College and Research Libraries Selected Reference Books of 1985-86 Eugene P. Sheehy his article continues the semi- annual series initiated by the late Constance M. Winchell more than thirty years ago. Al- though it appears under a byline, the list is a project of the reference departments of Columbia University's Butler and Lehman libraries, and notes are signed with the initials of the individual staff . members. 1 Since the purpose of the list is to present a selection of recent scholarly and general works of interest to reference workers in university libraries, it does not pretend to be either well balanced or comprehensive. A brief roundup of new editions of stan- dard works is provided at the end of the article. Code numbers (such as AD540, CJ331) have been used to refer to titles in the Guide to Reference Books. 2 MANUSCRIPTS Burton, Dennis A., Rhoads, James B. and Smock, Raymond W. A Guide to Manu- scripts in the Presidential Libraries. Col- lege Park, Md., Research Materials Corp., [1985]. 451p. il. $90. LC85-10862. ISBN 0-934-63100-X. Although this is a somewhat specialized work, it should prove a time-saver for a good many historians in search of original sources. It is in effect a union list of the manuscript, microfilm, and oral history holdings of the seven U.S. presidential li- braries as of mid-1983. General directory- type information on each of the libraries is followed by a single alphabetical listing of the various collections. The number of items in each collection or the number of linear feet it occupies is indicated, refer- ence to the National Union Catalog of Manu- script Collections is given when applicable, and finding aids are noted. Personal name entries predominate, but there are entries for specific organizations and for govern- ment bodies. Information was derived from "the published guides [unfortu- nately not cited] of the individual libraries, announcements of acquisitions in Pro- logue: Journal of the National Archives, and reports of recent accessions from all seven libraries." -In trod. There is great variation in the amount of description provided: some notes are gratifyingly full, giving names of correspondents or topics touched on in an oral history interview; others are tantalizingly brief (e.g., "Ober- dorfer, Don. Papers. 6 ft."), without so much as a word or phrase to identify the person under whose name the entry ap- pears. Information on items found in NUCMC is substantially the same as in those volumes. There is a subject index.- E.S. DICTIONARIES Berkowitz, Luci and Squitier, Karl A. The- saurus Linguae Graecae Canon of Greek Au- thors and Works. 2d ed. New York, Ox- ford Univ. Pr., 1986. 341p. $25. LC 85-25944. ISBN 0-19-503720-0. Work on the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae was originally intended to start early in the twentieth century to emulate the The- 1. Mary Cargill, Anita Lowry, Eileen Mcilvaine, Louise Sherby, Junko Stuveras; Lehman Library: Laura Binkowski, Diane Goon. 2. Eugene P. Sheehy, Guide to Reference Books, lOth ed. (Chicago: American Library Assn., 1986). 62 saurus Linguae Latinae (Guide AD540), but the enormity of the task dissuaded scholars from beginning the compilation until the advent of the computer. At the 1972 TLG Planning Conference (of Ameri- can, Canadian, and European scholars) it was decided that using the computer would expedite the process of data entry and would also provide a thesaurus II readily adaptable to the continuing pro- cess of scholarship.''-Pref. Two other im- portant decisions were also made by the group: word definition was not the only reason for creating the thesaurus, and'' all ancient Greek authors and texts from Homer to AD 200" would be covered. The Canon (the first, limited edition of which appeared in 1977 under a slightly different title) demonstrates, to some ex- tent, how the project is fulfilling those aims. It is a bibliographical listing of the 2,884 authors and 8,203 literary works in the TLG database. For each is indicated an entry number, author or work named if anonymous, generic epithet denoting the literary genre characterizing most of the author's output, date by century, geo- graphical epithet, work, text edition used, means of transmission (e.g., quotation; papyrus), and word estimate; cross refer- ences to additional works are also in- cluded. The A.D. 200 closing date has been exceeded: the section for Homer to A.D. 200 is essentially complete for au- thors and texts cited; the period 200-400 is "nearing completion"; and the 400-600 period is represented by some 200 au- thors, with more to be added. All informa- tion is available for "rapid retrieval" from the TLG database, which is currently ac- cessible at more than 100 institutions in the United States and abroad, with other sites to come. The Canon will be an aid not only to those using the database but also to the reference librarian identifying, veri- fying, and locating standard texts.-E.M. PERIODICALS Cornish, Graham P. Religious Periodicals Directory. Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC- Clio, [1986]. 330p. $89. LC 83-21366. ISBN 0-87436-365-9. Designed ''to meet the needs of scholars · Selected Reference Books 63 and librarians for a comprehensive source of information about periodicals and other serials in the field of religion and theology in the broadest sense of those terms" (In- trod.), this volume follows the pattern set by the same publisher's Historical Periodi- cals Directory (Guide DA31). That is, peri- odicals are listed by title within country sections that are arranged alphabetically within broad geographic regions. In order to encompass religion in its ''broadest sense," coverage extends to journals in ' the fields of anthropology, linguistics, so- ciology, archaeology, art, and literature, with a certain amount of overlap between this directory and the multivolume one for historical periodicals. Entries include as many of the following elements as are ap- plicable and available: frequency, pub- lisher, address, sponsoring body, state- ment of purpose or subject content, language of publication, sources in which indexed, variant titles, and special fea- tures. Title and subject/geographic in- dexes complete the volume.-E.S. Walford's Guide to Current British Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Ed. by A. J. Walford, with the assistance of Joan M. Harvey. London, Library Assn., 1985. 473p. £38 ($50 U.S.). ISBN 0-85-365676-2. In this guide to selected periodicals pub- lished in Great Britain Walford takes a "broadish view" of subject selection, cov- ering any nonscientific field from English literature to pigeon racing, and including scholarly journals as well as general maga- zines devoted to leisure activities. News- papers, in-house publications, school and college magazines of a general nature, parish bulletins, and the like are excluded. Publications are arranged by subject in a broad decimal classification. A brief sur- vey of publications in the field is given un- der each subject category, followed by . a bibliography of abstracting services, in- dexes, periodical directories, and online databases relating to the subject. A typical entry for a periodical includes title, year of first issue, frequency, price, complete ad- dress and telephone number . . A special feature of the guide is a description of the contents of a recent issue; this should 64 College & Research Libraries prove a helpful selection aid for librarians. Information is mainly current as of sum- mer 1985. There is an index by title, sub- ject, and corporate name.-J. S. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS Sears, Jean L. and Moody, Marilyn K. Us- ing Government Publications. Phoenix, Oryx Pr., 1985-86. 2v. $67.50 per v. LC 83-43249. Contents: v .1, Searching by Subjects and Agencies (ISBN 0-89774-094-7); v.2, Finding Statistics and Using Special Techniques (ISBN 0-89774-124-2). Intended primarily for use in depository libraries employing the SuDocs classifica- tion scheme, these volumes allow the user to approach government publications from the point of view of the search strat- egy needed to solve a specific type of prob- lem. Search strategies are divided into five types: "known item, 11 "subject, II II agency,'' 11 statistical,'' and 11 special techniques.'' Known-item searching, along with an introduction to the set and a discussion of search strategy in general, occupies the first thirty-three pages of each volume. The remaining chapters il- lustrate search strategies of the other types, with each type subdivided accord- ing to topic (e.g., elections, legislative his- tory, etc.). Chapters follow a set format: a suggested search strategy, a checklist of the most basic and/or important sources (useful as a selection aid), a description of the sources, and notes on relevant in- dexes, online databases, and other related materials. The chapters are clearly writ- ten, compact in style, and rich in examples from the sources cited. Although the work is useful, one sus- pects that the intended audience is not the one that might benefit most from this ap- proach. Depository collections are likely to be staffed by specialists who will al- ready know and understand the search strategies put forth. A more appropriate intended audience would be smaller, non- depository collections and library school students taking a course in government documents; unfortunately the high price of the set makes it unlikely that these are the groups that will have easy access to it. January 1987 All would have been better served by a one-volume work without repeated mate- rial and at a more reasonable price.-L.S. DISSERTATIONS Dossick, Jesse J. Doctoral Research on Can- ada and Canadians; Theses de doctorat con- cernant le Canada et les Canadiens, 1884-1983. Ottawa, National Library of Canada, 1986. 559p. $38.75 ($46.50 out- side Canada). ISBN 0-660-53227-1. Dossick has compiled a listing of some 12,032 titles of doctoral dissertations on Canada and Canadians by surveying the research at Canadian, United States, and British universities and adding a few English-language titles from European, Irish, and Australian universities for good measure. Arrangement is by broad subject field with smaller subdivisions. At the be- ginning of each major section (e.g., "Agri- culture" or "Drama and theatre") there is a brief statistical analysis; so, besides pro- viding the lists of accepted dissertations, the compiler also proposes to II encourage research in those areas where little doc- toral work has been done." -Pref. An "In- dex of Names" provides references to full citations and also gives the microfiche numbers of theses available for purchase from the National Library of Canada; there is no reference to UMI order number or abstract. All in all, Dossick is to be commended for again identifying and classifying dis- sertations for the librarian and the re- searcher. In order to pick up relevant parts of dissertations, one wishes his scope were a bit wider: for example, a study of American Loyalists that includes chapters on those who fled to Canada. But one must be grateful for the clear, well- organized bibliography that has been given. At this writing, the work does not ap- pear to be widely held in the United States. The Columbia copy on which this note is based was received as a title made available for selection from the Canadian document depository program (SN2- 223/1986). Perhaps other libraries will have received it in the same way, and ref- erence librarians and researchers can find it classified by Canadian documents cata- log number.-E.M. PHILOSOPHY Bynagle, Hans E. Philosophy: A Guide to the Reference Literature. Littleton, Colo., Li- braries Unlimited, 1986. 170p. $35. LC 86-2942. ISBN 0-87287-464-8. Inasmuch as both Koren's Research in Philosophy (Guide BA3) and De George's The Philosopher's Guide to Sources ... (Guide BA2) are now some years out of date, this new guide is particularly wel- come. While it is primarily an annotated listing of general and specialized reference works (mainly in English) in philosophy and closely related areas, there is also a core list of journals and a list of the princi- pal research centers and professional as- sociations in the field (both lists annotated to indicate scope and purpose). Reference works are grouped by type, with relevant general sources preceding specialized works: e.g., general dictionaries and en- cyclopedias preceding specialized ones; general bibliographies of philosophy pre- ceding sections of specialized bibliogra- phies for particular schools and periods, for specific countries and regions, and for individual philosophers. Attention is given to indexing, abstracting, and re- viewing media, to directories and bio- graphical sources, to concordances and in- dexes, to works of individual philoso- phers, and to the limited number of com- puterized databases available. Annota- tions-some of considerable length-are mainly descriptive, but some include eval- uative comment. There are separate author/title and subject indexes. The work will be especially useful in the academic library.-E.S. LITERATURE Bennett, James R. A Bibliography of Stylis- tics and Related Criticism, 1967-83. New York, Modern Language Assn., 1986. 405p. $35. LC85-25867. ISBN 0-87352- 142-0. This bibliography seeks to present ''both the amplitude and variety of stylis- tic criticism, defined broadly as the theo- Selected Reference Books 65 retical or practical study of the language of literary works.''-p.7. Thus defined, cov- erage of the bibliography encompasses the prominent theoretical and method- ological currents of the past twenty years-among them linguistic theory, semiotics, and structuralism-and the ma- jor works of literary theory and criticism informed and influenced by them. Except for the first section, which lists bibliogra- phies appearing in articles as well as books, coverage is limited to books pub- lished between 1967 and 1983. English- language items (including translations) predominate, though important untrans- lated sources in Western European lan- guages are included. Most items have short descriptive annotations, followed by citations to selected critical reviews and a brief quotation from one or more of there- views. Because of their brevity these ex- cerpts frequently amount to little more than "jacket blurbs"; the space occupied would more profitably have been given to fuller citations to the reviews, which are cited only by journal title abbreviation, volume number, and pages. The bibliography is organized into six categories, each with several subcatego- ries: Bibliographic Resources; General Theory and Concepts of Style (the largest section); Culture, History, and Style: the Period, the Nation, the Genre; Habitual Usage: the Author; Individual Choice: the Text; Individual Response: the Reader. Appendixes provide a chronology of im- portant texts and events in the develop- ment of stylistics; a very selective "Classi- fication of Critics by Theory and Method," whose utility is unclear given the existence of a subject index; and an ''Introductory Reading List on Stylistics,'' useful for identifying basic sources and sources appropriate for students. There are four indexes: Terms; Authors and Works Studies; Critics Discussed; Con- tributors (i.e., authors of the works listed in the bibliography). The indexes can be · quite confusing, since many of the names and subject terms do not appear any- where in the citations or annotations to which the index directs you-a practice not explained in the prefatory matter. -A.L. 66 College & Research Libraries The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales. Comp. and ed. by Meic Stephens. Oxford & New York, Oxford Univ. Pr., 1986. 682p. $16.50. LC 85- 7095. ISBN 0-19-211586-3. Wilde, William H., Hooten, Joy and An- drews, Barry. The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature. Melbourne, Ox- ford University Pr., [1985]. 760p. $40 Austral. LC 86-146201. ISBN 0-19- 554233-9. Handbook treatment of Common- wealth literature has probably never be- fore been so extensive or so up-to-date, these two volumes joining Margaret Drab- hie's new fifth edition of The Oxford Com- panion to English Literature (1985; see Guide BD556) and the relatively recent volume for Canadian literature (1983; Guide BD770). Both of these volumes are typical additions to the "Oxford Companion" family, with entries for authors and liter- ary works constituting a high percentage of the total number of articles. It should be noted, however, that the Welsh compan- ion is concerned mainly with writers in the Welsh language, although a selection of Welsh authors writing in English and in Latin is included. A useful feature of the Australian volume is the inclusion of a sig- nificant number of articles dealing with "those aspects of Australian life and his- tory about which readers unfamiliar with Australia might need basic infor- mation." -Pref. Both works are welcome additions to the reference shelf.-E. S. The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural. Ed. by Jack Sullivan. [New York], Viking, [1986]. 482p. il. $29.95. LC 85-40558. ISBN 0-670-80902-0. In his introductory essay ''The Art and Appeal of the Ghostly and Ghastly," Jacques Barzun points out that "Taken as a whole, the output [in this genre] from Horace Walpole to Hugh Walpole and be- yond stands in need of critical study.'' While some of the articles in this new en- cyclopedia should prove useful spring- boards to such study, the volume is more likely to be a joy to the browser than an aid to the serious student. Signed articles by more than sixty contributors deal with au- thors, artists, musicians, motion pictures, January 1987 and terms relating to horror and the su- pernatural in a fairly broad sense. British and American figures and topics predomi- nate, with some attention given to works and practitioners in countries such as France, Germany, and Russia. Cross- references abound, but bibliographies are limited to a writer's own works and do not list critical studies.-E.S. PERFORMING ARTS A Guide to Theatre in America. Lawrence S. Epstein, comp. anded. New York, Mac- millan, 1985. 443p. $50. LC 84-19418. ISBN 0-02-909670-7. This guide lists addresses of people, or- ganizations, and companies associated with the theater in eighteen categories, in- cluding agents, colleges and schools, crit- ics, directors and choreographers, festi- vals, foundations, libraries, press agents, producers, publishers, suppliers, theater groups, and unions. Within each category information is arranged alphabetically by state and then by city. An index lists all the names, with addresses, of individuals mentioned in the text. Some of the information provided is too cryptic to be of much use; the Miami-Dade Public Library, for instance, is described as a ''Research Library containing useful information for Performing Arts research- ers." Lee Ash's Subject Collections is a bet- ter choice for those needing information about libraries with theatrical material. In- deed, much of the information provided here could be found in other sources, but librarians may find this work convenient for many theater questions.-M.C. Leiter, Samuel L. The Encyclopedia of the New York Stage, 1920-1930. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pr., 1985. 2v. $145. LC 84-6558. ISBN 0-313-23615-1. Leiter, a professor of theater at Brooklyn College, has attempted to "provide a de- scription of every legitimate production- play, musical, revue, revival-given in the New York professional theatre during the decade of the 1920's." -Pref. The work is restricted to Broadway and off-Broadway offerings, but includes foreign-language productions when reviewed in the English-language press. Approximately 2,500 works are listed alphabetically by ti- tle. The information provided for each is extensive, including (when available and appropriate) author, director, producer, literary source, designer, choreographer, theater, opening date, and length of the run. Casts are not given, but the entries, which ''attempt to give the important his- torical background, a summary of the plot, and an idea of the critical reaction to the play and performance,'' name the ma- jor actors. There are ten appendixes, providing such information as a list of plays by sub- ject, a list of awards and winners, a list of theater companies, and a list of critics and newspapers or magazines for which they wrote. Two indexes are included, one list- ing names mentioned in the text (making it possible to find plays in which a particu- lar actor appeared), and an index of all ti- tles mentioned, including songs, novels, and alternate or foreign titles. These volumes are the first of a planned multivolume series that presumably will document American theater decade by decade. If the other volumes are as thor- ough, the series should become a stan- dard reference work for twentieth-century American theater.-M.C. Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). The Film Catalog: A List of Holdings in the Museum of Modern Art. Jon Garten- berg, gen. ed. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1985. 443p. $60. ISBN 0-816-10443-3. Since its formation in 1935, the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film has built an archive of several thousand signif- icant films, including fiction, documen- tary, animated, and avant-garde, as well as some television and video offerings. The collection, which is international and includes films from the beginnings of cin- ema in the 1890s to the present, is an im- portant resource for the study of the '' sev- enth art." For film scholars, who often face great difficulties in locating copies of their primary source material-i.e., films-for study a·nd research, this catalog is a most welcome guide. The volume is the result of an ongoing project to catalog and computerize the Selected Reference Books 67 holdings of the Department of Film and it includes approximately 5,500 titles of films acquired between 1935 and 1980. Each film is entered under its original title, with cross-references from alternate titles (e.g., American release titles for foreign films). For each film the following infor- mation is provided: alternate title(s); date; country of origin; classification( s) by type (e.g., fiction feature, nonfiction short); producer(s)/production company; direc- tor(s); computer access number. A thor- ough description of the type of informa- tion in each category and criteria for establishing it (often problematic for films) appears in a prefatory ''Explanation of Terms." There is an index of names of di- rectors, producers, and production companies.-A.L. Writers' Program (New York, N.Y.). The Film Index: A Bibliography. White Plains, N.Y., Kraus Intntl. Pub., 1985. v.2-3. LC 41-8716r852. Contents: v .2, The Film as Industry. $95. ISBN 0-527-29334-2; v.3, The Film in Society. $85. ISBN 0- 527-29335-0. For many years the first volume of The Film Index, entitled The Film as Art, has been the standard bibliography of English-language writings published be- fore 1940 on the film. It was produced dur- ing the 1930s by workers of the Federal Writers' Program of the Work Projects Ad- ministration in New York City and pub- lished in 1941 (see Guide BG181). When Congress eliminated the WP A in 1943, the second and third volumes of the Index were left unfinished, though most of the research and writing had been completed; fortunately, the thousands of typed cards representing the entries for these volumes were stored in the Museum of Modern Art and have now been "resurrected," edited, and published. Thus, these two "new" volumes are unique and valuable guides to the literature of film from ap- proximately 1900 to December 31, 1939. Volume 2 covers advertising and public- ity, associations and organizations, distri- bution, exhibition, finance, history, juris- prudence, labor relations, and produc- tion. Volume 3 deals with censorship, cul- tural aspects, education, Hollywood, 68 College & Research Libraries moral and religious aspects, social and po- litical aspects, and special applications. Within these broad categories the citations to books, pamphlets, and periodical arti- cles are arranged according to more spe- cific topics. The annotations are extensive and provide detailed summaries for most items. There is a name index at the end of Volume 3.-A.L. FOLKLORE Carnes, Pack. Fable Scholarship: An Anno- tated Bibliography. New York, Garland, 1985. 382p. (Garland folklore bibliogra- phies, v.8; Garland reference library of the humanities, v.367) $40. LC 82- 48494. ISBN 0-8240-9229-5. The compiler, a professor of German at the University of Arizona, defines fables as literary tales ''generally assumed to comfortably fit under the rubric 'Ae- sopic.' 11 -Introd. His bibliography in- cludes selected criticism of fables from the Sumerian period through James Thurber appearing in books, dissertations, and ar- ticles published between 1880 and 1982. The citations, all extensively annotated, are listed alphabetically by author. There are three indexes: a name and subject in- dex consisting of the writer's name (where known) and general subject headings such as ''dogs in fables''; an index of tales, listed by Perry numbers, based on his Aesopica; and a tale-type index based on the numbers in Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson's The Types of the Folktale. The complexity of the indexes and the fact that most of the criticism cited is not in English would seem to limit the work's appeal mainly to scholars in the field.-M.C. SOCIOLOGY Miller, Joseph Calder. Slavery: A World- wide Bibliography, 1900-1982. White Plains, N.Y., Kraus Intntl. Pub., 1985. 451p. $40. LC 85-16858. ISBN 0-527- 63659-2. An outgrowth of the author's teaching bibliography for undergraduates, Slavery ''includes secondary scholarly works re- flecting directly on slavery or the slave trade anywhere in the world, published in January 1987 Western European languages, and writ- ten from the perspective of any academic discipline. 11 -p.xv. Excluded are single- page book reviews; primary sources such as diaries; works published prior to 1900; works published in Asian, African, and Slavic languages; works that deal with slavery secondarily; and nonscholarly publications such as historical fiction. En- tries are arranged alphabetically by author or other main entry within specific geo- graphical regions or in the ''General and Comparative" section. Complete biblio- graphical information is provided accord- ing to MLA guidelines. Author and sub- ject/keyword indexes are included. Annual supplements are planned for pub- lication in the journal Slavery and Abolition.-L.S. POLITICAL SCIENCE Black, J. L. Origins, Evolution, and Nature of the Cold War: An Annotated Bibliographic Guide. Santa Barbara, Calif. & Oxford, Eng., ABC-Clio, [1986]. 173p. (War/ Peace bibliography series, no.19) $50. LC 85-15032. ISBN 0-87436-391-8. In light of the collapsed mini-summit in Iceland, this bibliography is a most timely and important aid to our understanding of a very complex relationship. Given the continuing debate over the precise chronological boundaries of the Cold War as a historical phenomenon, the compiler has focused attention mainly on the litera- ture from or about the period between 1938 and 1950. Expect to find titles that discuss the foreign policy assumptions, specific policy concepts, and the decision- making processes that help explain the na- ture of the Cold War. The references, primarily English- language books, journal articles and the- ses, are grouped into chapters that cover the history of the Cold War, the historio- graphical debates over its origins, major political figures, critical issues, U.S./So- viet relations, regional influences and de- velopments, and the role of international organizations and alliances. Particularly noteworthy are the two chapters that ad- dress U.S. and Soviet perceptions and misperceptions of each other; Russian- language titles are a welcome bonus here. The annotations and excellent cross- referencing are especially valuable since great pains have been taken to identify and compare orthodox (U.S.S.R. as vil- lain), revisionist (U.S.A. as villain), and realist (a natural, historical process be- tween superpowers) viewpoints on a topic. Author and subject indexes com- plete the bibliography.-L.B. Holler, Frederick L. Information Sources of Political Science. 4th ed. Santa Barbara, Calif. &Oxford, Eng., ABC-Clio, [1986]. 417p. $65. LC 85-11279. ISBN 0-87436- 375-6. The most notable feature of this new edition is part 1, a revised and expanded section on political reference theory. This chapter provides "a cohesive set of con- ceptual, hypothetical, and pragmatic propositions for identifying and accessing systematically the stored information about the political world.'' -Pref. Holler's essay is a virtual mini-course on the re- search needs and methodology of political scientists. In addition to presenting a bird' s-eye view of political information re- trieval mechanisms, his ''search strategy'' on broad topics incorporates direct cross- referencing to the most appropriate refer- ence titles described fully in part 2. Part 2 is a masterpiece of bibliographic compilation. Over 2,400 citations for printed and computerized reference works are grouped in chapters covering general social sciences, American govern- ment, politics and law, international rela- tions and organizations, comparative and regional politics and government, political theory, and public administration. Every possible type of reference source is in- cluded, fully annotated, and easily located via chapter outlines or indexes of authors, titles, subjects and generic reference cate- gories. All in all, an indispensable volume for anyone doing political research.-L.B. GEOGRAPHY A Geographical Bibliography for American Li- braries. Chauncy D. Harris, ed. in chief. A joint project of the Association of American Geographers and the N a- Selected Reference Books 69 tional Geographic Society. [Washing- ton, D.C., Assn. of American Geogra- phers], 1985. 437p. $32. LC 85-11284. ISBN 0-89291-193X. This critically annotated, classed bibli- ography represents the collective effort of seventy-one geographers and librarians "to assist libraries in the United States, Canada, and other countries to identify, select, and secure publications of value in geography that are appropriate to the pur- poses and resources of each collection.''- Introd. Intended as a selection guide and bibliography for works published 1970-1984, it supplements, rather than su- persedes, the association's 1970 publica- tion, Geographical Bibliography for American College Libraries. While this volume maintains the de- tailed classed arrangement of its predeces- sor, one of the reasons for its title change is . manifested in a new category, ''Publica- tions Suitable for School Libraries." En- tries appropriate for school libraries are also keyed in the other six main catego- ries: general aids and sources; history, theory, and methodology of geography; . the fields of physical geography; the fields of human geography; applied geography; and regional geography. New develop- ments in the field of geography are re- flected in new subdivisions for historical cultural geography, cultural ecology, be- havioral geography, development stud- ies, etc. Dissertations and geography and map librarianship are also discussed for the first time in this edition. Selection cri- teria for the nearly 3,000 entries empha- size English-language publications that can be currently acquired and entered in library catalogs as separate publications- books, monographs, atlases,. 'bibliogra- phies, and serials. Major foreign-language titles, and key works published before 1970, are included if determined to be of "abiding value." Price, Library of Con- gress card number, and ISBN or ISSN are included for each entry; annotations are succinct and usually critical. The index in- cludes authors, titles, and subjects; en- tries suitable for school libraries are marked with a special symbol in the index. Users who come to this work with high expectat_ions based on the previous com- 70 College & Research Libraries pilations of Harris, his editorial board, and the associations involved will not be dis- appointed in this stellar production that mirrors the vast and exciting field of geog- raphy today.-D.G. HISTORY The Canadian Encyclopedia. James H. Marsh, ed. in chief. Edmonton, Hurtig, 1985. 3v. il. $175. LC 84-243080r86. ISBN 0-88830-269-X. Articles are necessarily brief and concise in a work containing over 8,000 entries in just three volumes, yet here they cover the full range of topics expected in an encyclo- pedia of this kind. Entries are signed and often include suggestions for additional reading; longer articles (such as "Ethnic Literature'') are usually divided into sec- tions. Statistics and figures are from the 1981 census and the 1984 federal elections. Biographical entries (3,500 in number) are entered under the name the person is commonly known by and emphasize the biographees' contributions to Canadian affairs. Indeed, emphasis throughout is on Canada, so that the article on the American Civil War, for example, dis- cusses the influence of the war on Canada. The alphabetical arrangement is "word- by-word''; cross references within articles are indicated by small capitals. Some see references are given within the articles; others appear in the subject index; lack of more references from one form of a name to another is a minor flaw. The use of color illustrations, maps, etc., is remarkable for such a concise endeavor. Charts and graphs are clear and include the source of the figures given. Overall, The Canadian Encyclopedia compares favorably to the multivolume Encyclopedia Canadiana (Guide DB208) of a decade ago. Recommended. -L. S. Guide to the Study of United States History Outside the U.S., 1945-1980. White Plains, N.Y., Kraus Intntl. Pub., [1985]. 5v. $418. LC 85-12555. ISBN 0-527- 36817-6. ''Edited by Lewis Hanke with the assis- tance of many historians in many lands. Sponsored by the American Historical As- January 1987 sociation and the University of Massachu- setts, Amherst."-t.p. Many benefits could accrue from this commendable compilation: most impor- tantly, realization of the need for com- munication between scholars of United States history inside and outside the U.S. To this end essays have been contributed by foreign specialists in U.S. history de- scribing the teaching and research carried on in their countries between the end of World War II and 1980. For certain areas of the world-Africa, Arabic-speaking re- gions-the editors have supplied very general essays. Similarly useful are the de- scriptive essays discussing archival mate- rials in various countries that relate to any aspect of U.S. history. For some countries there are, in fact, very specialized surveys, such as "Sources in Canada for the Study of Reform Movements in the United States'' or ''Edmund Vasary Collection on Hungarian Emigration to the U.S.'' In all, the compilation comes close to fulfilling the stated aims: "to inform historians of the U.S. of the studies made by scholars ... , [to bring to their attention] new sources and fresh perspectives on their o~n hi,~tory,'' and to ''help broaden their VIews. -v.1,p.2. The second part of the Guide (actually, v.4-5) is a selected, annotated bibliogra- phy that includes "items judged to be scholarly contributions, whether articles or books published abroad or disserta- tions accepted by foreign universities.''- v.1,p.8. Arrangement is topical within pe- riod divisions; an author index and a list of periodicals are included. Although the emphasis in the bibliography is on eco- nomic, social, and political history, much material on intellectual and cultural his- tory is cited. Useful as the compilation may prove to be in research institutions, the overall format seems unfortunate- reproduction from double-spaced type- script accounting for the large number of volumes and contributing to the high price.-E.M. Historical Dictionary of the French Revolu- tion, 1789-1799. Ed. by Samuel F. Scott and Barry Rothaus. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pr., 1985. 2v. $95. LC 83- 16625. ISBN 0-31-321141-8. This is a collaborative work with contri- butions by more than ninety historians from the United States and abroad, in- cluding some well-known specialists on the French Revolution such as Jacques Godechot and Michel Vovelle. The 525 en- tries treat "personalities, events and con- stitutional development,'' plus some gen- eral surveys of broad topics such as music and art. But the emphasis is on people, events, and institutions rather than on ideas and political theories. There are, for example, several articles on specific laws enacted by the revolutionary govern- ments but no surveys to tie together the philosophy and ideas behind those laws. Among the personalities accorded entries are some major scholars and writers on the Revolution: Jean Jaures, Aulard, Mathiez, and, most recently, Albert So- boul. Since neither Michelet nor Quinet are included, it seems that the editors' in- tention was to treat only twentieth- century scholars, but some significant names in nineteenth-century historiogra- phy should have been included to indicate in some depth the history of the studies of the Revolution. Names of institutions, laws, etc., are often given only in English translation; it would have been better to systematically give the original French terms as well, even though the intended readers of the dictionary may not be spe- cialists in French history. Some terms that - lack adequate English equivalents are en- - tered in French with explanations in En- glish. Articles are of medium length, signed, and accompanied by a brief bibli- ography of up to seven items. There is a general index of names and topics (mainly proper names and events).-J.S. NEW EDITIONS, SUPPLEMENTS, ETC. The British Library's General Catalogue of Printed Books, 1976-1985 (London, British Library Board, 1986. 471 microfiches. £425) is a revision and updating of the ear- lier microfiche catalog covering 1976-82 (Guide AA133) and, like that publication, serves as a continuation of the British Mu- seum/British Library General Catalogue of modern books (Guide AA132). It lists Selected Reference Books 71 printed books and periodiCals (mainly in the humanities and social sciences) from 1976 onward, plus some items from the 1971-75 period cataloged after 1975. Ten years after publication of volume 2 (Guide AA802), the first volume of there- vised and enlarged second edition of Pol- lard and Redgrave' sA Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ire- land ... 1475-1640 has been brought to completion by Katherine F. Pantzer (Lon- don, Bibliographical Society, 1986. 620p. £125). In addition to the main entries A-H, the volume includes new introduc..: tory matter and a section of addenda and corrigenda. Still to come is a third volume containing "the printers' and publishers' index, the addenda and corrigenda to vol- umes 1 and 2, and a set of concordances to other relat~d works." -Pref. Judith Schiek Robinson's Subject Guide to U.S. Government Reference Sources (Little- ton, Colo., Libraries Unlimited, 1985. 333p. $40) is a revision and updating of Sally Wynkoop's Subject Guide to Govern- ment Reference Books (1972; Guide AG25). The new title, with expanded coverage, is meant to "reflect a broader definition of 'government document,' which goes be- yond books and print formats to other government information sources.''- In trod. In the revised and enlarged edition of Michael M. Reynolds' Guide to Theses and Dissertations: An International Bibliography of Bibliographies (Phoenix, Oryx Pr., 1985. 263p. $125) coverage has been extended to include "theses and dissertations bibliog- raphies, which have been published as separate entities, produced through 1983 and most of 1984. "-Introd. Robert B. Slocum's second edition of his Biographical Dictionaries and Related Works (Detroit, Gale, 1986. 2v. $140) "cumulates and updates entries appearing in the first edition (1967 [Guide AJ5]) and its two sup- plements (1972 and 1978). It adds over 4,000 new entries for a total of more than 16,000 entries.'' -Pref. Evelyn de R. McMann has compiled Ca- nadian Who's Who Index 1898-1984 (To- ronto, Univ. of Toronto Pr., 1986. 528p. $125), which not only provides a cumu- lated index to l:>iographical sketches found 72 College & Research Libraries in Canadian Who's Who, 1910-84 ( GuideAJ149), but incorporates names from the 1898 and 1912 editions of H. J. Morgan's Canadian Men and Women of the Time. In addition to reference to volumes in which a biography appears, each entry includes year of birth and indication of profession or occupation. Who Was Who in American Art, edited by Peter Hastings Falk (Madison, Conn., Sound View Pr., 1985. 707p. $115), is de- rived mainly from the thirty volumes of the American Art Annual (1898-1933) and the four volumes of its successor publica- tion, Who's Who in American Art (1935-47; see Guide BE186), but it represents more than a mere reprinting of the latest or most complete sketches from those volumes. That is, material in the earlier sets has been augmented by information from ad- ditional sources-in particular, the files of the Archives of American Art. About 25,000 biographical sketches are included. Prepared under the general editorship of Paul J. Achtemeier, the new edition of Harper's Bible Dictionary (San Francisco, Harper & Row, 1985. 1,178p. $29.95) rep- resents a cooperative effort of the pub- lisher and the Society of Biblical Litera- ture, which assumed responsibility for the content. 179 scholars from seven countries contributed to the work, which aims "to make more widely available, and to an au- dience of nonspecialists, the results of the best of current biblical scholarship."- Pre f. Returning to the cumulative pattern of the second through sixth editions (see Guide BD302), the eighth edition of Gran- ger's Index to Poetry, edited by William F. Bernhardt (New York, Columbia Univer- sityPr., 1986. 2,014p. $150), provides "ac- cess to poems found in older anthologies, as well as to poems in collections pub- lished through June 1985." -Pref. Of the 405 volumes indexed, 212 were carried over from the sixth edition, 111 from the seventh, and the remaining 82 collections are new. American Literary Publishing Houses, 1900-1980: Trade and Paperback, edited by Peter Dzwonkoski (Detroit, Gale, 1986. 465p. $88) forms volume 46 of the "Dictio- nary of Literary Biography" series (see January 1987 Guide BD416). It offers signed articles on the history and character of about 200 pub- lishers of literary works in book format . Most entries include bibliographic refer- ences. Two companion volumes in these- ries are to cover twentieth-century small and university presses and publishers of literary reference works and literary pub- lishing houses founded before 1900. African Literatures in the 20th Century: A Guide (New York, Ungar, 1986. 245p. $12.95 pa.) is a reprinting of the articles on literatures of the various African nations and on individual writers from those countries that appeared in the revised edi- tion of the Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century (Guide BD60). Apart from minor revisions and correctiqns, articles are unchanged from the parent work, and no effort was made to update them. Selected Black American, African, and Ca- ribbean Authors; A Rio-bibliography by James A. Page and Jae Min Roh (Littleton, Colo., Libraries Unlimited, 1985. 388p. $55) represents a revised and enlarged edition of Page's Selected Black American Authors (Boston, 1977). Emphasis con- tinues to be on Afro-American writings (literary and nonliterary) of the United States, and the foreign writers included are those who have lived, studied, or been published in this country. Wordsworth Scholarship and Criticism, 1973-1984 by Mark Jones andKarlKroeber (New York, Garland, 1985. 316p.; Gar- land reference library of the humanities, v.536. $40) is more than an extension of David Starn's Wordsworth ian Criticism, 1964-1973 (New York, 1974), since it de- votes a section to standard research mate- rials (complete editions, concordances, bibliographies, etc.) and cites the most im- portant criticism from the 1809-1972 pe- riod. Later studies (including citations to reviews) are listed year-by-year, 1973-84, and there is a supplementary listing for 1971-72. Indexes of authors, editors and reviewers, and topics complete the vol- ume. A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Writers by Anne M. Brady and Brian Cleeve (Gig- ginstown, Ireland, LilliputPr.; New York, St. Martin's, 1985. 387p. $35) is a revised and expanded version of Cleeve's Dictio- nary of Irish Writers (Cork, 1967-71. 3v.). It aims ''to offer as much biographical and critical material as possible in the given space, about as many Irish writers as pos- sible, from the time of St. Patrick to the present day." -Pref. There are separate sections for writers in English and for writ- ers in Irish and Latin. Torno 2 of the third edition of Jose Si- mon Diaz' s Bibliografia de la Literatura Hisptinica (Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Instituto de Filologia, 1986. 604p.) represents a revised and updated version of the first part of tomo 3 of the second edition (1963; Guide BD1139). It covers ''Literatura Castellana, Edad Media'' and has its own indexes of authors/titles, of libraries mentioned as holding specific works, and of subjects. Old Master Print References: A Selected Bib- liography by Lauris Mason, Joan Ludman andHarrietP. Krauss (White Plains, N.Y., Kraus Intntl. Pub., 1986. 279p. $70) is the latest addition to the publisher's ''Print Reference Series" (see Guide BE346- BE347), which provides bibliographic ref- erences to works dealing with prints, printmakers, and the art of printmaking. This volume includes more than 3,000 ci- tations to books, periodical articles, and exhibition and dealer catalogs. Early Motion Pictures: The Paper Print Col- lection in the Library of Congress by Kemp Niver (Washington, D.C., Library of Con- gress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Div., 1985. 509p. $24) is a revision, expansion, and updating of Niver's Motion Pictures from the Library of Congress Paper Print Collection (Berkeley, 1967; Guide BG218). It serves as a guide to the more then 3,000 films restored from the paper print collection at the library, giving detailed information about the films. Indexes of credits (actors, actresses, cameramen, directors, scriptwriters and authors) and of names/subjects enhance its usefulness for the film historian. William H. Webb and associates have produced a third edition of Sources of Infor- mation in the Social Sciences (Chicago, American Library Assn., 1986. 777p. $70), the work formerly edited by Carl M. White (2d ed., 1973; Guide CA9). Basic plan and purpose remain the same, with some vari- Selected Reference Books 73 ation in the arrangement within major sec- tions. Eleven of the twenty contributors are new to the edition; some sections show considerable reworking, while in other cases the revision has been largely a matter of updating the existing text. There .is a good, detailed index, but a remarkable dearth of introductory matter. British Political Facts, 1900-1985 by David and Gareth Butler (New York, St. Mar- tin's, 1986. 536p. $45) represents a sixth edition of a work first published in 1963, which covered through 1960 (see Guide CJ331). Updated and modified through successive editions, it now offers a wide range of facts, lists, and tables on govern- ment ministries, political parties, Parlia- ment, elections, the civil service, royal commissions, social conditions, the econ- . omy, and related topics through 1985. While it seeks to correct certain '' inac- curacies or omissions in the earlier edi- tions [Guide DA43]" (Pref.), the principal change in the second revised edition of R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy's Encyclo- pedia of Military History (New York, Harper & Row, 1986. 1524p. $39.95) is the inclu- sion of an addendum (p .1346-1400), which covers events and developments of 1975-84. The bibliography has been slightly expanded; there is a separate in- dex to the addendum section. Twenty-four historians have contrib- uted bibliographies and commentary to A Guide to the Sources of United States Military History: Supplement II, edited by Robin Higham and Donald J. Mrozek (Hamden, Conn., Archon Books, 1986. 332p. $42.50). The volume concentrates on pub- lications of the 1978-83 period, and item numbers in the bibliography are continu- ous with those in the first supplement (1981; Guide DB28). ''In a reference work published serially it is necessary to make information from the early volumes accessible before the work is complete." That prefatory state- ment explains the editors' decision to pro- vide an ''Interim Index'' to the early vol- umes of the Dictionary of the Middle Ages (Guide DA164). Published in 1985, the 190- page, paperbound index is issued free to subscribers. It offers detailed indexing of volume 1-4, gives page references for the 74 College & Research Libraries January 1987 entry terms in volume 5, and indicates vol- ume number for entries scheduled to ap- pear in the remainder of the 12-volume set. With the appearance of volume 7 in 1986, the Dictionary now covers through ''Mabinogi. '' as ''First Consolidated Supplement'' to the five-volume series published 1975-78 (Guide DC287). It not only reports on addi- tional collections of source materials, but updates (e.g., indicates changes of loca- tion) or expands information about nu- merous archives reported in the earlier volumes.-E.S. 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