College and Research Libraries 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. 440 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 September 1991 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 September 1991 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- September 1991 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 1.1 National Ubrary BlbliotMque nationale of Canada du Canada Canadians Products from the National Library of Canada The National Library is responsible for promoting, gathering and preserving the 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. For more information or a descriptive brochure on these products please contact Publications & Marketing Services National Library of Canada 395 Wellington Street Ottawa, Canada KIAON4 Canada September 1991 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).