Madison for a richly detailed, 
well-documented historical survey of the 
author-publisher relationship. Essentially, in 
each of his twenty-eight chapters Madison 
describes the dealings of one American 
publisher or one of his editors with one 
writer: e.g., Henry Holt and William 
James, Scribner's Maxwell Perkins and 
Thomas Wolfe, McGraw-Hill and Clifford 
Irving. The attention afforded these various 
matchings is uneven, although usually un-
derstandably and appropriately so: the 
steady and cordial association of Washing-
ton Irving and George Putnam is disposed 
of in two pages, while twenty are required 



for Sinclair Lewis' peregrinations from Har-
per to Holt to Harcourt to Doubleday to 
Random House. In those few instances 
where there is, in fact, a seemingly unjusti-
fiable lack of balance, it appears to have 
been a matter of Madison's not wanting to 
waste material at hand. 

The decline from the gentleman-publish-
er of the nineteenth century, who charac-
teristically represented to the author both 
patron, business manager, confidant, and 
artistic midwife, to today' s seven-figure ma-
neuvering of conglomerate and literary 
agent is roundly regretted by Madison. This 
the reader may regard as rather gratuitous 
moralizing. It is, however, easy-and val-
uable-to see in the case of any number of 
the writers Madison treats-most notably 
Fitzgerald and Wolfe, both of whom had 
highly personal problems that demanded 
an editor with the perception and stamina 
of a Maxwell Perkins-that the final shape 
of the literary product depended to a 
greater degree than we might otherwise re-
alize on the quality of the author-publisher 
relationship. In documenting this point, 
Irving to Irving offers its own modest con-
tribution to literary criticism as well as to 
publishing history. 

While there is a substantial, and unfor-
tunately unfootnoted, reliance on other 
published materials, the use of much pre-
viously unpublished correspondence and 
Madison's own recollections from fifty years 
in the publishing trade make this clearly 
more than a cut-and-paste history. One 
might wish it were less selective: the names 
of Faulkner, Hemingway, and Whitman, 
for example, do not even appear in the 
book. Withal, however, Irving to Irving is 
a fascinating work and well worth any li-
brary's acquisition.-Charles Helzer, Uni-
versity of Chicago Library, Chicago, Illi-
nois. 

Beeler, M. G. Fancher; Grim, Jerry; Her-
ling, John P.; James, Stephen; Martin, 
Miles W.; and Naylor, Alice. Measuring 
the Quality of Library Service: A Hamd-
book. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1974. 
208p. $6.50. 

The compilers were some of the members 
of the Ohio Library Association Library 
Development Committee in 1972. They be-

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gan with this definition: "Total Library 
Service meets the needs of people for 
knowledge and ideas through access to or-
ganized collections of all media; develops 
an awareness among all people of their 
need for research, informational, recreation-
al and educational resources, utilizes a sys-
tem of acquisition, storage, and transmis-
sion of information." On that basis, the 
group points to the undoubted need of per-
formance evaluation that calls upon the 
user, present and potential, to have input 
to library management. 

Documents dated 1966-72 representing 
nineteen measuring techniques, some with 
comments by the compilers, are followed 
by ten documents which are recommenda-
tions for action based on research. Eight of 
these are conclusions from the earlier tech-
niques. For the ten, criteria for inclusion 
include "creativeness, non-standard nature 
of content, or pointing in new direction." 
The third section is a seventeen-item, brief-
ly annotated, background bibliography. As 
one can see from the index, there are se-
lections for all types of libraries, but not for 
all types of users; e.g., children, as the 
January 1974 Library Trends did. There 
are no indexed notations for such known 
measuring techniques as MBO, operations 
research, or even systems analysis. 

Section I presents ''a survey of some of 
the methods currently in use to measure the 
quality of library service . . . applicable in 
a variety of kinds of libraries and situa-
tions." Hard criteria are lacking for selec-
tions in this and the bibliography. One 
wonders, for example, why R. W. Trueswell 
and M. K. Buckland were excluded. 

Necessary printing techniques make the 
text hard to follow; compilers' comments 
are difficult to differentiate. Nevertheless, 
the compilers and publisher are to be com-
mended for adding impetus to the difficult 
task that faces all libraries. This handbook 
may give some of us a place to start in find-
ing ways to allow our users (and our po-
tential users through community surveys) 
to keep our service institutions viable. With 
continuing application, and necessary feed-
back, there will be further editions. One 
hopes these editions will correct the failure 
of not telling us why particular items were 
selected or suggesting which technique